- Fitted sheet must have label on bottom right seam
- Salted butter wrapping text must be red. Unsalted blue.
Coffee shop tables should be 3 legged to prevent them from wobbling and me spilling my coffee when I lean onto the table even just a bit.
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.)
For glassware, try buying tempered glass. It’s more resistant, but most importantly, when it breaks, it tends to break into cubes rather than into a million little sharp knives.
Tried this, they’re all broken. Corelle flatware lasted quite awhile, but were still no match for my wife and kids. Everything is now stainless steel.
I’d be worried about microwave compatibility, as well as a metallic taste in my water. How are things, really?
It’s fine. No metallic taste since it’s not a reactive metal. In the microwave you just have to make sure it doesn’t contact the edge. You only get arcing of metal when there are sharp points or loops, which aren’t present on a disc.
Bwahaha, I had a tempered measuring cup, a big one I used for pancake batter, stuff like that. One day I gently tapped it with a wooden spoon and it exploded. Pancake batter and (yep, not sharp) tiny pieces of glass everywhere! That was the day I learned tempered glass can store energy. It wasn’t that one tap, but every thwack it ever received built up, until it could not store any more and it exploded. Very interesting to learn but very messy.
Cheating in online video games is criminally punishable
I love a lot of the ideas in this thread but a ton of them are actually consequential.
Address numbers are to be placed in a prominent position, with a font that is legible from the street and illuminated at night, on every building in cities and towns.
Out in the country address numbers are to be displayed on reflective signs at the end of the driveway and again if/when a shared driveway splits.
Having addresses be easily legible for emergency services isn’t inconsequential, and is legally required where I live.
I wasn’t even thinking of emergency services. I was thinking selfishly as a pizza guy.
Well, pizza is pretty important, too.
Delivered to this place awhile back:
It’s ugly as hell, but I’m damn sure I know which apartment is which
Oncoming car headlights should not blind you. Companies need to stop making these and if they are custom jobs, this should be easy tickets for the police.
The adaptive headlights that fix this are not legal in the US, but in other countries they can be used and will selectively dim parts of their light beams that point at other cars.
But what about pedestrians, cyclists, etc.?
Can probably work with a cyclist with a light. But in any case it’s not as big of a deal as a pedestrian or cyclist. Anyways brighter lights might be safer since the driver can more easily see pedestrians and cyclists.
As a pedestrian often struggling to see what the heck I’m doing when walking along a road at night, I’m not sure I agree with it being not such a big deal. I mean, true, I can’t really cause an accident that big considering I’m not a multi-ton death machine, but…
As for brighter = safer, I’m not sure either. Wouldn’t people see better in the inevitable area outside of their headlights if headlights weren’t so bright as to set their eyes up into “daylight mode”?
I think the concept of night adjusted eyes are already pretty lost in any city these days. We’ve moved away from sodium lamps so night vision isn’t really activated as all. In this situation, you’d want the driver to see as much as possible and from as far away as possible so they can react to pedestrians. And having used vehicles with both OEM LED and normal halogens, the brighter LED definitely makes it easier to see.
Yet another thing we’ve fallen behind on.
This is legislated in the US. Just not enforced and cars became taller since the law was written (-3ft/75ft iirc, may vary by state).
In Scandinavia they actually care about this and high beam use is part of diver training. It’s nice. Also semi trucks will happily blind you with a thousand Suns if you forget. So it’s rare to get blinded in night driving.
Seems kind of consequential to me. But I agree.
Women’s clothing now have the same definition for what is xs s m l xl and etc
No olives shall be added to feta in oil.
All shoe and clothing companies must use universal measurements and sizes
Harris Walz should make policy announcements from this thread, surely they would get a ton of more votes
INTERNET SHOULD BE A PUBLIC UTILITY! SAME AS WATER, TRASH SERVICE, ELECTRICITY AND GAS.
Clearly written weight netto of the product and second weight ( it can be smaller caps ) the weight netto 1 year before for the same product
Motorcycles have a maximum volume
Alternatively 13 months of 28 days
New “No Ads” holiday. No ads on TV or the entire internet for one day, physical billboards can stay, digital billboards must be turned off, essentially all form of digital advertisement is disallowed. If a company breaks those rules, it is fined 50% of its average annual revenue.
All vehicles have an auto-sensor that detects when the steering mechanism is turned past a certain point and activates the fucking turn signal. Deactivates it once the steering mechanism returns past that point.
Tell me you don’t understand how to use a turn signal without telling me you don’t understand how to use a turn signal.
On multi-lane merge ramps is the guy in the right lane signalling his left blinker because his steering wheel is turned or is he planning to dive into your lane before the merge?
But the idea of an indicator is to indicate that you will soon turn the steering wheel, not that you’ve already started to turn it.
Better rule, if the vehicle detects that the turn signal is not active and you’re making a turn, it engages temporary self driving and delivers an electric shock to the crotch .
That would make some people do that on purpose
So it would engage if you switch lanes, but also if the road curved slightly…?
