What invention has had the biggest detrimental effect on society in your lifetime?

My vote is for smart phones. Texting was bad enough, but having a mobile computer in your hand really fucked human social interactions up beyond repair.

>pic related
My first cell phone in 2001.

The internet.

NIGGERS

Agriculture

Social Media.

Women's rights

The internet getting too big and pervasive. Everybody lives in their digital ghettos now, including me. I live in an ancient British city (existed since Roman times) of around 150,000 people and there is literally no IRL culture. No live music, no real art, shitty new architecture.

There are so many musical instruments in the western canon but they belong to the old world of actual social interaction. What will become of them?

Guitar, bass, piano, and drums will never die.

This.

bingo

wow, you are 10000 years old now? if not for this blunder I would second your response

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Go away, Jared Diamond.

I'm going to 1up yours by suggesting this: Razor phones.

Being in middle school when these things where cool, I remember it as being the beginning of competition between kids to see who could have to coolest new technology, resulting in every stupid kid nowadays thinking they need a smartphone.

only correct one.

Please leave Emperor.
It isn't your time yet.

internet on fucking phones.
everyone just really needs to check their fucking email.

the holocaust

This. I think my next phone is going to be a blackberry classic. It's smart enough, but not too smart.

I had a sidekick so I thought smart phones were passe

still don't understand how people can be so obsessed with them

Also this.

I had a similar phone made by Samsung that I loved and only got rid of around the time of the iPhone 5. I still lament the demise of the physical keyboard on phones, I could write a novel on those in a couple of hours.

anime, essentially

You can track everything down to anime and weebs.

>anime made weebs
>internet was born
>weebs wanted to talk together
>forums a shit
>image board
>social networks

and there you have it
fucking weebs did it

Only the modern Internet. It used to just be a niche for hobbyists. It was the smartphone that brought all the stupidity online, permanently screwed up human relationships and made it that much easier to monitor and control the population.

Anime was invented in your lifetime, was it?

Damn dude id forgotten all about razor phones, they were fucking popular as heck.

Anyone remember livejournal and when you had to (((((pay))))) to have an account? That was great. It kept any fucking jack wagon with an opinion from posting shit. It wasn't even that much of a fee but it kept people out of it to prevent it from being shat up by mongrels.

The car. Or rather, the idea everyone must have one, and it must be as fast as possible.
We used to play football in the street when I was a kid. Now, young people don't even walk anywhere and we blow our noxious exhausts straight into the faces of those just learning to walk. Meanwhile, anyone who chooses not to join the big logjam on the roads has to put up with a public transport network which gets shittier by the day.

IT still works and im using it as bar/drunk phone.

I came here to post this.

you must have got one after 2005

everyone in my HS had one and it was awesome. way better than facebook because people actually took time to make OC

Coffee/Tea/Otherwise Caffeinated drinks.

>Nearly all of the worlds population is addicted to a harmful drug

Fucking degenerates. If you let yourself be addicted to or even just enjoy caffeinated drinks you should consider suicide.

I had to buy a smartphone with a touch screen just because I never figured out how to text on one of those. If not for that I'd still be using one of the old style ones.

Facebook when it initially came out in 2004 was pretty sweet actually. Only people with college emails could register and it was purely for connecting with your classmates. That was it. It was beautiful. It was a more intimate version of AIM. I don't know when exactly it went to shit though. Was it when they allowed any ass hat to make an account?

What is harmful about caffeine? I used to think it was harmful but my research just said it will ruin your sleep schedule if you drink it too close to bed time

Internet fucked up my life

>caffeine
>harmful
>addictive
It's actually not classified as addictive either.

The """"""withdrawal """""symptom""""""""""" is too much of a fucking joke for doctors to count it as one. Take an aspirin and you'll be fine you god damn baby.

>Caffeine
>Nonaddictive

Top kek. Whats even worse is that people base their life around coffee in the west. If we removed caffeine today, in all its drinkable forms, the world would shut down. America would crumble.

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>implying Americans wont use prescribed amphetamines instead of coffee

what do you think aderall and ritalin is for

God I fucking hate adderall. I remember when that shit started to hit universities as the wonder Boy smarty pants pill. Doofuses would pop a hand full completely shit up studying and be noisey in the library then still perform like shit on an exam. Then blame the professors for upping the ante on test difficulty because they were afraid of said super pill and piss and moan. Fuck.

you are way too right about this, i couldnt function in my job without caffeine.

The wheel.

you are a true patriot findo

Social media

this. if i wasnt required to use certain apps and rely on my phone for field work, id go back to a razor flip phone immediately

That's fictional.

iPods were the beginning of the end

digg 2.0

>Coffee/Tea/Otherwise Caffeinated drinks.
Are you several thousand years old?

millennial detected

spam bots.

nonstick frying pan

microwave food

food trucks

get women back in the kitchen growing gardens

Tv has brainwashed people into staring at a box for hours straight.
My guess goes to that 100 100.

fpbp

people have been staring at a box for 60 years, before that they stared at a box without pictures

Dick waving about phones has always been around, I remember getting my older brothers old Motorola in the 90's and everyone at school was jelly as fuck because you could change the LED display to various colours.

I'm on my iphone right now. Gf is laying down naked, also on her iphone atm. Don't even want to touch pussy. What a life.

Humans

microwave food 100% senpai

when you remove skill to survive you remove skill.

>WHEN YOU REMOVE SKILL YOU REMOVE SKILL

You sure?

life in canadia for the last 400 years

>LED

welp LCD

thanks for pointing out exactly my point you alien fuck.

I have to agree with smartphones. Social media wouldn't be a problem if people only used it in their homes. It's people using it out on the street or when socialising with other people in real life that annoys me.

How old are you?

Thank you for confirming your immense levels of retardation.

i think i had the same phone as you, mine was green and i loved the shit out of the phone. the physical keypad made it so easy for me to email myself notes.

that and the built in cellphone strap.

Hip-hop and the promotion of black ghetto culture in mainstream entertainment.

It has simultaneously brainwashed white women into believing that behaving like the lowest social class in the US is appropriate while giving them a reason to fetishize black men.

Now you have white people around the world talking and acting like they grew up in the hood even when they come from well-to-do families. It is the ultimate degradation of the species through the displacement of high culture with low culture that has dulled our ability to think critically or reason logically.

as a burger i am insanely jealous of European and Japanese cities and the ability to just walk to places you need to go or walk to the park.

i do love in a rural area, so i do walk in nature and enjoy that endlessly. but it would be amazing to walk to the store, then past a temple or some historic structure.

>Texting was bad enough, but having a mobile computer in your hand really fucked human social interactions up beyond repair.
Bullshit. I was a social cripple long before I started texting.

Social media.

This

>SMART PHONES

Before smart phones only people who knew how to use a computer had access to the internet.
The minute smart phones came about social media went viral and every idiot in the world had access to spew their retardation at the world.

Obama getting elected and smart phones going viral started the sudden plunge into darkness.

why can't camwhores clean up their rooms before taking slutty pictures. this legitimately makes me reeeee

So glad I got a Zune.

Looks like a towel and the pants she WAS wearing.

So just rap music.

Can someone explain this one? There's some libcuck on my Facebook who's always crowing about this and I don't get it

rap "music"

television, before during elections people actually listened to what the people were saying instead of caring how they looked. You can thank the old boom tube for fucking over society

farming destroys the soil

I doubt that was invented in your lifetime.

Equal rights for the coloured.

Don't give a fuck if it wasn't invented in my life time, its what fucked everything over.

This is the root of all evil.

>bed is unmade
>carpet needs vacuuming
>misc shit on the floor
>a tipped over box and vacuum attachment

the cars sheets alone should be enough. but if women can't keep a room clean, that's not the only thing that's not clean, senpai.

Jesus, how much do you even drink to need to change phones

ITT:Luddites

>using the internet to tell me it is the worst thing ever created
Kill yourself

Television

mtv

I mean television itself is not a bad thing, it's a fine way to keep entertained, but the bad thing about it is that the jews have taken it over to brainwash people. i never watch tv. i don't even have a tv.

>the ability to just walk to places you need to go
We don't, though. We walk for a bit, then we come to a road. We walk up the side of the road till we come to the proscribed crossing point, press the button and wait for a minute like good, obedient 2nd class citizens (mustn't disrupt the flow of traffic). Then we reach the island in the middle of the road, and press another button to get another wait before being allowed all the way across the road. Rinse and repeat at the next road.
This is insane! I can understand cars if you live on a farm, but they are the death of towns and cities. Pedestrians have to share their walking space with cyclists because it's too dangerous on the roads. Shops have been moved to the edges of towns (because only people who drive there to buy shit are important).
And all because people want to zoom around at lethal speeds, in 2 tons of expensive metal with the power of a couple of hundred horses at their disposal. And it costs ridiculous amounts of money to maintain this system.
And the average person acts like all this is normal and OK!

The fucking internet. Before it, people paid attention to their city, state and voted to better it as the changes were mostly visible. The internet is being used to control weak-minded shitheads into saying/doing/voting and decreasing the quality of everything. morals have been destroyed, values are gone

Fuck me too, beautiful phones

Why do you need a drunk phone?

>>bed is unmade
Making your bed i unhygienic though. You're just shutting in moisture and growing small animals.

I can't get away from this website. I can't stop fapping to thicc qt's . I spend hours watching stupid videos on youtube.
fucking internet

are you fucking 12 or something

not if you change your sheets daily, cretin.