If a company will not allow you to cancel your subscription, you can go through your bank, and they will cancel it for you. My bank lady straight laid into a company for me once. They will cancel it real quick when threatened with legal action.

@AIHumanEquality

5 ай бұрын

Yeah it's by the book illegal to do even in the US but the companies rely on people not knowing that to get away with it.

@Alverant

5 ай бұрын

@@AIHumanEqualityThey also rely on the US not doing anything about it because lobbyists and capitalism.

@darrylelam256

5 ай бұрын

I had to go through my bank once to cancel subscription. It was real easy.

@rizones2286

5 ай бұрын

Thank god you came up with solutions

@comicsans3537

5 ай бұрын

I was told they can still charge and add fees, and then go through collections. Gonna try this again next time but yeah 🥲

An American friend of mine tried to cancel her Planet Fitness membership - she was told she could only do it in person, so she went to her local gym. Only to be told no, you have to go to your "club house" HQ (whatever that is). She then discovered the only one close to her was in another State.... two States over from hers. Which was well over a 13-hour drive ONE WAY to get to. In the end she contacted her bank who managed to get it cancelled that same day. I'm pretty sure that, since you can sign-up to Planet Fitness online, they are now legally required to allow you to cancel online too - and make it just as easy to cancel as it was to sign-up in the first place. SO yeah this demanding you do it in person is highly illegal. Shame there's no regulatory body in the US to oversee issues like this and bring the punishment hammer down on shady corporate actions.

@Hexagonaldonut

5 ай бұрын

In *theory* I think this kind of thing would fall under the purview of the FTC, but they kind of have their hands full with the other nine billion things they have to deal with, particularly the multiple monopolous corporations they're presently fighting.

@zuttoaragi8349

3 ай бұрын

Yes, because what we need is ANOTHER unelected committee.

@satyestru

10 күн бұрын

That sort of regulation would "be sOcIaLiSm," I'm sure.

0:28 I loathe hostile architecture like this. I guarantee that's not the only bench like that in that city, and they can't have been cheap. Imagine how far that money would have gone to _support_ the unhoused instead of spit in their face.

@darlenebuck431

5 ай бұрын

Philadelphia is notorious for blowing money on mindless things including those very uncomfortable, cold, metal benches to prevent the homeless from sleeping on them.

@kp63

5 ай бұрын

Unhoused lol i see the latest euphemisms have caught on. How about you ask your Democrat politicians to do something about the homeless since its their job? Architecture like this is gross but it comes from the existence of a unmitigated homeless crisis

@Ciurk

5 ай бұрын

yeah its evil and twisted how do they sleep at night doing this

@AIHumanEquality

5 ай бұрын

You know what's funny? More money is spent every year in America on these kinds of things than it would have cost to just put all the homeless in homes.

@Just_a_commenter

5 ай бұрын

@@AIHumanEquality I'm genuinely curious how much is actually spent... Gonna have to look up some stats. btw, love the @ handle and username. Gave me a good laugh when you replied to me on a different video. c:

The thing with the mobile ad at the end is not about the "touch literally anywhere" problem, is the fact that some ads auto open the play store when they finish. Personally saw many of these.

@balls_gaming

5 ай бұрын

I saw one ad, that pretends to be playable, but not only does it automatically open the app store when you're finished "playing", it also makes the X button stop working. so you need to force close the app. I don't know how it is possible, but It's only that one ad, on any app, if I get that ad I don't touch it until the 30 seconds are up (yes. 30 second ad with a 30 second demo. absolute scum), like twice have I actually been able to play the minigame thing and be able to close the ad

Fun Uplifting Story: In Scandinavia over the years many American companies have tried opening shop and not following Scandinavian laws or rules. McDonald's even tried this when they first opened up and the Danish delivery workers literally stopped delivering supplies until they agreed to the workers terms. Similar incidents happened in Germany, Canada, and Australia. Hope is not completely dead in the fight against evil corporations.

@pine_and_appl

5 ай бұрын

What kind of rules laws does Scandinavia have that they didn’t want to follow?

@pine_and_appl

5 ай бұрын

*rules/laws

@clubpenguin13531

5 ай бұрын

@@pine_and_appl They didn't want workers to be unionized, and workers up and down the chain responded by grinding their operations to a halt by refusing to work and urging people to boycott. Eventually, McDonalds capitulated and allowed their workers to be part of the Hotel and Restaurant Staff Union

@AIHumanEquality

5 ай бұрын

@@pine_and_appl Basic regulations like paying workers fairly, following sanitation regulations, the usual things to try to avoid paying any cent they could.

@joshuahunt3032

5 ай бұрын

Good for Scandinavia, and I hope the rest of humanity also goes that way, at least unless something even better than unionization is invented. You know that old Winston Churchill speech about democracy being shitty, but also being the best governance mechanism we have so far? That’s how I feel about unions. I happily work with my workplace’s union because I feel there aren’t any better options yet.

fun fact: the twisted bench actually does exist her in Philadelphia. and it's done to prevent the homeless from sleeping on benches.

@AIHumanEquality

5 ай бұрын

Wrecking benches. That'll teach the homeless not to be homeless. What a stroke of genius. KZread this is an obvious joke.

@Game_Blox9999

5 ай бұрын

Even Pennsylvania is in on it?!? Why though? Why spend more money on trying to _stop_ homeless people from sleeping on the community benches than trying to _actually_ help them get homes?

@darlenebuck431

5 ай бұрын

don't know but Philadelphia does not care about the homeless.

@Envy-Animations

5 ай бұрын

Why?

@darlenebuck431

5 ай бұрын

@@Envy-Animationsdon't know 🤷‍♀ but that's type of place Philly is.

Not experienced in the kitchen and cannot tell you what makes for a good oil but i did once buy a bottle of extra virgin olive oil from a small family run farm in Greece and you could drink that stuff straight out of the bottle (which is how they offered samples, they'd pour you a little shot glass of olive oil). It was HEAVENLY and ive never been able to find one that was as good as that.

@tylerjohnston7880

5 ай бұрын

Basically the more virgin the better. The more virgin it it, the earlyer in the pressing it was. Extra virgin was first press, virgin second press, etc. they do multiple presses to get all the juices out but each consecutive press after the first has less flavor, hence why there are diferent levels

@dragooner438

5 ай бұрын

​@@tylerjohnston7880thank you i came to the comments because i was very curious myself.

@badpiggs

5 ай бұрын

not virgin anymore haha get it

The problem with Planet Fitness is that, if you're trying to cancel a membership, it probably means you weren't very interested in coming in to the gym location. Also, it gives the sales rep at the front to pull the "Please Don't Go :(" routine

@elaexplorer

5 ай бұрын

We had no problems canceling. We just went inside and told them it was for medical reasons. They did charge us an extra month to cancel though.

@janethbarajas5063

5 ай бұрын

Lmao, planet fitness canceled my membership because someone somehow stole my qr code to check in and they dropped off 3 roudy kids for like 5 hours. No idea why they didn't call the cops for child abandonement or attempt to contact the number on file. I don't even have kids

@fermitupoupon1754

5 ай бұрын

@@elaexplorer I'm glad we have much better consumer protection laws over here. Charging you an extra month to cancel a subscription is straight up illegal, they can only charge you what you owe up until that point. Same with making people go somewhere or having them write a letter by snail mail. An email is just as valid. Also because we don't use credit cards here nearly as often it's much easier to just cancel their direct debit and back charge whatever they've overcharged. We did have a fitness club do the same thing during the covid lockdowns where they wouldn't let people cancel just because the lockdown prevented them from going to the gym. The public outrage was so massive that this fitness club now no longer exists because people would just charge back after sending them an email.

On the booze menu with no prices: Some places even have it that way for the actual food. Leaving prices off is one way to convey the message "If you have to ask, you can't afford to eat here." Another trick is to have a price with no dollar sign out front and no ".99" or ".95" after it; IIRC, studies have shown that doing that sort of thing makes people less likely to really care about the price and just order whatever. These are more common at higher-end places.

@horsinacz

5 ай бұрын

Honestly, I find these so weird. Over here you are required to have all the items you are selling have their prices visible (like having price tags next to them or having a list with prices listed in the vicinity of the items) and can face some huge fines if the inspection finds out that a price of a certain item is not obvious or even not shown at all. So for example the fridge situation at 4:09 is super illegal as well as the cocktail menu at 17:10 I really don't understand why the USA doesn't pass some law to make this practice illegal, especially since it is such predatory behavior 😞

@nagitoad

5 ай бұрын

​@@horsinaczthey won't do it because ✨ Money ✨ Well mainly because many companies would lobby against for those laws and stuff like that it sucks

@JS-rv3et

5 ай бұрын

If I go somewhere I can afford it but i aint paying 500 bucks for a fucking 4 Oz steak. I don't care if it's a "Japanese" cow

@EricTheKei

5 ай бұрын

@@JS-rv3et I'm with you 100% on that one. Unless someone else is paying, it's unlikely that I would even be allowed into a building where Kobe beef is being offered ;) Wagyu (US equivalent) on clearance sale, tho - They might let me in. Maybe. I still couldn't afford to pay for it myself.

14:10 my school made a new unisex with a security camera installed on the ceiling. When someone complained, we were told it is to see who is skipping class; but the front wall of the bathroom is just cut out of the wall so you can look into the stalls and sinks by standing in the hallway.

@aralornwolf3140

5 ай бұрын

Report the school for sexual harassment of the students.

@AIHumanEquality

5 ай бұрын

@@aralornwolf3140 To whom? The school board? Over half the school boards in America are full of perverted old men.

@AIHumanEquality

5 ай бұрын

@@aralornwolf3140 Report to who? Last I saw many school boards in America are really corrupt.

@aralornwolf3140

5 ай бұрын

@@AIHumanEquality, Violations of the Right to Privacy to the regulating boards... if that doesn't work... media and then class action law-suits.

@AIHumanEquality

5 ай бұрын

@@aralornwolf3140 Sounds great in practice but in reality I don't think it would go as well as you think it would.

"Fun" fact: Banks use a certain way of transaction processing when you have overdraft coverage. They have the higher priced items come first through the system. Lets say you buy a Plasma TV for 500$, carton of eggs for 20$ and a candy bar for 1$, and have 450$ in your account with a 25$ overdraft fee. No matter which order you buy these items, the 500$ TV is going first, with the 25$ fee, then the eggs, with the fee. Then the candy, with the fee. Even if you bought and purchased the candy bar and eggs first, to avoid those two getting the fees, the banks have the system reorganize the order to have you pay more fees.

7:33 the argument to be made is that you can sign up online in any form, but are forced to use mail. There are even gyms that do not allow you to cancel in person you HAVE to mail them. One click to get in, 12 Business days to get out, When it just takes one click on their end to void your contract.

7:00 For gyms and other places that did this, I just went down to my bank and told the nice people behind the desk to block any and all attempts to withdraw from those places. Worked perfectly, and later got a call from the place trying to take my money saying that late fees would be applied. I told them good luck and hung up. Been free from "that" gym since 2018.

7:35 Louis Rossman has the dubious honour of knowing the exact situation where "oh, just go to the one you've been going to" isn't viable he moved and then found out he couldn't cancel his LA Fitness membership without going in, and there weren't any LA Fitness locations within less than an hour's drive

@lyianx

5 ай бұрын

in which he also advocates for using a service where you can make burner credit card accounts, that you pay into only how much you want them to have, and if companies pull that shit, you just cancel that number.

24:00 Oh its worse than that. Ads can now AUTOMATICALLY DOWNLOAD the game if you touch the ad. I've seen a few worth big "download now" buttons, and had a few download by themselves without me remembering touching the screen.

@wall-knight2830

5 ай бұрын

is that even legal

@santinosalamanca4378

2 ай бұрын

​@@wall-knight2830 definitely not for sure

That bench looks like someone grabbed it in the middle with one hand and crunched it like you can with a drink can….

@AIHumanEquality

5 ай бұрын

Hulk Crush.

@walnzell9328

5 ай бұрын

Hulk hate homeless!

Fun fact: American Federal accessibility laws require all mail lists to feature an easily accessible 1-click permanent unsubscribe. I’m not sure, but I think it also applies to paid subscriptions.

1:05 so for those who dont know, the screws/rivets here were implying that this knife had a full "tang". Essentially that the steel of the knife continues into to the handle. Having a full tang means the knife is stronger than one without as demonstrated here

Some ads will just drag you to the app store at the end of them like do not pass go do not collect $200 and some ads have fake Xs that don't work until after a certain amount of time has passed otherwise they take you to the app store. It's not even that weird cheeky layering two Xs.

@nicolebacon2747

3 ай бұрын

Sometimes I get mobile adds that have the option of "open website" and "close add" instead of the X. Unfortunately, half of them are in other languages for some reason, so I don't know which option is which.

I've moved a couple times over the past few years. You have to go to the specific planet fitness location that you got your membership at to cancel it. Twice I have opted to close my checking account rather than go back there.

my adblock allows you to block certain websites from appearing in search results, and I've blocked driver easy because every time they come up as having a download link for a driver, when in fact it downloads their (almost certainly a virus) "driver management software". which the irony of it is, is the only time I download drivers is for my w98 machine because it predates the automatic detect and download services for drivers that modern windows has.

@sabinajoh

5 ай бұрын

Don’t hold out on me Which adblock? I know I want to start blocking all those annoying clearly AI generated websites

@donotatme

5 ай бұрын

I want to know too! Softonic has been on my naughty list for decades!

@AB-Prince

5 ай бұрын

@@sabinajoh ublock origin

Useless gyms and similar services are always "sorrrreee! We can't DO that!", and when you go "K, I'll just cancel the card it's on." it's all: "HOLUP! LETS TALK!"

@elaexplorer

5 ай бұрын

Well no. If you cancel the card but stay with the same bank, the bank will automatically transfer the charge to the new card. If you cancel the card and go to a different bank, then the membership amount, plus return payment charges, plus collection fees will be charged and the account will go into collections and be reported to the credit bureau as a bad debt. If they let the payment amount accrue enough then they can sue you to get that amount plus court fees. It'll then be on your credit for at least the next 10 years making it harder to buy anything on credit.

@Kattlarv

5 ай бұрын

@@elaexplorer It does depend on the bank, some are useless like that. But with many, you can simply cancel. Or, use one of the many "fake" card services. Where you can put an amount on it, and no further can be withdrawn. (Useful for "free" trails) And that is also a HUGE "if". Most of them are simply hot air. They have no case. Less than a case in fact. "Yeah, we wouldn't let him cancel a service he can't use and are now trying to blackmail him, please give us money mr judge!", would go over swimmingly. *Especially* as most of them are acting illegally by breaking county ToS. Or the classic "We HAVE to speak with the account holder in person! - He's not alive. - Sorreee! Company policy! - Okay, we'll stop paying then. - You can't do that! We'll send you to collections! - Yeah, have fun collecting from a cemetery. - HOLUP! LETS TALK!". 99/100 times, it's a bluff. They just want you to give up and eat the cost. But yes, it IS good to keep an eye out for the 1 % that isn't a bluff.

@feni_1553

25 күн бұрын

Don't you hate it when you have to block your cards to cancel some services because they wouldn't let you go?

@Kattlarv

24 күн бұрын

@@feni_1553 Yeah, it's kinda wild that in *some* situations: That is your ONLY option.

24:10 just wanna add a bit to this, the ads have now the ability to directly bring you to their play store page even if you never touched anywhere on the screen, it simply happens as soon as the ad is over, they bring you to the play store

I've recently went to a proper traditional Italian restaurant, and for the first time had _proper_ olive oil. When you have it, trust me, you will know the difference and regular store bought olive oil is bland by comparison. Through this I also discovered there is an entire shop nearby specializing exclusively in various olive oils, flavors, and the like. It was a shockingly eye opening experience considering it's just about some oil. But as someone that always thought olive oil could only taste one way, it was a small learning experience.

IMO, the problem with the Planet Fitness thing isn't even necessarily that you have to go in person to cancel, it's that you can subscribe and "upgrade" within minutes on your phone, at any time. Making it shockingly easy to join but painfully easy to leave is unfair. (I did cancel by just going in and luckily the people there were nice but I was ready for war)

For the olive oil: good olive oil is thick and fragrant! Obviously you can't break the seal just to smell it in the supermarket. What you can do instead is shake it and watch the bubbles go up. If the bubbles go up slowly it's good quality! Also check on the back to see how much of the olive oil is, well, actual olive oil and not soy oil, sunflower oil, or some other mixture.

Cough drops being individually packaged in a hospital is def a good thing but god damn $10, it shocks me everytime I see it

As an IT student who has to search the internet to get answers and sources regularly, i can confirm that it does suck

1:13 This is why you should buy a full-tang knives, the tang is the portion of the knife that is under the cutting surface. The knife in the video is a partial tang knife where the full tang would have the metal go all through the handle causing the knife to be a lot stronger. 1:33 the reason why the packaging is so large is to prevent shrink/theft, make the product more visible on a shelf/rack, or it costs the manufacture less money per packaging since it is a standard sized clamshell that would cost more to make a custom sized one. 03:05 Per the food network: Extra virgin olive oil is highest quality, most flavorful and most expensive type of olive oil because it's unrefined--never heated or processed with chemicals.

23:00 that's when you set up a filter to send EVERYTHING from that company to the spam folder

I was just reminded of this Apple commercial (I think it was for an Iphone?) where they're trying to be all cheeky like "Oh, haha, look at how much airlines scam you by charging you for every single thing you do, so funny" and all I could ever think about with that commercial is "Don't try and be cute, Apple, this is literally who you are. You tried to charge people $1,000 for a 'monitor stand' (aka a hunk of plastic) when you can get cheaper [and better] ones for roughly 1/10th the price that have MORE FEATURES than this shitting thing, and you have the audacity to sit there and tell me 'lookie how much companies charge you for stuff, lol'? Fuck off. Literally fuck off with that!" These companies, I swear: either painfully not self-aware, or excruciatingly, maliciously self-aware. >.

Companies need to just not.

I don't care how distorted you make a bench, I will sit on it and I will be comfortable.

@darlenebuck431

5 ай бұрын

come to Philly and that's where you'll find the benches on the 8th street El platform. trust me those benches are not comfortable to sit on.

@Ghostfighter797

5 ай бұрын

@@darlenebuck431 I like a good challenge I will try it out one day.

@darlenebuck431

5 ай бұрын

@@Ghostfighter797good luck in the city.

@thebeardedbrony9586

5 ай бұрын

You must be a cat, then. If you fits, you sits!

12:33 which is why when I fix computers to sell em, I explicitly advertise "due to the extreme difficulties windows now provides when repairing computers, this device comes with Linux Mint pre installed, if you wish to revert it back to a windows machine, please follow this tutorial at [link]"

@mars5train601

5 ай бұрын

Fun fact: as of the last time i made a new windows install (6 mths ago), you can skip all the account creation bloat by just not allowing the pc to connect to the internet. This opens a new button in the login screen. But yes, linux mint ftw

Let me just give some people context to TSA Precheck. It’s faster lines, no need to take off shoes. It’s $70 for like five years. I recommend it if you fly a lot nationally.

Don't forget about the bloat ware samsung downloads onto devices during updates. The best part is, with their newer devices you're literally incapable of disabling it.

It's not just large corporations. Went down to the local gas station one day because i felt too tired to take the 15-minute walk to the grocery store, spend another 15 minutes in line, and another 15-walking home. All i wanted was a frozen pizza. Some chips and dip and a 2liter of ginger ale. There were no prices posted on the shelves or on the products. Which i'm pretty sure is against state law. Got up to the register and the clerk told me my total was $22.00.👀 Nope never again. I don't care how exhausted or sick I am. I'm not paying that kind money to save 35 minutes of my time.

24:20 I KNEW I WASN'T IMAGINING IT! istg ive literally left my phone on the table and when I came back it was on the app download screen😭

Yeah anti-homeless architecture really is iconic of everything wrong with this country. Why take steps to actually solve the homeless problem when you can just make things more painful and inconvenient for everyone!

We have hit peak tipping culture. I tried to order a pair of leggings online. When I got to the payment page, they asked for a tip. Seriously. 15% of the price of the leggings. They put a helpful note next to promising better service if I tipped. I noped out of there.

@wall-knight2830

5 ай бұрын

I feel like most companies just forgot what a tip is supposed to be

21:48 my strong computer was running overtime while I had an adblocker on watching youtube, now I know why

There goes getting accurate answers.

Fun fact: olive oil (much like red wine) has to be sold in dark glass bottles. I can't remember why but it has to do with the sunlight/light effecting the liquid.

Jack, just a heads up about the Microsoft account thing around 12:00. There is a way to log in without creating an account. You have to create a local offline account. The link to do it is hidden in plain sight. I only know about it because my sons system crashed and I'm not giving a 10 year old a Microsoft account. I don't remember the steps, but just search for it on your phone next time that happens.

I love how premium Adobe PDF viewer is basically defeating the purpose of PDFs by making them editable. PDF are meant to be the documents of text that can't be edited if you want to edit you use Word & word lets you convert to PDF for free but Adobe don't. (but hush now if you just click the name with file extension on & change from PDF to .Doc you can make em word) Edit: you can't just change the name but I am sure their is more easy free ways to do the same.

@ebty4969

5 ай бұрын

Yeah there are like a bajillion free file converters online.

@sfisher923

5 ай бұрын

I use Okular for PDF Files for Viewing and Editing And as for Doc files I use LibreOffice Both of them are Free & Open Source that works on Linux and Windows (Other OSes I have no idea)

@ecoonrad4753

5 ай бұрын

Also, it lists joining PDFs as a feature, which is sometimes useful, but you can pretty easily find websites that let you do it for free

@cillianennis9921

5 ай бұрын

@@sfisher923 I have Libre office as I used it once to make some chart using draw but I might delete the Adobe trash for Okular but I thought PDFs where not meant to be edited that's the point of the file at least that's what I've been kinda told by my Mum & other people throughout my life.

7:50 also.. the issue here is.. They (and many other places that do this) Let you SIGN UP for their services/memberships online.. but wont let you CANCEL online. There is a bill being proposed in some places that says companies CANNOT make canceling a service or membership, any more steps or difficultly than it was to Sign up for that service/membership. You want to make it hard to cancel, then it has to be hard to SIGN UP!

17:08 "If you have to ask the price, you can't afford it"

@renakunisaki

5 ай бұрын

If there's no price, it's because they know you'd refuse it.

Put the fing subreddit in the thumbnail, for love of god, you are not a slave to the algorythm it is nothing without you

03:03 Italian olive oil is even different between north to south, if you buy it from the farmer or the oil manufacture who doesn’t sell tho grocery stores. In the south it has a more “spicy” flavour, more intense and it will make your throat itch when fresh, even after few months. From central Italy until north it’s less violent and more delicate. I prefer the more spicy one because it’s an everyday experience and it’s says that’s even an aphrodisiac. Ps. An Italian inside joke is that the people from south are bigger down in the pants and last longer, maybe because of the extravergin oil?

always funny when Jack says "boobooboos" to get around saying boobs lol

So, for TSA precheck, think of it like a fast pass for airport security. You fill out a form online, then you do an in-person interview. I attempted to do it bc my dad and i had some trips planned. Well, i did the online portion, but the closest interview location is like 4 hours away bc my city cant keep its s*** together so their Pre-check office is closed indefinitely

17:41 That looks like a Chili's menu. They don't put the prices because they do happy hour and things like $4 and $5 margs on certain days/times, regular prices are a little under $10 to a little over $13 a drink. So yeah, you do have to ask the prices.

My laptop has been victimized by KZread trying to convince me my Adblocker is the problem. Too bad the only time my laptop struggles is when I'm actually watching KZread confirming that KZread IS in fact the sole problem.

@ResidentMilf

5 ай бұрын

Have you considered taking 30 seconds out of your day to throw a few cents at the person who is providing you with free entertainment?

@blademasterzero

5 ай бұрын

@@ResidentMilfdon’t reward companies for shitty practices, just get newer versions of Adblock

@mimi91xx

5 ай бұрын

@@ResidentMilfKZread premium costs way more than that

@BlackRoseUT

5 ай бұрын

have you considered that youtube dosen't need money and has millions of dollars?@@ResidentMilf

@souhiyori8640

5 ай бұрын

​@@ResidentMilf Have you ever considered that Ads nowadays contain malware, harvest personal data and serve up phishing attacks, even on KZread? Malvertising is a thing. You should help yourself before you help others.

3:36 no no they can do worse, block your account randomly so you have to send all your personal information to them just so they dont have to unlock your account for 3-6 months anyway

A subscription service of ANY kind on a car. I will take ALL day. I'll show up at 9AM and test drive every car on the lot. I'll haggle till an hour before closing time. I will go ALL the way through the deal all the way up to where you sign paperwork, and I will say "Subscription service!? Nope!" and walk out the door. Even if they go as far as to offer to waive the fee forever I will still walk away from the deal on principle, and make sure everyone at that dealership knows that subscription services on MY car are absolutely out of the question. I have time. I'll go to every dealership and do the same thing just to piss them off. I'll get my friends to do the same. We'll make a day of it. Drink all the free sodas. Eat the free donuts. Take all day. And walk the F away.

Can we just take a moment to appreciate the editors? So great. And Jack is amazingness. I love the Emkay team.

18:32 narrator is talking about keyless start. Remote start is when you can press a button on your key fob (usually have to hold it down/press it twice to reduce accidental use) to start up your car from farther away. Handy in cold weather so you don’t have to trudge outside, start the car, and leave it running for 5-10 minutes while it warms up.

3:28 I got may Instagram account disabled for like 48 hours because I was mass unfollowing people my younger self followed, like over like 200+ in a short amount of time and they thought I was a bot or something

@bedazzledmisery6969

3 ай бұрын

Happened to me too lol!

There are restaurants who have their meinus online don't include the price. Either the prices change so often they don't want to bother with updating their site or they don't want people thinking they're too expensive and go elsewhere.

Wish the titles were more accurate to the video as a whole.

@redchan_ebooks

5 ай бұрын

fr. these new titles kind of suck

@qiekz

5 ай бұрын

Yeah the new thumbnails are so annoying, I get that it's basically showing the same/similar thing but I did enjoy clicking on the video and being shown the exact post in the thumbnail being narrated in the video.

24:02 even better is that there is some kind of app or smth on android phones (I believe) that when an ad ends, if you so much as touch the screen, it starts to instantly install the app from the ad. I already have very little space on my phone, so it's incredibly frustrating to deal with it. Oh, and even better; after sitting through an entire ad (Mistplay is a complete asshole and keeps pushing the limit to 40-50+ seconds), you have to sit on that death trap screen for 30 SECONDS before the tiny ass X appears. I actually sat and counted one day because I was so tired and pissed off about that awful screen, and combining that with a Mistplay ad, that is well over a minute of your time and phone being held hostage by scammy god-awful apps' advertising I can't figure out how to stop those kinds of ads, either

@elaexplorer

5 ай бұрын

I only get those kinds of ads in games. If the game doesn't have an option to buy no ads (and still get the ad benefits) I just uninstall the app. I had one that had a no ads option but it only covered pop up ads, if you wanted the bonuses or whatever (that's required to make the game halfway decent) you still had to watch an ad. That was an automatic 1 star review and a request for a refund.

@AIHumanEquality

5 ай бұрын

That's illegal in most countries cause it violates consent laws. As a Canadian I've never encountered that.

@skypuppeteer

5 ай бұрын

@@AIHumanEquality considering how Lily's Garden is back, and is literally using the exact content that every other shitty game kept ripping from each other for ads, despite how there was a literal law that banned them, I don't think they really care :/

1:33 ive heard thats to make stealing them harder since they wont fit in an average pocket anymore whereas if it was smaller it could

8:28 they're trying to say that with pre-check you don't have to take your shoes, belt, and jacket off to go through TSA, but it's just worded really poorly.

We have plenty to moan about in the UK, but at least our consumer laws mean a lot of these things wouldn't pass muster here. For instance, "if the average consumer is likely to be misled" (a common phrase they use) by the numbering on packaging (like 40g x 10 with a big '40'), the regulations would not allow it. Also, I believe there's a law that you must be able to cancel a service by the same means that you signed up for it, at the very least. So if you get gym membership via a website, that's where you cancel, too.

You are required to go to the planet fitness location that you signed up at, not the one you use, so if you move to another country the only way to cancel it is by going to another country or sending a letter

1:16 The descriptions in the package include German versions so it's presumably sold in Germany as well. That makes it extra silly because in Germany companies are legally required to pay for the recycling or disposing of the packaging they use, so the wasteful packaging is just costing the company money.

13:49 PLEASE BE REST ASSURED immediately made me think of the kind of scammers kitboga deals with

I never get these "you cant cancel gym membership" in the USA. Cant you just go to your bank, and stell them to stop any future transaction to the gyms account, basicly blacklisting them? Here in europe you can just do that. I had something like this in the old days, when mobile internet and smartphones not realy where a thing. I bougth a 3g stick, and when i did not longer needed it, and the company made it to hard to cancel my subscription, i simply did go to my bank and canceld it there.

I had heard gyms pull shit like that with cancellations but thankfully the gym i used to go to just needed the date I started my membership as well as the routing number on my checkbook and that was that.

My husbands instagram got banned for no reason as well. Years of pictures just gone, when he tried to appeal it, it got denied and there's no way to actually contact anyone.

@S3lkie-Gutz

5 ай бұрын

That happened to mine, except I didn't get banned yet I got mine restricted without any reason from their end. I checked to see if any of my content(my account is to display my beadwork and sell it) violated any community guidelines and it hasn't gotten any violations whatsoever. I hypothesize it's because I interact with too "woke" content. I can't heart posts or follow people anymore so my account is basically now completely useless.

Good quality olive oil is green, not yellow. (Source: my family produces olive oil.)

Advertisements are a blight on humanity

1:23 I feel thats more or less done to make it harder to steal? since the item in question is small and easy to steal if it were in a smaller package?

What's eating dan has a perfect video all about olive oil if you're actually interested in learning about that. In short, don't buy large amounts of designer oil, just buy small amounts of the most recent botteled date.

So about the olive oil, basically you should just go with Kirkland brand since they always rank high. If your store doesn't have them tho, usually you can just get whatever bottle is dark green. Dark green bottle means it's good. Also, if it solidifies in the fridge, that means it's pure olive oil

@steernaught

5 ай бұрын

Also extra virgin is better, right? It means its, like, pure, rather than processed.

@n.m.fergus

5 ай бұрын

@steernaught that I do not know, lol. I can only stand by what I said above

Most companies are really evil. Also 11 seconds

@kp63

5 ай бұрын

Somebody who probably thinks the government us altruistic

@otherlego

5 ай бұрын

@@kp63probably someone who think companies have their best interests in mind

@kp63

5 ай бұрын

​@@otherlego So that's a yes. How pathetic 😂 No i don't think anyone has my best interest in mind. But im not looking for handouts either

@Huhuhuhuuh

5 ай бұрын

@@kp63the fuck are you saying

@AIHumanEquality

5 ай бұрын

It's honestly mostly just American corporations. Land of the free, but only when the corrupt rich in power deem it's okay first. Compare the working practices in any other country to America and you will be shocked at how much better workers are treated. China, Afghanistan, Ethiopia, Vietnam, all treat workers better than the US.

Excel occasionally has banner ads at the top of the sheet, just under the toolbars, and it's like - are you freaking kidding Microsoft? You're like *the* computer company. You should be waaay more professional than this!

3:08 I got banned from Instagram, didn't tell me why, then wanted my phone number to fix it, then like 3 weeks later they were like, it's been over 180 days since we disabled your account, so you cannot access it anymore!!!! Why did they ban me? IDK Also, Twitter's prove you're a human has 10 rounds now!!! I tried to login once, it took like 10 minutes because of that

@AIHumanEquality

5 ай бұрын

I gave up trying to get into Twitter months ago cause the mobile capcha was completely broken. It just kept repeating the capcha even when I got it right.

had to cancel a gym membership whenever i got to my duty station called them and they told me i had to bring a letter by in person cancelling it, im active duty many states away from home. it was bullshit getting it done

The drink menu is probably from a Canadian restaurant. Anywhere that sells food is required to have the calories visibly listed.

3:00 yes, there are different qualities of oil, and i only know that because my Italian mother keeps warning me about bad oil and teaching me how to spot it, one of the ways being to put it in the fridge and see if it freezes. if it has a lot of, or at least some, olives it will freeze because of the water content and that is a good olive oil, while if it doesn't it shows that there are not many olives in there or none at all, which shows that is a bad olive oil. i hope i was understandable despite still not being very fluid in English.

17:08 Those glossy sheets of drink lists are usually pretty pricey to have made by a print shop, so most restaurants I have seen have those glossy drinks menus without prices, and have the prices separately on a simple black on white printout inside a plastic sheet or laminated.

About 7:17, one of the many reasons this could quickly become an issue is due to health concerns. Imagine you had a Planet Fitness membership, and you become bedridden and literally have no way to actually go to Planet Fitness, or even just break a leg or something and have a restriction on excercise- You obviously don't want to continue paying for benefits you won't be able to get, but you either can't get there or it'd be much harder than normal for you to get there. At the VERY least, if you have a subscription somewhere, you should be able to cancel by phone, if not by email or website interaction.

@UriahStuff

5 ай бұрын

They should make a law where you have to be able to cancel by phone or email, and if you are able to sign up via a website, you must also be able to cancel via a website.

@skinlizard2251

5 ай бұрын

@@UriahStuff Absolutely agree.

fun fact about 24:42 - TierZoo uploaded his most popular video on twitter as a test to see how much views it would get and how much payout he would get. Answer: 3+ million views. $0

at this point, a company using shrink-flation should be sued for it

Fun fact a concerning amount of mobile game ads attempt to auto-install instantly upon the adds completion/pressing anywhere on the screen including the first and second x's you have to tap to actually close the ad

4:46 What’s even more scummy is that you have to have Telegram premium yourself to even enable the option… so basically everybody can message you and if you want that to stop you have to pay for premium.

A mobile game that I play has some of the most annoying ads ever. Sometimes, I get the usual 30 seconds that I have to watch/let run before I can move on with the game. Other times, hitting the x takes me to a webpage so that I have to manually switch back to the app to collect my reward (or not). Most annoying ads though just freeze mid playing so that I have to close the app and re-enter which resets the level I was playing...

Yeah, TSA Pre-Check wants you to voluntarily give the governing body (US Government) information that will allow them to hypothetically give Investigators enough information to determine if you’re in a terrorist group or not, in exchange for not going through the screening process that assumes that anyone entering an airport is in a terrorist group and smuggling in terroristic weapons or hazards.

@lwardrop2453

5 ай бұрын

I don’t know if this would be factual or valid criticism or not, but there may be certain groups of people who think they would qualify for TSA Pre-Check, but due to unusual biases of the US Government, those people may end up getting the FBI full-blown investigating them the individual or the group. And vice versa, I wouldn’t be surprised if police officers signing up would well-qualify for Pre-Check, even though the police officer is in a de-facto “hate group” and has the community they work at outraged at the person’s conduct in their role, because the government sees “Official Police Officer” papers and numbers and does not look further into it.

@S3lkie-Gutz

5 ай бұрын

⁠@@lwardrop2453 im probably already on their no fly list, the border guards on their side when I come in from Canada stare at me weirdly already anyways. Apparently it isn't bad enough tsa will break my wheelchair while trying to pack it onto the plane they also pull this shit because I happen to look "too suspicious" (a mixed brown person with mental illness and severe anxiety around cops and authority figures like them because of intergenerational trauma on my mom's side with the kgb and shit I've seen personally in my life happen to other people) and deny me their magical "solution" to skip the unnecessary hassle while just wanting to board my damn flight and not have a mental breakdown in public. I've been going crazy staying at home all the time and want to take a little break and visit Alaska but I guess that's not happening

22:32 I HAD TO DO SOMETHING LIKE THIS *TODAY*. Had a meeting with a client at work and needed a new Teams account. They asked me to match the number of different figures in the picture. I HAD TO DO IT 20 TIMES EACH. AND ENDED UP FAILING ONE, AND HAD TO REPEAT THE 20 CYCLE LIKE FOUR TIMES UGHHHHHHHH

Not putting prices on products actually preys on people with anxiety, because we will be too scared to refuse to pay for something after handing it to the cashier I would fall for it for this reason and that's what they're hopping for

25:38 FYI if you actually disconnect your ethernet cable (or cut off your internet any other way) you can just make an offline account.

OMG the gym cancellation one. When I moved across the country in 2012 my gym didn't want to let me out of my monthly payments for 5 more months (at the end of which they would still want me to come in person to cancel before it renewed for another year.) Me: But I'm moving. Gym: Well we've got lots of locations all across the province! We can just transfer your membership to your new closest location. Me: I'm not staying in the province. Gym: Any chance you've got a friend who would like to take over this membership?

6:55. See, this is why people advocate for piracy, because why the hell would you pay for features on your car that has already been free for nearly 10 years

14:29 my high school had something similar for the locker rooms for the gym and sports but could only be accessed by teachers but still super creepy

18:04 Reasons why i will NOT use any ISP equipment on my network. I bought the gateway (modem) and router.. I control both.

Remote start is technically illegal to use in most states/territories in Aus, you're not allowed to have an unattended vehicle running, definitions of "unattended" can vary but a particularly pedantic cop or council ranger might ticket you for not being with arm's reach of the vehicle when it's running.

Some ads, as soon as you tap anywhere on it, opens the app store and now have a count down to automatically install.

from pure taste, extra virgin OLIVE oil tastes much stronger than OLIVE oil. i consume olive oil occasionally for health purposes. it's definitely not a coping mechanism for my insecurity in not being able to handle alcohol.

every time emkay posts i get dopamine