Legal systems are constantly changing. You can count on one thing: as time goes by and societal norms shift, the laws that govern us will also be altered to adapt to a different era. And many people are fairly optimistic. They hope that new laws will create a better, brighter, safer future for everyone.
Redditor u/seesnawsnappy sparked an interesting discussion about what the future of our planet might look like. They asked everyone to share their thoughts on the things that are legal now that might not be in the future, and many of the answers really make you think about what needs to be improved. We’ve collected some of the most interesting insights, so scroll down to check them.
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Child beauty pagents, I hope.
Anyone seen Dance Moms? Bout the same. Dress female children in revealing costumes, choreograph sexual moves, but it's cool if you're rich? Poor kids, used and abused, to feed parent's ego
Don’t have these where I come from. Are they for boys and girls or is it just girls?
Like the adult version of beauty pageants, they are typically just for girls. They make children look like teenagers or adults and there is nothing good about them. Usually just a mother living their list dreams through their kids.
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Hopefully there will be legal restrictions on influencers using their children to make money. As far as I know, there’s nothing in place now that protects these kids like there would be if they were on a tv set.
I‘m going even further and say there should be heavy restrictions even if there is no money involved. (Some people need fame and glory, even if there‘s no money in it.) Leave your kids‘ faces off the internet! Do you know why YouTube kids deactivated the comments function? Because on family vlogs, people were posting timestamps where the children could be seen in their underwear, swimwear, poses that could be misinterpreted etc.
In the US the 1st amendment says it's going to be extremely difficult to stop these morons except when there's an obvious risk or injury to the kids.
Hopefully social media will be illegal due to its damaging effects on society.
I don't know a whole ton about what goes into making law. What I do know is there's a lot of consideration and careful wording. If a law states no child under a certain age can be filmed for monetary gain, that can affect child actors for movies and film, as well as unintentional incrimination of content creators who happen to have kids in their videos despite not actually using the kids to make content. It can get sticky and dicey. I think that's why there isn't a law yet. Could be one in the making, though. Plus, there's a whole regional aspect to consider. One country or state could impose a law, but not others. Would that region ban any content featuring kids? Or will they allow that content but charge content creators in that jurisdiction? So much to consider.
Marrying minors.
There is a book, I am Nujood Aged 10 and Divorced. Nujood was forcibly married and abused but saught out a human rights lawyer and got divorced. The age for marriage in Yemen was raised to 18. The mullahs objected on religious grounds and the age of marriage (sale) is now whatever the father wants. How are you ever going to ban child marriage in a culture like this?
In Iran it is 13 for a girl, how their families dont see how sick this is i will never know.
I'm guessing since they seem to think virginity is some vaunted thing.
Load More Replies...There are quite a few states that have disgustingly low ages for this. If you're going to do this $hit - emancipate them so they can legally defend themselves.
Most states allow marriage to a .inor with a parents signature.
Load More Replies...Fairly recently the law was changed in the UK so no one is allowed to marry under 18 (raised from 16 with parental consent) to help prevent forced marriages.
Well, hell, that'll depopulate West Virginia. Oh, wait... I thought you spelled "miners" wrong. Oh, wait... same difference. (IT"S A JOKE! California is where marrying children is legal. Sadly, that's not a joke. Some other states, like Mississippi, leave it up to judges, but have not cases of judges approving marriages to children under 16.)
S****y "joke". And California requires parental permission, a meeting with a judge, and a 30 day waiting period.
Load More Replies...Change, real positive change, takes a very long time to ‘stick.’ It’s not a given that the laws that govern society will automatically get better and better. Progress isn’t a given. If you want a specific outcome, you have to fight for it. Changing laws and institutions for the better often takes years, if not decades, of dedication, perseverance, and compromise.
First, you must define what ‘better’ and ‘progress’ might mean for you and society. While one individual might value economic progress and scientific innovations, another might see harmony with nature as a sign of a truly advanced and empathetic civilization.
Moreover, even though international law exists, one nation’s laws can be very much at odds with another’s. Progress (however you choose to define it) in one geographical place and one era isn’t guaranteed elsewhere and during another time period.
Hopefully, declawing cats for non-medical reasons. It’s highly discouraged nearly everywhere and states are starting to ban it.
Already illegal in Australia. The US is often way behind (I mean, they didn't let women vote until 1920!)
My state (Delaware) it's not only illegal to declaw cats, but all of our shelters are no-kill, by law
We don't do that here in the UK, i cant understand why you would want to anyway!!
People who declawed their cats should have their fingers shortened or removed entirely
My state no longer allows it. On a side note, that's one of the prettiest kittens I've ever seen.
I was going to comment on how gorgeous that kitty it too!
Load More Replies...My parents declawed my now thirteen-year-old cat when she was about two. ONly her front claws. They thought they only took the cats claws off, not half of their toes. :( but at least they realized and stopped it. Now she has fluffy mittens on her front and sharp back floofs.
Prolonging suffering in patients kept artificially alive, with no hope of a meaningful recovery, by guilty family members.
Oh and for profit healthcare.
I also think consensual euthanasia should be an option like a DNR especially with people with Alzheimer’s or dementia
In some countries it is. It's rather complicated with dementia, because you should always be allowed to change your mind. So what happens if you are one of the people that vowed you'd rather die than get into a nursing home, and you made a living will about this situation, but it suddenly went really fast and now you are too far gone and it is hard to determine if you are still mentally there enough to decide anything - should we trust 'old you' or 'current you'? I'm just trying to give an example of how it can be super complex sometimes, which mostly means that even in countries where this is an option, you have to be... on time, I guess.
Load More Replies...This is something that needs to be assessed by an ethics committee, with the family being made aware. We currently have a national scandal ongoing because of 2 ICU doctors accused of arbitrarily taking patients out of life support, for "efficiency" reasons. There is no legal background for such unilateral decision and reasons, so they'll be put on trial.
We should have the right do die (decent) if we want (and get proper psychological help and information beforehand). I don't think the fear of being misused should stop us from providing help for those who don't want to live. It's cruel in my opinion. I didn't want this for my grandma, I don't want it for and wouldn't want it for my pets - suffering with live when it's not livable anymore ( and I include the declining will to live. Not everyone wants to be here. Just like not everyone wants children. Both is biologically maybe unusual but valid.)
In my state in Victoria it is legal for people with certain conditions (needs reform because it's too strict in my opinion). All have to be assessed by a psychiatrist and then the process is three questions- do you wish to die (paraphrasing)? Do you understand if you proceed you will die? Do you wish to proceed? Then they are administered a lethal injection. It has to be done by a machine to avoid any abuse by a doctor or family member etc.
Load More Replies...Um, do you want your organs to be harvested while you're alive? Maybe I'm just crazy, but I've always been under the impression that somebody's organs save others after the donor is dead.
Load More Replies...Well, I had a friend whose father was terminal and in pain who wouldn't take him off life support bc she felt this was some sort of horrible atrocity. And became offended that the doctors even mentioned it as an option. In fact, I've known a few people who get offended when something like this is even brought up as an option. It's fine if you don't want to do it. But don't get angry at medical practioners who are obligated to give you all the info. The majority of patient's families I've seen who are the least willing to let someone go are either #1) religious reasons, or #2) actually had a really chaotic relationship with the loved one and haven't made peace yet.
Load More Replies...I wouldn't be on hurry with that. Recent studies show, that a lot of coma patients, who were looked at as "vegetative", can actually understand what people around are saying and can perform some tasks, when asked to imagine doing something (it's shown in MRI). So basically they are in their minds, just trapped, but that doesn't mean they want to die.
Canada already has right to die laws. But it's not perfect, and not all doctors are for it.
Charging subscriptions for things we bought.
It is more likely that buying things will get banned. Everything will be a subscription. We are already subscribing our homes and cars...
Load More Replies...Difficult topic. I understand and agree, but a) companies are wise enough to carefully word what you 'buy' - you will end up having "bought" an item, and only an item, and then subscribe to use its features or similar b) there’s a ton of things that you buy and still have to pay subscriptions for, for example online mmos - you pay for the game and then a subscription for using the servers.
You bought the thing, the software that makes the thing useful requires server space, bandwidth, massive amounts of energy, and constant maintenance by many software developers to keep functioning and secure. All the professional creative software that's moved to subscription is in kind of the same boat. Yes, there are many instances of software being horribly overpriced, but when it comes to stuff from Adobe, Maxon and Autodesk, subscription service has made that software much more accessible to a wider ranger of people who don't have the money to spend $700-$5000 per year to keep their software up to date.
Every year. Used to be we bought it once and were done. I don't need the latest version of Adobe. I need 1 functioning Adobe. I miss when things were on disks. And I hate when they change stuff just to change it.
Load More Replies...I am years off Adobe products. Enough alternatives, who seize the chance to position themselves.
There are so many areas where you can potentially make improvements to the legal system that it can feel utterly overwhelming. Where do you start?
Do you prioritize the fight to protect the environment and push back against climate change? Or do you go for social justice first?
Do you dedicate your resources to changing and improving society’s perspective on mental and physical health? Do you fight for greater transparency in politics and business? Or do you focus on what’s new, fresh, and what seemingly everyone’s talking about? E.g., creating better regulations and building a framework to protect workers from potentially losing their jobs in the future due to developments in the artificial intelligence and machine learning fields?
Companies holding onto your information FOREVER. There needs to be a "right to forget" rule for ISPs, google, websites etc.
I'm ok with some regulation on it (like this post suggests), but if companies couldn't sell it, there would be virtually no free services online. Google would have to charge. Facebook. Instagram. All of them pay for the fun services they offer by selling info.
Load More Replies...Contacting them IS NOT CONSENT to sell it. BUYING from them is NOT consent to sell it. Unless explicit OPT IN permission is given, it should be illegal. NO, you should NOT have to "uncheck a box" to avoid spam, it should be empty by default.
Event hough many countries already have legislation in place, and are giving the likes of Google, Apple, X,and Facebook hundreds of millions euro/dollars in fines, these companies refuse to do anything and keep appealing, because they think everything should fall under-the absence of-US legislation. Their shareholders have the right to more money, instead of the rights of the public
I used PayPal quite extensively before my arrest in late '10. I was released eleven years later. PayPal cannot handle that I no longer have the account I had 14 years ago.
wont work. they probably need to keep the information for legal reasons.
There needs to be a obligation to MAKE forgotten - at least in the publicly available realms of whatever sort. Nothing is stored for free, even if the web won't forget, it does so for somebody wanting it to. That is our point we gotta target, by making - generally any illegal activity by companies - prohibitively expensive to get caught and prohibitively certain to get caught. Other means fails since companies were first founded.......
Puppy mills/domestic pet breeding in the US without proper licenses and regulations.
Probably because the person doesn't know about the legislation in other countries and decided to only speak for their own
Load More Replies...I believe Indianapolis IN put in law or ordiance to do this. If you are going to breed dogs, not sure, but you have to have a license of some kind and you can only breed dogs so many times a year.
Already happening state-by-state in the US. My state finally banned them 2 years ago.
You have to have commercial breeders licence, meet legal requirements and every pup is electronically tagged.
Presidential immunity.
As originally envisaged (as I understand it anyway, apologies if wrong) presidential immunity wasn't supposed to be a get-out-of-jail-free card for any act ever committed by anyone who was ever president.
Well, a certain someone certainly thinks so. Or thinks it should be.
Load More Replies...While some laws have good intentions, they don’t always align with science. The BBC reports that New York recently passed a law on regulating “addictive” social media feeds for kids: the Stop Addictive Feeds Exploitation (SAFE) for Kids Act. The point of the law is to protect children from the dangers of the online world. The idea is that from 2025 onwards, parental consent will be required before kids under 18 years of age can use apps with “addictive feeds.” In other words, it’s an attempt to push back against algorithmic recommendations in social media app feeds, which can hook users in.
Furthermore, the law aims to prevent apps from sending kids notifications between midnight and 6 am. Also, better age verification will be required, while kids will also be protected from having their personal data collected.
However, as the BBC points out, the science regarding social media use isn’t as clear-cut as it might seem. While some warn that social media (over)use can be very damaging to people’s mental and emotional health, other researchers note that moderate use can have a positive effect.
Corporations buying up family homes as income streams.
These greedy slimes are turning millions of people into perma-rents who can't afford homes - and if they can, get denied mortgages even if the monthly payment is lower than the rent they are currently paying.
The corporations don't need to worry about interest rates. That's the real problem: doubling interest rates. See, when you rent, a bank doesn't have to worry about whether you'll be able to pay rent rain or shine for the next 30 years. And of course, the high, high, high price of housing in the first place is also a problem. High prices are the result of high demand (a quickly growing population despite a less-than-replacement birth rate) and low supply. Now, what policies cause high interest rates? High population growth rates despite low birth rates? Low supply? Uncontrolled spending. Lack of immigration enforcement. Zoning laws. Building regulations. Preventing American construction from buying American assets while selling them off to China.
Load More Replies..."Everyone should eat before anyone gets seconds" should apply to housing.
This will never be a law. That would mean no rentals, and there is a high demand for rentals. The biggest problem is sky-high rent for basic apartments, and absentee landlords. There should be a law banning foreign landlords buying up apartments and letting them run down. A few buildings in my city have already been deemed uninhabitable due to unsafe structural issues, forcing tenants immediate evictions. Tenants still can't retrieve their belongings, are living in hotels, thanks to the city. The city is suing the property owners.
I've heard some people say nobody should even be allowed more than one home. But we do need rentals as some people just don't want the responsibility of home ownership. So I am fine with individuals owning 2nd homes for income. It's the corporations that need to stay out of it all.
I’m fine with corporations that own several rental properties…possibly even hundreds as long as they’re not price fixing the rental markets they’re in. The real issue in my opinion is companies like black rock that have armies of realtors buying 10s of thousands of properties a year. They target a city or region, buy everything they can to reduce supply and increase property values based on demand. Then, they own the rental market and can increase rental rates. They come in with cash offers over asking price because due to their volume and cash power, they can operate on much slimmer margins than small landlords. It’s like when Walmart killed local stores, except the local stores in this scenario are small developers and single families. It’d be nice if the politicians used our existing anti-trust laws to end this stupid game.
Load More Replies...Some developer wanted to buy up several single-family homes and build high rises. My pastor fought to rally opposition with his last breath, because they were "homes for rich people." I told him, "do you think RICH people are going to go homeless, or sleep in cars? No, they're going to buy the homes that poor people would be able to afford, and make them too expensive." He won. The county demanded that x% of the new housing be set aside as affordable housing, and the developers instead decided to buy up a bunch of family homes, fix them up and offer them as high-end rental properties. But my pastor died believing he stood up for the poor! By the way, the name for these corporations is REIT: Real Estate Investment Trust. I briefly worked for one before realizing I was helping the Chinese screw American homeowners. (The REIT wasn't Chinese; the investors were.)
Maybe the introduction of some system where instead of renting, you buy it over time. Basically if you've rented a place for 20 or more years you should own it
I n the UK you could buy council housing you have lived in for a number of years at a huge discount. Keep it the minimum no. of years renting it out, then sell it a profit. Result: net loss of social housing.
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Unpaid internships.
"Unpaid internships" are used to keep the wealthy and powerful in power, to prevent the poor from earning their way into halls of privilege.
Banned here. No freebies except strangely for undergraduates who have to undertake work experience and that needs to go because they need to earn to live.
Maybe that´s because child labour is prosecuted in Europe. Therefore you have to make an internship (for a few week during your school years) without a salary. If you finish school before you are 18 and begin a job or a training, you are allowed to earn money or a "training allowance". And before you haven´t finished a vocational training or university your parents have a maintenance obligation (up to 25 years more or less).
Load More Replies...How is unpaid internship even legal? It's voluntary slavery just to "see" what an industry is like? These days you can discover that by doing research.
Unpaid internships are illegal in the US except under certain very tight restrictions. If the person you’re calling an intern is doing any sort of productive work, from filing to making copies to getting coffee, they have to be paid at least the (ridiculous) Federal minimum. The fact that most so called internship are just unpaid scut work is one of many contributors that make wage theft in the US an unprosecuted multibillion dollar crime spree every year.
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Those really bright headlights in cars.
OMG yes. Nearly drove into a ditch the other day because all I could see was BRIGHT LIGHT.
Germany has so many regulations and jet it seems that the headlights of cars can be bright and misangled. Same with bikes. When I'm blinded by cars, bikes (and scooters lately) lights because they are too bright and misangled from 500m far, that's so dangerous. And I'm only a pedestrian or ride my own bike. What with all the car drivers that can't see good enough. They must all be guessing it's ok to just drive further whereas I am an pedestrian have someone's to stop because I really don't see if there is something in my way (besides the bike or scooter) probably
Some places are now allowing tint on the front windshield/windscreen to help the drivers see better. But in my opinion all that does is give more people ways to get away with breaking different laws along with not being able to see the driver clearly. I guess it's also the old person in me (my side and back windows are legally tinted) the ones I have seen so far are so dark how the heck do they see?
Yes, but I have also seen so many that flicker and change colours which is really distracting. I don't know if it's purposeful or a fault but it seems to be every forth car.
I need to wear sunglasses at night just as a pedestrian and passenger. I could never drive at night and be safe.
So...you'd rather that the people driving the 2-4 ton vehicle at speeds of 60-120kpm have less visibility to see other cars, pedestrians, and animals? Their existence isn't the problem, the people who don't understand their use are the problem, but getting rid of them altogether just creates a much more serious problem.
The issue is arsehats who install their own headlights incorrectly, blinding oncoming drivers.
Load More Replies...What do you think might become illegal in the far-off future, Pandas? Are you optimistic about the way things are changing or do you think the legal system might work against your interests? What do you personally think legal and social progress looks like? Share your opinions in the comments.
Not having safe staffing ratios in all medical facilities. A nurse to patient ratio in ltc of 1:40 is not safe.
My mom works night shifts in the mom and baby unit at my nearby hospital. She says even three to four patients require a ton of maintenance.
THIS! Unfortunately, healthcare has lost it's 'patient first' focus and is more 'business first' while still saying that they are "patient first." It's sad and burdening our healthcare system.
Ads for sports gambling .
Ads in general. Newspapers with ads, ads in tv - all fine by me, you provide a service and need money, I understand that. But ads in public places? Hell no. I don’t want to see giant digital screens everywhere when I‘m just taking a stroll through town.
Add to that, football teams having a gambling website or company as their shirt sponsor. Lots of kids buy replica shirts and become unwitting walking adverts.
Load More Replies...almost makes sports unwatchable. and im a huge sports fan. not a gambler at all
I find these ads hilarious. Bright cheerful voice and pop music, "Place a bet on your favourite team, hang out with your mates and double your chance of winning with the new sports bet app.". Immediately cut to no music and serious low pitch, but quickly spoken voice, "Gambling is a serious issue, you lose more than you win. For help contact xxxxxxx"
Posting your child’s entire life on a social media app.
When I was eight, my dad took a video of me crying without my permission, then posted it on social media. He was imitating me crying in the video, too. Also, IORN, I knew exactly what social media was and what he was doing, as he'd been abusing me like this since I was three. I'm writing this at fourteen years old in my dad's basement (Technically it's my stepmom's, he's already divorced two times but just got remarried... again.) on my school Chromebook at 12:45 in the morning because I can't sleep because my dad won't give me the proper medication I need for sleep. I've been trying to research ways to forgive my dad and not be mad at him for the continual abuse, the hospitalizations (AKA prison), and the fact that he caused me to attempt suicide once, and almost again the other day and at this point I think I might drop out of school. So, IORN, please don't talk about things YOU don't understand. Thanks to those who commented as you guys have given me more therapy in one comment than my psychologist has in my seven years of seeing him. It's nice to see there's still some good in this world.
That's parental bullying. It was cruel and inappropriate. Why would you humiliate your child like that? I'm sorry you've been through this :(
Load More Replies...With the current birthrates the issue will resolve itself shorty.
You make it sound like no babies are being born... don't be a population control zealot.
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Children’s “reform” camps, treatment centers, wilderness programs, etc.
Hundreds, if not *thousands* of “troubled” children have been sent to these camps only to be abused in various ways by the adults that are responsible for them. I’m surprised they’re not outlawed even now, but I guess I shouldn’t be given that it’s an entire industry based on exploiting children that need help.
As someone who was sent to both a wilderness program and a treatment center without any actual problems that needed treatment (no d***s or alcohol, I wasn't in an abusive relationship, I just became a teenager) these can be helpful for some, but they really need more regulation and oversight.
I’m impressed & admire the way Paris Hilton has been campaigning against these and advocating for victims of them.
As a survivor of Provo Canyon School (the one Paris Hilton also went to) I agree. If my parents had stripped me and locked me naked in a closet they could have gone to prison for child abuse. But slap a license on a facility and call nude isolation "treatment"...somehow it's a-okay?
They are essentially protected if they guise it as a religious retreat.
Single use plastic (I hope).
I wish they would ban all plastic. It was designed to be indestructible and it has literally taken over the world. I hate it and try to avoid it wherever I can but it's difficult when 99% of things are either made from plastic or packaged in it.
Some single use plastics are essential, such as syringes and other medical devices. I do agree we should stop using plastic for convenience
Stop buying it (beverage cans as well) if you can. Too many people still do not think what they are doing and leaving them everywhere, even if you get 0,25 € deposit for it. Therefore you can see many people walking around collecting them to gain some money, sadly (often elderly people). One mans trash is another ones treasure.
Ban plastic bags used in super markets. Have people buy reusable totes. I have three. Now that I am retired I buy my main groceries for the whole month. I would probably use five or six plastic bags instead of three totes bags.
Making deepfake AI p**n of other people without their consent.
I know some places have passed laws already, but I think it will be illegal almost everywhere after 25 years.
Long before AI, people were doing simple photoshoping fakes and hardly anyone did anything about it. I doubt they would in the future. Even if it's illegal, it would barely be enforced. The only times where it is enforced is when someone is actively going out of their way to make it public - like making a fake video of a woman then intentionally sending it to all her friends, family colleagues etc.
In Victoria, Australia, it is illegal and multiple people have been charged already.
Load More Replies...AI in general, until it is legislated and ethical, ensuring that it can not plagiarize artists.
Fun fact: Producing porn is illegal in nearly every state. California is unique in deciding that just about no form of porn violates "community standards of decency," even rape porn. A string of California Attorneys General have promulgated this legally unique position. Tough call for Americans: one candidate paid a porn star not to claim to have had sex with him; and the other fought to continue to enable people to produce porn which not only depicted rape, coerced sex, and incest, but also claimed that the depicted rape, coerced sex and incest were real.
First, legally define exactly what porn is and second, tell everyone why it should be illegal. Then tell us all how it is not a step onto a slippery slope.
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With any luck, members of Congress buying stocks.
Term limits is a scam. The rich want to buy cheap politicians every couple terms. Incumbents are expensive.
Load More Replies...The problem isn't congressmen buying stocks. It's being able to make their own decisions about which stocks to buy or sell when they have insider knowledge about the likely effect of pending legislation. That's what needs to be prohibited, either by requiring them to have stocks bought or sold by an independent agent, or by very heavily taxing profits that may have resulted from trades based on insider knowledge.
With any luck, members of Congress, period, unless they can show brain activity.
Will individuals need to should brain activity before they’re allowed to vote? Sounds like a great standard, perhaps a literacy test would be the solution.
Load More Replies...They should be paid ONLY the minimum wage, and get ONLY what normal citizens qualify for, instead of lifelong paychecks and Healthcare even after they are replaced... I mean what kind of people can be objective of their patrons views from their glass towers.
no one would work as a polictian if they are paid minimum wage. absolutely no one.
Load More Replies...Most of the people in congress, at least on the Republican side, are there for fame and fortune, and do not care one bit to come up with programs to help America.
I'm not a fan of either party, but I would like to point out that being there for the wrong reasons isn't restricted to either party.
Load More Replies...So they should not be able to invest their assets in a mutual fund and, if they had a 401k before they got elected, they would have. to cash it out with the pre-retirement penalties?
Conversion therapy, it's outlawed in a lot of places, but there's still a lot that need to catch up.
"Therapy" intended to change a gay person to become straight. It's one thing if an adult seeks out such "treatment" of their own choosing, everyone should have the right to choose that. But most conversion therapies were forced on minors against their wishes, which is not only wrong, it was totally ineffective too.
Load More Replies..."I don't want my teen son to be gay, so I'll send him out to the woods to love with a bunch of other gay teen boys". Flawless logic lol
Leaving trash in orbit.
There aren't that many global players concerning space flight, so it wouldn't be to complicated. Also every space organization is aware of the problem and some are actively trying to intervene.
Load More Replies...Consider all of the things that have become ubiquitous in our lives that were by byproducts of the science done by NASA for the space program. A great many things exist (or were improved upon) because of it. You have water purification systems, foil blankets, athletic shoes, camera/smartphones, scratch resistant lenses, CAT scans, landmine removal tech, adjustable smoke detectors, laptop computers, artificial limbs, baby formula, memory foam, wireless headsets, the jaws of life, home insulation, ear thermometers, dust busters and more, all as a result or side effect of the space program. Plus, you really don't pay that much for it, compared to other national budget items. I think space exploration is profoundly important. It is our nature to explore frontiers, to go see what is beyond the next horizon. From my perspective, you sound like the "taxed enough already" crowd that lingers around libertarian movements in the U.S and, recently, found a home in the *shudder* Trump movement.
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Tanning Beds. I cannot fathom why they are legal now.
Tbf- although I don't condone tanning, I live in Michigan and during our winter months there is an actual epidemic of chronic low vitamin D due to lack of sunlight. And unfortunately there are also people who cannot absorb vitamin D through supplements effectively as well. Currently I am on 50,000 IU vitamin D pills and it's only September. I'm hoping I can keep my levels up through the winter. When it drops to low levels it's very painful because it greatly affects bone strength. I still do not use tanning beds, but for this reason alone I can see them being medically beneficial. But they should not be used solely for aesthetic purposes.
I too avoid them, but once a winter or so, when I can't get rid of the chill, where you are just cold down to your bones and can't get rid of it, I'll hop in one of those and roast like a chicken for a few minutes. Does the trick every time.
Load More Replies...I personally think people should be free to make their own choices. Just cause you don’t like them doesn’t mean other people don’t
It's illegal to operate a commercial solarium anywhere in Australia - we already have the highest skin cancer rates in the world and at least one person a week was dying from skin cancer attributed to sunbeds - there's no such thing as a safe tan.
Load More Replies...Some people have skin conditions and use artifical lighting to help dry their skin out.
There’s a breakdown in reason trying to regulate free will when it’s harmful when it comes to things like tanning beds. Oh no, I can’t tan indoors in an air conditioned room. But I really really really want a tan (as is the case with those who use them) even tho it’s horrible for me. Whatever can I do without tanning beds? The point would be to limit exposure to cancer causing rays. The same ones being outdoors in direct sunlight cause.
People can just get a spray tan if they prefer a darker look
Load More Replies...We can also outlaw tvs, microwave ovens and going outside in the daytime.
Good idea, but do you think it's enough? Why don't we also make it illegal to go out and lay in the sun?
im pretty sure getting natural sun rays is better than a tanning bed.
Load More Replies...These help thousands of people who live in places where sunlight is rare for several months of the year. Think about those who live at or above the arctic circle where it's night for the better part of a month or more in winter and for months on either side of that, it is only twilight for a few hours a day.
Neighbours had one. Every other night, you'd see the purple glimmering shine in their window ... then, he developed a black spot that had a rough surface and looked kinda ... outreaching, like a flattened octopus, he descirbed it (haven't seen it myself, somewhere on his back), and he was off a few weeks. When he returned, I noticed they both looked pale like vampires, and he had lost some weight, and the purple shine never was to be shining again. If at all ... isn't this as medically relevant that it, by sheer ... that ..., regardless of being medically useless in excess at least, should be considered a medical procedure that isn't very well located if placed in the hands of just anybody who wants to spend on such a sunshine casket, as is today.
Reclassify them as medical devices. And regulate them. That will leave them available for the people who need them and take care of most of the people trying to turn themselves into burnt leather shoes.
I honestly can’t believe I can buy an ebike that can go 60 mph and drive it on the road, sidewalk or on bike paths and cops cant do anything about it because it’s technically a bicycle.
Where I live, anything that goes beyond 25 km/h is considered a motor vehicle. That's why e-bikes are limited to power you up to that speed and if you want to go faster you need to use your muscles only. Those bikes that can go faster need a registration and a small license plate.
Correct but there are some food delivery scooters which are limited to 25km/h and are considered bicycles which is stupid. I don't wanna get hit by bicycle which is about 10-15 kg and even less by a scooter clarified as bike which weighs 50kg+
Load More Replies...I'll even add to this - you're also not forced to have insurance. So when you injure someone, tough luck for them because you're not covering it.
Here it's the other way around. If you get involved in an accident, with an e-bike that is capable of exceeding 25kph and/or can run without muscle power, you'll be automatically declared the guilty party. And the insurance companies will decline coverage. By law they have to pay the victims, but then they will seek compensation of the person riding the bike. Imagine the victim becoming disabled for life. You'll be paying back for the rest of your life. Now the government is working on legislation to adres the problem. Minimum age, mandate helmets and specific insurance. This year alone 150+ families are having severe financial difficulties because their 12-15 year old children have caused an accident, and they are liable for the damage. Sometimes they have to make payments out of their social security (income support). What baffles me, is how they could afford to buy such an expensive thing in the first place.
Load More Replies...You can get a ticket for exceeding the speed limit on a horse. The fact that it's a bike does not mean anything.
Where I live all vehicles, motorized or not, must follow the same laws as cars, but non-cars or engines below a certain CC are their own lane on the side, even if one doesn't physically exist.
60mph ebikes like Surron, Talaria, E-Ride are not intended to be used like bicycles. They are meant to be used kinda like gas scooters or e-motos. The most popular bicycle to e-bike kit maker Bafang sets up their kits in a way that they don't exceed 25mph. The most popular e-bike manufacturers, Rad Power, Aventon, Ancheer, Trek, Panasonic, Shimano, Bosch all limit their bikes to 25mph by default but allow for higher speed tuning for "trail use". Many towns with bike paths have speed limits of either 20mph or 25mph powered or otherwise. 60mph e-bike on the sidewalk is most definitely something a cop can and will do something about.
Uh, from personal experience, you can get pulled over for speeding on a bicycle...
Where I live (in the US), ALL bicycles are forbidden from sidewalks (although most people look the other way at little kids using them). ALL bicycles must obey applicable traffic laws. In my particular (red) state, e-bikes that can go over 20 MPH are classified as "Class 3," and are generally restricted from bike paths. My GUESS is that blue states are probably more restrictive.
Prescription d***s advertising, hopefully...
Exactly. If I want to try a new medication, I'll talk to my doctor. I don't need irrelevant medication ads popping up everywhere.
Those ads with the "tell your doctor why something or other is good for you". Geez! They're the ones who went 8-10 years through medical school. They're the ones who should tell me, not me after a 30 second crash course ad.
Load More Replies...Those are annoying. I am disabled and am already a walking pharmacy. Just what I always wanted , to ask for more lol. The doctors are already being bugged to peddle the stuff. Nope
Especially the ads extolling the many benefits of the d**g-de-jour but never get around to saying what it’s actually supposed to cure.
Sirens in radio ads.
Yes! When I'm driving with my radio on and unfamiliar with the song and then... Sirens, immediately freak out
Load More Replies...Major 1st amendment problem in the US, but thinking I hear a siren while driving really pisses me off.
One time I was driving and I though another car was honking its horn at me. It turns out that I was listening to Tito Puente.
Load More Replies...Your are driving your car, listening to the radio and suddenly you hear the sound of an ambulance.
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"Unskippable ads. Fingers crossed.".
or ads in games where have to click the X three to four times before you can finally resume your game.
I've had ads that turn my computer's volume up or back on if I'd turned it off.
I don't mind ads all that much (within reason), but ads in the middle of things really bug me! Like, just play 3-4 ads at the beginning and then leave me alone. Watching movies on Hulu is super annoying about this! Just play them all at the beginning then let me watch my movie through uninterrupted.
The person who wrote this sure has their priorities for the future of humanity in the right place. Don't worry about world hunger or totalitarian dictatorships but we gotta be able to skip those ads. Jesus man.
Lawn treatment that poisons the ground so much so they require signs warning people and dogs. .
America. They have those small yellow signs they put in the lawn.
Load More Replies...HOAs, hopefully.
when looking for a house. a HOA would be an automatic deal-breaker for me.
Had a extremely negative experience with an HOA. The people on it were like dictators. They were like a clique and kept anyone else from joining. Our condo complex had some damage due to a contractor that they were obligated to fix. Until it was fixed, the condos were considered uninhabitable (we all got those neon red stickers). They didn't make anyone move out, but no one could move in until the damage was fixed. The HOA dragged their feet for over a year. Our rental condo sat empty for over a year. We were not allowed to get our own condo fixed. We sued them for not doing the work and we won a nominal amount, just enough to pay the lawyers. Did not receive compensation for the year of vacancy. People, don't buy a property with an HOA!!
I live with an HOA that basically only does a picnic as well as clean up once a year. Any restrictions are through deed restrictions and to modify, add, or delete a restriction requires a 60% vote of homeowners. I have seen none changed or deleted, and only one added in the 30+ years I have lived here.
The fact that none have been changed or deleted may not be a good thing, given the 60% threshhold required.
Load More Replies...All the things I read here on about HOAs and on other websites they are not good.
Oh those things are awful! They nitpick everything. If I have my way and ever go and get a place I am going to find out if it has an HOA before agreeing to be there. Where I am staying now because my bf and I went to the pool too frequently the maintenance man bullied and screamed at me ( come to find out he's also president of the HOA) he hates us for stand up for ourselves and because me being disabled he overheard me mentioning that if I had a seizure due to him stressing me out and making me cry all the time ( to my bf) I was thinking about getting a lawyer. ( I was having more seizures than usual because one of my many disabilities is epilepsy and my meds needed to be adjusted). We are banned for being at the pool because they didn't like us being there too often. ( we didn't bother anyone. We were quiet, nobody but us 2,on our phones, cleaned up after ourselves, drank soda, no noise etc we were just there too often in their opinion).
You need to question what you pay for in that case
Load More Replies...Right? Why are people allowed to buy property and freely enter into a contract with other homeowners?
Not having your kids vaccinated. ^(Hopefully).
In very rare cases, people have allergies to the vaccines. However, this should be the ONLY exception to vaccinations.
And even then there are alternatives of the same vaccination, but without the allergen. For example, the influenza vaccine without traces of egg (= not based on chicken embryos)
Load More Replies...When I was a young'n, you weren't allowed in public schools without your vaccinations being up to date. There wasn't any "religious exemptions", etc. You did it. Period.
I believe that a child can ask a trusted adult to represent them in court and get themselves vaccinated without parent permission
Or, better yet, making a vaccine that DOESN'T require a needle because I can't handle those.
Ancestry companies selling your DNA data.
Everyone who has ever sent some spit to ancestry dot com or 23 n Me or any other one of those ancestry tracking companies has had all the data in their DNA sold to big businesses and law enforcement.
It's how they caught the golden state killer. His nephew was tracking his genealogy and was a match to a crime scene. I'm ok with catching killers but where will we draw the line in the future? Imagine getting busted for littering because your cousin's DNA matched some gum you spat out.
And insurance companies are buying DNA data in bulk. If they know a certain gene makes you more likely to have a disease, and a large group of people with that gene live in a certain area, they can set insurance coverage and premiums based on that info to screw you.
There is zero regulation on what these genealogy sites do with your DNA. This is only the beginning.
Why aren't people sending in fake names to these companies? It's like having to sign up for accounts and stuff. I don't think I've ever given a correct name or birth date to any of these web sites.
How about we don't litter? I agree with some of the arguments in use against criminal actions, but just don't litter.
Recruitment ghosting. I mean if Australia can make a law saying you don't have to answer work emails after work, anything is possible.
You aren't required anywhere that I know of to answer work emails when you aren't working. I don't even answer work emails on my break and or lunches. That should just be a given. It's also in the U.S called FSLA Violation
where is it legal to require people to answer work emails after work? this sounds like someone who doesn't understand their rights as a worker
I guess the idea is that your employer, having harassed you in non-working hours and getting no response, can't then use that as leverage in any discriminatory employment outcomes.
Load More Replies...Usually not a problem in Europe. So I guess this refers mainly to the US.
Taking photos and videos of people without their permission and using them however you want.
These laws were made for a world where everyone didn't have a high quality camera in their pocket and access to a global audience at the click of a button.
Here in Germany it is already illegal to take pictures of someone in public, much less film them. You have the rights to your own face at all time.
Your are allowed to take pictures but you absolutely have to delete them if asked. What's illegal is to use them for anything else than maybe your own photo album from a vacation to remember. You are not allowed to put them online, share it over digital device, use it for porn or such Things. If you take a picture of a crowd you can share it. For example of you are on a parade and want to show your friends. The law can't be too strict because otherwise your could never make a picture because there are people everywhere
Load More Replies...If you are in public, you have no expectation of privacy. Trying to regulate otherwise would either make things like security cameras', dash-cams, and law enforcements body cams illegal, or it would require those to be an exception which would create a bit of an unfair advantage for everyone else in the event of legal action. This is why cops keep trying to tell people it's "illegal to record and officer" because it's a lot harder to "massage" your own narrative when there's conflicting evidence.
This is correct I the US. PUBLIC spaces or any space visible from a public spave have zero expectation of privacy. Private property, like stores and their parking lots can make policies about anything they want, so they can make it an offense. And homes with anything visible from a public space can also be recorded.
Load More Replies...That is technically legal in the US, unless you have signed an agreement to report, which usually comes from a job like social care, or public service.
Load More Replies...If you say you don't want to be filmed and pictured, it should be law that the person has to stop filming you. If they don't stop it should be considered harassment. There are people trying to hide from perhaps an abusive person, a stalker, a bad situation, and they do not want to be revealed online where they work, shop and live.
If you don't want to end up in a picture or video while I'm filming in public then don't reflect light in my face when I'm out in public.
I will also add that it wasn't that easy in the past to edit videos and put things either out of context or flat out faking them.
A lot of AI generated content.
ALL AI content. There is currently NO AI content that is not plagiarized.
AI generated images and text (I refuse to call them art or writing) should be banned or HEAVILY regulated
If I'm hopeful, all of the horrendous s**t they put in our food.
I still wonder why Mt. Dew is illegal in Europe but legal in North America. I know the ingredient that's banned. I just don't know why it's not banned in NA.
Brominated vegetable oil was removed from the recipe in 2020.
Load More Replies...In China, they actually recycle their cooking oil from the sewers, then put it back into the food you eat. Enjoy!
Yes, and in many parts of the world, water from the sewers is cleaned up , and becomes drinking water again. It's all about what treatments are used, and how safe the end result is. If it is safe, it is safe.
Load More Replies...Social media for children, hopefully. Its extreme negative impacts on mental health are undeniable.
An outright ban won't work. There needs to be tighter regulation on how social media sites run. Things like not allowing algorithms to put 'thinspiration' or explicit content in front of children.
Good thought, but could easily backfire. Remember KOSA, which aimed to basically wipe out LGBT+ content from the internet because of "protecting the kids"?
Load More Replies...you cant regulate that, because those same children could easily just lie.
we had kids threatening to boom/pew our school on dates of historic booms/pews all because of tiktok
Load More Replies...Minors buying energy drinks.
In the UK, you also have to be over 16. In addition, "..all customers who DO NOT CLEARLY appear to be over the age of 25" will be asked to provide proof of age.
Load More Replies...I had an energy infuser drink that upset my stomach, more than anything. I was surprised to learn it had less caffeine than the coffee I have with cream and sugar.
I hope payday loans and rent to own things are illegal soon. It’s all predatory and targeted at poor, uneducated populations. People who run these businesses are the scum of the earth imo.
I get it but sometimes you need a mattress and your only option is rent to own. I won't do it again because I have better options now.
There should be personal finance classes in high school. A lot of people don't understand how this works and end up in real trouble.
Budgeting and personal finance was a main topic in the consumer math class I was in all High School. Thing is, putting it on paper is not the same as putting it in practice, in real adult situations. It's like telling kids not to grab the candy that's in front of them, after explaining sugar is bad and will rot their teeth.
Load More Replies...I had to take a couple of payday loans out and they have the terms, the interest, what your payments are, and what you end up paying (you don't have to even do the math) in LARGE print on everything you have to sign and also on signs around the inside of the business. My take is it's not their fault people can't read. People need to take some responsibility for themselves. All this info on payday loans and people are still acting like someone put a gun to their heads and made them get the loan and then acting surprised because of the interest rates and payment. If you're that dumb to begin with, I'm not going to blame the payday loan companies for taking advantage of your stupidity.
Maybe it's not people being dumb. But desperate, to survive. To buy food, medicine, keep their transportation, pay outrageous child care prices Would people be so desperate if there available jobs with a living wage? The next step in the fight to survive requires..things no one wants to do. But will, if it's that or the kids going hungry. ( not as if there's a choice for US women) Works out well for predators and judgey types..
Load More Replies...Some US states have outlawed or greatly restricted payday loans.
Rent-to-own is fantastic, as long as the interest rates are low. The key is preventing exploitation.
Yes, always ask about scratch/dent sales, for appliances. Furniture, well, better to sleep on the floor than inherit bed bugs for a low low monthly fee.
Load More Replies...Payday loans are illegal in Pennsylvania, USA. So this IS something that's happening, just slowly.
I don't find them predatory, and those places offer money transferring services outside bank hours. In Canada, the payday loan interest rates have to be capped at a certain level. If you take out loans often, the interest is ridiculous. But if you're okay with paying $17 per $100 loan because you need to get by until payday then it can be a temporary Godsend. Just don't take out a line of credit. You'll be paying it off forever and the interest rate makes it all the more difficult. But I think my VISA Dividend interest rates are sky high, too. Debt is just terrible when you don't earn much to get out of it. Better to ask family and friends for help when you need it. What I don't like is when I haven't taken out a loan in months and the payday loan place calls asking if I'm okay. Uh... If I wasn't okay I would be back there.
I never did that and hopefully never will have to do that. My understanding is that you pay high interest any very little on the principle.
The massive amounts of personal data collection companies do so that they can resell it. Some companies have endless "job openings" not because they have a job to fill, but because by applying you give them the right to resell your personal information and data. You're literally handing them money rather than applying for a job.
Then the companies they sell to have next to zero security and do who knows what with it.
Stuff like that is out of control, but hopefully will get locked down in the next decade.
Not here in Germany, because we have laws against such practices.
I'm torn between wanting to move to Germany (I think I could probably become a citizen; my great grandfather fled Nazi Germany due to being Jewish) because it sounds like it has good laws and worrying about it becoming Nazi again and also not speaking German.
Load More Replies...This is why you have to be careful when applying on places like Indeed. You can't apply for any jobs unless you give them all your personal info... use a "burner" email, otherwise your inbox will be full five minutes after you sign up, with junk emails.
and the issue is? your personal data was probably sold around as soon as you were *born*
Cigarettes. NZ has already got a rolling age ban.
What? Noooo, I was so happy when I read about this. Man that sucks.
Load More Replies...Nope! Personal choice. If someone wants to consume something, be it tobacco, alcohol or any other type of d**g, absolutely no one should have any right to dictate what an adult can or cannot put into their own body. I'd be more interested in banning those that douse themselves in perfume/cologne/body spray to the level of chemical warfare over trying to control what adults do within the confines of their own home.
I have to agree. I've never used tobacco, but having any government make an activity illegal that is only hurting the individual doing the activity is a slippery slope.
Load More Replies...I get that some people like smoking, but overall, it's not helpful in any way. I'm never going to waste my money on a burning stick that smells awful and puts tar in my lungs.
The UK is planning a rolling age ban on buying cigarettes. The idea being a person born in 2009 would never be of age to buy cigarettes. I very much hope this successed, and a similar vaping ban is brought in too.
I doubt it will ever get through the House of Lords.
Load More Replies...Will never happen. Under the guise of 'we care for your health' governments seem to be interested only in raising the taxes, to gain more income. In Belgium we had a taxraise on hard liquor a few years back 'four our health' ... now noone lives very far from a border, so we all started buying our liquor in France, Netherlands, Germany, Luwembourg. Six months later, taxes were lowered again because Belgian stores were loosing business and income from taxed plumited.
We tried that with alcohol in the US. Didn't work out very well. Don't think it will be any better with cigarettes.
The UK is trying to make it illegal to smoke in pub gardens. It's already illegal to smoke inside them but the Government wants to stop people from smoking outside them as well. I think that's a step too far as it will mean that even more smaller pubs that are already struggling against the likes of Wetherspoons will be forced to close. The cost of cigarettes there is so high that they're now too expensive for most people to buy on a daily basis anyway.
Free water. Looking at you Nestle.
It's called Tap Water. And it's really not free either. Because you pay a water bill. Why should any for profit company provide anything for free? Nothing is free in life. It all costs something in the end
Free water is absolutely becoming a thing of the past. Nestle is waiting with crossed fingers Project 2025 happens for this very reason. So are their investors.
The moment water is not "free" as it is now (talking Europe), we'll be in a war.
Corporate lobbying might be heavily regulated or banned as people push for fairer representation.
You don't have enough money to fight against this. They can by your representative and you can't.
Buying a drone without a license.
In the USA drones are classified as aircraft. Interfering with them is a federal crime. They also communicate electronically which , if is intercepted & modified, violates federal electronic communications laws. Even if law enforcement intercept them, they’re violating DOT/FAA laws and wiretapping laws. They’d need a warrant with probable cause to take one down in unregulated airspace. To get the warrant, they’d need to catch the drone breaking the law in realtime, file with a judge then return to the flying drone to intercept. Because of this drones can be used to traffic d***s & contraband or even be used to harm or assassinate. That they can be preprogrammed is GPS makes it hard to impossible to catch the actual perpetrators of these crimes. They’re prob one of the biggest under-regulated threats emerging to individual & public safety. Just ask Serbian gang members, Mexican cartels & Ukrainian soldiers. They’ve all figured out how to manipulate personal drones.
Serbian gang members? I wouldn't put it past them but, they can afford drones?
Load More Replies...This. We definitely need more government regulation of things I do on private property. drone-regi...d44fea.jpg
Out of honest sincerity and in the spirit of education, have you ever purchased a firearm legally?
Load More Replies...FAA requires all drones over 250 grams to be registered and to display that registration number on said drone. That number is tied to the drone and my name. You are also required to pass a test. Now, does everyone follow the rules? Maybe half do. I do video for real estate and business campuses as a side gig.
In Alaska, where I am, any drone above a certain weight has to be registered with the FAA, and most of our city is a low flying zone for float planes, so the drone programming bricks it until it gets a FAA approval code. I jave to drive to the ends of the roads to find places to fly.
Obvious pyramid schemes?
That includes every corporation. If you work at any job that has tons of low wage, front line workers, and a top 1% making most of the profit, you work in a pyramid scheme. Especially when there's push for employees to recruit their friends and family.
Owning your own property. Theyll call it a subscription... And you'll never own it. Just rent it forever from the rich who own everything.
Even if you pay it off, you are not really owning it. You have to pay taxes on it. If you don't the government can seize it.
You pay taxes on the land your property is on. The government owns all that land. What is put on it is owned by the bank that you buy it off of.
Load More Replies...Pretty much how it is now, try not paying your property taxes and see what happens
I hate to tell you this, it's already that way in the US. They call it "property tax"...
This is why I don't want a recently developed game system. I'd rather buy video games I physically own.
you never owned anyhting in the first place. you only keep it so long as you can afford it/dont get banned from using it.
Just like actual real estate that you will Never own!! "You will own nothing and be happy" - FU!!
I think this does depend on the type of property and where you are in the world. The UK has freehold (you own it) and leasehold (you rent the land your property is built on). Leasehold runs for a number of years from when the property was built (typically 90 years, 125 years and 999 years). Flats / apartments are typically leasehold and semi-detatched / detached are freehold (although not always).
Resin 3D printing. Right now you can order bottles of the stuff on Amazon, but UV resin is highly toxic and poorly studied, and can really mess up aquatic life if dumped down the drain. As it gets more popular I wouldn't be surprised if it became a controlled chemical substance.
I've tried resin printing, the results are great but the amount of post processing, precautions you have to take and chemicals involved (you have to wash your end product, usually with some kind of solvent like alcohol) is just not worth it.
My concern is the number of things like cutting boards and serving dishes and dog tags and name tags that kids would use are made of resin! I've used resin, not 3d printing but just in silicone molds and stuff and it stinks! I know they supposedly make "food safe" resin but I'm curious how safe it actually is.
Everything is toxic in the right quantities, and given how expensive resin is, i don't think many people are dumping it down the drain. A more serious impact on marine life is the plastic that everyone both hates, but also justifies buying in droves, and medications consumed by humans, which are excreted in urine and fecal matter, which then end up in rivers, lakes and oceans.
Men wearing thongs (without pants) to parent-teacher conferences. There is no law against this currently, but after tomorrow evening, the wheels will be in motion.
Before I get too disturbed, are we talking about American thongs or Australian thongs?
No pants is the crucial part - regardless of which variety of thong
Load More Replies...Wait, what? Thongs? Without pants? Parent teacher conference!!?? Hilarious!
Here's wishing eternal surveillance makes the list.
I'm SUPER torn on this because I've seen both good and bad come from the amount of surveillance now. I totally see both sides of this conversation and can't decide myself if it's good enough to keep, or bad enough to ban.
Being homeless.
Being homeless is already sort of illegal. Local authorities are spending more money on making it difficult for homeless people to find a decent place to sleep, then what it would cost to give them a safe place to stay and get back on their feet. In the US, there are more vacant homes repossessed by financial institutions (banks) than there are homeless people
If you want to end homelessness, do what Finland did and provide free housing. Stable homes got people off d***s, made them healthier, and solved a lot of other problems.
Circumcision.
This needs to apply to any infant genital surgery that is not medically necessary. As long as essential bodily functions are in place, babies born with intersex conditions (which may be very loosely defined as having genitals outside the expected size range for their presumed gender) should be allowed to grow and determine their own identities without having their bodies and options constrained by what are actually cosmetic "corrections" for the comfort of parents and caregivers.
I'm confused. Why is it bad? Circumcision can help prevent infections.
With the way things have been going, talking against the government might become illegal one of these days.
Trump has talked about imprisoning any news reporter that criticizes him if he gets re-elected.
Which is odd because that's EXACTLY what the free speech amendment protects you from
Load More Replies...In a lot of countries that is already the rule. Russia, Venezuela, China, basically every dictatorship.
The limey tories wanted to do that, to criminalize peaceful protest against the government. Just look at the amount of violence used against peaceful sign holders when Chucky was named "king".
Load More Replies...Yup! And it's completely self inflicted by the perpetually offended and those who pander to them.
Driving......with self-driving cars insurance companies will decide human error is an unnecessary liability.
Good. The biggest issue with implementing self driving cars.....is human drivers, because most human drivers, can't really drive safely, or even well.
I'd settle for everyone using public transport driven by the best drivers - imagine how lovely we might make public buses and trains if everyone had to use them and the private motor car was banished.
I don't drive for medical reasons - I have muscle spasms which create a risk of accidentally swerving or stepping on the gas/brake at the wrong moment. In daily life I'm fine with walking and public transportation - and in terms of the environment and urban livability I wish most people would do the same. But it would be wonderful to have more options for occasional travel outside of urban centres. When the tech is safe and reliable, of course - I'm not inclined to trust anything developed under Elon Musk.
Hopefully gas stations selling random d***s. And I'm pro d**g legalization generally but gas stations selling random chemical concoctions with no regulatory oversight ain't the way to do it.
I'm choosing to read it as "selling random d i c k s. And I'm pro d o n g legalization", because that's obviously the point of sensoring common words.
Yes, I always do this too. BP has given me a *filthy* mind.
Load More Replies...Having cars that don't double as surveillance devices.
If I had a tesla, and it's cameras record a crime, I gladly give the police my images
My partner and I did that a few months ago. Recorded a hit and run. Gladly gave it to the police. I also took photos with my phone as it was happening and gave them those too. Felt awesome.
Load More Replies...At this rate, freedom of speech.
But it should be easier to sue a media outlet for slander when they publish lies. The chronic lies on FOX News have created all the division and hatred in this country. Rush Limbaugh's daily lies on the radio should have been censored like the hate porn they were. Facts about an issue are easily checked by bipartisan fact checkers. I will not trust a single statement by any conservative news source anymore because of how they are promoting a future civil war.
Freedom of speech should not mean freedom from consequences.
Load More Replies...Our supreme court has defined the freedoms in our constitution as limited to where they infringe on the freedoms of others.
I could see some places outlawing VPN’s.
Virtual private network. From Wikipedia, "Virtual private network (VPN) is a network architecture for virtually extending a private network (i.e. any computer network which is not the public Internet) across one or multiple other networks which are either untrusted (as they are not controlled by the entity aiming to implement the VPN) or need to be isolated (thus making the lower network invisible or not directly usable)."
Load More Replies...They could try to regulate the commercial services, but pretty much every computer has the ability to run their own VPN, and you can set one up on dedicated hardware using a $10 SBC like a Raspberry Pi Pico, nano or arduino.
Being anonymous on the internet.
Hmm..this one's tricky, some people like to engage online but need to not be 'locatable or contactable
It's a double edged sword. Some hide their identity to protect them from prosecution, as the powers that be don't like to be criticized. But others abuse the anonymity to break the law. Where do you draw the line?
Load More Replies...People experiencing abuse, discrimination, political persecution, etc, must have access to help and support and the means to organize for social change without immediately risking their personal safety.
I started out being anonymous on the internet on forums. I had no choice because I worked for a very conservative manager in a crappy bank and if she had read any of my personal opinions that I posted, I probably would have been fired. Before we take anonymity away, let's first consider making it illegal to fire employees for what they do and say in their free time. I've always held that if my workplace wanted to supervise what I did and what I said when I'm not working, then they need to pay me 24/7. What I do when I'm off the clock is my business and if they think it's not, then I will and have taken the necessary steps to protect myself.
Leaving your house whenever you want to.
I was criticized by my employer for leaving my house at 10am. "You're supposed to be here at work by 8", he whined.
So were you supposed to be at work at 8:00? And if yes, why shouldn't your employer criticize you for leaving your house at 10:00?
Load More Replies...Selling or allowing possession of smartphones or computers to anyone under 21. Internet addiction research is slowly but gaining momentum.
Imagine buying a home at 18 and having no way to communicate with anyone! Landlines are becoming obsolete. What a stupid post
But elementary kids are issued laptops to do their school work and also college freshmen are 18 yrs old.
That's not really fair to the people between 18-21. They can join the military and die for their country, however they can't use a computer?
But they couldn't really be in the military because they use computers for most things...so. 🤷🏿
Load More Replies...Um...lol right. Most of society already relies on the internet and computers to function today, but sure, lets make it illegal for kids to learn how to use them they're just old enough for it to be infinitely more difficult. Again, parents, need to do their f*****g job. The thing isn't the problem, s****y parents and lack of supervision are at fault, and the solution to that is to stop allowing every barely functioning idiot to pop out as many kids as they want.
Join the military, be a pornstar, buy a gun, vote, drink in most reasonable countries... but definitely no internet. Wtf even is this?
Reality TV - not illegal, but a lot more regulations are needed to be done there. There needs to be a lot more psychological care options for people before, during and after the show. Then there are issues that people got screwed by production, like people houses getting ruined in renovation shows or contestants getting stuck with massive medical bills like some ANTM contestants. Reality TV contestants should be treated like any other employees and their employers should act responsibly towards them.
Filming an active crime/ accident and doing nothing to help the person in need.
This happened recently in the UK. Someone was assaulting their girlfriend in public so the neighbours beat the c**p out of him. He was arrested afterwards
Load More Replies...AI generated images and text. If not made illegal, at least heavily regulated.
Religions not being taxed. Also, free schooling and free health care - partially paid for from these taxes.
Why should religions be taxed? (I'm for free schooling and health care)
Load More Replies...... except without the little starfish-shaped kiss marks they leave behind lol...
Load More Replies...Reality TV - not illegal, but a lot more regulations are needed to be done there. There needs to be a lot more psychological care options for people before, during and after the show. Then there are issues that people got screwed by production, like people houses getting ruined in renovation shows or contestants getting stuck with massive medical bills like some ANTM contestants. Reality TV contestants should be treated like any other employees and their employers should act responsibly towards them.
Filming an active crime/ accident and doing nothing to help the person in need.
This happened recently in the UK. Someone was assaulting their girlfriend in public so the neighbours beat the c**p out of him. He was arrested afterwards
Load More Replies...AI generated images and text. If not made illegal, at least heavily regulated.
Religions not being taxed. Also, free schooling and free health care - partially paid for from these taxes.
Why should religions be taxed? (I'm for free schooling and health care)
Load More Replies...... except without the little starfish-shaped kiss marks they leave behind lol...
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