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u/Tiredcoconut928
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Jan 27 '23
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What's not illegal, but should be?
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u/MrShibo
Jan 27 '23
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Making cancelling subscriptions almost impossibly hard to find.
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u/DictaSchmicta Jan 27 '23
Yes! If I can sign up for your service online, I better be able to cancel online too. Looking at you Sirus XM.
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u/DonkeyTron42 Jan 27 '23
Aflac would like a word. Wait on hold for 5 hours only to get a message saying it's past their customer service department hours of operation and to try again tomorrow.
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u/Sixoul Jan 28 '23
At a certain point I just tell my bank they're committing fraud and I've cancelled a membership and for them to block any charges from them.
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u/Korlac11 Jan 27 '23
I’ve never even had a Sirius XM subscription, and they still send me letters telling me to renew my subscription
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u/Severs2016 Jan 28 '23
I remember the one time I tried out Sirius XM. Did the week or whatever trial they had and after a day or two I was happy and wanted to fully subscribe. They couldn't find the account I was actively able to listen to music from. Told em to forget it and hung up.
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u/alexjaness Jan 27 '23
I had it free when I bought my car. I listened to it for a total of maybe 10 minutes over 3 months. I've gotten at least one letter every week since. that was about 5 months ago
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u/AlbertManus Jan 28 '23
Same. First week with it, I was like wow this is amazing so many station.. and then I realized each was just a playlist that was like, 3 hours long tops.
That's not radio. That's a folder of mixtapes.
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u/ReidenLightman Jan 27 '23
It should be a law that you should have the option to cancel anything with the exact method you used to sign up. Signed up on the internet? You should be allowed to cancel on the internet.
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u/kholto Jan 28 '23
The US should start copying some of the consumer protection laws from the EU really.
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u/Spudtater Jan 28 '23
What's wrong with you? You want our government to do something to protect the consumer? You must be a Shifty Socialist, or God forbid, even a Crafty Communist! Fie on you!
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u/Pezheadx Jan 27 '23
Also making it so you have to cancel services over the phone only
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u/PygmeePony Jan 27 '23
To cancel your subscription please write a 5 page essay and send it to the other side of the world by carrier pigeon.
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u/Ironpenguin2006 Jan 27 '23
mobile ads that have the fake X button
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u/TheBrontosaurus Jan 28 '23
Fake X button that opens the app store, then opens a playable portion that is nothing like the actual game, which you X put again but that just changes the add which you can’t close for another 5 seconds.
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u/temalyen Jan 28 '23
I always thought I was missing the X button and clicking something else by mistake. I never actually thought the X button itself might be doing it.
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u/Odd-Butterscotch-495 Jan 27 '23
Or the ones that look like a playable add then it’s not.
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u/JonesNate Jan 28 '23
Damned "Royal Match" ads. I just started seeing one of them that has this fake game in the ad.
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u/aboveaveragecactus
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Commercials being way louder than your tv program
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u/a20261 Jan 28 '23
Check it the CALM act. Passed in 2010, updated in 2022. Gives FCC power to regulate exactly this
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u/Formerhurdler Jan 28 '23
It is illegal, but it is also obvious they are not enforcing it. I was overjoyed when this was enacted, and noticed a difference. I also noticed it slowly going back to the way it was over the intervening years. I am now back to irritatedly turning my TV volume down seven notches when a commercial comes on. Or just muting it. It sucks.
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u/temalyen Jan 28 '23
I had a friend who refused to turn it down because he said he "wasn't going to let the commercials win"
I'm still not sure what that was supposed to mean.
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u/Snoo70047 Jan 28 '23
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u/Mando_calrissian423 Jan 28 '23
Yeah, I brought this up to Hulu’s customer service and they informed me that they aren’t required to follow the FCCs rules for some reason.
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u/Username912773 Jan 28 '23
You should follow up on that, you might make the news if they are required to but just aren’t.
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u/Mando_calrissian423 Jan 28 '23
Well I just saw in a post further down that they’re supposed to now, when I made the complaint it was a few years back, so I don’t think the law covered streaming yet.
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u/ConversationFast6117 Jan 27 '23
Taking my money in a nanosecond, but spending ages processing the refund.
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u/jugrimm Jan 28 '23
It’s like that where I work. We can process someone payment in the time it takes them to enter their information into the payment portal.
But to issue a refund requires 4-6 weeks and we mail them a paper check. That has to pass through at least three sets of hands/departments before it gets mailed. I really try to keep people from having to get a refund in the first place because I feel terrible about how long it takes.
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u/stillbangin Jan 28 '23
4-6 weeks?!
What a load of shit.
At that point I’d just fucking call my card company and dispute the charge.
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u/Akki_Fan Jan 28 '23
There should be a refund interest , the late the money is paid, the more money you git.
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u/UrbanRelicHunter Jan 28 '23
Yep... I'm currently waiting on a refund... 5 to 7 business days to show back up in my bank account.
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u/jet-orion Jan 27 '23
Companies using people’s personal data for whatever they want. Some companies literally exist just to collect all your personal information and sell it to other larger companies. Your address, date of birth, sexuality, your PHOTOS, political affiliation, literally anything you e exposed on the internet is fair game and companies sneakily take it and do all kinds of shady shit with it to profit off of you.
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u/PrematureGranulation Jan 28 '23
I heard this a while ago - when you sign up for anything online, don’t use your last name. Instead, enter the name of the company you’re signing up with. That way, if a separate group gets your details and contact you, you will immediately know who is sharing your details.
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u/TheOtherGuttersnipe Jan 28 '23
"Honey, why are we receiving mail addressed to TheOtherGuttersnipe Pornhub?"
- wife
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u/antsmasher Jan 27 '23
Congressmen, who have access to inside knowledge, trading stock.
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u/NorthImpossible8906 Jan 27 '23
seems to me there is an extremely easy, extremely fair solution to this entire problem (and I agree it is a huge huge problem).
Just allow representatives (all policy/law makers) to invest in a very broad index fund. Like S&P 500, or even a Russel 5000. So they get the advantage of a 'good economy and economic growth' but never have any one business or any one industry to favor.
Don't allow them to own any investments other than that.
There is an issue if you own your own business, or your family business. That is a different subject and needs a discussion about that as well.
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u/burner46 Jan 27 '23
I was a financial advisor for a bit and had a client that was a state rep. All of their investments were in a blind trust. I think that option is ok.
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u/parkinthepark Jan 28 '23
I just don’t know how you enforce the “blindness” of the trust. Like, if you’re the manager of the trust, you’ve got huge incentives (in the form of fees) to bend the rules of communication with your very well connected client, and if you’re the senator, you’ve got huge incentive to slip your “blind” trust a tip from time to time. And both of you know the penalty is going to just be a fine, or a sternly-worded statement from Chuck Schumer’s worst speechwriter.
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u/rigorousthinker Jan 27 '23
Politicians who lie. There is not one day that goes by that I don’t hear a lie.
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u/TheLateThagSimmons Jan 28 '23
Remember back in the day when "all politicians are liars" was referring to falling to make good on campaign promises?
But now they're just straight up lying to the public's face about easily verifiable bullshit, seemingly for no reason?
Those were the days.
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u/Tytyforreal564 Jan 27 '23
Career politicians should be illegal.
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u/WranglerVegetable512 Jan 27 '23
I used to be on the fence on term limits when I thought having an experienced congressman would benefit his constituents. But when you look at how many congressmen including senators have been in their positions, 20 or30 or 40 years, it’s probably because they’ve amassed a war chest and no one will dare run against them. So now I truly believe term limits are necessary.
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u/gopeepants Jan 27 '23
You have people in their 60's and up retirement ages that are making policies that will effect a future they will never see. Also, funny how employers tend to not hire elderly workers but hey okay if elderly run the country
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u/ilikerainn Jan 27 '23
The ridiculously expensive cleaning fee for AirBnb, then getting charged for not cleaning the place yourself.
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u/veracity-mittens Jan 28 '23
Right? Why am I paying YOU $80 when I have to do all the laundry and sweep lol
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u/BRG820 Jan 28 '23
I recently had one that was $350 and the place was dirty when we got there. I told the owner and he said he’d talk to the cleaners. I was expecting a offer of a refund and didn’t get one. I had pictures and everything. Then I just went to the company and sent them the texts with the owner and pics and I got it all refunded.
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u/MoonPuma337 Jan 28 '23
My thing is specially during the pandemic Airbnb posted on the app how they’re enforcing owners to do like a five point cleaning inside tío. Blah blah blah
Every room I rented during that time was barely vacuumed
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u/zangelbertbingledack Jan 28 '23
Try $200+ while asking you to clean the place, run the dishwasher and put dry dishes back in the cabinets, strip the bedsheets and take out the garbage. Hotels are often a better deal these days.
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u/desighful Jan 27 '23
Noises that imitate sounds like a siren or car horn on radio commercials
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u/rambo_oz3 Jan 27 '23
Some specific noises are illegal. I think it was the movie Olympus has fallen that got fined for using the national emergency alarm in its trailer.
Edit: Yes.. that was the movie
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u/DreamingHopingWishin Jan 27 '23
YES! I'm always saying this. Car horn sounds in radio commercials should absolutely be banned
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u/IcePhoenix18 Jan 28 '23
I don't mind a little "beep beep" clown car horn, but the "swerving honk and brakes skidding" sound NEEDS to stop
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u/IridiumPony Jan 28 '23
And sirens, too.
I remember growing up in the 90's and there was a local furniture store that had a radio commercial which opened with very loud and real sounding sirens. Like I can remember my mom pulling over the car one time when it came on because she thought it was an emergency vehicle behind us.
That kind of thing is legitimately dangerous and needs to be banned.
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u/DharmaCub Jan 27 '23
They are banned, but technically it's only the exact sound, so if you raise or lower it an octave, or speed it up or slow it down, you can get around the regulation.
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u/IcicleCUBEZ Jan 27 '23
Fake Mobile games
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u/hXcPickleSweats Jan 28 '23
I hate when the ad shows this awesome looking, complex game with good graphics but it's really a simple matching game.
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u/Mailowness Jan 28 '23
I hate this so much! The the ads will always have a good concept that looks fun, and the you download the thing and it's just 99% more ads and matching tiles, with like 1% being a watered down level that looks similar to the ad in between.
Idk these companies could actually be more successful if they just made the stuff they advertise 🤣
I'm a simple creature, I want to brainlessly make the fish eat eatchother, or pull the rods out in order to save people dying, i wanna give the unnecessarily stinky girl a makeover - why are you making me play matchy matchy!
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u/Epicfrog50 Jan 28 '23
It actually is. Only issue is, the people who make these games and ads have a fake buisness location in a different country (usually China) so there isn't anything that can be done
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u/lewyzy Jan 27 '23
Resort fees, allowing hotels to advertise one price but charge you another.
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u/kabukistar Jan 28 '23
In general, listed prices should be required to include all applicable taxes and fees for everything. Like they made airlines do.
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u/Officialkword Jan 27 '23
Politicians being able to trade stocks while making laws that affect the stock market. AKA legalized insider trading.
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u/JACKVK07 Jan 27 '23
I feel like we're all basically talking about the same person here. Yes?
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u/SFXBTPD Jan 28 '23
Top performing stock traders in congress 2022:
Rep. Patrick Fallon, (R-Texas): +51.6%
Rep. Debbie Schultz, (D-Fla.): +50.8%
Rep. Susie Lee, (D-Nev.): +21.4%
Rep. David Joyce (R-Ohio): +13.6%
Sen. Gary Peters (D-Mich.): +11.7%
Rep. William Keating (D-Mass.): +9.6%
Rep. Lloyd Doggett (D-Texas): +8.9%
Rep Michael Guest (R-Miss.): +8.9%
Rep. Debbie Dingell (D-Mich.): +7.1%
Rep. Mark Green (R-Tenn.): +6.5%
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u/1871550981 Jan 27 '23
Charging random fees on top of of taxes ans tips without a solid reason.
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u/funghi2 Jan 28 '23
Overbooking flights
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u/Extension-Spell-3647 Jan 28 '23
And hotels
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u/DPB91 Jan 28 '23
I booked a hotel for 3 nights. Got back to the hotel on the second night to find someone elses stuff in my room. I went to reception and they told me that it was over booked and because I hadn't left any belongings in the room they decided it would be fine to give it to someone else. I had to sleep in my car.
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u/disheveledcreature Jan 28 '23
I used to work for a hotel and no one told me about the unwritten overbooking policy. I tried to prevent overbooking because we'd get people in with a reservation and have no rooms for them and they had nowhere to go. I got caught and was immediately fired even though no one had explained to me it was against policy and it wasn't in our handbook or anything.
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u/averyyoungperson Jan 27 '23
Making an instagram account for your 5 year old children
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u/MyStationIsAbandoned Jan 27 '23
I remember people reporting on this shit for a while. Parents literally take pictures of their kids, put it on instagram. then have Patreon pages where they sell pictures of their children in bikinis and underwear.
Like what the actual hell.
And Patreon is the same damn company that was banning artist for drawing ADULT animated women and saying that their anime faces made them look underaged. even though they were tall and had very giant assets. Hundreds of artists were being banned. Yet none of these REAL actual children being exploited were banned from the platform.
Like what the hell is wrong with this world. I don't give a shit about drawing. All that shit is fake. But the fact that they're ignoring real children being exploited is insane. It's like an episode of Sliders where they go to a world where everyone is brain dead and care more about adult female cartoons than real life little girls.
Now I'm just pissed off again.
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u/SpergSkipper Jan 28 '23
"sell pictures of their children in bikinis and underwear"
Wait what the actual fuck
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u/veracity-mittens Jan 28 '23
Or they have open accounts to post seemingly “innocent” videos like their little girl eating a hot dog or licking an ice cream cone, and they get MILLIONS of views. There’s a ton of tik toks about it. Idk how you’d get to that algorithm though. As a parent it kind of came to me.
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u/SpergSkipper Jan 28 '23
hold up, so it's not just perverts taking the innocent videos and turning them into something sexual? The parents are intending for a girl eating a hot dog to be seen as sexual to get views? Fuck sakes they should be in prison. Any images depicting minors that are intended to cause sexual arousal should be treated as CP
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u/buckyspunisher Jan 28 '23
the parents play it off as innocent like “oh she’s just at the county fair eating a hot dog” or “oh she’s just enjoying the summer eating ice cream” and it’s not explicit enough to count it as cp but we all the know demographics the parents are catering to
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u/mrSalamander Jan 27 '23
Back when my kid was around that age myspace was HUGE but I wasn't on it. I thought making the kid a myspace would be a good way to keep all the extended family up to date. I realized within a week or two wha ta horrible idea that was and how toxic it could become to me and the kid. Deleted and never tried again.
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u/averyyoungperson Jan 27 '23
Your right but at least your intentions were decent. There are influencer families who make Instagrams for their young children and it's so exploitive just for their own fame....it's honestly disgusting and evil. The LaBrant Fam is a prime example. They exploit the fuck out of their kids And all these families pose as so noble and like they are just sharing the norms of family life.
It puts kids in danger. I mean it puts us adults in danger too but at least we can consent and be informed of the risks
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u/delayedsunflower Jan 27 '23
This is already illegal in the US. Companies can't store the data of people under 13. Instagram is supposed to face severe fines for allowing children to sign up (as use of their service involves them storing your data). The problem is that this is often underenforced.
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u/averyyoungperson Jan 27 '23
I just went and reported the LaBrant Fam's under 13 children who have Instagrams lol hopefully they do something but probably not
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u/Slim_Corvid Jan 27 '23
Free trials requiring your payment details.
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u/DoubleEagle25 Jan 27 '23
I have a Citi card. I can set up a "virtual" card number and make it good for 30 days (or whatever I decide to set it). When the free trial tries to renew, the virtual number has expired. The vendor has to contact me for an updated number. If I don't want to renew, they don't get a new number. If I want to renew, I generally set the expiration for 12 months. They'll call me again in 12 months and I get to decide if I want to continue.
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u/FireFist_PortgasDAce Jan 27 '23
Wont buying a $10 gift card, use it, then buy something with it, that way, they can't steal your money?
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u/TiresOnFire Jan 27 '23
Even better. There are apps that create burner cards that you can delete immediately after signing up for the trial.
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u/qjk91 Jan 28 '23
Not allowing children in schools to use the bathroom when they need to
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u/sandopsio Jan 28 '23
They still do that?!
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u/yeonings Jan 28 '23
Sadly they do. I saw a video where a teenage girl got her period at school and she recorded herself telling her teacher that she had to go to the bathroom then her teacher kept saying no to her. Even when the girl insisted, her teacher told her to stop "talking back." It's crazy.
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u/BrokeTrashCatDreams Jan 28 '23
I had a teacher try this when I was in primary school. I said I would urinate in the seat if she didn't let me go. Funny how that changes their mind real quick. Teachers who do this should not be teachers.
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u/crazydoglove Jan 28 '23
I still don't get why I need to ask because if I need to go I'll go.
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u/webcrawler_29 Jan 28 '23
This is awful. Schools are lucky we didn't know better as kids, because bet your ass if I had to go I'd be up and going when I needed to.
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u/Melody71400 Jan 27 '23
Child marriage with or without parental consent.
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u/sotonohito Jan 28 '23
In the USA there are only four or five states that actually, for real, no exceptions, completely ban marriage under the age of 18. Every other stare has loopholes and exceptions and so on to allow child marriage.
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u/Alch1245 Jan 27 '23 edited Jan 28 '23
Junk mail (email & physical). I didn't ask for it and I have to deal with getting rid of trash that I didn't create.
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u/VegasLife84 Jan 28 '23
It's not illegal for sports, there are just more laws to make it difficult.... which ticket brokers know how to circumvent anyway.
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u/UnknownCreator- Jan 27 '23
Running a entire life term in congress when the president only gets maximum of 8 years. Complete BS.
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u/Epicfrog50 Jan 28 '23
I second this. No government position should ever be for life. It leads to greedy old bastards running the country into the ground
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u/Pitiful_Heron_4300 Jan 27 '23
Using speaker phone on the train
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u/shinyshark100 Jan 27 '23
Totally agree. Using speakerphone or FaceTime in any public setting. Nobody wants to hear your conversation. You aren’t that cool. Just use your damn headphones. We all know you’ve got some.
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u/Fiesty-panda Jan 27 '23
The local UW sells parking passes to any student who asks. They have about 100-150 spots in their lot. Will easily sell 3x that and not give a shit at all that their dorm student or commute students have to park on the road even though they bought a parking pass. I know not all student have class at the same time but everyone thinks it’s ridiculous and rude and just a shameless cash grab.
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u/bigmacmax94 Jan 27 '23
In the US at least: Television advertisements for prescription pharmaceuticals.
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u/newenglandredshirt Jan 27 '23
But then how will pharmaceutical companies make money? won't someone think of the CEOs?
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u/FireCrotchIrishSctch Jan 27 '23
And when the volume for the commercials is somehow blasting louder than the actual program you were watching.
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u/Most_Impressive_ZHG Jan 27 '23
MLM schemes
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u/Imaginary_Reveal7884 Jan 28 '23
You mean owning your own business, babes? It's NoT A pYraMid SchEmE huni. 🌈💖👄💅😀💞💄🌹☺️🎁😊
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u/Kaiser93 Jan 27 '23
Child beauty contests. Why?! Why is this even a thing?!
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u/magicalthinker Jan 28 '23
I see this all the time on reddit, but I've never known of anyone who puts their kids in them or has ever been in one. What the hell is it? Is it an American thing? They literally don't exist where I am.
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u/goblinusMaximus Jan 27 '23
"Too big to fail" companies. No private entity should be so powerful that its downfall would reasonably endanger a nation.
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u/Phaylevyce Jan 28 '23
civil forfeiture
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u/haverwench Jan 28 '23
This should be so much higher up the list. The police can accuse you of a crime and take your money, your car, even your home, and even if you are never convicted—even if you are never officially charged—they don't have to give it back. It's a blatant violation of the Fourth, Fifth, and Fourteenth Amendments, and yet it's legal in most states. https://ij.org/issues/private-property/civil-forfeiture/
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u/SteveFrench175 Jan 27 '23
Paying wait staff less than minimum wage so that we're guilted into tipping them just for doing their job. Employers should pay their employees a living wage, not the customers.
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u/dpvictory Jan 27 '23 edited Jan 28 '23
Drug price hikes...especially for tax payer subsidized drugs.
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u/Wide_Wrongdoer4422 Jan 27 '23
Sales calls. If I want to buy whatever it is, I will ask. Also, scam phone calls should be mandatory life in prison.
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u/Sn0wman87 Jan 28 '23
I like to have fun with the scam callers. I'll act like I'm going along with what they're saying for a bit while not actually doing anything just to waste their time. I really like the extended car warranty one because I ask if it covers road head accidents.
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u/marypoppindatpussy Jan 27 '23
built-in obsolescence. the only country it's illegal in is france and that's super recent.
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u/Cochise5 Jan 27 '23
Agree with this one. When my car is running perfectly fine, taken care of on the schedule, then suddenly starts to have major problems the minute my warranty expires. As well as the repairs being just enough it’s cheaper to get a different car with another loan.
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u/raziel_LK Jan 27 '23
Lootbox mechanics in videogames intended for underage players. It is basically gambling
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u/Trueloveis4u Jan 27 '23
I find it funny the slots and other arcade stuff in the pokemon games are banned but not lootboxes. Oh yes the side/mini game that doesn't use any real money and only in game money to play slots BAD. Lootboxes that are obtained by micro transactions GOOD?
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u/Screechlike Jan 27 '23
100% this! Although now they seem to have been a bit caught out by these so are opting for setting up multiple digital currencies to confuse parents and kids alike.
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u/Comprehensive-Ad3963 Jan 27 '23
Schools punishing children for acting in self-defense.
If the school punished your kid for fighting but can't prove your kid initiated the fight or in any way instigated it, they should have to pay you $1,000.
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u/Im69ing Jan 28 '23
I was in elementary school and got into a fight with a kid with anger management issues. He started it, but I still got the harsher punishment, for some reason. When I came home later that day, my dad asked me what happened and I told him. He said that if I ever got suspended for acting in self defense, that he would take me out to lunch.
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u/ScenicSplash1 Jan 27 '23
Politicians profiting from war
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u/Majestic-Associate-2 Jan 27 '23
Driving with a dog on your lap. I said it.
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u/AmberKF13 Jan 27 '23
100% agree. I love dogs and I love seeing pups riding in the car with their owners, but I hate seeing them in their owners lap. It's extremely dangerous and could cause an accident that could hurt not just the people involved but also the dog.
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u/glooomybearlover
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Practically lying to patients about procedures. I wanted to get an IUD done and I asked my doctor about the process, she said it's uncomfortable but totally painless. I did some research and found that some people did experience pain during the procedure, so I asked my gyno if I could have pain killers before the procedure because I have a low pain tolerance and I had never done this before. He of course said no and told me I wouldn't need them, that I'd be fine. Fast forward to me screaming and crying on the bed while getting it done cuz it was excruciatingly painful. And on top of that, the supervising doctor (cuz the gyno working on me was apparently a student) kept telling me to calm down.
I can understand that certain procedures may be painless for some people but I really wish that doctors would make it known that some people may experience pain.
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u/AdmiralClover Jan 27 '23
It seems a common misconception among doctors, both genders, how much pain any gyno procedures cause. Which is really concerning. My dentists will pump me full of sedative till I can't feel my face, but my doctor won't for an even more intrusive procedurer? Wtf
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u/Uhhlaneuh Jan 27 '23
I actually hate the way some gynos treat their patients. I had my cervix burned because I had an HPV leision. I was out of work for two days because it was really painful. My ob gyn said “it shouldn’t hurt that bad” LADY YOU BURNED NY CERVIX
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u/veracity-mittens Jan 28 '23
When I went to the hospital for uterine bleeding, the nurse told me to disrobe and wait for the doctor on the bed. I’m like can I have a pad? No. Can I have… anything? To sit on? The nurse was like why? I’m like ummm for THE BLOOD??!!! Some people just don’t think lol
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u/PhlossyCantSing Jan 28 '23
Literally had this exact situation. They gave me an adult diaper... the kind with the "velcro" tabs. That definitely wasn't humiliating at all for a grown ass woman.
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u/katwoman1134 Jan 28 '23 •
Fun Fact: I passed out AND pooped on my doctor during my IUD insertion.
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u/TheNamelessBard Jan 27 '23
This one really pisses me off because most people find IUD insertion to be extremely painful from what I've heard
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u/Madanimalscientist Jan 27 '23
It’s one of the most painful things that has event happened to me. And they don’t usually give you pain relief beyond Tylenol. I was screaming a lot during mine and the doctor kept being “if I stop now we will have to do it all over again another day”. That doctor was terrible but the whole experience is miserable.
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u/chonky_pishi Jan 28 '23
Seriously tho why don’t they just give pain medication? It’s got to make the procedure easier when your patient isn’t writhing and screaming in pain.
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u/Madanimalscientist Jan 28 '23
Apparently those of us who are screaming are just overreacting and don’t know what real pain is /sarcasm. Never going back to the doctor who told me that. She was an asshole. I don’t get why they won’t provide proper pain relief either. It’s cruel
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u/Zestfullyclean87 Jan 28 '23
They CAN numb you. They can numb the pudendal nerve; they can numb the cervix. It’s been done for plenty of other procedures
But it takes 20-30 minutes to take the full effect; and they just don’t want to tie up the room. That’s why it’s “completely painless.”
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u/my_screen_name_sucks Jan 27 '23
I always thought doing something like that would fall under malpractice. Honestly I don't think I've ever ran into a story about IUD placement not being painful.
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u/creakysofa Jan 28 '23
Supposedly if someone has given birth they’re less painful, but who knows. Can’t possibly do any decent research on it since it isn’t a procedure for men amiright?
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u/BFundi Jan 27 '23
I identify with you. I got my first IUD about 5.5 years ago and I’ve never been pregnant before, so my cervix was brand new in a sense and I was told I wouldn’t feel anything. Well I felt a lot! I didn’t appreciate that, either, on my first time. My second IUD (new doctor) 3 years later gave me numbing gel before the procedure and even gave me a pill to take 30 mins beforehand so I wouldn’t feel a thing. I loved that experience! It should be the absolute standard.
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u/FarOrganization8267 Jan 27 '23
i have not met one person who didn’t experience significant pain getting theirs in. my sister (in ca) got a paracervical block and a prescription for tramadol for the rest of the day and still had pain. i got mine (in ar) was denied any sort of pain management including being told i can’t take any otc “so i don’t bleed too much” and i ended up in the er getting iv fluids (2 liters) with tramadol and promethazine.
i’m terrified to get mine out bc my sisters doc told her they don’t do any pain management for removal and she said it hurt less than it would putting it in without any meds but it still was enough she had to be wheeled out after.
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u/RabbitDownInaHole Jan 27 '23
Shoving a camera in peoples faces at their work because you didn’t like they way something went and then posting it online.
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u/Callsign_Havoc Jan 27 '23
Mandatory overtime. Hire enough staff or don't take more work than your current staff can handle. I don't live to work, work I work to live and I can't live if I am at work from dark to dark. I have been with my current employer for several years and O/T has never been mandatory, the minute they do I will be looking for a new job because I'll be damned if they cut into my time with my wife and kid
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u/The_Hot_Stepper Jan 27 '23
Laying off workers to cut costs without first cutting ceo and upper managements pay
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u/Zitata_Gautama Jan 27 '23
Smoking in your car while you have children in there too.
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u/BoringNameBoringLife Jan 27 '23
Members of Congress can hold their seat as long as they want. Literally until death. What the hell
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u/550treedude Jan 27 '23
Insufficient funds charges like get take my money I already don't have
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u/Nhh223 Jan 27 '23
I'm going through this right now!
Amazon Prime subscription defaulted to an account that I didn't have enough funds in. Overdrawn, so I Zelle'd myself money from my other bank to keep a positive balance.
My account was positive last night.
This morning, the Zelle transaction is "pending" and my account was considered overdrawn. They charged a fee.
This is a predatory practice that BoA was sued for, I believe.
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u/hivuliese Jan 27 '23
Those super bright headlights that make it impossible for the rest of us to see. Fuck the engineer that designed it and their manager that made it standard.
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u/Smooth-Mirror-457 Jan 27 '23
Children's beauty pageants. I can't imagine they're good for anything except pedophiles.
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u/Nugbuddy Jan 28 '23
Becoming a cop with less knowledge of the law than self-appointed lawyers.
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u/TruuTree Jan 27 '23 edited Jan 28 '23
Convincing kids they have to go to college to be successful and forcing them into loans they’ll never get ahead of as a means for paying for said schooling.
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u/Bulky_Rabbit6442 Jan 27 '23
Leaving your cart sitting in the parking lot after shopping
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u/Internal-Plenty-8948 Jan 28 '23
BMW heated seat subscriptions. Digital Rights Management. Artificially preventing hacking to unlock features on devices you fully own.
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u/Jxx Jan 27 '23
raising prices on groceries, blaming it on inflation, then showing record profits
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u/M05E5_ Jan 27 '23
Religions holding salvation behind a paywall.
Looking at you mormons..
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u/squirrelwithnut Jan 28 '23
Giving out executive bonuses in the same year that the company has massive layoffs.
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u/Kitsune_Scribe Jan 27 '23
Having your doctor refuse to let women get certain treatment done without consent of the husband or a man.
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u/Sabre_One Jan 27 '23
Pet Rent.
Deposit? Sure. Potentially raking in a extra $1,000s of dollars a year because I have a cat? No.
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u/LiliAtReddit Jan 28 '23
In the USA, your health care being tied to your job, and that job’s ability to both fire you and stop your health care in the same month. And then, if we don’t find a way to get and pay for health coverage while unemployed, we get penalized for it in year end federal taxes.
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u/sparklingshanaya Jan 27 '23
Charging convenience fee for online transactions