What things would you standardize globally if you were the Supreme Leader? All violations punishable by death.

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.

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

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

I would like to add free/accessible healthcare for all

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.

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.

Metric system comes with metric (decimal) time and republican calendar

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

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)?

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

Impossible to corrupt. Impossible to monopolize

You would be surprised.

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.

Git

I understand the de facto standard situation, but I'd rather have Fossil as default as long as it's suitable.

I'm not an audio engineer, but this might be hard to execute.

We already have standards for media, we would just have to enforce them more rigorously.

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

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.

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.

you sick bastard

I would want some clearly marked boundaries then, because I would consider unpaid labor a human rights violation but I wouldn't want my old boss executed just because I clocked out and then picked up some trash on my way out the door.

You're being funny, but this would lead to the death of every one on earth, we'd have to have automated evaporation cubicles, like in that Star Trek episode. A toddler violated my human rights this morning. I will pursue you to the ends of the earth, GUS.

No more religious things.

So we'd have to dissolve Apple as a company. I'd be fine with that.

Let kids skateboard.

All hail @wildbus8979@sh.itjust.works The First of His Name, the Undomesticated People Mover, Giver of Ponies

Finally, I feel like I've scrolling for days to find this oasis.

So, "no more death penalty"? Punishable by death of course.

Aww shit, good call. Which notation and names for the new numbers are we using?