France will begin labeling electronics with repairability ratings in January

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[–][deleted] 7 insightful - 4 fun7 insightful - 3 fun8 insightful - 4 fun -  (15 children)

Good on France. I'm not a fan of packaging with a billion labels and disclaimers, but this is a good idea that could fight planned obsolescence and allow consumers to know what they're buying. In the US, a lot of people ain't even allowed to fix their own property.

I think we could replace a lot of the "don't be stupid" disclaimers with actually beneficial labels like this. Most disclaimers are designed just to keep small businesses down (since they don't have a billion lawyers to dig through the code and find every disclaimer they need).

[–]Eurowoman24 6 insightful - 3 fun6 insightful - 2 fun7 insightful - 3 fun -  (5 children)

there's also nutrition labels on everything grade A to E and colour coded too.

[–]Archie 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Imo that one is in the realm of stupid. Kcal count was already printed and that's all that really matter

[–]Eurowoman24 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

yeah no. 100 cals of chips is worse then 100cals of salad, just like a tuna sandwich is healthier then a chicken mustard sandwich, which not everyone would know. Also we're one of the countries in the eu with the least amount of obese and overweight people - says something imo

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Calories aren't the only factor to nutritional value, and if you believe it is, I question your educational experience; I learned that in middle-school, and my state isn't world renowned for their quality of education.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

That's a good idea. France does a lot of things right, for all its faults. You can just look through the ingredients yourself, but it's a lot easier for people to just look at a sticker — most people just glance at the calories, which doesn't give them an accurate picture — and companies actively work to make it harder to read, like calling sugar a billion different names.

[–]Eurowoman24 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

that too, but i find that it's also important for people who'd be raised with a style of cooking vs another one, to be able to tell the difference between two seemingly healthy meals. Here most people aren't raised to look at calories, it's more good food vs not - heavy greasy vs light. So during celebrations most people are going to buy fatty foods sure or make them, but they're going to pay more attention to the quality of the food not the calories.

[–]spinner 2 insightful - 3 fun2 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 3 fun -  (6 children)

i just wish they would put a label on the toilet paper that says dont eat it, cuz i am always forgetting about that.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

Maybe if I put a sticker on the toilet paper that says "don't eat" then my dogs will stop eating it?

On a serious note: how about we get rid of all these useless labels and disclaimers and replace them with little stickers like this? I don't need to know that I shouldn't put my hair dryer in the bathtub — that's common sense — but I should know how long that hair dryer is going to last, and whether or not I'm going to be able to fix it.

[–]NeedMoreCoffee 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

I was under the impression that all those warnings are there because someone did that and sued a company? Like if you read do not chew on this glass part its because someone actually chewed on the glass part and they got seriously hurt.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

I'm not a Libertarian, but it ain't the company's fault if you're stupid. If you chew on a piece of glass and get hurt, that's all on you — that is, unless the company advertised that you could chew on it, which I doubt would happen.

I'm not sure where a lot of these disclaimers come from, but I know some of them come from lawsuits. McDonalds, for example, was forced to pay $640k to an old woman for spilling coffee on herself, largely because it was too hot, and that's why just about every coffee cup tells you it's hot.

That's not how to fix these problems. If you don't know that coffee's hot, the problem is with your judgement, not the company's. It is the company's fault, however, if they serve your coffee at too high a temperature — but the solution isn't to put an vague and obvious label on it, it's to tell them they can't make their coffee that hot.

This case obviously hurt McDonald's financially, but the pay-out was a lot less than the $2.9m originally proposed — and they benefited in the end from making it harder for small businesses to sell coffee: if they forget that warning, they'll have to pay up.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I'm not sure where a lot of these disclaimers come from, but I know some of them come from lawsuits. McDonalds, for example, was forced to pay $640k to an old woman for spilling coffee on herself, largely because it was too hot, and that's why just about every coffee cup tells you it's hot.

That's not how to fix these problems. If you don't know that coffee's hot, the problem is with your judgement, not the company's. It is the company's fault, however, if they serve your coffee at too high a temperature — but the solution isn't to put an vague and obvious label on it, it's to tell them they can't make their coffee that hot.

That was precisely the issue. McDonalds would keep their coffee way hotter than the legal limit so they wouldn't have to change it out as often. The old lady had third degree burns across her legs (her vagina was melted shut) and was only awarded the sum of her medical expenses. Stop cucking for billion dollar multinationals.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Stop cucking for billion dollar multinationals.

By actually wanting to fix the issue? Tell me how putting a label on the cup solved the issue, and then tell me that forcing them to make the coffee less hot wouldn't solve the issue.

It seems like you're the shill for big business. You're the one who just wants them to put a label on the cup instead of actually solving the issue. Stop projecting with your right-win, Libertarian garbage.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

And if you would've read my post — which you obviously didn't (shill account?) — then you would've realized that I was critical of McDonalds and said that labels DIDN'T GO FAR ENOUGH.

[–]H3v8 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

and allow consumers to know what they're buying

FNAC was one of the first retailers where you could actually test a device before buying. You could even listen to a cd before buying it, which in many countries was not that common.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Props to them.