Oh yeah I totally expet their rates to increase massively. And for people who made a reservation a long time ago who paid under the normal fee to have their booking suddenly cancelled.

FIFA is now charging around $175 on average for parking spots at 2026 World Cup games in the United States.

Holy shit - $175 to park your vehicle for one game?! What’s the chances that these venues are completely inacessible to public transport / walking?

Country selectors can also be annoying:

United Kingdom - not in the list. England - not in the list Great Britian - Yep

It’s because you tried to force it.

The meal planning app that I use got bought out by Samsung and they did this. Put a load of ads in and then advertised a “+” version that got rid of ads. The ads were just advertising the “+” feature. 12 months later they said they were going to remove the ads for everyone.

Password must contain at least one upper case number.

I’m not convinced. There’s probably a chunk of people who don’t drive because they kept showing that they weren’t safe enough to drive by failing their test. If the aim is to reduce the barrier to entry for driving because tests are expensive (they’re £62 in the UK, really not that expensive) then those costs will only be countered by way higher insurance premiums as there will be more drivers who can just jump in a car and drive on their own and crash. Also as a driver and pedestrian, I really don’t want to be on the same road as those people.

so the driving test proves nothing

The driving test proves you can competently drive to a safe standard. I agree that you learn more through experience, but first you need to be able to drive to a particular standard before being allowed to drive on your own.

What’s the alternative if there’s no test? You just allow anyone who reaches the driving age to get in a car and drive on their own?

I’m pretty sure the EU mandated this feature.

I’d kind of think it would be in their interest to, not because they give a shit about what their end users think, but what their customers (advertisers) think. I’d imagine that advertisers are paying x amount to reach real humans that can spend money, so if it turns out that businesses are paying to advertise to bots then I can’t see them being too happy about that. Not unless they’re upfront with businesses and they tell them that x% of their user base is bots and they’ll only charge them to advertise to real people.

I get it. They want to combat bots and potentially even detect if a person is old enough to use the platform. However Facebook has eroded absolutely any trust that there’s no way I’d give them this. Not that I use Facebook anyway.

Are there banks that don’t do this or charge? I just assumed these things were the absolute basics of banking and are free for everyone.

I can totally see the difference. One is in colour and the other is in black & white. Ergo, not a Nazi salute. Got it.

Sky really pisses me off. They have exclusive rights to the F1 in the UK, but you need to pay a fortune for it, as you have to have the base sky package plus sky sports (I think) plus sky sports F1.

Probably comes to over £50/month for something that’s on every other weekend on average, and they still show ads! If there’s a subscription, there shouldn’t be any ads.

What posseses people to do this? It’s absolutely disgusting.

It’s not just an American thing by the way, I’ve heard shit like this happening here in the UK too. Especially in women’s toilets.

A book shop isn’t a library.

I don’t get what you mean by this. Customers can go into both looking for something specific or seek out a particular author. If there’s no logical ordering how can customers find what they’re looking for?

This is one of my all time favourites, it never fails to make me laugh!

This post itself is mildly infuriating as I can’t tell what’s wrong in the picture!

Ah right yeah that makes sense

Why does someone need to be home for that? Can’t they leave it outside or around the back somewhere?