I’d outlaw sauce bottles which make getting it all out harder, especially the ones which don’t have the opening at the bottom and make it impossible to put the bottle with the opening facing downwards.
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Displaying any price other than the final price I have to pay inclusive of all fees and charges. I don’t care about a number that has some mathematical relationship to what’s going to come out of my bank account, just tell me the price. This always annoys me so much when I travel to the US but it’s probably like that in a few other places too.
And lying about why something is charged, although it’s not silly. A takeaway website I worked for adds “service charge” which is literally just a delivery charge, but hidden, because you only see it during finalization. It doesn’t apply to pick-up orders, only delivery. Many websites seem to had adopted it so they can lie about the free delivery.
Ooh! Packaging that is deceptively large. For example, it should be illegal to sell a 6 inch tall tube of deodorant that’s only got three inches of deodorant in it.
Potato chips are the worst for this
Potato chips are the one case where it’s valid. The air pumped into the bag protects the chips from being crushed in transit.
IT’s one thing when the bag is inflated to act as an air cushion around the chips. it’s another to make the bag twice as tall as it needs to be.
There’s also a reason for that too. The bag not only needs to be inflated with air to protect the chips, but it also has to have plenty of room for that air to expand and contract due to atmospheric pressure changes. For example, if you made the bag just big enough for the chips and enough air that when pushed or squished a bit it doesn’t cave in on the chips. And your manufacturing plant is at sea level. When those chip bags go on a truck and arrive at 8,000 feet in Colorado. All the bags would be popped because the air inside expanded far beyond the left over capacity of the bag, so POP!
Huh TIL
It’s amazing that people still don’t understand why there is air in chip bags.
Yeah, I mean, we all know it’s to keep the chips in suspended animation until the bag is opened and their lives concluded for snacks, right?
Man, I feel like that used to be true–maybe. I feel like the bags are only 1/4 to 1/3 full now. And the chips are still mostly crushed. I feel ripped off even buying chips, so I’m trying to stop entirely. Win?
touch-sensitive controls in vehicles need to be outright illegal. All controls, regardless of how esoteric, should be operable by feel.
Also on stoves. “Oh, you wanna turn off a burner? Sorry, your fingers are too wet. Also, I hope you remembered to read the 300 page manual because we’ve never even heard of intuitive controls”
The controls on my stove are those weird flat buttons you’d see on a lot of late 90’s appliances? Like they don’t “press” at all but they do respond to pressure so I could preheat my oven with the end of a spoon or something. Those are superior to capacitive touch controls.
Well apparently some company had to try this on the vehicles 🤣
Billboards. Get them out of here! Everyone gets to put their name on the side of the building in at most 2m tall black or white Time New Roman.
Huh it would be nice to walk around the city with less advertisements
In the US there are 4 states that have outlawed billboards: Vermont, Maine, Alaska, and Hawaii. I absolutely would not complain if it became nationwide.
Some states also seem to prohibit billboards on certain stretches of highway. There was a state highway I used to take daily in Connecticut and there were no billboards anywhere.
I will never understand the Pay Attention to the Road type billboards on some highways here
Broaden this to any ads on the streets. Billboards are the most egregious, but I’d actually kill for a society where I can get from my home to a grocery with nothing trying to sell me something.
I am okay with the business itself having signage on its property visible from far enough away for travelers to make navigational decisions. I’m also okay with those state-issued signs on large highways that point out things like lodging, fuel and food which must conform to certain guidelines. And in this case, I’d prefer using clear and distinctive logos which are recognizable by color and shape so that motorists can recognize them faster and spend more of their attention on the road.
I think those could be considered less ads and more just informational postings, particularly the food and fuel lines a la the signs at each interstate exit that tells you the amenities available near any given exit. Considering, as well, that they usually have several competitors on the same sign, and it feels even less ad-like
It’s closer to the scale of what “advertising” should be if it wasn’t the bloated cancerous mass that it is today. I want businesses to exist and I want interested customers to be able to find these businesses, but I don’t want to be told “I’m not a dish, I’m a man” nine times an hour. Signs along the interstate that say “Hey at this next exit there’s a McDonald’s and a Denny’s, an Exxon and a BP truck stop, and a Holiday Inn” are genuinely useful.
I’m ambivalent on this one. If the ad on a building serves to keep the charges from tenants lower then I don’t mind (given the ad is somewhat tasteful). Ads for the sake of ads? Yea, fuck that.
Funny joke, that. Passing on savings to the end user.
Passing savings on to the tenants, eh? What incentive does the business owner have to do so?
I disagree with the requirement for plain labels. Trademarks exist for consumer protection as well as business protection; I want Gatorade to hold a trademark on clear bottles with lightning bolts on the front and orange caps, because I don’t want to be fooled into buying Negligent Uncle Greg’s Geterade. If anything, I would force companies to use fewer of them; no hosing Amazon with 900,000 differently branded permutations of the same product.
Postman must knock and wait 5 minutes for you to answer the door by law. If you have proof that they didn’t knock or wait the required time they must redeliver the parcel by way of barbershop quartet at a time that is convenient for you.
Postmen tend to be extremely overworked and underpaid. Many are paid per parcel delived and your idea would probably kill the job of delivery all together. Unless you plan to increase the postmen workforce by 700% and also reintroduce slavery I see no way why anyone would do that.
Yes, paying them a living wage was assumed.
I’d much rather ban home delivery for most parcel (stuff like couches and fridges excluded) and have them put in one of those package vaults.
The postman drives all the packages to the vault, chucks them in, you pick them up when you’ve got time (they work 24/7), everyone wins.
Sirens and emergency vehicle noise in songs or advertising on radio.
I’m not advocating for capital punishment, I’m just saying that if we lynch a couple of daytime pop radio hosts for siren-like noises then it will probably go away pretty quickly.
The other day I had a song come on Spotify in which a part of the beat sounded like the cars warning beep. But it was not the right speed to be door or seat belt alarm, so I figured it had to be some else like tire pressure or engine warning… Mother fucker was part of a song and kept me looking for warning lamps blinking for a good minute or so.
I feel that lost minute in my soul my brother in suffering.
I want to throw in doorbells with this (but only as a misdemeanor)
I use Pluto.tv for background noise at night. Amazon is now running some ‘Prime Deal Days’ ads and one of them has a very prominent doorbell sound that wakes my ass up everytime.
Public trash cans right next to public benches.
I don’t want to sit next to a smelly trash can! Why do they do this?
Why do people throw trash on the ground if a trash can is out of reach?
It would be less awful to have the trash strewn about the area as litter, than to have it all collected and plopped right next to the people.
URB can’t come soon enough imo
How is UBI linked to trash?
Where would people take trash then? Home with them? Most people would just drop it on the beach.
I feel the exact opposite of you: more trash cans in public spaces.
Scissors in packaging you need scissors to open.
People who pull out of parking lots onto roads without stopping. Pedestrian deaths are on a steep incline and this recent behavior is absurdly impatient and unsafe.
If I were a traffic cop, I would go fucking nuclear on this shit. I would exaggerate the fuck out of those tickets. I’d aim for you to never have a driver’s license again.
Same with people who don’t properly use passing lanes, and same for people who tailgate.
All of you are fucking ridiculous, and I hope you lose your privilege to drive an automobile over something small so it makes you as irrationally angry as your behaviors make me.
Just to add, you should never have less than 1 full car length per 10mph you’re traveling between you and the car in front of you. Generally it should be like, double that.
Can you please clarify what you mean? I just want a better understanding of what driving conditions we’re talking about. Are these parking lots where it’s like a strip mall with one row of parking spots directly in front of the building and you back directly into a road, or are we talking about people gunning it going forward without looking?
Yeah, sure. Like, someone finished fueling up, and they are driving toward the gas station’s exit into the road which the gas station lives on.
As they approach the exit, they realize that if they dont stop, they can beat the incoming traffic, so they high tail it out of the gas station to beat the incoming cars without stopping.
You are required by law to stop before entering a motorway to ensure entry is safe. People are skipping the stop and making a judgement call as they approach the place the law requires them to stop, and are instead treating it like it’s a highway on ramp/yield.
This has been the cause of a fuck ton of pedestrian injury and death (especially since ~2010 when Obama kinda by mistake made huge heavy cars the most appealing option for automakers when he was trying to force automakers to make more fuel efficient cars [thanks, Obama!]), as these impatient fucks are generally looking at the road and not the sidewalk.
Doesnt have to be a gas station. Any similar circumstance.
treating it like it’s a highway on ramp/yield.
Good analogy!
Yeah I’ve seen people do that and it’s terrifying. In the strip mall case tho I was gonna argue for better civil engineering and fewer blind spots in vehicles when backing. But nope you’re definitely talking about pure driving like you own the entire planet.
You encountered karen recently?
Just to add, you should never have less than 1 full car length per 10mph you’re traveling between you and the car in front of you. Generally it should be like, double that.
Yes, but also if you are in the left lane on a highway it’s also your responsibility to get out of said lane if someone is becoming closer than this behind you.
No, it is your responsibility to get out of the passing lane once you have safely passed the traffic you are passing, provided the left lane is a passing lane. It is not a passing lane when there is a left exit ahead.
The driver behind you should never have any bearing on the decisions you make as a driver unless they’ve got flashing lights.
If you are passing a miles worth of traffic and someone behind you wants to pass that mile of traffic faster, move over temporarily to allow that person to pass rather than making them slow down to keep an appropriate distance.
Nope. And if you begin to tailgate, then I will make sure to increase my safety by slowing down to a safer speed.
You sound like an unsafe driver.
Didn’t say anything about tailgating. You sounds like an entitled driver.
Yes you did you illiterate dolt:
Yes, but also if you are in the left lane on a highway it’s also your responsibility to get out of said lane if someone is becoming closer than this behind you.
Again, it sounds like you’re an unsafe driver, thinking normal and law abiding driving habits are “entitled.”
Cheers. Maybe read a book.
Any chargeable device that you can carry needs to have one standard charging port.
Apparently Its called ‘type C’
Still a decent amount of micro-USB and mini-USB devices around, not to mention iPhones took until 2023 to transition
This
Not trivial, but health care providers should be forced to publish an easily accessible price list of all their services and procedures so we can comparison-shop. I’m so sick of being told I can’t know the price until they find out what insurance will pay.
Junk mail. All that paper and ink wasted just for me to throw it straight in the trash.
It’s the volume of junkmail that makes the economy of scale work such that is cheap enough to… send junkmail
I toss it in the recycling bin on the way back to the house. My sister’s ex used to obsess over it, though, and put it in a pile to be shredded. Then he never shredded it. His home office was a hoarders nest with yellowing junk mail everywhere.
If everyone just writes “return to sender” on it Nd sticks it in a mailbox, I’m pretty sure it’ll be outlawed.
Car locks that trigger the horn and lights. Whatever asshole engineer decided that was a good idea (instead of just making the key fob blink or something) clearly has never had neighbors.
This can be turned off on every car I have ever interacted with by holding specific buttons on the key fob
Most cars I’ve experienced announce it only visually, using the blinkers.
You and I may be the only two people in the world who do that.
Or the stupidly sensitive car alarms that react to the slightest movement (ahem BWM and Audi and Mercedes)
Everytime I take a ferry those vehicles are blaring their alarms for the entire trip and they need to announce on the P.A for the owner to come back and turn the alarm off.
Life pro tip, if you leave your car on the ferry, don’t turn your alarm on!
I used a great app along with an ODB2 adapter to turn that off. No more honking of the horn, but the lights do give a quick blink.
This also turns off the headlight auto timer for when you park. Quick click and my aux lights give a blink and turn off.
Works great, though the only time I really drive is the one day a month into my offices and occasionally to the food store.
Order online, call to cancel subscriptions.
Tipping.
Just kidding. Tipping isn’t silly. It’s downright racist, sexist, and prevents fair working wages for many.
It also leads to worse service. US dining is fuckin tedious. Every 5 minutes someone harasses you, doing the fake smile thing, etc
In my country you just shout if you need something, or there’s just a bing-bong button on the table. they leave you alone unless you ask, and you pay only what’s on the bill
I do appreciate when a worker in a restaurant has a legitimate conversation and is social, if they can see when it’s appropriate and welcomed. And to add context, I’m not talking about the waiter hovering like you’re describing, I’m talking about something I’ve only ever seen from immigrant family restaurants where they’ve come from a culture where eating is still a social community activity, or possibly when a chef takes pleasure in knowing you’re enjoying their experience. The always transactional nature of eating in society has started to annoy me. But it’s very different to when someone is being paid to try and make your experience good, that’s inevitably plastic and coerced.
It’s a fair point that it can be racist and sexist. I’m sure the attractive get paid more. After all, strippers are the ultimate in tipped workers. They have to pay for the opportunity to work for tips.
We do need to get over this “poor tipped workers”, though.
There’s a reason why no tipping restaurants end up failing and returning to tips.
It’s because you make much more in tips than you’d make otherwise.
It’s like no one has ever worked for tips and honestly calculated what they made.
I worked for tips in high school. I didn’t make that much money again until people started calling me doctor.
Yeah, you can’t have tipping and no tipping side by side. Customers will like the appearance of lower prices and many front house workers will make bank. I’ve worked back of house and front and worked twice as hard and actually used culinary skills in the back and made less than I did receiving tips in the front. I think that’s pretty messed up. The post was about making things illegal. I think most forms of tipping should be. That levels the playing field.
Illegal?
This place is so toxic.
so toxic
*This place is so different to my outdated opinions ftfy
There’s a reason
That article says the workers are unhappy with their $30 per hour because the restaurant is only open part-time so they’re not getting the hours they need to make a good wage. The restaurant plans to open full time though
It doesn’t support your argument in any way whatsoever
How do restaurants in every single other country survive then, according to your theory?
So what you’re saying is that they would get more money by being tipped?
Because there is not a tipping culture in those countries, and they wouldn’t make more money from tips?
I’m not sure why this is so hard to understand.
He’s saying the restaurant in the article needs to be open more, and asking how come restaurants in places where tipping is not the norm are doing just fine.
Also, blaming things on “culture” is a handwaving non-argument. I am certain there are some systemic things that make tip-free restaurants work, that could be replicated in the US. Like, as the article describes, raising staff wages. And keeping the hours reasonable.
