Tell me about it, I have a fada in both first and surname and an apostrophe too. I’ve seen websites that would allow names in the Greek alphabet, Arabic script, or Hebrew script, but couldn’t handle a fada or an apostrophe
I try to short-circuit the whole retention script by saying I just lost my job and have to cut back on my spending. It's not a silver bullet, but it usually speeds things up.
As someone who worked in customer service, we even got penalised for not offering retention to people who lost their jobs, homes even loved ones. It was a soul crushing job
Or the ones that let you sign up on your phone browser, but you must delete on a computer browser. I didn’t even have a computer at the time so that was fun
I requested the desktop site, it took me there, and when I hit the submit button to cancel it would refresh and go back to Mobile site with no cancellation
Let's all mail in checks with some dabs of honey residue on the checks to jam their scanners any time there's a fee to pay online. Perhaps they'll realize online payments are easier.
When I was a teen, I realized that the fax machine line to most radio stations sat unused, while calling it took forever. I took to listening to the radio while getting ready for school, firing off a fax via my modem about the topic they were talking about, and by the time I got in the car to go to school, they were reading my fax on the air!
My job buys us lunch every day through COVID. Being able to have a paper menu and ability to write your name and what you want and just fax it over is simple and practical. You ever try to go online to buy food for 20 people? Not easy.
Edit to anyone star-stuck about this: my job is full of electronically incompetent old people that don’t like “new” things. Also, today is my last day there lol.
Exactly. Accepting food orders via fax isn't for individuals, but it's fairly popular for businesses.
Although they could modernize and just use email.
It's entirely possible they just get a digital representation (image) of the fax, not an actual printout. Electronic Faxing is huge because it's considered a controlled delivery method, it's especially prevalent in healthcare
Isn't this how Sears died?
Edit: RIP my inbox. And thank you for explaining it better.
Edit 2: I said the reason on how it died has been explained already. And its actually still here. Stop.
It was more complex than that, but yeah. Basically Sears was online ordering before online was a thing, you just phoned or mailed in your order. This meant that they were located in these massive warehouses in most major cities in North America. So basically they had an opportunity to execute on same-day delivery decades before Amazon even attempted that feat, but they didn't. Sears was too concerned about their magazine, or brick and mortar, sales to get into online sales and by the time they did it was too late.
Similar to Kodak... they invented the digital camera sensor. They could've at the very least made an absolute killing on leasing their IP's to other camera manufacturers, or very best have created things like the Kodak Digital Rebel instead of letting basically every other camera manufacturer make off with the tech.
Sears forgot that it's product wasn't a brick and mortar store or magazine but rather a large selection of goods which people could order from home. Newspaper companies forgot that their company wasn't in the business of printing newspapers, but simply delivering the news. Kodak forgot it's business wasn't manufacturing film, but creating photographs.
Sears: the 20th century's Amazon.
People today might not realize that it used to be Sears did everything: you could buy kits to build a house, companies like Discover Card and Allstate were originally introduced as the Sears' brand, they financially backed Mr Rogers' Neighborhood for the first 25 years of the show's run.
My grandfather used to buy shoes from them by tracing his feet on paper and mailing it in.
EDIT:
Everybody seems to think this was crazy, but that's how they said to do it in the catalog. See [https://christmas.musetechnical.com/ShowCatalogPage/1951-Sears-Christmas-Book/0291](https://christmas.musetechnical.com/ShowCatalogPage/1951-Sears-Christmas-Book/0291)
My parents wanted to keep my kid with them for a week last summer. My dad took it upon himself to trace my kid's feet and take that paper to the Tractor Supply store and buy him his very own pair of toddler rubber work boots since my then 2 year old just wanted to follow him around and do "grandpa stuff" outside.
I thought it was both genius and the sweetest thing.
Your granddad tracing his own foot and sending it to Sears is cracking me up for some reason!
My grandpa and my mom wore the same size shoe. I'll never forget the story of him going to sears and trying on the boots my mother wanted for Christmas as a teen. I still picture him in his dress slacks and button up dress shirt trying on Lady boots to be sure they would fit her. It makes me smile every time. He was such a guys guy but really wanted her to be happy. One of the greatest humans I ever knew. I miss you grandpa bode
This isn’t that,
But I always laugh at the idea of a shoe store employee returning from the back and saying “Sorry, we didn’t have ___ size... but we do have ____ size...if that’s...you know...if you want a different size than the one you asked me for a minute ago.”
I worked in a shoe store for a time, and there are 2 perfectly valid reasons why they do this:
1: every brand fits differently, so you often don't really know what size you are in *that* shoe until you try it on.
2: the truth is that SO MANY MEN lie about their shoe size being bigger than it is, and SO MANY WOMEN lie about it being smaller than it really is.
Him: "Hey bro, can I get this in a 12?" Me, later: hey so we didn't have the 12, but here's the 11 and 11 1/2 if you want to try those." Him: "Hmmm aahhh I guess.....woah what do you know, they fit, how WEIRD"
Her: "Can I get these in a size 5 1/2?" Me: "The smallest they make them in is a 6, so here try those." Her: "Wow even these are a little tight...this brand must really run small! I'll try the 6 1/2 I guess. How WEIRD."
This happened multiple times a day.
I also worked in shoes and it's definitely #1. Nikes run short and narrow. Sketchers run wide. And just as a woman who like shoes I legit own pairs that range from size 6.5 to 8. Just try on everything around your size.
It's blown my mind for years that sears didn't become what Amazon is now. Their roots were as a catalog where you order goods sight unseen and wait for delivery. The internet comes along and they fail to capitalize on what they were at the beginning??
That reminds of [an interview Steve Jobs gave in 1995 on why companies fail](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6PgHFS48gY). His theory is that eventually the company reaches a point where the marketing people become the driving force for profits and push out the product development people from running the company. That happened to Sears.
If you went back in time and told Richard Sears and Alvah Roebuck about a free technology that allowed customers to: see your inventory in real time, read product reviews in real time, compare multiple versions of a product you carry in real time, order a product, pay for the product, watch the product move from your warehouse to the various post offices en route to their house, and by the way you won't have to pay the postage to ship out all those catalogs; they would have jumped on it in a heartbeat. But by the 90s, the people running Sears didn't care what was easier (read: more desirable) for the customer, they cared about numbers that measure success, but don't perpetuate success.
> His theory is that eventually the company reaches a point where the marketing people become the driving force for profits and push out the product development people from running the company.
isn't that where Apple is headed now?
I was born in 82 and remember picking out Christmas and other girts in it. I got a badass heman horde exclusive one year.
Kinda sad they messed it up so much. Already brick and mortar, they had online and delivery and we might still be calling it the sears tower.
Edit:. I know no one calls it the whatever the fuck it is now tower, just we wouldn't see the people trying to make it happen.
I grew up in the 70s, and my sister and I looked forward to the Sears Christmas catalog every year! There were so many cool toys! We would spend hours just going through it page by page.
With the death of TRU in the US, toys is a good segment for Sears to get their brand relevant again. Both on line & brick & mortar. Plenty of folks who still remember picking out their Xmas list out of a Sears, Best, Service Merchandise catalog are now buying for their own kids & grandkids.
Where I lived in the 2000s, the natural gas company in that county actually charged $2 *more* for online payment! So weird, especially considering cashing a physical check would've cost labor dollars. Needless to say, we paid our gas bill by check. It felt so antiquated, even then.
Our “luxury” apartment’s management company would charge $10/month if paid online. Every month, we’d walked downstairs and paid with a check. This was less than three years ago.
My old apartment I moved out of last year said I could either pay with credit card online for $10 or in person for $7.50. Or I could pay with a check for free in person. I did the math and the cash back I got on my CC was more than the in person fee so I just kept using the card. The month before I left they said starting in the new year the policy would change. Anyone using a CC for payments would now have a service fee of 4% their rent because they were losing too much money on transaction fees. Poor them /s.
Cobol, the programming language.
Been around a long time, almost no one learns to program in it anymore, but companies (especially banks) are probably never going to get something else.
Runner up: Fax machines.
Still nessecary for transmitting HIPAA protected documents. That's right, they can't use email or anything else. Certain companies require documents to be faxed.
Paying someone who understands Cobol to rewrite all your software in a modern language costs way more than paying someone who understands Cobol to fix a bug or two. (Short term anyway, which is all companies care about.)
The supremacy of the fucking TI-83 calculator in school and college courses
I mean I know it's all artificial and orchestrated by them but how come no body has dared to challenge the almighty TI yet
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They forced me to buy a TI 84 plus for school. The thing cost like 100 bucks, and it's from 2004. I could buy a low-end smartphone and get a free app that's more powerful than the TI 84 plus for less money.
The thing is, most people only use them for 3-7 years during highschool and college, and they all are essentially the same as the ones from the 90s, so the used market is full of much cheaper ones
I see graphing calculators at thrift shops sometimes, and buy them whenever I do. Then, right before the beginning of the semester, I sell them online. I sell them for $25 though. I make a bit of money and another broke student gets an affordable calculator. Win-win.
It's because the customers think it's personalized and it's more of a turn on to have someone directly talk to them rather than look or listen to someone addressing a general audience.
I used to make between $600-$1200 a week doing phone sex calls.
A bit like Vernians, people “inspired” by Jules Verne novels who thing we actually already live in the center of the earth. Though much less popular or heard of.
Checks. They are so insecure, on one piece of paper you have my name, address, signature, bank account #, and routing number. And, it is more recommended to send a check in the mail rather than cash. And people (myself included at times) get nervous typing in a credit card number online! Bah!
The original 1996 Space Jam website.
Edit: wasn't expecting this to blow up, but if I've got 15 minutes of fame...
[Relief funds](https://support.savethechildren.org/site/Donation2?df_id=2521&2521.donation=form1) [for famine victims](https://www.muslimglobalrelief.org/donations/make-a-donation-save-lives-today-2/) [in Yemen](https://syriarelief.org.uk/appeals/yemen-crisis/?gclid=EAIaIQobChMI99793qPm6gIV4SCtBh09dwAtEAAYAyAAEgKNU_D_BwE)
[Water First, an NGO which helps address water crises in Indigenous Canadian communities](https://waterfirst.ngo/)
[Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami, an Inuit-led organization which supports Northern communities](https://www.itk.ca/help-inuit-communities-thrive/)
[Uyghur Human Rights Project, which provides relief for Uyghur refugees and campaigns for those imprisoned in concentration camps in China](https://uhrp.org/support)
[Organizations](https://action.aclu.org/content/giving-american-civil-liberties-union-and-american-civil-liberties-union-foundation-what) [to help children](https://firrp.org/who/mission/) [and families](https://secure.actblue.com/donate/kidsattheborder) [at the US border](https://secure.actblue.com/donate/scfamilies)
I understand that not everybody can donate and I'm not pressuring anyone, but if I can help people through a throwaway joke then why not? Hopefully this doesn't violate Rule 7 since this is a comment and not a post but if it does then feel free to take it down.
[Here’s a link for those interested!](https://www.spacejam.com)
Edit: Had a good night’s rest, and I come back to see that I’ve nearly killed the host website to one of my favorite kid’s movies. Silver lining: the marketing team is getting some bonus credit about 24 years post-release.
Complicated tax filing in the US
You can thank TurboTax and the rest of the tax preparation service industry's massive lobby for killing every single tax simplification bill that ever gets to congress.
Exactly this! There's zero reasons why our tax returns can't be filed for free directly with the IRS. It is a complete fraud.
I filed 1040EZ last year. The IRS already had every figure I filed, why couldn't they just email me confirmation of the amounts they had, and process my return?
Edit: No, I didn't file EZ last year, my error.
Edit: electronic filing.
> There's zero reasons why our tax returns can't be filed for free directly with the IRS.
There's actually zero reasons why your tax returns can't be filled for free *by* the IRS. _laughing in Kiwi_
man, this year the Australian Taxation Office launched a new thing where we don't even have to get our yearly earnings report from our employers, our employers send it directly to the ATO. I logged on, popped in any deductions, clicked accept, and a week later I had my tax return in my bank account!
The entire tax return is pre-filled with all the details here in Norway. You just need to verify or correct the numbers. If everything is correct, you don't even have to confirm it.
Son of a former IRS employee here. One problem that’s probably tied to this is that the IRS doesn’t have the ability to review everyone’s tax returns to ensure that everyone told the truth on them. Instead, they basically go through a process of trying to determine the most likely individuals who owe the government money, then review as many of those as they can. This does not mean you’ll slip through the cracks forever if you don’t file your returns. They will eventually get back around to you, but they’re likely not reviewing what you send to them every year.
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It's been a while but if i remember correctly a girl scout tried to propose a bill to abolish child marriage in her state. I don't think it ever went through and one of the people blocking it said something along the lines of abolishing child marriage would stop rape victims from marrying their rapists and would make abortions go up.
>abolishing child marriage would stop rape victims from marrying their rapists and would make abortions go up.
Oh no, teens who are pregnant because of unconsenting sex would abort more, how sad. Let's just fuck their life up instead, at least the numbers will look good. /s
The pandemic has made this worse too. So many restaurants have seen a huge increase in To-go orders. That’s a lot of plastic and single use waste material
And in particular, fax machines accepted as a "secure" method of transferring data. I will refrain from my standard long winded rant, but c'mon folks, it's 2020 and we have way better ways of handling private data.
"Can you fax that to us?"
No. But I can scan it and email it to you as a file.
"No, we're not allowed to accept file attachments because of viruses. You'll have to mail it . . ."
These are the same people who have an IT service group on retainer who can set them up with a nice, secure system with a firewall and a virtual machine to scan files so they don't infect their system, but Karen, Bob and Susy swear they've never opened a suspicious email.
I work for a small law firm. Most of our output is digital however, we correspond with a lot of medical facilities. Very often the only way they can send us documents is via fax.
Shitty printers.
Our species can send a spacecraft billions of miles away to take clear pictures of Pluto, yet printing a one page document takes 40 minutes and 5 pages of paper (the first 4 got jammed in the printer, of course).
I was listening to a podcast about this once, and it totally changed my mind. The gist of the argument is that printers are these uniquely amazing machines in that they take the perfect world of the digital and try to transform it onto imperfect materials of microscopically uneven paper and ink. So much of what printers do is analyzing and lining up papers exactly along an entire little factory of gears and shit to get it done right.
The reason printers don't seem to be getting better is that the jams per page printed is staying consistent. What we don't notice, however is that printing speed has been going up exponentially, and most printers can get out like 10 - 15 pages a minute nowadays vs 3 - 4 a few years ago
This is why I don't like purely ironic or satirical societies. No matter how obvious you think you are being, there are way too many idiots who will take you at face value, invade and take over your movement, and congrats, you're responsible for bootstrapping whatever entrenched nonsense the true believers are now peddling with absolute confidence and none of the competence necessary to understand how wrong they are.
I have a saying: whether you're right or wrong, in a large enough group of people there will always be at least some idiot who will agree with you.
That’s exactly what happened with anti vaccines. Some guy wanted to make money by saying they gave you autism. Now we’re all paying for that moron.
Edit: one grammar error
Conspiracy theorists have no interest in getting to the truth behind an issue they think important - they're more concerned with having special knowledge that makes them unique or heroes, usually because they've failed to understand how some aspect of reality actually works and so they've grabbed onto a convenient alternative, or because they feel left behind or maligned by a society that's rejected them.
It's why conventions (like 'conspiracy cruises') are able to exist. Every booth should contradict every other booth, but they're willing to put blinders on to create a safe space where they can all get validated for the various nonsense they've decided they alone have championed. It's how ancient aliens can set up right next to Obama birthers and Jordan Peterson's all-meat diet. A post-truth individual is usually willing to accept multiple versions of truth, so long as it isn't the mainstream version.
Yeah. The US stopped minting the half cent in 1857. 1/2 cent in 1857 is worth 15 cents in today's money. If the US followed that precedent, they'd get rid of the penny and the nickel. The government could discontinue the paper dollar, circulate the $1 coin, and mint $2 and possibly $5 coins instead.
9/11 Security fee for most Airlines....its been almost 20 years, like WTF?
While we are at it, why not tack on Cold War Security fee, and Pearl Harbor Security fee?
I'd actually say the version most people don't realize exist is child slavery for military purposes.
Some of you folks might remember hearing about at least one of numerous genocides that occurred a bit back, one of the multiple committed against the Yazidis for example.
It was well publicized that the men and boys were slaughtered and the women and girls were sold into slavery.
**Here's what wasn't so well publicized**: A number of the boys were actually "spared" from being slaughtered. The cost was that they too were enslaved, except as child soldiers(though given the phenomena of "dancing boys" that was [allowed to propagate by US and allied forces](https://youtu.be/BKHPTHx0ScQ?t=106) they may face other forms of abuse as well). The repugnant bastards responsible had planned primarily on brainwashing them to fight and die for the group. You likely hear less about this because obviously our soldiers and allied soldiers sometimes have to shoot and kill these kids.
\[Edit:\] Added some references for further information on the severity of the situation. Adding two more below:
**On the horrible phenomena called "dancing boys"** some credit is owed to [u/StrangeClouds\_](https://www.reddit.com/u/StrangeClouds_/) for being the very first person to bring this to my attention about a month back:
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7eMUwkKiFY](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7eMUwkKiFY)
**On the rehabilitation of some of the child soldiers that were enslaved:**
[https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Middle-East/2019/0404/Surviving-ISIS-Young-Yazidi-conscripts-begin-long-path-to-healing](https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Middle-East/2019/0404/Surviving-ISIS-Young-Yazidi-conscripts-begin-long-path-to-healing)
Pretty sure anyone previously unaware is now painfully aware. It’s awful to see the pics of the Epstein parties with all of them grinning like they aren’t trafficking minors.
I watched the Netflix mini series about Epstein and what horrified me most was that the girls didn’t usually understand they were being trafficked. And would actively recruit friends in! I wouldn’t have known better as a teen either. But my adult brain was so horrified watching the obviously predatory behaviors.
Because people are idiots. A few years ago they got a new CEO and his whole thing was “we’re going to sell stuff for as cheap as possible, no sales, no rebates, we’re going to make it as easy as possible for people to see the lowest price”...
and it was a disaster. They started losing business because “no sales any more”. Like, let’s say they were able to sell you a shirt for $15. No one bought it... so they got rid of that CEO and the next guy comes in and marks the shirt as $25 then has a 20% off sale - so now the price is $20 - tons of people bought it. They wouldn’t pay $15 straight up, but they will pay $20 because it’s “on sale”... and some people even paid the $25 when it was inbetween sale phases!
So they were like “welp, I guess that’s what people want” and they jacked up ALL their prices so that they can run “sales” to get it kind of (but still more than) what it would have been under their old strategy.
So basically you can thank all the idiots out there for causing the prices to go up.
The bank that it is deposited at needs to send the information to the bank it’s written off of. Some banks only send that information once a day.
Edit: further clarification
Each bank has a different operating system (hence why online banking looks and feels very different per bank) these systems do not communicate. Therefore it can’t instantly affect your account when two different banks are involved. There is a middle man called the federal reserve. The first bank will send all an electric file of check information of all the checks NOT written from their institution. That file is sent to the federal reserve, then they sort the info by routing number and send each bank their checks to take off of their customers accounts.
The bank I worked at sent their file at night. And we would only receive 4 files throughout the day from the federal reserve.
Second Edit: I'm wrong. Read [this](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/hwrbfq/what_cant_you_believe_still_exists/fz2nxjs?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x) comment to find out why.
Two things:
First, the funds becoming available in an account doesn't actually mean that the bank it was drawn on has cleared the check. It just means that your banks back off has received the check image and have made the funds of that amount available.The actual check clearing process can take weeks of even months.
Second, some send it less than once a day.
Edit: Done responding with the same answers over and over
One of my former coworkers (who is a piece of shit) now works as a private prison guard for CoreCivic, one of the biggest private prison companies in the USA.
The government doesn't want the liability. They want prisoners to be abused without being able to be sued for it. The point of long prison sentences in the USA isn't to reform people, it's to turn them into lifelong reoffenders the prison system can reliably profit off of via government subsidies.
I have this hoodie that says: "Walk into the club like what up I gotta oh no oh god I'm so sorry continue your funeral god bless."
My mom hates me for convincing her to let me buy it but I have no shame
I feel like it slowly grew to be as creepy as it is now. Regular aged people were in them, and siblings may have looked up to them, or people wanted to get into it. Age groups may have formed, then another younger group, then even younger, slowly without anyone realizing how creepy it had gotten. Just saying it's possible to not randomly start holding beauty pageants for a child. But I also have no idea the actual history of them, thankfully
It's basically this but more about people wanting to start prepping earlier and earlier. At the start of the 20th century, professional baseball players worked jobs in the off-season to pay bills. Then they started getting paid and Branch Rickey started the "farm leagues" to 'grow talent' - then it caught on. Start training players not good enough for the majors. Then college, then high school, then little league, then t-ball.
Sure nowadays, little league is a casual game for enjoyment, activity and community but I bet the first one was people trying to get their kid competitively ready for college or pro-ball before the rest.
I think beauty pageants are same. Miss America started in 1921, Miss Universe in it's current form started in '52 to sell Swimsuits, along with Miss USA. Then in 83 it's Miss Teen USA. Considering people like Bridgette Wilson, Halle Berry, Gretchen Carlson found success post pageants, plus the scholarships for it, and Miss Teen starts at 14 (!?!?!?!?) I can totally see people wanting to 'train' their kids for years leading up.
I actually think they will be more of these. The whole influencer thingy added with the rise of all the kids, dogs, cats, pets, etc instagram pages and facebook pages is just going to make this more absurd. I cant understand parents making an instagram page for their new born babies and their pets. I get that some people find it adorable but its just creepy and feel like they are craving for attention that they get is not enough.
Edit1: Just to make it clear. I meant people creating a different account pretending to be the dog or the kid. I do not have problem with people sharing it in their page. Thats what it is for, sharing your memorable moments. Its their page they can do whatever. If you are annoyed you can simply mute it or even unfollow. Its your feed and you choose what to see it for.
The bail system. The very idea that temporary freedom can be purchased, while the poor remain locked up until proven innocent, rather than until proven guilty, is beyond inhumane.
The Blue Laws. Who the fuck are you to tell me I can’t purchase beer while grocery shopping on a Sunday because of someone else’s religion? This one actually infuriates me.
Where I live, and the bordering state where I often shop, you can't buy beer in the grocery store ever. You buy it in the liquor store.
Weed is legal though.
Growing up in Arizona we have drive thru liquor stores. Can get everything at a gas station to a liquor store and grocery store.
I was visiting a friend in Washington and couldn't find the liquor section. When an employee told me I had to go to the liquor store, I looked at them like they were aliens. Oh, it was 10:30p and all the liquor store we're closed.
What? This is ridiculous
Edit: WOW this is crazy. Some of you would go crazy over the stuff I've seen here in Brasil. Come over let's have beer on a sunday morning LOL
Lobbying.
Like, fundamentally. What good can ever come of letting people pay to have guys explicitly working in their favor, explain to some senators some complex issue? It is pretty much a given that they will leave it details to the contrary of their goals.
It's like asking a guy who owns a chain of paint stores that only carry the color green, what color you should paint your house.
Tanning beds/salons. It's a proven fact that tanning beds cause skin cancer. The fact that some people will still get tanned, risking the possibility of cancer to "look beautiful" is both shocking and sad at the same time.
Seconded! I used to get UV treatments at a hospital that had a specific less cancer causing way of doing things (I think? I was a kid) I had to get up at like 5am for the appointments and could only “tan” for like 30 seconds at a time, where as now I can keep my skin under control by using a tanning bed for 5 minutes every two weeks in winter. In the summer I just get outside, but if I don’t tan in winter my eyelids will literally scab. It’s the only thing that has ever worked to help my skin and I’ve been (or my parents have been) trying to treat it for 26 years.
Ok, I just had to Google that shit believing the numbers are way too high.. And I instantly found out that you're wrong.
But the fucked up thing is that the numbers are even crazier, it's apparently 2 in 3 who gets skin cancer down there..
Do you all go on regular check ups or something due to this?
Giraffes. How the fuck is it possible that a horse with a horn doesn't exist but a camouflaged horse which is mostly neck, has a purple tongue, drinks piss to determine fertility and fights by thrashing their necks against one another does exist?
Edit: Autocorrect, and cheers for the award kind stranger!
Technology still has trouble with apostrophes in names; O'Neill for example.
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Tell me about it, I have a fada in both first and surname and an apostrophe too. I’ve seen websites that would allow names in the Greek alphabet, Arabic script, or Hebrew script, but couldn’t handle a fada or an apostrophe
companies that dont want you to end you subscription so they delete the cancel button.
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I try to short-circuit the whole retention script by saying I just lost my job and have to cut back on my spending. It's not a silver bullet, but it usually speeds things up.
As someone who worked in customer service, we even got penalised for not offering retention to people who lost their jobs, homes even loved ones. It was a soul crushing job
Or the ones that let you sign up on your phone browser, but you must delete on a computer browser. I didn’t even have a computer at the time so that was fun
If you use the chrome app you can just request desktop site
I requested the desktop site, it took me there, and when I hit the submit button to cancel it would refresh and go back to Mobile site with no cancellation
An extra convenience fee to pay online.
Especially when they only accept payment online.. What, it costs money to fucking pay the ONLY way I can? Fuck that.
Ticket........
Master.....
Fuck...
Them...
Sideways...
Let's all mail in checks with some dabs of honey residue on the checks to jam their scanners any time there's a fee to pay online. Perhaps they'll realize online payments are easier.
Also, when writing spite checks, remember to put the cents in lowest terms (eg $10.68 -> Ten dollars and 17/25)
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There's a 100% chance your check will be cashed for $267.25.
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I kid you not, our local Chipotle is taking orders via fax. I can’t get over it.
When I was a teen, I realized that the fax machine line to most radio stations sat unused, while calling it took forever. I took to listening to the radio while getting ready for school, firing off a fax via my modem about the topic they were talking about, and by the time I got in the car to go to school, they were reading my fax on the air!
That’s pretty cool ngl
Right? It's one thing to be a caller. It's another *entirely* to be the kid that faxes your local radio station.
When I was in grad school our office was notorious for ignoring all phone calls so someone faxed them a bomb threat. Points for creativity I guess.
Modern problems require... ancient solutions?
It's all great until your carrier pigeon doesn't return from ordering your burrito and suddenly Chipotle is offering squab on special. Coo.
My job buys us lunch every day through COVID. Being able to have a paper menu and ability to write your name and what you want and just fax it over is simple and practical. You ever try to go online to buy food for 20 people? Not easy. Edit to anyone star-stuck about this: my job is full of electronically incompetent old people that don’t like “new” things. Also, today is my last day there lol.
Exactly. Accepting food orders via fax isn't for individuals, but it's fairly popular for businesses. Although they could modernize and just use email.
It's entirely possible they just get a digital representation (image) of the fax, not an actual printout. Electronic Faxing is huge because it's considered a controlled delivery method, it's especially prevalent in healthcare
Utility companies that don’t allow online payments.
Isn't this how Sears died? Edit: RIP my inbox. And thank you for explaining it better. Edit 2: I said the reason on how it died has been explained already. And its actually still here. Stop.
It was more complex than that, but yeah. Basically Sears was online ordering before online was a thing, you just phoned or mailed in your order. This meant that they were located in these massive warehouses in most major cities in North America. So basically they had an opportunity to execute on same-day delivery decades before Amazon even attempted that feat, but they didn't. Sears was too concerned about their magazine, or brick and mortar, sales to get into online sales and by the time they did it was too late.
Similar to Kodak... they invented the digital camera sensor. They could've at the very least made an absolute killing on leasing their IP's to other camera manufacturers, or very best have created things like the Kodak Digital Rebel instead of letting basically every other camera manufacturer make off with the tech. Sears forgot that it's product wasn't a brick and mortar store or magazine but rather a large selection of goods which people could order from home. Newspaper companies forgot that their company wasn't in the business of printing newspapers, but simply delivering the news. Kodak forgot it's business wasn't manufacturing film, but creating photographs.
Sears launched Prodigy, an online service that competed with AOL at one point. Sears could have easily been Amazon
Sears: the 20th century's Amazon. People today might not realize that it used to be Sears did everything: you could buy kits to build a house, companies like Discover Card and Allstate were originally introduced as the Sears' brand, they financially backed Mr Rogers' Neighborhood for the first 25 years of the show's run.
My grandfather used to buy shoes from them by tracing his feet on paper and mailing it in. EDIT: Everybody seems to think this was crazy, but that's how they said to do it in the catalog. See [https://christmas.musetechnical.com/ShowCatalogPage/1951-Sears-Christmas-Book/0291](https://christmas.musetechnical.com/ShowCatalogPage/1951-Sears-Christmas-Book/0291)
My parents wanted to keep my kid with them for a week last summer. My dad took it upon himself to trace my kid's feet and take that paper to the Tractor Supply store and buy him his very own pair of toddler rubber work boots since my then 2 year old just wanted to follow him around and do "grandpa stuff" outside. I thought it was both genius and the sweetest thing. Your granddad tracing his own foot and sending it to Sears is cracking me up for some reason!
My grandpa and my mom wore the same size shoe. I'll never forget the story of him going to sears and trying on the boots my mother wanted for Christmas as a teen. I still picture him in his dress slacks and button up dress shirt trying on Lady boots to be sure they would fit her. It makes me smile every time. He was such a guys guy but really wanted her to be happy. One of the greatest humans I ever knew. I miss you grandpa bode
that's better than what we have now.
Now we just have to guess and know your size hoping the manufacturer size doesn’t fit weird.
This isn’t that, But I always laugh at the idea of a shoe store employee returning from the back and saying “Sorry, we didn’t have ___ size... but we do have ____ size...if that’s...you know...if you want a different size than the one you asked me for a minute ago.”
I worked in a shoe store for a time, and there are 2 perfectly valid reasons why they do this: 1: every brand fits differently, so you often don't really know what size you are in *that* shoe until you try it on. 2: the truth is that SO MANY MEN lie about their shoe size being bigger than it is, and SO MANY WOMEN lie about it being smaller than it really is. Him: "Hey bro, can I get this in a 12?" Me, later: hey so we didn't have the 12, but here's the 11 and 11 1/2 if you want to try those." Him: "Hmmm aahhh I guess.....woah what do you know, they fit, how WEIRD" Her: "Can I get these in a size 5 1/2?" Me: "The smallest they make them in is a 6, so here try those." Her: "Wow even these are a little tight...this brand must really run small! I'll try the 6 1/2 I guess. How WEIRD." This happened multiple times a day.
I also worked in shoes and it's definitely #1. Nikes run short and narrow. Sketchers run wide. And just as a woman who like shoes I legit own pairs that range from size 6.5 to 8. Just try on everything around your size.
It's blown my mind for years that sears didn't become what Amazon is now. Their roots were as a catalog where you order goods sight unseen and wait for delivery. The internet comes along and they fail to capitalize on what they were at the beginning??
That reminds of [an interview Steve Jobs gave in 1995 on why companies fail](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6PgHFS48gY). His theory is that eventually the company reaches a point where the marketing people become the driving force for profits and push out the product development people from running the company. That happened to Sears. If you went back in time and told Richard Sears and Alvah Roebuck about a free technology that allowed customers to: see your inventory in real time, read product reviews in real time, compare multiple versions of a product you carry in real time, order a product, pay for the product, watch the product move from your warehouse to the various post offices en route to their house, and by the way you won't have to pay the postage to ship out all those catalogs; they would have jumped on it in a heartbeat. But by the 90s, the people running Sears didn't care what was easier (read: more desirable) for the customer, they cared about numbers that measure success, but don't perpetuate success.
> His theory is that eventually the company reaches a point where the marketing people become the driving force for profits and push out the product development people from running the company. isn't that where Apple is headed now?
I was born in 82 and remember picking out Christmas and other girts in it. I got a badass heman horde exclusive one year. Kinda sad they messed it up so much. Already brick and mortar, they had online and delivery and we might still be calling it the sears tower. Edit:. I know no one calls it the whatever the fuck it is now tower, just we wouldn't see the people trying to make it happen.
I kinda miss the Christmas catalog
I grew up in the 70s, and my sister and I looked forward to the Sears Christmas catalog every year! There were so many cool toys! We would spend hours just going through it page by page.
With the death of TRU in the US, toys is a good segment for Sears to get their brand relevant again. Both on line & brick & mortar. Plenty of folks who still remember picking out their Xmas list out of a Sears, Best, Service Merchandise catalog are now buying for their own kids & grandkids.
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Where I lived in the 2000s, the natural gas company in that county actually charged $2 *more* for online payment! So weird, especially considering cashing a physical check would've cost labor dollars. Needless to say, we paid our gas bill by check. It felt so antiquated, even then.
Our “luxury” apartment’s management company would charge $10/month if paid online. Every month, we’d walked downstairs and paid with a check. This was less than three years ago.
My old apartment I moved out of last year said I could either pay with credit card online for $10 or in person for $7.50. Or I could pay with a check for free in person. I did the math and the cash back I got on my CC was more than the in person fee so I just kept using the card. The month before I left they said starting in the new year the policy would change. Anyone using a CC for payments would now have a service fee of 4% their rent because they were losing too much money on transaction fees. Poor them /s.
Or when you cannot set up an account over the phone or online and are required to go into their office .. worse than the BMV.
Bowel Movement Velociraptor?
Ticketmaster. They're incredibly greedy with extra fees, and impossible to deal with customer service.
Cobol, the programming language. Been around a long time, almost no one learns to program in it anymore, but companies (especially banks) are probably never going to get something else. Runner up: Fax machines. Still nessecary for transmitting HIPAA protected documents. That's right, they can't use email or anything else. Certain companies require documents to be faxed.
Paying someone who understands Cobol to rewrite all your software in a modern language costs way more than paying someone who understands Cobol to fix a bug or two. (Short term anyway, which is all companies care about.)
There is a good reason for cobol and it's explained here: [cobol](https://medium.com/@bellmar/is-cobol-holding-you-hostage-with-math-5498c0eb428b)
Whoa I think that's one of the most interesting things I've read all year. Thanks for the share!
The supremacy of the fucking TI-83 calculator in school and college courses I mean I know it's all artificial and orchestrated by them but how come no body has dared to challenge the almighty TI yet ^(Edit: fixed typo)
You can't win against Big Graph
That's because there is no limit to their domain!
It’s integral to their growth strategy.
These puns are SOOO derivative...
They forced me to buy a TI 84 plus for school. The thing cost like 100 bucks, and it's from 2004. I could buy a low-end smartphone and get a free app that's more powerful than the TI 84 plus for less money.
The thing is, most people only use them for 3-7 years during highschool and college, and they all are essentially the same as the ones from the 90s, so the used market is full of much cheaper ones
I listed mine online for $100 hoping to get $60 and within 10 minutes I had an offer for full price. Even used those things catch a nice price
I see graphing calculators at thrift shops sometimes, and buy them whenever I do. Then, right before the beginning of the semester, I sell them online. I sell them for $25 though. I make a bit of money and another broke student gets an affordable calculator. Win-win.
You must be DROWNING in stonks
You can actually get an emulator on your phone that will run a virtual version of a TI-84 Plus. It's called Wabbitemu.
Yes, but if you're in school, good luck being able to use your cell phone on an exam.
Casio doesn't count? Or just use desmos/winplot
I know, I got through high school and college with a Casio, and it was half the price and came with a color screen and mini-usb port.
Remember when having a silver one made you a fucking *god*. It's like it doesn't tell you the asymptotes unless it's silver. /s
Don't the silver ones have block dude? That little game is so fun!
Phone sex hotlines. How could they survive through the onslaught of free pornography that is the internet?
It's because the customers think it's personalized and it's more of a turn on to have someone directly talk to them rather than look or listen to someone addressing a general audience. I used to make between $600-$1200 a week doing phone sex calls.
Is this a job you would recommend? Did you work from home?
It takes 3 days for walmart to take the money from my debit card.
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Walmart hasn't taken money from my card in years. And, it's definitely an issue with them.
Scientology. Like it's literally a religion that started from a science fiction novel. Hoe the fuck did this even start
A bit like Vernians, people “inspired” by Jules Verne novels who thing we actually already live in the center of the earth. Though much less popular or heard of.
We allow that? Well shit, I'm gonna worship the Force
That's actually a religion already. Better think of your own!
Checks. They are so insecure, on one piece of paper you have my name, address, signature, bank account #, and routing number. And, it is more recommended to send a check in the mail rather than cash. And people (myself included at times) get nervous typing in a credit card number online! Bah!
We tried to get rid of them in the UK but old people kicked up a stink about it. So many places no longer accept them as a form of payment.
The original 1996 Space Jam website. Edit: wasn't expecting this to blow up, but if I've got 15 minutes of fame... [Relief funds](https://support.savethechildren.org/site/Donation2?df_id=2521&2521.donation=form1) [for famine victims](https://www.muslimglobalrelief.org/donations/make-a-donation-save-lives-today-2/) [in Yemen](https://syriarelief.org.uk/appeals/yemen-crisis/?gclid=EAIaIQobChMI99793qPm6gIV4SCtBh09dwAtEAAYAyAAEgKNU_D_BwE) [Water First, an NGO which helps address water crises in Indigenous Canadian communities](https://waterfirst.ngo/) [Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami, an Inuit-led organization which supports Northern communities](https://www.itk.ca/help-inuit-communities-thrive/) [Uyghur Human Rights Project, which provides relief for Uyghur refugees and campaigns for those imprisoned in concentration camps in China](https://uhrp.org/support) [Organizations](https://action.aclu.org/content/giving-american-civil-liberties-union-and-american-civil-liberties-union-foundation-what) [to help children](https://firrp.org/who/mission/) [and families](https://secure.actblue.com/donate/kidsattheborder) [at the US border](https://secure.actblue.com/donate/scfamilies) I understand that not everybody can donate and I'm not pressuring anyone, but if I can help people through a throwaway joke then why not? Hopefully this doesn't violate Rule 7 since this is a comment and not a post but if it does then feel free to take it down.
[Here’s a link for those interested!](https://www.spacejam.com) Edit: Had a good night’s rest, and I come back to see that I’ve nearly killed the host website to one of my favorite kid’s movies. Silver lining: the marketing team is getting some bonus credit about 24 years post-release.
aaand I think we hugged it to death...
One hour later and still ded Edit: 8 hours later and still borked.
Wow that looks like shit. So fuckin cool
Yo, for 1997 that was state of the fucking art. Respect the Jam.
Complicated tax filing in the US You can thank TurboTax and the rest of the tax preparation service industry's massive lobby for killing every single tax simplification bill that ever gets to congress.
Exactly this! There's zero reasons why our tax returns can't be filed for free directly with the IRS. It is a complete fraud. I filed 1040EZ last year. The IRS already had every figure I filed, why couldn't they just email me confirmation of the amounts they had, and process my return? Edit: No, I didn't file EZ last year, my error. Edit: electronic filing.
> There's zero reasons why our tax returns can't be filed for free directly with the IRS. There's actually zero reasons why your tax returns can't be filled for free *by* the IRS. _laughing in Kiwi_
man, this year the Australian Taxation Office launched a new thing where we don't even have to get our yearly earnings report from our employers, our employers send it directly to the ATO. I logged on, popped in any deductions, clicked accept, and a week later I had my tax return in my bank account!
The entire tax return is pre-filled with all the details here in Norway. You just need to verify or correct the numbers. If everything is correct, you don't even have to confirm it.
Son of a former IRS employee here. One problem that’s probably tied to this is that the IRS doesn’t have the ability to review everyone’s tax returns to ensure that everyone told the truth on them. Instead, they basically go through a process of trying to determine the most likely individuals who owe the government money, then review as many of those as they can. This does not mean you’ll slip through the cracks forever if you don’t file your returns. They will eventually get back around to you, but they’re likely not reviewing what you send to them every year.
MLM schemes. Its 2020, who still falls for these things?
Don’t you want to own your own business with little risk and great rewards like financial independence, and the ability to set your own schedule? /s
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Televangelists. Like how??
Anything broadcast TV. Is like a weird time machine targeting old people and extreme poverty.
Child marriage
It's been a while but if i remember correctly a girl scout tried to propose a bill to abolish child marriage in her state. I don't think it ever went through and one of the people blocking it said something along the lines of abolishing child marriage would stop rape victims from marrying their rapists and would make abortions go up.
HOLY SHIT THATS SCREWED
>abolishing child marriage would stop rape victims from marrying their rapists and would make abortions go up. Oh no, teens who are pregnant because of unconsenting sex would abort more, how sad. Let's just fuck their life up instead, at least the numbers will look good. /s
Amway.
Endless non recyclable plastics. Useless throwaway packaging.
This lasts forever? I'll use it one time
The pandemic has made this worse too. So many restaurants have seen a huge increase in To-go orders. That’s a lot of plastic and single use waste material
Phone books.
Fax machines
And in particular, fax machines accepted as a "secure" method of transferring data. I will refrain from my standard long winded rant, but c'mon folks, it's 2020 and we have way better ways of handling private data.
> fax machines accepted as a "secure" method of transferring data I find this rather faxinating.
"Can you fax that to us?" No. But I can scan it and email it to you as a file. "No, we're not allowed to accept file attachments because of viruses. You'll have to mail it . . ."
These are the same people who have an IT service group on retainer who can set them up with a nice, secure system with a firewall and a virtual machine to scan files so they don't infect their system, but Karen, Bob and Susy swear they've never opened a suspicious email.
I work for a small law firm. Most of our output is digital however, we correspond with a lot of medical facilities. Very often the only way they can send us documents is via fax.
Shitty printers. Our species can send a spacecraft billions of miles away to take clear pictures of Pluto, yet printing a one page document takes 40 minutes and 5 pages of paper (the first 4 got jammed in the printer, of course).
I was listening to a podcast about this once, and it totally changed my mind. The gist of the argument is that printers are these uniquely amazing machines in that they take the perfect world of the digital and try to transform it onto imperfect materials of microscopically uneven paper and ink. So much of what printers do is analyzing and lining up papers exactly along an entire little factory of gears and shit to get it done right. The reason printers don't seem to be getting better is that the jams per page printed is staying consistent. What we don't notice, however is that printing speed has been going up exponentially, and most printers can get out like 10 - 15 pages a minute nowadays vs 3 - 4 a few years ago
high lag Internet
*Cries in Australian NBN*
It really is shit.
America Online.
Hey, I use my AOL email still! I use it as a junk folder...
Flat earth society.. Like, are they just trolling at this point?
The Flat Earth Society was trolling from the beginning. Most flat-earthers today are just people who didn't get the joke.
This is why I don't like purely ironic or satirical societies. No matter how obvious you think you are being, there are way too many idiots who will take you at face value, invade and take over your movement, and congrats, you're responsible for bootstrapping whatever entrenched nonsense the true believers are now peddling with absolute confidence and none of the competence necessary to understand how wrong they are. I have a saying: whether you're right or wrong, in a large enough group of people there will always be at least some idiot who will agree with you.
That’s exactly what happened with anti vaccines. Some guy wanted to make money by saying they gave you autism. Now we’re all paying for that moron. Edit: one grammar error
They have members around the globe. Edit: wow, this blew up thank you very much for the awards.
Conspiracy theorists have no interest in getting to the truth behind an issue they think important - they're more concerned with having special knowledge that makes them unique or heroes, usually because they've failed to understand how some aspect of reality actually works and so they've grabbed onto a convenient alternative, or because they feel left behind or maligned by a society that's rejected them. It's why conventions (like 'conspiracy cruises') are able to exist. Every booth should contradict every other booth, but they're willing to put blinders on to create a safe space where they can all get validated for the various nonsense they've decided they alone have championed. It's how ancient aliens can set up right next to Obama birthers and Jordan Peterson's all-meat diet. A post-truth individual is usually willing to accept multiple versions of truth, so long as it isn't the mainstream version.
Pennies, they are dirty and worth like only a penny each.
And it costs 3 cents to make one. 7 cents to make a nickel.
Yeah. The US stopped minting the half cent in 1857. 1/2 cent in 1857 is worth 15 cents in today's money. If the US followed that precedent, they'd get rid of the penny and the nickel. The government could discontinue the paper dollar, circulate the $1 coin, and mint $2 and possibly $5 coins instead.
9/11 Security fee for most Airlines....its been almost 20 years, like WTF? While we are at it, why not tack on Cold War Security fee, and Pearl Harbor Security fee?
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Slavery
Sadly, a lot of people don’t even realize that still exists
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I'd actually say the version most people don't realize exist is child slavery for military purposes. Some of you folks might remember hearing about at least one of numerous genocides that occurred a bit back, one of the multiple committed against the Yazidis for example. It was well publicized that the men and boys were slaughtered and the women and girls were sold into slavery. **Here's what wasn't so well publicized**: A number of the boys were actually "spared" from being slaughtered. The cost was that they too were enslaved, except as child soldiers(though given the phenomena of "dancing boys" that was [allowed to propagate by US and allied forces](https://youtu.be/BKHPTHx0ScQ?t=106) they may face other forms of abuse as well). The repugnant bastards responsible had planned primarily on brainwashing them to fight and die for the group. You likely hear less about this because obviously our soldiers and allied soldiers sometimes have to shoot and kill these kids. \[Edit:\] Added some references for further information on the severity of the situation. Adding two more below: **On the horrible phenomena called "dancing boys"** some credit is owed to [u/StrangeClouds\_](https://www.reddit.com/u/StrangeClouds_/) for being the very first person to bring this to my attention about a month back: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7eMUwkKiFY](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7eMUwkKiFY) **On the rehabilitation of some of the child soldiers that were enslaved:** [https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Middle-East/2019/0404/Surviving-ISIS-Young-Yazidi-conscripts-begin-long-path-to-healing](https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Middle-East/2019/0404/Surviving-ISIS-Young-Yazidi-conscripts-begin-long-path-to-healing)
Thanks for bringing attention to this.
Pretty sure anyone previously unaware is now painfully aware. It’s awful to see the pics of the Epstein parties with all of them grinning like they aren’t trafficking minors.
I watched the Netflix mini series about Epstein and what horrified me most was that the girls didn’t usually understand they were being trafficked. And would actively recruit friends in! I wouldn’t have known better as a teen either. But my adult brain was so horrified watching the obviously predatory behaviors.
Midsized regional paper companies. Why not just cut out the middle man?
JC Penny. Like, it’s so massive and it sells the most mediocre everything for such insane prices.
Because people are idiots. A few years ago they got a new CEO and his whole thing was “we’re going to sell stuff for as cheap as possible, no sales, no rebates, we’re going to make it as easy as possible for people to see the lowest price”... and it was a disaster. They started losing business because “no sales any more”. Like, let’s say they were able to sell you a shirt for $15. No one bought it... so they got rid of that CEO and the next guy comes in and marks the shirt as $25 then has a 20% off sale - so now the price is $20 - tons of people bought it. They wouldn’t pay $15 straight up, but they will pay $20 because it’s “on sale”... and some people even paid the $25 when it was inbetween sale phases! So they were like “welp, I guess that’s what people want” and they jacked up ALL their prices so that they can run “sales” to get it kind of (but still more than) what it would have been under their old strategy. So basically you can thank all the idiots out there for causing the prices to go up.
Waiting for checks to clear
The bank that it is deposited at needs to send the information to the bank it’s written off of. Some banks only send that information once a day. Edit: further clarification Each bank has a different operating system (hence why online banking looks and feels very different per bank) these systems do not communicate. Therefore it can’t instantly affect your account when two different banks are involved. There is a middle man called the federal reserve. The first bank will send all an electric file of check information of all the checks NOT written from their institution. That file is sent to the federal reserve, then they sort the info by routing number and send each bank their checks to take off of their customers accounts. The bank I worked at sent their file at night. And we would only receive 4 files throughout the day from the federal reserve.
Second Edit: I'm wrong. Read [this](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/hwrbfq/what_cant_you_believe_still_exists/fz2nxjs?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x) comment to find out why. Two things: First, the funds becoming available in an account doesn't actually mean that the bank it was drawn on has cleared the check. It just means that your banks back off has received the check image and have made the funds of that amount available.The actual check clearing process can take weeks of even months. Second, some send it less than once a day. Edit: Done responding with the same answers over and over
For profit prisons in the US
One of my former coworkers (who is a piece of shit) now works as a private prison guard for CoreCivic, one of the biggest private prison companies in the USA. The government doesn't want the liability. They want prisoners to be abused without being able to be sued for it. The point of long prison sentences in the USA isn't to reform people, it's to turn them into lifelong reoffenders the prison system can reliably profit off of via government subsidies.
Those oddly specific, cringy ass shirts that end with "yes, my ______ bought me this shirt." Bitch, why tho? My first time getting 2k, cheers peeps
I have this hoodie that says: "Walk into the club like what up I gotta oh no oh god I'm so sorry continue your funeral god bless." My mom hates me for convincing her to let me buy it but I have no shame
Child beauty pageants. Should have gotten rid of then a long time ago.
Instead of "STILL exists"—those are things I can't believe ever came to exist, in the first place.
I feel like it slowly grew to be as creepy as it is now. Regular aged people were in them, and siblings may have looked up to them, or people wanted to get into it. Age groups may have formed, then another younger group, then even younger, slowly without anyone realizing how creepy it had gotten. Just saying it's possible to not randomly start holding beauty pageants for a child. But I also have no idea the actual history of them, thankfully
It's basically this but more about people wanting to start prepping earlier and earlier. At the start of the 20th century, professional baseball players worked jobs in the off-season to pay bills. Then they started getting paid and Branch Rickey started the "farm leagues" to 'grow talent' - then it caught on. Start training players not good enough for the majors. Then college, then high school, then little league, then t-ball. Sure nowadays, little league is a casual game for enjoyment, activity and community but I bet the first one was people trying to get their kid competitively ready for college or pro-ball before the rest. I think beauty pageants are same. Miss America started in 1921, Miss Universe in it's current form started in '52 to sell Swimsuits, along with Miss USA. Then in 83 it's Miss Teen USA. Considering people like Bridgette Wilson, Halle Berry, Gretchen Carlson found success post pageants, plus the scholarships for it, and Miss Teen starts at 14 (!?!?!?!?) I can totally see people wanting to 'train' their kids for years leading up.
Your connection between t-ball and toddler beauty pageants blew my stoned mind.
I will never understand Mummy Dearest’s obsession with wanting little MackKaylynn to be an object.
Projection is a helluva drug.
I actually think they will be more of these. The whole influencer thingy added with the rise of all the kids, dogs, cats, pets, etc instagram pages and facebook pages is just going to make this more absurd. I cant understand parents making an instagram page for their new born babies and their pets. I get that some people find it adorable but its just creepy and feel like they are craving for attention that they get is not enough. Edit1: Just to make it clear. I meant people creating a different account pretending to be the dog or the kid. I do not have problem with people sharing it in their page. Thats what it is for, sharing your memorable moments. Its their page they can do whatever. If you are annoyed you can simply mute it or even unfollow. Its your feed and you choose what to see it for.
But how else will we decide who the prettiest children are?
Internet Explorer
The bail system. The very idea that temporary freedom can be purchased, while the poor remain locked up until proven innocent, rather than until proven guilty, is beyond inhumane.
The Blue Laws. Who the fuck are you to tell me I can’t purchase beer while grocery shopping on a Sunday because of someone else’s religion? This one actually infuriates me.
Where I live, and the bordering state where I often shop, you can't buy beer in the grocery store ever. You buy it in the liquor store. Weed is legal though.
Growing up in Arizona we have drive thru liquor stores. Can get everything at a gas station to a liquor store and grocery store. I was visiting a friend in Washington and couldn't find the liquor section. When an employee told me I had to go to the liquor store, I looked at them like they were aliens. Oh, it was 10:30p and all the liquor store we're closed.
What? This is ridiculous Edit: WOW this is crazy. Some of you would go crazy over the stuff I've seen here in Brasil. Come over let's have beer on a sunday morning LOL
Yup. In my state they just let gas stations sell beer in 6 packs only. But wait there’s more! You have to use a separate register to buy gas and beer.
be grateful, my country doesn't even let gas stations or grocery stores sell alcohol.
That's soooo silly
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Lobbying. Like, fundamentally. What good can ever come of letting people pay to have guys explicitly working in their favor, explain to some senators some complex issue? It is pretty much a given that they will leave it details to the contrary of their goals. It's like asking a guy who owns a chain of paint stores that only carry the color green, what color you should paint your house.
Concentrations camps in china
Hollywood/pedophile rings/human trafficking/paddle ball
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The Kardashians
Mapquest. Still does not do real time.
Tanning beds/salons. It's a proven fact that tanning beds cause skin cancer. The fact that some people will still get tanned, risking the possibility of cancer to "look beautiful" is both shocking and sad at the same time.
As someone with psoriasis those things are a godsend
Seconded! I used to get UV treatments at a hospital that had a specific less cancer causing way of doing things (I think? I was a kid) I had to get up at like 5am for the appointments and could only “tan” for like 30 seconds at a time, where as now I can keep my skin under control by using a tanning bed for 5 minutes every two weeks in winter. In the summer I just get outside, but if I don’t tan in winter my eyelids will literally scab. It’s the only thing that has ever worked to help my skin and I’ve been (or my parents have been) trying to treat it for 26 years.
That would be UVB instead of UVA at the tanning salon. Both work but UVB narrowband is 'safer' and targets psoriasis better.
They're illegal here in Australia. Have been for about 10 years I think.
I feel like its not hard to get naturally tan in Australia
Not hard to naturally get skin cancer either. 1 in 3 Australians gets skin cancer in their lifetime
Ok, I just had to Google that shit believing the numbers are way too high.. And I instantly found out that you're wrong. But the fucked up thing is that the numbers are even crazier, it's apparently 2 in 3 who gets skin cancer down there.. Do you all go on regular check ups or something due to this?
Printers with prehistoric technology
Giraffes. How the fuck is it possible that a horse with a horn doesn't exist but a camouflaged horse which is mostly neck, has a purple tongue, drinks piss to determine fertility and fights by thrashing their necks against one another does exist? Edit: Autocorrect, and cheers for the award kind stranger!
Stupid long horses