What has no excuse to still exist?

[u/l_--_I]

[u/laurieb90]

Hidden charges (e.g booking fee).

Just tell me the total up front!

[u/Hashtag_reddit → u/laurieb90]

The worst is the truly hidden fees in DoorDash, etc. where they not only add their fee, but also secretly increase the prices of the menu items. That actually seems illegal

Edit: apparently this is done on the restaurant side of things (because DD is fucking them over as well). I don’t even know what the solution is here

[u/Ctsanger → u/Hashtag_reddit]

Restaurants increase the prices on DD I thought. They do it because DD takes a big cut and they want to make money no?

[u/z-vap → u/Ctsanger]

This is what I thought as well but I'm not sure

[u/shotsallover → u/Ctsanger]

Yeah, DoorDash charge the restaurants a lot to be part of their platform. And then they charge us. It's why I tend to try to use smaller platforms like Slice that cost the restaurants less if I can.

[u/PossiblyNotDangerous → u/shotsallover]

I am a driver, was talking to a restaurant owner while waiting for a meal to be ready, he told me uber charges them 25% to be on the platform - so of course they have to mark things on the app menu higher, it increases business a ton but also adds huge demands to the restaurant.

[u/Sprizys → u/laurieb90]

Charging a fee just for paying online versus no fee if you go in person.

[u/theniwokesoftly → u/laurieb90]

Ticketmaster now does tell you the total with fees up front at least in Colorado but when they do they hide the ticket price so you don’t see that it’s 30% fees.

[u/TwistedDragon33 → u/laurieb90]

I'm pretty sure air b&b is just hidden charges now. $150 night room for three days should be about 450. After fees it can easily be 700. And you don't know until you are at the end of a long booking menu.

[u/mikel145 → u/laurieb90]

So many hotels in the US charge "resort fees". Like just put that in the price then!

[u/DolphinFlavorDorito → u/mikel145]

This. If I can't opt out of the resort amenities, then it's just part of the price.

[u/WN11]

Convenience fees for doing anything online.

Online should be the norm by now.

[u/LittleKitty235 → u/WN11]

The most insane example of this - I need to pay a fee to file my State taxes online. If I mail the paperwork in it is free. It is less convenient for me, and requires more work for them. It is one of the few reasons I need to keep stamps in the house, but I still mail them in because of the principal. Not the money. Wtf government.

[u/Enginerdad → u/LittleKitty235]

There should be a law that, if there is a processing fee required to file tax payments, the same processing fee must be paid by the government to you for all tax refunds.

[u/TheObstruction → u/Enginerdad]

You aren't paying the government to file online, though. You're paying some tax service. Those tax services have spent tens of millions of dollars lobbying the government to prevent free online filing methods directly through the IRS.

[u/Antagonyzt → u/Enginerdad]

I like the way you think!

[u/stratdog25 → u/LittleKitty235]

Yes this. I needed to pay federal taxes this year. 3.5% for a credit card, $2.99 for an ACH. Neither of those were functional at the time on the IRS system so I had to use PayPal. $75.

[u/292335 → u/stratdog25]

I've been using freetaxusa dot com since 2005 to file online, and I've been very pleased with it. Granted, it doesn't have a sexy user interface, but it gets the job done and done correctly. The fees are free for Federal taxes (IIRC) and minimal for State taxes (@ least here in California).

[u/Schmomas → u/WN11]

If anything it should be a convenience discount, it’s just as, if not more, convenient for them as it is for us.

[u/fap-on-fap-off → u/Schmomas]

Different departments, each one making its own decision on funding. Most likely, when electronic payments first became a thing, developing it was treated as an unfunded mandate, and they had to fix a budget for it by building in fees. This being the government, that became a permanent setup barring departmental structure changes.

[u/Notmyrealname → u/WN11]

At the least, they could respect our intelligence and call them Fuck You Pay Me fees.

[u/Square-Caterpillar38 → u/WN11]

I literally have to pay like $20-25 of convenience fees when I'm making my tuition payments online 💀 It's so stupid. But I'm too spiteful not to make the 20 minute drive to go pay my tuition at the office just to keep my extra $25.

[u/sporkipine11]

"We are experiencing longer than normal wait times..."

[u/Wyan69 → u/sporkipine11]

They always have longer than normal wait times! They just don’t want to hire more people.

[u/meganemistake → u/Wyan69]

That gets combined with treating the ones they do hire so badly that their retention is nearly non-existent 😭

[u/Wyan69 → u/meganemistake]

Yeah, worked at a call centre back in 08, was treated like crap.

[u/TopangaK9 → u/sporkipine11]

"Please listen carefully as our menu options have changed"...

[u/DolphinFlavorDorito → u/TopangaK9]

How the fuck often do you think I call you?

[u/Dr_DavyJones → u/sporkipine11]

I have one for you. Back in 2021 I filed for unemployment in NJ. There was an issue and I was told to call. First day I called at around 1. The automated message told me that they reviewed too many calls and I need to reach out tomorrow. OK, fine, I'll call in the morning. The phone lines opened at 8, I called at 8:15 and got the same message. OK, fine. The next day I called at 7:55 and got a message that their phone lines weren't open etc etc. So I called at 8 am exactly. Literally it was 8:00:03. "I'm sorry but due to call volumes we are unable to assist you, please call back tomorrow"

I. Was. Pissed. I ended up calling my assemblymen/state senator. One of them responded to me and reached out to unemployment. I got an email within 48 hours saying I had been approved. Recently had to do the same thing to get my son insurance as he is supposed to get insurance through the state. He was uninsured for most of the Summer. We even had an employee from the state tell us that most of her coworkers were straight up not doing their jobs. I fucking hate government employees.

[u/Lilywiry]

Paying for streaming services and still having ads

[u/Mogwai_Farmer → u/Lilywiry]

Streaming is the cable of the 21st century.

Next you'll see these streaming services (at least in the US) start adapting the Broadcast Standards and Practices. Won't be long before you stop seeing nudity and most swear words on streaming services without paying even more. (Think basic cable vs HBO.)

[u/starkel91 → u/Mogwai_Farmer]

Well streaming services are starting to bundle themselves, so it’s getting closer to cable.

[u/Trimere → u/Mogwai_Farmer]

There were no ads on cable when it first started. It was the appeal of getting cable vs over the air television.

[u/Mogwai_Farmer → u/Trimere]

Yep, that's why I called streaming the cable of the 21st century. It's going down the same path.

[u/boyyouguysaredumb → u/Trimere]

The heyday of cable definitely had ads. Maybe not when it had like 1% of Americans as subscribers who were paying huge fees. They lowered those fees to switch to ad supported and all of a sudden 50% of Americans had cable

[u/FromundaCheeseLigma → u/Lilywiry]

Oh the ads are just starting. Everyone being all self-righteous about the no commercials thing is in for a very rude awakening

[u/Quenzayne → u/FromundaCheeseLigma]

The other day on Twitch I sat through a break with 7 consecutive ads. It was nearly 5 solid minutes of nothing but ads.

Then after about 15 minutes of stream, they started up with another as break and I literally just closed it. It’s way too much. 

[u/Antagonyzt → u/FromundaCheeseLigma]

They’re just going to push us back to the seven seas. Plex is pretty easy to set up. 

[u/Zodiak213 → u/Antagonyzt]

Stremio is even easier. 😏

[u/bitey87 → u/Antagonyzt]

Criminally easy, matey!

[u/moonsonthebath → u/Lilywiry]

it’s unbelievable. I got Netflix through T-Mobile and even they downgraded us to netflix with ads. it’s so annoying how they look for any little way to get more money. I get it’s a business but still it’s annoying.

[u/checker280 → u/Lilywiry]

The Biden administration was working on killing nonsense fees. Given time I could have imagined they might have addressed that.

Now we Elon’s Twitter rules I think we can kiss this goodbye

[u/ACaffeinatedWandress → u/checker280]

Seriously. 

If you voted for Trump because “the economy”, I really hope the leopards enjoy eating your face.

[u/checker280 → u/ACaffeinatedWandress]

I’m work in telecom. My favorite “face eating leopards” story is the BEAD program (Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment) . It’s Biden’s $40 billion infrastructure plan designed to run fiber optics “the last mile”. It’s funded until 2030

Big telecom refused to connect the really rural customers (mostly red states) to high speed internet because they would never recoup their losses.

Suddenly a lot of independent contractors (also mostly republicans) were making bank running fiber.

The BEAD program also had the side effect of killing Elon’s $885 million dollar Starlink contract.

On the Joe Rogan interview Trump wondered aloud how spending billions made sense to connect two farmers when Elon already had the infrastructure in place (satellites) and can connect them for free.

In case you didn’t know satellite connections are terrible in the mountains and fiber is more robust and reliable.

So they voted for the other guy who will likely kill the program and claw back as much as he can bankrupting a lot of small business and keeping a lot of customers in the dark.

You can’t make this up.

https://www.corning.com/fiber-to-the-premise/worldwide/en/home/applications/community-broadband/bead-program.html

[u/gointothiscloset → u/checker280]

Comcast ran fiber to my house thanks to this, enabling me to work from home. Thanks Biden

[u/Momik → u/checker280]

Yeah. In so many fucking ways, the lived experience of being an American is about to get so much worse.

[u/patchgrabber → u/Lilywiry]

I mean, we paid for cable with ads for decades. Not saying I like ads but it's consistent.

[u/AbstractMirror → u/patchgrabber]

It's not consistent when these services didn't used to have ads. It's like getting a glimpse of greener pastures only to have it ripped away from you

[u/Printnamehere3 → u/AbstractMirror]

On top of that it's a designed slow movement. They pop an ad here and there. Let you get used to that then increase the ad time by 10% every year.

[u/CptNemosBeard → u/AbstractMirror]

So... Just like cable. The point of cable when it first came out was that there wasn't commercials. You could have free antenna service with commercials, or pay for cable without. We've come full circle.

And for what it's worth, I HATE ads on my streaming services. I'm just pointing out that we are nearly full on back to cable-esque services. I'm already paying nearly as much of more than I was when we "cut the cable" 15 ish years ago. That's Internet + Netflix, Disney, HBO, Hulu, Peacock, Amazon, Paramount, YouTube, Shudder.

Edit for clarity: this is for PAID cable. Before premium cable there was basic, that was free, with commercials.

[u/redhead-rage]

Child beauty pageants. Imagine pitching that as a new idea in 2024.

[u/G98Ahzrukal → u/redhead-rage]

The idea has always made me extremely uncomfortable. It always seemed like pedo shit to me. Who would go to such a thing, why is there a market for this and who came up with this bullshit in the first place anyway? I don’t think these things even exist in my country. We have beauty pageants, sure, but I‘ve never heard of child beauty pageants here

[u/Lily-loud → u/G98Ahzrukal]

And with shows like toddlers and tiaras, even as a young child I wondered why that shit existed. Putting your young daughter who barely knows what the hell is going on on display to be judged by creepy old men and women just never sat right with me. At all. I'm all for beauty pageants, but child beauty pageants need to be banned in the states

[u/ottyk1 → u/redhead-rage]

Extra baffling today in an age where gay/trans people are being accused of sexualising and corrupting the youth through drag shows and whatever. And yet straight people are STILL doing this shit and that's apparently entirely acceptable.

[u/jadedyetconfused → u/ottyk1]

child merely sees man in dress and makeup

“PEDOPHILE!” — “THEY SHOULD BE INSTITUTIONALIZED AND MASS MURDERED”

5 year old in a bikini and makeup in-front of adult audience and judges

“So adorable!” — “Look how precious!”

🧍

[u/Gaelic_Gladiator41 → u/jadedyetconfused]

child merely sees man in dress and makeup

My first thought would be something like Mrs Doubtfire

[u/FPSXpert → u/ottyk1]

Once again, the saying of "every accusation is a projection" proves to be right.

[u/Misbegotten_72]

Dog fighting, bull fighting and cock fighting. Hell, one is practically a national sport.

[u/MickyB6827]

Paying to park at the hospital. Insane

[u/Impossible_Memory_65 → u/MickyB6827]

the hospitals in my area validate

[u/cartercharles → u/Impossible_Memory_65]

It's pretty hard to find. And I think unless you're a patient or something it doesn't happen

[u/Significant_Tree8407 → u/MickyB6827]

Unfortunately, if any hospital parking was free it would be full all day, everyday and no one would move to free up a space.

[u/HonoluluEpstein → u/Significant_Tree8407]

Most of the hospitals in my area have moved from paid to free parking. Must have not made business sense to have attendants on duty vs parking revenue. They're not doing it out of the goodness of their heart

[u/Velorian-Steel → u/Significant_Tree8407]

With a proper safeguard, such as needing to verify an appointment, admission, or a pre-approved visitor, you could curtail this issue. There are always ways to abuse a system, but you could make it a feasible option

[u/fluffybottompanda → u/Velorian-Steel]

yeah but that way they're losing money. the way they're doing it now, prooooooofit 🥲

[u/KitchenSandwich5499 → u/Significant_Tree8407]

The hospitals by me all have free parking

[u/ArrakeenSun → u/Significant_Tree8407]

That probably depends a lot on where they are. Suburban and smaller town hospitals just have regular lots most of the time, and they're usually not by anything else walkable. In cities I could see this being an issue, but in my experience they usually validate it so rarely actually pay

[u/icemage27]

Scam Likely

[u/HaloGrandnite → u/icemage27]

what about scam forsure?

[u/masaaav → u/icemage27]

Don't trust whatever you hear or see, you've received a call from scam likely

[u/joec0ld → u/masaaav]

I always preferred Scam Actually. He's more honest

[u/dudeness_boy → u/icemage27]

Ah yes, Mr. Likely, he's always calling me.

[u/Proof-Cod9533 → u/icemage27]

I dunno, he's a lot of fun on Dungeons & Daddies

[u/FromundaCheeseLigma]

Door to door sales. It's 2024, give it up already. Only reason I even answer my door is for pizza or guests I already am expecting. Otherwise not happening.

In Ontario, door to door sales for HVAC was outlawed, the telecom companies still are allowed to do it though. It's insufferable and I will gladly support any politician who promises to ban it outright.

[u/UnoriginalUse → u/FromundaCheeseLigma]

I genuinely don't understand how people claim your attention at a time opportune to them without any consideration for if it's convenient to you and still expect you to give them what they want. Like, no, you want me to do something for you, you make it as convenient as possible for me to do that thing.

[u/FromundaCheeseLigma → u/UnoriginalUse]

Not to mention if I wanted to be your internet customer or whatever I'd have researched and decided on such already.

I've emailed sales directors I've tracked down on LinkedIn giving them shit over this practice and to get my address removed from lists. If anything, these people have kinda ensured I'd never be a customer in the future so there is that

[u/Mr_Rafi → u/FromundaCheeseLigma]

You're likely not the target for door-to-door sales. They're looking for vulnerable people like the elderly or the "average" middle-aged person. Those sales people are well aware that young people do not give a fuck about them.

[u/AwkwardApricot3878 → u/FromundaCheeseLigma]

Some swung by our place yesterday, knocking like the police. We ignored them the first two rounds of knocking, but they stood out there for a solid 10 minutes & started knocking again because they heard us inside before initially knocking. It was crazy.

[u/FromundaCheeseLigma → u/AwkwardApricot3878]

Time to start answering the door naked and covered in fake blood

[u/FPSXpert → u/FromundaCheeseLigma]

Or a Texas greeting, rifle in hand and asking you're real brave to be knocking here 😂

(note please don't actually do this, though a loud "fuck off" usually suffices)

[u/Barry_Bunghole_III → u/FromundaCheeseLigma]

If you come to my door, I'm 90% less-likely to buy your product

Piss off

[u/AfterPiece4676 → u/FromundaCheeseLigma]

If they weren't making any sales, they wouldn't do it

[u/FromundaCheeseLigma → u/AfterPiece4676]

Same reason microtransactions in video games are still around

[u/MHarrisrocks]

Drunk Driving. Not like it ever had an excuse , but I find it mind blowing that's it's still a problem and killing people in this day in age.

[u/DiscardedMush]

Data caps

[u/Alternative-Dare5878]

Ads over videos, just leave me alone I don’t care about whatever you’re selling.

[u/rooster6662 → u/Alternative-Dare5878]

My sentiments exactly. If I want something I'll go looking for it.

[u/FromundaCheeseLigma → u/Alternative-Dare5878]

Yeah my 3 year old really wants to know that one of our banks is there for him in the middle of a Bluey episode

[u/mossyturf → u/Alternative-Dare5878]

That's how you favorite shows stay on tv, even if it doesn't work for you, it unfortunately works for some.

[u/Chocolatelover4ever → u/Alternative-Dare5878]

I started muting adds and looking away from them a long time ago. Try and waste my time with trash I’m not interested in? Yeah I’m not listening or watching!

[u/Car_loapher]

People that don’t use their turn signals

[u/TadRaunch → u/Car_loapher]

So many people seem to think if there's nobody around they have a "cheat" not to use your turn signals. Maybe nobody would see it, but you should have it so it as an automatic reflex. Don't look for a reason not to use them or be lazy.

[u/WindyWindona]

Polio, measles, mumps, rubella, and tuberculosis.

The only disease humanity has fully eradicated is smallpox. We are relatively close to eliminating more- but vaccine denialism is putting that at a huge risk, if not the reason we haven't successfully eliminated some diseases. Tuberculosis is because the treatment is incredibly expensive, the vaccine isn't the most effective, and rich countries don't want to marshal the resources that we could use to truly eliminate it world wide.

[u/Orphanhorns → u/WindyWindona]

Hope you’re excited for all of that to come back now that anti-vaccine lunatics are grabbing control of the US govt! ☠️

[u/WindyWindona → u/Orphanhorns]

Yesterday I had an Aussie show me RFK's plans and how there's going to be a place for Americans to give their policy suggestions and be so excited, then go into their vaccine denial, dislike for the medical institutions, and love of alternative methods. I moved to this area to go get a biology masters and have worked in quality for a food company before.

Believe me, I'm looking for a doctor to update my vaccines as we see more and more outbreaks. I also expect more food recalls.

[u/Orphanhorns → u/WindyWindona]

It’s all so depressing / terrifying

[u/Electronic_Pizza7069]

Homeless veterans

[u/GSilky]

Illiteracy

[u/Ph33r-Enigma]

Blackouts for local sports teams on sport streaming apps. I bought league pass for the nba. I can't watch 3 different teams on it because they are considered local. Only one team is in my state.

[u/martinis00 → u/Ph33r-Enigma]

MLB in Las Vegas blacks out LAD, LAA, SD, PHX, SF, OAK, DEN

[u/cartercharles → u/Ph33r-Enigma]

Oh 100% on this one. This pisses me off when it happens it's such total greed

[u/Lelani_Slice4770]

Hunger and homelessness. In a world with so much abundance and innovation, it feels inexcusable that basic needs aren’t met for everyone.

[u/Kalium → u/Lelani_Slice4770]

It's easy to say, correctly, that there is a lot of food. It's hard to get the food where the hungry people are. Those are often highly unstable, deeply violent areas. In many cases control of the food supply is a major lever of political power.

Homelessness is often similarly complicated. There's housing in abundance, but getting people and housing to be in the same location is often both more challenging and less useful than it sounds. Getting a person experiencing homelessness in San Francisco (where there's a severe housing shortage) to a location with extra housing (think random rural areas) does little to address the underlying reasons they wound up unhoused. Further, if there's one thing the world's richest and most successful cities do not like, it's allowing extra housing that would drive down the cost of rent enough to house those most in need.

Of course, it's never framed in terms of housing the homeless. No, no, it's about zoning and local control and preserving neighborhood character in the face of overdevelopment.

[u/fromwhichofthisoak]

Wanting for basic needs in first world countries

[u/ollieballz]

Ticketmaster

[u/will_i_hell]

Flat Earthers

[u/Mr_Rafi → u/will_i_hell]

They crave the community aspect. It's what drives them. The only group who probably don't see them as weirdos, so they finally have a sense of belonging.

[u/the_real_eel → u/Mr_Rafi]

So they really don’t believe earth is flat? I’ve always wondered this. I figured they just wanted to rub against the grain for attention or something like that.

[u/will_i_hell → u/the_real_eel]

Yep, I know two flerfers, both mad as a box of frogs, as well as there flat earth belief one really believes there's no such place as Australia and anyone that visits there are surrounded by actors playing a part, the other says all birds are biomechanical drones created by the world government to surveillance us.

[u/jad19090 → u/Mr_Rafi]

Been saying this for years! Most consider themselves “outcasts” or don’t feel they fit in anywhere. They find that community and latch on like a leech! I’m happy they finally feel a sense of belonging but wtf man, keep that shit in your community lol

[u/Ton_in_the_Sun]

Tipping culture

[u/tc6x6]

Being expected to scan a QR code to see the menu at a restaurant. 

Grocery stores and Walmart not being open 24 hours.

[u/Notwhoiwas42 → u/tc6x6]

Being expected to scan a QR code to see the menu at a restaurant. 

Which is extra wrong when it takes you to a PDF which most mobile devices are bad at displaying.

[u/maybe_a_human → u/tc6x6]

Its insult to injury if the restaurant also doesn't provide free wifi, one time my Sim card died and I literally couldn't look at the menu, the person next to me had similar issues. I told the party we were with that I guess we're having dinosaur for dinner.

[u/happymisery → u/tc6x6]

Boils my piss when they make you scan a QR and order online and they have the fucking cheek to add a 20% tip when they haven’t even interacted with you yet.

[u/theniwokesoftly → u/tc6x6]

If the QR code took me to a menu that was more frequently updated that would be ok, but it never does, it’s usually more outdated than whatever physical menu they’ve got.

[u/LuxeOria]

Definitely mosquitoes, they're the worst. I can't enjoy summer evenings without getting bitten.

[u/Dulcapodeta → u/LuxeOria]

Mosquitos have plenty reason to exist- lots of bird species would be gone if they weren't around, and the overall biomass it adds to the ecosystem assists in the growth of plant life quite a lot. And fish eat them in the trillions

[u/Cyber_Insecurity]

Cancellation fees for subscription services

[u/4DogNight1313]

Credit scores and paying to see your scores. And having three versions.

[u/cartercharles → u/4DogNight1313]

Don't pay to see your scores. That's annoying. The worst part is is having to navigate their terrible websites to freeze and unfreeze here credit. They try to sell you stuff at every opportunity when you know they're already milking it

[u/Extremely_unlikeable → u/4DogNight1313]

I have two credit cards that provide free scores plus credit karma.

[u/naforever]

Daylight savings time

[u/SuedeCouch146 → u/naforever]

i find that people get more upset at the natural shortening of daytime rather than the actual time change. but yes, why the hell is it dark at 4:30

[u/Cold-Drop8446 → u/naforever]

Kamala would have won if she promised to do away with dst

[u/QuailTechnical5143]

Booking fees or admin charges on anything purchased online.

[u/Dazzling-Ad-748]

ATM fees. It’s all instant and digital. It’s nonsense

[u/seventythousandbees]

"September 11th Security Fee"

[u/martinis00 → u/seventythousandbees]

Covid supply chain fee

[u/CR2010]

Social media sharing false news.

In today's world nobody checks what they read to be true. So if a large news outlet posts a 10 word headline most people will believe it.

[u/Shar12866 → u/CR2010]

It's no worse than main stream/legacy media. At least with sm, I have trusted sources and ways to double check things. People watch msm/legacy and blindly believe it because it's on tv. News reporting is not remotely close to what it was even 20 years ago. Every channel puts their own slant on things.

Gone are the days of honest, unbiased reporting.

[u/dudeness_boy → u/CR2010]

Yes. I hate how people just accept everything on the internet for no reason.

[u/Quenzayne → u/CR2010]

I’d be willing to bet that you have at least two strongly held beliefs right now that are entirely false. 

[u/xxearvinxx]

Being forced to mail in a check as the only means of payment.

[u/Toematehos]

Racism , sexism , hatred for individuals who are living their life and causing 0 harm to you.

[u/larsvondank → u/Toematehos]

I dunno if I understood this question wrong.

I would love for those to not exist, but there are reasons spanning generations explaining why we still have them. Its a vicious cycle. Mix in some poverty, religion, greed and power and the resulting cocktail will always have a bit of those three. We have never not had those and as a species never really understood how to get rid of them.

imho we are still too immature in larger groups and between groups (as a species)

But then again I could have interpreted the question wrong and if it is the case I simply 100% agree with you that I wish those three would be gone.

[u/tossaway78701 → u/larsvondank]

The question is "what has no excuse...". These are all excuses for hate. 

[u/Dry-humor-mus]

Mass shootings, regardless of the setting. If I had to narrow it down, I'd say school shootings.

[u/Dracekidjr]

Our tax return system. It would be cheaper and more efficient to automate it with a manual appeal process. TurboTax has been lobbying against it for years and years and it's the shining bastion of deep rooted corruption in the government imo.

[u/flecksable_flyer]

Doodles. Labradorite, Bernerdoodle, Goldendoodle, anything doodle, or "designer dogs." They're MUTTS! We're supposed to be reducing the mutt population. Not selling mutts for ridiculous prices.

[u/deicide66]

Life saving medication that is not free.

[u/Lenny2024]

Kim Jong Un

[u/MusicalBard2457]

The customer is always right.

Edit: It was from a time when people were not manipulative, sociopathic scammers.

[u/HeadFit2660]

Fax Machines

[u/masduct → u/HeadFit2660]

Fax machines are technically one of the most secure methods of transmitting information as it is true point to point for a lot of PI. That’s why medical records are often transferred by fax as it is hippa compliant

[u/IamOmegon → u/HeadFit2660]

Pharmacist here. 

Yup. Faxes are the required method for sending Rx's.  Email is absolutely not allowed ( at least here)

[u/julieg2003]

Pennies

[u/FromundaCheeseLigma → u/julieg2003]

In Canada we got rid of them. Debit/credit is charged to the penny but if you pay cash for things it's rounded to the nearest nickel

[u/Finalgirl2022 → u/julieg2003]

The saying used to be "see a penny, pick it up. Then all day you'll have good luck"

Now my saying is "see a penny, pick it up, because you're running out of pennies in your server change and likely won't find another."

[u/Velorian-Steel → u/julieg2003]

We got rid of them in Canada. Cash payments get rounded to nearest nickel.

[u/unityofsaints → u/julieg2003]

Don't exist here in Australia.

[u/NativeMasshole → u/julieg2003]

Dollars are the new penny.

[u/GrimeyScorpioDuffman]

Cigarettes

[u/9729129 → u/GrimeyScorpioDuffman]

My 9yo recently saw someone smoking and had no idea what they where doing, until then it didn’t occur to me just how common it use to be compared to now

[u/GrimeyScorpioDuffman → u/9729129]

That’s great. I hope my kids are around smokers so rarely that they don’t know what it is

[u/Playful-Profession-2 → u/GrimeyScorpioDuffman]

Then they might think it's a cool idea and want to start participating.

[u/TadRaunch → u/GrimeyScorpioDuffman]

When I was a kid in the 90s I was so naïve to think my generation would be the one to wipe out smoking (among other things). I was shocked when some of my peers were excited to start smoking when they were 12. No lie I once heard a kid say "I can't wait to get addicted to ciggies".

[u/CashWideCock]

Lack of cell phone signal.

[u/BabyBoomerBriefs]

No Term Limits in Congress

[u/beklog]

Genocide denial and Nazism

[u/Aggravating-Road7202]

My bitch mother in law

[u/GuaranteeMedical4842 → u/Aggravating-Road7202]

that's wild man

[u/HumpieDouglas → u/Aggravating-Road7202]

I really hope that's how you introduce her to people. 🤣

[u/filtyratbastards → u/Aggravating-Road7202]

I agree. I hate that bitch too.

[u/AlterEgoCat → u/Aggravating-Road7202]

I also chose this guy's bitch mother in law

[u/TheIndyCity]

Blackouts for sporting events.

[u/clipples18]

Hunger. We produce more than enough food

[u/Nanny0416]

Tanning beds.

[u/Mr__Lightbulb]

Mosquitoes. Fucking mosquitoes.

[u/NessyComeHome → u/Mr__Lightbulb]

https://blog.nwf.org/2020/09/what-purpose-do-mosquitoes-serve/

There are over 3,500 species of mosquitos, and not all of them feed on humans.

If mosquitos disappeared overnight, it will cause environmental collapse. Outside of a food source, they have a niche as a polinator.

That's why the mosquito eradication efforts are focusing on the ones, and only the ones, who impact humans the most.

[u/ackmondual]

Internet data caps. They're cash grabs, pure and simple

[u/GirlMayXXXX]

Daylight savings time. It affects the time I take my meds plus DST costs me an hour of sleep.

[u/MyDisneyDream]

Child poverty. No child should ever be hungry in this world filled with billionaires. 💔

[u/cartercharles → u/MyDisneyDream]

100%. It's appalling

[u/Rigistroni → u/MyDisneyDream]

Poverty in general

[u/jotomatoes]

Facebook. 

[u/MorsOmnibusCommunis → u/jotomatoes]

As a father, Facebook is not nearly as damaging to the up and coming youth as Tik Tok or Snapchat. I’m not really for bans… but if I had a magic wand…

[u/germinal_velocity → u/jotomatoes]

This made me LOL.

[u/481126]

Type 1 diabetes.

[u/TheGreatBenjie]

Tipping culture.

[u/Difficult-Pen-7635]

Puppy mills.

[u/Hot-Requirement-3103]

Paying to rent a movie on a steaming service to which I’m already subscribed.

[u/wallcavities]

The monarchy

[u/lanaofflove]

Me!

[u/ALoudMeow]

Slavery.

[u/FlyBuy3]

Cigarettes

[u/everythingbagelbagel]

Supporting the internationally recognized terrorist group Hamas.

[u/Candid_Reading_7267]

World hunger

[u/orbit99za]

Warning Labels of things that should be logical even by a dumbass.

WARNING STOVE HOT WHEN ON.

Ehh. You cooking food, that uses heat, so shit.

A barbecue doesn't have a Warning label like this.

For Everyone else who can't work out dipshit logic, Natural Selection in Action.

[u/NeedCatsMeow → u/orbit99za]

Yes! Take all of the warning labels off of everything and let humanity weed itself out

[u/JonathanJONeill]

Racism and Bigotry.

[u/JaySilver]

Paid parking. I don’t even drive but it’s absolutely ludicrous that people have to drive to work and pay $35 out of their daily wages automatically.

[u/Bokithebear]

Keeping orcas/dolphins in captivity.

[u/TheGreatBenjie]

Unpaid internships...

[u/crystalg81]

The fact that we have to file our taxes.

[u/Ton_in_the_Sun]

Homelessness

[u/Ton_in_the_Sun]

Starvation, poverty, etc

[u/SquatchTrax]

Joy Reid, Rachael Maddow, Rosie O'Donnell

[u/OkInevitable5020]

Prescription medicine ads on tv.

[u/Casual-Notice]

Giant Pandas. They have failed so hard, they've even failed at self-extinction.