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[–] [email protected] 54 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Any speed above the speed limit is speeding. And any speed below the speed limit is impeding the flow of traffic.

Vehicles would never be able to get up to speed.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Since the speedlimit is exact and vehicle speed is not, everyone constantly gets fined for being too fast or too slow.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

Reckless assholes drive faster than I, stupid fucktards drive slower than I. I drive perfect.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sounds like a Wayside School Rule

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Stay on the left when going up, stay on the right when going down; the red elevator only goes up and the blue one only goes down.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

This reminded me of Terry Pratchett's Discworld. So many characters are like this.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Indeed.

"With a good fake nose, no one remembered anything but the nose, afterwards."

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Or, for that matter, The Patrition. Best portrayal of intelligent lawful neutral ever.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Yes, sorry, quie right.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

"One man. One vote."

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Vetenari spends one entire book locked in his own dungeons and does not give a dang. He knows the city will come crawling back.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@mindbleach @Thisfox but didn't he also train the rats to do his bidding while in his own dungeon, and then reveal at the end of the book that he actually had a secret escape tunnel built into those dungeons when he made them (meaning he simply stayed in his dungeon because he chose to)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Sounds about right. He was never possessed of an idle personality.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)

See this is the problem with Lemmy. I want to tag this or even crosspost this to a Pratchett place ("unexpectedpratchett" or similar) but a) I haven't found a populated one, and b) I can't just type in its name if I have one or guess its name like you can in other media, and c) even if I did, the link won't work for everyone, and those it will work for are often (like me) sent out-of-app to a browser if they successfully click on the damn thing. Frustration.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

a) should resolve itself overtime with both features and people
b) is something devs should be working on, or at least I heard that they are working on better cross-instance community search
c) this is currently my gripe too, on Android jerboa does offer opening any https:// links in the app but it rarely works or you have to do it twice for whatever reason.

Though I get the frustration.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The “critical mass” argument only makes sense if there’s a critical mass in the future. There might never be one. People might give up threaded-discussion platforms before this ever makes it.

I vote we go back to phpBB.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nah, let's go back to newsgroups

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

You can very easily write cross instance links if you weren't aware, e.g. [email protected] -- this works on desktop (opens the community on your instance instead of the instance the community is on, so you stay logged in) and on every mobile client I've seen

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Sam Vimes was the first thing I thought of when I read this post.

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

Good Evil - Villain who ends up doing good whilst trying to do evil.

Evil Good - Hero who ends up fucking shit up so poorly, people think he's evil.

Neutral-Neutral - Not to be confused with True Neutral, these characters are just extremely indecisive.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Neutral neutral Chidi wants a word with you

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Well, he might. He's not sure yet.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Evil good: Thomas Midgely. He invented leaded gasoline and chlorofluorocarbons. Defined as the person with most environmental impact in history.

Gave himself lead poisoning and later in life killed himself with a contraption of his own invention that was intended to help him with his polio paralysis.

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

later in live killed himself

... as opposed to when?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

As in not with the lead poisoning.

Also live=life

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I feel like Dr. Doofenshmirtz can fall under both categories haha

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Exactly who I thought of too haha

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Lawful Chaotic is a union strategy lol

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

Germans (of course) have a term for it: "Dienst nach Vorschrift" (work by the book).
It's a way for government officials to strike even though they don't have the right to strike and can't form a union.
They simply apply every single regulation concerning their work to the letter, grinding everything to a halt.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

Malicious compliance

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"Byzantine Clerics must enter and exit all buildings through windows on the second Tuesday of the month. It is written."

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

I gotta get in shape. They keep making new buildings.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago

The first one is just chaotic neutral, the second one is lawful evil.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The following is not a critique of religion a people

I sometimes find the loopholes Jewish people use to get around the law of their own religion akin to the definition of lawful chaotic here.

'you shall not leave your home on sabbat' so we shall make a iron loop around the city, so it can be explained to be our house.

'you may not use fire (and therefore electronics), therefore we set timers for our gas furnace the day before.

It's quite bordering on creating chaos in order to follow the law. Just read this:

https://www.myjewishlearning.com/article/5-must-have-gadgets-for-shabbat-observant-jews/

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've actually always enjoyed those solutions. It's very legalistic.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I do too, they are funny in a way that they try and lawyer up against a all knowing and all powerful being.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

I always saw that as a valid game that their God is ok with. It promotes creative thinking, so it's arguably a good thing.

Furthermore, and opinions on this may vary, but I was talking with an Orthodox Jew about all the rules and the sense of following them in the modern world, when at least some of them (like kosher) were obviously very important for reasons like hygiene and don't carry that importance any more, and he said he's obviously aware of that, but that following them is a sort of test/proof of strenght of faith/building of character kind of deal. And that no, God has no issue with non-Jewish people not following them. We don't have to and aren't supposed to. It's fine.

And it seems to me like finding these loopholes while still following the letter of the law (my favourite is paying non-Jews to do stuff for you on Sabbath) still works quite nicely from this perspective, since finding ways to circumvent these rules still requires you to know and acknowledge the rules.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

A contract is a contract, divine or mundane! You actually see similar practices in other pre-Christian faiths as well, though none, I think, with quite the level of creativity developed by Rabbinical Judaism.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

i have a strict moral code but nobody can figure out what the hell it is

Sounds like it could be used for encryption.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Pretty sure we used to call the second one Lawful Stupid....

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago

Could also be Malicious Compliance.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

“I plead the third.”

“You mean the fifth?”

“No, the third.”

“You refuse to quarter troops in your house?”

“I have few principles, but I stick to them.”

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

I am absolutely this in real life.

I am lucky that i live somewhere where most laws do make enough sense to act within them on a daily basis but the second they cross my personal ideals there just as useless like any old religious text. Il accept whatever consequence there can be in order to stay true to myself. (Except endangering others).

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I make my own laws, that’s why I’m Chaotic Lawful.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Jackpot if the person with Lawful Chaotic alignment is a lawmaker.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

III. And Arnold Bros (est. 1905) said, Let there be Signs, so that All within shall know the Proper Running of the Store.

IV. On the Moving Stairs, let the Sign Be: Dogs and Pushchairs Must be Carried;

V. And Arnold Bros (est. 1905) waxed wroth, for many carried neither dog nor pushchair.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

It changes to fit the circumstance

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