don't know if this is minor, but
- Ban all billboard ads and force them to have art instead
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Art would be cool, but just as distracting if you ask me. I'm more of a fan of billboard prohibition, like what Alaska has (https://ballotpedia.org/Alaska_Prohibition_of_Billboards,Measure_5(1998))
This makes me think about that banksy artwork that says you're allowed to dispose as you wish of any ad you're shown in public spaces
- 200% tax for: cars that go faster than 130km/h, screens above 28", GPUs over 150W, guitars, audio amplifiers using vacuum tubes
- right of way is always in the following order: pedestrians, muscle driven, motorized
- javascript, python, java, CSS 3, spreadsheets and everything .NET is now illegal
- Companies are liable in case of data leaks as well as for critical security issues they didn't fix or provide patches for within a reasonable timeframe
- mandatory "driving license" for using computers attached to any network
- Companies with job offerings or marketing texts including the following words will for ever be excluded from official tenderings, funding and aid payments: "stack", "AI", "culture", "cloud", "fixed-term", "flexible", "internship", "driven", "blockchain", "agile"
all very good suggestions, but why tube amps though π€
They waste energy and resources and have bad sound quality and are somehow still sold as "hifi". Somehow that bothers me, it's like selling steam powered trains to someone who already has an overhead line fed with green energy on his train tracks.
Edit: Thinking of it, I forgot vinyl records. They are even worse, they aren't just outdated, bad sound quality and wasteful, they are also toxic.
You could argue that for hifi but when amplificating instruments it's exactly the distorsion produced by those lamp that's looked for and hard to reproduce with transistors.
Yeah, of course you can use it creatively for distortion and saturation, but you can also do this with semiconductors or DSP and if you are such a snob that you really need that specific sound you can just pay the tax :D
The snob tax !
200% tax for: cars that go faster than 130km/h, screens above 28", GPUs over 150W, guitars, audio amplifiers using vacuum tubes
Or, crazy idea (surely), a rich tax that actually brings them down to the level of people they think they're superior to? I'm not talking about "50% on your income" and some capital gains or something, I'm talking redistributing the vast majority of their wealth until they're even with the rest of the citizens. Hmm...
That wouldn't be obscure or minor. My tax isn't meant to target the rich, but the stupid. (and guitarists)
No more stroads.
no outdoor cats. invasive species that destroys local small animal populations
- Mitch Mcconnell is not allowed to breathe public air
- he also must eat the silverware and the packaging alongside every meal
- PBS runs a daily broadcast of the entire, lifetime compendium of ways Mitch Mcconnell has hurt poor and marginalized people
- every time he speaks to a group of more than 3 people, a tortoise must rest on his shoulder and should be encouraged to nibble his ears
avocados should have most subsidies of any food
Unless you are lucky living in one of those countries that have native avocado trees (and even there the water usage of them often is a problem), buying avocados should be actively discouraged as they are typically shipped half-way around the globe to consumers.
international container shipments are actually super efficient, no? i've heard that the last few kilometres of delivery actually cause more emissions than the entire trip they take from mexico or some other country to wherever you live...
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/02/avocado-environment-cost-food-mexico/
And container shipping (in general, maybe not specifically for avocados) is one of the worst polluters due to running on heavy oil & also makes up for a significant portion of world-wide annual CO2 emissions.
I'm not sure about container shipping, but I'heard the same, that even if of course one ship pollute much than one truck, the quantity they move around is so huge that efficiency is incredibly better. So sea mileage VS land mileage aren't one the same level at all.
I agree with water consumption though, that is a huge problem from what I understand.
better
The average efficiency (energy/km/kg) is better, but what's even better is to consume only locally-sourced and renewable materials :)
It's like the trick "question" green capitalists have about clean energy. Sure you can always make energy cleaner, but "clean" energy does not exist and the cleanest energy is always the energy you don't use. Same goes for transportation.
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In the United States, I would require spanish language education alongside english from 1st grade through 12th.
Edit: If you downvoted this, tell us why, you coward.
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100% serious: No more pushbutton crosswalks (the kind you have to press a button to get the pedestrian green light) at intersections where there is a traffic light cycle anyway (excluding those small crosswalks where the traffic light never changes unless a button is pushed) Why is it needed? Just sync the crosswalk light to the traffic light.
you can get more cars through the intersection with a button, obviously, by not wasting time for pedestrians when there are none.
No, I'm not talking about a traffic light that is completely controlled by the crosswalk button like you see in the suburbs, I'm talking about a specific design that I see everywhere where I live (Metro Vancouver, Canada): There is already a traffic light for cars, and it's on a regular cycle. If you don't press the crosswalk button, you'll never get a crossing light. Even if you do, it waits for the next time the traffic parallel to you is running and there is no protected left, before it lets you cross (you know, like how crosswalk light works any intersection without crosswalk buttons, where the crosswalk is controlled automatically). Also, if parallel traffic is already running when you press the button, it always waits for the light to change to through traffic, then for the light to change again to parallel traffic before letting you through because the controller will not allow a crosswalk cycle that is shorter than the regular traffic cycle, even if there is plenty of time in the current cycle to let you pass (or even if the light JUST changed to parallel traffic).
In short, even with the buttons, when pedestrians can cross is still dictated by the light cycle for traffic. In fact, it's slower for pedestrians compared to a system where the crosswalks operate automatically in sync with the traffic lights. So why isn't it just in sync with the traffic lights is beyond me?
I guess placebo buttons do exist in some places, but normally the buttons are part of a complex traffic control system that does improve overall waiting times for both pedestrians and car-drivers.
What we have are even worse than placebo buttons. They do work and you'll never get a crossing light without pressing the button, but they actively make you wait longer to cross compared to if they were automatic. The buttons, to my knowledge, do not affect the main traffic light timings at all (I haven't times it with a stopwatch or anything, but I cross a few of the same intersections very often and have never perceived a timing difference between button press and no button press).
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A company cannot have more than 200 employees in the same city.
Non-federated social networks are illegal.
A company cannot have more than 200 employees in the same city.
How about adding a clause about "there can be no managers nor bosses or shareholders"? :)
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This should end the need for entire professional degree called MBA.
All toilets use poo to mint a currency you can spend as legal tender. The toilets use an advanced chemical system to treat, sanitize, and combine with recycled wood pulp to create paper currency. The chemical makeup of the currency is how authenticity is proven.
It is a social safety net style welfare program.
New get rich quick scheme--Doctors hate this one weird trick: Give yourself food poisoning!
I can't think of many "minor" laws, because it's hard to really define what "minor" is in this context. So forgive me if some of these are outside the scope of the question.
- Strodes should be illegal and replaced with the most useful motorway for what's needing to be achieved
- The HOA should not be allowed to mandate the cutting of lawns
- Zoning laws should be changed to make cities walkable
- Suppressors should be fully legalized, and should be required by all shooting ranges within city limits.
- Speed limits should be painted on the surface of the motorway every hundred or so feet, in large enough numbers that even people with poor eyesight can see them at a distance
- Speed limits should be formalized, and greatly reduced within urban areas
- It should be illegal to create unbroken concrete islands in urban areas
- It should be legal for people to park a week or more in any large parking lot, and legal for people to live in their vehicles while doing so.
- It should be illegal to ask a stranger what they do for a living, or how much they make.
It should be illegal to ask a stranger what they do for a living, or how much they make.
It is of vital importance for unionizing to be able to exchange information with strangers about your salary. Making that illegal (as apparently the case in some US states) is just playing into the hands of capitalists.
If you are worried about the "dinner-party social stigma" thing, then you need to think a bit about just how privileged of a situation that is. No offense meant :)
Edit: Looking at the point above... do you mean an issue with the police asking homeless people about their job and salary? You probably need to explain a bit better what you mean, as it is easy to misunderstand...
imo talking to fellow workers about how much the boss is paying, and a random stranger asking me what I do for a living while i'm just trying to buy glasses are two totally different things.
edit: also i should add that my trade is one that liberals have really strong opinions against (i was called a "baby killer" once for even just hinting at working with firearms) and I'm really fuckin' sick of having to dance around the question when random people I've never seen before in my life randomly ask, even though there's absolutely no reason for them to need to know. Once I was in the line at a walmart, a carton of eggs in hand, and an old lady came up to me and started asking me a fucktonne of weirdly specific questions. I'd really like if that was in some way prohibited behaviour, because fuck it feels like it should be.
Obviously no-one is forced to answer such questions from random strangers (and at least personally I have never experienced people asking such questions out of the blue), but it isn't just about co-workers as you need to be able to freely exchange salary information across companies and also different economic sectors to make an informed decision where to work.
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- Pascal and Object Pascal are mandatory as first programming languages in education
- JavaScripts and variants are illegal
- RDBMS must be SQL only and XML as the only alternative for NoSQL
- Rest APIs illegal, only SOAP
- Pedestrians and muscle-driven vehicles have priority in any street
- Only one bus company state-driven
Rest APIs illegal, only SOAP
Hi Satan. On furlough from Hell?
Only one bus company state-driven
Why not self-organized? The transports in revolutionary Barcelona (1936) seemed to work fine as a workers coop.
Also valid for me, the idea was to be just 1 company.
I'd introduce a (municipal) law on homelessness in some medium-sized American city. The nature of the law would allocate some minor funding for a peculiar type of homelessness census (to occur at set intervals), and would also declare certain homeless people to be the responsibility of that municipal government while declaring the rest to be the responsibility of other local governments (municipal, county, and state) based on some rather boring criteria. Such as...
- Whether or not they were born in that city, or have lived there for some significant fraction of their life
- Whether they had worked in that city previously for at least 18 months of the last 5 years
- Whether their mother and/or father would qualify under the same standards
- Whether they had owned or rented a home in that city for 12 months of the last 5 years
- Whether they had been arrested/jailed by the locals in the last 5 years (this is qualifying, not disqualifying by the way)
And so on. The details of qualification are less important than the general idea: that certain homeless people are the responsibility of the locals, and that they can't shirk responsibility for them. But that others, migratory, are not. Even as they disqualified those homeless people, they'd also be writing up paperwork that proves they are in fact the responsibility of other local governments elsewhere.
I would expect that other nearby local governments would enact similar local laws in retaliation, so it would have a crystallization effect, and eventually most or all throughout North America would do the same. Instead of trying to shirk responsibility for this problem, they'd start to take responsibility for them... after all, it's a much more constrained problem once you no longer worry about the solution just attracting more homeless to your city, it's a cheaper problem, and now you've declared yourself to be responsible for these people when they meet some reasonable criteria.
Without this, cities like Los Angeles and New York (secretly) find it impossible to deal with it on a rational and level basis. If you spend x dollars solving the problem for y homeless, you soon have 5y homeless or 20y homeless... and you no longer have enough money to do that. And if you can anticipate this happening, you never even try in the first place.
The criteria can be designed such that 99% of homeless people would qualify somewhere. And the small remainder would then be a much smaller issue, one that we might even expect the US federal government to pick up the tab for.
I get tired of hearing about how it is a problem of compassion or lack thereof, it is 100% a game theory problem.
How is homelessness a game theory problem? It's a capitalism problem. There's literally millions of empty dwellings (at least in France and USA) that could be used. How about, instead of a census, simply expropriating owners of empty housing? That would be a lot easier, a lot less costly, and 100% effective at housing homeless people.
I can't tell if you didn't read my comment, or you're just not very insightful. The trouble with counter-intuitive ideas is that 99% of the population navigates through life using nothing but intuition... and so they're completely blind to it.
How is homelessness a game theory problem?
Without this, cities like Los Angeles and New York (secretly) find it impossible to deal with it on a rational and level basis. If you spend x dollars solving the problem for y homeless, you soon have 5y homeless or 20y homeless⦠and you no longer have enough money to do that. And if you can anticipate this happening, you never even try in the first place.
That's how.
Though I suppose if you just ship off all the homeless to gulags, in a sense that's a "solution" too. I can see how that would appeal to some people. But I operate from a place of "it's not a solution if it hurts other people".
How about, instead of a census, simply expropriating owners of empty housing? That would be a lot easier, a lot less costly
Sure. It will be less costly, if you ignore the tens of billions you'll need to pay your soldiers doing the expropriation.
Or you could just enslave them, I guess. They'd be "free" in the Stalinist sense of the worse, really.
I was talking about some city of 250,000 spending $100,000 over the course of a few months. It's a price tag so low even I sort of think it's bullshit. But it'd work.
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