Congrats, you've been made Ruler of the World. How do you fuck it up?

Throwaway@lemm.ee to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world – 4 points –
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-Metric system

-abolish penny

-abolish daylight savings time

-Every month is now five 6-day weeks (More orderly, no Monday)

-Last five days of every year (Six on leap years) Is now a New Year’s festival.

-move august and july to end of year (now September, October, November, December Correspond with their correctly numbered month)

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I believe the question was "how do you fuck it up" not make everything better.

All beverages are now required to be Diet New Coke served exclusively in those tiny cardboard milk cartons.

No steering is needed. Just press down on the gas. It's already destroying itself.

By initiating massive drilling projects in order to roboform the Earth into its own spaceship so that we can travel to other star systems, dragging us all on an adventure nobody asked for.

I try to make everyone adopt the duodecimal system so that we can divide shit by three without ending up with 3.3333333333. Everyone is so aggravated by my bullshit pedantry about numbers that I never pass any other reforms, the second of which was going to be to introduce IPA as the standard script for every language.

If I wanted to make the world worse? Nuclear weapons would be pretty quick.

Buuut why would I want to make the world worse? I'd want the world to be nice for me and other people and creatures.

Or do you mean, even if I act with good intentions, what sort of catastrophic errors am I most likely to make?

If that's the question, then fascists would probably throw tantrums in response to my aggressively progressive initiatives and I'd get assassinated.

Or do you mean, even if I act with good intentions, what sort of catastrophic errors am I most likely to make?

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