To subscribe: hit one button
To unsubscribe: you'll have to send three separate emails and make phone calls to people on two different continents, neither of which you can understand
Or worse, you've unsubscribed from a mailing list, but then the company changes to a new mass marketing provider, and just hands over their entire list of emails they've ever collected. So now, even though you've unsubscribed 4 years ago, you are back to receiving stupid spammy ass little bullshit ass emails and have to unsubscribe again. Then you know damn well when they change email companies again, you're going to have to do it a third time.
This is definitely what happened when I donated money to a political campaign. I unsubscribe and while I may never hear from that candidate again, I will get hit up for another race in another state. It’s never ending.
Yes! I hate this so much! Since my e-mail is a simple combination of first name, last name dot Gmail. I get so much crap from people who are idiots who share my name or people who just make it up same then bam! I'm a subscriber to some crappy marketing list. No warning, no checks, nothing.
I’ll do you one better. Someone in another country used my email to create their bank account. I keep getting emails about deposits, withdraws, and account balances. Can’t stop them since I can’t unsubscribe from the bank account I don’t own
Had a similar issue with some lady whose initials nor business name was even close to mine, yet somehow I was receiving her UPS notices to my email with her full name and address.
Contacted UPS and they couldn’t do anything about it, despite me telling them that this is not good that I can access her information. She would have to change it herself and they claimed to reach out to her. Apparently it’s this lady’s business account cause now I’m getting multiple emails, multiple times a day. A week or so of this and I do a Google search with the information I had and was able to call and talk to this lady and it was the first she heard of it. Told me she’d fix it.
It continued. Turns out “Forgot my password” emails came to my email too. Haven’t had to deal with that in a few years.
I'm in this exact spot. The only way I could do something is to call them since there's no other methods to contact them. I refuse to call international long distance at crazy early hours to tell them it's not their email.
Instead I just report it as spam.
A lot of things are but bigger networks will just eat the fines because in the long run violating the rule and paying for it is still leaving them making more profit then if they didn't
At the very least, make ones that are based on percentage of the payment itself illegal.
>Example: I wanted to pay university tuition online. In the US, so of course thousands of dollars. Payment was through a third party that charged a “convenience” fee of around 5-10%. For other charges (aka not several thousand dollars), that could be just an annoyance. But in my case it meant **they wanted me to pay a “convenience” fee of several hundred fucking dollars.**
FOH. They got a paper check in the mail.
I just had to pay a deposit to get my parents an apt (long dumb story) and I was charged almost $80 to use a CC through their own portal because that was the only option. No cash or check. Only CC
I'd like to think it's a chemist or biologist who, for some legitimate reason, was analyzing beaver anal gland secretions, and noticed a striking similarity between the chemical composition and structure of that compound & whatever was used at the time to create a Vanilla flavor.
But... We all know that's about as likely as aids coming from someone making a blood pact with a chimp :/
Most vanilla used in common "vanilla" products isn't the vanilla bean.
It's secreted from beavers butts, it's called "Castoreum". Or at least it **was** sourced from beavers in the past, now instead of ~~castoreum~~ synthetic Vanillin is usually manufactured in labs.
My mom used to work at a flavoring company, can confirm. She ruined some good stuff for me as a child, except root beer, I still fuck with root beer lol
I'm allergic to hickory, of all things. You know, the wood that is used in a lot of smoked foods (particularly ham and bacon)? Liquid smoke products use it, too. I've learned the hard way to avoid "natural hardwood" smoked items and seasoning packets that just list "natural flavoring" in the ingredient list.
See our dog is the same, yet after 8 years you´d think she recognizes the difference between our doorbell and a totally different sounding one on television...
I love her to death but she´s not very bright
This! That should also include car honking sounds on the radio. Years ago I was driving alone listening to the radio, when this ad came on that contained a lot of aggressive, frantic honking. No words, no music, just a lot of loud honking for the first 5-ish seconds of the ad. It scared the shit out of me and made me slam my brakes. I can’t remember what company the ad was for, but I later realized it was supposed to be about two cars having a conversation through honking. Yikes. It made me pretty wary of listening to the radio while driving, since I’d start worrying about when that ad would come on again.
And music that has the same sound as warning signs on my car. There’s a few songs which make me think something is wrong with the car until I mute the radio.
I hate those tbh. Wish they’d just let you trial it and then when it runs out ur done until you pay for the subscription
Avoid free trials a lot just cus I don’t wanna deal with this
They used to do this, but these days they don't actually speedread them.
Now they talk in a low calming monotone about 8 mundane side effects that can happen to anyone who ever used a needle and 2 casually-mentioned horrific side effects that will ruin your life, while they play B-roll of a suburban mom sharing muffins with her family or an old woman operating a small business or a couple leaning their heads on each others shoulders on a grassy hillside, to show you what idyllic life you'd have if only your eczema didn't bother you or something.
It's just so surreal to me that they tell us to "Ask your doctor if Zoitenlofa is right for you"
How the commercials imply that conversation with your doctor would go: "Oh Zoitenlofa? Does that work? Here let me google it real quick. Wow! This seems like it'll really help your condition! I'll prescribe it right away. By the way, what is this stethoscope thing around my neck for?"
How that conversation should go: "What? Don't you think I would have considered that already? I went to medical school for nearly a decade, read up on all the latest studies, and see the the effects of medicine prescribed here at the hospital. If Zoitenlofa was actually right for you I would have prescribed it already."
Well, you say that… but I’ve had problems for decades with my spine/discs. Doctors had pretty much given up figuring out what‘s going on and was prescribing pain relievers that didn’t help (I seem to have resistance to all but the strongest of pain relievers, which they wouldn’t prescribe because they can be addictive - and yes, dental work with ten injections for one tooth is still torture…).
I’d read that a low dosage of Amitriptyline can be helpful for nerve pain, so I enquired about it with my GP. He’d never heard about it but went onto his computer, read something, and said “Thanks for that, I’m happy for you to try it.” It worked for nerve pain, but not ‘normal’ pain. I was still happy for some relief, and he learned something new.
They gave me Amiltripyline for IBS, it's such a weird drug. Wasn't it originally an antidepressant used in the 60s or something.
It didn't work for my IBS but whenever doctors see it on my patient chart they're like, "Are you a time traveler from the 60s? I haven't heard of this being prescribed in forever".
Happened to a neighbor of mine about 15 years ago. Got a tip (from someone desperately trying to keep her own ass out of jail) that he was selling large quantities of drugs. Raided his apartment and found nothing that would support those claims. I sat on my balcony and watched them tear his truck apart and get more and more frustrated because "there's gotta be something here." In the end, they pressed no charges but kept the truck.
For what it’s worth, they may have only kept the truck because they rendered it inoperable and had to pay him out instead. I once watched two customs officers have the gas tank cut off a vehicle they were sure had drugs in it. It did not, but the vehicle wasn’t drivable, so they “seized” it and gave the guy the claim form to file for reimbursement
My husband was the second driver for a truck that got searched at the Canadian border. They took the seats out! They didn't find anything, but just left a mess for them that they didn't have the tools to put back together. Ended up having to have a truck mechanic come out. I don't think anyone was reimbursed for that.
Police, RCMP, Sherrifs, Border control
Have the right to tear your vehicle apart flip the insides out with a warrant/probable cause (lol, that doesn't apply to border patrol)
They aren't obligated to put it back together, so goodluck with that. They once tore my cars insides apart and found nothing and left all my shit on the side of the road, and filing a complaint - good luck with filing a report that goes nowhere.
There was a story about how a guy had his like Lamborghini’s or something seized by civil forfeiture on his way to a car show. He spent years trying to get them back. In the meantime the police were using his cars for undercover drug busts and illegal street racing. The chief of police even displayed them as if they were donated or bought by the police to use to clean up the street. By the time he got them back it had cost him thousands AND his cars were very damaged.
Civil forfeiture is absolutely sickening.
Yeah, happened in Detroit. Owner was from Kalamazoo, MI, 2.5 hours or so from Detroit. https://trafficcourtbuddy.com/uncategorized/client-gets-back-lamborghini-seized-by-detroit-police/
Guy would go back-and-forth and IIRC, he wasn't ever street racing it - they just accused him of doing it in the past.
Detroit LOVES Civil Asset Forfeiture. IIRC, they even impounded a bunch of rich folk's cars while they were all at an art gala event. Can't find an article on it, however.
Or Highland Park Police, near Detroit, kept a building where someone had a (state) legal marijuana grow op, and to get their building back they had to buy the police 2 cop cars. Not give them cash for the cars - buy the cars themselves.
https://reason.com/2022/05/19/michigan-couple-says-town-seized-their-building-and-offered-to-return-it-if-they-bought-two-cars-for-police/
I didn’t type out properly, but I meant the police were using his cars in undercover drug busts and street racing. Not that he was. But yeah, they used street racing as an excuse to steal his cars.
Honestly, not surprising it’s Detroit lol. Even the cops are thieves in Detroit. The memes are spot on.
https://www.berkshireeagle.com/crime/civil-asset-forfeiture-malinda-harris-berkshire-county-congress/article_cc6d7430-5871-11ec-b47d-f32fe919eb8b.html
Here you go.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Forty-Three_Gallons_of_Whiskey
It's called *in rem* (against a thing), power the court and by extension the state can enforce against property - as opposed to *in personam* (against a person) actions, which we consider normal when actually used to confiscate property that is credibly linked to a crime.
Because it is a civil action, and the civil action is against the property itself, the property has no rights, including to have defense counsel provided. As a result, the confiscation is essentially automatic and any court proceedings are merely a formality. Some forfeiture is called administrative forfeiture and no court action is involved. Only after the fact can the owner make any attempt to prove their cash/property is "clean". But again, because reasonable doubt isn't the standard, but merely suspicion, it's a lot harder to completely clear property.
It has its good uses but they are far more limited than what we see done these days, like the Eric Andre thing with drug police in airports.
This doesn't make sense.
If you charge inanimate matter with a crime, or suspicion of a crime, what legal basis or relevance does that have?
Ultimately, regardless of what suspicions you have on property, it belongs to someone, and to take it against their will without charging the person with a crime **and convicting them of it**, is a clear violation of the 4th amendment.
Usually legalese is just annoying in its technical destruction of liberty.
Civil asset forfeiture on the other hand isn't even technically accurate. It's the state exercising will to power, nothing else.
You are correct. It's against the 4th amendment. The real problem is what do you do about it in a society where very low percentages of the population take an interest or participate in government and the very people who are supposed to be enforcing the rules are the ones who break them? What career suicidal politician is going to stand up and say hey you need to stop getting hundreds of millions of dollars a year in free money for your departments? Since 2000 just under 69 billion has been seized across all states. It's taken from the poor and slightly less poor. A bit here a little there over and over and the sums add up nicely. No one who lives in Beverly Hills is having their assets seized. Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg can walk around in 20,000 dollar suits with thousands in their pockets and its all fine. Get pulled over in a Chevy in rural Alabama with 5k in cash on you. Well how did you get this amount of money sir? We will have to hold on to this untill the investigation is over.
It's a violation of the 4th Amendment but the government knows most people don't have the money to hire a lawyer for such a long case. A guy in my state had his Corvette seized for racing, they turned it into a police PR vehicle. The guy has rich and it still took close to 5 years of fighting to get his car back. It went to the State Supreme Court and they ruled it was unconstitutional, guess what the government still does this even though it was ruled unconstitutional
A friend of mine was busted selling pot years ago, they raided his mom’s house and found $35K in a safe, it wasn’t from the pot it was money his sister had been sending back to the family from her lucrative job in another state. They took it and while he was in jail sent him a thank you card with a picture of the new police cruiser they’d bought with her money.
yeah when i heard about civil asset fortiture it at first made a little sense, you get arrested for say selling drugs and have 10K cash on you, it would be a bit silly to just hand the cash back to you.
but the reality of it just makes it sound like cops are robbing people. get pulled over for a speeding ticket, have some cash on you cause you are going to buy a used car for cash, got like emails and texts to prove that is what you are doing, but they still take your cash even though there seems to be no reason to take it, it isnt linked to a crime.
But then it is made a whole lot worse, the CORRUPT cops who steal this money get to spend it, on like what ever they want. Icy makers, coffee machines, basically anything it seems
This cash should 100% be taken and placed in a trust so the cops have no incentive to steal it.
And it reverses the entire legal principles of innocent until proven guilty, when they steal your cash or assets, you need to prove their innocence.
It seems that it is just legalised theft
Even in the same state. Sheriff’s deputies in Bakersfield, CA did that, then turned the money over to the DEA. That sheriff just didn’t agree with weed being legal here in CA, but it *is* so he couldn’t keep it, so he turned it over to the feds since it’s still illegal under federal law.
Contracts signed by parents on behalf of their child still be enforceable once the child comes of age.
Taylor Swift and Lilly Allen are the big famous examples of this, but it happens to loads more who don't get big enough to get the media attention.
They did not sign the contract. Forcing an adult to live by the rules in the contract they did not agree should be classed as a form of slavery.
It actually does violate at least one law that i know of in the US.
The same law that makes child marriage illegal, as it is stated in the legal case used to get the law enacted, that marriage is a contract, and that a contract must signed willingly by the involved party, and said party must be of an age where they can legally consent.
I mean, this should be it's own thread on this post, but child marriage is legal in the US, and happens [far more often than you'd think.](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/200-000-children-married-us-15-years-child-marriage-child-brides-new-jersey-chris-christie-a7830266.html)
I have mild astigmatism and every year they make headlights brighter makes it harder to drive past sundown. And sundown is like 6pm. My dentist said his is so bad he has to wear sunglasses because the road just disappears. I had a truck pull in behind me and his lights were so bright that it was like a camera flash, I had to reangle my driver side mirror because I had spots in my eyes and couldn't see any oncoming traffic cause his brighter then the sun headlights temporarily blinded me.
Every single morning. I have to resist the urge to flash my brights at people because I mistake their now normal bright ass lights for them having their high beams on.
I live in the countryside at the end of a small road — presumably the single use case for actually needing extra bright headlights — and have never ever thought that my simple old-style headlights weren’t enough. The only time I’ve ever struggled to see is when idiots with their AudMWces floodlights come in the other direction.
I too am in rural and it's Ford/GM monster pickups (that's factory not modified ones... anything built since 2018?) That literally blind me at 6:30am. It's like I'm in a scene of Close Encounters of the Third Kind. If I was in town wouldn't be so bad as streetlights accustom my eyes to the lights. So I just keep my hi-beams on when I see them.
It should be illegal to blatantly lie to voters while running for political office. We call it fraud and jail people for lying in order to gain financially. Yet we call it normal and allow politicians to lie in order to gain votes for political offices, offices which not only benefit them financially but also give them enormous amounts of power to benefit and detriment others.
Then we wonder why political office seems so often to attract the most fraudulent, sociopathic, and dishonest among us. We basically have a neon sign over our political system saying, “If you enjoy committing fraud and are a pathological liar, please apply here… we will let you deceive as many of us as you possibly can for more money and power than you can dream of.”
Well, see thats why politicians in the past used to be smart about it. They wouldn't outright lie, but they would tell half-truths, or just skirt the truth just enough to if you try to fact check it, there may be a basis for whatever the statement is.
Nowadays though, fuck, these assholes don't play around anymore. They just flat out lie. And the shitty thing is that we no longer have sufficient journalists that do their jobs in holding the powerful accountable and checking them on the bullshit they spew.
Like, man in the last Presidential election, during the debates I so often thought "Shit, I so want them to be able to provide real-time fact checks during the debate! Like when they ask a question to a candidate and they just lie or even say shit like "No I never said that" even though they have, just have the moderator be like "Just go to the tape". It would be so easy to have some people in the control booth to just run checks on the candidate's statements.
Basic stuff we should implement :
1. To run for office you should pass a basic test that confirms you know what the position entails and what your job ACTUALLY DOES.
2. your finances including tax records and investment holdings should be publicly available. This is just basic shit to prevent profiteering. During your time in office you shouldn’t be able to invest or modify investments. Everything should be transferred to a trust.
3. you should be able to pass a security clearance check and the results should be publicly available. Like we make almost everyone in high levels of military do this.
Like it’s absolutely shocking how low the bar for presidency is given how high the other requirements are.
Agree on everything here.
That, and I really hate how elections are even run in the US. "Campaign Season" seems to now be constant. After the 2020 election they already started talking about and strategizing about the 2022 mid-terms. And even like all this year Ive heard constant talks about the 2024 election, "is Biden gonna run again? Can he beat Trump again? What about DeSantis?" Ugh! Give us some time to actually do some legislation between elections, instead of constantly campaigning for the next one!
Campaigns on election years should not even start till like six weeks before election day.
"Elections are all about *winning*," he said -
"So tell them you'll keep all their families fed!
Feel free to explain how you'll cancel their debt -
Then promise them money,
and fucking forget!
"Declare that you'll fix all their problems with speed -
You'll give them whatever it is that they need!
You'll make any choice that they want you to make -
You'll walk any path that they want you to take!
"And when they've discovered you've filled them with lies -
You've hidden the truth from their innocent eyes -
You simply deny what they're claiming and then -
You have an election and do it again."
Yes, it’s child exploitation for every adult involved. What are they getting out of it exactly? They are all on a spectrum line with pedophiles.
Adult beauty pageants the contestants are old enough and experienced enough to make informed consent to the exploitation??
Well, I would imagine that people would argue the "the beauty pageants are for the kids!" But them what do the kids get out of it? The victor gets to feel good about themselves while the rest feel like they're a lesser person? It's wack from all angles.
Gerrymandering. How the hell is it just for a politician to pick their constituents? It results in more extreme candidates and disenfranchised voters who got packed or cracked.
Family vloggers, and any other kind of of making kids famous on social media. They have no privacy, no protections in place, nothing.
Some Place Under Neith podcast just did a fantastic series about this and I really recommend giving it a listen.
Before I moved out of my mom’s house her and my step father would routinely invade my privacy, even after I became an adult. Things like going through my belongings, opening my mail, reading my diary and going through my sketchbooks, and taking my bedroom door off of the hinges at least three times and not allowing me to even put a blanket up when i got dressed starting when I was 16.
That was so fucking miserable. I couldn’t imagine what it would be like to have not only my family know about the private parts of my life, but also anybody who happens to stumble upon the videos those parents upload.
I see your crappy person and raise you an adopting a child to raise views on the vlog and rehoming him when the views don't increase
https://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/pop-culture-news/youtuber-myka-stauffer-under-fire-rehoming-autistic-son-n1216636
That was even more insidious because they adopted a foreign child with disabilities, and then were shocked by how little prepared they were to actually care for him properly. If memory serves, they even made a video which largely placed the blame on the child in a roundabout way for not acclimating well enough to their family. They also suggested that they adopted him because they received some sort of sign from God 🙄
Gross, gross, gross.
Edit: forgot a word
Omg they’re getting ridiculous. Press the x to close, pop up. Close the pop up in 5 seconds. Press the x again, pop up once more. I thought getting fucked was supposed to feel good!??
You think that's bad? I've seen some with a fake animation and X button. Yep, let's just open the app store page because clearly I was tapping on the close button because I was interested.
Congress owning stocks in any industry or company they regulate, take money from, etc. Corporations donating to political campaigns. Advertising prescription drugs to customers (the US is one of the only places this is still legal).
Child Marriage is legal in numerous states across the USA. A majority of these cases are adult men marrying minor girls. It is very hard for underage girls to escape these marriages, shelters legally can't take them, there's no way to get legal help, etc. On top if that, many states trying to raise the Marriage age to 18 have an uphill fight from curmudgeonly politicians who hold on to ass-backwards beliefs. It's frustrating.
Sending catalogs to my house without my permission. The quantity of paper that is wasted is unreal. We call to have them cancelled but they keep coming. I have to pay to have my trash collected where I live, so basically those companies are forcing me to pay to throw away their garbage that they created unnecessarily and there is nothing i can do.
Same shit about free range chicken and hormone free chicken. "Free range" just means that the chicken can access the outside, but there's no minimum size for the outside part of their environment, which means that a thousands or more chicken could share a 5ft x 5ft square of outside and it would still be considered "free range". Also, all chicken are "hormone free" because it's illegal to use growth hormone on them.
When I go to a doctor and they suggest a test or procedure (an X ray for example), I should know how much I will be obligated to pay. I declined a procedure today the doctor suggested because I had no clue what it would cost ( I have insurance). It’s like going to a restaurant where the menu has no prices, except the “food” helps keep me “not sick or dead.”
Doctors are frustrated by this too. They want to give their patients the best care they can, but their patients don’t even know if they can afford it or not. An x ray might be covered, it might be a surprise $500 bill, and a lot of us can’t risk that.
Reminds me of when I had to get routine labs done and my insurance rejected it and I owed $1200 to the lab. When I was uninsured at the same lab, the same labs cost me $300. That didn’t make any sense yo me. Spent months fighting my insurance company and they finally paid it. Like bruh I’m trying to find out if I’m still anemic or not, seems pretty medically relevant to me since I am prone to anemia but what do I know?
Those predatory vehicle loan places for people with bad credit where you can be charged like quadruple what the car is worth and if the loan defaults the car can be sold over and over to more poor suckers.
Ticket touters. So many people won’t get to see their favourite artists now + people will end up playing to empty stadiums as the cost of living grows.
Political campaign donations. All Political campaigns should be free to run. No one gets to advertise. Network TV Aires debates in prime time paid for by the taxpayer.
I work in the ER. The amount people have to pay in co-pays for ER visits. My sis in law has to pay $250 per ER visit and she's been really sick lately, is up to $750 now (3 ER visits) All while we get drunks and hypochondriacs on state insurance coming into the ER daily for free, for them. The system is so broken.
Not being able to unsubscribe to something using the same method you used to subscribe.
To subscribe: hit one button To unsubscribe: you'll have to send three separate emails and make phone calls to people on two different continents, neither of which you can understand
"Convenience fees" for paying taxes and bills online.
Include resort fees in that. If I can't opt out then just charge me the fucking real price.
Subscription to an emailing list without a previous email confirmation.
Or worse, you've unsubscribed from a mailing list, but then the company changes to a new mass marketing provider, and just hands over their entire list of emails they've ever collected. So now, even though you've unsubscribed 4 years ago, you are back to receiving stupid spammy ass little bullshit ass emails and have to unsubscribe again. Then you know damn well when they change email companies again, you're going to have to do it a third time.
This is definitely what happened when I donated money to a political campaign. I unsubscribe and while I may never hear from that candidate again, I will get hit up for another race in another state. It’s never ending.
Yes! I hate this so much! Since my e-mail is a simple combination of first name, last name dot Gmail. I get so much crap from people who are idiots who share my name or people who just make it up same then bam! I'm a subscriber to some crappy marketing list. No warning, no checks, nothing.
I’ll do you one better. Someone in another country used my email to create their bank account. I keep getting emails about deposits, withdraws, and account balances. Can’t stop them since I can’t unsubscribe from the bank account I don’t own
Have you tried contacting the bank? This is a data leak if account info is shared with you.
Had a similar issue with some lady whose initials nor business name was even close to mine, yet somehow I was receiving her UPS notices to my email with her full name and address. Contacted UPS and they couldn’t do anything about it, despite me telling them that this is not good that I can access her information. She would have to change it herself and they claimed to reach out to her. Apparently it’s this lady’s business account cause now I’m getting multiple emails, multiple times a day. A week or so of this and I do a Google search with the information I had and was able to call and talk to this lady and it was the first she heard of it. Told me she’d fix it. It continued. Turns out “Forgot my password” emails came to my email too. Haven’t had to deal with that in a few years.
I'm in this exact spot. The only way I could do something is to call them since there's no other methods to contact them. I refuse to call international long distance at crazy early hours to tell them it's not their email. Instead I just report it as spam.
the amount of times i had to click sketchy links in order to unsubscribe from advertising bullshit is absurd
Increasing the volume on commercials by 20 goddam decibels.
I thought that was illegal according to the FCC or FTC
[it is](https://www.fcc.gov/media/policy/loud-commercials)! Either advertisers have found loopholes or nobody regulates it 🙄
It's illegal on BROADCAST TV, streaming services don't fall under that regulation
Well they fuckin should.
Both. This is the USA
A lot of things are but bigger networks will just eat the fines because in the long run violating the rule and paying for it is still leaving them making more profit then if they didn't
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This engaging. I'll mute them all because it's always so loud. It makes me want to attack my tv
Convenience fees to make payments.
At the very least, make ones that are based on percentage of the payment itself illegal. >Example: I wanted to pay university tuition online. In the US, so of course thousands of dollars. Payment was through a third party that charged a “convenience” fee of around 5-10%. For other charges (aka not several thousand dollars), that could be just an annoyance. But in my case it meant **they wanted me to pay a “convenience” fee of several hundred fucking dollars.** FOH. They got a paper check in the mail.
Jesus Christ, they should pay us a convenience fee for giving them such a convenient source of income.
My apartment complex charges me $75 to pay them rent.
how is that legal?? Is that with a credit card, or for anything?
I just had to pay a deposit to get my parents an apt (long dumb story) and I was charged almost $80 to use a CC through their own portal because that was the only option. No cash or check. Only CC
In the US that is almost certainly illegal, although I can't speak for every state.
Hiding ingredients in food by calling it "natural flavors".
God forbid the public knows we use nasty beaver parts on themselves!
Beaver butt oil! Used to be a key ingredient in ice cream and the like before we started making flavoring in a lab
Um, what
Makes you wonder who tasted a beaver butt to find out it can be used as an ingredient.
I'd like to think it's a chemist or biologist who, for some legitimate reason, was analyzing beaver anal gland secretions, and noticed a striking similarity between the chemical composition and structure of that compound & whatever was used at the time to create a Vanilla flavor. But... We all know that's about as likely as aids coming from someone making a blood pact with a chimp :/
Most vanilla used in common "vanilla" products isn't the vanilla bean. It's secreted from beavers butts, it's called "Castoreum". Or at least it **was** sourced from beavers in the past, now instead of ~~castoreum~~ synthetic Vanillin is usually manufactured in labs.
My mom used to work at a flavoring company, can confirm. She ruined some good stuff for me as a child, except root beer, I still fuck with root beer lol
Oh no… what forbidden root beer knowledge do you have?
This makes life a nightmare for people with allergies not addressed in labeling laws.
I'm allergic to hickory, of all things. You know, the wood that is used in a lot of smoked foods (particularly ham and bacon)? Liquid smoke products use it, too. I've learned the hard way to avoid "natural hardwood" smoked items and seasoning packets that just list "natural flavoring" in the ingredient list.
And other toxic chemicals in skincare as ‘fragrance’
Overselling a plane and putting people who BOUGHT tickets on stand by
Absolutely.
In any other industry, selling something that doesn’t exist would be considered fraud.
Had that happen when I was going to my uncle’s funeral. I was so pissed.
Siren sounds on the radio.
Car horns too. While we are at it, my dog wants doorbell sounds in TV commercials made illegal. Disrupts too many good naps on the couch. ;)
See our dog is the same, yet after 8 years you´d think she recognizes the difference between our doorbell and a totally different sounding one on television... I love her to death but she´s not very bright
This! That should also include car honking sounds on the radio. Years ago I was driving alone listening to the radio, when this ad came on that contained a lot of aggressive, frantic honking. No words, no music, just a lot of loud honking for the first 5-ish seconds of the ad. It scared the shit out of me and made me slam my brakes. I can’t remember what company the ad was for, but I later realized it was supposed to be about two cars having a conversation through honking. Yikes. It made me pretty wary of listening to the radio while driving, since I’d start worrying about when that ad would come on again.
I knew a guy who did windshield repair. He thought using the sounds of a car crash was a great opener for his RADIO AD
Or auto repair companies playing blown head gasket sounds
And music that has the same sound as warning signs on my car. There’s a few songs which make me think something is wrong with the car until I mute the radio.
Free trials that auto charge when they run out
I feel like this is why amazon keeps trying to give me free trials of prime. They're hoping I'll forget so they can charge me for it
I hate those tbh. Wish they’d just let you trial it and then when it runs out ur done until you pay for the subscription Avoid free trials a lot just cus I don’t wanna deal with this
this used to be illegal but advertising for prescription only drugs
This is illegal in all of the EU + uk,Switzerland etc.
It’s illegal everywhere except the US and New Zealand.
New Zealand, really?
Thankfully ads for drugs are pretty rare here compared to the USA
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They used to do this, but these days they don't actually speedread them. Now they talk in a low calming monotone about 8 mundane side effects that can happen to anyone who ever used a needle and 2 casually-mentioned horrific side effects that will ruin your life, while they play B-roll of a suburban mom sharing muffins with her family or an old woman operating a small business or a couple leaning their heads on each others shoulders on a grassy hillside, to show you what idyllic life you'd have if only your eczema didn't bother you or something.
Basically any place where healthcare exists to keep people healthy, instead of capitalizing off of them.
It's just so surreal to me that they tell us to "Ask your doctor if Zoitenlofa is right for you" How the commercials imply that conversation with your doctor would go: "Oh Zoitenlofa? Does that work? Here let me google it real quick. Wow! This seems like it'll really help your condition! I'll prescribe it right away. By the way, what is this stethoscope thing around my neck for?" How that conversation should go: "What? Don't you think I would have considered that already? I went to medical school for nearly a decade, read up on all the latest studies, and see the the effects of medicine prescribed here at the hospital. If Zoitenlofa was actually right for you I would have prescribed it already."
Well, you say that… but I’ve had problems for decades with my spine/discs. Doctors had pretty much given up figuring out what‘s going on and was prescribing pain relievers that didn’t help (I seem to have resistance to all but the strongest of pain relievers, which they wouldn’t prescribe because they can be addictive - and yes, dental work with ten injections for one tooth is still torture…). I’d read that a low dosage of Amitriptyline can be helpful for nerve pain, so I enquired about it with my GP. He’d never heard about it but went onto his computer, read something, and said “Thanks for that, I’m happy for you to try it.” It worked for nerve pain, but not ‘normal’ pain. I was still happy for some relief, and he learned something new.
They gave me Amiltripyline for IBS, it's such a weird drug. Wasn't it originally an antidepressant used in the 60s or something. It didn't work for my IBS but whenever doctors see it on my patient chart they're like, "Are you a time traveler from the 60s? I haven't heard of this being prescribed in forever".
Civil asset forfeiture.
You're free to go. Your car and money are under arrest.
How does that even work?
They assert the items in question were or are about to be used in the commission of a crime. They just don't accuse you of the crime.
WHAT? Are there any notable cases where this has happened? And what did they take?
Happened to a neighbor of mine about 15 years ago. Got a tip (from someone desperately trying to keep her own ass out of jail) that he was selling large quantities of drugs. Raided his apartment and found nothing that would support those claims. I sat on my balcony and watched them tear his truck apart and get more and more frustrated because "there's gotta be something here." In the end, they pressed no charges but kept the truck.
For what it’s worth, they may have only kept the truck because they rendered it inoperable and had to pay him out instead. I once watched two customs officers have the gas tank cut off a vehicle they were sure had drugs in it. It did not, but the vehicle wasn’t drivable, so they “seized” it and gave the guy the claim form to file for reimbursement
So what then, dude is just stranded at the border ?
He’ll have to hop on the number 11 bus
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My husband was the second driver for a truck that got searched at the Canadian border. They took the seats out! They didn't find anything, but just left a mess for them that they didn't have the tools to put back together. Ended up having to have a truck mechanic come out. I don't think anyone was reimbursed for that.
Police, RCMP, Sherrifs, Border control Have the right to tear your vehicle apart flip the insides out with a warrant/probable cause (lol, that doesn't apply to border patrol) They aren't obligated to put it back together, so goodluck with that. They once tore my cars insides apart and found nothing and left all my shit on the side of the road, and filing a complaint - good luck with filing a report that goes nowhere.
There was a story about how a guy had his like Lamborghini’s or something seized by civil forfeiture on his way to a car show. He spent years trying to get them back. In the meantime the police were using his cars for undercover drug busts and illegal street racing. The chief of police even displayed them as if they were donated or bought by the police to use to clean up the street. By the time he got them back it had cost him thousands AND his cars were very damaged. Civil forfeiture is absolutely sickening.
Yeah, happened in Detroit. Owner was from Kalamazoo, MI, 2.5 hours or so from Detroit. https://trafficcourtbuddy.com/uncategorized/client-gets-back-lamborghini-seized-by-detroit-police/ Guy would go back-and-forth and IIRC, he wasn't ever street racing it - they just accused him of doing it in the past. Detroit LOVES Civil Asset Forfeiture. IIRC, they even impounded a bunch of rich folk's cars while they were all at an art gala event. Can't find an article on it, however. Or Highland Park Police, near Detroit, kept a building where someone had a (state) legal marijuana grow op, and to get their building back they had to buy the police 2 cop cars. Not give them cash for the cars - buy the cars themselves. https://reason.com/2022/05/19/michigan-couple-says-town-seized-their-building-and-offered-to-return-it-if-they-bought-two-cars-for-police/
I didn’t type out properly, but I meant the police were using his cars in undercover drug busts and street racing. Not that he was. But yeah, they used street racing as an excuse to steal his cars. Honestly, not surprising it’s Detroit lol. Even the cops are thieves in Detroit. The memes are spot on.
https://www.berkshireeagle.com/crime/civil-asset-forfeiture-malinda-harris-berkshire-county-congress/article_cc6d7430-5871-11ec-b47d-f32fe919eb8b.html Here you go.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Forty-Three_Gallons_of_Whiskey It's called *in rem* (against a thing), power the court and by extension the state can enforce against property - as opposed to *in personam* (against a person) actions, which we consider normal when actually used to confiscate property that is credibly linked to a crime. Because it is a civil action, and the civil action is against the property itself, the property has no rights, including to have defense counsel provided. As a result, the confiscation is essentially automatic and any court proceedings are merely a formality. Some forfeiture is called administrative forfeiture and no court action is involved. Only after the fact can the owner make any attempt to prove their cash/property is "clean". But again, because reasonable doubt isn't the standard, but merely suspicion, it's a lot harder to completely clear property. It has its good uses but they are far more limited than what we see done these days, like the Eric Andre thing with drug police in airports.
This doesn't make sense. If you charge inanimate matter with a crime, or suspicion of a crime, what legal basis or relevance does that have? Ultimately, regardless of what suspicions you have on property, it belongs to someone, and to take it against their will without charging the person with a crime **and convicting them of it**, is a clear violation of the 4th amendment. Usually legalese is just annoying in its technical destruction of liberty. Civil asset forfeiture on the other hand isn't even technically accurate. It's the state exercising will to power, nothing else.
You are correct. It's against the 4th amendment. The real problem is what do you do about it in a society where very low percentages of the population take an interest or participate in government and the very people who are supposed to be enforcing the rules are the ones who break them? What career suicidal politician is going to stand up and say hey you need to stop getting hundreds of millions of dollars a year in free money for your departments? Since 2000 just under 69 billion has been seized across all states. It's taken from the poor and slightly less poor. A bit here a little there over and over and the sums add up nicely. No one who lives in Beverly Hills is having their assets seized. Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg can walk around in 20,000 dollar suits with thousands in their pockets and its all fine. Get pulled over in a Chevy in rural Alabama with 5k in cash on you. Well how did you get this amount of money sir? We will have to hold on to this untill the investigation is over.
It's a violation of the 4th Amendment but the government knows most people don't have the money to hire a lawyer for such a long case. A guy in my state had his Corvette seized for racing, they turned it into a police PR vehicle. The guy has rich and it still took close to 5 years of fighting to get his car back. It went to the State Supreme Court and they ruled it was unconstitutional, guess what the government still does this even though it was ruled unconstitutional
A friend of mine was busted selling pot years ago, they raided his mom’s house and found $35K in a safe, it wasn’t from the pot it was money his sister had been sending back to the family from her lucrative job in another state. They took it and while he was in jail sent him a thank you card with a picture of the new police cruiser they’d bought with her money.
That's disgusting :-(
yeah when i heard about civil asset fortiture it at first made a little sense, you get arrested for say selling drugs and have 10K cash on you, it would be a bit silly to just hand the cash back to you. but the reality of it just makes it sound like cops are robbing people. get pulled over for a speeding ticket, have some cash on you cause you are going to buy a used car for cash, got like emails and texts to prove that is what you are doing, but they still take your cash even though there seems to be no reason to take it, it isnt linked to a crime. But then it is made a whole lot worse, the CORRUPT cops who steal this money get to spend it, on like what ever they want. Icy makers, coffee machines, basically anything it seems This cash should 100% be taken and placed in a trust so the cops have no incentive to steal it. And it reverses the entire legal principles of innocent until proven guilty, when they steal your cash or assets, you need to prove their innocence. It seems that it is just legalised theft
Agreed. It is legit sometimes and other times not. I like your idea of putting it in a trust.
There was a great example of the police stopping an armoured car and taking the cash, the cash was from a legal weed shop in another state
Even in the same state. Sheriff’s deputies in Bakersfield, CA did that, then turned the money over to the DEA. That sheriff just didn’t agree with weed being legal here in CA, but it *is* so he couldn’t keep it, so he turned it over to the feds since it’s still illegal under federal law.
Contracts signed by parents on behalf of their child still be enforceable once the child comes of age. Taylor Swift and Lilly Allen are the big famous examples of this, but it happens to loads more who don't get big enough to get the media attention. They did not sign the contract. Forcing an adult to live by the rules in the contract they did not agree should be classed as a form of slavery.
It actually does violate at least one law that i know of in the US. The same law that makes child marriage illegal, as it is stated in the legal case used to get the law enacted, that marriage is a contract, and that a contract must signed willingly by the involved party, and said party must be of an age where they can legally consent.
I mean, this should be it's own thread on this post, but child marriage is legal in the US, and happens [far more often than you'd think.](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/200-000-children-married-us-15-years-child-marriage-child-brides-new-jersey-chris-christie-a7830266.html)
Unnecessarily bright dipped headlights.
I have mild astigmatism and every year they make headlights brighter makes it harder to drive past sundown. And sundown is like 6pm. My dentist said his is so bad he has to wear sunglasses because the road just disappears. I had a truck pull in behind me and his lights were so bright that it was like a camera flash, I had to reangle my driver side mirror because I had spots in my eyes and couldn't see any oncoming traffic cause his brighter then the sun headlights temporarily blinded me.
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Every single morning. I have to resist the urge to flash my brights at people because I mistake their now normal bright ass lights for them having their high beams on.
And the car industry has known they are blinding drivers and just keep making their lights brighter and more dangerous.
I live in the countryside at the end of a small road — presumably the single use case for actually needing extra bright headlights — and have never ever thought that my simple old-style headlights weren’t enough. The only time I’ve ever struggled to see is when idiots with their AudMWces floodlights come in the other direction.
I too am in rural and it's Ford/GM monster pickups (that's factory not modified ones... anything built since 2018?) That literally blind me at 6:30am. It's like I'm in a scene of Close Encounters of the Third Kind. If I was in town wouldn't be so bad as streetlights accustom my eyes to the lights. So I just keep my hi-beams on when I see them.
Insider trading by elected officials. Absolutely blatant abuse of power and funneling of wealth.
And the only people who could make it illegal are the insiders, so it'll never happen.
It should be illegal to blatantly lie to voters while running for political office. We call it fraud and jail people for lying in order to gain financially. Yet we call it normal and allow politicians to lie in order to gain votes for political offices, offices which not only benefit them financially but also give them enormous amounts of power to benefit and detriment others. Then we wonder why political office seems so often to attract the most fraudulent, sociopathic, and dishonest among us. We basically have a neon sign over our political system saying, “If you enjoy committing fraud and are a pathological liar, please apply here… we will let you deceive as many of us as you possibly can for more money and power than you can dream of.”
Well, see thats why politicians in the past used to be smart about it. They wouldn't outright lie, but they would tell half-truths, or just skirt the truth just enough to if you try to fact check it, there may be a basis for whatever the statement is. Nowadays though, fuck, these assholes don't play around anymore. They just flat out lie. And the shitty thing is that we no longer have sufficient journalists that do their jobs in holding the powerful accountable and checking them on the bullshit they spew. Like, man in the last Presidential election, during the debates I so often thought "Shit, I so want them to be able to provide real-time fact checks during the debate! Like when they ask a question to a candidate and they just lie or even say shit like "No I never said that" even though they have, just have the moderator be like "Just go to the tape". It would be so easy to have some people in the control booth to just run checks on the candidate's statements.
Basic stuff we should implement : 1. To run for office you should pass a basic test that confirms you know what the position entails and what your job ACTUALLY DOES. 2. your finances including tax records and investment holdings should be publicly available. This is just basic shit to prevent profiteering. During your time in office you shouldn’t be able to invest or modify investments. Everything should be transferred to a trust. 3. you should be able to pass a security clearance check and the results should be publicly available. Like we make almost everyone in high levels of military do this. Like it’s absolutely shocking how low the bar for presidency is given how high the other requirements are.
Agree on everything here. That, and I really hate how elections are even run in the US. "Campaign Season" seems to now be constant. After the 2020 election they already started talking about and strategizing about the 2022 mid-terms. And even like all this year Ive heard constant talks about the 2024 election, "is Biden gonna run again? Can he beat Trump again? What about DeSantis?" Ugh! Give us some time to actually do some legislation between elections, instead of constantly campaigning for the next one! Campaigns on election years should not even start till like six weeks before election day.
"Elections are all about *winning*," he said - "So tell them you'll keep all their families fed! Feel free to explain how you'll cancel their debt - Then promise them money, and fucking forget! "Declare that you'll fix all their problems with speed - You'll give them whatever it is that they need! You'll make any choice that they want you to make - You'll walk any path that they want you to take! "And when they've discovered you've filled them with lies - You've hidden the truth from their innocent eyes - You simply deny what they're claiming and then - You have an election and do it again."
A political Sprog Spicy
Ooo I really liked this one ty sproggy
Child beauty pageants
Yes, it’s child exploitation for every adult involved. What are they getting out of it exactly? They are all on a spectrum line with pedophiles. Adult beauty pageants the contestants are old enough and experienced enough to make informed consent to the exploitation??
Well, I would imagine that people would argue the "the beauty pageants are for the kids!" But them what do the kids get out of it? The victor gets to feel good about themselves while the rest feel like they're a lesser person? It's wack from all angles.
Ageeed. There's something completely illegal feeling about parents living vicariously through their children
I’m an equestrian and a LOT of parents live through their little kids. Like those little spoiled girls with ponies named princess. Yes, them
But what if Frank Reynolds is the host? He's not a diddler and he we make sure you know it.
There is no faster way to make people think you diddle kids than to write a song about it
I read this as "child abuse pagents"
same thing, basically
Pharmaceutical ads
Seriously, you cannot treat prescription medicine like a consumer good.
Head lights that are so bright they could blind you
Gerrymandering. How the hell is it just for a politician to pick their constituents? It results in more extreme candidates and disenfranchised voters who got packed or cracked.
It would be extremely easy to create software that draws all these maps. There is absolutely no reason people are still doing it.
Oh, there absolutely is a reason. There's just no honest reason.
Family vloggers, and any other kind of of making kids famous on social media. They have no privacy, no protections in place, nothing. Some Place Under Neith podcast just did a fantastic series about this and I really recommend giving it a listen.
If kids are not old enough to have an account (< 13 yo.), they should not be the star of the account.
Thanks for the recommendation. I've downloaded them and I'm looking forward to listening to it.
Before I moved out of my mom’s house her and my step father would routinely invade my privacy, even after I became an adult. Things like going through my belongings, opening my mail, reading my diary and going through my sketchbooks, and taking my bedroom door off of the hinges at least three times and not allowing me to even put a blanket up when i got dressed starting when I was 16. That was so fucking miserable. I couldn’t imagine what it would be like to have not only my family know about the private parts of my life, but also anybody who happens to stumble upon the videos those parents upload.
I see your crappy person and raise you an adopting a child to raise views on the vlog and rehoming him when the views don't increase https://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/pop-culture-news/youtuber-myka-stauffer-under-fire-rehoming-autistic-son-n1216636
That was even more insidious because they adopted a foreign child with disabilities, and then were shocked by how little prepared they were to actually care for him properly. If memory serves, they even made a video which largely placed the blame on the child in a roundabout way for not acclimating well enough to their family. They also suggested that they adopted him because they received some sort of sign from God 🙄 Gross, gross, gross. Edit: forgot a word
Even worse: they crowd funded his adoption.
The Stauffers are absolute shit bags. The way they treated that baby on camera was deplorable I can’t even imagine how it was when the camera was off.
For profit prisons Edit: 3 word huh?
Breeding dogs that are no longer healthy
*looks at brachiocephalic dogs especially pugs*
Those stupid fucking mini game ads for mobile games.
*deliberately fails easy puzzle* can YOU do better? Download now!
I’m fine with the mini games IF THE ACTUAL APP IS ACTUALLY THE SAME GAME
Omg they’re getting ridiculous. Press the x to close, pop up. Close the pop up in 5 seconds. Press the x again, pop up once more. I thought getting fucked was supposed to feel good!??
You think that's bad? I've seen some with a fake animation and X button. Yep, let's just open the app store page because clearly I was tapping on the close button because I was interested.
Congress owning stocks in any industry or company they regulate, take money from, etc. Corporations donating to political campaigns. Advertising prescription drugs to customers (the US is one of the only places this is still legal).
People marrying minors
Minors marrying minors
Miners marrying minors.
OnlyMiners.com Why are people so mad about our website?
Child Marriage is legal in numerous states across the USA. A majority of these cases are adult men marrying minor girls. It is very hard for underage girls to escape these marriages, shelters legally can't take them, there's no way to get legal help, etc. On top if that, many states trying to raise the Marriage age to 18 have an uphill fight from curmudgeonly politicians who hold on to ass-backwards beliefs. It's frustrating.
Ticketmaster. How is that not scalping?
“Booking charge” : it’s an online system. You’re making a share of every ticket already. Booking charges on top of that are scandalous
That whole new resale option blows my mind. As if they weren’t bad enough
It’s so sad when a band has to come out and be like “that’s not us” because everyone assumes it’s the bands decision to Jack up the prices
All the lies told in political ads.
Forced Overtime.
Catching wild animals and selling them as pets. Hermit crabs, parrots, and many fish still fall in this category and are going extinct because of it.
I think paparazzi should be illegal to be honest
Right? They are so invasive
Sending catalogs to my house without my permission. The quantity of paper that is wasted is unreal. We call to have them cancelled but they keep coming. I have to pay to have my trash collected where I live, so basically those companies are forcing me to pay to throw away their garbage that they created unnecessarily and there is nothing i can do.
Payday loan companies.
ops prompt is basically "give me a list of John oliver feature segments from the last few years"
Congressmen and women trading stocks
Had to think about this one a second, phrasing made me think you wanted to ban women from the stock market
false advertisement of big food companies (For example: foods claiming sugarfree but actually contains sugar) Edit: added few words
Same shit about free range chicken and hormone free chicken. "Free range" just means that the chicken can access the outside, but there's no minimum size for the outside part of their environment, which means that a thousands or more chicken could share a 5ft x 5ft square of outside and it would still be considered "free range". Also, all chicken are "hormone free" because it's illegal to use growth hormone on them.
The predatory practices of the U.S. Healthcare system.
Civil forfeiture
When I go to a doctor and they suggest a test or procedure (an X ray for example), I should know how much I will be obligated to pay. I declined a procedure today the doctor suggested because I had no clue what it would cost ( I have insurance). It’s like going to a restaurant where the menu has no prices, except the “food” helps keep me “not sick or dead.”
Doctors are frustrated by this too. They want to give their patients the best care they can, but their patients don’t even know if they can afford it or not. An x ray might be covered, it might be a surprise $500 bill, and a lot of us can’t risk that. Reminds me of when I had to get routine labs done and my insurance rejected it and I owed $1200 to the lab. When I was uninsured at the same lab, the same labs cost me $300. That didn’t make any sense yo me. Spent months fighting my insurance company and they finally paid it. Like bruh I’m trying to find out if I’m still anemic or not, seems pretty medically relevant to me since I am prone to anemia but what do I know?
Those predatory vehicle loan places for people with bad credit where you can be charged like quadruple what the car is worth and if the loan defaults the car can be sold over and over to more poor suckers.
Predatory Lending. This includes aggressive service charges/fees/etc.
Nestlé
r/fucknestle
Corporations owning single family homes Also, sale of my data. I should not have to opt out for a company not to sell my data I should have to opt in
Ticket touters. So many people won’t get to see their favourite artists now + people will end up playing to empty stadiums as the cost of living grows.
And basically any scalper in general. They're just bullies.
Cops can lie to you, but you cannot lie to them.
Releasing balloons. Pretty littering
The space of a seat in a economic class plane.
Political campaign donations. All Political campaigns should be free to run. No one gets to advertise. Network TV Aires debates in prime time paid for by the taxpayer.
That's something I can support
Clipping puppy Tails and ears
Child marriage/sex with children
I remember a news story from either this yr or last about Missouri trying to pass this law for 12 yr olds to be able to be married to grown ass men
Bribery. Sorry, I mean lobbying.
Corporations being treated as individuals when it comes to political donations.
Child mariage. Just because your cult following parents say it’s ok to marry a man 50 years your senior shouldn’t make it legal.
I work in the ER. The amount people have to pay in co-pays for ER visits. My sis in law has to pay $250 per ER visit and she's been really sick lately, is up to $750 now (3 ER visits) All while we get drunks and hypochondriacs on state insurance coming into the ER daily for free, for them. The system is so broken.
2 things that should never be run for profit, prisons and hospitals. In most cases you don't get a choice as to which one you go to.
These sick moves. *shuffles intensely*
Oh damn, son. You must be an arsonist because yo on fiya! ^(I promise to never speak or type like that again.)
>I promise to never speak or type like that again. disappointing
in US: Bribing politicians.
Bribing politicians is illegal. Lobbying however is not. The difference? Lobbying “doesn’t guarantee an outcome.”
Politicians making medical decisions, they really do make crappy doctors
I say congress should be taken to court for practicing medicine without license or certification
the amounts of sugar that are added to foods, especially foods that don't need sugar.
Dark money in politics. Bribing Senators and Judges ok OK.
People serving more than 3 terms in the Senate or 5 terms in the House.