If you could regulate something relatively inconsequential, what would it be?

Coffee shop tables should be 3 legged to prevent them from wobbling and me spilling my coffee when I lean onto the table even just a bit.

As someone who uses a Nintendo switch and an Xbox, the A and B buttons should be in the same place on all game controllers.

It may seem slightly above inconsequential, but parking. Parking is a great example of arbitrary rules having longstanding effects. (Really neat video on parking regulations - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUNXFHpUhu8)

As for more inconsequential. Leafblowers Leafblowers immediately banned unless they are

• Less than 20db
• Zero emission
• ONLY USED AFTER 9AM WHY IN GODS NAME ARE YOU LEAF-BLOWING AT 8AM ON A SATURDAY

Print the food expiration date above the label barcode. Black ink on white background.

Laptop keyboard layouts. There is no reason they should be so different.

Specifically, those laptops that have full-sized left and right arrows, but half-sized up and down arrows - those earn 1 week of jail time for the CEO per unit sold.

While we're at it, the power button must be in the same place on all laptops.

International standard paper sizes (A4 etc.) in the U.S.

Sports teams that change cities must also change names.

No more "Utah Jazz".

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utah_Jazz

Similarly, cable channels that veer from their original content must also change their names. Mtv hasn't been Music Television in decades.

TV remotes, computer speakers, car radios, etc must have two sets of volume up / volume down controls. One for upper volume limit, and one for the lower.

Now I can hear what the characters are whispering to eachother, without waking up the entire apartment complex when there's a gunshot on screen.

Or hear the quiet parts of music when I'm driving without blowing my eardrums out when the contrasting high energy part kicks in.

every date MUST be in RFC 3339 format. e.g. 2024-09-08, with optionally the time: 21:41:24+02:00

and hell no not ISO 8601 cause then people would use stuff like 2024W154

Broadcasting audio from a personal device in public should be a misdemeanor.

I don't know, my emotions?

• Pwm flicker should be regulated on all LED devices, from smartphones to household bulbs and car turn signals.
• Price displayed is exactly what you pay. With tax, no credit card or smartphone surcharge or "cash discount"
• Tip screen on POS cash registers is displayed before you swipe/tap your card, not afterward.

Dishwashers and dish sets have complimenting standards. E.g.

Dishwasher rack is set A.

Dishes (plates, bowls, tupperware, etc.) Would advertise as "fitting rack sizes A,B, & D!"

The number of hotdogs in a hotdog pack and the number of hotdog buns in a hotdog bun pack cannot be coprime

Packaging for supermarket products should have what the product is big and the branding small. Not the other way around.

Oh. Sound mixing on movies/tv shows should be such that voice lines are always perfectly audible even on shitty speakers. Make actors e n u n c i a t e like they did in the 30s. Christopher Nolan has a lot to answer for, turning all of media into mumblecore chief among those things.

LEDs on electronics need either a maximum brightness or an adjustable brightness. I have taken to covering the LEDs on charger bricks with Sharpie/tape (often multiple layers of tape) to dampen the brightness because I cannot function with these damn things at night.

I want all counties to come together and agree what sounds we use for animals.

All bags of pet food must be self sealing.

Address numbers are to be placed in a prominent position, with a font that is legible from the street and illuminated at night, on every building in cities and towns.

Out in the country address numbers are to be displayed on reflective signs at the end of the driveway and again if/when a shared driveway splits.

I'd like ALL game advertising to be composed of at least 50% actual in game screenshots or or videos, but that would actually be consequential and good

For inconsequential, remove stupid-proofing from certain products, like "warning: contains eggs" in egg cartons

Those yellow bump things for blind people. They need to follow a spec that then in turn cart manufacturers, wheelchair manufacturers, and wagon cart manufacturers all build around so that when I travel over them they don’t jostle my whole cart around and tip over my drink.

I would ban adverts IRL, like billboards and stuff.

Oncoming car headlights should not blind you. Companies need to stop making these and if they are custom jobs, this should be easy tickets for the police.

Tags on clothing must be printed on, with some exceptions where sewed letters are allowed. None of that free hanging tag BS.

The front panel connectors on a motherboard should all be standard and be a single connection.

Ban pharmaceutical advertising.

Ban the display of the US flag in public by private individuals including police except on national holidays and public/government buildings.

• Loading dishwashers properly requires an official government license and a test.
• Putting a flat plate in front of a bowl means a year of hard labor.
• Loading any of the good kitchen knives is an automatic 10 years.

Fast lane is for passing only

Institute maximum ad space limits that an individual corporation or organization are allowed to buy per unit of eyespace.

Also, adverts put up on your behalf contribute to that limit, so no SuperPAC shenanigans.

Should at least resolve the issue of being spammed endlessly by adverts from the same group over and over and over again.

I love a lot of the ideas in this thread but a ton of them are actually consequential.

I think most of these ideas are great but actually too consequential.

Chargers should have an LED that displays red while charging and green when finished. An amber LED toward the end is acceptable. I'm not making this up. I have an item that only displays solid red, when it's finished charging.

If your toaster can't fit a slice of Warburton' Toastie comfortably, then the CEO of the toaster company gets toasted to death at the stake.

The top speed of cars is limited to the highest speed limit in the country they're certified for.
For emergencies, there's a covered switch on the dash which disables the limit, calls 911 and transmits your position to them.

If you do any industrial processing step which creates something harmful for the environment, your company is responsible for undoing that step after nobody wants the result any more.

This creates an incentive to recycle and build stuff to be able to deconstruct it's components. Less stuff in the landfills and more raw materials for recycling.

Let the consumer bear the cost by paying the real price of a product and not mother nature.

Anyone who lets their dog bark outside for 10+ continuous minutes (except in case of emergency) loses dog privileges for a year. One year added for every five minutes over 10.

ShotSpotter installs can be repurposed to locate homes of negligent owners who are annoying the entire neighborhood by letting their dogs bark unmitigated.

You have to put the highest scoville rated ingredient on your hot food stall.

I do not want to be surprised in either direction.

If a food package is not resealable, the nutritional information must state how many calories are in the entire package.

Packaging should be made to be reusable. Glass jars must have easily removable labels, plastic wrap would only be allowed for sterile equipment, otherwise you have to use paper and other biodegradable materials. Branding would have to be completely removable too. Basically, packaging would remain a product of the state, and would be completely controlled. Corporations would have to pay packaging tax to subsidize control of this.

If you are selling three sizes of something, the sizes are called "small", "medium" and "large".

1. All microwaves must have an option to silence them.
2. Public restroom doors are no longer allowed to have gaps in them.

Expand allergy warning labels on products. Mammal product allergy exists, it's called alpha-gal syndrome - one of the issues that can arise from a tick bite. I would like to see allergy labels for beef, pork, gelatin, and carrageenan alongside the ones for milk, wheat, nuts, etc.

under my brutal dictatorship, laptop power buttons may not be a key on the keyboard. It must be a separate button elsewhere on the chassis.

Companies can not own other companies.

Motorcycles have a maximum volume

Alternatively 13 months of 28 days

Stickers put on products by manufacturers or retailers must either be on the product packaging or be made with the material that leaves no residue behind when peeled off.

Replace "in god we trust" on money with Satan.

When buying toilets, people should be able to test the flush in the shop

Good rules!

Bottom right = standing or lying? Tag should be on flat also and must tell the bed size.

I think my butters are opposite colors.

No more daylight saving clock change. If I want to get up an hour earlier, I'll set my alarm to do so.

New "No Ads" holiday. No ads on TV or the entire internet for one day, physical billboards can stay, digital billboards must be turned off, essentially all form of digital advertisement is disallowed. If a company breaks those rules, it is fined 50% of its average annual revenue.

Bumper height of vehicles.

Glassware must be rated to survive short drop onto wood floor at a minimum.

(The fitted sheets we have do have tags for top and bottom with hanging tag at bottom. I would say just don't give them hanging tags at all.)

All shoe and clothing companies must use universal measurements and sizes

I don't have anything to add, I just want to say this is a phenomenal question, lol.

I would make the written English language 100% phonetic.

I would make SI mandatory in the US.

I would make one night a week a "have dinner with the neighbors" day.

Edit: I would make bidet toilets mandatory. Dry toilets would be phased out like cars without back-up cameras or asbestos insulation.

The THC content of edibles. It's unregulated in NYC so everything seemingly has between 30mg and 1250mg while I'm sitting here with a 10mg hard limit. A few states have a 5mg or 10mg per serving limit and it's wonderful

Online dating apps. I'd:

1. Break up the monopoly that Match Group and Bumble Inc hold on the market, by working with the Federal Trade Commission and UK Competitions & Markets Authority.

2. Introduce caps on what apps can charge for Premium features. Charging the same price as several World of Warcraft or Final Fantasy XIV subscriptions just to see likes is scummy as fuck.

3. Introduce mandatory ID verification to dissuade fake users, and have very strict regulations on how said data is processed and stored, with massive fines for data breaches that could easily have been avoided.

4. Have a correct appeals process towards account penalties/closure and outlaw the use of shadowbanning.

Early access and beta and alpha terms for games. Also, early access has a time limit.

Alpha - we're adding and removing features.
Beta - we're 90% polishing 10% adding/removing.
Early access - just fixing bugs. Maximum 3 to 6 months.

You can stay in alpha and beta as long as you want. I don't want to change game dev actuality. I just want the terms to reflect what's actually going on.

E-bike legislation. Here in BC Canada, you're limited to 500W motor and 32KPH. while I have no problem with the speed limit, I think they should allow up to at least 1000w motors. Heavier individuals such as myself would crush a 500w motor.

Grapefruit from the supermarket must always taste of grapefruit.

Time zones,

No, you can’t just have a half an hour difference!

Emergency brakes should be a handle that pulls a mechanical cable that directly actuates the rear brakes. Simple and reliable, like you would want in an emergency.

Nobody can back in to park.

Gender separated bathrooms, they're an unnecessary way to increase cost for no real benefit

Drinking straws are too wide/girthy on average. Every fast food and coffee place uses giant straws, while a relatively skinny straw provides a vastly superior drinking experience, in my view.

Clearly written weight netto of the product and second weight ( it can be smaller caps ) the weight netto 1 year before for the same product

Every keyboard must have a home and end key that doesn't require pressing additional keys like fn, and home must go to the start of the line, while end goes to the end of the line.

Movie intros must be 10 seconds or less.

Cheating in online video games is criminally punishable

Advertisements should always say what the thing is and what it does.

Disney + show ads on YouTube are like, two dialogue lines, and then "Stream now on Disney Plus". Only thing more annoying than an ad is an ad where you don't even understand what the hell they were trying to sell you.

In-game currency and microtransactions are fine, as long as the app can pay out for the same service/item. If I can buy a sword for $5, I can also sell that sword to the app developer and get $5 back. If I can pay $1 to skip a level, I can redeem $1 for beating said level.

Ceiling fans should all have physical controls. Shitty 4 button remotes that don't even work half the time don't cut it.

Universal remotes. Why should my remote work on a tv in the Andromeda galaxy?

Tipping, the default tipping options should be displayed next to the price of the item.

Women's clothing now have the same definition for what is xs s m l xl and etc

Fingernail length. Anything over 1 mm past the fingernail bed must be clean, manicured, and painted with at least a clear coat.

I'd make the weather more predictable so I could adapt to it.

No olives shall be added to feta in oil.

ban stateist flags

no, but seriosly, I wouldn't ban anything

I misread this as regurgitate, weird suggestions. Hahaha.

Fruit and Veggies should be in order from least ripe to most ripe to make it easier to eat a healthy diet overtime.

All vehicles have an auto-sensor that detects when the steering mechanism is turned past a certain point and activates the fucking turn signal. Deactivates it once the steering mechanism returns past that point.

There's literally no difference between salted and unsalted butter

Simple. 1.