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if you could uninvent something , what would it be?

123 replies

meagaein · 07/08/2023 23:01

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AIBot · 07/08/2023 23:18

Nuclear weapons

Concentration camps

Bluelightbaby · 07/08/2023 23:22

Alcohol and illicit drugs ! Affects a large proportion of my patients !!

CluedoFace · 07/08/2023 23:22

@continentallentil not really the IR, because I did think How far back should I go? And should I uninvent the loom?😂

I can’t really decide on a century or decade but until someone comes along and persuades me otherwise I think I’ll go far the 1950’s.

Lovingitallnow · 07/08/2023 23:23

Alcohol

AhNow123 · 07/08/2023 23:24

Selfies. Mirrors are so much easier on the self esteem.

CluedoFace · 07/08/2023 23:24

I’m thinking the rudimentary microchip must have been invented around the 50’s or 60’s?

BinturongsSmellOfPopcorn · 07/08/2023 23:25

The microchip. If we didn’t have that, we wouldn’t have automatic weapons.

The first automatic guns pre-date the microchip by over 250 years. Automatic weapons (not guns, crossbows) have been in use for over 2 millenia.

grumpycow1 · 07/08/2023 23:25

Plastic (especially single-use plastic)

RosesAndHellebores · 07/08/2023 23:27

The NHS.
Fundamentalism

Youcanpayit · 07/08/2023 23:29

Social media

CluedoFace · 07/08/2023 23:31

@BinturongsSmellOfPopcorn actually 😳yes now I think about I can remember that automatic weapons were used in WW1.

I didn’t realise they were used before that though.

I’m just getting my coat now. And will try to smuggle out an encyclopaedia while I’m on.

Before I go, when were the first automatic weapons used?

EmilyBrontesGhost · 07/08/2023 23:31

grumpycow1 · 07/08/2023 23:25

Plastic (especially single-use plastic)

Did you wear a mask during covid?

Aplume · 07/08/2023 23:33

I wore a massive great recycling bin.

Susuwatariandkodama · 07/08/2023 23:35

Social media

BinturongsSmellOfPopcorn · 07/08/2023 23:36

No need for coat getting - I love that sort of thing that makes me think 'hang on a minute - that can't be right' and go down a historical rabbit hole.

The Chinese repeating crossbow was in use from at least the 4th century BC. It was considered a women's weapon, suitable for defending the home against robbers, rather than a military item.

FlamingoCroquet · 07/08/2023 23:36

Landmines - still maiming civilians decades after war ended in the locations they were planted in.

Failingatthemoment · 07/08/2023 23:37

Covid and Brexit

EmilyBrontesGhost · 07/08/2023 23:37

continentallentil · 07/08/2023 23:18

I very often wonder how much simpler life must have been when you went to bed tired, because of strenuous work and lots of fresh air

@CluedoFace

If you mean when most people worked on farms then the answer is it was backbreaking and shit, full of starvation and disease. Which is why when the industrial revolution came everyone fucked off to cities.

There was less disease and starvation in the countryside.

LadyMaryTalbotCrawleysEyebrows · 07/08/2023 23:37

Nuclear weapons

highly processed foods using palm oil and corn syrup

single use plastics

Vladimir Putin?

whenindoubtgotothelibrary · 07/08/2023 23:38

Leaf blowers
Noisy, polluting, fossil fuel wasting and largely ineffective.
What's wrong with a rake or broom?

Merapi · 07/08/2023 23:38

So many to choose from, but for now I'll go with the electric scooter.

dodobookends · 07/08/2023 23:38

Conspiracy theories

Sleepeazie · 07/08/2023 23:39

Money

MoonsHaunted · 07/08/2023 23:40

Artificial sweeteners

EmilyBrontesGhost · 07/08/2023 23:40

dodobookends · 07/08/2023 23:38

Conspiracy theories

And yet they all come true.

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