I'd outlaw sauce bottles which make getting it all out harder, especially the ones which don't have the opening at the bottom and make it impossible to put the bottle with the opening facing downwards.
Smokers smoking near non-smokers. Even outside. Go pollute your own air, not everyone's.
Can't wait until they pass a law banning "smoking within 10m of another person outdoors" so we can play "chase the smoker!" game and they have to run away from us or face a fine.
Make it illegal in all public spaces. Do that shit at home.
Single-use plastic packaging! All packaging now comes in a set of standard ISO sizes and satisfying some engineering constraints and requirements. You get a Coke from a convenience store - it comes as a 0.5L glass bottle. You finish with it, put it on a rack inside the store with all the other empty 0.5L bottles to be taken back to the factory to be washed and inspected for chips and reused. It could be filled with Pepsi next time! Just slap on a new paper label.
I wouldn't call it a silly issue myself. I'd ban all plastic packaging unless proven to have no alternative. I'm also infiuriated with countries for making easily recyclable materials actively hard to recycle: speaking of glass. They make it so you have to take it to a recycling point, which can be sparse depending on your idea. Glass and metals are amazing for recycling. But no, make everything plastic and actively push people away from purchasing glass by making them have to go out of their way to recycle it. Plastic bottles frequently aren't even better. I had multiple plastic sauce bottles break akin to glass and leak out.
which can be sparse depending on your idea
Yes! Which is why my idea is to have a collection point at every point of sale. And the first aim will be to reuse the packaging, not even recycle it (melt it down)! This is why ISO standardization is necessary - you don't want to keep track of Coke bottles and Pepsi bottles, they need to be identical. The same truck that delivers a pallet of bottles from the factory to your store will take the pallet of empties out.
I cannot agree on the reuse. The amount of CO2 emited from the extra transportation and water wasted on cleaning, plus the possibility of lower sanitary quality all add into it making less sense than recycling, but perhaps I'm wrong and those are of lesser negative value than the process of recycling.
The numbers I heard is that reusing a bottle is less energy intensive than melting it down. It's sanitary if you sterilize it properly by heating to >100°C, which is still much less energy than heating it to 1723°C to melt. As for water, I try to think on a 100 year time scale, where water is a renewable resource, but plastic is not.
It's true that the energy savings will be wasted if you end up trucking the pallet of glass soda bottles all the way across America! But you shouldn't be trucking bottles that far anyway - you should be sending rail tanker cars full of syrup to a bottling plant in each state and use local water to mix it.
Everything should be glass or aluminum. Preferably aluminum since you don't really have to worry about mixtures and cleaning it, you just melt it down and reshape it. With glass, you have to separate out the different types, and it still breaks down each recycle, I believe, since they mix silica with other compounds to make different kinds of glass.
I honestly don't understand stand why plastic beverage bottles are still a thing. Cans work perfectly. And if you insist on bottles, they can make aluminum cans too.
Single use plastic in general. I skipped bagging my veggies at the grocer today because it felt wasteful.
I’m on board with this except instead of reusable glass bottles that need to be transported around, you’re responsible for your own reusable bottle/mug/thermos and you can only get beverages from a soda fountain.
Bottled water in every country where the tap water is safe to drink.
Asking for or even suggesting tips of any kind anywhere. Also gratuities, service fees, and any other kind of made up fee. Show a price, end of story.
Also outlaw not including taxes. Show full complete prices.
Sirens and emergency vehicle noise in songs or advertising on radio.
I'd make it illegal to park in no parking zones, bike lanes, and turning lanes...
radio chatter from an inexplicable earpiece
What do you mean that's already fucking illegal??
Going off OP's thought--the pump or spray bottles whose design and/or straw length makes it literally impossible to get the last bit of product out. I've had some where the straw just plain ends about 1/2" from the bottom so there was never even a chance to use all the product you paid for.
The worst part is I've also used spray bottles that--through very minor design tweaks--enable you to get virtually every speck of liquid. So it's not like it's even hard problem to solve, but fuck you just throw out the last 10% and buy a new bottle!
Checking receipts when you leave a store. They have cameras everywhere and they can access my receipt through their computer system. I already paid, this is my stuff, they shouldn't be able to detain me without suspicion I stole something.
I don't raise a stink with the poor person checking receipts, though, because I am not an asshole.
I already paid, this is my stuff, they shouldn't be able to detain me without suspicion I stole something.
They can't. That would be mega illegal. All they can do is ask you to stop and show your receipt, and you can just ignore them and keep walking. Or if you're feeling extra polite, say "have a nice day" and keep walking.
I was at BJ's wholesale, where they always check every receipt. Usually it's just a cursory glance, but one day they had some cop wannabe checking off every item on the receipt, causing a huge backup. I pushed my cart past the line and left. The guy chased me out into the parking lot, took my plate number and told me he was calling the cops. Nothing came of it, but it embarrassed the shit out of my partner.
I went home and did a bunch of research. From what I found, there aren't a lot of cases that addressed the issue, but I found a two civil cases where people were physically detained after refusing to show their receipt. They sued for false arrest and their cases were both dismissed. I'm not a lawyer and there may be newer case law on this.
I hate the checks, but it isn't worth it to me to risk dealing with cops when I'm not getting anything from it and making someone else's job harder.
I found a two civil cases where people were physically detained after refusing to show their receipt.
But I'm pretty sure that isn't a civil issue. That's a whole bunch of crimes, involving the violence committed in the process of detaining you and the kidnapping / imprisonment itself. What happens when you call the cops and say "this person tackled me leaving the store and accused me of theft, here is my receipt"
I mean it's a cop so you never know, but what's supposed to happen is that guy gets arrested for the unlawful violence he committed against you, and like definitely 1000% fired at least because every store has a policy against that shit
The customer sued the store civilly for false arrest after security held them.
If you called a cop they would say, "it's a civil issue" because cops don't do shit when businesses do crime to consumers.
BJs is a club, it's in terms of the membership. Same with SAMs, and Costco.
On the other hand, other stores can't detain you, it's not covered under "shop keepers privilege". Watch you-tube on shop keepers privilege if you want to learn the laws around that. Also be careful, stores can and will legally evict you (some stores are petty as fuck like that) and then if you go there, you're trespassing and can be arrested. It's generally legal to deny a member of the public access to your store for any reason, as long as it's not a prohibited reason under federal discrimination laws.
That's exactly what the shopkeepers privilege is, an immunity to false arrest claims when they have suspicion you've stolen something.
The two cases I found, the judges decided that refusing to show the receipt was enough to provide that suspicion
Car locks that trigger the horn and lights. Whatever asshole engineer decided that was a good idea (instead of just making the key fob blink or something) clearly has never had neighbors.
Christmas creping into October. Like it already dominates all of December and November, leave Halloween alone.
People at work were talking about going to a store that already has Christmas stuff set up. It's getting ridiculous...
Oh yea, I was at the store today to replenish refrigerator and there were December stuff being sold already. Bit odd. ^ ^'
Dude, the local Costco had Xmas stuff up ON MOTHERFUCKING LABOR DAY WEEKEND.
I also thought infringing on Halloween's sovereign retail space was going to far, but this is literal insanity.
I feel like Halloween sections of stores are smaller this year to make room for Christmas stuff
I'd outlaw drive through.
No longer will that fucking line up for coffee reach down the road and over the horizon in the morning. The sitting there for twenty minutes, idling your car as you watch the person in front of you park in the middle of the intersection like an asshole. No.
Go, park, use the magic of being a biped.
Now there's no excuse. You either drink the coffee at work, or face that Starbucks barista you know secretly hates you. Biped your way in the door, get your morning fix with confidence because fuck mark, no barista is going to ruin your day.
Not while I'm there banning drive throughs to ruin it for you.
Edit: Barista. I don't even know what a batista is but could potentially be a bad ass.
no batista is going to ruin your day.
Idk, Fulgencio Batista was pretty bad all things considered.
I don't use the drive through because I'm lazy. I use it so I can have the most minimal amount of human contact possible
Postman must knock and wait 5 minutes for you to answer the door by law. If you have proof that they didn't knock or wait the required time they must redeliver the parcel by way of barbershop quartet at a time that is convenient for you.
Useage of roller suitcases is now bound to a license and it gets taken away if you do some inconsiderate shit like blocking off half the walkway with it behind you to gawk at a sign or run over peoples feet with it
Could probably further this to most things around having 0 spatial awareness but that one the most
