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Inventions
It is the thing that pushes us further
It is the blast furnace of society
Without Inventions, we would still be cavemen bashing rocks
But every so often, there are some bad inventions
This is the thread, to talk about these bad inventions, a place to talk, bring up, or laugh at the mistakes that humanity have created, from a bad kickstarter campaign to a random infomercial, Let's talk about it on...

Unless it just doesn’t works most inventions have an at least non-harmful purpose they can perform. I really don’t think there exist any morally bad inventions, just morally bad applications.

Ah, that new thread smell.


So uhhhhh, who wants to talk about OUYA?

Scientology and Facebook.

Gas rooms? These were invented by humans and do not seem to have any purpose other than mass murder. What else do you want to use them for? I mean, Zyklon B does have some legitimate purpose (pesticide) though but gas rooms don’t.

Ah. Torture devices are also bad inventions. They generally (maybe even always) do not have any legitimate purposes.

Coathangers
Shoelaces

Firstly, I think you should really beef up the OP with your opinion on what do you think is the worst inventions.

Secondly, I think the worst invention is the revolver mousetrap, among other inventions listed in this Sam O'Nella video. Revolver mousetraps are simply overkill, to be frank, and serve no purpose that can't be done by a regular mousetrap, or a cat.

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there, got the lazy joke out of the way so you don't have to!

For those who don't know what the product in the picture is, it was a $400 overengineered bag squeezer that you have to control with an app. It couldn't do anything but crush their bags of pre-processed ingredients into a small cup of juice, and people thought it was a good idea to fund it.

Oh, and people could crush the bags with their hands.

Motor-cars with one wheel at the front. Eg. Reliant Regal or Mazda K360.

There were practical cars with one wheel at the back. Tipping over still a problem, but rolling not so much.

The Zip .22lr. That swiss gun that moves the barrel forward when reloading, and have that spring contraption encompassing the barrel.
The Ha-Go.
The entire development process of the cell phone.
The multitool.
Windows
The Kolibri.
Leaded Paint
Lead Gasoline
Asbestos
Pfizer Vaccines
Lyme disease
The genetic modification of anthrax

Generally torture devices and weaponised diseases strike me as a bad idea/invention.

Screw the guy who realised you could put palm oil in everything/

Cattle prods.

Miku the Based wrote:Pfizer Vaccines

Wot.

Agriculture. It all went downhill when we started farming.

Cobray Streetsweeper, Cobray Ladies' Home Companion... hell, just any "firearm" manufactured by that goddamn meme of a company.

Racism, who would invent that? That’s so mean.

Chemical weapons... because now you have all these stupid regulations around them! Like Bruz, u gunna ban bombs next? Where's the fun in that!

Google Stadia with its "negative latency" is a recent one.

Britain really fucked up by creating America.

I am increasingly tempted to put "social media" as a whole into this category

Baltenstein wrote:I am increasingly tempted to put "social media" as a whole into this category

DAE LE SOCIAL MEDIA BAED?