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win95 ,
@win95@lemmy.zip avatar

Using coffee mugs outside on a walk. Jail. Now.

Timecircleline ,

What about eating a popsicle while I walk my dog

crimsonpoodle ,

Why? I have to imagine it would be nice if I lived in a walkable city to wake up in the mornings by going for a walk with a coffee to wake up— I mean I might just go to coffee shop so I don’t have to lug it about but it doesn’t seem especially egregious

win95 ,
@win95@lemmy.zip avatar

It was a joke because it feels weird/funny to see household items outside, even in w walkable city. Not serious of course.

Mothra ,
@Mothra@mander.xyz avatar

Supermarkets and businesses throwing food away and not allowing people to take it for free. (“If I can’t sell it nobody can have it”).

Cryophilia ,

Would only work if you also made them immune from lawsuits due to people getting sick from eating expired food.

wewbull ,

The food would presumably “last moment before expiry” i.e. we can’t sell this tomorrow so we give it away tonight.

Zak ,
@Zak@lemmy.world avatar

Expiration dates on packaged food are almost always about how enjoyable the food is to eat, not safety. Donating expired packaged food with legal protection from liability would be good for the world.

eldavi ,

they already are under the good samaritan laws; they use lawsuits as an excuse for their shitty behavior.

Cryophilia ,

Depends on your location. Good Samaritan laws vary widely.

Etterra ,

Unlimited political spending, particularly by corporations - see Citizen’s United.

ChrisMcMillan ,

Campaign financing in general. If you get enough signatures you’ll get a fixed amount of money from tax payers for your campaign. If you accept money from anyone else you’re barred from public office for life. End of corruption right there.

eran_morad ,
  • not having the day off to vote
  • FPTP
  • unlimited funding from unrestricted sources in politics
  • impunity for blatantly corrupt unelected political appointees

Etc.

stoy ,

not having the day off to vote

Most crountries have elections on thw weekend…

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Election_day

rudyharrelson ,

Lots of people work on weekends.

stoy ,

Yep?

But less people work on weekends than on weekdays.

There is no universal day for everyone to make it, which is why Sweden offers pre-election voting and voting by mail, plenty of other countries does as well.

theneverfox ,
@theneverfox@pawb.social avatar

Conflicts of interest. Sometimes illegal, but not nearly as much as they should be (almost always)

Like congress members being allowed to trade stock, which can then be affected by their vote

Or one of the specifically carved out exceptions to the medical kickbacks laws is for the people who negotiate drug prices for pharmacies

yogthos ,
@yogthos@lemmy.ml avatar

capitalism

brygphilomena ,

From my industry: Perhaps the purchase of chemicals for the manufacture of fireworks. It’s surprisingly easy to order pounds and pounds of different oxidizers and fuels.

ArcaneSlime ,

The one I need is highly controlled. I need to make my own strike anywhere matches since Uco quit, need red phosphorous, don’t want to scrape it off of match strikers for hours, want a big ol’ jar. Apparently it’s also used to make “MeTh” so I can’t buy it.

Powdered aluminum though no problem, go figure.

thorbot ,

Alcohol

cm0002 ,

Hmm, we tried that, it didn’t work out so well

RandomVideos ,

Using lies, especially lying about the beliefs of important historical people or of gods in someones religion, for a political campaign is legal

privsecfoss ,
@privsecfoss@feddit.dk avatar

Monopolies

Modern_medicine_isnt ,

Predatory advertising… commonly is the form of fear mongering, but any form should be illegal.

collapse_already ,

Members of Congress trading individual stocks, bonds, and other investments.

boatswain ,

Making a profit from healthcare and health insurance.

Or even just make private health insurance illegal.

Trollivier ,

Lobbying.

menemen ,

It defintly is a slippery slope. I work for a municipalitylies utilities company. Part of my job is working with a utilities companies union to lobby politicians to make laws that will actually improve the way we can work. I think we actually do improve things for the German public by bringing desperately needed knowledge to the table.

But I think we are a small minority among lobbying institutions.

CrabAndBroom ,

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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