MS Excel
Are you referring to Microsoft’s spreadsheet software in particular or to spreadsheet software in general?
In both cases, why?
Our collective response to climate change
I’m sure we’ve seen nothing yet
As far as effort? You’re right
And damage!
That’s right. We theorized the effects shortly after the first coal power plant, and we have observed the effects for a century now. Yet the response has been minimal, to say the least
large efforts are being made, its just not up to par with what people are expecting from their governments
Discovering agriculture
The downvotes suggest nobody has read “Sapiens: A Brief History of Mankind”. A great book that I very much recommend.
letting unqualified businessmen rule the planet instead of experts in their given fields.
Communism
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The Citroen 2CV.
There are many cars that have something worse; three wheeled things, Tesla design, the Renault dash mounted gearstick, etc.
But there is no other “modern” car which so significantly fails in every way as the 2CV.
It has nothing that could be described as performance or ride or comfort. There is nothing about it that can be called practical or stylish. It has zero properties that any sane person could find desirable in a car.
It’s so bad that even the Trabant has less to damn it, and that really is terrible.
I think the best evidence that the 2CV is man’s biggest failure, should you really need any, is that you are more likely to see them in the country they were made, repurposed as a chicken coop.
If that’s not the ultimate failure, I don’t know what is.
0-40 km/h (25 mi/h) in 42 seconds…. That’s 42, not 4.2 in case someone thought I missed the decimal. How did this sell almost 92k units per year up through the 80s?
No 0-60, you would die trying. Even 40 mi/h is over ambitious. Clearly, the 2CV was spawned by Satan to destroy our will to live. I see no other reason for that many sales.
If you needed a light car with simple mechanics, it was kinda fitted though
There were so many better options that I can’t even grant you a nod in this direction.
Nil points, yellow card, etc.
I think the Austin Allegro would like to challenge you for a car with absolutely zero redeeming qualities.
If memory serves, I think at least some versions of the Allegro had reasonably comfy seats. I’m afraid that can’t be said of the 2CV.
Also, the use of a “double skin” body, dropped by almost every manufacturer a decade or so before the Allegro, is really just another amusing tidbit we can taunt it with.
There absolutely nothing even faintly comic about the 2CV, it is an abhorrence at every level.
But I’ll grant you, the Allegro is definitely in the top 10.
“Let’s just divide up Poland and keep the peace. We can focus our whole energy on the western front, you can save yourselves bloodshed by the tanker load, and in a few short years we can share dominion over a subjugated world.”
“You so right, that sounds like a great plan”
“Hey guess what I just decided”
The whole world would have been different. It was still a pretty close thing with help from the Soviets and with Germany fighting a ludicrous two-front war for literally no military or geopolitical reason at all.
How do I politely suggest that learning history through HOI4 or WWII subreddits might not be the best idea?
What about that didn’t happen? Enlighten me.
The discovery of making and using fire.
Why
It’s the very beginning of the energy crisis. If we had never started fucking with fire, we wouldn’t have 90% or more of the world’s manmade problems.
Yeah we could argue about having mankind at all …
Pesky humans, we are our own worst enemy… ☹️
Many of us will be miserable for the rest of our lives and society won’t care.
ITT people trying to be edgy but I’m going to say invading Russia in the winter.
Also, while we’re on the invasion topic: invading Ukraine.
Leaving the tide pools. Possibly even forming proteins to begin with. I much more enjoyed being stardust.
Having the intelligence to create technology but not enough intelligence to understand the implications.
we understand the implications, we just assume that the negatives will happen to others and that the positives will grant us a temporary reprieve in which to plug existing holes
When people started taking dudes in fancy hats seriously
Money
The election of Richard Nixon. I sincerely believe that’s where we traded the “flying cars robot butlers” timeline for the “worst inequality of literally ever” timeline.
Thought that was Reagan?
My friend and I argue this occasionally. The difference IMO is that Nixon was a politician while Regan was an ideologue in a politician suit. He wanted to push his agenda no matter the negative consequences. Nixon pushed the car down the hill, but Regan started it up and floored the accelerator.
He helped, but Nixon was anti union and pro debt.
