By now, we're all used to the fact that Capitalism™️ requires businesses to keep coming up with clever new ways to maximize profits by bamboozling consumers, but sometimes the levels of trickery can reach infuriating heights. Some true a-holes out there design products, websites and interfaces not so much to sell us something of actual value, but to trick us into clicking or paying to escape the frustration they've intentionally caused. If you're as pissed off as we are about these jerks, keep scrolling for some maddening examples of a-hole design. 

It's 6 a.m. You wake up feeling refreshed and well-rested even though your alarm hasn't even started screaming yet. 'Today I will eat three healthy meals and exercise after work!' you think to yourself as you apply your age-defying retinoid cream. You're experiencing one of those special and rare mornings where you're feeling good about life and you're determined not to screw this one up. You decide to ride your bike to work today. The sight of maple leaves swaying in the breeze and the sound of the white-throated sparrow's cheerful melody fill you with a familiar sensation of warmth you haven't felt in a long time. But just as you're about to burst into song, a pothole swallows your wheel and you go flying into a pile of garbage. 'Ha ha ha ha ha!' you put on a nervous laugh so the freaked out onlookers know you're totally fine even though your knees are bleeding, 'good thing I wore a helmet ha ha ha ha ha!'

You literally smell like trash but it's not going to get you down. You've still got that homemade green juice in your backpack that will revive you once you get to the office. Then it occurs to you that your back feels a bit damp and so you take a look inside your backpack. You find that the mason jar that was holding your green juice must have shattered when you fell and now there's broken glass and sticky liquid all over your work laptop. You smile through gritted teeth. 'This will be a good day god f*cking damnit.' 

You arrive to work drenched in garbage juice and actual juice. The boss asks you why you smell like that. You ask the boss why it feels like an oven in the office. You find out it's because the air conditioning is busted. Oh, and also the toilets are clogged. In fact, everything is going wrong and it's turning out to be one of the worst days of your life. You slump down into your office chair, which breaks under your weight. You open your phone, scroll through some funny memes and start to feel a bit normal again. The memes start coming and don't stop coming. Fed to the rules and you hit the ground running. Doesn't make sense not to live for fun—your brain gets smart but your head gets dumb.

Some madlads out there have no respect for authority and aren't afraid to show it. First world anarchists, on the other hand, are always down for a bit of trollish rule-breaking as long as the consequences are minimal. A 'first world anarchist' wouldn't necessarily go on a bank-robbing spree, but they might take a photo of a sign that says 'no pictures' and post it to Reddit. We've got a bunch of amusing examples of quaint rebels who just don't give a frick.

After a relentless, pandemic-filled year and a half, we're all ready for the hot [insert group here] summer that we have been denied for so long. It'll be liberating to go outside and enjoy ourselves guilt free, and many long-suffering singletons will doubtless be looking for a seasonal romance to go with it.

However, there may be some changes to the methods we use to find love. On Twitter,  there has been a meme making the rounds that is all about disavowing Tinder and all of its competitors. With 'Deleting All Dating Apps To Meet Someone The Old Fashioned Way', people imagine how they might meet the new love of their life without the help of the internet. Whether they draw on well-known pop culture or simply celebrate being able to have drunken hookups again, one thing is clear: analogue romance comes in many different forms.

Did you know that in Arizona it's illegal for a donkey to sleep in your bathtub? And you better keep close tabs on your birds, because in California it's illegal to whistle for your canary before 7 a.m. There are hundreds of peculiar laws and ordinances still in effect today even though some of them were written to address some highly specific circumstances one hundred years ago. In Connecticut, a pickle is only legitimate if it bounces. Out of context, this law seems pretty absurd, but in 1948 legislators came up with a quick and easy way to figure out if pickles were fit for human consumption—by checking if they could bounce. We've got a bunch of examples of things you probably didn't know were illegal thanks to one redditor who was curious enough to ask. 

Online shopping can be a minefield. Deceptive photos and sketchy sellers can leave you with a terrible product  — but on the other hand, it could be the only way to get your hands on something that might just change your life (thanks, consumerism!). 

For this reason, product reviews are probably one of the most essential parts of the whole retail experience. Nobody knows this better than Amazon, which has perfected the art of being a dubiously ethical one-stop shop through reviews of almost all its millions of products.

This being the internet, some of these are more flamboyant than others. Depths Of Amazon is here to showcase every critique that goes above and beyond when it comes to describing their newfound goods. The results, such as the ones displayed here, are nothing short of magnificent.

Of all the necessities of modern life, meme breaks are arguably one of the most important. There are few pastimes out there that are easier, more accessible and more fun. We all have our different ways of decompressing, but most of us can find some common ground in doing this with some amusing memes. Sometimes, it's the only way.

When boredom strikes, the brain's standards for stimulating content begin to plummet. Even snobs who consider themselves connoisseurs of Fine Art and intellectual humor are not immune to fart jokes and dumb memes, especially when the insidious languor of a long day dampens their comprehension skills. There's no shame in embracing ridiculously stupid memes when your brain just doesn't have the energy for anything fancier. Don't be so hard on yourself and enjoy some silly content. You know you want to.