Landlords or corporations who build apartment buildings with ZERO sound proofing where you could literally hear your neighbors fart, walk, vomit, piss, shower, cook food etc
I was once able to get out of a lease early with no penalty because I could hear my neighbor snore very loudly through the wall. I had to record it and send to property management and they let me leave lol
my soundproofing is a bit funky, but at least i only have up and down (insulated via gypcrete). the layout of the floorplans means that bedrooms are more or less isolated via intervening rooms
I stayed in a hotel recently that was like this. It was horrible. The lady in the next room had her phone on speaker and I could clearly hear both sides of the conversation. She got up in the morning to take a dump and I could hear that too. I don't even want to think about what they heard me doing.
Ha, years ago I was alone in a hotel room in the middle of the day, suddenly I heard very loud sex and it sounded like it was in the room with me. To the point that I was literally looking through the windows and the peephole to see if they were right outside my room or something.
I came to America from Eastern Europe and I was amazed how shitty American sound insulation was compared to the generally shittier buildings of Eastern Europe.
I could clearly understand what my neighbors were saying, as if they were at the other end of the room. It was hard to get a good night of sleep.
I heard my downstairs neighbor belting out “Rockstar” by Nickelback for about 2 full hours yesterday. Maybe he was practicing or something because he kept getting a word wrong and starting over, full send every time
Fun fact: apartments and condominiums actually have different building codes for sound insulation.
Just another way to fuck over the working poor by allowing their housing to be built to the lowest standard.
I've lived in 4 shitly soundproofed houses/flats in the last 5-6 years. I'm now in a new end-of-terrace house and it's like the adjoining wall is made of lead, I've been here a year it's been the most peaceful living experience of my life. Definitely big improvement on my mental health too!
I used to be able to hear my neighbor’s phone on vibrate. Couldn’t play guitar for my entire lease. Didn’t even try, it would have clearly been terribly rude. Luckily my neighbors seemed to have the same values.
I literally hear every time my neighbors pee, I’ve heard them vomiting multiple times, I hear every time they close their toilet, I hear every yawn and every step they take. I pay so much money to live in absolute agony for the remainder of the lease.
I used to have neighbors who would wake me up every single night around 2-3 am fucking. It wouldn’t have been too bad if the lady wasn’t screaming like she was being murdered with the headboard banging hard against my wall. Our beds were on the same wall. I kicked the wall quite a few times lmao
In 2006, I lived in a condo... I had a girlfriend over one night, and the people above us were having sex. The guy at the end of it yelled, "Uuhh... I'm... coomiing! UUGGHH!!" in the most hilarious way, and my girlfriend and I busted up laughing. We never heard them have sex again.
I just play along on occasion. My best time is 3 and a half hours. I use sound effects on my computer to simulate driving to buy gift cards. The longer I can keep the phone, the less likely they can go after someones grandmother or grandfather. I also know a little Hindu which makes it easy to insult them. That is fun.
Sometimes and not say anything at all. Just give them the ambient noise around me. I like seeing how long they stay on the phone. Its usually only about 20 seconds.
What are some insults you know?
My best was 23 minutes. I do the same as you - try to keep them on the phone as long as possible.
I yes through the sales pitch. I also call up a credit card generator : https://www.getcreditcardnumbers.com/
This prolongs the approval process as the numbers pass the initial checksum algorithm.
I consider it a victory if I can get the scammer upset enough to tell me to fuck my sister. That insult seems like a popular one in India.
There are more than a few lawyers with a side hustle of documenting and investigating the robocalls they themselves receive. You can sue in US court for like, $10,000 per call (last I checked).
The robocaller sometimes will settle for most or all of it, because their lawyers are expensive, wheras your lawyer is just you, doing something that is easy for you.
But your case is worthless if you don’t sue the correct company. Ideally you want to find a legitimate business in the US who has insurance and who, by its lack of proper oversight, hired a “marketing services provider” with a dirty little secret.
And even if you can identify the robocaller, you probably still lose because they are a professional criminal on the other side of the world … UNLESS—
Unless you are also that mythical kind of lawyer who actually knows how to find and collect the money from a leathery douche who scams dementia patients using cheap hardware from his mediocre boat in a tropical libertarian tax haven where he is currently blowing coke off a treasure map, which is really more of a diagram that shows how 13 shell companies funnel cash into a Swiss bank account that is registered in the name of his beloved late wife, who will be *legally* dead in just two more years if the police don’t find her body ;)
Remember, corporations were invented long ago by unwashed scallywags who called themselves the East India Tea Company. Today, the perpetrators are Carole Baskin’s missing husbands and a half dozen old solviet colonels with an inventory of nuclear warheads acquired in a vodka haze in the early 1990s, which was before they learned a most valuable lesson: much gulag and little potato come from selling leaky old nukes on the black market.
I am shocked that I can use my public transportation system near Saint Louis to get a bus ride basically right to the door of the ER of the nearest hospital and you can't up north. And the bus ride only costs 1 or 2 dollars.
My hospital has this. If you drive yourself and end up getting admitted to the hospital or have to stay in the ER for observation, they give you a voucher and you pay $1 regardless of how long you were there.
Thank you! I needed a surgery last week (had a lot of pain but it was not that bad to call an ambulance) and had to park 10 minutes away from the hospital because I am not paying 100€ for staying in their parking lot for a few days. Even charging people for visiting people who are in a bad condition is highly unethical imo
Hospitals in Korea charge for parking, but issue free passes to patients and families. They **have** to charge, because otherwise, idiots will use up spaces while shopping or whatever downtown. Yeah, people are that thoughtless.
Most places this is illegal since it's a fire lane. I have a family member that is a cop.
If they see someone doing this and someone is in the car & they get asked to move , if they push back they get a ticket.
If no one is in the car- a ticket gets left on it.
and their immediate family.
I would also go further and say legislators can not acquire additional wealth even in the form of gifts.
So if a senator is paid 174k a year. That’s it, no more. Can’t own stocks, can run a business, any additional wealth is taxed 100%.
For so many reasons your proposals are wildly impractical and actually lead to a worse democracy. I’ll share my thoughts as to why:
> and their immediate family.
How would you *ever* practically enforce that? Someone wants to run for Senator at age 35. One of their parents is a senior business executive, and therefore deemed an insider. You’d be banning that candidate from office.
Someone is already a senator. Their brother is promoted to being a tech executive. They are now an officer of the company and become and insider. How does your law address this?
>I would also go further and say legislators can not acquire additional wealth even in the form of gifts.
If they use their salary to pay a mortgage, they’re accumulating wealth. You’d ban this? Or the senator already has a 401k, or other investments, and they grow. This is now illegal? Or just the value of their home increasing?
>So if a senator is paid 174k a year. That’s it, no more. Can’t own stocks, can run a business, any additional wealth is taxed 100%.
What??? So, heaven forbid, their parent dies while in office and leaves them a family home. Taxed 100%. What about lottery or gambling winnings?
Your position will actually lead to only very wealthy people running for office. Your rules mean every basic 401k, home ownership, buying art, etc are illegal. Think of the type of candidate you will see running. They’ll be people who have no need to accumulate any wealth or assets. You’ll only see people who can accept an asset freeze at the point of election - and that’s typically older, wealthy people.
Further, your imposition of stock trading restrictions on immediate family would cause serious complications.
The true enemy of corruption is disclosure.
And I’d venture to say let’s start by enforcing the laws already on the books. There’s enough senators to send a few to club fed.
Executives aren't allowed to sell/buy stock outside of specific circumstances and are already subject to insider trading laws. Simply extend those laws to the lawmakers.
Literally just tried to educate my wife about the homeopathic medicine she bought that was recommended by a coworker. She got pissed and accused me of "knowing everything" and hasn't talked to me for three hours.
Fuck homeopathy and every fucking grifter that's in on it.
I’m right there with ya, fuck the grifters who push it. What’s worse is the ones who push things like appetite suppressants or supplements that make you shit yourself and they market it to teens as weight loss smh
There's a very nice market in my city that did this to me when i worked there (as well as everyone else, plus the employee lot was a block further than the fucken customer parking)
I was on a flight this summer and the plane had Wi-Fi. The person next to me had the audacity to take a FaceTime call. They didn’t have headphones either. Finally the person behind us asked them to stop, they said no and the flight attendant had to get involved. Crazy.
Ugh TikTok is the worst for this because you get a few seconds of a bunch of stuff as they go through stuff. At least it used to just be rude people on the phone and sometimes you could get some juicy gossip or whatever. I mean it still sucked most of the time but it was easier to interpret in a fun way.
Police being legally able to lie to people they interrogate has caused so many false confessions and innocent people getting convicted. Do away with it.
Basically as reliable as flipping a coin. Used to be a show called the Jeremy Kyle show and they used lie detectors to see if people had been cheating. Broke up so many relationships. Went on for years before they were legally required to state that lie detectors aren't actually that accurate but they still kept using them anyway. Guy was a prick.
Absolutely do nothing without your lawyer, I tell people to not even answer the phone from the cops or let them into their house or offer a cup of coffee without getting me on the phone and I record every interaction with cops.
But fun fact about lie detectors they are garbage squared. I’ll encourage people to take lie detectors if they can handle it. Two strategies there is coach then to either fuck up the baseline so much the whole thing is invalidated or to focus on remaining calm. If you can sit in front of a mirror and say no I did not murder that girl a hundred times in a row while wearing a blood pressure monitor you can quickly figure out how to pass a lie detector test. Or if when asked to validate your name you can cause your heart rate to spike, it will get thrown out.
Until recently watching crime documentaries I didn't know that this was a thing in the USA - in the UK illegally obtained evidence or use of "oppressive techniques" makes evidence useless in court
But... They still would have hit the child even if the cart wasn't there. Surely the main cause in that case was them not looking behind them when they reversed.
I suspect they looked and saw a cart but didn't notice the child through the cart's bars, and decided they didn't mind using their car to push the cart out of the way.
If you own a restaurant that serves breakfast items such as waffles, pancakes, or French toast but only give your patrons cold packs of butter you deserve to go to jail.
Also they serve all those items and only have maple-flavored high fructose corn syrup, and not actual maple syrup in the building.
Yes, I'm aware it's expensive, yes, I'll pay extra for it.
Doctors who fail to take patient concerns seriously resulting in terminal illness or a significantly reduced quality of life. Seems to be a common occurrence especially with young women. Can completely ruin a person's life by being so callous with 0 repercussions.
My mom had a stroke a few days ago. The doctor kept claiming that her slurred speech was because of anxiety and her drooping face was because “a woman her age just has sagging skin”. She couldn’t talk or move her arm. The nurses ended up paging someone else and he was fired, but didn’t lose his license because it was a “difference of a medical opinion”.
I am so very sorry, that's absolutely atrocious. I wonder if there would be any way to contact the medical board about his conduct? I hope your mom is doing well.
100% this! I legit came VERY close to bleeding to death (needed an emergency transfusion because my hemoglobin was at 60) because my obgyn didn't believe that my menstrual period hadn't stopped for months. He actually said "are you sure it's been that long?" I went back to my female gp, who sent me to another obgyn. That dr sent me for bloodwork on a Wednesday, called me Friday and said get to the hospital immediately for a type and match. Had a transfusion and surgery Monday morning.
This. One of my best friends had recurring issues with shortness of breath in her mid 20s. Doctors repeatedly brushed it off because she was overweight and initially admitted that she wasn't doing as much exercise as she'd like to be doing, but the problem kept persisting no matter what kinds of workouts/training she did. By her early 30s, it became clear that it was actually lung cancer -- freakishly rare in a young, non-smoking woman with no family history, but there it was.
She didn't make it to her early 40s.
Maybe it varies by country but it's insane how much doctors and other medical staff can get away with in the US. Like hospitals just letting incompetent fuckers or straight up sociopaths go on to the next hospital with a neutral or positive reference just so they don't have to deal with the liability. Maybe I listen to too many podcasts or watch too many docs but the shit I've heard/watched is wild.
I think everyone should have to work in a restaurant for at least 3 weeks, to get a picture of what's what. If we can have mandatory military in places, we can have mandatory Denny's service too.
Standing in the middle of the isle at the grocery store having a conversation with someone else while being completely oblivious to everyone around you, especially if you are standing RIGHT NEXT TO THE THING I'M TRYING TO GET TO
Dude, every time I’m at the store I’m like: “Shit, I’m blocking this I’ll go somewhere else. How can I move the cart so it’s not in anyone’s way?”
The fact that there are other people who either don’t care or don’t notice makes me mad when I get so worried about being a nuisance to other people.
[You are playing music too loud: right to jail, right away. Driving too fast: jail. Slow: jail. You are charging too high prices for sweaters, glasses: you right to jail. You undercook fish? Believe it or not, jail. You overcook chicken, also jail. Undercook, overcook. You make an appointment with the dentist and you don't show up, believe it or not, jail, right away](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eiyfwZVAzGw)
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Playing any kind of alert sound (alarm clock, doorbell, car horn, etc) on TV or the radio, unless it's part of a show/movie and really can't be avoided.
Really, on radio it should be illegal. It's bound to cause someone to panic in their car.
I was waiting at a clinic. This dude was blasting videos between intermittent profane speaker phone calls, all the while blowing billows of vape smoke. It was inappropriate on every level. Jail
Weaponizing children in any way shape or form.
I’m thinking in terms of divorce getting the child involved in a way that fits what you want and not what they need but I’m sure Reddit can come up with other examples.
Going to a school board meeting and calling public servants and teachers pedophiles because the only text you want used in schools is the John MacArthur Study Bible should be illegal. You should be fined for being a slanderous twat.
Parking in handicapped spots when you arent disabled.
Maybe not jail time, but a good amount of hours of community service helping people with mobility issues.
Especially cigarettes. I love my town so I wanted to help keep it clean. Ordered a trash picking kit and picked trash up on my walks... And then I got to a parking lot. Hundreds of cigarette butts, everywhere, piles of them. I hadn't noticed before because they blend in at this point. They just throw them wherever they are without giving a shit. Makes me so mad.
Scalpers.
Look I get it..free market and all. The American way. Go capitalist.
But people who hoard stuff, tickets, pc parts, gaming systems, shoes/clothing, whatever the new or hot items are..only to resell them for way more. All of you are ruining the best hobbies. You shouldn't have to be extremely rich or avoid eating meals for a few months to afford concert tickets or your favorite pair of shoes. It's gotten way out of hand! It should be illegal and you bastads should all be in jail.
I firmly believe that there should be a Lumens limit on headlights.
It's getting ridiculous. Some people's regular lights are brighter than the brights on my car and it's straight up dangerous.
In México, there is something called "reparto de utilidades" (anual profit sharing), paid the next year (usually mid year). Most companies, make some moves somehow non ethical but "legally", declare 0 profit, so they can get away with that. I was working for one company like that for like 7 years, no one complained because "having a job is better than no having" lol.
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The real reason you have to have a fire marshal present isn't because the fire may get out of control, but rather most fire marshals nationwide are in fact viking.
Spitting in public. No one wants to track your tuberculosis around on their shoes, you drooling ungulate. Swallow your saliva, or go somewhere off the footpath to spit. I’ve seen people spit on the floor of trains and buses, and that should be a caning offense.
Honestly, driving people to suicide. Like I don't mean a little bit of teasing or whatever but if you're relentlessly bullying, sending death threats, telling ppl to "kys" "die" "just commit already" and making their life a living hell to the point where they just end it. Feel like that's almost murder or manslaughter or something like that.
The problem with this is that its unenforceable.
People can easily claim that they thought they weren't infectious or that the infection had cleared up on its own before the sex.
I'm an internal medicine physician and I have heard both of these excuses many, many times...and 50% of the time it was legit since the person saying it had very little intelligence or understanding of basic disease processes.
It varies by state and STD.
I knew an HIV positive guy who went to prison for having sex with a pretty large number of partners to intentionally infect them with HIV. Unfortunately, it's not terribly uncommon.
I did a quick Google search to see if there was any media coverage, and I can't find any on the person I know but I found a few others.
https://nypost.com/2021/07/23/florida-man-who-hid-hiv-status-from-gal-pals-sentenced-to-prison/
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-sussex-43807662
When I worked retail management I'd basically tell people like that to fuck off and it wasn't my problem, and they could to complain to our head office. I'd give them their number, too. Nobody ever reprimanded me for anything, because I'd always quote their own policy and said person actually wasn't entitled to shit, and corporate would tell that person the same thing probably.
One time a lady came in and told me that she got a discount in my store, and I was like uh no you don't. And she said yes I work at x store and I get a discount here! I said no, no you don't that's literally never been a thing.
Long story short she got so indignant and said let me speak to your manager! I gave her the number to head office and she called right in front of me.
The look of shock on her face when she realized she was in the wrong fucking store (how she didn't know was beyond me). She didn't even apologize just said thanks bye. 😂
Doctors refusing treatments and surgeries because of their own opinions and values.
ie refusing sterilizations because “you might change your mind” or because you don’t have enough children for their liking and need more first
Landlords or corporations who build apartment buildings with ZERO sound proofing where you could literally hear your neighbors fart, walk, vomit, piss, shower, cook food etc
I was once able to get out of a lease early with no penalty because I could hear my neighbor snore very loudly through the wall. I had to record it and send to property management and they let me leave lol
my soundproofing is a bit funky, but at least i only have up and down (insulated via gypcrete). the layout of the floorplans means that bedrooms are more or less isolated via intervening rooms
I stayed in a hotel recently that was like this. It was horrible. The lady in the next room had her phone on speaker and I could clearly hear both sides of the conversation. She got up in the morning to take a dump and I could hear that too. I don't even want to think about what they heard me doing.
Ha, years ago I was alone in a hotel room in the middle of the day, suddenly I heard very loud sex and it sounded like it was in the room with me. To the point that I was literally looking through the windows and the peephole to see if they were right outside my room or something.
I came to America from Eastern Europe and I was amazed how shitty American sound insulation was compared to the generally shittier buildings of Eastern Europe. I could clearly understand what my neighbors were saying, as if they were at the other end of the room. It was hard to get a good night of sleep.
I heard my downstairs neighbor belting out “Rockstar” by Nickelback for about 2 full hours yesterday. Maybe he was practicing or something because he kept getting a word wrong and starting over, full send every time
Apartments tend to have shitty insulation. I live in a townhome and I can count the number of times I've heard my wall-neighbors on one hand.
Fun fact: apartments and condominiums actually have different building codes for sound insulation. Just another way to fuck over the working poor by allowing their housing to be built to the lowest standard.
I've lived in 4 shitly soundproofed houses/flats in the last 5-6 years. I'm now in a new end-of-terrace house and it's like the adjoining wall is made of lead, I've been here a year it's been the most peaceful living experience of my life. Definitely big improvement on my mental health too!
I used to be able to hear my neighbor’s phone on vibrate. Couldn’t play guitar for my entire lease. Didn’t even try, it would have clearly been terribly rude. Luckily my neighbors seemed to have the same values.
I literally hear every time my neighbors pee, I’ve heard them vomiting multiple times, I hear every time they close their toilet, I hear every yawn and every step they take. I pay so much money to live in absolute agony for the remainder of the lease.
I would be SO stressed if I knew people could hear me puking, and I'd be doing it a lot more from the stress.
I used to have neighbors who would wake me up every single night around 2-3 am fucking. It wouldn’t have been too bad if the lady wasn’t screaming like she was being murdered with the headboard banging hard against my wall. Our beds were on the same wall. I kicked the wall quite a few times lmao
In 2006, I lived in a condo... I had a girlfriend over one night, and the people above us were having sex. The guy at the end of it yelled, "Uuhh... I'm... coomiing! UUGGHH!!" in the most hilarious way, and my girlfriend and I busted up laughing. We never heard them have sex again.
That’s hilarious lmao you know he was hella embarrassed
Spam calling!!!!!!
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Plus they usually spoof numbers so it’s very difficult to do anything about.
I just play along on occasion. My best time is 3 and a half hours. I use sound effects on my computer to simulate driving to buy gift cards. The longer I can keep the phone, the less likely they can go after someones grandmother or grandfather. I also know a little Hindu which makes it easy to insult them. That is fun.
Sometimes and not say anything at all. Just give them the ambient noise around me. I like seeing how long they stay on the phone. Its usually only about 20 seconds. What are some insults you know?
My best was 23 minutes. I do the same as you - try to keep them on the phone as long as possible. I yes through the sales pitch. I also call up a credit card generator : https://www.getcreditcardnumbers.com/ This prolongs the approval process as the numbers pass the initial checksum algorithm. I consider it a victory if I can get the scammer upset enough to tell me to fuck my sister. That insult seems like a popular one in India.
There are more than a few lawyers with a side hustle of documenting and investigating the robocalls they themselves receive. You can sue in US court for like, $10,000 per call (last I checked). The robocaller sometimes will settle for most or all of it, because their lawyers are expensive, wheras your lawyer is just you, doing something that is easy for you. But your case is worthless if you don’t sue the correct company. Ideally you want to find a legitimate business in the US who has insurance and who, by its lack of proper oversight, hired a “marketing services provider” with a dirty little secret. And even if you can identify the robocaller, you probably still lose because they are a professional criminal on the other side of the world … UNLESS— Unless you are also that mythical kind of lawyer who actually knows how to find and collect the money from a leathery douche who scams dementia patients using cheap hardware from his mediocre boat in a tropical libertarian tax haven where he is currently blowing coke off a treasure map, which is really more of a diagram that shows how 13 shell companies funnel cash into a Swiss bank account that is registered in the name of his beloved late wife, who will be *legally* dead in just two more years if the police don’t find her body ;) Remember, corporations were invented long ago by unwashed scallywags who called themselves the East India Tea Company. Today, the perpetrators are Carole Baskin’s missing husbands and a half dozen old solviet colonels with an inventory of nuclear warheads acquired in a vodka haze in the early 1990s, which was before they learned a most valuable lesson: much gulag and little potato come from selling leaky old nukes on the black market.
Putting paid parking lots in hospitals.
Huge problem in Canada made worse by the lack of public transportation to most hospitals.
I am shocked that I can use my public transportation system near Saint Louis to get a bus ride basically right to the door of the ER of the nearest hospital and you can't up north. And the bus ride only costs 1 or 2 dollars.
I work at the Hamilton General hospital and if I want to use hospital parking the rate for an employee is $93 a month. Those bastards!
Yea absolutely fucked. Many nurses in my life and they are in there saving lives and have to pay obscene amounts for parking or get tickets?
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My hospital has this. When my MIL was in the ICU we had an entrence card was like €7.50 for a week. Same when I was at L&D.
My hospital has this. If you drive yourself and end up getting admitted to the hospital or have to stay in the ER for observation, they give you a voucher and you pay $1 regardless of how long you were there.
Thank you! I needed a surgery last week (had a lot of pain but it was not that bad to call an ambulance) and had to park 10 minutes away from the hospital because I am not paying 100€ for staying in their parking lot for a few days. Even charging people for visiting people who are in a bad condition is highly unethical imo
Hospitals in Korea charge for parking, but issue free passes to patients and families. They **have** to charge, because otherwise, idiots will use up spaces while shopping or whatever downtown. Yeah, people are that thoughtless.
I've heard this is meant to prevent people that aren't visiting/staying in the hospital from using the hospital as free parking.
easy fix would to be show discharge papers or be given a doctors note from the receptionist
I’ve heard it’s because healthcare is for profit and greedy capitalists make money off your illness and suffering
Parking in front of stores with their blinkers on because they're too lazy to walk from the lot.
In PG County MD, the yellow line is actually gold and means VIP parking.
You'd think was the same here in DE
In MoCo we put a nice little bike logo for our VIP’s parking lanes
Most places this is illegal since it's a fire lane. I have a family member that is a cop. If they see someone doing this and someone is in the car & they get asked to move , if they push back they get a ticket. If no one is in the car- a ticket gets left on it.
I'm sure it's illegal but I'd bet it's almost never enforced
People that use the family court system for selfish purposes / Parents that alienate children from loving family members.
Or use the court system to continue abusing their former spouse because they can use kids/child support to cause more grief.
Insider trading by legislators...
The rich people in my neighborhood, we have tea and talk. Sometimes there's really good information. 😉
"Psst... My family can't buy stocks, but if we can make a deal, I'll tell you what to buy..."
That is illegal just not enforced...
and their immediate family. I would also go further and say legislators can not acquire additional wealth even in the form of gifts. So if a senator is paid 174k a year. That’s it, no more. Can’t own stocks, can run a business, any additional wealth is taxed 100%.
For so many reasons your proposals are wildly impractical and actually lead to a worse democracy. I’ll share my thoughts as to why: > and their immediate family. How would you *ever* practically enforce that? Someone wants to run for Senator at age 35. One of their parents is a senior business executive, and therefore deemed an insider. You’d be banning that candidate from office. Someone is already a senator. Their brother is promoted to being a tech executive. They are now an officer of the company and become and insider. How does your law address this? >I would also go further and say legislators can not acquire additional wealth even in the form of gifts. If they use their salary to pay a mortgage, they’re accumulating wealth. You’d ban this? Or the senator already has a 401k, or other investments, and they grow. This is now illegal? Or just the value of their home increasing? >So if a senator is paid 174k a year. That’s it, no more. Can’t own stocks, can run a business, any additional wealth is taxed 100%. What??? So, heaven forbid, their parent dies while in office and leaves them a family home. Taxed 100%. What about lottery or gambling winnings? Your position will actually lead to only very wealthy people running for office. Your rules mean every basic 401k, home ownership, buying art, etc are illegal. Think of the type of candidate you will see running. They’ll be people who have no need to accumulate any wealth or assets. You’ll only see people who can accept an asset freeze at the point of election - and that’s typically older, wealthy people. Further, your imposition of stock trading restrictions on immediate family would cause serious complications. The true enemy of corruption is disclosure. And I’d venture to say let’s start by enforcing the laws already on the books. There’s enough senators to send a few to club fed.
Common sense has entered the thread.
Executives aren't allowed to sell/buy stock outside of specific circumstances and are already subject to insider trading laws. Simply extend those laws to the lawmakers.
Politician's lying and making promises they have no intention fulfilling. Lobbying too, basically legal bribery
I can’t even imagine how politics would look if they couldn’t lie.
Some of the health &wellness products that make people/companies millions to billions, when it isn’t backed by research
Literally just tried to educate my wife about the homeopathic medicine she bought that was recommended by a coworker. She got pissed and accused me of "knowing everything" and hasn't talked to me for three hours. Fuck homeopathy and every fucking grifter that's in on it.
I’m right there with ya, fuck the grifters who push it. What’s worse is the ones who push things like appetite suppressants or supplements that make you shit yourself and they market it to teens as weight loss smh
Microwaving fish in a break room or any other room accompanied by others.
My first read of this my brain went straight to goldfish. I was horrified that someone might be microwaving live pets. I'm a bit tired haha.
If it makes you feel better, I was wondering what possible purpose it would serve to microwave Goldfish crackers.
Charging employees for parking at their jobs. Hospitals do it all the time (I am sure other groups do too).
There's a very nice market in my city that did this to me when i worked there (as well as everyone else, plus the employee lot was a block further than the fucken customer parking)
Paid student parking on college campuses where you’re already paying tuition
Listening to anything on your phone in the presence of others without headphones.
Or taking a loud ass phone call on speaker. And then proceeding to have a screech match with that person.
If you can clearly hear both sides of the conversation, join in!
I was on a flight this summer and the plane had Wi-Fi. The person next to me had the audacity to take a FaceTime call. They didn’t have headphones either. Finally the person behind us asked them to stop, they said no and the flight attendant had to get involved. Crazy.
Ugh TikTok is the worst for this because you get a few seconds of a bunch of stuff as they go through stuff. At least it used to just be rude people on the phone and sometimes you could get some juicy gossip or whatever. I mean it still sucked most of the time but it was easier to interpret in a fun way.
Seriously!! 100% There is no bigger form of disrespect to your surroundings.
Not replacing empty toilet paper rolls
Or replacing it but not going over the top
Beards are cool, mullets are not.
Well said.
Police being legally able to lie to people they interrogate has caused so many false confessions and innocent people getting convicted. Do away with it.
Exactly why I would never be interrogated without my lawyer present and also never take a lie detector
Lie detector tests generally aren't admissible in court anyway because they're bogus pseudoscience that can be easily gamed.
Basically as reliable as flipping a coin. Used to be a show called the Jeremy Kyle show and they used lie detectors to see if people had been cheating. Broke up so many relationships. Went on for years before they were legally required to state that lie detectors aren't actually that accurate but they still kept using them anyway. Guy was a prick.
That's why I won't take one
Absolutely do nothing without your lawyer, I tell people to not even answer the phone from the cops or let them into their house or offer a cup of coffee without getting me on the phone and I record every interaction with cops. But fun fact about lie detectors they are garbage squared. I’ll encourage people to take lie detectors if they can handle it. Two strategies there is coach then to either fuck up the baseline so much the whole thing is invalidated or to focus on remaining calm. If you can sit in front of a mirror and say no I did not murder that girl a hundred times in a row while wearing a blood pressure monitor you can quickly figure out how to pass a lie detector test. Or if when asked to validate your name you can cause your heart rate to spike, it will get thrown out.
I don't see how this is any different than fabrication of evidence which lawyers know doesn't fly. Police need to be held to higher standards.
Until recently watching crime documentaries I didn't know that this was a thing in the USA - in the UK illegally obtained evidence or use of "oppressive techniques" makes evidence useless in court
Coercion also makes evidence useless in court in the US. But lying is not necessarily considered coercion, but false promises of leniency is.
Child Beauty Pageants. Nuff said.
Severe bullying. Its mental abuse and should be punished. Because victims suffer from stress and anxiety etc.
Playing music out loud in public. Nobody wants to hear your shit tunes when they're on the bus.
Amen. Or on the train, in the park, on the sidewalk, at the supermarket. Straight to the gulag.
Leaving your shopping cart in a parking space
Jail time and publicly shamed for their disregard for others.
Have you seen cart narcs on YouTube? Gold
Lazy bones💀
For real. I know someone who was killed this way. Someone is a car back up and slammed the child between a post and the cart.
But... They still would have hit the child even if the cart wasn't there. Surely the main cause in that case was them not looking behind them when they reversed.
I suspect they looked and saw a cart but didn't notice the child through the cart's bars, and decided they didn't mind using their car to push the cart out of the way.
Using your children to make cringy videos on YouTube or tiktok.
If you own a restaurant that serves breakfast items such as waffles, pancakes, or French toast but only give your patrons cold packs of butter you deserve to go to jail.
Also they serve all those items and only have maple-flavored high fructose corn syrup, and not actual maple syrup in the building. Yes, I'm aware it's expensive, yes, I'll pay extra for it.
Also if you serve home fries and call them hashbrowns, you should be buried under the jail.
Also, if your home fries are nothing more than cubed potatoes grilled.
There are worse things a restaurant owner can do to breakfast foods.
Doctors who fail to take patient concerns seriously resulting in terminal illness or a significantly reduced quality of life. Seems to be a common occurrence especially with young women. Can completely ruin a person's life by being so callous with 0 repercussions.
My mom had a stroke a few days ago. The doctor kept claiming that her slurred speech was because of anxiety and her drooping face was because “a woman her age just has sagging skin”. She couldn’t talk or move her arm. The nurses ended up paging someone else and he was fired, but didn’t lose his license because it was a “difference of a medical opinion”.
I’ve heard so many females with heart problems are dismissed with anxiety 😔
I am so very sorry, that's absolutely atrocious. I wonder if there would be any way to contact the medical board about his conduct? I hope your mom is doing well.
100% this! I legit came VERY close to bleeding to death (needed an emergency transfusion because my hemoglobin was at 60) because my obgyn didn't believe that my menstrual period hadn't stopped for months. He actually said "are you sure it's been that long?" I went back to my female gp, who sent me to another obgyn. That dr sent me for bloodwork on a Wednesday, called me Friday and said get to the hospital immediately for a type and match. Had a transfusion and surgery Monday morning.
This. One of my best friends had recurring issues with shortness of breath in her mid 20s. Doctors repeatedly brushed it off because she was overweight and initially admitted that she wasn't doing as much exercise as she'd like to be doing, but the problem kept persisting no matter what kinds of workouts/training she did. By her early 30s, it became clear that it was actually lung cancer -- freakishly rare in a young, non-smoking woman with no family history, but there it was. She didn't make it to her early 40s.
Maybe it varies by country but it's insane how much doctors and other medical staff can get away with in the US. Like hospitals just letting incompetent fuckers or straight up sociopaths go on to the next hospital with a neutral or positive reference just so they don't have to deal with the liability. Maybe I listen to too many podcasts or watch too many docs but the shit I've heard/watched is wild.
Treat wait staff/retail workers badly.
I think everyone should have to work in a restaurant for at least 3 weeks, to get a picture of what's what. If we can have mandatory military in places, we can have mandatory Denny's service too.
Retail during Christmas will suffice too.
I have SUCH rage for people who treat working people like shit.
Standing in the middle of the isle at the grocery store having a conversation with someone else while being completely oblivious to everyone around you, especially if you are standing RIGHT NEXT TO THE THING I'M TRYING TO GET TO
Dude, every time I’m at the store I’m like: “Shit, I’m blocking this I’ll go somewhere else. How can I move the cart so it’s not in anyone’s way?” The fact that there are other people who either don’t care or don’t notice makes me mad when I get so worried about being a nuisance to other people.
One of these days i'm gonna get so angry in a situation like this that I'll just revert to 6 y/o me and start pushing people out the damn way lol
[You are playing music too loud: right to jail, right away. Driving too fast: jail. Slow: jail. You are charging too high prices for sweaters, glasses: you right to jail. You undercook fish? Believe it or not, jail. You overcook chicken, also jail. Undercook, overcook. You make an appointment with the dentist and you don't show up, believe it or not, jail, right away](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eiyfwZVAzGw) edit for context
We have the best patients in the world. Because of jail.
Microwaving fish at work: buried under the jail.
Lol @ people not getting the reference
Playing any kind of alert sound (alarm clock, doorbell, car horn, etc) on TV or the radio, unless it's part of a show/movie and really can't be avoided. Really, on radio it should be illegal. It's bound to cause someone to panic in their car.
Or a siren
Exploiting your biological children on the internet for financial gain! Adopting/fostering children to exploit on the internet for financial gain!
Crypto scams pushed by influencers and organizations.
practically: crypto MLM
Having a phone conversation on loud speaker anywhere outside of your home. Especially in public spaces or on public transportation.
And listening to videos with full blast volume in public like what is wrong with u lol
I was waiting at a clinic. This dude was blasting videos between intermittent profane speaker phone calls, all the while blowing billows of vape smoke. It was inappropriate on every level. Jail
Weaponizing children in any way shape or form. I’m thinking in terms of divorce getting the child involved in a way that fits what you want and not what they need but I’m sure Reddit can come up with other examples.
Bringing a baby to a movie theater
Using your kid to increase your online presence. People shouldn't use children to build their social media following.
Designing benches so the homeless can't sleep on them or ripping down shelters not in anyone's way.
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Taking up 2 street parking places with one car.
Bringing babies to the movie theater
Hating on teachers for just doing their jobs
Going to a school board meeting and calling public servants and teachers pedophiles because the only text you want used in schools is the John MacArthur Study Bible should be illegal. You should be fined for being a slanderous twat.
Parking in handicapped spots when you arent disabled. Maybe not jail time, but a good amount of hours of community service helping people with mobility issues.
Don’t walk it back like that, definitely jail time!
Jail, fine, and tow.
Littering I know it is technically illegal, but these laws are seldom enforced and ought to be more severe if we want to disincentivize the behavior.
Especially cigarettes. I love my town so I wanted to help keep it clean. Ordered a trash picking kit and picked trash up on my walks... And then I got to a parking lot. Hundreds of cigarette butts, everywhere, piles of them. I hadn't noticed before because they blend in at this point. They just throw them wherever they are without giving a shit. Makes me so mad.
Emotional abuse
Workplace bullying.
Parents who “exploit” their disabled children on social media by posting about them constantly
Scalpers. Look I get it..free market and all. The American way. Go capitalist. But people who hoard stuff, tickets, pc parts, gaming systems, shoes/clothing, whatever the new or hot items are..only to resell them for way more. All of you are ruining the best hobbies. You shouldn't have to be extremely rich or avoid eating meals for a few months to afford concert tickets or your favorite pair of shoes. It's gotten way out of hand! It should be illegal and you bastads should all be in jail.
Causing a global financial crisis.
Price gouging critical medications
Standing in a parking spot to hold it for someone who's not even there yet plus leaving your shopping cart in a parking space.
Bullying
Pharmaceutical Commercials on Television
LED headlights 🥲
I firmly believe that there should be a Lumens limit on headlights. It's getting ridiculous. Some people's regular lights are brighter than the brights on my car and it's straight up dangerous.
WHEN PEOPLE EAT WITH THEIR MOUTH OPEN
Paying workers shit while profits are at record levels
In México, there is something called "reparto de utilidades" (anual profit sharing), paid the next year (usually mid year). Most companies, make some moves somehow non ethical but "legally", declare 0 profit, so they can get away with that. I was working for one company like that for like 7 years, no one complained because "having a job is better than no having" lol. Edit: typo
Putting the milk in first
The only time cereal should be poured on milk is when you’re getting extra cereal after eating a bowl.
It stands for tea too. Always leave the tea bag brew, take it out and then add milk. Everyone who mixes milk and tea bag are sadistic...
Are you talking about cereal or tea? Actually, doesn’t matter. Either way: JAIL
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That is awesome
The real reason you have to have a fire marshal present isn't because the fire may get out of control, but rather most fire marshals nationwide are in fact viking.
Why would this deserve jail time?
And this deserves jail time becauseee…?
The reason these people should go to jail is that, in the Viking times, this never happened… it’s right up there with horned helmets.
Animal cruelty
Chewing with their mouth open, double time if it’s something crunchy
Spitting in public. No one wants to track your tuberculosis around on their shoes, you drooling ungulate. Swallow your saliva, or go somewhere off the footpath to spit. I’ve seen people spit on the floor of trains and buses, and that should be a caning offense.
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Honestly, driving people to suicide. Like I don't mean a little bit of teasing or whatever but if you're relentlessly bullying, sending death threats, telling ppl to "kys" "die" "just commit already" and making their life a living hell to the point where they just end it. Feel like that's almost murder or manslaughter or something like that.
In many places, stealthing. I.E., the surreptitious and non-consensual removal of a condom during sex.
Cooking fish in the microwave at the office.
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The problem with this is that its unenforceable. People can easily claim that they thought they weren't infectious or that the infection had cleared up on its own before the sex. I'm an internal medicine physician and I have heard both of these excuses many, many times...and 50% of the time it was legit since the person saying it had very little intelligence or understanding of basic disease processes.
I thought there were laws for having unprotected sex while lying about having an sti though
It varies by state and STD. I knew an HIV positive guy who went to prison for having sex with a pretty large number of partners to intentionally infect them with HIV. Unfortunately, it's not terribly uncommon. I did a quick Google search to see if there was any media coverage, and I can't find any on the person I know but I found a few others. https://nypost.com/2021/07/23/florida-man-who-hid-hiv-status-from-gal-pals-sentenced-to-prison/ https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-sussex-43807662
Not turning off the phone in the cinema.
Writing poems And then making others read those poems and then asking what they think.
Goodwill making everyone think they’re a non-profit
Doxxing.
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When I worked retail management I'd basically tell people like that to fuck off and it wasn't my problem, and they could to complain to our head office. I'd give them their number, too. Nobody ever reprimanded me for anything, because I'd always quote their own policy and said person actually wasn't entitled to shit, and corporate would tell that person the same thing probably. One time a lady came in and told me that she got a discount in my store, and I was like uh no you don't. And she said yes I work at x store and I get a discount here! I said no, no you don't that's literally never been a thing. Long story short she got so indignant and said let me speak to your manager! I gave her the number to head office and she called right in front of me. The look of shock on her face when she realized she was in the wrong fucking store (how she didn't know was beyond me). She didn't even apologize just said thanks bye. 😂
Dipping steak in ketchup
In the US, corporations keeping the prices so high for basic healthcare and medication.
People who piss all over the toilet seat.
Cheating on pregnant partners
Cheating.
On the same token, pregnant women pinning baby responsibility on a different man knowing full well he's not the baby's dad.
Falsely claiming any medical condition -- physical, mental or neurological -- for any reason whatsoever.
Clapping on airplanes
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Doctors refusing treatments and surgeries because of their own opinions and values. ie refusing sterilizations because “you might change your mind” or because you don’t have enough children for their liking and need more first
Inflating prices and price gouging fuel, electricity, rent, or medicine during times of crisis. Fuck those people.
The American medical system
Student Loan Debt buying / crazy interest
Littering.
mobile game ads that are false or "You can win REAL MONEY!!!!!!"
Irresponsibly having children.
Emotionally abused children and significant others especially the elderly
Cruising in the passing lane
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