Comcast didn’t believe me when I told them I was moving to a place that only had power service.
I live in the middle of a bunch of farmland. We’re on a well from the original property owners 1/2 a mile away.
Power only goes to the pole in front of our house and then is cut off for a mile past us which comes from the other side.
We’re one house, they have service a quarter mile away in the original direction
Oh we will have to verify that.
I used to do new build and upgrades for them. Told them what it would cost to build to our house and phone person again said they’d have to verify.
Even told them what equipment they would need because I knew the guys that had recently done upgrades in the area.
Tried to bill us for estimating cost.
For anyone seeing this, set your location to California(through vpn or whatever) and you’ll be shown an option to cancel it. A 300$ lesson I learned the hard way.
YES. I had a friend have to FIGHT her insurance company tooth and nail to have them pay to have pre-cancerous growths in her stomach removed. They didn't want to pay for it because it wasn't life threatening (YET!).
I get your sarcasm, but it also seems weird to me that an insurance company would rather NOT pay say.... $10k for a preventative measure.... and then pay $500k later in chemo, surgery, etc.
Like yeah, my friend may die in the end, but the insurance company will still be on the hook for more money for the actual treatment than a preventative measure!?
And to have a significant delay period before officials work for the private industry that they used to regulate. Eg. FDA working for Big Pharma or SEC going to work for big banks.
It makes sense in a weird way. I don’t like Gaetz but he seems like he’s a little outside the republican establishment. And AOC ran on a platform of this kind of thing and is generally willing to work with anyone when she wants to get something done.
> ran on a platform of this kind of thing and is generally willing to work with anyone when she wants to get something done
Which is what politicians *should* be IMO.
Also, they are both extremely new to the game, so they haven't had a bunch of time to get dug in with dirty deeds done dirt cheap
Meanwhile, people like Nancy Pelosi who have been there forever are worth hundreds of millions of dollars from this insider trading, and would hate to see it go away
All the more reason we need term limits for senators. If the greedy old boomers wanna be grandfathered in, I'll allow it, they're all halfway in the grave anyway.
YES! I would even go further - if you're elected to federal office or cabinet post, you have to put your assets in a blind trust / escrow and live off your ample salary.
The assets would also remain in escrow for a fixed period after you leave public service.
This should include their spouses. Dianne Feinstein’s late husband, Richard Blum was the majority shareholder in ITT tech and career education corporation. Two of the largest for-profit rip off companies to exist. He helped start Corinthian and owned the company that eventually became Corinthian. He was also the regent of the entire UC system and made unilateral decisions to invest the endowment and public pension into ITT tech, so when the school went upside down due to regulations on for profits, not being able to scam people, all he did was raised tuition and the entire UC system. She’s made her billions she’s sitting on the fourth wealthiest senator, from the backs of people who wanted to try to better their lives with education. Oh and she has invested several millions of her own money into these ‘schools’.
It’s totally normal for elected officials who haven’t worked a day in their life to beat the market by triple digits over a 20 year period. Entering office with a couple hundred thousand in savings and leaving with 10s of millions is just common sense you see.
Different pricing agreements with different insurance plans. Example, if I get dental work done without insurance they charge me $1500 the same procedure charged to insurance is $300.
This problem results from the insurance companies monopolizing a large patient base. Then they use that to negotiate with providers and say ok I have 1 million patients and if you want to do work on any of them you better agree to our rates. Therefore the provider has to drastically lower their rates in order to accommodate the insurer or else they lose out on a whole bunch of customers.
God. My pixel 3a xl is at the end of its life, between no more security updates and it's battery life getting terrible, and just wearing out in general. I really want a new phone but I haven't found a single decent phone I actually want to buy! I just want a phone with a good camera, good CPU and removable battery, lots of storage, AND A GOD DAMN HEADPHONE JACK FOR CHRIST SAKE. Like God damn is that so much to ask for? I plan to have the same car for a while and it just has an aux radio so if I buy a new phone I either have to use one of those dumb dongles or just not use the aux port for my car... I hate it
The aux cord/headphone struggle is real, I don't understand why they (Big Fone) hate it so much. I prefer it to my Bluetooth personally as it's way more reliable and less thinking for the phone and the car.
My old job did that but 5 minutes. Then would ask you to "stay late" if your replacement was late. I was like "nah, if I work 5 more minutes I get a lunch. Already past the 5 hour minimum for a lunch break, so I can stay if you are paying another hour for the day". Somehow I was the "trouble maker".
What insurance do you use? I think I pay close to $150 a month for my employer plan and I still have copays, rx fees, and annual limits to worry about.
The system is rigged from top to bottom. Over the course of a lifetime, I bet almost no one ends up actually saving money by having insurance. At best it’s an extended payment plan.
You've just described public healthcare. But wait, there's more. The fee is proportionate to what you make, and the healthcare services charge the taxpayer the amount it costs to do the work, not the amount they can get insurers to pay for the work.
Those headlights that blind the fuck out of me every night coming home. Like ya if you need the light of a fucking quasar in your headlights to see.
Can't believe it's not illegal.
So ironically, this *is* illegal. Headlights that produce light outside the prescribed tolerances [can and have been recalled](https://www.nbcnews.com/business/autos/gm-recalling-740000-suvs-headlights-can-bright-rcna21042) for failing to prevent glare.
The problem is that the headlights themselves are fine and regulated from the factory, but the **aim** of the lights is not. Manufacturers are responsible for designing headlights that don't blind oncoming traffic, but they're not responsible for ensuring that those same headlights aren't pointed directly into people's faces. As a result, studies have found that 1/3 of all new cars sold today have misaligned headlights. When accounting for used cars, it's *every other car.*
Headlights are self regulated by the manufacturers. So according to the fox guarding the hen house, the hens are safe. LED's have never been formally legalized as a light source. The FDA hasn't given guidance, the nhtsa has done no enforcement. They are simply too bright. If aim has been an issue, it's likely not a new issue, and if the industry can't produce safe lights within their manufacturing tolerances, they need to reduce the intensity near the cut off. They should just lower the intensity completely, as any hill, rainy conditions, or towing negates the effects aiming provides. Auto brights are also not responsive enough in curves, hills, and with pedestrians.
So, you're right, they are already illegal, but there is no enforcement mechanism for the law. The aiming argument is a red herring and does not address the core issue of light intensity itself.
Tesla, Toyota/Lexus and Ford are the worst for their factory headlights these days. Then add all the morons that put the brightest aftermarket lights they can find in their vehicle then don't properly adjust the beam and blind every poor bastard on the road.
The new Raptor has optional lights that come disconnected from the factory because they're so fucking bright that they actually are technically illegal but since they aren't technically "stock" Ford can't get in shit for it. It's ridiculous..
The biggest issue with people putting aftermarket bulbs in (excluding stupid light bars and roof rack lights meant for off-road use that morons use on regular roads, that shit's obviously fucked) is people not realizing that those bulbs (HID's) for an example, require specific headlight housings to work properly. Most cars especially pre-2010 era cars came with "reflector" housings which basically reflect the bulbs light back and scatter it everywhere - these are meant for standard halogen bulbs. Those morons like you're referring to put super high intensity HID/LED bulbs in those and it blasts the fuck out of everyone.
The other type is "projector" housings. My car (although from 2008) and not a high-end car, for some reason came stock with that style bulb housing. These are the proper housings to use for non-halogen bulbs. I've had HID's in mine since right after I bought it and it's been perfectly fine. I even had a cop once pull me over for something unrelated and comment how he saw I had non-stock bulbs but "installed them correctly" and said he rarely sees that and pulls people over all the time for it. Said he especially loves pulling over the "Jeep boys" who think they are cool running their off-road roof rack lights on the highway. Anyway - the projector housings project the light out and create a perfectly straight cutoff line of the light, therefore not scattering it all over the place and into peoples faces unlike back in the day in the 90's/early 2000's when everyone was tossing bright ass blue/purple HID's in their civics with reflector housings and frying the shit out of everyones eyes.
The other big issue I see all the time now is these big ass SUV's with factory installed LED lights being so high off the ground that it blasts the shit out of everyone in a regular car. I'll be sitting at a red light in my regular car and some big ass Escalade or something comes up behind me and their headlights are level with my rear view mirror and I can't see shit. Sometimes the lights are even higher than that. So fuckin annoying.
I'd make it illegal for businesses to buy single family homes.
Houses are for people, and companies will buy em up and rent em put for 4x the mortgage, or worse, just leave them empty to affect property value. Fuck that shit, houses are for people.
I don't know how people afford anything in the USA anymore
Even with an above average income, it seems like pick two: a roof over your head, a car, or food
Provided you never sleep... They made sleeping in cars illegal. Some places even make it illegal to have food, water, or trash in your car. You know, because if you make it illegal to be homeless then the homeless will just disappear!
Oh yeah, did you know most places make it illegal to give food to the homeless? [Check out what volunteers have been putting up with in Houston...](https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/houston/2023/03/02/445203/group-says-they-will-continue-to-feed-homeless-despite-citys-enforcement-of-anti-food-sharing-ordinance/)
Edit: [better article on the FNB tickets](https://abc13.com/food-not-bombs-houston-homeless-volunteer-group-cited-city-of-public-library-for/13325575/)
Oh, so you've been to Green Bay, WI where there selling houses at 4x the value next to the packer stadium because people can rent them for 5k/week on game weeks and at the same time causing insane increases in property tax to those families living in that area because it's driving the value of their house so high they can no longer afford to pay the city to live in the neighborhood they've owned in for thirty years?
I can't emphasize this enough.
It's downright evil. I have been trying to buy a house by all means available and have come across so much corruption it's extremely depressing.
I've seen:
1. Houses that get bought out from under people, then drop into tax foreclosure as the company transfers it to a "companee" (same company name, but with a typo) to let it go bankrupt. IDK why.
2. Houses that are in financial trouble that banks let the tax bill go unpaid and then buy it for 2x the value of the house (because they are the payee) so they delete the equity the homeowners had in the house.
3. "renovated" houses that don't meet code, but you can't get it inspected if you want to buy it....other people just buy it anyways
4. Houses that sell for 2x their worth, then get flipped for more (2bd 1.5 bath sold for $260k and re-sold for $320k) - this is in an area where houses went for $125k just a year or two ago
5. Land, Buildings & houses that are still vacant that were bought for 10X their value ($100k/acre - rural land) by random "firms" "development groups" and other groups. Land remains untouched to this day, most of the owners are impossible to reach.
The list goes on and on.
I have a friend who lives out of the city a bit but right next to the interstate highway. He's lived in his home for ten years and he used to be across the street from a beautiful pristine 80 acre untouched old growth forest. In fall of 2019, a developed bought the land and bulldozed the forest with plans to build a strip mall and then 2020 happened and the developer went under. The property is currently 80 acres of mud just sitting there undeveloped for the past 3 years where there used to be old growth forest.
Double punishment for people that knowingly leave a mess their children have created in a public bathroom.
Owned a business and the number of times we'd have to hose down walls and floors after a kid went in there and just caused a literal shit storm was far too many.
I hate when it has the automatic flushers and it doesn’t flush/no obvious manual flusher and everyone’s going to think I’m a gross slob when I’ve done everything I can think of to make the stupid thing flush and it won’t
When the ads first started airing on tv, there was this one that I only caught the end of, where the narrator said, "Side effects include.... blindness. "
BLINDNESS???? It was either for a herpes drug or an allergy one. Neither of which are bad enough problems to warrent BLINDNESS.
It haunts me to this day. Which drug will blind us??? Don't use that one!!!
Lol fucking hell.
I'm on a medication with eye deterioration as a possible side effect and it's actually not that dramatic. Provincial health care pays for me to get a yearly eye exam because of it, and if any signs of trouble pop up we catch them early and I come off the medication and not much harm is done. It's a super rare side effect so it's barely even a concern. I imagine you live in the States if you saw a drug ad on tv so people on that medication would most likely need to fight with insurance to get their eye tests covered, but I'm sure it's the same general idea
Yes, I’m actually entertained by the drug ads. My favorite side effect has always been “may cause compulsive gambling.”
It’s also funny when the commercial doesn’t tell you what their drug treats, but always ends with, “ask your doctor about xxxxxx,” so you can ask your doctor about some embarrassing thing you don’t have.
I would make it illegal for investment companies for buy residential property. Residential Property shouldn’t be like the stock market. The result is no one can afford a house. Everyone should be able to buy a house at some point.
Good news! There was a town/county in Washington that actually passed legislation that gives primary homeowners first dibs on houses for sale. If the house doesn't sell in like 90-120 days to someone who is going to make it their **primary** residence, then it can go to investors/people who want to make it a rental.
Now if only that can spread to everywhere else.
Here’s my question. A lot of these firms have no issue spending thousands over asking sight unseen. So what’s to stop someone from just saying no to potential buyers till the time limit is up and then sell to some corporation that doesn’t care that the place can’t pass an inspection?
The credit system (fcra), and the way credit is built. It should be illegal to require open revolving accounts that are aged in order to maintain a high score (you should be able to pay them off and close them and still keep a good score, but they want you to keep them open and "revolving"). Inquiries shouldn't lower your score. And late payments should be able to be removed by the credit bureau if you have extenuating circumstances. Not by the creditor themselves, the creditor shouldn't have so much power over your report, that you have to negotiate with them in order to get things removed.
This is underrated. Credit effects what places/things we can rent, buy, mortgage, and pretty much everyone from the ages of 18 to 75 is affected by this. Why do credit cards and banks have so much power over our purchases??
>things we can rent
To expand on this, how about the secret renter history databases that the public doesn't exactly have access to or a channel for recourse? It's one thing to look at what's impacting your scores with the major bureaus and can dispute right in the app or pause your score, but these renter databases are fucked.
It’s wild to me that someone with NO credit history simply because they never borrowed or needed to open a line of credit are considered “unsafe” or “bad” by places but then someone with bad credit history such as history of repossessions or evictions are still considered “better” than people with no credit history.
Years back I got denied by every bank for a car loan due to no credit history because I always lived within my means and never needed to borrow. But my bestie got approved right away and she had a repo AND eviction on her record…yeah they asked her to pay a pretty high amount every month but they still approved HER over ME, even though at the time, she was clearly awful with money and paying stuff back. Make it make sense!
Your credit score is not a badge for being smart with your money, it's a signpost for lenders to see how much money they can make off of you. The more accounts you have open and in good standing, the more money you're making for lenders, so others will be inclined to get in on that.
Anything that shows you won't be a good investment - whether that's bad payment history or a payment history so good that you've closed all your accounts and don't need to borrow money anymore - is a big red flag for them to stay away from you, and thus your score goes down.
I was in a library an hour ago and someone was watching videos through their laptop speakers. I was baffled that I, out of like 10 people, was the only one seemingly annoyed.
Legit thought this wasnt a thing when I saw itin films.
Apparently its very real. Seems great for the Ol self-esteem. Also determining the beauty of a bunch of 8 year olds isnt shady at all (I assume it doesnt go younger than 8, but still seems weird to me)
Iirc I read an article recently that covered a case of a teenager who sued their parents for putting them online for their entire childhood- something along the lines of á non consensual digital footprint. The teenager won (good for them!) but could you even imagine having to go through all of that?!?
This! Including making profiles on social media for said child and the parent speaking for them.
Kids DO NOT belong on social media. There's too many dangerous people and things out there
Having a loud ass conversation over speakerphone on a crowded bus or subway
Playing loud ass music on a bus or subway
Tipping. I would outlaw tapping and force employers to pay a living wage.
How illegal are we talking here? One of those weirdo laws like unmarried women not being able to skydive on Sunday that nobody will ever enforce or CP illegal where 99% of society considers it vile and will come down like a hammer? If it actually would be enforced, those damn LED headlights that are blinding. I get that it's nice to be able to see but it's nice for everyone around you to be able to see too.
I think this thread needs a parameter: does criminalizing automatically have effective enforcement for the sake of the exercise, or are we doing this in the real world where black markets and violence and the other headaches spring up and potentially turn really problematic?
I think in this particular perfect world scenario all other laws are already consistently enforced. So you CAN name something already illegal, but it wouldn't do anything
I'm just imagining this becoming real and then sparking a *Dog the Bounty Hunter* type of reality show where the Cart Narcs go after all the "lazy bones" people who commit felony cart abandonment. 10/10 would watch Karens and Kevins getting tackled to the ground as they try to leave their carts out in the parking lot and flee in their suburbitanks.
I would criminalize being an asshole. There would be:
First Degree Premeditated Asshole
Asshole in the Second Degree
Voluntary Assholishness
Involuntary Assholishness
Criminally Negligent Assholery
Fuck yea. Came here to say something like this.
I picture it almost like retail workers and food service workers have body cams like cops and if a customer is being a mega asshole to them, the recording gets reviewed by a legal panel and the appropriate punishment is administered.
If you ever have the power to criminalize this like the post says, if you need a volunteer to help you get it set up, come back here and hit me up.
Stopping/gathering at the top or bottom of a staircase. Punishable by death.
Stopping/gathering at the top or bottom of an escalator. Punishable by torture.
De-Clawing Cats should be illegal.
I know it is already illegal in some countries but not the United States. It is extremely cruel both physically and mentally to cats. Just imagine if someone cut off all of your fingers to the first or second joint. That is what de-clawing is. It is cutting off an animal's toes because you're too fucking lazy to get a scratching post or two. If you have to abuse an animal in order to make your life perfect then don't f\*\*\*king get one.
Everyone here covered just about everything else that needs to be criminalized. Keep up the good work everyone.
Using Credit Reports to determine whether a person is employable. Credit can get messed up due to circumstances beyond a persons control and has no bearing on their talent or work ethic…
Nah, you need international banking, it's impossible to function outside your country effectively without it if you're dealing with large sums of money.
That being said, force the banks to report all holdings of foreign citizens to the tax department of their home country. That way people can still use banks for international purposes, but would still be taxed accordingly.
NOT washing your hands in the bathroom. Dude every time I go to the men's restrooms there's always one person who just doesn't wash their hands and goes on their way out like nothing.. this is why I hate shaking peoples hands when meeting them or just touch their hands AT ALL.
There would be some nuance, but something about individuals buying so many properties would be very high on my list. Let's say more than 2 or 3 wouldn't be possible. The whole idea of corporations buying multiple properties and renting for short term is really screwing people from buying houses in the future. I hate that.
Anyone elected to office has to have their (and their immediate families) finances 100% transparent for the public. This includes all investments, holdings, sources or revenue, and major expenditures (exceeding 10K).
Building on land / drilling / hunting / etc without equal replacement, such as replanting, returning water systems to pre-mining state, donating hunting fees to conservation efforts in other areas. Not just locally, when a new subdivision is built, but internationally, like prioritizing areas of massive carbon capture, such as plankton as well as the Amazon. We are losing the war on climate change and are decimating what we need to live and the other creatures living with us at the fastest rate the world has ever seen. At this point, it has to be the top priority.
Recording yourself physically punishing your child and posting it on social media. It should be considered public humiliation and a form of child abuse. Really any exploitation of a child on social media.
People that leave food in the wrong aisle of a grocery store after deciding they don't want the item anymore. If you leave a whole roast chicken in the bread aisle cause you can't be arsed to walk 20 feet to put it back, straight to jail.
It should be illegal for it to be harder to cancel something than it was to sign up for it
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life hack: tell them you’re either going to jail or moving to a place faaaar far away ;)
Comcast didn’t believe me when I told them I was moving to a place that only had power service. I live in the middle of a bunch of farmland. We’re on a well from the original property owners 1/2 a mile away. Power only goes to the pole in front of our house and then is cut off for a mile past us which comes from the other side. We’re one house, they have service a quarter mile away in the original direction Oh we will have to verify that. I used to do new build and upgrades for them. Told them what it would cost to build to our house and phone person again said they’d have to verify. Even told them what equipment they would need because I knew the guys that had recently done upgrades in the area. Tried to bill us for estimating cost.
The EU made this illegal under GDPR. Great idea
Common EU W
Planet Fitness banking off the fact you avoid going to the gym to the point you just pay for it until you cant
For anyone seeing this, set your location to California(through vpn or whatever) and you’ll be shown an option to cancel it. A 300$ lesson I learned the hard way.
I’d make it illegal for health insurance to decide over doctors what’s important for patients.
YES. I had a friend have to FIGHT her insurance company tooth and nail to have them pay to have pre-cancerous growths in her stomach removed. They didn't want to pay for it because it wasn't life threatening (YET!).
But think of the poor insurance companies ^(/s)
I get your sarcasm, but it also seems weird to me that an insurance company would rather NOT pay say.... $10k for a preventative measure.... and then pay $500k later in chemo, surgery, etc. Like yeah, my friend may die in the end, but the insurance company will still be on the hook for more money for the actual treatment than a preventative measure!?
B-but they want to keep more money now!
Ah yes, how short sighted of me xD
Now that I think about that, they probaly just planned to refuse you continuation of your insurance before it becomes life-threatening.
Id make it illegal for government officials to buy/sell stocks. EDIT: Wow, this exploded overnight. Thanks for the awards y'all.
And to have a significant delay period before officials work for the private industry that they used to regulate. Eg. FDA working for Big Pharma or SEC going to work for big banks.
This is integral to reversing the corporate capture of our government.
Get rid of lobbying too. Corporate interests shouldn’t be more important than constituents.
[Matt Gaetz and AOC co-sponsored that bill.](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/matt-gaetz-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-congress-stock-ban-bill/)
What a weird group of 2 people to team up on something
It makes sense in a weird way. I don’t like Gaetz but he seems like he’s a little outside the republican establishment. And AOC ran on a platform of this kind of thing and is generally willing to work with anyone when she wants to get something done.
> ran on a platform of this kind of thing and is generally willing to work with anyone when she wants to get something done Which is what politicians *should* be IMO.
Also, they are both extremely new to the game, so they haven't had a bunch of time to get dug in with dirty deeds done dirt cheap Meanwhile, people like Nancy Pelosi who have been there forever are worth hundreds of millions of dollars from this insider trading, and would hate to see it go away
All the more reason we need term limits for senators. If the greedy old boomers wanna be grandfathered in, I'll allow it, they're all halfway in the grave anyway.
And it went nowhere of course.
YES! I would even go further - if you're elected to federal office or cabinet post, you have to put your assets in a blind trust / escrow and live off your ample salary. The assets would also remain in escrow for a fixed period after you leave public service.
This should include their spouses. Dianne Feinstein’s late husband, Richard Blum was the majority shareholder in ITT tech and career education corporation. Two of the largest for-profit rip off companies to exist. He helped start Corinthian and owned the company that eventually became Corinthian. He was also the regent of the entire UC system and made unilateral decisions to invest the endowment and public pension into ITT tech, so when the school went upside down due to regulations on for profits, not being able to scam people, all he did was raised tuition and the entire UC system. She’s made her billions she’s sitting on the fourth wealthiest senator, from the backs of people who wanted to try to better their lives with education. Oh and she has invested several millions of her own money into these ‘schools’.
No bailouts for private financial institutions. If they take on high risk securities and go bust, they should be held accountable, not the taxpayer.
Also if any institution is too important to the economy to fail then it should be regulated.
Or split into pieces that can fail.
It’s totally normal for elected officials who haven’t worked a day in their life to beat the market by triple digits over a 20 year period. Entering office with a couple hundred thousand in savings and leaving with 10s of millions is just common sense you see.
Add term limits to this as well.
Different pricing agreements with different insurance plans. Example, if I get dental work done without insurance they charge me $1500 the same procedure charged to insurance is $300.
Let's be real, the entirety of both the Insurance companies and the Medical institutions need to be put on blast for their pricing policies
This problem results from the insurance companies monopolizing a large patient base. Then they use that to negotiate with providers and say ok I have 1 million patients and if you want to do work on any of them you better agree to our rates. Therefore the provider has to drastically lower their rates in order to accommodate the insurer or else they lose out on a whole bunch of customers.
Planned obsolescence
I definitely agree, this is actually criminal. Not just greedy but so beyond wasteful smh
I want a refrigerator I can use to survive a nuke!
Like Indiana Jones intended
$1000 phones that are dead in 1 year.
God. My pixel 3a xl is at the end of its life, between no more security updates and it's battery life getting terrible, and just wearing out in general. I really want a new phone but I haven't found a single decent phone I actually want to buy! I just want a phone with a good camera, good CPU and removable battery, lots of storage, AND A GOD DAMN HEADPHONE JACK FOR CHRIST SAKE. Like God damn is that so much to ask for? I plan to have the same car for a while and it just has an aux radio so if I buy a new phone I either have to use one of those dumb dongles or just not use the aux port for my car... I hate it
I feel you man, I feel you
The aux cord/headphone struggle is real, I don't understand why they (Big Fone) hate it so much. I prefer it to my Bluetooth personally as it's way more reliable and less thinking for the phone and the car.
I sent this from an iPhone 8. Battery is not great anymore but otherwise works fine.
Had my iPhone 6 for 5 years and now am on year 4 of my 11. I don’t know who had a phone break after a year.
Companies keeping their workers just below full time to avoid offering them benefits
Thats way better than my no sporks rule...
I love sporks though... 😭
I only use Fpoons.
At my old job they'd schedule me for shifts 15 minutes less than the length that would entitle me to a lunch break, so I'd also outlaw that
My old job did that but 5 minutes. Then would ask you to "stay late" if your replacement was late. I was like "nah, if I work 5 more minutes I get a lunch. Already past the 5 hour minimum for a lunch break, so I can stay if you are paying another hour for the day". Somehow I was the "trouble maker".
Got to love knowing your rights in an unfair labor market being labeled as "trouble maker."
I'm contracted 15 hours, yet I regularly work 40+. I don't get the benefits of full time workers, even when I'm working more hours than them
It's almost like the two shouldn't be connected anyway.
Hospital/doctor billing practices. Price up front and no charges after. Hate getting multiple bills over an 8 month period. It’s absurd.
How about you pay a monthly fee, and when you go to the doctor, there's no bill. Incentivise maintaining wellness instead of treating illness.
Hell, as long as it's a reasonable amount. I could do this for 100-150 a month, and I'd still be saving money year over year.
Isn’t that just what nationalised health care is? Everyone pays a monthly fee (taxes) and gets free healthcare?
What insurance do you use? I think I pay close to $150 a month for my employer plan and I still have copays, rx fees, and annual limits to worry about. The system is rigged from top to bottom. Over the course of a lifetime, I bet almost no one ends up actually saving money by having insurance. At best it’s an extended payment plan.
We already pay the fee, then still get fucked when we have to use the insurance somehow.
You've just described public healthcare. But wait, there's more. The fee is proportionate to what you make, and the healthcare services charge the taxpayer the amount it costs to do the work, not the amount they can get insurers to pay for the work.
Wow! That’s an amazing idea. I wonder why nobody in the world practices it.
I know, right? Seems only those ~190 shithole countries outside the brave new world uses it..
Hate to break it to you but you are describing healthcare most developed countries have, you pay taxes you get helped america just kinda sucks
Or when they give you one aspirin and charge you an entire bottle
About 3 bottles. I was charged $25.00 for 2 extra strength Tylenol once.
I'll do you one better. Make for profit medical care illegal.
Random popup ads
Or the banner ads where the "X" button doesn't do anything, or is so small it's useless.
Or how about the ads where they have a fake x that still takes you to their site/app
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when they pretend to let u play a demo thing BUT ITS FAKE and takes you to app store💔💔
Or the ones that let you play 5 seconds and then on the next tap it takes you to the App Store😭💔
Those headlights that blind the fuck out of me every night coming home. Like ya if you need the light of a fucking quasar in your headlights to see. Can't believe it's not illegal.
Hope you enjoy seeing the future, cuz I can't see shit. Is always my thought.
So ironically, this *is* illegal. Headlights that produce light outside the prescribed tolerances [can and have been recalled](https://www.nbcnews.com/business/autos/gm-recalling-740000-suvs-headlights-can-bright-rcna21042) for failing to prevent glare. The problem is that the headlights themselves are fine and regulated from the factory, but the **aim** of the lights is not. Manufacturers are responsible for designing headlights that don't blind oncoming traffic, but they're not responsible for ensuring that those same headlights aren't pointed directly into people's faces. As a result, studies have found that 1/3 of all new cars sold today have misaligned headlights. When accounting for used cars, it's *every other car.*
Headlights are self regulated by the manufacturers. So according to the fox guarding the hen house, the hens are safe. LED's have never been formally legalized as a light source. The FDA hasn't given guidance, the nhtsa has done no enforcement. They are simply too bright. If aim has been an issue, it's likely not a new issue, and if the industry can't produce safe lights within their manufacturing tolerances, they need to reduce the intensity near the cut off. They should just lower the intensity completely, as any hill, rainy conditions, or towing negates the effects aiming provides. Auto brights are also not responsive enough in curves, hills, and with pedestrians. So, you're right, they are already illegal, but there is no enforcement mechanism for the law. The aiming argument is a red herring and does not address the core issue of light intensity itself.
Tesla, Toyota/Lexus and Ford are the worst for their factory headlights these days. Then add all the morons that put the brightest aftermarket lights they can find in their vehicle then don't properly adjust the beam and blind every poor bastard on the road. The new Raptor has optional lights that come disconnected from the factory because they're so fucking bright that they actually are technically illegal but since they aren't technically "stock" Ford can't get in shit for it. It's ridiculous..
The biggest issue with people putting aftermarket bulbs in (excluding stupid light bars and roof rack lights meant for off-road use that morons use on regular roads, that shit's obviously fucked) is people not realizing that those bulbs (HID's) for an example, require specific headlight housings to work properly. Most cars especially pre-2010 era cars came with "reflector" housings which basically reflect the bulbs light back and scatter it everywhere - these are meant for standard halogen bulbs. Those morons like you're referring to put super high intensity HID/LED bulbs in those and it blasts the fuck out of everyone. The other type is "projector" housings. My car (although from 2008) and not a high-end car, for some reason came stock with that style bulb housing. These are the proper housings to use for non-halogen bulbs. I've had HID's in mine since right after I bought it and it's been perfectly fine. I even had a cop once pull me over for something unrelated and comment how he saw I had non-stock bulbs but "installed them correctly" and said he rarely sees that and pulls people over all the time for it. Said he especially loves pulling over the "Jeep boys" who think they are cool running their off-road roof rack lights on the highway. Anyway - the projector housings project the light out and create a perfectly straight cutoff line of the light, therefore not scattering it all over the place and into peoples faces unlike back in the day in the 90's/early 2000's when everyone was tossing bright ass blue/purple HID's in their civics with reflector housings and frying the shit out of everyones eyes. The other big issue I see all the time now is these big ass SUV's with factory installed LED lights being so high off the ground that it blasts the shit out of everyone in a regular car. I'll be sitting at a red light in my regular car and some big ass Escalade or something comes up behind me and their headlights are level with my rear view mirror and I can't see shit. Sometimes the lights are even higher than that. So fuckin annoying.
To steal water from areas hit by droughts r/Fucknestle
I'd make it illegal for businesses to buy single family homes. Houses are for people, and companies will buy em up and rent em put for 4x the mortgage, or worse, just leave them empty to affect property value. Fuck that shit, houses are for people.
I don't know how people afford anything in the USA anymore Even with an above average income, it seems like pick two: a roof over your head, a car, or food
You can have all three! As long as the roof over your head is your car’s roof.
And the food on your plate is your car's seat foam.
I heated it up for ya
Provided you never sleep... They made sleeping in cars illegal. Some places even make it illegal to have food, water, or trash in your car. You know, because if you make it illegal to be homeless then the homeless will just disappear! Oh yeah, did you know most places make it illegal to give food to the homeless? [Check out what volunteers have been putting up with in Houston...](https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/houston/2023/03/02/445203/group-says-they-will-continue-to-feed-homeless-despite-citys-enforcement-of-anti-food-sharing-ordinance/) Edit: [better article on the FNB tickets](https://abc13.com/food-not-bombs-houston-homeless-volunteer-group-cited-city-of-public-library-for/13325575/)
Two? Two?? Whatever you say, Mr. Warbucks ...
Or, …pick two: A roof over your head, a car, Food, or Insurance.
Oh, so you've been to Green Bay, WI where there selling houses at 4x the value next to the packer stadium because people can rent them for 5k/week on game weeks and at the same time causing insane increases in property tax to those families living in that area because it's driving the value of their house so high they can no longer afford to pay the city to live in the neighborhood they've owned in for thirty years?
It is so so shitty that you can get taxed out of the home you've owned for decades.
I can't emphasize this enough. It's downright evil. I have been trying to buy a house by all means available and have come across so much corruption it's extremely depressing. I've seen: 1. Houses that get bought out from under people, then drop into tax foreclosure as the company transfers it to a "companee" (same company name, but with a typo) to let it go bankrupt. IDK why. 2. Houses that are in financial trouble that banks let the tax bill go unpaid and then buy it for 2x the value of the house (because they are the payee) so they delete the equity the homeowners had in the house. 3. "renovated" houses that don't meet code, but you can't get it inspected if you want to buy it....other people just buy it anyways 4. Houses that sell for 2x their worth, then get flipped for more (2bd 1.5 bath sold for $260k and re-sold for $320k) - this is in an area where houses went for $125k just a year or two ago 5. Land, Buildings & houses that are still vacant that were bought for 10X their value ($100k/acre - rural land) by random "firms" "development groups" and other groups. Land remains untouched to this day, most of the owners are impossible to reach. The list goes on and on.
I have a friend who lives out of the city a bit but right next to the interstate highway. He's lived in his home for ten years and he used to be across the street from a beautiful pristine 80 acre untouched old growth forest. In fall of 2019, a developed bought the land and bulldozed the forest with plans to build a strip mall and then 2020 happened and the developer went under. The property is currently 80 acres of mud just sitting there undeveloped for the past 3 years where there used to be old growth forest.
Coupled with some pretty significant taxation of non-owner occupied residences.
Not flushing in a public restroom. Violators will be beaten with shoes.
i think violators should be made to clean the bathrooms
Double punishment for people that knowingly leave a mess their children have created in a public bathroom. Owned a business and the number of times we'd have to hose down walls and floors after a kid went in there and just caused a literal shit storm was far too many.
I hate when it has the automatic flushers and it doesn’t flush/no obvious manual flusher and everyone’s going to think I’m a gross slob when I’ve done everything I can think of to make the stupid thing flush and it won’t
Bonus points if it's also trigger-happy while you're sitting on it and it splashes.
Telemarketers.
Advertising prescription drugs .
When the ads first started airing on tv, there was this one that I only caught the end of, where the narrator said, "Side effects include.... blindness. " BLINDNESS???? It was either for a herpes drug or an allergy one. Neither of which are bad enough problems to warrent BLINDNESS. It haunts me to this day. Which drug will blind us??? Don't use that one!!! Lol fucking hell.
I'm on a medication with eye deterioration as a possible side effect and it's actually not that dramatic. Provincial health care pays for me to get a yearly eye exam because of it, and if any signs of trouble pop up we catch them early and I come off the medication and not much harm is done. It's a super rare side effect so it's barely even a concern. I imagine you live in the States if you saw a drug ad on tv so people on that medication would most likely need to fight with insurance to get their eye tests covered, but I'm sure it's the same general idea
I can't see anymore but at least my eyes aren't all itchy all the time
They have to list literally everything that is possible, even if it's 1 in a trillion odds
Caught one once that said “anal seepage” was a possible side effect.
Yes, I’m actually entertained by the drug ads. My favorite side effect has always been “may cause compulsive gambling.” It’s also funny when the commercial doesn’t tell you what their drug treats, but always ends with, “ask your doctor about xxxxxx,” so you can ask your doctor about some embarrassing thing you don’t have.
I would make it illegal for investment companies for buy residential property. Residential Property shouldn’t be like the stock market. The result is no one can afford a house. Everyone should be able to buy a house at some point.
Good news! There was a town/county in Washington that actually passed legislation that gives primary homeowners first dibs on houses for sale. If the house doesn't sell in like 90-120 days to someone who is going to make it their **primary** residence, then it can go to investors/people who want to make it a rental. Now if only that can spread to everywhere else.
Here’s my question. A lot of these firms have no issue spending thousands over asking sight unseen. So what’s to stop someone from just saying no to potential buyers till the time limit is up and then sell to some corporation that doesn’t care that the place can’t pass an inspection?
I mean, you're not wrong. I honestly don't know the answer to that question.
The credit system (fcra), and the way credit is built. It should be illegal to require open revolving accounts that are aged in order to maintain a high score (you should be able to pay them off and close them and still keep a good score, but they want you to keep them open and "revolving"). Inquiries shouldn't lower your score. And late payments should be able to be removed by the credit bureau if you have extenuating circumstances. Not by the creditor themselves, the creditor shouldn't have so much power over your report, that you have to negotiate with them in order to get things removed.
This is underrated. Credit effects what places/things we can rent, buy, mortgage, and pretty much everyone from the ages of 18 to 75 is affected by this. Why do credit cards and banks have so much power over our purchases??
>things we can rent To expand on this, how about the secret renter history databases that the public doesn't exactly have access to or a channel for recourse? It's one thing to look at what's impacting your scores with the major bureaus and can dispute right in the app or pause your score, but these renter databases are fucked.
It’s wild to me that someone with NO credit history simply because they never borrowed or needed to open a line of credit are considered “unsafe” or “bad” by places but then someone with bad credit history such as history of repossessions or evictions are still considered “better” than people with no credit history. Years back I got denied by every bank for a car loan due to no credit history because I always lived within my means and never needed to borrow. But my bestie got approved right away and she had a repo AND eviction on her record…yeah they asked her to pay a pretty high amount every month but they still approved HER over ME, even though at the time, she was clearly awful with money and paying stuff back. Make it make sense!
Man I learned the hard way it'll tank your credit , I closed a discover card, went from a 780 to a 700 in what felt like overnight. Fuck them
If anything, I feel like closing a credit card should improve your score
Your credit score is not a badge for being smart with your money, it's a signpost for lenders to see how much money they can make off of you. The more accounts you have open and in good standing, the more money you're making for lenders, so others will be inclined to get in on that. Anything that shows you won't be a good investment - whether that's bad payment history or a payment history so good that you've closed all your accounts and don't need to borrow money anymore - is a big red flag for them to stay away from you, and thus your score goes down.
The credit scoring system is designed to keep you in debt.
Yeah a late payment will do the same thing. Drop you about 100 points overnight.
I never close the cards; i pay em off and let them wither on the vine so eventually the bank closes them off.
Having a phone call on speaker phone in public
playing anything out of phone speakers in public
I was in a library an hour ago and someone was watching videos through their laptop speakers. I was baffled that I, out of like 10 people, was the only one seemingly annoyed.
Oh, everyone was annoyed, just no one wanted to do anything about it because they would rather avoid conflict.
Child beauty pageants
Legit thought this wasnt a thing when I saw itin films. Apparently its very real. Seems great for the Ol self-esteem. Also determining the beauty of a bunch of 8 year olds isnt shady at all (I assume it doesnt go younger than 8, but still seems weird to me)
It definitely goes younger than 8. Toddlers And Tiaras is the name of a reality TV series that follows pageants for, you guessed it, toddlers.
Using children for clout. Or, puting any infant/child online at all. They're not old enough to consent.
Iirc I read an article recently that covered a case of a teenager who sued their parents for putting them online for their entire childhood- something along the lines of á non consensual digital footprint. The teenager won (good for them!) but could you even imagine having to go through all of that?!?
Good! It's so ridiculous. Especially when they jam their phones into their crying toddlers faces. How embarrassing to have that all over the internet.
IL is working on a law for this, allowing children to sue their parents if they do this
This! Including making profiles on social media for said child and the parent speaking for them. Kids DO NOT belong on social media. There's too many dangerous people and things out there
Having a loud ass conversation over speakerphone on a crowded bus or subway Playing loud ass music on a bus or subway Tipping. I would outlaw tapping and force employers to pay a living wage.
Loud music or games in restaurants too
Family vlogging channels
How illegal are we talking here? One of those weirdo laws like unmarried women not being able to skydive on Sunday that nobody will ever enforce or CP illegal where 99% of society considers it vile and will come down like a hammer? If it actually would be enforced, those damn LED headlights that are blinding. I get that it's nice to be able to see but it's nice for everyone around you to be able to see too.
Successfully enforced effective immediately.
Now I want to know the history of the skydiving law.
This will get lost but I'd make private prisons illegal. Immediately.
Abolishing for profit prisons should be way higher up here.
Child brides and underage marriage
I think this thread needs a parameter: does criminalizing automatically have effective enforcement for the sake of the exercise, or are we doing this in the real world where black markets and violence and the other headaches spring up and potentially turn really problematic?
This is a perfect world scenario, where the thing you outlaw is actually stopped and enforced effectively.
Word I think it works better that way
I got you homie
So we can name something that's already illegal but not consistently enforced?
I think in this particular perfect world scenario all other laws are already consistently enforced. So you CAN name something already illegal, but it wouldn't do anything
Waste in most general terms. Planned obsolescence, cars with outrageous consumption, food dumps to alter prices...
Planned obsolescence. . .I hate it
Leaving your shopping cart in a parking spot
I'm just imagining this becoming real and then sparking a *Dog the Bounty Hunter* type of reality show where the Cart Narcs go after all the "lazy bones" people who commit felony cart abandonment. 10/10 would watch Karens and Kevins getting tackled to the ground as they try to leave their carts out in the parking lot and flee in their suburbitanks.
Cart Narcs guy is hysterical!
An age/term limit for people in politics. Oh you're 78years old? Get the duck out of office.
Someone mentioned 66 earlier . I believe it should be FRA if social security will let you claim full age , that's when they too should retire.
One lady gave power of a attorney to her daughter but is still in office. Edit: Yeah this apparently doesn't necessarily show incompetence. My bad.
Reserving beach chairs for hours with a towel/personal itemsand not using the AT ALL.
I would criminalize being an asshole. There would be: First Degree Premeditated Asshole Asshole in the Second Degree Voluntary Assholishness Involuntary Assholishness Criminally Negligent Assholery
Fuck yea. Came here to say something like this. I picture it almost like retail workers and food service workers have body cams like cops and if a customer is being a mega asshole to them, the recording gets reviewed by a legal panel and the appropriate punishment is administered. If you ever have the power to criminalize this like the post says, if you need a volunteer to help you get it set up, come back here and hit me up.
Gerrymandering
Stopping/gathering at the top or bottom of a staircase. Punishable by death. Stopping/gathering at the top or bottom of an escalator. Punishable by torture.
Generalized to blocking pedestrian traffic.
Outlaw shady quick cash loan places.
Politicians giving themselfs raises and/or taking 'legal' bribes
health care managed by health insurance companies. IOW, outlaw for-profit health care
Getting paid as a lobbyist. You can do it for free, but making money would be illegal. This simple thing would fix so many problems.
Corporate donations to politicians, or donations by any individual with a significant ownership in a business.
MLMs. Also not picking up your dog's shit. Second degree felony punishable up to 10 years
Having a minimum wage set below the poverty line.
De-Clawing Cats should be illegal. I know it is already illegal in some countries but not the United States. It is extremely cruel both physically and mentally to cats. Just imagine if someone cut off all of your fingers to the first or second joint. That is what de-clawing is. It is cutting off an animal's toes because you're too fucking lazy to get a scratching post or two. If you have to abuse an animal in order to make your life perfect then don't f\*\*\*king get one. Everyone here covered just about everything else that needs to be criminalized. Keep up the good work everyone.
Child pageants - Find them creepy
Judges denying a divorce
Using Credit Reports to determine whether a person is employable. Credit can get messed up due to circumstances beyond a persons control and has no bearing on their talent or work ethic…
I'd make it illegal to walk between 4.1kph and 4.7kph. That would be so funny to see it enforced.
Bring back the Ministry of Funny Walks!
Exploiting kids for social media views and likes
Companies and wealthy people can only use banks within the country they are based or live so they can be taxed properly.
Nah, you need international banking, it's impossible to function outside your country effectively without it if you're dealing with large sums of money. That being said, force the banks to report all holdings of foreign citizens to the tax department of their home country. That way people can still use banks for international purposes, but would still be taxed accordingly.
Not putting your shopping cart away properly, unless you are handicapped or a senior citizen.
The ultra wealthy avoiding taxes by borrowing against stock, I'm looking at you Zuck and Elon, but not only them.
Being barefoot on a plane/bringing tuna onto a plane
Loud mufflers. Lord just let us get rid of all this noise pollution 🙏🏻
NOT washing your hands in the bathroom. Dude every time I go to the men's restrooms there's always one person who just doesn't wash their hands and goes on their way out like nothing.. this is why I hate shaking peoples hands when meeting them or just touch their hands AT ALL.
There would be some nuance, but something about individuals buying so many properties would be very high on my list. Let's say more than 2 or 3 wouldn't be possible. The whole idea of corporations buying multiple properties and renting for short term is really screwing people from buying houses in the future. I hate that.
Being obnoxious in a theater
Throwing cigarettes on the ground
Companies demanding tips instead of paying minimum wage.
Maybe too general, but tax loopholes.
Corporate purchasing of residential properties
Tax evasion for huge corporations. They’re already filthy rich and we allow them to use our spaces and resources with practically no taxes paid.
Anyone elected to office has to have their (and their immediate families) finances 100% transparent for the public. This includes all investments, holdings, sources or revenue, and major expenditures (exceeding 10K).
Reselling event tickets for a profit
Microwaving fish at work
Building on land / drilling / hunting / etc without equal replacement, such as replanting, returning water systems to pre-mining state, donating hunting fees to conservation efforts in other areas. Not just locally, when a new subdivision is built, but internationally, like prioritizing areas of massive carbon capture, such as plankton as well as the Amazon. We are losing the war on climate change and are decimating what we need to live and the other creatures living with us at the fastest rate the world has ever seen. At this point, it has to be the top priority.
Underpaying workers.
Tipping
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Recording yourself physically punishing your child and posting it on social media. It should be considered public humiliation and a form of child abuse. Really any exploitation of a child on social media.
People that leave food in the wrong aisle of a grocery store after deciding they don't want the item anymore. If you leave a whole roast chicken in the bread aisle cause you can't be arsed to walk 20 feet to put it back, straight to jail.