What is something that only exists because people are stupid?

They would go bad instantly. I would assume these would be only suitable for banana bread. Reminds me of prechopped veggies that are way overpriced.
- Both these bananas and the pre-chopped veggies are nice for people with disabilities.
At least they aren't packaged each with the plastic wrap.
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Trump

Organized religion. Prosperity gospel. Televangelists. Tucker’s career.

Trump presidencies

Trump and the American Nazi Party

Specific models of dumpsters found in national parks. Apparently making sure that the smartest bear can't get into a dumpster while making sure the dumbest person can is a grey zone.

There have been national park visitors who have asked at what time the animals are let out of their cages and put back in them. Then again, that might be an education issue rather than a stupidity problem. Would it be ethical to experiment on these people by suggesting "we'll tell you if you can get that dumpster open"?
Caveat: Having never seen those dumpsters, I have the nagging feeling that I could well be outsmarted by the bears.
- Caveat: Having never seen those dumpsters, I have the nagging feeling that I could well be outsmarted by the bears.
  There's another factor though: The bear will keep trying over and over if it smells something in there, for hours if it feels like it. Tourists, meanwhile, might not even try again if they can't get it open right away.
- I remember a lady reviewed a solar eclipse party on Facebook 1star because they held it midweek instead of on the weekend and she couldn't go
- That first can very well be a mixup between zoos, those parks where you can drive your car through and look at animals and national parks. I can fully see people getting it mixup a bit. So I would put that under education miss.
  And regarding the dumpsters I have been outsmarted by a child proff container so I will show respect to the dumpster.

I'm gonna get downvoted for this but... gaming consoles.

Gaming consoles made sense back in the day before home computing took off, and for a while they actually had superior hardware than computers when it came specifically to running games. But nowadays gaming consoles are just locked down user-hostile computers with a subscription service attached. The gaming equivalent of inkjet printers. It's an industry made irrelevant by advancements in technology, propped up by misleading marketing and artificial hype that sadly many people fall for.

I have a PS5 because it will play the damned games. There's nothing in the PC realm for $400 I could buy that could come close to guaranteeing the same thing. Consoles don't exist because people are stupid, they exist because gaming and GPU companies are cartels just like almost every other sector of the economy.
New PC graphics cards alone cost as much as entire games consoles. The top end ones cost the same as multiple PS5s. That's why consoles exist.
- Consoles don't make money, the expensive games and subscriptions do.
You are underestimating the importance of standards here. On a PC you will always only get a fraction of the hardware's power, because there's way more stuff running at the same time, not just the game, and because the developers can't know exactly what hardware configuration every single gamer has. On a console you can know exactly how much RAM you will have available, so you can design your content to use that amount of data and then stream it into memory that you reserve at the start. If you do that on a PC you may ask for more RAM than the PC has or you may leave RAM unused. Or you can try to optimize the game for different specs, which costs time and money, so you won't get the same results with the same budget.
- Back in the olden days when games were written in assembly and there was barely enough memory for a framebuffer it made sense to tediously optimize games to squeeze every bit of performance out of the limited hardware. Modern consoles are not like that. They have their own operating systems with schedulers, multitasking, and memory allocators, much like a desktop computer. Your claim that "way more stuff is running at the same time" is only true if the PC user deliberately decides to keep other programs running alongside their game (which can be a feature in and of itself -- think recording/streaming, discord, etc.) It is true that while developing for PC you have to take account that different people will have different hardware, but that problem is solved by having a graphics settings menu. Some games can even automatically select the best graphics options that will get the most out of your hardware. What you're describing is a non-problem.
Steam deck makes sense
I downvoted you just because you're one of those people who is literally asking for it.
- My god, how can I possibly recover from this!? My lemmy reputation has been tainted forever!!!
The old consoles also were just plug the game in and boot up.
No Hassle.
Now they sounds like Windows boxes.

Lotteries. If people understood odds they'd never buy a ticket, or at least not in the numbers they do.

Lotteries are a tax on hope, not stupidity.
You have a better chance of literally being Brad Pitt than you do if winning the lottery.

Shops with perpetual "sales" and prices ending with 99.

JC Penney went through a period where they did away with their perpetual "sale" and normalized their pricing. Their sales tanked as a result. Apparently a lot of people who shop there are idiots.
- The one time I went while they were just offering low prices was awesome. Just $8/shirt, no coupons or sales to turn a $20 shirt into a ln $8 one. Most people really like seeing a big number then having to pay a smaller one though.
- The former SVP of Apple Retail Ron Johnson, specifically. He actually thought the people who shopped at JC Penny were the same as the people who shopped at an Apple Store.

Homeopathy and alternative medicine.

Chiropractors can be heard chuckling nervously

Racism Sexism

Smart people can be and often are racist and sexist too. They are better at justifying it too. Scientific racism is an existing pseudoscience.
- I hear your point, but they are not that smart if they think skin color determines the value of a human. Same for sex.

Any brand of authoritarianism.

Microsoft Windows

As a heavy Windows user on a 12+ hour/day basis - I 110% agree with you.

My high school mandatory epilepsy training for teachers and staff because the art teacher stepped over me while I was seizing on the floor during class. Other students had to carry me to the nurse because I couldn't walk right after the seizure. Teacher wouldn't even call the nurse to let her know what was up

Cryptocurrency as an investment

Trump

Probably a whole bunch of us. Stupidity may result in unwanted and/or unplanned pregnancies.

Health Insurance Companies

They don’t really exist because people are stupid.
More because of corruption and greed imo.
You're gonna have to explain further before I can judge your comment.
- If people weren't stupid they would not put up with having the highest medical costs in the world while achieving the lowest quality of care in the first world. Health Insurance Companies exist because too many people haven't figured out that their purpose is to limit, or prevent, actual health care.

Short-term warranties for electronics that aren’t expensive.

These things are especially evil in Australia where consumer protections are stronger and usually exceed the stated warranty.
I've had this conversation many times:
"Can I interest you in an extended warranty with that?"
"No thanks, it's no better than consumer protection"
"Fair enough. Had to ask"
When i worked for office Max, back when they still existed, they told us to always always always push the "extended warranty"...
$4.00 on a $15.00 calculator... Even if you're making minimum wage, the time spent dicking around with the warranty crap, you could have bought a better calculator when the first broke.
- $4 is 27% of $15. Are you telling me that this calculator has a greater than 27% chance of failing within 1 year? If so, I'll shop elsewhere. If not, your warranty is a ripoff and I'll shop elsewhere.
These laptop fans I bought a while back had a warranty of 60 days. At that stage I wonder why even bother. They worked just fine for years, though.

The price of Apple products

Fox

The FBI agent or the animal?

False dichotomies…

"Do not eat"-stickers.

At HEB I saw "Water melon filet" for sale.

Cigarettes

Yes, but have you ever tried being addicted to nicotine? /s
- There's healthier ways

I like the “This product may contain nuts” on a packet of nuts.
- It better contain nuts or I want my money back.

The government

Gerrymandering?

Imagine Dragons

Why?
- I ask "why" every time I'm reminded Imagine Dragons exist, too.

The Republican party.

The current american government?

Children?

A good chunk of them anyways

Science. If we weren't stupid we would already know everything and wouldn't have to study it.

edit: that was a joke, sorry if I didn't make it clear.

You are confusing knowledge and intelligence
Hard disagree. We have the scientific method to able to approach the unknown and slowly decipher it in a way that consistently gets us closer to the truth because we're at least smart-ish as a human race.

automatic weapons

Cybertruck.

India

The current climate crisis.

Schools.

this was my first thouht too lol
i also feel that schools are made for people more willing to learn, so perhaps schools are moreso made for 'smart' people
lmao, yes. And good thing they do!

A lot of Osha regulations.

Hotdog cooking instructions

CEOs

Labels like "Caution hot" on coffee cups

Everything.

GUIs which I use as I am also stupid.

I disagree, GUI's are more visually appealing and allow for faster intake of the most important information (according to the designer) information. If it was all plain text I think the internet would be a terribly boring place to crawl through.
- Fair point I'm just speaking from terminal based interaction to GUI which was done for accessibility.

The lottery. Falconry. Schools.

You're going to have to explain why falconry exists because of idiots.
- I think falconry is a pretty smart way to hunt in Mongolia when you don't have any tech.

Maga

What did Africa do wrong?
- There is no country of Africa.

laws

"I'm with stupid" shirts

Car door jams/openers

Forgetful doesn't mean stupid!

Quick! Where are your keys?!

Did you have to look? lol

Bicycle helmets

Instructions on bottles of shampoo.

I used to think the same but I recently decided to embrace my curly hair and the way you use certain shampoos/conditioners can be different. I've had to read the instructions each time I try a new brand to make sure I don't ruin my hair.
I'd blame parents for that, tbf
- What did the parents do?

Warnings and instructions.

CEOs

Lexica

"Tactical" products and brain "vitamins"