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      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.

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        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.

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          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.

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      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

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

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

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

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

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

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      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.

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        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.

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            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.

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        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 .

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      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.

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        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.

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      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.

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

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    • 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!

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      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)?

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          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

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      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

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      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.

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    • 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.

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      Impossible to corrupt. Impossible to monopolize

      You would be surprised.

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      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.

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        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.

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      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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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      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.

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      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.

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    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.”

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

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

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    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.

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    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.