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If you could regulate something relatively inconsequential, what would it be? (vger.social)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/asklemmy

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Fitted sheet must have label on bottom right seam
Salted butter wrapping text must be red. Unsalted blue.

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[–] Clbull 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Online dating apps. I'd:

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

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[–] RBWells 9 points 2 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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[–] blady_blah 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

I would make the written English language 100% phonetic.

I would make SI mandatory in the US.

I would make one night a week a "have dinner with the neighbors" day.

Edit: I would make bidet toilets mandatory. Dry toilets would be phased out like cars without back-up cameras or asbestos insulation.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

Grapefruit from the supermarket must always taste of grapefruit.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

The THC content of edibles. It's unregulated in NYC so everything seemingly has between 30mg and 1250mg while I'm sitting here with a 10mg hard limit. A few states have a 5mg or 10mg per serving limit and it's wonderful

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

Are you in licensed dispensaries? Pretty much all the ones I've been to, the edible options are 2.5mg, 5mg and 10mg. My other thought, are you sure you aren't looking at the THC content of the whole container? I have some 10mg chocolates in the freezer, but dead center on the lid's label is "100mg THC", then underneath and in a much smaller font, "per bottle." I've noticed that on a lot of packaging, as well as dispensary websites, they choose to list stupid big numbers by just listing the overall content, and not what you would get per unit.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (4 children)

Early access and beta and alpha terms for games. Also, early access has a time limit.

Alpha - we're adding and removing features.
Beta - we're 90% polishing 10% adding/removing.
Early access - just fixing bugs. Maximum 3 to 6 months.

You can stay in alpha and beta as long as you want. I don't want to change game dev actuality. I just want the terms to reflect what's actually going on.

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[–] ivanafterall 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Drinking straws are too wide/girthy on average. Every fast food and coffee place uses giant straws, while a relatively skinny straw provides a vastly superior drinking experience, in my view.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (9 children)

Time zones,

No, you can’t just have a half an hour difference!

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

No more street lights. Nighttime is now dark the way it should be.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (17 children)

Emergency brakes should be a handle that pulls a mechanical cable that directly actuates the rear brakes. Simple and reliable, like you would want in an emergency.

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