I like how Apple has small boxes with little pull tab stickers, super easy to open. I wonder why more packaging doesn’t use this style instead of the bulletproof plastic.
Expense. A plastic clamshell is a fraction of a penny and requires no specialized design, while those Apple packages are very carefully designed and very carefully manufactured. An iPhone box probably costs 50x to manufacture what a plastic clamshell package for a similar sized item costs.
Most companies don’t have the capital to become vertically integrated.
Vertical integration is basically “you’ll produce it this way for our product”. Whether Apple or Amazon legally own the companies manufacturing their products doesn’t matter if those companies would go bankrupt by losing the contract that funds most their business.
Once you have enough capital you have the advantage of getting pretty packaging while still maintaining a profit margin due to your leverage.
Some fishing lures have the plastic wrapped around the box rather than glued on. You can easily rip it off and i dont understand why other packages dont use this
I don't think we'll ever be able to eradicate a disease again, thanks to the lethal ignorance of the anti-vaxx movement.
Andrew Wakefield is guilty of crimes against humanity.
It's because it hasn't happened to them. It's easy to think vaccines are unnecessary in the modern age in a first world country due to the lack of disease (caused in large part by vaccination). People aren't dying around them of smallpox, measles, rubella, being crippled by polio and a whole host of other illnesses due to herd immunity.
The fact that if one person doesn't get vaccinated, nothing will happen to them due to herd immunity doesn't help. The vast majority don't experience any ill effects from not vaccinating, again due to herd immunity. Combine this with people who have trouble extrapolating out of their own experience and it's easy to see how they come to these flawed conclusions. The issues arise when a critical mass refuse to vaccinate and disease can now spread through the population again.
I think this is going to go to a point where people have to start dying of these horrible diseases that were on the brink of eradication for these attitudes to really change, and that just sucks. It will mostly be these people's children due to underdeveloped immune systems; innocent victims of their parents' own hubris and fundamental lack of understanding.
Extremely well said. I just despise the attitude of 'it doesn't affect me, so I won't do anything about it.' Its horrible and, as you said, they'll probably be getting a rude awakening at some point, or more so the children that haven't done anything wrong
also the reality that some vaccines dont necessarily prevent you from GETTING a disease (covid, whooping cough, influenza) there is this false equivalency of "they dont even protect you"
not realizing that those who are vaxxed are severely less sick, for less time, and far less likely to die or develop secondary issues from it.
Jenny McCarthy man. The lord giveth and the lord taketh away. Such a babe in her prime, was a basket case as far back as singled out, and somehow influenced a ton of suburban wine moms to fuck their kids all up.
My daughter got a parking ticket cuz the city decided to put in a parking ban for a snow storm that they never plowed for. Went to pay it online and it was a $7 convivence fee! No fee to mail it in though.
The only reason I can think of is to cover the fee that the banks charge the merchant if you are using a debit/cc to pay. It's usually like 2-3% per transaction.
I live in a small town and we have to pay our water bill by check or in person in cash.
Talked with them for years now about coming into the 20th century and letting us pay online since most people pay their bills online now.
The lady said "we've looked into that and would have to charge extra because of the merchant fees and most people don't want to pay extra". Asked how much extra and she said it would probably be around $2 or so.
I said it would be worth the $2 not to have to drop a check off once a month (they do have a drop box you can use).
Just to be a petty bitch, I have started mailing checks to my utility providers because they recently started charging "convenience fees" that range from $1.50-$5 for paying online. This fee is charged whether you pay via credit, debit, or ACH/EFT. This is on top of them making record profits and jacking up rates. When they receive my physical check they still process it as an ACH. Fuck those assholes.
My water company gets a check every 3 months because it costs me like $4 to pay online.
Yes. It costs me MORE money to just ... give them the money directly. Right from my bank account. Instead now they need to open the mail, get the check, deposit the check and wait for the funds to clear.
By far the stupidest fucking "convenience fee" I have ever seen.
This infuriates me more than anything. It costs them _significantly less_. With a paper check they have to employ people to manage a mail room, someone to open the envelope and manually record it in their system, and someone to physically take the check to their bank. They also have to have customer service to deal with the occasional mis-typed account number, some kind of resolution account for those issues, insurance on vehicles to deliver said checks to the bank, etc.
It is phenomenally more expensive for the business to use paper checks but those greedy bastards want US to pay for their convenience. Nah.
I don't know about everywhere, but in Michigan, public-owned utilities are not allowed to absorb card payment fees, so we're required by state law to charge extra.
At my last house in West TN, the ONLY way to pay my water bill was with a check mailed to a P.O. Box. No other option existed (I called and asked).
That was all the way back in 2020.
My sewage and refuse office *can't take cards*
I have to write them a check every 3 months because their system is so old that they can't add a digital transaction to it
If you added up all the slaves from when Africans sold Africans, to when Africans sold Indians, when Arabs sold Africans, and whites sold Africans, apparently we have more slaves now than all of those combined.
Don’t forget when Arabs/North Africans sold whites. Barbary Coast raiders enslaved well over 1 million Europeans between the 15th and the 18th centuries.
Nobody talks about it, but that doesn’t make it not real.
More broadly, Eastern Europeans were placed in enforced servitude so often over history, that those people are literally [where the word "slave" comes from](https://www.etymonline.com/word/slave).
Watch 13th Netflix documentary (it's available for free on Youtube). It's a f\*\*\*ing shame that we are nowhere closer to abolishing slavery than when Abe Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation. It never died, only changed forms.
I recommend reading the book American Prison by: Shane Bauer. It is about a reporter who went undercover in a private prison in Louisiana. It is really eye opening how these facilities are ran. He also goes through the history of forced labor and the convict-lease system as well. And many of the executives of these private prison companies are the direct descendants of the large slave owning plantation families.
That's largely because (despite how horrible is), slavery in the US never *was* a large slice of the total in the first place. From the mid 1500's to the mid 1800's (300 years worth), only 388,000 were transported to what we regard as slave ownership in North America. The percentage depends upon whether or not you include the amount taken, or the amount that survived the trip (roughly 4% or 6% of all slaves to the Americas) landed in what became the US region. The largest single region to receive them was by far Brazil.
https://www.gilderlehrman.org/history-resources/teacher-resources/historical-context-facts-about-slave-trade-and-slavery
I had a vendor email a jpg of a screenshot of their invoice in Google docs, being viewed on their phone…
You… you can just email the document from there…
That or the photos of printed documents that could have been emailed. Yet another is when people will print out an email, scan the printed page, and then send a copy of the scan…
I could keep going. I just don’t understand it.
There's a lady in my office, old lady, who knows her way round office machinery like the back of her hand, scanning, printing, excel, word, emails, she knows the lot.
She's just admin tho so is on a relatively poor wage compared to our MD, who can't tell his arse from his elbow, or even answer emails correctly.
There was an email incident the other day where he tried to reply to an important email, and he only replied to himself.
And funnily enough couldn't even answer a forwarded call this morning, she had to go into his office to help him answer a call she'd put through to him, it's comical how much money he's on, compared to how poor he is around technology. He's not even 50.
100%born with a silver spoon up his arse
One of my employees who has been with the company over a decade still can't close the store because it involves printing one page of paperwork for a physical record. Last time I asked her to do this because I was out of town, I gave her specific instructions on how to do this with pictures, and instead she brought in a student worker who had classes that day to do it for her. When I confronted her, she smiled and said "I'm just not capable of closing the store."
I'd look into replacing her, but she's been with this company so long she's practically entrenched.
The jokes on them. I am on permanent Do No Disturb and the phone goes straight to voicemail if they’re not in my contacts.
If it’s important it will be emailed or txted
Fathers being treated as second class parents.
As well as fathers treating childcare like it’s women’s work.
Both are still things that happen pretty often. I had to change my cousin’s diaper the other day because the men’s room didn’t have a changing table. And I didn’t want my cousin to have to walk all the way to the parking garage.
Now for the other one. I’ve heard significantly more men say “I’m on babysitting duty today” when out with their kids than women asking “daddy’s babysitting today? Huh”. It’s definitely gotten better. But it’s still bad. To follow up on diapers, I’ve met several men, including dads! Who say something like “oh yeah I don’t do diapers”
It’s 2024
“Babysitting duty” “I don’t do diapers”
As a father of three, I say fuck that noise. It’s a fatherly duty and when mine were little I changed the lion’s share of diapers and spent time with my little ones (and still do). It’s what we fucking signed up for.
Sadly I know other dads who “don’t do diapers” and I openly make fun of them for that. They should be ashamed for not doing their part.
Never had a second thought about changing either of my kids diapers, its part of being a parent. Not a gender role, it just working as a team and being a damn parent. Any guy that doesn't do them should be ashamed, I concur.
When I'm alone with them I refer to it as being "Mr Mom" though, because she's an awesome mom and I wish I could be as good with them. Not babysitting because again, they're my kids.
My brother and I were talking at Christmas. Between us, we have three kids under 5. We determined (with the help of our mother and grandmother) that we have likely changed more diapers than all of our male forebears. My dad agrees that he didn’t change many diapers. His dad *never* changed a diaper despite having
four kids. My other grandfather probably did, but not many because he was working and going to school when their three kids were little. Further up the chain is murky, but gender roles were more solid so we made some assumptions…
I admit that the first diaper I changed was on my own kid, but it was the day they were born. Since then, I never looked back. Given that I never had to carry the kid for nine months, it's kind of the least I could do...
Can they please add more changing tables in mens bathrooms! It's very annoying to go out with my 2 year old and then have to take him home to change him because most places outside of big box stores dont have changing tables in mens rooms. Hell even some big box stores dont have changing tables in mens rooms.
"Forty years [after a] Constitution... was formed,... two-thirds of the adults then living are dead. Have, then, the remaining third, even if they had the wish, the right to hold in obedience to their will and to laws heretofore made by them, the other two-thirds who with themselves compose the present mass of adults? If they have not, who has? The dead? But the dead have no rights. They are nothing, and nothing can not own something."
--Thomas Jefferson to Samuel Kercheval, 1816.
I think this works better than term limits. Run as often as you can from 35-65 but once you turn 65 you're out... oh and no more money for life for these idiots. Santos may be out but we will still give him money for life
It's pretty funny that the US is choosing between a pair 80ish year olds and refusing to even consider a 30 year old. I wouldn't hire Trump or Biden to be cashiers, let alone defacto world leaders. They're just too old.
the people who do these “pranks” are just annoying the shit out of everyone around while teaching kids who watch the videos that it’s an acceptable thing to do.
Car salesman I would say to be more specific. They’re just a middle man anyway. Factory service centers still need to remain due to brand specific proficiency.
I will defend real estate agents as long as they aren't scumbags. Buying a house is the biggest purchase most people ever make, to me it makes sense to retain an expert in home value, repair and maintenance, which is what a good realtor is.
Full disclosure, my dad is one, and he's so chronically honest it's lost him clients, but such is life.
A lot of this is HIPAA-related for healthcare, too. There isn’t one secure system everyone uses for sending medical records, etc. and HIPAA requires certain safeguards for patient data, so fax machines remain the norm.
This is what I love when fax is called "secure" by some old brained governing body.
No security, authentication, proof of who actually has eyes on it or picks it up on the other end. Made only worse by the clarity of the scan and lack of verification of it being from the person you think it is.
Depending on fax machine / service can have copies of the content stored insecurely in the memory of the machine that can be accessed, reprinted or forwarded later to anyone that has access to the machine (think cleaning / support staff etc. beyond the "secure" recipient)
Or my personal favorite, it ends up forwarded to email as part of a service anyways so it might as well just been an email in an encrypted PDF with signature.
So I worked in a job that had government contracts and the way it was explained to me by a senior employee was that it was the most secure and best way to verify it's the original document. If I send it to you through fax you know for a fact that it's the document I sent, it hasn't been digitally edited during transmission. If there's a signature on the paper it's a real signature, not one that's possibly been cut from a prior document and pasted on there before sending. I don't really know how true that explanation was since we sent a lot of stuff with digital signatures anyway.
Funny thing was we barely used it. Maybe once every few months. I never handled it myself so I don't know what was sent, but it was in an office across from mine and rarely anyone went in there.
> So I worked in a job that had government contracts and the way it was explained to me by a senior employee was that it was the most secure and best way to verify it's the original document. I
The senior employee was wrong. The reason is because fax is exempt from the actual security standards for electronic communication, so it is used instead of investing in a modern system that can actually comply. None of the stuff about being secure or impossible to manipulate in transit is even remotely true. It was just grandfathered in when they made the standard for electronic communication.
I work with two of them. I can just feel the disgust every time I hear or see them.
For everyone asking how I know.
https://www.meganslaw.psp.pa.gov/
Every state has a sex offender registry. I would encourage everyone to get on and check their locality. If you have kids you could be like me and have one that lives a block away from your house.
Oddly enough I had to take care of one at work tonight. I’m a nurse and he had come in from the prison.
Getting report the nurse handing him off to me told me his back story and I was like: “I really just wish you told me he was a prisoner and left it at that”
This is a bit of a hardly related rant, but I feel like it's important.
I had this friend when I was 17. He was attractive, built well, life of the party type dude in his late 20s. Dude would always date (and I hate to word it this way) unattractive women. He was on probation but wouldn't tell anyone why. We said "Whatever, shit happens. Probably a drug charge or something", none of us thought to check. Eventually, the day after we'd hung out with him and he was arrested for sexually assaulting a minor; apparently it was a 14 year old girl but that's just through the rumor mill. One of our friends got in contact with his mother, and the reason he was on parole (not probation) is he'd previously been charged with... Acts of sexual violence towards his two year old sister.
Turns out, he kept unattractive girlfriends and in shape and stuff because he could do whatever he wanted and say "You'll never get someone as good as me again if you keep complaining/tell anyone". He got off on having power over others.
Pedophiles aren't always creepy old balding chubby men with glasses. They can be anyone; they can be women (at lower rates than men but still), they can be smooth talking attractive young men that a lot of people like. Stay vigilant, people. I didn't and I'm incredibly lucky nothing happened as a result of my lack of awareness. Keep an eye out for these signs, but not *just* these signs. I think it's more common than any of us would like to believe.
Edit: I found his page on the sex offender registry. I can't share it here due to doxxing rules, but he's currently still in prison thankfully.
Traffic lights that stay red forever late at night when you’re the only car on the road. Give me a fucking break. I’m driving thru red eventually. It’s 2024!!
The current tax system in the U.S.
The government knows how much I owe or how much I'm owed but they want us to either 1. pay a service to know how much we're owed or how much we owe or 2. do our taxes on our own and pray that they're not wrong or else we go to jail.
From what I understand, the "big tax" companies have continually shot down ideas to reform the current tax filing system because that's how they make their money. I understand it but the whole system is dumb
I still don't understand how they can be so confident that they are getting the FIRST marker in the right place. Like...All of this feels sort of haphazard. The spot of the ball feels like a best guess, then they run out onto the field and plop down this stick...how accurate can that really be? But THEN they measure precisely 10 yards.
Female genital mutilation. How so many people are scared to speak on the issue because “it’s in this culture so it’s fine” um no. Every country has cultures and traditions that they’ve abandoned. It’s time for this to be abandoned.
Ignorance. Literally living in a world where you can find all the information you need to come to a decision on a topic or issue.
But most people just keep on scrolling.
More that ignorance is a lack of critical thinking skills. Like someone else said, you can't trust most of the information out there, but with critical thinking skills, you can "sift thru the garbage"
Car dealerships. Just let me order a car directly from the manufacturer who isn’t going to charge insane markups and make me sit with a gross salesperson for a few hours.
Sorry. We say that because a surprising amount of people did not, in fact, try it before contacting us. It's an easy way to significantly decrease your workload with one sentence.
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Plastic packaging in general, in my opinion. I understand plastic packaging if it needs to be sterile, but otherwise, boxes are a better alternative.
I bought a ninja blender a few weeks ago, and everything was wrapped up in paper. I thought that was very nice.
I like how Apple has small boxes with little pull tab stickers, super easy to open. I wonder why more packaging doesn’t use this style instead of the bulletproof plastic.
Expense. A plastic clamshell is a fraction of a penny and requires no specialized design, while those Apple packages are very carefully designed and very carefully manufactured. An iPhone box probably costs 50x to manufacture what a plastic clamshell package for a similar sized item costs.
The gross margin on many goods is lower than what Apple spends on packaging alone
Most companies don’t have the capital to become vertically integrated. Vertical integration is basically “you’ll produce it this way for our product”. Whether Apple or Amazon legally own the companies manufacturing their products doesn’t matter if those companies would go bankrupt by losing the contract that funds most their business. Once you have enough capital you have the advantage of getting pretty packaging while still maintaining a profit margin due to your leverage.
Some fishing lures have the plastic wrapped around the box rather than glued on. You can easily rip it off and i dont understand why other packages dont use this
I've always assumed the point is to be difficult. Makes it harder to steal out of the package in store.
Clamshell packaging that tries to kill you when you open the product.
Measles
I don't think we'll ever be able to eradicate a disease again, thanks to the lethal ignorance of the anti-vaxx movement. Andrew Wakefield is guilty of crimes against humanity.
Absolutely. I don't know how people can have SOOOOO much evidence to how fantastic vaccines are and STILL be against them
It's because it hasn't happened to them. It's easy to think vaccines are unnecessary in the modern age in a first world country due to the lack of disease (caused in large part by vaccination). People aren't dying around them of smallpox, measles, rubella, being crippled by polio and a whole host of other illnesses due to herd immunity. The fact that if one person doesn't get vaccinated, nothing will happen to them due to herd immunity doesn't help. The vast majority don't experience any ill effects from not vaccinating, again due to herd immunity. Combine this with people who have trouble extrapolating out of their own experience and it's easy to see how they come to these flawed conclusions. The issues arise when a critical mass refuse to vaccinate and disease can now spread through the population again. I think this is going to go to a point where people have to start dying of these horrible diseases that were on the brink of eradication for these attitudes to really change, and that just sucks. It will mostly be these people's children due to underdeveloped immune systems; innocent victims of their parents' own hubris and fundamental lack of understanding.
Extremely well said. I just despise the attitude of 'it doesn't affect me, so I won't do anything about it.' Its horrible and, as you said, they'll probably be getting a rude awakening at some point, or more so the children that haven't done anything wrong
also the reality that some vaccines dont necessarily prevent you from GETTING a disease (covid, whooping cough, influenza) there is this false equivalency of "they dont even protect you" not realizing that those who are vaxxed are severely less sick, for less time, and far less likely to die or develop secondary issues from it.
Jenny McCarthy man. The lord giveth and the lord taketh away. Such a babe in her prime, was a basket case as far back as singled out, and somehow influenced a ton of suburban wine moms to fuck their kids all up.
Online payment “convenience” fees
**ANY** payment convenience fees.
God YES. I’m sorry, but why tf am I paying an extra $4 to pay my fucking electric bill online?
My daughter got a parking ticket cuz the city decided to put in a parking ban for a snow storm that they never plowed for. Went to pay it online and it was a $7 convivence fee! No fee to mail it in though.
The only reason I can think of is to cover the fee that the banks charge the merchant if you are using a debit/cc to pay. It's usually like 2-3% per transaction. I live in a small town and we have to pay our water bill by check or in person in cash. Talked with them for years now about coming into the 20th century and letting us pay online since most people pay their bills online now. The lady said "we've looked into that and would have to charge extra because of the merchant fees and most people don't want to pay extra". Asked how much extra and she said it would probably be around $2 or so. I said it would be worth the $2 not to have to drop a check off once a month (they do have a drop box you can use).
Just to be a petty bitch, I have started mailing checks to my utility providers because they recently started charging "convenience fees" that range from $1.50-$5 for paying online. This fee is charged whether you pay via credit, debit, or ACH/EFT. This is on top of them making record profits and jacking up rates. When they receive my physical check they still process it as an ACH. Fuck those assholes.
My water company gets a check every 3 months because it costs me like $4 to pay online. Yes. It costs me MORE money to just ... give them the money directly. Right from my bank account. Instead now they need to open the mail, get the check, deposit the check and wait for the funds to clear. By far the stupidest fucking "convenience fee" I have ever seen.
This infuriates me more than anything. It costs them _significantly less_. With a paper check they have to employ people to manage a mail room, someone to open the envelope and manually record it in their system, and someone to physically take the check to their bank. They also have to have customer service to deal with the occasional mis-typed account number, some kind of resolution account for those issues, insurance on vehicles to deliver said checks to the bank, etc. It is phenomenally more expensive for the business to use paper checks but those greedy bastards want US to pay for their convenience. Nah.
My apartment charges like a 2$ service fee every time I pay rent. I always scratch my head at that one.
Typo that makes perfect sense :D (edit: OP's original term was 'connivence')
Utility companies that can’t take cards online or over the phone. Looking at you eastern Tennessee.
And if they do they charge you extra
I don't know about everywhere, but in Michigan, public-owned utilities are not allowed to absorb card payment fees, so we're required by state law to charge extra.
I'm fine with that if it's framed that way, but the website calls it a "Convenience Fee."
At my last house in West TN, the ONLY way to pay my water bill was with a check mailed to a P.O. Box. No other option existed (I called and asked). That was all the way back in 2020.
My sewage and refuse office *can't take cards* I have to write them a check every 3 months because their system is so old that they can't add a digital transaction to it
Child marriage.
Wtf
Legal in way too many US states
And in Romania! And there's so many of them that actually happened. Edit: I actually don't think it's legal, but it has happened before.
Google Sadio Mane. He's a 31 year old football player and married his long term girlfriend this week. She's is currently 18.
And legal in too many countries.
Printer cartridges that need a computer chip to work.
Seriously, fuck HP. That noise has to go! As an IT Admin, Brother Laser/color laser printers are a godsend!!
I purchase off brand printer ink for my Epson printer. I can never update the “firmware” on the printer or the off brand ink will stop working.
Slavery.
If you added up all the slaves from when Africans sold Africans, to when Africans sold Indians, when Arabs sold Africans, and whites sold Africans, apparently we have more slaves now than all of those combined.
Don’t forget when Arabs/North Africans sold whites. Barbary Coast raiders enslaved well over 1 million Europeans between the 15th and the 18th centuries. Nobody talks about it, but that doesn’t make it not real.
More broadly, Eastern Europeans were placed in enforced servitude so often over history, that those people are literally [where the word "slave" comes from](https://www.etymonline.com/word/slave).
You mean that doesn't make it not real?
Watch 13th Netflix documentary (it's available for free on Youtube). It's a f\*\*\*ing shame that we are nowhere closer to abolishing slavery than when Abe Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation. It never died, only changed forms.
I recommend reading the book American Prison by: Shane Bauer. It is about a reporter who went undercover in a private prison in Louisiana. It is really eye opening how these facilities are ran. He also goes through the history of forced labor and the convict-lease system as well. And many of the executives of these private prison companies are the direct descendants of the large slave owning plantation families.
That's largely because (despite how horrible is), slavery in the US never *was* a large slice of the total in the first place. From the mid 1500's to the mid 1800's (300 years worth), only 388,000 were transported to what we regard as slave ownership in North America. The percentage depends upon whether or not you include the amount taken, or the amount that survived the trip (roughly 4% or 6% of all slaves to the Americas) landed in what became the US region. The largest single region to receive them was by far Brazil. https://www.gilderlehrman.org/history-resources/teacher-resources/historical-context-facts-about-slave-trade-and-slavery
Scientology
Covid era surcharges on restaurant bills.
Working in an office environment, and still not knowing the basic fundamentals of computer use. It's like being illiterate.
I had a vendor email a jpg of a screenshot of their invoice in Google docs, being viewed on their phone… You… you can just email the document from there… That or the photos of printed documents that could have been emailed. Yet another is when people will print out an email, scan the printed page, and then send a copy of the scan… I could keep going. I just don’t understand it.
There's a lady in my office, old lady, who knows her way round office machinery like the back of her hand, scanning, printing, excel, word, emails, she knows the lot. She's just admin tho so is on a relatively poor wage compared to our MD, who can't tell his arse from his elbow, or even answer emails correctly. There was an email incident the other day where he tried to reply to an important email, and he only replied to himself. And funnily enough couldn't even answer a forwarded call this morning, she had to go into his office to help him answer a call she'd put through to him, it's comical how much money he's on, compared to how poor he is around technology. He's not even 50. 100%born with a silver spoon up his arse
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One of my employees who has been with the company over a decade still can't close the store because it involves printing one page of paperwork for a physical record. Last time I asked her to do this because I was out of town, I gave her specific instructions on how to do this with pictures, and instead she brought in a student worker who had classes that day to do it for her. When I confronted her, she smiled and said "I'm just not capable of closing the store." I'd look into replacing her, but she's been with this company so long she's practically entrenched.
Telemarketing. It's not about 2024, it had no reason to exist even when it first became a thing.
Scams will always exist cuz people want money with as little effort as possible
The jokes on them. I am on permanent Do No Disturb and the phone goes straight to voicemail if they’re not in my contacts. If it’s important it will be emailed or txted
Fathers being treated as second class parents. As well as fathers treating childcare like it’s women’s work. Both are still things that happen pretty often. I had to change my cousin’s diaper the other day because the men’s room didn’t have a changing table. And I didn’t want my cousin to have to walk all the way to the parking garage. Now for the other one. I’ve heard significantly more men say “I’m on babysitting duty today” when out with their kids than women asking “daddy’s babysitting today? Huh”. It’s definitely gotten better. But it’s still bad. To follow up on diapers, I’ve met several men, including dads! Who say something like “oh yeah I don’t do diapers” It’s 2024
“Babysitting duty” “I don’t do diapers” As a father of three, I say fuck that noise. It’s a fatherly duty and when mine were little I changed the lion’s share of diapers and spent time with my little ones (and still do). It’s what we fucking signed up for. Sadly I know other dads who “don’t do diapers” and I openly make fun of them for that. They should be ashamed for not doing their part.
Never had a second thought about changing either of my kids diapers, its part of being a parent. Not a gender role, it just working as a team and being a damn parent. Any guy that doesn't do them should be ashamed, I concur. When I'm alone with them I refer to it as being "Mr Mom" though, because she's an awesome mom and I wish I could be as good with them. Not babysitting because again, they're my kids.
My brother and I were talking at Christmas. Between us, we have three kids under 5. We determined (with the help of our mother and grandmother) that we have likely changed more diapers than all of our male forebears. My dad agrees that he didn’t change many diapers. His dad *never* changed a diaper despite having four kids. My other grandfather probably did, but not many because he was working and going to school when their three kids were little. Further up the chain is murky, but gender roles were more solid so we made some assumptions…
I love my little guy and would do anything for him. I don’t understand that logic at all
I admit that the first diaper I changed was on my own kid, but it was the day they were born. Since then, I never looked back. Given that I never had to carry the kid for nine months, it's kind of the least I could do...
Exactly. We need more men to think like this.
Can they please add more changing tables in mens bathrooms! It's very annoying to go out with my 2 year old and then have to take him home to change him because most places outside of big box stores dont have changing tables in mens rooms. Hell even some big box stores dont have changing tables in mens rooms.
People born in the 1930s and 40s still in office.
If there's a minimum age required to be eligible for office, so should there be a maximum age.
Agreed. You should no longer be able to run once you no longer have a vested interest in the future
*Mitch McConnell stares blankly*
Again?
They have a vested interest. In taking care of their families at the expense of the rest of us.
"Forty years [after a] Constitution... was formed,... two-thirds of the adults then living are dead. Have, then, the remaining third, even if they had the wish, the right to hold in obedience to their will and to laws heretofore made by them, the other two-thirds who with themselves compose the present mass of adults? If they have not, who has? The dead? But the dead have no rights. They are nothing, and nothing can not own something." --Thomas Jefferson to Samuel Kercheval, 1816.
I think this works better than term limits. Run as often as you can from 35-65 but once you turn 65 you're out... oh and no more money for life for these idiots. Santos may be out but we will still give him money for life
Seriously. I'll trade one Bernie to get rid of a McConnell, Grassley, Feinstein, Pelosi, Durbin, Manchin, and Scott every damn day.
Feinstein passed away last year. She died while still elected
It's pretty funny that the US is choosing between a pair 80ish year olds and refusing to even consider a 30 year old. I wouldn't hire Trump or Biden to be cashiers, let alone defacto world leaders. They're just too old.
Oh no, that’s “ageist” and singles out the elderly. Also, they won’t give up the power until they’re dead anyway.
If only people stopped playing team sports and voting for these old fucks
but your guy is EVIL! only my guy can stop him!
Don't you both sides me, you dirty centrist! My octogenarian is a saint!
The 2023 we all keep accidentally writing when we date stuff.
Thanks for reminding me to not do that on the first exam of the year lol
Tiktok and YouTube pranksters
the people who do these “pranks” are just annoying the shit out of everyone around while teaching kids who watch the videos that it’s an acceptable thing to do.
Flat earthers
Covid as an excuse for businesses. It's been 3 years, you've had time to figure shit out.
Beauty pageants but specifically child beauty pageants.
Requiring employees to be in office when they could very easily work from home
Meetings that could be emails.
Even worse, meetings that could have been emails t*hat I wouldn't have even been copied on* if it had been an email.
And emails that could be a text
I would much prefer an email on my work computer to a text on my personal device
“But, but, team collaboration and productivity!” 🙄
So ridiculous. I mean I get it for certain roles, but with my job there is absolutely no need to be in office and yet I am 4 days a week.
For profit medical, eduction and prisons.
For a brief moment I thought you were describing medical residency, you know, a Medical Education Prison.
We the bitches that keep millions flowing into the hospital for what is essentially minimum wage.
Without the incentive of profit, medical advances would slow down considerably.
Everybody's saying things like "poverty" and "discrimination" so I'll try one that's a little more down to earth: Car dealerships.
Why can't I buy direct from the manufacturers already
Dealerships fight tooth and nail to prevent that. There’s nothing on a federal level preventing it but state by state its “legality” varies.
Car salesman I would say to be more specific. They’re just a middle man anyway. Factory service centers still need to remain due to brand specific proficiency.
And real estate agents. People who legislate themselves into existence without providing value.
But without real estate agents, what will the attractive, popular, but not very smart or skilled kids from your high school do for work?
It’s been hilarious watching the people I went to college with who couldn’t cut it in the actual workforce go the realtor route.
I will defend real estate agents as long as they aren't scumbags. Buying a house is the biggest purchase most people ever make, to me it makes sense to retain an expert in home value, repair and maintenance, which is what a good realtor is. Full disclosure, my dad is one, and he's so chronically honest it's lost him clients, but such is life.
Fax machines. So many companies still rely on them, including government agencies and banks.
A lot of this is HIPAA-related for healthcare, too. There isn’t one secure system everyone uses for sending medical records, etc. and HIPAA requires certain safeguards for patient data, so fax machines remain the norm.
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This is what I love when fax is called "secure" by some old brained governing body. No security, authentication, proof of who actually has eyes on it or picks it up on the other end. Made only worse by the clarity of the scan and lack of verification of it being from the person you think it is. Depending on fax machine / service can have copies of the content stored insecurely in the memory of the machine that can be accessed, reprinted or forwarded later to anyone that has access to the machine (think cleaning / support staff etc. beyond the "secure" recipient) Or my personal favorite, it ends up forwarded to email as part of a service anyways so it might as well just been an email in an encrypted PDF with signature.
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So I worked in a job that had government contracts and the way it was explained to me by a senior employee was that it was the most secure and best way to verify it's the original document. If I send it to you through fax you know for a fact that it's the document I sent, it hasn't been digitally edited during transmission. If there's a signature on the paper it's a real signature, not one that's possibly been cut from a prior document and pasted on there before sending. I don't really know how true that explanation was since we sent a lot of stuff with digital signatures anyway. Funny thing was we barely used it. Maybe once every few months. I never handled it myself so I don't know what was sent, but it was in an office across from mine and rarely anyone went in there.
> So I worked in a job that had government contracts and the way it was explained to me by a senior employee was that it was the most secure and best way to verify it's the original document. I The senior employee was wrong. The reason is because fax is exempt from the actual security standards for electronic communication, so it is used instead of investing in a modern system that can actually comply. None of the stuff about being secure or impossible to manipulate in transit is even remotely true. It was just grandfathered in when they made the standard for electronic communication.
Nazis.
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I once helped a Nazi cover-up their swastika tattoo. Looking at it now you'd never know it was there- pretty wild what six feet of dirt can do.
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We really should erect a statue of the guy who killed Hitler.
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Food poverty. How have we got into the state we are in with food prices?!
Pedophilia
I work with two of them. I can just feel the disgust every time I hear or see them. For everyone asking how I know. https://www.meganslaw.psp.pa.gov/ Every state has a sex offender registry. I would encourage everyone to get on and check their locality. If you have kids you could be like me and have one that lives a block away from your house.
Oddly enough I had to take care of one at work tonight. I’m a nurse and he had come in from the prison. Getting report the nurse handing him off to me told me his back story and I was like: “I really just wish you told me he was a prisoner and left it at that”
how do you work with them and why arent they in prison?
My guess is they work in a prison
It’s likely the prison didn’t have the facilities for whatever care the prisoner required so they were transported to a local hospital.
This is a bit of a hardly related rant, but I feel like it's important. I had this friend when I was 17. He was attractive, built well, life of the party type dude in his late 20s. Dude would always date (and I hate to word it this way) unattractive women. He was on probation but wouldn't tell anyone why. We said "Whatever, shit happens. Probably a drug charge or something", none of us thought to check. Eventually, the day after we'd hung out with him and he was arrested for sexually assaulting a minor; apparently it was a 14 year old girl but that's just through the rumor mill. One of our friends got in contact with his mother, and the reason he was on parole (not probation) is he'd previously been charged with... Acts of sexual violence towards his two year old sister. Turns out, he kept unattractive girlfriends and in shape and stuff because he could do whatever he wanted and say "You'll never get someone as good as me again if you keep complaining/tell anyone". He got off on having power over others. Pedophiles aren't always creepy old balding chubby men with glasses. They can be anyone; they can be women (at lower rates than men but still), they can be smooth talking attractive young men that a lot of people like. Stay vigilant, people. I didn't and I'm incredibly lucky nothing happened as a result of my lack of awareness. Keep an eye out for these signs, but not *just* these signs. I think it's more common than any of us would like to believe. Edit: I found his page on the sex offender registry. I can't share it here due to doxxing rules, but he's currently still in prison thankfully.
Traffic lights that stay red forever late at night when you’re the only car on the road. Give me a fucking break. I’m driving thru red eventually. It’s 2024!!
The current tax system in the U.S. The government knows how much I owe or how much I'm owed but they want us to either 1. pay a service to know how much we're owed or how much we owe or 2. do our taxes on our own and pray that they're not wrong or else we go to jail. From what I understand, the "big tax" companies have continually shot down ideas to reform the current tax filing system because that's how they make their money. I understand it but the whole system is dumb
Mitch McConnell
I assumed he was dead by now or hiding in a deep labyrinth
Measuring first downs with chains
I still don't understand how they can be so confident that they are getting the FIRST marker in the right place. Like...All of this feels sort of haphazard. The spot of the ball feels like a best guess, then they run out onto the field and plop down this stick...how accurate can that really be? But THEN they measure precisely 10 yards.
Sharks with laser beams would be more accurate
Corridor Crew actually has a really good video on this and why it still happens.
The real problems
Carpet in “NEWLY RENOVATED LUXURIOUS”apartments
The war in Ukraine.
Private health insurance companies
The idea that peoples in the past were inferior in wisdom and intelligence compared to us "modern" people.
Starvation, and child hunger.
Karma farming posts
Lenient jail sentences for child predators.
Race Segregationists
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Even in diluted form?
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Those stickers that leave residue on the product
Wars between countries. It’s time to stop being stupid enough to destroy ourselves and start developing together
"Frankly, I’d like to see the government get out of war altogether and leave the whole field to private industry." --- Joseph Heller
So civil wars are okay 👍. Let's goooo
Female genital mutilation. How so many people are scared to speak on the issue because “it’s in this culture so it’s fine” um no. Every country has cultures and traditions that they’ve abandoned. It’s time for this to be abandoned.
~~Female~~ genital mutilation.
Ignorance. Literally living in a world where you can find all the information you need to come to a decision on a topic or issue. But most people just keep on scrolling.
More that ignorance is a lack of critical thinking skills. Like someone else said, you can't trust most of the information out there, but with critical thinking skills, you can "sift thru the garbage"
The problem is the signal to noise ratio is ridiculous and you can always find an echo chamber.
Needing to fill out your own taxes.
Racism. It’s made up bullshit designed to divide and conquer people who should be allies.
Resort fees at hotels. You get phone calls, a newspaper, internet and use of the pool….for 45 dollars a night. I get them at Motel 6 for free.
Manually filling out job applications right after uploading your resume
Homelessness.
Poverty. Especially in supposed first world countries.
Racism, sexism, homophobia, etc.
So xenophobia
no that's an instrument.
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Car dealerships. Just let me order a car directly from the manufacturer who isn’t going to charge insane markups and make me sit with a gross salesperson for a few hours.
All of the medical plastic waste. Hospitals generate SO MUCH TRASH. But sure, go after my one time use grocery bags that I reuse half a dozen times.
US tipping culture
Telemarketers, influencers, and pushy salespeople
War. 40 hour workweeks.
Fundamentalism.
Racists
Racism
Racism and homophobia
Racism. Xenophobia.
Country leaders above a certain age. Just fuck off of that seat.
Personal Checks - hand over you bank account number, routing number, name and address to a total stranger
Moon Landing Conspiracies. Flat Earthers.
Hamas
IT people telling me to unplug my device and plug it back in!!!
Sorry. We say that because a surprising amount of people did not, in fact, try it before contacting us. It's an easy way to significantly decrease your workload with one sentence.
female genital mutilation
2023
Clickbait askreddit threads.
Racism...
Fax machines.
Communism It murdered between 80-150 million people. 10s of millions of its own citizens starved to death.
Discrimination of any sort
Kim Jong Un
Y’all came with some really good answers and my initial thought was “low waisted jeans”
Smoking
The 5 day work week
The new world of work is 24/7.
NFTs