Asklemmy

Displaying any price other than the final price I have to pay inclusive of all fees and charges. I don't care about a number that has some mathematical relationship to what's going to come out of my bank account, just tell me the price. This always annoys me so much when I travel to the US but it's probably like that in a few other places too.

touch-sensitive controls in vehicles need to be outright illegal. All controls, regardless of how esoteric, should be operable by feel.

Billboards. Get them out of here! Everyone gets to put their name on the side of the building in at most 2m tall black or white Time New Roman.

Single-use plastic packaging! All packaging now comes in a set of standard ISO sizes and satisfying some engineering constraints and requirements. You get a Coke from a convenience store - it comes as a 0.5L glass bottle. You finish with it, put it on a rack inside the store with all the other empty 0.5L bottles to be taken back to the factory to be washed and inspected for chips and reused. It could be filled with Pepsi next time! Just slap on a new paper label.

Asking for or even suggesting tips of any kind anywhere. Also gratuities, service fees, and any other kind of made up fee. Show a price, end of story.

Also outlaw not including taxes. Show full complete prices.

Tipping.

Just kidding. Tipping isn't silly. It's downright racist, sexist, and prevents fair working wages for many.

Smokers smoking near non-smokers. Even outside. Go pollute your own air, not everyone's.

Bottled water in every country where the tap water is safe to drink.

All I Want for Christmas is You by Mariah Carey

Sirens and emergency vehicle noise in songs or advertising on radio.

Bluetooth speakers on hiking trails.

Christmas creping into October. Like it already dominates all of December and November, leave Halloween alone.

People at work were talking about going to a store that already has Christmas stuff set up. It's getting ridiculous...

I'd make it illegal to park in no parking zones, bike lanes, and turning lanes...

radio chatter from an inexplicable earpiece

What do you mean that's already fucking illegal??

Paywall logins that don’t load until you’ve already started reading the article and scrolled down a bit. Show the paywall IMMEDIATELY or don’t have one at all.

Same goes for ads that appear and block the text.

Car locks that trigger the horn and lights. Whatever asshole engineer decided that was a good idea (instead of just making the key fob blink or something) clearly has never had neighbors.

Plastic fasteners on socks. They are too short to use scrisors and often damage socks if you don't. Too many times I ended up with damaged brand new socks because getting them out od that plastic trap is too hard for me.

I always choose socks held by cardboard only if available.

Any chargeable device that you can carry needs to have one standard charging port.

Stores having loud speaker boxes pointing to the sidewalks, playing music and announcing products. It probably is illegal in well developed countries, but not mine. It's annoying af

Junk mail. All that paper and ink wasted just for me to throw it straight in the trash.

I'd outlaw drive through.

No longer will that fucking line up for coffee reach down the road and over the horizon in the morning. The sitting there for twenty minutes, idling your car as you watch the person in front of you park in the middle of the intersection like an asshole. No.

Go, park, use the magic of being a biped.

Now there's no excuse. You either drink the coffee at work, or face that Starbucks barista you know secretly hates you. Biped your way in the door, get your morning fix with confidence because fuck mark, no barista is going to ruin your day.

Not while I'm there banning drive throughs to ruin it for you.

Edit: Barista. I don't even know what a batista is but could potentially be a bad ass.

Ooh! Packaging that is deceptively large. For example, it should be illegal to sell a 6 inch tall tube of deodorant that's only got three inches of deodorant in it.

People just dumping their shopping trolley on the nearest bit of pavement to where they parked their car. Put it back you lazy fucks.

Manufacturers not taking responsibility of their waste not just of manufacturing but after what they produced hits the garbage dumps. I think if you make something, you should be responsible for un-making its physical world impact.

Going off OP's thought--the pump or spray bottles whose design and/or straw length makes it literally impossible to get the last bit of product out. I've had some where the straw just plain ends about 1/2" from the bottom so there was never even a chance to use all the product you paid for.

The worst part is I've also used spray bottles that--through very minor design tweaks--enable you to get virtually every speck of liquid. So it's not like it's even hard problem to solve, but fuck you just throw out the last 10% and buy a new bottle!

Clamshell packaging 10x the size of the item inside. Thing is wasteful and turns into a razor blade when you try to open it.

I'd like those "essential oil vaporizer" machines fucking banned. Turn that stinky shit OFF Karen...no one wants to smell your "Eucalyptus and Menthol" fighting it out with Patricia's "Orange and Coconut" and Jenny's "Lilacs and Lavender".

It's a terrorist attack on everyone's nostrils!

Scissors in packaging you need scissors to open.

Not trivial, but health care providers should be forced to publish an easily accessible price list of all their services and procedures so we can comparison-shop. I'm so sick of being told I can't know the price until they find out what insurance will pay.

It should be illegal to scan or redeem your lotto tickets before 9am. Some people are just trying to get to work, but nooope, gotta wait behind the superstitious lady who only wants every second scratch&win with a serial number that ends in 2 or some crap.

Ban corporations from being able to interpret the law as they see fit.

They either follow the law according to their customers and the government's interpretation or they don't get to operate at all and the company gets nationalized.

The fact that corporations are allowed to do that is the root of all of our legal problems.

Fossil fuels