So basically 1 in 20 inmates on death row are innocent, and people (mostly conservatives) are A-OK with that percentage of innocent people being subject to state-sanctioned murder in a very brutal way that's far from painless. A dog being put down by a vet receives more humane treatment than a human being put down by the state.
That "at least 4%" bit makes that even worse. Just look at the List of miscarriage of justice cases on Wikipedia, it's not not exhaustive and it's huge, I cannot morally or ethically justify capital punishment on that alone, the whole state-sanctioned murder bit just makes it even more horrific.
From the wiki:
Due to the high number of notable wrongful conviction cases compiled for the United States, the list can be viewed via the main article.
I fucking hate this country.
So everyone that punishes someone with death will receive the death penalty?
Of course, you will have to punish the person that punishes the person that punishes someone with the death penalty with the death penalty with the death penalty
But then, because they punished someone that punished someone that punished someone that punished someone with death with death with death with death, they will have to be killed
Eventually, you will run out of people who can punish someone with the death penalty, so you will have to do it. Since you killed someone as a punishment, someone will also have to kill you, but because you are the only person that can do that, you will have to do it, ending the loop
Sounds like the solution for every human problem. I'm on board.
Uh ....yaaaa. simple premise, simple solution.
But, hear me out: people using commas where they should use periods. Can we kill those people as a darwin exception?
Ok heres mine: People who complain about writing and grammar when they can understand what the other person is trying to say
Double death to them. If you can correct someone, then you clearly were able to understand perfectly in the first place.
Metric system, right-hand traffic, ISO 8601, high taxes on the rich, someone's power being used as a multiplier in punishment.
"I'm afraid you formatted the date incorrectly on this birthday card. Any last words before we hang you?"
This is not 'Nam, there are rules.
IT IS YOUR BIRTHDAY
I would like to add free/accessible healthcare for all
I like the Scandinavian system of fines for breaking the law. They're scaled based on your annual income so a speeding ticket isn't just a fee for the wealthy.
Still a fee for the wealthy. If I earn a million a year I can easily give up 90 % of that and still live comfortably. That's not the case for someone who earns 100,000.
Still better than a flat fee.
($93k vs $9300 for those who prefer USD)
AFAIK, of the Scandinavian countries it's only Finland that has that system.
In Denmark if you are charged with hazardous driving the police can confiscate your car. A Norwegian who had bought a Lamborghini in Germany took the trip through Denmark back home and hit 228 km/t km/h. He lost the car and will never get it back.
Sure, and while I think that's a good idea, it's not really the same thing. Even though a rich person is more likely to drive a more expensive vehicle, you can have wealthy people driving sensible cars (especially the really wealthy) and lower income idiots, I mean people, having saved up and taken out ridiculous loans to get their expensive dream car that they can't afford. Confiscating those two vehicles would be the complete opposite of equality in terms of financial pain.
Good choices. Fixed-rate fines are unfair. To someone living on minimum wage, a $500 fine can be devastating. To someone pulling down a huge salary, not so much. They’re essentially unequal punishments for the same violation.
Yup. And not just fines imo. For instance, a cop who rapes or blatantly assaults someone, especially on duty, should have their sentence at least doubled due to the power dynamics.
If the punishment for all of those is death, and one’s power is a multiplier in punishment, one must reasonably assume that everyone has the same level of power.
Metric system comes with metric (decimal) time and republican calendar
Don't forget ISO216 for paper size. It does not make sense that the US is still using "letter" and "legal" paper size.
Why does it matter, just print stuff, supply the correct paper or material for your project, then move on.
We need one more rule: can't defend cluster fuck murican paper sizes
All software that is to be used on the public should be Free and Open Sourced in a GPL style license.
No death penalty
above two violations are punishable by death!
When someone is inevitably executed for proprietary software, are you put to death for making that rule? Or does the executioner get executed (creating a feedback loop of executioners who must die)?
Does the barber who shaves everyone in town that doesn't shave themselves shave himself?
Got that reference. Death penalty for your layered reference, because not every one will get it and someone's feelings will get hurt. DEAAAATH FORTH EORLINGAS
one was serious, one was a joke, i dunno why i put it that way.
If you're condemned with death penalty you're already dead, so they can't kill you for that duuuh
Modern problems require modern solutions
All software that is to be used [in] the public should be Free and [Open-Source]
Add in a GPL viral license so that anything funded by the Public is open-source. And so it anything it makes. And so is anything that makes, etc.
ISO date and time.
Metric system.
USB-C.
Git.
ConventionalCommits.
Semantic versioning.
XDG Base Directory.
OpenDocument.
HDR10+.
Also, I would enforce every online shop, transport company, hotels... All of these functioning under a federated market, sort of like the fediverse. Impossible to corrupt. Impossible to monopolize. True choice.
Impossible to corrupt. Impossible to monopolize
You would be surprised.
Hold my briefcase
Semantic versioning.
Most of the time. I use calendar versioning (calver) for my internal application releases because I work in IT. When the release happens is more consequential than breaking changes. And because it's IT, changes that break something somewhere are incredibly frequent, so we would constantly be releasing "major" versions that aren't really major versions at all.
OpenDocument.
Agreed compared to .doc and .docx. And if you're going to version control it, markdown instead of a binary blob.
For academic documents in STEM fields, I'd love to see a transition from LaTeX to Typst. Much cleaner, better error handling, and it has a web UI if people don't want to install a massive runtime on their own computer.
Yeah, Typist is great and has potential for much more still! The big issue is something like the network effect, LaTeX has everything you could possibly want, pretty much, and people will continue to primarily support it because it's the biggest tool. It will be hard to break that cycle, but in the long run it may be possible.
Git
I understand the de facto standard situation, but I'd rather have Fossil as default as long as it's suitable.
all media and advertising shall have the same loudness
I'm not an audio engineer, but this might be hard to execute.
Hard to execute
Nice, I see what you did there.
We already have standards for media, we would just have to enforce them more rigorously.
I think the capital punishment would be enforcement enough; don't you?
Kill the violators of the standard, resuscitate them and kill them again!
Talking with your phone on speaker in public. Off with your head!
Talking on your phone like it's a pizza slice; defeating the design, needing to then shout AND raise the volume, and generally looking like a moron on a reality TV show.
Whenever I see someone doing that I can't help but question their sanity
Tailgating. It's gonna kill you eventually so let's streamline the process.
Also fuck you, especially when I'm in a god damned exit lane.
So you would standardize tailgating so that everyone has to do it?
That seems like the opposite of what he wrote.
They're being pedantic about how the original question was worded in a gotcha attempt. Not worthy of a response.
If all punishment is capital punishment, then I'd keep it as laissez-faire as possible.
Except for "no parking in the bike lane". That one's worth.
That one’s worth.
You a word.
Alright, "That one is worth."
Recipes in concrete metric units, preferably mass instead of volume. Recipes come together incredibly quickly when measuring out ingredients can just be dump-tare-dump-tare-dump instead of trying to get sticky ingredients like tahini out of a measuring cup.
More torx screws. There are apparently some uses for phillips, but torx are criminally underused.
That's a good one. I feel like either torx or square drives should be chosen and all consumer facing screws should be one of, say, 10 sizes.
And you can apply for a permit to use other sizes, but even that is gonna cost you like a couple days in jail.
I would add that all recipes must use the common professional standard format with ingredients and their amount at the top, preferably alongside the required equipment followed by the estimated prep time and cook time followed by the consecutive step-by-step listed instructions.
My brother was getting one of meal subscriptions akin to Blue Apron and there was never any rhyme or reason to the format, content, or layout of the included recipe instructions. -An egregious oversight.
I also have heard that when torx heads become stripped they turn into hex heads. I've never investigated this claim, though.
Housing for everyone.
Standardize? I mean can we just get America on the metric system?
Education.
"We regret to inform you little Timmy didn't pass his final secondary-school exam because he couldn't count back change from a transaction. We will send his ashes as soon as they're ready."
I would be a terrifying and bloodthirsty Supreme Leader for sure... 😏
That is why we should prevent human beings from holding too much power.
I would outlaw starting work before 12pm. I'm 30 and I still absolutely hate mornings just as much as I did when I was 10. I'm naturally a night person but working graveyards has more problems than dealing with early mornings IMO. Let all the morning people feel the pain of having to be productive during your least productive hours for a change.
you sick bastard
Camping in the fast lane and/or driving with your brights on.
If you report anything not factual on the "news" or anything where you have an audience. I'm really tired of that bullshit.
No legislation with religious fundaments.
The outlawing of supreme leaders.
Politicians who lie to their constituents.
A relaxing cat shall not be disturbed
Let kids skateboard.
Not if they're going to disturb the relaxing cat.
Fair
Only if skateboards get a sound gauge and a small explosive.
You wanna .. make skateboarders explode? Help me out, maybe I misunderstood. It's hot here.
No
Hypocrisy. If one berates people for doing x, when you do it you're doubly guilty. You might still be guilty for other reasons, but if you publicly scorn other people doing it you'll get a bonus penalty.
Killed, reanimated, killed again?
I am the ultimate vermin, so... Mandatory tooth brushing, and ponies for all.
Finally, I feel like I've scrolling for days to find this oasis.
Crocs. Fuck your ugly, very gross-looking wannabe sandal. And why the fuck do they always look like you just pulled them from a landfill, and marinated them in toxic waste?
Socialism and planned economy, ban on private enterprises
Not only does it aim to stop neverending inequality shift and enshittification, it also helps to save Earth by putting an end to overproduction and bullshit consumerism
No motivation to do better leads to stagnating tech evolution. If you remove private business you stagnate
There is motivation to do better - inventors are praised and financially rewarded, and those who successfully apply new tech are too.
Sure, an inventor won't turn billionaire, but he also won't run a risk of losing it all trying to apply said invention. Market actually scares many off, it's not simply a land of opportunities.
This. Think of Bill gates, and think of Linus Torvalds. Inspiration to make money can only do so much. There'd be a lot more people making awesome stuffs today if large corps didn't just buy any small tech company making anything that could be used. Sometimes they buy them and use it, sometimes they buy is and then ensittify it so people will have no choice but to use things they want.
We might fancy a little stagnation if you look around
Depends of the sector i guess
Anyone, regardless of status, race, wealth, sexuality, religion, etc. that violates anyone's fundamental human rights would be put to death. Period. Tolerance of intolerance breeds intolerance.
I would want some clearly marked boundaries then, because I would consider unpaid labor a human rights violation but I wouldn't want my old boss executed just because I clocked out and then picked up some trash on my way out the door.
You're being funny, but this would lead to the death of every one on earth, we'd have to have automated evaporation cubicles, like in that Star Trek episode. A toddler violated my human rights this morning. I will pursue you to the ends of the earth, GUS.
So, "no more death penalty"? Punishable by death of course.
No fascists
No more religious things. Books, buildings, posters, gatherings, merchandise, websites, teachings...
You can talk to your imaginary friend in private, but no more spreading that shit to youth or folks in a vulnerable state of mind.
One generation and that garbage is either done and gone forever; or I just triggered judgement day and learn the hard way that I fucked up and the religious crowd gets their coveted ascension. Win win.
No more religious things.
So we'd have to dissolve Apple as a company. I'd be fine with that.
International Fixed calendar
The year had 13 months plus one new holiday. Each month is 28 days.
No wars. Just peace.
Web pages must not have any javascript.
Browsers must not have a javascript engine
Web advertisement may only happen within a sidebar and must be either a static image under 70kb, or animated image under 400kb. The total of advertising must not surpass 2.5MB.
Any videos or music loaded from the web may not autoplay
At least half of any video advertisement of computer programs (includes games, android and ios apps, etc) MUST be of someone actually using the actual program/game/app
Wealth tax. Fuck you, tax havens, and your clients.
Misuse of apostrophes; or any use of the words 'mid' or 'literally'.
Literally a bad idea
Welcome to the electric chair, 'mate'. Oopsies
... What happens if I want to abolish the death penalty?
Wages
Citizenship
Get rid of all lock in or network affect. In investing it might be called moat.
Looking to destroy like Facebook. Very hard to compete due to they have all the users. You can't just choose your chat app, you also be on the same network as your friends. Decouple those two.
Another example is YouTube. They are the biggest video provider and thus will reach most users. Decouple those two again.
I can continue with Microsoft apps, Netflix videos, Google search and ads etc.
Without possibilities for real competition, you dont get innovation.
Turn all land into public land disposing it from corporate ownership.
Resource centers. Makes sure the planets resources is not abused. Here is also the place for actually give back your used stuff, for reuse.
The death penalty, because that shit is barbaric.
In a study released today, the National Academy of Sciences reports that at least 4.1 percent of defendants sentenced to death in the United States are innocent.
So basically 1 in 20 inmates on death row are innocent, and people (mostly conservatives) are A-OK with that percentage of innocent people being subject to state-sanctioned murder in a very brutal way that's far from painless. A dog being put down by a vet receives more humane treatment than a human being put down by the state.
That "at least 4%" bit makes that even worse. Just look at the List of miscarriage of justice cases on Wikipedia, it's not not exhaustive and it's huge, I cannot morally or ethically justify capital punishment on that alone, the whole state-sanctioned murder bit just makes it even more horrific.
From the wiki:
I fucking hate this country.
So everyone that punishes someone with death will receive the death penalty?
Of course, you will have to punish the person that punishes the person that punishes someone with the death penalty with the death penalty with the death penalty
But then, because they punished someone that punished someone that punished someone that punished someone with death with death with death with death, they will have to be killed
Eventually, you will run out of people who can punish someone with the death penalty, so you will have to do it. Since you killed someone as a punishment, someone will also have to kill you, but because you are the only person that can do that, you will have to do it, ending the loop
Sounds like the solution for every human problem. I'm on board.
Uh ....yaaaa. simple premise, simple solution.
But, hear me out: people using commas where they should use periods. Can we kill those people as a darwin exception?
Ok heres mine: People who complain about writing and grammar when they can understand what the other person is trying to say
Double death to them. If you can correct someone, then you clearly were able to understand perfectly in the first place.
Metric system, right-hand traffic, ISO 8601, high taxes on the rich, someone's power being used as a multiplier in punishment.
"I'm afraid you formatted the date incorrectly on this birthday card. Any last words before we hang you?"
This is not 'Nam, there are rules.
IT IS YOUR BIRTHDAY
I would like to add free/accessible healthcare for all
I like the Scandinavian system of fines for breaking the law. They're scaled based on your annual income so a speeding ticket isn't just a fee for the wealthy.
Still a fee for the wealthy. If I earn a million a year I can easily give up 90 % of that and still live comfortably. That's not the case for someone who earns 100,000.
Still better than a flat fee.
($93k vs $9300 for those who prefer USD)
AFAIK, of the Scandinavian countries it's only Finland that has that system.
In Denmark if you are charged with hazardous driving the police can confiscate your car. A Norwegian who had bought a Lamborghini in Germany took the trip through Denmark back home and hit 228
km/tkm/h. He lost the car and will never get it back.Source (in Danish): https://nyheder.tv2.dk/samfund/2023-12-25-nordmand-fik-beslaglagt-sin-nye-lamborghini-efter-vanvidskoersel-men-naegter-at-acceptere-dommen
Sure, and while I think that's a good idea, it's not really the same thing. Even though a rich person is more likely to drive a more expensive vehicle, you can have wealthy people driving sensible cars (especially the really wealthy) and lower income idiots, I mean people, having saved up and taken out ridiculous loans to get their expensive dream car that they can't afford. Confiscating those two vehicles would be the complete opposite of equality in terms of financial pain.
Good choices. Fixed-rate fines are unfair. To someone living on minimum wage, a $500 fine can be devastating. To someone pulling down a huge salary, not so much. They’re essentially unequal punishments for the same violation.
Yup. And not just fines imo. For instance, a cop who rapes or blatantly assaults someone, especially on duty, should have their sentence at least doubled due to the power dynamics.
If the punishment for all of those is death, and one’s power is a multiplier in punishment, one must reasonably assume that everyone has the same level of power.
Metric system comes with metric (decimal) time and republican calendar
Don't forget ISO216 for paper size. It does not make sense that the US is still using "letter" and "legal" paper size.
Why does it matter, just print stuff, supply the correct paper or material for your project, then move on.
We need one more rule: can't defend cluster fuck murican paper sizes
above two violations are punishable by death!
When someone is inevitably executed for proprietary software, are you put to death for making that rule? Or does the executioner get executed (creating a feedback loop of executioners who must die)?
Does the barber who shaves everyone in town that doesn't shave themselves shave himself?
Got that reference. Death penalty for your layered reference, because not every one will get it and someone's feelings will get hurt. DEAAAATH FORTH EORLINGAS
one was serious, one was a joke, i dunno why i put it that way.
If you're condemned with death penalty you're already dead, so they can't kill you for that duuuh
Modern problems require modern solutions
Add in a GPL viral license so that anything funded by the Public is open-source. And so it anything it makes. And so is anything that makes, etc.
Also, I would enforce every online shop, transport company, hotels... All of these functioning under a federated market, sort of like the fediverse. Impossible to corrupt. Impossible to monopolize. True choice.
You would be surprised.
Hold my briefcase
Most of the time. I use calendar versioning (calver) for my internal application releases because I work in IT. When the release happens is more consequential than breaking changes. And because it's IT, changes that break something somewhere are incredibly frequent, so we would constantly be releasing "major" versions that aren't really major versions at all.
Agreed compared to .doc and .docx. And if you're going to version control it, markdown instead of a binary blob.
For academic documents in STEM fields, I'd love to see a transition from LaTeX to Typst. Much cleaner, better error handling, and it has a web UI if people don't want to install a massive runtime on their own computer.
Yeah, Typist is great and has potential for much more still! The big issue is something like the network effect, LaTeX has everything you could possibly want, pretty much, and people will continue to primarily support it because it's the biggest tool. It will be hard to break that cycle, but in the long run it may be possible.
I understand the de facto standard situation, but I'd rather have Fossil as default as long as it's suitable.
Defined by an env variable? How asinine!
all media and advertising shall have the same loudness
I'm not an audio engineer, but this might be hard to execute.
Nice, I see what you did there.
We already have standards for media, we would just have to enforce them more rigorously.
I think the capital punishment would be enforcement enough; don't you?
Kill the violators of the standard, resuscitate them and kill them again!
Talking with your phone on speaker in public. Off with your head!
Talking on your phone like it's a pizza slice; defeating the design, needing to then shout AND raise the volume, and generally looking like a moron on a reality TV show.
Whenever I see someone doing that I can't help but question their sanity
Tailgating. It's gonna kill you eventually so let's streamline the process.
Also fuck you, especially when I'm in a god damned exit lane.
So you would standardize tailgating so that everyone has to do it?
That seems like the opposite of what he wrote.
They're being pedantic about how the original question was worded in a gotcha attempt. Not worthy of a response.
If all punishment is capital punishment, then I'd keep it as laissez-faire as possible.
Except for "no parking in the bike lane". That one's worth.
You a word.
Alright, "That one is worth."
Recipes in concrete metric units, preferably mass instead of volume. Recipes come together incredibly quickly when measuring out ingredients can just be dump-tare-dump-tare-dump instead of trying to get sticky ingredients like tahini out of a measuring cup.
More torx screws. There are apparently some uses for phillips, but torx are criminally underused.
That's a good one. I feel like either torx or square drives should be chosen and all consumer facing screws should be one of, say, 10 sizes.
And you can apply for a permit to use other sizes, but even that is gonna cost you like a couple days in jail.
I would add that all recipes must use the common professional standard format with ingredients and their amount at the top, preferably alongside the required equipment followed by the estimated prep time and cook time followed by the consecutive step-by-step listed instructions.
My brother was getting one of meal subscriptions akin to Blue Apron and there was never any rhyme or reason to the format, content, or layout of the included recipe instructions. -An egregious oversight.
I also have heard that when torx heads become stripped they turn into hex heads. I've never investigated this claim, though.
Housing for everyone.
Standardize? I mean can we just get America on the metric system?
Education.
"We regret to inform you little Timmy didn't pass his final secondary-school exam because he couldn't count back change from a transaction. We will send his ashes as soon as they're ready."
I would be a terrifying and bloodthirsty Supreme Leader for sure... 😏
That is why we should prevent human beings from holding too much power.
I would outlaw starting work before 12pm. I'm 30 and I still absolutely hate mornings just as much as I did when I was 10. I'm naturally a night person but working graveyards has more problems than dealing with early mornings IMO. Let all the morning people feel the pain of having to be productive during your least productive hours for a change.
you sick bastard
Camping in the fast lane and/or driving with your brights on.
If you report anything not factual on the "news" or anything where you have an audience. I'm really tired of that bullshit.
No legislation with religious fundaments.
The outlawing of supreme leaders.
Politicians who lie to their constituents.
A relaxing cat shall not be disturbed
Let kids skateboard.
Not if they're going to disturb the relaxing cat.
Fair
Only if skateboards get a sound gauge and a small explosive.
You wanna .. make skateboarders explode? Help me out, maybe I misunderstood. It's hot here.
No
Hypocrisy. If one berates people for doing x, when you do it you're doubly guilty. You might still be guilty for other reasons, but if you publicly scorn other people doing it you'll get a bonus penalty.
Killed, reanimated, killed again?
I am the ultimate vermin, so... Mandatory tooth brushing, and ponies for all.
Finally, I feel like I've scrolling for days to find this oasis.
All hail @wildbus8979@sh.itjust.works The First of His Name, the Undomesticated People Mover, Giver of Ponies
Crocs. Fuck your ugly, very gross-looking wannabe sandal. And why the fuck do they always look like you just pulled them from a landfill, and marinated them in toxic waste?
Socialism and planned economy, ban on private enterprises
Not only does it aim to stop neverending inequality shift and enshittification, it also helps to save Earth by putting an end to overproduction and bullshit consumerism
No motivation to do better leads to stagnating tech evolution. If you remove private business you stagnate
There is motivation to do better - inventors are praised and financially rewarded, and those who successfully apply new tech are too.
Sure, an inventor won't turn billionaire, but he also won't run a risk of losing it all trying to apply said invention. Market actually scares many off, it's not simply a land of opportunities.
This. Think of Bill gates, and think of Linus Torvalds. Inspiration to make money can only do so much. There'd be a lot more people making awesome stuffs today if large corps didn't just buy any small tech company making anything that could be used. Sometimes they buy them and use it, sometimes they buy is and then ensittify it so people will have no choice but to use things they want.
We might fancy a little stagnation if you look around
Depends of the sector i guess
Anyone, regardless of status, race, wealth, sexuality, religion, etc. that violates anyone's fundamental human rights would be put to death. Period. Tolerance of intolerance breeds intolerance.
I would want some clearly marked boundaries then, because I would consider unpaid labor a human rights violation but I wouldn't want my old boss executed just because I clocked out and then picked up some trash on my way out the door.
You're being funny, but this would lead to the death of every one on earth, we'd have to have automated evaporation cubicles, like in that Star Trek episode. A toddler violated my human rights this morning. I will pursue you to the ends of the earth, GUS.
Duodecimal 😈
Aww shit, good call. Which notation and names for the new numbers are we using?
0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,cat,girl,
10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,1cat,1girl,
20,...
...
cat0,cat1,cat2,cat3,cat4,cat5,cat6,cat7,cat8,cat9,catcat,catgirl,
girl0,girl1,girl2,girl3,girl4,girl5,girl6,girl7,girl8,girl9,girlcat,girlgirl,
100,...
...
Nothing. I'm against the death penalty
So, "no more death penalty"? Punishable by death of course.
No fascists
No more religious things. Books, buildings, posters, gatherings, merchandise, websites, teachings...
You can talk to your imaginary friend in private, but no more spreading that shit to youth or folks in a vulnerable state of mind.
One generation and that garbage is either done and gone forever; or I just triggered judgement day and learn the hard way that I fucked up and the religious crowd gets their coveted ascension. Win win.
So we'd have to dissolve Apple as a company. I'd be fine with that.
International Fixed calendar The year had 13 months plus one new holiday. Each month is 28 days.
No wars. Just peace.
Misuse of apostrophes; or any use of the words 'mid' or 'literally'.
Literally a bad idea
Welcome to the electric chair, 'mate'. Oopsies
... What happens if I want to abolish the death penalty?
Wages Citizenship
Get rid of all lock in or network affect. In investing it might be called moat. Looking to destroy like Facebook. Very hard to compete due to they have all the users. You can't just choose your chat app, you also be on the same network as your friends. Decouple those two. Another example is YouTube. They are the biggest video provider and thus will reach most users. Decouple those two again. I can continue with Microsoft apps, Netflix videos, Google search and ads etc.
Without possibilities for real competition, you dont get innovation.
Turn all land into public land disposing it from corporate ownership.
Resource centers. Makes sure the planets resources is not abused. Here is also the place for actually give back your used stuff, for reuse.