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It's extremely exhausting, welcome to modern America. Where you can't trust shit from anyone. Everyone is lying, everything is a scam, everything is stupid just cuz, and it feels more and more like the world around you is being specifically designed to piss you off as much as possible.

I just want to give businesses my money in exchange for goods and services. Is that asking too much?

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"Buyer beware! You are responsible for checking for X!" is a lame excuse, and just enables the worst possible behavior from vendors and service providers. I shouldn't have to check 500 things every time I choose to do business with someone! This is madness.

Imagine some future hotel service trend where, right after the customer checks in, the checkin agent punches the customer in the face, by policy. I shouldn't have to check beforehand whether this is a "face punch" hotel or a "non face punch" hotel.

We shouldn't all have to live our lives with Caveat Emptor as some sort of horrible default societal moral framework.

> Imagine some future hotel service trend where, right after the customer checks in, the checkin agent punches the customer in the face, by policy. I shouldn't have to check beforehand whether this is a "face punch" hotel or a "non face punch" hotel.

Reminds me of that Burkiss Way sketch where somebody wants to book tickets to a West End show, but they all involve the spectators being poked in the eye with a pencil:

https://www.buttercookie.de/The%20Burkiss%20Way/Transcripts/...

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