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[โ€“] scarabic@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Religion. The all-time champion, no contest, just as George Carlin said:

https://youtu.be/2tp0UNcjzl8

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[โ€“] sma3in@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[โ€“] gruvn@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Paying for cellular data, in advance, regardless of whether or not you use it with no possibility of refunding any you didn't use.

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[โ€“] bbigras@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 year ago

Phone companies charging you for caller ID. It must cost them nothing.

[โ€“] NormalC@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Proprietary (nonfree) Software.

People still peddle the "muh intellectual property" and "I gotta feed my kids in this fast-paced economy" even though these are irrelevant to software freedom.

An alarming majority (at least in the US) are ignorant of this conflict at all. The money is so distorted in the IT industry that it's tantamount to theft. The skeletons in Congress don't have a single clue.

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