Units of measurement. Imagine if there was one universal way of measuring something, be it temperatures, weights, pressure…
We’re close on this one but there’s a couple of holdouts.
Police education requirements. In North America, there are like hundreds of different police forces with vastly different requirements. Some will hire highschool dropouts while others require a university education.
False. Police agencies are the only institutions legally allowed to discriminate based on intelligence when it comes to hiring. Jordan v. City of New London set the precedent that its okay for police forces to refuse to hire a person because they are too smart. The reasoning in court was that those who are too intelligent face the risk of finding the work boring or becoming distracted by issues outside of the scope of their work. What that means from a practical standpoint is that they want dumb, obedient candidates for police positions rather than logical critical thinking individuals who might actually follow the law over orders from superiors. Its the same thing in the military too.
In the face of the facts, university education is probably more often a disqualification for actual law enforcement.
As I said, it varies depending on the police agency. The RNC in Newfoundland requires a university education. I noted in my comment that I was referring to all of North America
“Congratulations, you’re everything we’ve come to expect from years of government training.”
Oh they have standard training. That one guy who goes around training them all they will have the best sex of their life after they kill someone. See, nothing to worry about perfectly trained!
https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2020/jun/05/architect-of-controversial-killology-police-traini/
The “reject all cookies” button
The cookies being rejected should’ve been the standard. Instead they gave us shitty popups that didn’t solve anything.
A voting test. To keep people from voting with “feelings in my bones” instead of knowledge about things.
A voting test would just become voter suppression and electoral tampering. Even if it was implemented in good faith (doubt), it would still be full of implicit biases from whoever made it
And even if you kept it about really basic civil questions, that would disenfranchise people who had terrible educations or childhood situations - a demographic with a big overlap with poverty and race etc
Job ads.
To hell with all the bullshitting.Title. Basic duties. Salary. Upload resume.
Women’s clothing sizes. My size varies wildly depending on the store and every woman I know says the same thing. It can be really upsetting and at best it’s a massive PITA
before transitioning i literally never knew my pants size because it was different for every brand. now that i shop in the men’s section post transition, i can now buy pants without needing to worry if they’ll fit. it’s the same measurement every single time no matter what brand. men’s sizes for pants work like 30x35, with the first number being the waist and the second being the length. plus, pockets! we seriously need better women’s clothes.
I have definitely run into men’s sizes that are the same size, brand, and style but fit different. Sometimes the cuts are off. And different brands cut differently, so while there may be more consistency than women’s sizes it definitely has a lot of inconsistencies as well.
That’s my anecdotal experience though.
I’ve got a pair of 36 and 46 that both fit. Usually shoes are fairly normalized, like an 11 usually fits across the board for me, but I got a pair of dress shoes one time and needed an 8. I put on an 11 and they were like clown shoes.
Dress pants for me are a shot in the dark. I’ll find 40" waists that I cant put my hand in my pocket and then I’ll find a 36 that both hands fit in fine and fit well. And I never get anything listed as skinny, I just always assume my phone would just bend around my leg at that point. The brand name doesn’t even matter, same brand will have different fits even in the same pant “style.”
Tshirts are a shit show because I’m not skinny anymore. If it is going to not show my stomach when I raise my arms I’d need like a 3XL, but if I get a 3XL it is extremely loose everywhere because a large or XL is a more proper fit width wise.
all clothing sizes. 34 means 34 inches, but it’s 30-32 inches in asia.
size 12 shoes are different between US, EU and UK. Why the fuck.
Everything that has not yet been standardized.
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weight measurements in baking recipes (instead of or in addition to volumetric measurements)
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password requirements. Not using the same password for different sites, just using a formula, but it’s hard when some sites require the use of characters that others forbid, or some sites cap password length at a character limit lower than other sites require as minimum.
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Yep! Or at least put the fucking formula by the login to prompt which one you used when you registered
Make it automatically readable for password managers
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Screw heads
Some amount of screw head variance is “I want to make it harder for users to open my product so they are less likely to break it” (e.g., Nintendo GameCube controller used tri-wing screws)
Also the very existence of “security” styles is presumably to keep laypeople out of high security areas.
But I agree there is some change that could be made. Philips in particular leaves a lot to be desired; it’s so easy for them to strip.
philips in particular leaves a lot to be desired; it’s so easy for them to strip.
Which is why Canada uses Robertson in construction, which allows a screw to be driven pointing up.
Phillips heads are designed to cam out to prevent over-tightening. Many who strip Phillips screws are actually using Phillips drivers on JIS (Japanese Industry Standard) heads. They look similar.
Battery interfaces. We have a huge variety of batteries for a huge variety of devices. However, when you open the proprietary shell of these batteries what you often find inside is standardized 18650 cells. They have been playing us for absolute fools.
Button cells should be standardised to only two sizes.
They are a health hazard, a live cell can eat through the stomach of a toddler very easily.
The main reason this occurs is because people buy those multiple size packs because every device has a different size.
That’s true, but it’s also a bit more complicated - you can’t just jam a handful of 18650 cells together and have it work. They need to be matched with cells having similar capacity and internal resistance and depending on the operating characteristics the tolerance can be quite low.
So it is possible to make your own packs or repair ones, but you have to test each cell in the existing pack, as well as test each cell your want to replace in and make sure that they’re all in tolerance to each other.
It’s a similar problem to lead acid batteries. 2V cells are arranged in a way that will deliver 12V at sufficient current for a particular application. However the solution we have landed on is completely different to li-ion because you can take any suitably sized car battery from one brand of vehicle and put it in another. The reason for that is the interface is common to virtually all cars. This technology pre-dates enshitification. There is no good reason to tie any battery to any device other than it helps the shareholders. They are busy inserting barriers to re-use and modularity everywhere in technology, particularly software.
We, as consumers, really do need to step up our battery knowledge. I would say, general electronics should be a mandatory requirement. Heck it should be a major part of the curriculum.
Proportional wealth distribution.
Equality
Equity
Board game box sizes
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