• MerchantsOfMisery@lemmy.ml
      511·
      1 year ago

      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.

      • morbidcactus@lemmy.ca
        101·
        1 year ago

        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.

        • Todd Bonzalez@lemm.ee
          61·
          1 year ago

          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.

    • RandomVideos@programming.dev
      7·
      1 year ago

      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

    • corsicanguppy@lemmy.caEnglish
      33·
      1 year ago

      But, hear me out: people using commas where they should use periods. Can we kill those people as a darwin exception?

      • Microplasticbrain@lemm.ee
        4·
        1 year ago

        Ok heres mine: People who complain about writing and grammar when they can understand what the other person is trying to say

        • blackstrat@lemmy.fwgx.uk
          2·
          1 year ago

          Double death to them. If you can correct someone, then you clearly were able to understand perfectly in the first place.

  • Plopp@lemmy.world
    672·
    1 year ago

    Metric system, right-hand traffic, ISO 8601, high taxes on the rich, someone’s power being used as a multiplier in punishment.

    • superkret@feddit.org
      23·
      1 year ago

      “I’m afraid you formatted the date incorrectly on this birthday card. Any last words before we hang you?”

    • BCsven@lemmy.ca
      171·
      1 year ago

      I would like to add free/accessible healthcare for all

    • seaQueue@lemmy.world
      13·
      1 year ago

      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.

      • Björn Tantau@swg-empire.de
        7·
        1 year ago

        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.

      • Plopp@lemmy.world
        4·
        1 year ago

        AFAIK, of the Scandinavian countries it’s only Finland that has that system.

          • Plopp@lemmy.world
            1·
            1 year ago

            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.

      • gazter@aussie.zone
        2·
        1 year ago

        Type I. The angled pins make it much more stable than F, and there’s heaps of options for cable exiting sideways, upwards, downwards, straight out, etc .

          • gazter@aussie.zone
            3·
            1 year ago

            Plenty of type I come out sideways- they are lower profile than most I’ve seen, slightly more so than type G.

            https://media.prod.bunnings.com.au/api/public/content/5bac39a3c6d04c53be207f9021e9546b

            This can actually be a bit of an annoyance, sometimes… If the socket is right next to the floor, or in a densely packed area, for example, it can make plugging difficult.

            And if it does have a ground pin, it’s mandated that the ground be longer than the power pins, for exactly the reason you mentioned about G,D,M.

            The recessed feature of F I do like, even if it makes the plugs physically larger than they need to be.

    • magnetosphere@fedia.io
      71·
      1 year ago

      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.

      • Plopp@lemmy.world
        31·
        1 year ago

        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.

    • finley@lemm.eeBanned from communityEnglish
      5·
      6 months ago

      Removed by mod

    • BastingChemina@slrpnk.net
      4·
      1 year ago

      Don’t forget ISO216 for paper size. It does not make sense that the US is still using “letter” and “legal” paper size.

      • TheGalacticVoid@lemm.ee
        11·
        1 year ago

        Why does it matter, just print stuff, supply the correct paper or material for your project, then move on.

        • trolololol@lemmy.world
          51·
          1 year ago

          We need one more rule: can’t defend cluster fuck murican paper sizes

  • slacktoid@lemmy.mlEnglish
    34·
    1 year ago
    • 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!

    • moonlight@fedia.io
      7·
      1 year ago

      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)?

      • bizarroland@fedia.io
        5·
        1 year ago

        Does the barber who shaves everyone in town that doesn’t shave themselves shave himself?

        • verity_kindle@sh.itjust.works
          1·
          1 year ago

          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

      • slacktoid@lemmy.mlEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        one was serious, one was a joke, i dunno why i put it that way.

    • trolololol@lemmy.world
      1·
      1 year ago

      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

    • corsicanguppy@lemmy.caEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      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.

  • unknowing8343@discuss.tchncs.de
    301·
    1 year ago
    • 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.

    • lud@lemm.ee
      20·
      1 year ago

      Impossible to corrupt. Impossible to monopolize

      You would be surprised.

    • pingveno@lemmy.mlEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      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.

      • tmpod@lemmy.ptM
        1·
        1 year ago

        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.

    • corsicanguppy@lemmy.caEnglish
      11·
      1 year ago

      XDG Base Directory.

      Defined by an env variable? How asinine!

    • corsicanguppy@lemmy.caEnglish
      4·
      1 year ago

      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.

      • Sylvartas@lemmy.world
        1·
        1 year ago

        Whenever I see someone doing that I can’t help but question their sanity

  • Num10ck@lemmy.worldEnglish
    24·
    1 year ago

    all media and advertising shall have the same loudness

  • Got_Bent@lemmy.world
    23·
    1 year ago

    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.

    • Zahille7@lemmy.world
      62·
      1 year ago

      So you would standardize tailgating so that everyone has to do it?

        • Got_Bent@lemmy.world
          3·
          1 year ago

          They’re being pedantic about how the original question was worded in a gotcha attempt. Not worthy of a response.

  • ℕ𝕖𝕞𝕠@midwest.social
    211·
    1 year ago

    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.

  • hperrin@lemmy.world
    191·
    1 year ago

    Standardize? I mean can we just get America on the metric system?

  • pingveno@lemmy.mlEnglish
    18·
    1 year ago

    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.

    • Unbecredible@lemm.eeOPEnglish
      4·
      1 year ago

      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.

    • NauticalNoodle@lemmy.ml
      2·
      1 year ago

      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.

  • corsicanguppy@lemmy.caEnglish
    131·
    1 year ago

    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.”

  • xiao@sh.itjust.works
    11·
    1 year ago

    I would be a terrifying and bloodthirsty Supreme Leader for sure… 😏

    That is why we should prevent human beings from holding too much power.

  • InternetUser2012@lemmy.today
    10·
    1 year ago

    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.

  • AmosBurton_ThatGuy@lemmy.ca
    111·
    1 year ago

    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.