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Police be like: "to file this report, you'll have to capture the avatar and regain your honor."
HONOOOOOOOOOR
That’s rough buddy
I actually had them refuse to help me once even though I saw who did it and had the full first and last names of who robbed me. They said it wasn't worth their time. Cop even said he saw them on his way over WITH my stolen property. Still didn't do anything. (He knew them because they were junkies known for stealing.)
@@insertianameia2224 time to build a glitter bomb
Police are like: "Oh, he hit you? Stop provoking him," while cracking jokes with your abuser.
At this point, it's not even shady business practices, it's robbing in broad daylight with a smile on their face.
While they try to warp society so that you're forced into using their "optional services."
Yup.
The fact that click changed the title and thumbnail just makes it funnier to me for some reason
America lives on a Robber Barons economy.
And they spend all the money lobying so they can't be regulated, get money out of politics
They shrunk Cadbury Cream Eggs and then tried to tell people "They didn't shrink, you just grew". People who collect them (I know...odd) proved them wrong. Companies tend to think all consumers are idiots.
Hasbro was exposed as thinking worse than that. The executives see you not as a customer, but as an obstacle to their money.
I've had people tell me that too, that stuff doesn't shrink, I'm just growing. Doesn't explain why things are relatively smaller to other things, pretty sure random stuff doesn't grow in size along with me. Plus why are the sizes random numbers like 187 g if it wasn't because they have cut 13 g from it?
same thing happened with little debbie star crunch and oatmeal cream pies
"Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize that half of them are stupider than that." - George Carlin
The companies are not wrong...
Booze here in Australia went from 750ml bottles to 700 ,same price of course chocolate went from 500 to 450 same price of course.
I remember years ago in NZ a newspaper exposing a " long lasting ,biodegradable,non chemical insect killer " It was 2 blocks of wood one marked "A" the other marked "B" ,instructions read as follows "Place insect on block "A" tap sharply with block "B".
This subreddit could just be called “is this even legal?”
I'd like to propose an addition.
"is this even legal? probably."
It doesn't matter if it's legal or not. They'll just get away with it anyway... Buisnesses run the world now, they friggin OWN us.
Ten years ago someone broke into my grandma's house and stole my violin. Some months later I got a call from the Prosecutor's Office asking if I solved the problem with the thieves or if I have new information about it.
I was like, dude, isnt that YOUR job?
“oh yeah, the thieves called, but the violin doesnt wanna come back home, so I guess thats it then, no need for you to do your actual job”.. lemme guess, nothing ever came of their investigation? If your instrument is not with you, lets hope it has found another loving home, where it gets adored and played with gentle fingers. If someone stole my brushes (painter here), I would like them to be loved and taken care of like I did. Some arent even that expensive, but still precious to me.
To be fair to them, I have heard of way too many cases where police resources were being wasted trying to solve a case only for the victim to randomly mention "oh yeah I found it in my backyard shed a month ago but forgot to call back. Whoopsie~"
Please tell me you kicked her in the butt for that stund...like yikes
Now apply that to the cases where actual people go missing, and it becomes easy to understand how there can be hundreds or thousands of people who disappear in a country every year...
@Sine Nomine That's why threats about crime increasing due to lack of cops on the street only work on suburbanites and not ghettos. Anyone who lived in a "bad neighborhood" knows cops don't actually work to protect or solve crimes.
Wasn't it _Ready Player One_ where the executives were calculating how much of a player's field of view they could fill with advertisements before inducing seizures?
Pretty sure that was just Sony.
And I'm also quite sure they landed on 80% ads.
No, he was right, in the book of Ready Player One, that is exactly what the story was about. The company wanted to get ownership over the oasis so they could place the adds over the viewing screen. Can not really remember if it was the same in the movie. But the book ruled ;)
@@ralf7823 it was also in the movie, in a bussiness presentation inside the company
@@ralf7823 Oh, I see. Sorry for jumping the gun.
The world gets more dystopian with every passing day
Fun fact: In cartridge form, printer ink is more expensive than human blood.
+ the new fact that they're 75% empty, this is even more terrifying.
Where can you find these blood cartridges?
Asking for a friend.
@@PenguinLord10 Magenta ink is the cheapest option. Just dont use too much, the printer is as evil as the company that made it.
Remember kids: resetting and refilling HP cartridges, as well as cracking Adobe products is always moral.
It can be cheaper to buy a new printer than a cartridge .@@yaroslavromanyuk5669
@@yaroslavromanyuk5669I agree with this.
There's actually a proper term for a "a**hole design" in software. They're called "dark patterns".
I took a class on UI/UX design last semester and we had to find one for an assignment. Most of us wrote more than that just from memory and basically not one repeated, apparently. There was 15 of us in the class. The teacher was very sad about the state of current internet.
I've seen exactly 1 acceptable advertisement in a fortune cookie, and it said: "Promote literacy; buy a box of fortune cookies today!"
Fortune cookies are worth it
But that's kinda cute.
@@missnaomi613
that's what I'm saying, it was funny and self-aware enough to get a pass.
(also, it wasn't actually a real advertisement, it was just a fortune "advertising" fortune cookies)
The company with the jackets needs to be buried under an avalanche of lawsuits.
"But it's a trade mark!!!1!"
timestamp?
@@duper7746 2:00
@@duper7746 2:01 It's about the jacket with the "life-saving" locater that turned out to be a piece of inoperative foam. Yeah, that company was hopefully sued into oblivion for that shitty little trick.
@@DrachenGothik666 thx bro btw false advertisings illegal but the government aint doing shit cause they're most likely paying their absurdly low amount of taxes
For the textbook one, I'm a college student at the moment and so far most of the professors I have had that required a textbook weren't having that overpriced bs either. My anthropology prof was like "I'm not allowed to tell you to pirate this book, but if one of you *did*, and shared it with the class, then I don't know about it" 🙂 and my world history prof was just straight up like "here's the site for free, you didn't get this from me."
What is the website and do you know that you can look up other textbooks or what p is help.
Yeah but the thing is, we also need a code to hand in assignments.
Our profs have to use stuff like Pearson and McGraw Hill where the Majority of the cost is for the access code. And one year access to the ebook.
We don't have any required textbooks for my course, but my teachers have just posted entire PDFs of books in the team's Group lol
I am so glad my uni has a wonderful library! None of my profs ever asked to buy a specific book, they just give us pdfs or books are avaliable in the lubrary. Love my uni!
Copying books for personal study in a classroom situation went all the way up to the Supreme Court in Canada (it is allowed under "fair dealing").
Fun fact, they made a sturdy type of plastic that was more durable, lighter, and stronger than the old versions. People complained it felt too light and cheap so they had to artificially make it heavy with weights. Our tiny pea brains really go "heavy is good"
Regarding the beacon - it's probably not the kind of scam that _endangers_ people, as much as as it'll *most likely* _kill_ people.
I would argue killing counts as endangerment.
It’s not a beacon, it’s a radar reflector. All the recco reflectors I’ve felt feel like a dense strip of foam.
Fun animal fact; The patu digua is thought to be this smallest spider in the world at just 0.37 mm. This Colombian spider is about one fifth the size of the head of a pin
The scrunkly
And it is also very adorable
And I thought the big ones were terrifying. Now you tell me there's Satan spawn I can't even see!!
Can I retweet
@@TheCRAZYAunt128 midgets aren't that small
Speaking of required fields, I'm an American who once lived in England for two years. When I was back in america and filling out stuff to get car insurance quotes, one of the companies wanted 3 years of living location history. Fair enough, some places are more dangerous to drive than others. I started putting in my UK address. Get to the USA State dropdown menu. Leave it blank. This field is required. Okay, scroll through to find a N/A. There is none.
Literally can't use this car insurance if you've had a foreign address in the last three years.
I've come across this issue applying for apartments, too. So much internet form design does not keep in mind that sometimes people have previously not lived in the USA
What, other countries exist outside the USA? Preposterous!
Yep. My college screwed themselves out of an alumni donation because they didn't put international address stuff on the form. I was living in India and was going to donate during their fundraiser but couldn't use the form and was like this is not worth me calling the alumni office over so... Lol.
And I should add we always had international students so it's not like they weren't totally aware they had alumni living globally, the form designer was just not thinking.
Our culture in general doesn't seem to understand consent, so its not that surprising that corporations don't understand it either.
So, fun fact about most of those pay-to-view articles (mentioned at 19:58 ) is that if you contact the authors directly, they'll likely just give you access to the article for free, or just email you a copy.
If true that is some useful information, I'll have to keep that in mind next time i stumble across something like that. Though I haven't gotten one in a while, I generally block those sites from appearing in my discover feed.
@Demikus the science articles yes... anything else and you've got like maybe a 30% chance of that working
In science articles just use sci-hub. Piracy in science is denying the exploration by big corporations of labor which they did not pay for. So in my opinion it is more ethical to pirate scientific articles than it is to buy them.
@SkyLuke yea that's why the science authors give out the articles because they don't believe in hiding science information behind a paywall
@@vidal9747 Crimes are evil.
You want to change the rules, vote.
When I went to the dentist, they saw that I should receive a discount of around 700 kr (~70 dollars). "Yay!", I thought. Sweet summer child. Turned out that they ADDED 700kr instead. Thank God I read the bill properly and realised something was odd. I contacted them and they were like "Whoops hihi sorry. We'll send a new bill." Once again, I thought "Yay!" Jesus Christ. Because turns out, even though they had sent me a new bill, they never actually cleared the first one, and later contacted me like "TIME TO PAY OR THIS WILL GO TO THE DEBT COLLECTION." I, once again, contacted them, and they, once again, were like "Whoops hihi sorry." Svenskjävlar.
There's a chance they were just horrible at their jobs
Sorta similar thing happened to me, I returned a laser printer (it wouldnt even power up, I basically bought a really expensive cardboard box..), the store didnt have this particular model anymore, none of their models werent up to what I needed (Im an artist, I put printers to their limits and then some), so they ended up giving my money back (after a fight, they really tried to make me take store credit). When I finally got it, somehow 20€ was missing. I called the store, first person wouldnt even believe me (“these payments happen automatically, it just cant be wrong”, I think I got called honey too), so I marched back to the store with my original & compensation receipt. Or a photo of the original receipt, they took the og with the machine from me, it was taped on the box. Low and behold, my elusive “extra” 20 buckaroos turned up pretty fast. Someone had put the amount wrong in the first place, so much for there being no room for error. The whole ordeal took longer than a month and left bad taste in my mouth, I felt several times like an idiot for fighting so hard for 20€, but it was more about the principle and fairness. And I really think Im not the first one theyve done this, I really dont. The amount of run-around felt intentional (I left out several emails and other phone calls), like they expected me to quit asking eventually. Moral of the story: always check and keep your receipts! That might be the only way to show youre being screwed. Even if its pennies, its *your* pennies!
@@janemiettinen5176 Even if it's pennies, if they do it to enough people, and exhaust them enough not to bother anymore, it'll still add up for them.
@@janemiettinen5176 Thanks for fighting, so it's less worth their while and maybe they won't be so eager to do it to others in the future.
@@janemiettinen5176 calling € "buckaroos" is weird ...
In many states tipped workers only get like $3 an hour and their tips are supposed to be their income. Those laws desperately need to be changed. Some bosses even steal tips from those people.
B-b-but a small percentage of those workers make more than minimum wage from their tips! So HOW DARE you suggest they take a pay cut, just so everyone can be paid fairly?!
The American Dream, people.
this makes me want to move to canada tbh
Today I was told by a friend that medical necessities without insurance can be thousands of dollars, like an inhaler is almost $200 and something like pills to keep you alive can be $10k without insurance (obviously this is in the US)
Even WITH insurance, it can still be pricy as hell, unfortunately.
yep. i hope you never want anything like an aspirin or ibuprofen because some hospitals charge $50 usd a pop per pill.
i know this as a sickly person that has spent far too much time in hospitals.😶
Glad im dutch.... a lot is insured and covered
Fun fact, printer ink isn't really that expensive but the cartridges for home use are. Check out for continous ink printer, as those use refill bottles which compared to the cartridges with few ml of the liquid are extremely cheap, set of all colours (was it 150ml or 250ml per bottlle) for ~20€
To add, it costs
I just had to pay $60 for a set of cartridges because Epson won't let you just print in black, and locks out entire printer if anything is 'low' to its sensor system.
Glad I got it, magenta was gone, now yellow is going to get destroyed cleaning the heads. 🤦🤦🤦
Or just get a laser printer and stop using ink printers...
@@bumblebeeyellowdragon …which can sometimes be cheaper in the long run.
Especially if you only or _almost_ only print in black and white.
Yeah I'm planning to get one of those printers that takes refill bottles instead of cartridges for my next printer. The printer itself is more expensive but you save SO MUCH in ink .
Isn't it funny how tips originally were 'created' to reward service people who go the extra mile in stead of just fulfilling the minimum job requirements? To see how it became a obligation (no matter how good or shitty the service was) in some countries because the employers don't want to pay their employees right is really shocking.
I thought tips were originally created so businesses didn't have to pay their POC employees minimum wage
@@IosLocarth well no idea if it was like this in some countries like in America it might be, but where I live it is and was a kind / polite gesture to reward good service and not an obligation. (U also can only pay the price to pay and no waiter would call u out for it and demanding a tip.)
@@ArashiDonou that's how it was started in America. I'm not sure where the origination of tipping was outside of the US tho
What, you mean business owners will do virtually anything that's not illegal if it makes them more money, no way, I can't believe it, everyone assured me that the market will always try to provide customers the best experience 😑
@@hmnhntr oh, don't worry, they do the illegal stuff too 💀
Using the consent logic these companies have in other situations would get any normal person in jail SO fucking fast
This subreddit reminds me why I sometimes want to move off the grid and live self-sufficiently so that big companies can't screw me over
Same, that or a similarly off-grid commune of like-minded people (in the cool teamwork way, not the cult way).
*gets pigeon mailed adds
Sometimes I wonder if there are any people working at companies that scroll through r/assholedesign, and then they see something from their own company and just go like "heheh, yeahhh, we did that"
They also go "oh hey, that one is a great idea as well! Yay, free marketing advice!"
@@SartorialDragon pfft, yeah exactly
Yes but remember most people working for a company dont have direct power over it, they just have to do a job to make a living. The ones on top are responsible
@@zakosist well, then I wonder if the ones at the top scroll through r/assholedesign, and I bet they'd get more of a kick out of it
2:49 Honestly the most insulting part of the tip is that it's probably not going to take staff, that survives of tips alone instead of fair living wages.
Yeah that probably was an "administrative tip" added and the server's tip comes from what else is left
I hate tipping culture, I love tipping, I've left multiple hundreds of dollars as tips before but I want to be doing it JUST because of service not also because I have to to keep them alive
@@ConstantChaos1 it will impossible to give them fair wages unless you stop tipping through restaurants, as long as bosses have access to number "currency" left behind they will adjust wages accordingly.
@@sometwat TBF it should be government's job to prohibit such predatory practices. Minimal wage should be "minimal wage", not "minimal wage, unless ...". I.e. you don't really *have* to pay tips in most European countries, since restaurant workers are already being paid good enough wages
@@aleksandertrubin4869 "good" enough wages, they're still to low in my neck of the woods.
Yeah. Tips should not be replacing the pay. I'm nice to clients because it's my job to be nice. I don't need an employer to threaten my livelyhood to make me be nice.
It's the employer's job to pay a livable wage. Tips should be *on top* or not at all (why do we tip in some jobs but not others? I'm a kindergarten teacher, my wage is quite low, yet nobody tips me. Even though i am very friendly to my clients.)
HP also asks you to sign up for a monthly ink delivery service and if your sub expires, your printer will treat your current ink cartridges as empty and won't print. It's buried in the fine print.
I once read in a railway magazine about the possibility of incorporating electronics into train carriage windows, so adverts could be scrolled along them. So you could pay to go on a train trip, be enjoying the scenery, and then suddenly have crap you neither want nor need pushed right into your field of vision.
If it means trains are free I'm on board. But it wouldn't
O i prefer ads on the top of the window. Like ive seen in scifi movies.
In australia, the public busses have ads printed on all/most of the windows with some one-way visability to outside, but when it rains you cant see outside at all except the plain glass at the front of the bus.
LEMME tell ya, trying to catch the bus to a new location when you lyterally cant see most of outside is almost impossible. >:( >:(
For that much of a cleaning fee, I'm going to absolutely destroy that house.
Oh yeah. I'm going to earn that cleaning fee. Here's the shrimp in your curtain rack. Here's the log in the middle of the dinner table.
@@vxicepickxv "what do you mean? i wanted a sand pit in the livingroom, the rules said nothing about it!"
Maybe thats the reason they got so high cleaning fee in the first place. We dont know the context for sure. And its not a guarantee you would get that much in cleaning fee if you just behave like a decent person there (but if you do the world ought to know it and who did it, maybe even sue them)
I'm so glad I live in Canada where companies cannot legally constantly bombard people with texts, emails, or any other BS and fraud can sink an entire company here if they get caught.
I dunno the Tim Hortons tracking didn't sink the company: they got away with it and continued to for a while after they were "fined" I believe. We're not immune to this sort of stuff.
@@FableTheWolf The Tim Hortons down the road from me is struggling to survive because no one wants to work there after it was revealed they were abusing employees. So I can tell you Tim Hortons is not immune to it. Another one in the city also closed down but not sure why.
now i wanna move to canada...
Every day I keep finding more and more reasons to move to Canada
Keep in mind (anyone reading this), this wouldn't mean you don't get spam texts or emails. Just that the "legit" companies can't do it. Which does sound like an improvement, but it is still important to think carefully about emails you get. Don't use a program to read emails that will automatically open and run attachments when you view the message, don't open attachments unless you know they're safe, learn how to see where the email is actually from, and if someone is asking you for any information or money or anything else, make sure you know exactly who and why and make sure you trust them *and* the process they are using before you give them anything.
Stay safe, everyone.
26:22 I worked at a deli that told us to make sandwiches like that (just a little filling only where the customers can see, along with a slew of other questionable practices). I hated it, so I just made normal sandwiches and did things in a fair way. Some regular customers ended up only getting food there if they knew I made it. They shut down not long after I left (probably more correlation than causation, but still). 🤷
Did they really think people wouldn't notice?! People get mad when McD's buns are flatter than usual let alone the actual contents of the sandwich...
heck yeah you cool
The "refundable damage cost" one is hard core a scam. They most likely have some damaged things already with some kind of "proof" saved to pin that damage on guests so they can keep that extra cash.
That doesn't sound legal.
@@aidennevada243 It is legal, like making a deposit for an apartment, it's to ensure that if the guests damage your home you can cover repair costs without lawsuit. It's just how Airbnb and other BNB sites don't always handle and monitor it well which can be exploited. There should be thinks like a standardized cap and a requirement for regular time/date stamped photo updates to prevent fraud.
These restaurants are straight up finessing people with these supposed tip charges that I doubt goes to the waitstaff.
The Suave thing is an example of "shrinkflation", changing the container size in a mostly imperceptible way so companies can give less product for the same price. You also see it with food products: instead of the bottoms of containers being flat like they used to be they're pushed in underneath. Tricky tricky companies 🤫
I knew about that... I didn't know they would try to actively gaslight us into thinking it was bigger 💀
Note that the bottoms being pushed in doesn't automatically mean shrinkflation. In the majority of packaging it's engineered that way to add strength and structure to the shape, otherwise it'll be easy to deform during shipping and affected by temperature, etc.
Completely flat bottoms in food packaging are usually not reliable and can make the manufacturing procces more complicated because you have to account for any bulging during every stage of the product's life cycle, and your product having issues standing straight is obviously bad. Although I've definitely seen packaging that is *way too overexaggrated* beyond the need for structure.
Source: I study this shit.
@@asum7213 not gonna lie, I find stuff like that super fascinating and I'm a little jealous you get to study it. Thank you so much for the added context! I got to learn something new today 😊
All my favorite ice creams used to have a 16oz size. ...it's all 14oz now...
It's a cycle. They keep bringing out smaller and smaller packages for the same price and when it gets to the point where it's noticeable they increase the price and give you "xx% MORE", basically just returning to the original size
the pride oreos was a store decision.
i worked at a store when those were going out last June, i worked in the pricing and scanning department. they cost the same as every other oreo to us, that store was just trying to profit more on pride.
That auto-gratuity is worse than it looks. They charged 18%, then asked for an 18% tip that includes the amount of the auto-gratuity. The restaurant wanted them to tip for having paid for a tip!
2k for cleaning a 4 bedroom home is astronomical! I clean residential/vacation homes for a living and this equates to about $250-330 per hour! That is 2-3 times the national average per hour for this kind of work in the US.
Edit: I'm an independent contractor, I make $30-50 per hour depending on the type of clean. If im going into a place and are expected to clean a toilet its $40/hr with a 4 hour minimum. Something like a 4 bedroom that has been stayed in over the weekend is gonna take me about 5-8 hours to finish, so my payment for this hypothetical house would be somewhere between $200-320.
Even if I hired some help and paid them the same rate I have, it should cost about the same overall for the job. So that 8 hour job I was doing by myself now only takes us 4 hours to complete, $40/hr for each of us ($80/hour) for 4 hours is still $320 paid by the client.
In summary: no matter how you count it up, nearly 2k for cleaning a vacation home after a weekend stay is far too much. Thank you for coming to my TED talk.
High cleaning fees are a form of tax evasion as you pay less taxes on service than income from renting it out
You totally should start selling privacy conscious phone cases! There definitely is a market.
That or some kind of piece that can be attached to whatever phone case you already have, so you don't have to buy a whole new phone case, espically if you like whatever design you have
You can just put tape or a band aid or anything similar over your phone camera. Same effect without having to buy a case.
Unfortunately, that would then create a market for phones that check if the phone case has a chip, and refuse to turn on if there is no chip, to make sure the case comes from the same company as the phone.
@@Kartoffelkamm but then if the phone case doesn't have a case that doesn't work at all.
25:21 Funny thing, apps can't actually track if you leave a review, so you can get the in-game rewards or get rid of the annoying pop-up by clicking the button that brings you to the app store and then just going back to the game.
Yup, I do that all the time
1:26
LOVE how it says "No Surprises!" when it literally splurged a 1.8k fee for cleaning a house.
"It's not a surprise it just costs you extra!"
I believe the lack of seats in the bus stop shelter in front of the ad is anti-unhoused design. They probably claimed it was to give wheelchair users a covered option, too. Unless this is at a location that has a lot of wheelchair users (like a clinic that does artificial legs/arms or an ortho surgeon), they could have put several more seats in there or *gasp* heavy duty PULL down seats in the middle. The curve of those seats SCREAMS a gov with anti-unhoused design preference, though.
My wife used pre paid debit cards for online purchases (personal and work related) so that she could put the money needed onto the card make the purchase and then let it set. If there was a problem or someone managed to get the card number there was no personal information tied to the card and she would just run it through the shredder and get a new card. They can keep you from dropping without a new card but if the card doesn’t exist anymore they get nothing from it.
Your wife is a genius!
I'll have to remember that
I do this a lot, but some places are already onto this. Last year, I wasn't able to pay for a year-long membership with a prepaid card so that if I forgot to cancel there wouldn't be enough left for it to auto-renew without my knowledge...
I've also heard of using empty (or nearly empty) credit card gift cards (like Visa ones) for free trials because they won't get any money if you forget, but it still runs as a real number.
This is what i do with my netflix, mainly bcuz i always forgot about my subscriptions
The VR/foveated vision thing is actually worse than what you thought. It's not specifically about _the game's_ field of vision - your fovea is the region of your retina that takes in the most detail. The ads are displaying in the fuzzy edges of your vision where you aren't focusing, presumably with the intent to act as subliminal advertising.
Like there's having border-banner ads, and then there's _intentionally keeping the ads where you can't focus on them_ and it'd be the latter.
Boy howdy would my ADHD hate that
In the UK the food information on the packaging is strictly controlled. Basically you can't say your product only contains 0.01 grams of sugar and promote it as healthy when you base that on only 1 gram of food. It's always counted per serving sizes of 25g, 50g and 100g and the per 100g is always on the packaging regardless of the size of the item. Basically you can't claim tic tacks are sugar free because per 100grams they are actually nothing but sugar like you can in the US. Some companies have tried it and they won't be trying it again.
The anti sleeper posts would also make it 3x as hard for disabled people. Insane.
No joke! My walker wouldn't even FIT on that tiny little one way path they've got going. And there are still a couple of places with sleeping bags laid out on that sidewalk *anyway.*
We should just outlaw all textbooks. That would teach them a lesson.
Is there a textbook for that lesson though? 😂
As someone who didn't open their physics textbook a single time last term, I agree.
Florida is getting on that path lol
We should outlaw ads
The college I went to decided to give the online books for free just asked us to pay for the online code for the classes.
The textbooks company found out and sued the college for $50 million. Mind you that the college is a public community College.
The company sued the school in 2013 but the court date is in 2027 for some very odd reason.
For tips: In the US (at least) it is legal to pay your tipped workers as low as $2 per hour. Their ability to simply survive is determined by the tips they make. A tip of about 15-25% for every customer they serve (on a regular flow day) is usually enough to equal at least minimum wage for them.
The establishment is required to reimburse them if they have a really shitty week and don't reach minimum wage (but they get fired if it happens too many times).
This reminds me of the book bicentennial Man , where after Andrew bought himself and claimed independence, they stopped making self contained androids, they have a body but the control over the body was networked, so an android could never buy itself ever again.
"Imagine if you had to block a card to stop a subscription" Talk to my EX-friend that used my card for an MLM.
She got made at me for canceling that card and not giving her my new card.
Mosquito screamers actually do work when you get a real one.
Essentially there's two kinds:
1. Buzzers, which replicate the sound of a dragonfly's wings to scare mosquitos
2. Screamers, which let out a faint squeal that a lot of people can't hear since it's very high pitched. That type is basically a mosquito's mating call. Only a fertilised female will want to bite and thus avoids male mosquitos looking to mate
Good thing at 30 years old I can't hear high pitched sounds like coil whine and CRT flybacks and other annoying high pitched noises, nope, can't hear that stuff at all :)
I would take the buzzer. I can 100% guarantee I'd be able to hear the screamer, with my sense of hearing, and I'd be repelled from the area likely moreso than the mosquitoes.
@@crystallinethunder You are not immune to mosquito mating calls.
@@crystallinethunder mosquito skinwalker
Reminds me of the anti kid buzzers some shops in the UK use, they emit a high pitched whine that only younger people can hear, more on a subconscious level i think, and it makes them less likely to hang around.
Car companies are the worst. I crashed my car by having a seizure 4 years ago, and I told all of the maintenance people to take me off a mailing list as well as the dealership, but I keep getting servicing notification!
Man, the amount of jailbroken headsets if they add Ads would be insane.
In the EU, I believe officially when you buy something, even online, you and the seller "agreed" on a purchase contract. Therefore the price mentioned at 8:58 can't be changed after purchase, except with agreement of both parties.
same with most states in the US.
@@Steampunk_Kak most states?😅
@@TheW0lfgirl i mean, yeah, most states, some of our states literally fit 6 of the EU countries in it easily.
@@Steampunk_Kak what does the size have to do with anything?
@@TheW0lfgirl US states have a lot of freedom over their own laws and regulations and will often differ from other states. I don't live there, but German states operate under a similar system. Except, the states of Germany are a lot smaller of course.
I hate college textbooks sometimes... One of my Math profs actually understood the struggle and the textbook for one of his courses was dirt cheap (talking like $5 USD back in 2010-2012) cause the info itself hadn't really changed to warrant a fancy overpriced textbook. He was also my advisor for my major XD
I’ve had several teachers source their material from free sources online or give them directly to the students to reduce cost. I guess it is slowly becoming a thing at my college, because there are notes on classes that have fees of less than $50 total. I’m currently in two classes with this; one uses an open resource textbook that we can send in suggested edits based on new research and the other gives lectures and link resources that don’t cost anything. I appreciate the teachers trying to reduce cost so much.
I remember about ten years ago in Australia, there was a trend of scams/viruses causing pop ups or even bricking your phone with a notification that the Australian Federal Police had caught you, uh, 'accessing child naughties' online and to click the link to pay your fine (because that offence definitely just gets you a fine...) Gotta hand it to the scammers, it was very effective in scaring a lot of people into clicking links and even paying, and people were afraid of trying to get help because they were worried people would believe they'd actually been doing that.
Was a thing in the us too. I lost my computer to it in middle school.
As part of one of my autism assessments, I was iq tested (I genuinely don't know why, if I hadn't asked for my number, they wouldn't have told me), so I know my actual iq (somewhere between 115 and 120 from memory)
Online iq tests have put me as high as like 160, and still demand payment for my exact number (which I a) already know and b) already know theirs is inaccurate)
Online iq tests are an absolute scam, even the completely free ones
I did the same test and it came out in 4 different results for each of the subtests. Online test placed me at 172, which is nearly impossible.
Also, frankly, IQ is a mediocre assessment of intelligence at best, with pretty questionable roots
@@hmnhntr yeah because even if your IQ is high, that doesn't really mean anything if you never put any effort into learning.
I can do ya one worse on the twitter BS. I deleted the whole app off my phone after it gave me a freaking zoophile defending their actions of stealing someone elses art to create pro zoo posts on my "you might like" feed. I legit got sick after seeing that garbage. Wish I could sue twitter for emotional distress for that
Regarding the printers:
Printer companies have been doing this for quite some time now (not only hp, sadly...). They sell you super cheap printers (mostly between 50 and 90€) that don't seem to cover the costs of production. So instead, they sell their ink more expensively. The problem is that not only you must buy their brand inks because of the chips they installed in their printers. Over the years they also decreased the amount of ink in the cartridges, leaving you with paying more for very little more and more.
Some printers can be tricked, mostly laser printers, by resetting their chips. By resetting them you can use cheaper inks that are not from the same brand as your printer.
In conclusion: If you want or need a printer, save up a little bit to get one that allows you to reset the chips and use cheaper inks.
Laser printer toner has shrunk in compact models, but inkjet cartridges have actually gotten bigger, not smaller, on average. Many inkjets now have cartridges that are good for 1000-2000 pages, which was unheard of in the early days, with cartridges that lasted a few hundred pages, tops.
And as for what printers to buy: an ink tank printer. You pay more up front for the printer, but the ink then comes in bottles at $10-15 per color, good for 5000-10000 pages, depending on the printer. Page costs on those are practically zero.
Yeah I think it's called a loss leader. Get them in with something really really cheap.
@@lexwithbub Loss leader is not exactly the same thing as “razor and blades model”, which is what printers are. In a loss leader, you advertise one product at a loss to get people in the door, with the hopes that they’ll find other stuff they want when they get there. (Be it accessories for the loss leader item, an _alternative_ to the loss leader, like a model with more features, or other products altogether.) But there’s no requirement for the other products to be inherently locked to the loss leader item.
In the razor-and-blades model, the supplies (blades) are specific to the main device (razor), so that you _have_ to buy their supplies.
@@tookitogo Uhh, no. The HP #45 cartridge that was _very_ common 20 years ago (and is somehow still sold today) comes with 42 ml of ink and its ripoff version the #15 came with 25 ml of ink. The current HP cartridge with the _highest_ page yield is the 950XL and AFICT it holds 45 ml of ink. That's barely any more and it's a high-end business printer. The consumer "XL" variants have less ink than the 15 of yesteryear.
The page yield is higher (2300 vs 930) but that's due to better print technology.
Stuff like this has convinced me that, if certain people have their way and we survive to make it to space, that we're going to wind up being the Ferenghis. We're going to be that money-grubbing species of scummy a-holes no one wants to deal with because every little communication will have some ad attached to it, and every deal we make with come with a massive contract with dozens of hidden fees and pages worth of fine print.
I don't think so. One, we could never do an equality speedrun as simple as "if you support their equality, they will have money to spend at your business", we just do megacorps where people are the product and have no choices. Two, they only had debt slavery + wives within a strict business contract, and we've already invented a bunch of worse types for both. I'm pretty sure at this point the ferengi are better than Terrans.
All the star trek races are based on humans. Their characteristic traits are all just things some humans do.
Being a Samsung owner, I can relate to the "essential apps" one. Every time I update my phone, there are a bunch of apps automatically downloaded
I'd bet money those people charging insane cleaning and damage deposit fees have had their property trashed by people who can't human.
The deposit also exists for long term rentals too, usually paid before renting the place. Though for long term rentals renters are met in person while these online short term (Vacation) rental sites are sight unseen for both the renter (the house/apartment) and the landlord (the tenant is the thing unseen for landlords in that situation and why in person meeting of landlord and tenant even before renting should be important since it usually helps the landlord sus out the tenant to make sure they won't be like what is said in the original commenter's comment that I'm replying to).
Yea, usually it's the people (laymen, since with young nouveau riche [new rich] people it doesn't even matter and the latter can afford the fees and lots of them could be horrible) who can't afford those fees and would most likely also waste getting their deposit back that would trash the place. I guess the actual term I actually want to use here is fake rich/wealthy, those who live a lie and that lie of being rich keeps snowballing to the point of it eventually failing (these people are the ones that would rent like this and leave it a wreck for the owner].
Oh definitely! Unlike the big hotel chains, regular people with Air BnB can't exactly afford to eat the cost the same way.
The one that doesn't do refunds for those dates probably is near a college kid party area or something. I can only imagine how damaged and trashed the property would be after a couple days of drunk kids with no rules.
If they left an extreme amount of mess and filth, or vandalized stuff, then its the costumers fault and not truly asshole design. If they do this after completely normal visits where people behaved just fine its definitely asshole design and should be illegal for being scam. We dont know the context
@@zakosist Wrong. A deposit is left BEFORE you occupy the space because AFTER you leave, what is the owner going to do if you trashed his house?? If you behave and you don't harm anything, YOU GET THE MONEY BACK. That's the whole point of a deposit, dude. If it was a fee, then I could see your point. But it isn't - it's a deposit.
my guess as to why they put the hidden prices is that they think putting the real price will push away customers but really its them hiding shit that pushes away customers. those people would probably be willing to pay that price, but you hid it from them, so now they feel tricked or scammed and wont buy anything from you.
My dad was one of the main people in the creation of recco and worked with the development most of his life. So proud!
We used to play hide and seek with the new prototypes in our garden and he went to find us with the antenna 😄good memories ❤
That is a genuinely neat memory. You should be proud of your dad! And even more disgusted with these scammers 😡
@@OuchingTigerLimpingDragon scammers in any ways are horrible. Especially life saving ones. Imagine thinking you have a chip in your clothes and no one is going to find you. Buried under the snow waiting for help that will never come.
But then you know it’s a reflector and not a beacon right?
Honestly Click, you should absolutely think of designing phone cases with slide-in camera blockers. No company will ever do that for "reasons", but if you do it, its gonna sell like hotcakes.
surely companies like Otterbox and Spigen have cases with that feature, since they only make cases
Also with the Sims stuff
*MOST SIMS GAMES B R E A K WHEN YOU HAVE ALL THE DLC*
The sims 4 gets lagier the more dlcs you get since they were just added onto the game instead of just coding them from the start and having a paywall
that book scam for education kind of hit close to home - first year i bought EVERY book on the litterature list and after realizing that we didnt even open like 3/5 of them the second year i asked my teachers what books they would be using and bought only those... way more economical. Also fun fact all the books i didnt need for the classes i NEVER opened...
Germany be like: thats illegal...
Once had to buy a book for $200 at university, you could only buy them new and they were only sold in the uni's bookstore. we opened the book twice and then the class got cancelled half way through the semester... I burned the book out of anger because you couldn't return them for any money back.
@@RitotheRi my "worst" book i did buy (and was used se above) was a book on data storage and stuff like that (really expensive and thick as hell) it had 13 chapters and my education focus (like 1/5 of the students) were only in 2 chapters.... guess what two chapters that the teachers holding the classes where the book was used decided to pass over since those 2 chapters were not intressting at all for the other students - did i mention that our techers in the class that we were to use the book in never mentioned that again and it was a new edition for that uear so no "second hand" book was available... and it cost like 150 USD then in like 2002...
@@ronnyhansson8713 Oh my god that s awful! My book was for criminal courts. I've learned that if the class says you can only buy one from the campus bookstore with only new additions, just drop the class. 😂 What a scam.
a lot of those are definitely illegal in Germany, where a LOT of laws about trade exist.
we had a class like 7:47 and there was this one kid in class who bought the license and book ahead of time with their scholarship money, and they just downloaded copies and sent them to like everyone in the class via school emails
They were a hero
May they go far in life
Fun fact: a shrimp heart is in its head
This subreddit is just chaos, incredibly fitting for clicky wicky here.
15:00 reminds me of that one Futurama episode where Fry found out that they put ads in his dreams. Once they get the technology to be able to put images in your dreams, I bet you they will jump on the chance to do that.
Y'know what? Anarchy doesn't sound so bad
This is why I always read the nutritional imformation on any food products I buy. They can trick you on the front of the product with the >0%sugar crap, but once you read the nutritional information and the ingredients you can see the reality.
0 sugar
But we added sugar cane grounded.
Yeahhhhh ok
Oat milk boasts no sugar because they don't have to list the reaction their ingredients have that created a ton of sugar. It is a total scam.
Best way to cancel payments when they won’t let you remove a card without a second card, one of them store bought Visa cards. Can’t over charge it
For online credit card issues. I ALWAYS use a prepaid visa. That way, if the site won't let me cancel, they can only really take $20 from the card untill there's nothing left. If the companies are gonna be shady, you have to be shady too.
When money becomes invaluable (and all consuming), everything else becomes worthless
Capitalism (derogatory)
22:13
The click speaking portuguese is celestial
10/10 would like to hear more
In Sweden, at least where I’m from, the nesquik chocolate ball cereal has always been nicknamed Harpluttar (hare poop). Fun fact of the day!
If phones and stuff started to play ads without you interacting with anything, I'd just start considering living in a cabin in the woods or something, just far away from technology and other people.
A lot of companies will tack on fees or change prices that aren't actually legal, but a lot of people will just pay anyway. If you challenge it they'll remove the fee instantly because they know it's not legal, but paying it is agreement to pay so you have no recourse after the fact.
We really need better "truth in advertising" laws, but that means bigger government. Either way, you get f'd.
"You'll own nothing, have no privacy, and you'll be happy" or else - WEF
14:25 That's not a discount,thats a miscount😂😂😂
Yeah, I took 20% loss on one of my math grades in college because I was required to spend $300ish on the textbook, to access online homework. Most I could get was 80 in the class because of this. It was a mandatory class, that basically went over high school math, it was already $500 class. I spent a year fighting to take that 20% as written or just part of my final exam grade. I got a 79 by only showing up for exams/test, sadly never got changed as far as I know, I left the fight with student council that seemed fired up about it.
@Sine Nomine lol I'm Canadian so the cost is still minimal at least.
Imagine failing classes for not paying cash.
Germany says knowledge should be free
31:28 Nokia already has that and it's called "Circular Subscription". It's meant for sustainability, rewards the customer for keeping the phone longer and promises to recycle the returned device by properly by handing it to somebody else or utilising the material.
Hey there Click! I love watching your videos, they’re nice to listen to while I’m doing something like playing games. Your voice is so nice!!
Same dude!
Wow! Glad I'm not alone in this!
Playing games is for nerds. I'm definitely not on my Switch playing Fire Emblem Engage while typing this.
The whole “the government won’t tell me how much I owe them!” is really only for people who have simple returns (a W2 and standard deduction). If you do an itemized deduction, the federal government doesn’t know how much medical expenses you had, how much you donated to charity, etc.,
But wouldn't it still be easier for the government to go "hey, this is what we have recorded as the taxes you owe us. Please check for and correct any inaccurate information as well as tell us if anything is missing"?
Usa sounds so backwards.... here u pay taxes off income
If people send emails to the company to request improvements then their bad reviews won’t show to anyone
When you were talking about having front camera covers for phones, I looked at my Panzerglass screen protector and smiled because it comes with a slideable camera cover with a Swarovski crystal on top (a Popsocket + Panzerglass deal). I am very happy with the choices I've made. So many ways to spy on us these days.
I genuinely love how Click keeps telling us these insane things he's seen online! And they're always things that he's seen while making vids for us. It's like telling your friends a story when they're _in_ the story
I don't want discount! I want dat-count
If I ever saw you in Sweden, I would lean in for a big high five and a tiny hug and then leave you alone. We Nordic people know our boundaries. Huge love from Finland 💙
That's way too much. I would at max say "hej", maybe wave, and that's it
@@Liggliluff Inte ens en liten "bro hug"? Det kräver inte mycket kroppskontakt, typ bara att ens axlar rör vid varandra.
God, as an avid Sims 4 player, I've fully given up on legally acquiring all the DLC. It's absolutely absurd how much EA things they can get away with charging us for.
About the Creme, I work in a nursing home and one of the senior had a expensive medical creme, he always cut it open when no more creme came out, there was basically always a third of it left
I added up the Sims 4 with all the DLCs a few of years ago and I think it was at around $800 USD at the time. I'm sure it's well over $1k at this point. Absolutely ridiculous numbers.
Train sim be like: rookie number.
Doa: indeed rookie as hell
Fifa: shut up kids ....
But to be fair, buying all the DLCs that way includes an "I don't care, I want everything now" fee. Buying the bundles when they are on sale brings the total cost down to about 1/4.
Don't ever buy safety gear second hand unless you're capable of fully checking and fixing it yourself.
Even bike helmets, you're actually supposed to replace them if they have a good knock, because the foam will have cracked internally, that's how it protects you.
But lots of people go and sell them instead so they can put money towards their own brand new one.
Yeah, having worked in Amazon, I am NEVER buying a helmet from there, used or "new" - because a returned helmet that looks to be in like-new condition will get resold as new, and there's no training on how to handle the helmets so there's no telling how much they'll be knocked around and dropped
"I'll just print it by hand", well, that's certainly one way to say "I'll write it down"
For an older generation, "write" means cursive and "print" means non-cursive. So for my grandfather there's a difference.
i love your videos so much !! i have adhd so whenever im doing my makeup, working on projects/crafts, ect i love to watch ur videos in the background ! having ur videos playing helps me focus soooo much, im not sure id be able to function properly without you
Keep powering though everyone the emotional support demon will be here soon.
6:50 this is a major mood. It's gotten to a point where I will literally try my hardest to avoid clicking on links about specific games, or even refusing to say the games out loud (because devices are listening), because if I don't, then I'll be bombarded with ads, recommendations, all of that for games like the game of blox, or the night of fort.
It honestly feels like me selecting "do not recommend" makes youtube think I'm interested but just don't want that specific channel, so I usually just flip through them and that seems to get them to go away eventually.
The Click pronouncing German to 100% correct but also angry is damn funny!