i’d probably pick
- cartoon tv series can’t have more than 3 seasons
- avocados should have most subsidies of any food
- electron apps are now illegal
- normal tv series can’t have more than 5 seasons
- protruding doorsteps are now illegal
don’t know if this is minor, but
- Ban all billboard ads and force them to have art instead
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
- 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
A company cannot have more than 200 employees in the same city.
Non-federated social networks are illegal.
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.
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…
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but what’s even better is to consume only locally-sourced and renewable materials
Actually, it depends. We did an analysis in one of my university environmental science classes about if you’re living in Montreal in the winter, if you should buy produce from the subtropics (California in our analysis) or local produce. Well, local produce in Quebec is grown in greenhouses in the winter. And as it turns out, the carbon footprint to heat those things far outweighs everything else combined: including transportation. Like, you can get many times more produce shipped straight from California for the same amount of carbon emissions of a single stalk of local broccoli. The difference was so far beyond any margin of error that there was no way we could justify getting local produce no matter how much we tried (I’m pretty sure most people in our class went into it assuming local would win hands down).
The takeaway is: if it’s really cold, food production isn’t efficient and you might just be better off getting non-local food from somewhere warm.
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We had a video a while ago on /c/solarpunk of someone growing citrus fruits in the middle of winter in the northern US in such an greenhouse heated with low-grade ground heat.
So it is definitly possible, but probably doesn’t scale very well.
The real issue is that you can’t expect to eat fresh produce in the middle of winter if you live in Canada. Food preservation for consumption in Winter is a well developed and scaleable technology.
Edit: https://lemmy.ml/post/56369 and specifically this video.
- 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”
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 outdoor cats. they’re an invasive species that destroys local small animal populations
- 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
- All citizens shall be provided an anime-like humanoid robot to be their partner without charge
- Marriage with robots should be legalized
- All countries worldwide must donate to research towards creating real-life catgirls
