• Random Dent@lemmy.ml
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    I think tacking on irrelevant laws onto popular bills to get them passed shouldn’t be allowed.

    Politicians shouldn’t be allowed to trade stocks, especially when they’re in a position to pass laws that would directly affect their holdings.

    Super PACs, it’s absolutely wild that that’s a thing IMO.

    I think there should also be a “cooling off” period of some sort over passing/repealing laws. I’m thinking as an example of the Republicans after Obamacare was passed, when they tried to repeal it something like 70 times in 10 years. I get that things change and laws sometimes need to be amended or updated, but there should really be some system in place to prevent people from spamming up the whole system like that.

    I’m also not a big fan of the filibuster.

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    Surprised to see no one has said cigarettes yet. Not only are you poisoning yourself, it’s harmful to everyone else around you that has to inhale that shit.

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    Requiring agreement to some unspecified ever-changing terms of service in order to use the product you just bought, especially when use of such products is required in the modern world. Google and Apple in particular are more or less able to trivially deny any non-technical person access to smartphones and many things associated with them like access to mobile banking. Microsoft is heading that way with Windows requiring MS accounts, too, though they’re not completely there yet.

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    Ridiculous rental prices and annual rent increases with no improvements to show for it.

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      Ugh yes, and ban scooters and motors as well, they make such a ridiculous amount of noise compared to their speed.

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        Also ban talking on the street, public transport, and trees. All of these can be very noisy, and I can’t stand it! Oh and bikes too, their bells are very infuriating, especially when it’s bad and rings all the time… and better not let your kids play in the front of the yard!

        Seriously, I have seen loud motors, but haven’t any loud scooters. Which one do you think is loud?
        In my experience cars and newborns are louder, not by a little margin, just to give a few examples.

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          That’s why I said compared to their speed. I don’t know any brands or example models, all of them are obnoxiously loud and driven by simple minded fools imho. Cars make relatively little noise, and newborns and trees do not belong in this comparison in my opinion.

          Edit: tried to find a picture, seems these are not universally called scooters even though they are where I live. I mean models like this: https://www.scooterforyou.nl/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/34_G7_99_KISBEESPORTLINE-1.jpg

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            Yeah, I think many people thought you were talking about those electric scooters, which are, well pretty damn silent and good to make cities less car focused (like in the US). I mean things like this.

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              Yeah it’s my bad as apparently most of the world uses the word differently :-) I’m a big fan of electric vehicles, both the noise and pollution are reduced which is great!

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            Oh I see, about those, I can agree that they are relatively loud. I was thinking about the “rolling metal posts” at first.

            Sorry for being rude

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              No worries, it appears that most of the world uses the word “scooter” differently than we do in the Netherlands :-) with your definition of scooter I agree that my statement was ridiculous haha.

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    Products purposefully manufactured to be unfixable. Main example being anything apple…you can’t even add ram to a iMac anymore and they have the audacity to sell the lower end model with 8 gigs of ram as if that’s enough when everyone knows its not. Basically selling a 1400$ piece of shit.

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      It is far worse if you look at the radmom no name brand products sold by Amazon, they are straight manufactured trash, that is only barely functioning when it comes out of the factory.

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    Eh… where? This seems like a very location-specific question.

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    In the US slavery should be illegal since ages but isn’t yet.

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      Already illegal (without proper licence) in most first world countries. Or at least not as unregulated as as in Murica

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      They shouldn’t be illegal, but heavily regulated.

      I mean, hunting and harvesting meat is far more ethical to the normal meat industry.

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        Most people in countries where guns are regulated would not get access to a gun for hunting, mind you. Unless your job is to be a forester, which over here includes selectively shooting animations to balance populations if something goes out of balance.

        “I want to get my own deer meat from the forest” is not a valid reason to get a gun. Or even a bow!

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          I like the theory of gun laws in Sweden.

          You can only get a gun if you are actively in need of one, there are only two legal way to be in need of one, hunting and competition.

          You need to get a hunting license from a school, join a hunting society and be an active member to get a permit for gun, or you need to actively compete in a shooting club to get a competition permit. You also need to demonstrate competence and skill before you get a permit regardless of if you are a hunter or a competitor.

          Getting a gun for personal safety is not permitted, and to be frank, it isn’t really needed here, we have few dangerous animals, and despite the rise of gang violence, Sweden is still a safe country.

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        Yes. Every hunter is ethical and will absolutely nail every shot to make sure the animal doesn’t suffer and die a slow death. A hunter missing the killshot and instead wounding the animal? Never happens.

        /s

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          Of course it happens, but for the absolute majority of it’s life, even a wounded animal has lived a life in freedom and nature, a proper hunter would absolutely track and deal with a wounded animal to reduce suffering and preserve the meat.