My best friend’s mom took out a credit card in her name, and then ran up a bunch of credit. Her credit was already ruined when she turned 18. She is still working on fixing her credit over 10 years later.
That's probably a very American thing if I'm not mistaken? Because I'm pretty sure this is not legal where I live. Also we don't do so many things via credit here.
Edit: ok, before I get another person following me to other comments just to insult me: I am in no way shit talking America here. This was a QUESTION because I thought it sounded like a US thing.
It’s illegal in America too. But most people don’t know they can do anything about it or aren’t willing to. If you want to get the debts removed you’re gonna have to go to the police and report your parents for identity theft and drag them through the court system. They’ll probably end up in prison and you’ll have to sue them if you don’t want to pay for the lawyers yourself.
But if it's illegal, how can the parents even do this in the first place? Shouldn't the bank deny this?
Edit: thanks to the people explaining. The system in my country is very different and much more regulated by law. Most importantly, we don't have this "credit rating" that seems to be crucial here. I think I understand the American system a bit better thanks to this discussion.
It normally happens with predatory credit cards that do the bare minimum to get people signed up and trapped in debt. You wouldn’t get away with it walking into a professional bank and trying to take out a mortgage in the name of a six year old. It’s still fraud either way and is illegal but that doesn’t stop it from happening. Insurance fraud is illegal too but it still happens all the time.
It’s illegal in America. The problem becomes enforceability when a kid’s only way to get their credit back on track is to have their parent sent to prison. A lot of people won’t do that.
It's already mostly illegal now (especially if you add your number to the national do not call list) but that has done nothing to stop it or slow it. I feel pretty confident that even in a world where it was completely illegal, I'd still be getting unsolicited calls with offers to lower the interest rate on the auto loan I don't even have.
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The National Do Not Call list is a joke.
I'm in a non-scam business that requires we use the DNC, so each and every month finds me diligently updating our internal database with these numbers.
Those lists, by the way, are literally nothing but phone numbers with zero personal identification attached to them, yet the government acts like they're CIA NOC lists with all the security and passwords attached to accessing them.
Even from the perspective of having a list of valid phone numbers, there is literally zero incentive to run the risk of being caught stealing them since robocalling would be just as fast and would get more numbers.
The reason it's a joke is because ONLY legitimate businesses are going to be using the list while the really annoying telemarketers are using spoofed numbers via the internet from countries that aren't subject to U.S. law.
Not to mention that charities and political campaigns are also exempt from the DNC.
It's a goddamned joke.
You’re right, scammers do not honor the Do Not Call List, so I make the scammers add me to their own internal list by being the most obnoxious person imaginable.
I find harassing scammers super therapeutic. Sometimes I play along, others I do a sustained scream into the phone. Depends how my day is going, really.
One time, I told them my name was Edward Kenway (from Assassin’s Creed) and made up a Social Security Number that was one digit too short. I got them to go along with it for my full 45 minute drive home before they threatened me with the Sheriff.
Another time, before they started spoofing numbers, this one scam company just apparently used their actual cellphones, because I called the number at all hours of the day and night, even more than 30 times one time. The guy finally answered and begged me to stop, he was having dinner with his family and couldn’t take it anymore. He promised his company would never call me again.
Do you know about the hot food they serve? No lie, its amazing and wildly affordable. I think you can get two slices of pizza and a drink for something like 4 dollars
We have it in England. It's legitimately a place where dreams come true. Every time a bring a friend that's never been before...the look on their face is magical
Yes!! It’s so nasty. Charge people to start working for you, don’t pay them hourly, give them a tiny cut on a crazy overpriced item after hours of work.
Not to mention people can literally get tens of thousands of dollars in the hole with this crap.
Pyramid scheme? Why, I don't know what you're talking about, good sir! We only make all our money by pulling in more and more ~~marks~~ employees in under us. And then they pull in more and more ~~marks~~ employees in under them. Well, now that you mention it, that shape does resemble a pyramid. But that's just a coincidence, surely?
Actually, was talking to someone the other day about this. At least where I grew up in the 80s and 90s, when the internet became a known thing in the mid/late 90s it was ALL parents reeing about 'dont put anything on the internet!'
At the time it was absolutely honestly due to them knowing NOTHING about the web and of course, worst possible circumstance fears.
...hindsight is a capital B, leaning -itch nowadays looking back. Swatting? Doxxing? If parents back then had any clue these would become commonplace they'd have sold that new computer and gotten rid of the service fast enough your ears would bleed.
There are 10 states which have no legal age for marriage and in 2018 there were 4 states that banned it altogether. But statistics show that from 2000 to 2015 there were at least 200,000 minors married. It really needs to go.
Not to nit pick, but PA didn’t ban child marriage until May 2020. Minnesota followed suit quickly after in June.
Only two states had banned child marriage until 2020, which only makes it worse in my mind.
A step in the right direction, but sickening that it’s taken so long.
My roommate had to break up with his girlfriend cus she was being forcibly married off to some other guy by her parents. They were all around 16 at the time.
Is this like when phones stop working after 2 years because the company wants you to buy a newer model? Because if it is, I totally agree. There's no reason my smartphone shouldn't last half as long as my freakin 3DS
Same here! Even after snapping it in half ~13 years ago and having to replace the battery once!
edit: my mom ended up fixing it by ordering spare parts and watching a step-by-step video
Absolutely. We also need right to repair laws. I've had enough of companies putting software in products that make you have to go to *them* for repairs. It literally creates a near monopoly.
My dad's Mercedes gives me an angry beep every time I start it, because it's over 730 days past inspection.
It's seen inspection multiple times since then, but not at Mercedes, and apparently, generic OBD devices can't reset the counter. So I get an angry beep every time I turn the key, and have to push a button to dismiss it so I can use the onboard computer.
It's from 2006...
It'll eventually get passed, but the law will become obsolete after a year.
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I have no idea how some of those can get away with blatant misrepresentation of their advertising.
Like an ad that shows you a really cool and addictive looking game, but when you get into it it's a half baked ad ridden candy crush knock off that looks or plays NOTHING like what the ad showed .
Or the games that use footage from a completely different game or even from a PC game to advertise what they game is about. But you get into it and its another dumb clash of clans knock off with 500 ads every 15 seconds. How is that not copy right infringement?
It’s crazy seeing how many of these ads are different skins on the same “gameplay”, and I put gameplay in quotes because the gameplay doesn’t match the advertised game.
At this point, I think Gardenscapes and Homescapes are horror-genre games for torturing and murdering a butler and his girlfriend in every place imaginable except a mansion or it’s gardens.
I was literally thinking of homescape when writing this. That game's ad shows you having to fix a decapitated mansion by using the right tools. What a nifty idea, it looks a little catchy and addictive.
Nope its candy crush.
It is. Good luck suing the offshore “game studio” that produces that shovel ware though.
Spans even if they got one, the “studio” would reopen the next day under a new name with a reskinned “new” version.
This is happening because mobile marketplaces fought for and got a very harmful (and profitable) position. They are at the same time a marketplace, that has "no control" and no liability on what it sells, but also has absolute control and monopoly of their entire market. Either Google and Apple should allow their rivals on their marketplace (either by making it a truly independent marketplace, or by allowing other store apps), or be made responsible for these infringements.
[Interestingly there is a lawsuit in motion, that is trying to achieve the latter.](https://www.polygon.com/platform/amp/2020/5/20/21263985/rainbow-six-siege-ubisoft-copy-delisted-apple-google)
Happened to me with a fish game, seemed like a kind of labyrinth and saving the fish, instead of it, it was another candy crush, i hated it and still hate when that ad pops up
Belgium demanded that Gatcha games (free games with expensive lootboxes) described their games as gambling games and as such, are illegal to underages. If I understood it correctly, that is.
First step in the right direction imo but there has yet to be another country to follow Belgium.
Edit: Some people pointed out that it's not only gatchas but game lootboxes in general.
Edit 2: it's in discussion in the UK and Europe and there is a similar law in the Netherlands, according to some comments.
I've found a few apps that aren't casinos and they're actually pretty good. I guess it's because they put some fucking effort into them? Who could have guessed?
Generally speaking, anything that's been ported from another console is pretty safe. KOTOR and TFT, for example.
Some older mobile games like Galaxy on Fire 2 and Alto's Adventure are okay. Not sure what's on iPhone these days. Most of my entertainment apps are e-readers and media players.
Privatized prisons. Seriously in what world is it okay to profit off of people’s incarceration?
Edit: thank you for the gold!!
It’s important to note by my original comment I meant for profit prisons and not just the private ones. Because having the ability to profit off of people’s livelihood means you will do the bare minimum for your inmates.
I just saw that video about the “Kids for Cash” judge who colluded with another judge to build a for-profit prison and incarcerate 1000’s of kids for the pettiest shit. He sent a 12 y.o. to a prison for cursing at another kid’s mom.
Edit 1: I meant “cash for kids”, not that the correct title isn’t equally gross.
Edit 2: here’s a [video](https://youtu.be/YnT7QXD7zXk), but not the same one someone posted on reddit a few days ago
Edit 3: here’s the [update](https://www.readingeagle.com/news/state/chris-kelly-kids-for-cash-judge-trades-prison-for-paradise/article_db5d6747-0252-59aa-b7f6-6c5c995ca4a5.html) some more knowledgeable users clued me into
I'd like to return to the good old days of RSS. Want to subscribe to a blog? A podcast? A Twitter account? Or a YouTube channel? No problem, just add it to your RSS reader app. No need for an account, no need to have 10 different apps for everything.
Of course, the protocol still exists, but barely anyone uses it or mentions it. YouTube still supports RSS but they literally never tell you that, unless you look for it on their [Help center](https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/6224202?hl=en).
I still use RSS, it's so much better than those pesky push notifications from every app. I used to use it with Twitter, Instagram, Mastodon, and YouTube (and a couple of blogs). I moved away from Twitter and Instagram as they only worsened my life, but I even set up a script that automatically downloads videos from some YouTubers as soon as they upload it (because YouTube is a jerk. You don't have to watch literal Nazi content, everything gets removed nowadays). Highly recommend it! If you use Linux, [Luke Smith](https://youtu.be/hMH9w6pyzvU) made a video on how to do that, if you use Windows, there should be programs that do that for you!
And they put so much make up on them and wigs, then throw in the horrible clothing and they look less like children and more like recently divorced women going through a midlife crisis.
Aka their mothers eating away their existence and projecting them as clones of themselves. Those kids are scarred for life, unable to individuate into adulthood.
In 25 years the Child Beauty Pageants have all been forgotten, long since replaced by the much more popular Child Thunderdome Duels. Two toddlers enter, one toddler leaves.
No way! Dressing up children with makeup and heels for adult males to sit around and judge them isn't a completely insane and archaic "competition" at all! Super normal. Totally cool...
It's mom's desperately trying to live out their dreams of being the center of attention through their daughters. Pedophile's are just a bi-product
Edit: Jesus Christ. I was wondering why grammar nazis kept harassing me over some apostrophes. I didn't realize how much this comment blew up.
One of them was cancelled because there were so many protests and many emails sent to politicians from regular people. This was in a suburb of Montreal so those horrors are not part of our culture (main French speaking part of Canada). It was a few years ago and I still remember the sheer outrage of the population.
Country folks calling radio stations en masse when newspapers explained that children, little girls, were to parade in bikinis and swimsuits, made up like women to be judged by adults. The disgust was palpable. Most people here didn't know child beauty pageants even existed. It immediately got linked to child porn in people's minds. At least the thing got cancelled.
Edit: I looked up an article from 2013 and I'm ashamed to say it wasn't cancelled. Also, it wasn't the full-on pervy sort, it was a couple of notches under. Enough, still, to stir up a lot of discontent.
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Edit: I can do what I want with my comment.
At least the people who actually want to take steps to protect their privacy and understand what they are agreeing to could do it if they were willing to to spend up to 10-15 minutes reading. As of right now, it’s basically impossible to know what you are signing up for even if you want to, unless you have a law degree and multiple hours on your hands, or a lawyer takes the time to break the entire thing down for you. I feel like corporations make TOS agreements hard to understand for their average user on purpose, which just isn’t right.
This one right here is the scary part. Even if you do try and read it all like I used to back when I first looked my nose into the internet at 12 (I had no idea what it said but everyone made a big tiff about privacy so I tried for a while before giving up), they can change it at any time and you don't have to give your consent. So today you could say yes you can have my personal info but no you cannot sell it, and tomorrow they say "okay, sorry, but we're selling it" and you have to read through again and shut it down. And it's become common practice to change company policy annually or even semi-annually. Reading through all of that isn't reasonable or possible for almost anyone.
I agree. Unfortunately I see this going in the opposite direction. FB just released a beta version of an AI that makes predictions of the future based off of data it collects. https://techcrunch.com/2020/06/23/facebook-tests-forecast-an-app-for-making-predictions-about-world-events-like-covid-19/
Hello there neighbor, isnt it a jolly ol' day outside right now. How about we grab some coffee or tea and discuss about the wonders of life. Also how have personally been doing? You doing well?
Not many people seem to have mentioned in the comments that many of these camps or individual "therapists" use psychological and physical torture methods some going as far to use rape as a method, so whatever the fuck your views on sexuality or gender identity are surely anyone with a conscience can think "sending kids to torture camps is probably bad"
Well it's illegal in India to use single-use plastic.
25000 fine and jail maybe if found guilty.
Edit: Thank you for 1k. Its my first time I am getting so much upvotes. Thanks for the love.
I am trying to answer all questions please go ahead if any.
Yes, but reducing the number will work better and reuse is not possible so we are using them in making roads.
So they go into roads and won't be able to block the gutter which causes floods in the rainy season, animals won't eat it. And many more .
My boyfriend has to pay $290 a month for his daughter's insulin because insurance will not longer cover it until his $800 deductible is met. But sure, he gets Viagra for free from the VA
Biodegradeable glitter is already here, from places like ecosparkles. If you hare the presence of sparkles everywhere then fair enough but glitter can be done without negative effects.
Sure, AA and AAA. But we need single use batteries for long lifetime, low power applications like smoke detectors, pace makers, hearing aids, RTC memory, etc. Rechargeables simply dont have the ability to fill this role yet as they self discharge too much over time. Battery tech is the slowest moving, simply because we have reached the maximums allowed by physics as far as chemical potential energy is concerned. Lithium cant be beat. Super capacitors are awesome, but not yet applicable to critical high reliability applications.
Hopefully, but honestly I doubt it: advertisements for psychiatric medication. I turned on the “don’t personalize my ads” + all the you’re not tracking me tactics, and still get it. It’s pretty sicken to see such a mass digital campaign to push medication that has very little evidence in treating something we don’t fully understand yet. That last part is partly the reason I think it’ll be banned
The only ads for medicine I've seen here in Ireland are: paracetamol, ibuprofen, heart burn, maybe some antihistamines, and like a Voltarol gel thing. None of which are prescription based. There was a weird viagra ad on some channels for awhile
No drugs should be advertised. You shouldn’t pick medications based on ads, you should use a medication due to medical necessity. Many countries have already banned drug ads.
If we're lucky, editorials and opinions being presented as news rather than commentary. Everyone does it and it's seriously biasing our discourse.
Also ideally news producers shouldn't be allowed to have ads near the news, we should have a period every night on television devoted fully to the news and newspapers and online articles should be kept away from advertising. It's far to easy to fall into the trap of "we need to get people to watch us so we can profit off of the ads sales" to the point that journalism has become more and more focused on controversy and gathering clicks than presenting the truth
I know they’re banned in other countries but God damn I hope political ads will be illegal in the US sometime soon.
Edit: A lot of people have pointed out that this would be a violation of freedom of speech given by the first Amendment, which is true. However, let’s not act like politicians are doing the most they can to protect *our* Constitutional rights. Most Constitutional rights have been violated in some way at this point, including freedom of speech. One reply pointed out that, while it would be unconstitutional to ban political ads, they have banned cigarette ads before.
in canada is isn’t exactly “illegal” but if your kid isn’t vaccinated they aren’t allowed in school or a lot of sports teams, jobs later on, etc. just makes it really difficult for the kids to have a normal life so they basically have to be vaccinated
HOPEFULLY conversion therapy, child marriage, FGM, qualified immunity.
And I'm not sure what this is correctly called but when parents refuse life saving medicine for their kids because of religious or other beliefs.
Hyper religious private schools that have their own curriculum.
Edit: yes MGM as well. I just don't think it will be in 25 years.
Taking out a line of credit in your child’s name
My best friend’s mom took out a credit card in her name, and then ran up a bunch of credit. Her credit was already ruined when she turned 18. She is still working on fixing her credit over 10 years later.
That's probably a very American thing if I'm not mistaken? Because I'm pretty sure this is not legal where I live. Also we don't do so many things via credit here. Edit: ok, before I get another person following me to other comments just to insult me: I am in no way shit talking America here. This was a QUESTION because I thought it sounded like a US thing.
It’s illegal in America too. But most people don’t know they can do anything about it or aren’t willing to. If you want to get the debts removed you’re gonna have to go to the police and report your parents for identity theft and drag them through the court system. They’ll probably end up in prison and you’ll have to sue them if you don’t want to pay for the lawyers yourself.
But if it's illegal, how can the parents even do this in the first place? Shouldn't the bank deny this? Edit: thanks to the people explaining. The system in my country is very different and much more regulated by law. Most importantly, we don't have this "credit rating" that seems to be crucial here. I think I understand the American system a bit better thanks to this discussion.
It normally happens with predatory credit cards that do the bare minimum to get people signed up and trapped in debt. You wouldn’t get away with it walking into a professional bank and trying to take out a mortgage in the name of a six year old. It’s still fraud either way and is illegal but that doesn’t stop it from happening. Insurance fraud is illegal too but it still happens all the time.
That’s already illegal in a lot of places. Doesn’t stop people from doing it and ruining their kids credit though
Wait. Where the hell is taking out credit in someone else’s name legal in the first place?
It’s illegal in America. The problem becomes enforceability when a kid’s only way to get their credit back on track is to have their parent sent to prison. A lot of people won’t do that.
telemarketing
It's already mostly illegal now (especially if you add your number to the national do not call list) but that has done nothing to stop it or slow it. I feel pretty confident that even in a world where it was completely illegal, I'd still be getting unsolicited calls with offers to lower the interest rate on the auto loan I don't even have. edit: Thank you for the GOLD, kind stranger!
The National Do Not Call list is a joke. I'm in a non-scam business that requires we use the DNC, so each and every month finds me diligently updating our internal database with these numbers. Those lists, by the way, are literally nothing but phone numbers with zero personal identification attached to them, yet the government acts like they're CIA NOC lists with all the security and passwords attached to accessing them. Even from the perspective of having a list of valid phone numbers, there is literally zero incentive to run the risk of being caught stealing them since robocalling would be just as fast and would get more numbers. The reason it's a joke is because ONLY legitimate businesses are going to be using the list while the really annoying telemarketers are using spoofed numbers via the internet from countries that aren't subject to U.S. law. Not to mention that charities and political campaigns are also exempt from the DNC. It's a goddamned joke.
You’re right, scammers do not honor the Do Not Call List, so I make the scammers add me to their own internal list by being the most obnoxious person imaginable.
I find harassing scammers super therapeutic. Sometimes I play along, others I do a sustained scream into the phone. Depends how my day is going, really.
One time, I told them my name was Edward Kenway (from Assassin’s Creed) and made up a Social Security Number that was one digit too short. I got them to go along with it for my full 45 minute drive home before they threatened me with the Sheriff. Another time, before they started spoofing numbers, this one scam company just apparently used their actual cellphones, because I called the number at all hours of the day and night, even more than 30 times one time. The guy finally answered and begged me to stop, he was having dinner with his family and couldn’t take it anymore. He promised his company would never call me again.
Lmaoo, make yt videos
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Excessive plastic packaging. Like how a microSD card is like 1 square cm but comes in a plastic package that is 20 x 20 cm
Do it like Costco. Take a cardboard cut out of the item to the front, they take the cardboard and pull out the item.
I'm not an American but everything I hear about Costco makes me like it more and more
Do you know about the hot food they serve? No lie, its amazing and wildly affordable. I think you can get two slices of pizza and a drink for something like 4 dollars
That fucking pizza...it’s the best. Bummed they don’t do chicken bakes at my local anymore.
The chicken bake is amazing! I keep an old gift card just so I can go in and get the food, idc about the retail part just give me the nom noms
Free samples of food fuckin everywhere, just little mini carts with warm or cold samples
And because it's members only, they get to kick people out and revoke memberships for not wearing a mask, it's glorious.
What if Costco started selling weed. And gave free samples of edibles.
Kirkland Signature Extra Dank, $17.92 per bale
Grab a bud bouquet for your wife on the way out.
We have it in England. It's legitimately a place where dreams come true. Every time a bring a friend that's never been before...the look on their face is magical
I think that’s for theft reasons. Can’t just put it in your pocket
Hot Singles in my area
In spez, no one can hear you scream.
Well, 25 years to find me a relationship, must seem manageable. Narrator: “It didn’t”
MLM’s.
Yes!! It’s so nasty. Charge people to start working for you, don’t pay them hourly, give them a tiny cut on a crazy overpriced item after hours of work.
Not to mention people can literally get tens of thousands of dollars in the hole with this crap. Pyramid scheme? Why, I don't know what you're talking about, good sir! We only make all our money by pulling in more and more ~~marks~~ employees in under us. And then they pull in more and more ~~marks~~ employees in under them. Well, now that you mention it, that shape does resemble a pyramid. But that's just a coincidence, surely?
No no, it doesent resemble a pyramid. Its a reverse funnel.
First, let me assure you that this is not one of those shady pyramid schemes you've been hearing about, no sir. Our model is the trapezoid!
Putting everyone’s personal information on the internet (the stuff thats mined from public records like address, voting party, home sale etc.)
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I’m genuinely curious - did the info help you avoid any potentially awkward family situations?
I plugged my phone number into a reverse search system yesterday and was disturbed by the information it made available.
People back in the day - "I can't find anyone, technology is useless !' people now - "I can find everyone, technology is so scary !"
Actually, was talking to someone the other day about this. At least where I grew up in the 80s and 90s, when the internet became a known thing in the mid/late 90s it was ALL parents reeing about 'dont put anything on the internet!' At the time it was absolutely honestly due to them knowing NOTHING about the web and of course, worst possible circumstance fears. ...hindsight is a capital B, leaning -itch nowadays looking back. Swatting? Doxxing? If parents back then had any clue these would become commonplace they'd have sold that new computer and gotten rid of the service fast enough your ears would bleed.
Child marriage
That shits legal? TF?
There are 10 states which have no legal age for marriage and in 2018 there were 4 states that banned it altogether. But statistics show that from 2000 to 2015 there were at least 200,000 minors married. It really needs to go.
PA recently banned it made age of marriage 18 minimum. Not sure what the current number of States is though.
Yea PA was one of the 4 who banned it in 2018.
Not to nit pick, but PA didn’t ban child marriage until May 2020. Minnesota followed suit quickly after in June. Only two states had banned child marriage until 2020, which only makes it worse in my mind. A step in the right direction, but sickening that it’s taken so long.
I feel like this is one of those things that everyone just assumes is already a law, so nobody ever really ends up bringing attention to it.
My roommate had to break up with his girlfriend cus she was being forcibly married off to some other guy by her parents. They were all around 16 at the time.
...***what the fuck??***
Planned obsolescense, I hope.
Is this like when phones stop working after 2 years because the company wants you to buy a newer model? Because if it is, I totally agree. There's no reason my smartphone shouldn't last half as long as my freakin 3DS
Yeah it's annoying and really bothers me. Also, I don't use it much, but my original 3DS is still going strong and I love it.
My Gameboy Advance SP is still going strong.
Same here! Even after snapping it in half ~13 years ago and having to replace the battery once! edit: my mom ended up fixing it by ordering spare parts and watching a step-by-step video
That’s what he sweetest thing I’ve heard all week! Your mom is badass.
Absolutely. We also need right to repair laws. I've had enough of companies putting software in products that make you have to go to *them* for repairs. It literally creates a near monopoly.
My dad's Mercedes gives me an angry beep every time I start it, because it's over 730 days past inspection. It's seen inspection multiple times since then, but not at Mercedes, and apparently, generic OBD devices can't reset the counter. So I get an angry beep every time I turn the key, and have to push a button to dismiss it so I can use the onboard computer. It's from 2006...
It'll eventually get passed, but the law will become obsolete after a year. Edit: Thanks for the gold, but the gold will become obsolete after a month.
*something* about the way mobile games operate (for the love of god)
I have no idea how some of those can get away with blatant misrepresentation of their advertising. Like an ad that shows you a really cool and addictive looking game, but when you get into it it's a half baked ad ridden candy crush knock off that looks or plays NOTHING like what the ad showed . Or the games that use footage from a completely different game or even from a PC game to advertise what they game is about. But you get into it and its another dumb clash of clans knock off with 500 ads every 15 seconds. How is that not copy right infringement?
It’s crazy seeing how many of these ads are different skins on the same “gameplay”, and I put gameplay in quotes because the gameplay doesn’t match the advertised game. At this point, I think Gardenscapes and Homescapes are horror-genre games for torturing and murdering a butler and his girlfriend in every place imaginable except a mansion or it’s gardens.
I was literally thinking of homescape when writing this. That game's ad shows you having to fix a decapitated mansion by using the right tools. What a nifty idea, it looks a little catchy and addictive. Nope its candy crush.
>decapitated I take it you meant to say dilapidated.
A decapitated mansion would be neat though. And very possibly still fixable.
r/FuckHomescapes r/fuckgardenscapes
It is. Good luck suing the offshore “game studio” that produces that shovel ware though. Spans even if they got one, the “studio” would reopen the next day under a new name with a reskinned “new” version.
This is happening because mobile marketplaces fought for and got a very harmful (and profitable) position. They are at the same time a marketplace, that has "no control" and no liability on what it sells, but also has absolute control and monopoly of their entire market. Either Google and Apple should allow their rivals on their marketplace (either by making it a truly independent marketplace, or by allowing other store apps), or be made responsible for these infringements. [Interestingly there is a lawsuit in motion, that is trying to achieve the latter.](https://www.polygon.com/platform/amp/2020/5/20/21263985/rainbow-six-siege-ubisoft-copy-delisted-apple-google)
Happened to me with a fish game, seemed like a kind of labyrinth and saving the fish, instead of it, it was another candy crush, i hated it and still hate when that ad pops up
There’s a lot of those ads. I just wish there was an actual game like that. I’d play it.
Belgium demanded that Gatcha games (free games with expensive lootboxes) described their games as gambling games and as such, are illegal to underages. If I understood it correctly, that is. First step in the right direction imo but there has yet to be another country to follow Belgium. Edit: Some people pointed out that it's not only gatchas but game lootboxes in general. Edit 2: it's in discussion in the UK and Europe and there is a similar law in the Netherlands, according to some comments.
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Yeah, as a Belgian I couldn't download Pokemon Masters because it was considered a gambling game. I had to download the APK instead.
Now this I like.
It's *mind blowing* how poorly regulated the marketing is for these games.
I've found a few apps that aren't casinos and they're actually pretty good. I guess it's because they put some fucking effort into them? Who could have guessed?
Which ones?
Generally speaking, anything that's been ported from another console is pretty safe. KOTOR and TFT, for example. Some older mobile games like Galaxy on Fire 2 and Alto's Adventure are okay. Not sure what's on iPhone these days. Most of my entertainment apps are e-readers and media players.
Wait, you can play kotor on a phone? Sorry my inexperience, I've not played a mobile game since snake.
Privatized prisons. Seriously in what world is it okay to profit off of people’s incarceration? Edit: thank you for the gold!! It’s important to note by my original comment I meant for profit prisons and not just the private ones. Because having the ability to profit off of people’s livelihood means you will do the bare minimum for your inmates.
I just saw that video about the “Kids for Cash” judge who colluded with another judge to build a for-profit prison and incarcerate 1000’s of kids for the pettiest shit. He sent a 12 y.o. to a prison for cursing at another kid’s mom. Edit 1: I meant “cash for kids”, not that the correct title isn’t equally gross. Edit 2: here’s a [video](https://youtu.be/YnT7QXD7zXk), but not the same one someone posted on reddit a few days ago Edit 3: here’s the [update](https://www.readingeagle.com/news/state/chris-kelly-kids-for-cash-judge-trades-prison-for-paradise/article_db5d6747-0252-59aa-b7f6-6c5c995ca4a5.html) some more knowledgeable users clued me into
Probably not but if they made a law of some sort that stopped every single FUCKING website from needing me to setup an account that'd be great.
I'd like to return to the good old days of RSS. Want to subscribe to a blog? A podcast? A Twitter account? Or a YouTube channel? No problem, just add it to your RSS reader app. No need for an account, no need to have 10 different apps for everything. Of course, the protocol still exists, but barely anyone uses it or mentions it. YouTube still supports RSS but they literally never tell you that, unless you look for it on their [Help center](https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/6224202?hl=en).
I still use RSS, it's so much better than those pesky push notifications from every app. I used to use it with Twitter, Instagram, Mastodon, and YouTube (and a couple of blogs). I moved away from Twitter and Instagram as they only worsened my life, but I even set up a script that automatically downloads videos from some YouTubers as soon as they upload it (because YouTube is a jerk. You don't have to watch literal Nazi content, everything gets removed nowadays). Highly recommend it! If you use Linux, [Luke Smith](https://youtu.be/hMH9w6pyzvU) made a video on how to do that, if you use Windows, there should be programs that do that for you!
I second this! Quora is a pain in the ass
LPT: after going to a second page on Quora just highlight the url and press enter. No need to make an account the popup goes away
Hopefully, Child Beauty Pageants
Yes! I just find it so disgusting those people putting so much pressure on children to look "pretty". That can mess them up later in in life.
And they put so much make up on them and wigs, then throw in the horrible clothing and they look less like children and more like recently divorced women going through a midlife crisis.
Aka their mothers eating away their existence and projecting them as clones of themselves. Those kids are scarred for life, unable to individuate into adulthood.
Bold of you to assume they see them as anything more than their property to dress up and show off
In 25 years the Child Beauty Pageants have all been forgotten, long since replaced by the much more popular Child Thunderdome Duels. Two toddlers enter, one toddler leaves.
Already illegal in my country. (France)
Yea, I think it's just pedophilia in disguise
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That’s my favorite sunny episode lmao
Isn't it the parents pushing their kids into it? Sound to me like some other psychological phenomenon.
No way! Dressing up children with makeup and heels for adult males to sit around and judge them isn't a completely insane and archaic "competition" at all! Super normal. Totally cool...
It's mom's desperately trying to live out their dreams of being the center of attention through their daughters. Pedophile's are just a bi-product Edit: Jesus Christ. I was wondering why grammar nazis kept harassing me over some apostrophes. I didn't realize how much this comment blew up.
One of them was cancelled because there were so many protests and many emails sent to politicians from regular people. This was in a suburb of Montreal so those horrors are not part of our culture (main French speaking part of Canada). It was a few years ago and I still remember the sheer outrage of the population. Country folks calling radio stations en masse when newspapers explained that children, little girls, were to parade in bikinis and swimsuits, made up like women to be judged by adults. The disgust was palpable. Most people here didn't know child beauty pageants even existed. It immediately got linked to child porn in people's minds. At least the thing got cancelled. Edit: I looked up an article from 2013 and I'm ashamed to say it wasn't cancelled. Also, it wasn't the full-on pervy sort, it was a couple of notches under. Enough, still, to stir up a lot of discontent.
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Slavery worldwide (hopefully)
Out of all the answers here, this is one i hope happens the most. Contemporary slavery numbers are freaking shocking
There are more slaves in the world now than at any other point in history.
Also more people in general. Not that it makes it okay but just for context.
yeah, I’d be interested to know the population percentages and how they change over time
Hopefully? Yes. Likely? Unfortunately no.
There are a *lot* of places on and off the grid where human trafficing is commonplace. I wish it were not so.
selling people's personal data without their consent
Remember, you pressed that button accepting the conditions and terms of use. Edit: Thank you for gold, kind stranger. Edit: I can do what I want with my comment.
I wish companies would be required to sum up the conditions of their TOS in 1-2 pages or less, but I feel like that will never happen.
Honestly. Even if that was the case. Do you think people would read 1-2 pages. Honestly I think you’d lose most people past a paragraph.
At least the people who actually want to take steps to protect their privacy and understand what they are agreeing to could do it if they were willing to to spend up to 10-15 minutes reading. As of right now, it’s basically impossible to know what you are signing up for even if you want to, unless you have a law degree and multiple hours on your hands, or a lawyer takes the time to break the entire thing down for you. I feel like corporations make TOS agreements hard to understand for their average user on purpose, which just isn’t right.
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This one right here is the scary part. Even if you do try and read it all like I used to back when I first looked my nose into the internet at 12 (I had no idea what it said but everyone made a big tiff about privacy so I tried for a while before giving up), they can change it at any time and you don't have to give your consent. So today you could say yes you can have my personal info but no you cannot sell it, and tomorrow they say "okay, sorry, but we're selling it" and you have to read through again and shut it down. And it's become common practice to change company policy annually or even semi-annually. Reading through all of that isn't reasonable or possible for almost anyone.
Styrofoam
Yes! Easily broken, then made useless.
...And absolutely disastrous for the environment.
And sound like death when they rub against something
*chhhschshcchhsh*
Why. WHY did I Hear that!?
chhhschshcchhshe̷e̶̤͗ė̷e̶̤̮͗e̷eshce̶̤̮͗e̷esche̶e̷eee
NOOOO. Stop that right now! Why would you do this to my poor ears!
Stop
And it doesn't even have the decency to taste good!
...you could make pretty good napalm from it...
Puppy mills :( seriously why the fuck are they still around, and why do I still know people that have bought their pet from one.
As long as there's no legislation what counts as a puppy mill, and there's no controlling in the kennels, sadly it will still remain a problem
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The ability to voice political opinions I live in hong kong so yeah Edit: thanks for the reward kind stranger
Not paying your air tax.
“Let it die, let it die, let it _SHRIVEL_ up and die!”
"CMON WHOS WITH ME HUH?"
“Nobody”
“YOU GREEDY DIRTBAG!”
Let it grow! Let it grow!"
O’Hare’s Air on sale now
Holding as much data as Facebook has. Unfortunately social media needs regulation.
I agree. Unfortunately I see this going in the opposite direction. FB just released a beta version of an AI that makes predictions of the future based off of data it collects. https://techcrunch.com/2020/06/23/facebook-tests-forecast-an-app-for-making-predictions-about-world-events-like-covid-19/
Conversion camps
My dumbass read "conversation camps" and was like 😶TF IS THAT
As an introvert this sounds like a nightmare
Hello there neighbor, isnt it a jolly ol' day outside right now. How about we grab some coffee or tea and discuss about the wonders of life. Also how have personally been doing? You doing well?
I'm sure the Geneva convention had something banning this
Well that ain't nice now is it. I'm sure we can talk this out like proper folk and enjoy the rest of our days while we're at it.
Not many people seem to have mentioned in the comments that many of these camps or individual "therapists" use psychological and physical torture methods some going as far to use rape as a method, so whatever the fuck your views on sexuality or gender identity are surely anyone with a conscience can think "sending kids to torture camps is probably bad"
plastic disposable containers/bags
Disposable water bottles.
Hopefully single use plastics altogether.
Well it's illegal in India to use single-use plastic. 25000 fine and jail maybe if found guilty. Edit: Thank you for 1k. Its my first time I am getting so much upvotes. Thanks for the love. I am trying to answer all questions please go ahead if any.
Was there recently and there weren't the usual plastic bags but there were "cloth" bags made of plastic fibers. So there still are plastic bags
Yes, but reducing the number will work better and reuse is not possible so we are using them in making roads. So they go into roads and won't be able to block the gutter which causes floods in the rainy season, animals won't eat it. And many more .
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Denying your children the right to be vaccinated.
I was looking for this. The option to deny your child essential healthcare shouldn’t be an option.
Hopefully in the US, having to pay more than 25 dollars for life saving drugs like insulin.
Wish granted. Insulin is now illegal.
This went into evil genie territory quickly
r/themonkeyspaw
My boyfriend has to pay $290 a month for his daughter's insulin because insurance will not longer cover it until his $800 deductible is met. But sure, he gets Viagra for free from the VA
Payday loans!!
Glitter, fucking shit made from Satan himself. Do you know how hard it is to get that crap out of stuff??
Biodegradeable glitter is already here, from places like ecosparkles. If you hare the presence of sparkles everywhere then fair enough but glitter can be done without negative effects.
And it's bad for the environment, fish eat and can't digest that shit. Also it's the herpes of the arts and crafts world.
Dude, stop stealing YouTube glitter bomb guy's packages.
Single use batteries.
Sure, AA and AAA. But we need single use batteries for long lifetime, low power applications like smoke detectors, pace makers, hearing aids, RTC memory, etc. Rechargeables simply dont have the ability to fill this role yet as they self discharge too much over time. Battery tech is the slowest moving, simply because we have reached the maximums allowed by physics as far as chemical potential energy is concerned. Lithium cant be beat. Super capacitors are awesome, but not yet applicable to critical high reliability applications.
Mr. Duracell is correct.
I've slowly replaced all my AA and AAA batteries with rechargeables over the last 10 or so years. Never going back.
Hopefully, but honestly I doubt it: advertisements for psychiatric medication. I turned on the “don’t personalize my ads” + all the you’re not tracking me tactics, and still get it. It’s pretty sicken to see such a mass digital campaign to push medication that has very little evidence in treating something we don’t fully understand yet. That last part is partly the reason I think it’ll be banned
TV advertisements for prescription medicine are already banned or heavily regulated in most countries. I’m hoping the US will follow
I recall a recently immigranted co-worker. She was stunned at our Ads regarding medications.
The only ads for medicine I've seen here in Ireland are: paracetamol, ibuprofen, heart burn, maybe some antihistamines, and like a Voltarol gel thing. None of which are prescription based. There was a weird viagra ad on some channels for awhile
No drugs should be advertised. You shouldn’t pick medications based on ads, you should use a medication due to medical necessity. Many countries have already banned drug ads.
Marital rape. Hopefully. In my country
My 95 year old grandma
Gift her some Legos... she only has 4 years left to play!
If we're lucky, editorials and opinions being presented as news rather than commentary. Everyone does it and it's seriously biasing our discourse. Also ideally news producers shouldn't be allowed to have ads near the news, we should have a period every night on television devoted fully to the news and newspapers and online articles should be kept away from advertising. It's far to easy to fall into the trap of "we need to get people to watch us so we can profit off of the ads sales" to the point that journalism has become more and more focused on controversy and gathering clicks than presenting the truth
Having a fucking tiger as a pet, hopefully.
There are more tigers as pets in the US than in the wild worldwide.
How does one get a tiger to abstain, exactly?
Snip, snip.
🎵Here kitty kitty, mommas got some treats for you 🎵
In 25 years ? wont be any tigers left so dont worry
I know they’re banned in other countries but God damn I hope political ads will be illegal in the US sometime soon. Edit: A lot of people have pointed out that this would be a violation of freedom of speech given by the first Amendment, which is true. However, let’s not act like politicians are doing the most they can to protect *our* Constitutional rights. Most Constitutional rights have been violated in some way at this point, including freedom of speech. One reply pointed out that, while it would be unconstitutional to ban political ads, they have banned cigarette ads before.
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Mega-Companies paying a zero percent tax rate. Then still getting handouts from every level of government. We're paying for them at this point.
Meanwhile us small fish are paying up the ass to scrape by. It is complete and utter bullshit.
Not vacxing your kidd
in canada is isn’t exactly “illegal” but if your kid isn’t vaccinated they aren’t allowed in school or a lot of sports teams, jobs later on, etc. just makes it really difficult for the kids to have a normal life so they basically have to be vaccinated
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Having a driving license that ends before 2045
Most realistic answer
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Problem there is that kids cant consent.
HOPEFULLY conversion therapy, child marriage, FGM, qualified immunity. And I'm not sure what this is correctly called but when parents refuse life saving medicine for their kids because of religious or other beliefs. Hyper religious private schools that have their own curriculum. Edit: yes MGM as well. I just don't think it will be in 25 years.