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  1. Fitted sheet must have label on bottom right seam
  2. Salted butter wrapping text must be red. Unsalted blue.
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[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 months ago (11 children)

Fast lane is for passing only

[–] pastermil 11 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Already is, just that nobody enforce this.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 months ago (1 children)

If your toaster can't fit a slice of Warburton' Toastie comfortably, then the CEO of the toaster company gets toasted to death at the stake.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 months ago (3 children)

If you are selling three sizes of something, the sizes are called "small", "medium" and "large".

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 months ago (5 children)
  • Loading dishwashers properly requires an official government license and a test.
  • Putting a flat plate in front of a bowl means a year of hard labor.
  • Loading any of the good kitchen knives is an automatic 10 years.
[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I absolutely agree with you. My former flatmate didn't like to use the dishwasher because according to her, it wouldn't clean the dishes properly. Yet she would load the dishwasher by stacking the plates horizontally... as you would store them in a cupboard

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 months ago (1 children)

If you do any industrial processing step which creates something harmful for the environment, your company is responsible for undoing that step after nobody wants the result any more.

This creates an incentive to recycle and build stuff to be able to deconstruct it's components. Less stuff in the landfills and more raw materials for recycling.

Let the consumer bear the cost by paying the real price of a product and not mother nature.

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[–] fruitycoder 15 points 3 months ago (5 children)

You have to put the highest scoville rated ingredient on your hot food stall.

I do not want to be surprised in either direction.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 months ago

Packaging should be made to be reusable. Glass jars must have easily removable labels, plastic wrap would only be allowed for sterile equipment, otherwise you have to use paper and other biodegradable materials. Branding would have to be completely removable too. Basically, packaging would remain a product of the state, and would be completely controlled. Corporations would have to pay packaging tax to subsidize control of this.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (4 children)

Motorcycles have a maximum volume

Alternatively 13 months of 28 days

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 months ago

If a food package is not resealable, the nutritional information must state how many calories are in the entire package.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Expand allergy warning labels on products. Mammal product allergy exists, it's called alpha-gal syndrome - one of the issues that can arise from a tick bite. I would like to see allergy labels for beef, pork, gelatin, and carrageenan alongside the ones for milk, wheat, nuts, etc.

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[–] captain_aggravated 13 points 3 months ago (2 children)

under my brutal dictatorship, laptop power buttons may not be a key on the keyboard. It must be a separate button elsewhere on the chassis.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago (4 children)

Anyone who lets their dog bark outside for 10+ continuous minutes (except in case of emergency) loses dog privileges for a year. One year added for every five minutes over 10.

ShotSpotter installs can be repurposed to locate homes of negligent owners who are annoying the entire neighborhood by letting their dogs bark unmitigated.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago

No more daylight saving clock change. If I want to get up an hour earlier, I'll set my alarm to do so.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)
  1. All microwaves must have an option to silence them.
  2. Public restroom doors are no longer allowed to have gaps in them.
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[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago

Companies can not own other companies.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Stickers put on products by manufacturers or retailers must either be on the product packaging or be made with the material that leaves no residue behind when peeled off.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago (3 children)

When buying toilets, people should be able to test the flush in the shop

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago

Good rules!

Bottom right = standing or lying? Tag should be on flat also and must tell the bed size.

I think my butters are opposite colors.

[–] explodicle 11 points 3 months ago (6 children)

Replace "in god we trust" on money with Satan.

[–] can 10 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Replace with "in Satan we trust" or jus plainly leave it at "Satan"?

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago (3 children)

New "No Ads" holiday. No ads on TV or the entire internet for one day, physical billboards can stay, digital billboards must be turned off, essentially all form of digital advertisement is disallowed. If a company breaks those rules, it is fined 50% of its average annual revenue.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago

All shoe and clothing companies must use universal measurements and sizes

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago (6 children)

Bumper height of vehicles.

Glassware must be rated to survive short drop onto wood floor at a minimum.

(The fitted sheets we have do have tags for top and bottom with hanging tag at bottom. I would say just don't give them hanging tags at all.)

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago (3 children)

E-bike legislation. Here in BC Canada, you're limited to 500W motor and 32KPH. while I have no problem with the speed limit, I think they should allow up to at least 1000w motors. Heavier individuals such as myself would crush a 500w motor.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Online dating apps. I'd:

  1. Break up the monopoly that Match Group and Bumble Inc hold on the market, by working with the Federal Trade Commission and UK Competitions & Markets Authority.

  2. Introduce caps on what apps can charge for Premium features. Charging the same price as several World of Warcraft or Final Fantasy XIV subscriptions just to see likes is scummy as fuck.

  3. Introduce mandatory ID verification to dissuade fake users, and have very strict regulations on how said data is processed and stored, with massive fines for data breaches that could easily have been avoided.

  4. Have a correct appeals process towards account penalties/closure and outlaw the use of shadowbanning.

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