I mean, the US has similar laws too. It just doesnt matter.

Because we forgot how effective public lynchings can be.

Why can’t the people we vote for represent us?

That is easy (for the US at least). Politicians in the US doesn't get elected by a majority.

Why can’t the people we vote for represent us?

Politicians were never meant to represent us (the people). We the people was war propaganda to revolt against the English and their king. They have, since the founding of the US, represented the business owners (landowners). And even after giving women and black people the right to vote, the system still mostly represents the interest of the business owners.

Bug report closed: System works as intended.

For the politicians to actually represent us, we the people would need to have some sort of broad agreement on what we do and do not want. But unfortunately, the people don't have the needed experience or education to come to that agreement. So instead we get 2 different flavors of politicians serving the owners and none serving the people. Pick your favorite team, but they do not currently represent the people's interest, instead they represent the business owners' interests.

As a people, our job is to attempt to bend the politicians and business owners' to our will using what we currently have at our disposal: our actions and our words. But that still won't get anywhere without many other people backing up our actions and our words with their actions and words. It won't be easy, but it is necessary if we want to shape our societies future. If we don't do it, we get shadowy groups like the heritage foundation doing it for the business owners and pushing it on our leaders.

Also the politicians' job is largely dependent upon them listening to the demands of the businesses lobbyist as of now. If they don't follow their wishes they can expect a harder battle to keep their seat. They would get less big campaign donations and stronger primary challengers as a result of their noncompliance. This makes our job harder since it is difficult to get them to understand something when their job and salary depends upon them not understanding it.

I’m sure they’ll add some tiny text “this is what your meal might look like” or “not an actual photo”

Just gross.

This is what I'm talkin' about!

I mean, you wouldn't actually want to eat what you saw in the ad. Meat painted with wood varnish to make it shiny, cardboard spacers between layers of a burger to make it stand up more, white paint in the thick shakes, etc.

Yeah, but people expect it to look like what's supposed to be a picture of someone else's...

That was literally the whole point of user uploaded pics, to see what you actually get

Now peoples expectations will be higher, and initially they'll order when they wouldn't have. But it won't take many orders for someone to always feel disappointed and associate that with the app.

This is a very short term focused change, and it's not gonna work out well

There will be items in the generated pictures that won‘t be part of the menu and it will be a shitshow.

Yeah it's always been skewed. Undercooked burgers and blowing cigarette smoke on it to make it "steaming".

They just have new and easier ways to misrepresent marketing.

Nope, it’s in Canada too.

...you just have to trust that those reviews won't get "adjusted" in the process...