That we can have bullet trains, but not here apparently for no reason other than greed.
this post was submitted on 20 Dec 2025
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"Can we have comfortable flights on airplanes?"
"No."
"Can they at least be affordable then?"
"Yeeaaahhhh... No."
"OK. How about the existing passenger trains? Can they be..."
"Nope!"
Do ya feel like doing pull ups before ya fly? The big guy sitting next to ya does.
We aren't taxing the rich
That loud cars not only exist, but there are actually more of them than in 3rd world countries. That it's a "culture" here, and people actually use their excess money to make cars louder, bigger and more dangerous to everyone else (not the driver, he pays extra for his safety).
Coming from a 3rd world country to Australia it was one of my biggest disappointments. I thought we had loud cars because we we're "uncivilised" or didn't have the money to fix them. I was so wrong...
There are many others, but I guess this was the biggest illusion I had about first world countries.
A unified language, Esperanto.
Hell, I'm a native English language speaker that doesn't do well with other languages but I saw the pragmatic case-use of it.
There’s a video game loosely based on that language, The Expression Amrilato. It’s how I first heard of it.
The fact people speak different languages that hold rich histories and different sounds and complexities are actually really cool and the idea we should all speak the same sounds very sad and boring
America as a whole.
Okay let's see.
Most of all I think, I hate that i don't have easy access to nature. I live in the European lowlands, and the best we can do here is overcultivated/overhiked forests that are basically parks.
Then I hate that there are not enough trains (even in Europe). We subsidize the shit out of airlies and yet if I just want to hop on a train to go to London or Copenhagen, I basically can't, without sigificant planning.
Then I also hate that the glamour of driving is gone. The age of Peak Car is long gone, the only reasonable option to go from A to B is on a highway but even thise are mostly jammed most of the time. I know Peak Car was very polluting (heck, my definition of Peak Car is basically the 60s so they still used leaded fuel lol), which is also smth I hate... I guess I basically want to live in the sweet ignorance of the 60s to not even know about these.
Then I hate that skiing is basically a dying sport, with more and more people (over)using the less and less usable slopes because of course together with climate, we fucked the ski resorts too.
And lastly but not least(ly), I hate how we fucked the Web and want Peak Web (the web of the late 90s/early 2000s) back please.
Democracy
All the steps towards dystopia and nobody is able to stop it. Doesnt matter what you vote for or what you buy. So you are just seeing it become more and more dystopian every year and you cant do anything.
Private medical clinics only the super rich can afford.
The EMDrive wasn't real
That I have to go to work. Love my job hate the idea of doing it for so long.
Apparently the first world is free or something, yet everyone is so amazingly conformist. From the way they speak to the way they dress to the work they do and friendships and relationships, the vast majority is content to live a life of greige and shopping at Costco.
tbf costco is very convenient, and with their corporate structure/solid pay etc. they're like the least evil supermarket chain you can buy from. better than alot of mom & pop type places
sure, i'd shop at a local co-op first but if you have to shop at evil megastore you might as well do it at the somewhat less-evil megastore, right?
Sure, they're not a bad place to shop. But making it a personality trait is excessive.
Also Costco hotdog is the only true stablecoin.
The values of Accountability, Responsibility and Dignity are pretty much a joke.
Flying cars still aren't a thing yet, despite having been promised since the time of the Jetsons.
I'd even settle for a flying broom at this rate 🧹
Sure they are, they're called helicopters.
The problem with flying cars isn't that it's not possible, it's that it's not possible to do safely. People can't seem to stay out of each others way in two dimensions, much less three.
the thought of an average driver being able to fly their car is absolutely terrifying. also would make heists, sabotaging and spying very easy
It's harder to crash into another flying car in 3 dimentions, no?
Flying cars would be disasters waiting to happen. Yeah because drunk drivers on the ground isn't bad enough, no, lets have drunk drivers in flight who are now capable of practically crashing into everything.
No government is going to allow us that much freedom.
Too dangerous, too uncontrollable.
People not being orderly. Im order autism! Need my order!
If it comes to flying, mine would be to never have flown on a Twin Otter, ideally with a bush pilot somewhere in remote mountainous boondocks. I'd settle for a Cessna Caravan or a Kodiak etc. instead.
Capitalism
Indifference to democide, genocide, anthrocide, ecocide, omnicide, and the suppression of emancipatory technologies that could end all resource wars.
Oh, you meant something trivial and silly?
Okay...
That we're to be more disappointed by things like bright LED headlights on cars, internet cutting out for a few seconds once a year, the price of shopping bags, etc, rather than all the democide, genocide, anthrocide, ecocide, omnicide, and the suppression of emancipatory technologies that could end all resource wars.