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They know this is their chance to consolidate power in council areas, and there’s a high chance they’ll overtake the Tories and Labour here.

righthand drive everywhere. as a courtesy i’ll flip all lefthand vehicles on the z axis

standard plug socket everywhere. i don’t think there’s a single best plug (sorry tom scott) but it will be earthed, fused and switched, and 50hz

in fact… the explosion in the number of gtlds lacks any sort of coherency. icann icannot handle this responsibility, so begin retiring most of them. regional registrars are far better prepared for this job to control subdomains under their cctld

even tho irl the anglosphere needs to adopt dd/mm/yyyy as the agreed date format, with the divine ability i can make yyyy/mm/dd the global format. what’s important is that it’s in a correct order. mm/dd/yyyy is insane

1 january is always a monday, and 30 december is always a monday (31 is tuesday), and then it goes back to monday. every date is the same day of the week every year

in fact let’s speed up venus to -24 evil hours. year being -224.7 evil days. making venus spin may reduce the effects of solar radiation in the daytime. but the coriolis effect? on venus? oh baby. oh baby

also, standardise europe as being inside europe. no guyana. no caribbean. no africa. no pacific. no nothing

get all of the eu+ on Central European Time (utc+1). france and spain and benelux are already on utc+1 despite their solar time being closer to ±0, so portugal and ireland and doggerland and the uk can fuckin easily join

similarly, greece, bulgaria, romania, moldova, ukraine, the baltics & finland should join +1 from +2. if spain can, they can

it had to be arbitrary – it’s not like there’s a clear midpoint of earth’s geography, right?

BUT THERE IS: Iŋaluk - the “Diomede Islands”. at pretty much exactly 169°W (11° east of the current meridian), there’s a gap between earth’s eastern and western continents, with two symbolic islands standing either side. the current meridian is well into siberia, cutting off the entire chukotka peninsula. it’s the politically-determined dateline that currently separates the islands. this gap should serve as earth’s prime meridian. the new 180° proceeds south, separating aleutia’s Umnak and Chuginadak islands, crossing the Hawai’ian ridge, going just east of johnston atoll, passing tokelau, then going justtt east of occupied east samoa and niue

on the other side, 11° east passes approximately here:

justtt shaving about 4km off the end of spitsbergen, the line passes east of trondheim and oslo, down the gap between fyn and sjælland, halfway between lübeck and schwerin, past the lidl on eislebenerstraße in erfurt, through the pizza hut on fronmüllerstraße in fürth/nuremburg, through verona, just east of modena and just west of florence, cutting off a little bit of tunisia’s cape bon, and passing off the coast of sfax to make landfall on djerba island. through the sahara, then just west of gombe in nigeria, about halfway between douala and yaounde, through eastern equatorial guinea and reaching the new 0,0 point at gabon’s RN2 road. then south to the ocean

so, unified european time becomes the new utc±0 rather than +1. west iberia and most of ireland goes under 90 minutes discrepancy, kharkyvshchina and zaporyzhzhiashchina go over 90 minutes

🇷🇺🇺🇦🇧🇬и, 🇧🇾i -> 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿i

🇷🇺🇧🇾ы, 🇺🇦i, 🇧🇬ъ -> 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿y

🇺🇦г -> 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿g, even if it’s pronounced different in ukraine

й -> j

x -> h

ч -> č

ш -> š, or ś from russian only

щ -> šč, or š from russian only

ж -> ž

ь -> ’

я, е/є, ï, ë & ю will become either ja, je, ji, jo & ju or á, é, í, ó & ú, according to preference (official & proper transliterations should be in the latter)

“Krushchev went from Kherson to Kyiv” -> Hrušóv went from Herson to Kijiv

netball is standardised into basketball

…one little thing tho. whenever a cent or two-cent is withdrawn from circulation, legislation is never passed to abolish the 1¢ & 2¢ interval, meaning prices remain listed in units that don’t exist (like 99¢), and u have to round up your change at the till. that’s about as insane as a price being listed as 1.5¢ right now. it doesn’t exist yet still legally exists

so pass the legislation officially dividing these currencies into ten (and only ten) subunits. a euro isn’t divided into a hundred cents, it’s divided into ten ten-cents. it’ll still be correct notation to list prices as 10¢, 20¢ etc, but that’s just notation. units below 10 don’t exist. and prices will not be listed below 10. the closest u can get to 99¢ is 90¢

nationalise (for lack of a better term) the wbg, imf and wto into the un, under a permanent economic council (i guess the closest thing we’ll have to a standing world congress). then mandate all wto trade to happen through the wto ¤Unit (brics named it the Unit, not me). ¤Units minted by the world bank and exchanged for forex, forex deposited in the world bank. ¤Unit backed by the forex – most of which would be from larger economies to begin with, of course. rich countries ‘taxed’ with worse exchange rates to fund better exchange rates for poor countries

universal obverse sides, and various reverse sides for different currency areas

one ¤Unit split into 1000₥, or 1,000,000μ. one microunit is about the value of the world’s least valuable currencies. there are notes for one unit, a semiunit, and a quarter-unit, that people irl might encounter from time to time. but mainly for use in international circles, there are coins for 100₥ (C, ‘century’), 50₥ (L, ‘half-century’), 10₥ (D, ‘dime’), 5₥ (V, ‘victor’), and 1₥ (I, ‘iota’). again, i made this years ago. it actually want it to be way less eurocentric

earth’s 336 day year of twelve 28-day months!

with constellation-based month names so that the months with numbered names (september, october etc) aren’t misaligned any more

every month begins on a new moon. the full moon is on the ides. the first of capricorn (1/1) is now both solar and lunar new year, the solstice and the new moon. the other solstice is the first of cancer (1/7) and the equinoxes are the first of aries (1/4) and the first of libra (1/10)

the islamic calendar’s months end on the ‘new moons’, beginning with the new crescent on the second or third. ramadan will no longer drift according to the solar calendar and will always be from 2 pisces (or 3) to eid’s date on 2 aries (or 3), the day after the equinox (or day after that)

the christian calendar does a lot of stuff according to full moons, which is stupid as fuck. what are you, werewolves? easter is not ‘the first sunday after the full moon after the equinox’, it’s the equinox, eid eve. fat monday is the ides of aquarius. lent and ramadan align

with venus being 8 months of 28 and mars being 24 months of 28, the three planets (and earth’s Luna (that’s its proper-noun name now (cope))) will align at the start of every mars year, on 1/1 every even-numbered earth year, every three venus years

universal third-rail electrification of all rail (even if it’s not plugged in everywhere just yet). upgrades to HST standards everywhere that’s possible (of course, that ain’t everywhere)

now – a single gauge, more accurately an interoperability principle, for a number of light-rail modes, including light rail, metro, and modern heavy trams. ‘trams’ should be the same size as metro ‘trains’ – in many places they could be the same vehicle, and the networks be fully integrated

we can build light rail tracks within heavy rail tracks so light rail can piggyback the heavy rail system, if need be

despite europe needing a new treaty, that’s not my responsibility. but i will rename the european commission to ‘european government’, the president of the commission to ‘prime minister of europe’, the council of the eu to the ‘senate’, the european council to the ‘presidium’, the president of the council to the ‘president of europe’, and the european union to ‘europe’

that is, of course, 84 venus/earth/mars days. it’ll keep its fantastic 3:2 orbital resonance, with a year lasting 1.5 mercury days

the only form difference is that the D is slightly thinner than the C

the reason i’m doing this is to standardise memory cards as using the USB-D slot. SD cards, microSD cards, microSD-express, game cards, it’s all replaced with USB cards. insert a card and it goes flush into the USB slot, click it in slightly and it’ll protrude for easy removal

anyway. the new D slots have high-wattage power capacity, displayport functionality, high quality audio output and ultra-fast data transfer all at once. if your tv gives its USB port enough power, you could power a games console using the one displayport USB. one cable, power and display

also, if you buy a game on a digital storefront, you have the legal right to print it onto a usb card, at home or at a public kiosk for only the cost of the card and the box, maybe €2

speed limits across the globe fixed to 100, 50 and 25: 100 for highways, 50 for urban arterials, and 25 for little capillary streets with children playing. we’re bringing back gears for evs, three of them, limiting the vehicle to 25, 50 or 100. no road-legal private vehicle anywhere on the planet can go faster than 100. charlie oscar papa echo

but with 1000km batteries, that means we can have battery buses everywhere, right? no!!! we need trollies! we need a massive trollification initiative to convert approximately all urban bus routes into trolley lines connected to the power grid via pantograph or (ideally) some sort of smart third rail. we need to do this so the vehicles can get elongated, articulated, like a BRT except integrated into the power system. we could even have a hybrid system where trollies can depart the tramlines from time to time to run on battery as buses. options options

so what newton referred to as blue becomes ‘teal’ (rather than cyan, so it’s teal-pink-yellow-key now), what he referred to as indigo becomes ‘blue’, and violet becomes ‘purple’

like i can understand giving products names and packaging that echo existing brands for the sake of customer familiarity, but literally what the fuck is the point of the weird ass fake companies like??

i’ll accept the existence of some true gambling as harm-reduction measures (if they’re criminalised they will go underground, out of the reach of safety regulation) that must all be registered, regulated not-for-profits, and cannot advertise. this covers charity lotteries, community-owned bingo halls that need money to keep the heating on, and sports betting at the stadium only (or online for registered, cardcarrying fanclub members ONLY) that raises money for the club foundation, for the community

make it the case everywhere that gambling for non-monetary physical and digital rewards is still gambling. shut down fifa, fortnite, genshin and umamusume pretty derby as illegal casinos. drag the ceos of ea, microsoft, tencent and ubisoft before the fucking ICC (or a sort of neo-ICC that actually works lol)

taking a profit from any gambling is considered an extreme unacceptability, like usury. house-ery. the highstreet casino is obliterated. ‘gambling’ resorts like vegas and monaco charge money at the door, charge for drinks, and charge for merch – there is no gambling. it’s all play. you cannot cash out. they’ll print your highscore on a tshirt at the end of the night (you have to buy the shirt, otherwise it counts as a prize and is gambling lol)

it doesn’t have to be this way. a metre is one light-caesium, a firm constant, but a gram is defined as the weight of 1cm³ water at max density – one hundredth of a metre, an deliberate step to turn it into a useful scale rather than the Very Big 1m³, a million times bigger thanks to the square-cube law (which would be equal to one Mg & one kl)

but why not do it the other way round? why not say that a m³ of cold water (a kilolitre) is one kilogram, and one thousandth of that is a milligram. so the kg becomes a g, the same frame of reference as m and l. the g becomes an mg, the mg becomes a μg, and the μg becomes a ng. and the Mg (“tonne”) becomes the new Kg

the orders-of-magnitude of numbers, with billion being ‘two’ and trillion being ‘three’ is totally nonsense. they’re 10ˣ going up in three, but a billion is 10³⁽³⁾ and a trillion is 10³⁽⁴⁾. it’s based on multiples after a thousand, but why? should a trillion be written as 10,000³⁽³⁾? nonsense

you get given your number when you’re born, but you have the option to change it to a new one at any point (which numbers became which is like, the closest, most extremely guarded secret). this number is the entirety of your identity as far as the state is concerned – you have absolute sovereignty over any names and marriages and the state and its law are involved in absolutely no way at all

there’s no birthdate on the adult id, just ‘18+’. and to make sure your birthday can’t be inferred, there’s no expiry month, with all ids expiring on Sagittarius 28th of their expiry year, which is randomised between 7 and 13 years after issuing

usage of the loophole typically means it becomes illegal to flag down a “private-hire” vehicle without pre-booking – with the loophole gone, all cabs become flaggable. the hitchhiker’s thumb becomes the typical way of doing it

all territories move to a Pay-As-You-Earn system for all employees. income tax is taken out of your payroll automatically, all money u get is after tax. NO employed person has to ‘do their taxes’. places (like the uk) with multiple separate income taxations (‘national insurance contributions’) simply have them folded together as one rate

mandatory car insurance is done by a public entity to prevent profiteering, and it’s through this single payment that car tax is taken, including odometer tax. i know odo tax is supposed to be the replacement for petrol tax for electric vehicles, but petrol cars should pay both lmao. similarly, municipal home insurance is taken through the property tax payment that outright-homeowners pay, which itself is collected as a single payment with mortgages or rent for everyone else. this single property payment is also where all utility ‘bills’ are payed (power, water, network), if any money is to be charged at all (most places should move to a quota & tariff system)

all list prices include sales tax. places that don’t do that are fucken insane

diabetic people may be mad at me for this, so i’ll compromise by standardising all diabetes as being non-existent. so we’re even

and yes, to stress the fact, under divine law you can eat & drink whatever you want without consequences*. this is already the case, but i think divine codification will help people believe it

every kitchen tap becomes one of those modern electric ones that can do instant boiled water (with a child lock!), and a carbon inserter and suds inserter, both from replaceable tanks under the sink

yes, the 888 model (8 hours work, 8 hours recreation, 8 hours rest) is fully compatible with 6 hour shifts (one of which is lunch) and 6 hour sleeps. you’ll probably be doing two hours of errands and/or travel, and i want u to be doing 2 hours of awake rest, not recreating, doing literally fuckall

adults gain access to the Language Acquisition Device that children don’t have (chomsky was wrong). proximity and exposure to a linguistic community fills u with an insatiable compulsion to figure out what they’re on about. u don’t really need to think, just immerse yourself and it’ll start happening, quite quickly. this compulsion only begins to subside when people reach their fifth or sixth language. this leads to the development of Codecs that can blast the language into your ears after listening for only a few hundred hours or so

in terms of telephones, 128GB becomes the new 1Tb, 256GB is 2Tb, 512GB is 4Tb, 1TB is 8Tb, etc. so, the 1Tb mark is the high water level of an acceptable size for a video game

now. the coalition of network companies responsible for network standardisations have pencilled in the start of next decade for the launch of 6G. top of their agenda is efficiency, which is awesome because 5G is terrible for this, try download something big and your phone gets hotter than the sun. they also prioritise speed, naturally, and early tests show that 6Gb/s is possible

the forced transition from meat will be a financial burden for many of these farms. support collective farms to make the transition easier, but for farms owned by farmer-landowners, give the parasites nothing except an easier avenue to collectivisation, and amnesty. the standardisation of socialist beliefs can cause extreme cognitive dissonance in the parasite’s brain, as evidenced with the immediate suicide of the starlink proprietor. collectivisation is an offramp for the farmer-landowner, one which all should take to resume work as waged and qualified farmer-managers

with landownership no longer a de facto requisite for a career in agricultural management, agricultural education can expand and begin producing far more farmer-managers (the job previously referred to as “farmers”), enabling professionalisation, modernisation and success

intercity and international rail will not be subject to this standardisation – it will be the onus of states to make that free if they want to. heavily tax mediumhaul flights and ban shorthaul flights, except over genuinely impassible terrain. no, navigable water is not impassible terrain

it’s easy peasy lemon squeezy to built a driverless metro these days, but it’s difficult difficult lemon difficult to upgrade an existing one to driverless. so i’ll give them a bit of divine intervention and say that all non-hybrid metro lines are given the capacity to become driverless, should they want. hybrid metro-heavy lines like the new one in london and my theoretical hybrid metro-tram lines are of course exempt and must always have drivers

next year, 5725, will mark the inauguration of the new un world economic council’s first global Five Year Plan. the three priorities are 1) anti-imperialism for sufficient prosperity, 2) green industry and 3) belt and road

old B&R is sort of superseded with a far more ambitious version with everyone’s support. we need giant heavy highspeed freight trains across the eastern continent: the Silk Railroad from Beijing to Baghdad then Berlin and Cairo, there creating a panafrican rail network key to african industrial development with trains west and south; a Northern Railroad from Berlin to Beijing via Moscow; from Baghdad a Belt Railroad (South) to Karachi then Delhi then Dhaka; and a Belt Railroad (East) from Beijing to HCM City then Bangkok. the Dhaka-Bangkok link to unify the belt would be a decadeslong megaproject that we should of course begin, so before it’s completed we reroute trains going west from SEA going up china to the silk road at Xi’an

in addition, local mutuals are part of a municipal banking guild. guild-and-fed. branches & guilds servelocal projects and people, feds loan to state projects. the autonomous local mutual bank is designed as one of the many possible systems replacing landlording. it’s a Building Society: local mutuals can give little mortgages to replace private rent – it’s like rent, but every month you’re buying a percent of ur place. u can still contract a building manager, and the guilds organise manager companies with the municipality. mutual mortgages sit alongside municipal renting, or municipal free lodging. options options

the local banking guilds can share employees across feds, allowing them to share the same buildings. post office workers can also serve as guild cashiers, allowing access to a human for anyone who needs it

also, the Open Banking initiative is taken to the next level with federal governments developing a single Bank App using the os dev’s official sdk, plugging into every fed’s systems and allowing u to access all your money in one place. this is also where ur property payments are organised (mortgage/rent, including tax and utility), AND automatically-taxed payslips. it’s all here

france and italy’s regions become provinces. germany and austria’s länder become provinces. poland’s województwa become provinces. spain’s autonomous communities become provinces. and when england finishes its current regional reorganisation, they’ll be called provinces rather than “strategic authorities”🤢

ban ban ban the naming of stadia and entire teams after sponsorships. psv and bayer and red bull will have to change. ban shirt sponsorships. ban the building of new massive stadia where a co-ownership situation between several teams is feasible. u don’t need all that

abolish uefa and replace it with a new uef underneath the asian football confederation, because “europe” is really northwest asia innit

and one more thing. the time has come. for a single united unisex federal promotion/relegation european league

we can do it. we have the will. we have the technology

a big chunk of alphabet is moving to 🇨🇳china, including development of android, which is being renamed Jiqi (机器), short for 机器人, robot. going forward it’ll be considered as fully separate from the rest of linux as the world’s fourth major os. major manufacturers fucking stop doing their own versions of Jiqi. some do, but they’re mainly for specialty products. the code is opening, as are all devices, so you’re free to create or install any Jiqi fork you please. and as a fork of linux, it remains a theoretical possibility for Jiqi to be developed into a full computer os, the shitty little so-called “chromeos” notwithstanding

a big chunk of microslop is moving to 🇮🇳india. unlike Jiqi, however, this is being considered a legacy management project. windows & the NT kernel is being renamed Suryast (सूर्यास्त), sunset, because this shit is being sunsetted. windows is simply too shit to be allowed to continue existing. the source is opening, and the new Suryast team will do their best to keep the world’s infrastructure running smoothly during the transition away from it

it’s a similar case for Darwin, the apple os/kernel. however because of apple’s business strategy of being a jealous shithead over its soft & firmware, Darwin’s ended up being far less integrated into global infrastructure. this means it’s not an imperative to end it. the source is opening, the license is opening, and Darwin can remain in development in a quiet little corner of california

then there’s Linux, a thing also too critical to remain in north america – but unlike microslop, that’s a compliment. by right of dibs, the linux foudation is coming home to 🇪🇺europe. “but doesn’t that say fondation” yeah it’s europe so it’s french “but isn’t french backwards so don’t that say ‘foundation linux’” well see here that’s the thing. the fondation is going to be developing its own official distro, also named Fondation (фондатион). the french and the european governments are keenly interested in linux, and an inhouse all-european Official distro will help them greatly, as it will the consumer transition. most people are needlessly scared of linux, so the mere appearance of a ‘stock’ version will calm them. we’ll be seeing laptops running Fondation appearing on shelves. maybe soon we’ll see a Fondation phone. glory to linux, and its prophet, Fondation

u can take it back to the public printer and it’ll tell you how much is left on the card. it can also take it and send the money to your bank card (but not give u cash, sorry)

all tracking loyalty systems are banned, meaning the only two ways u can pay for shit is cash or card (card including bank and prepayment). so when u press the pay button at the self-checkout, the contactless activates immediately without u having to select payment type like dam

and for the currency areas that have the 20¢/25¢ interval, that’s being abolished. in europe for example, the only three coins will be 10¢, 50¢ and €1 (€2 also goes). extremely large banknotes also go, such as €200, €100, and €50, leaving europe with only €20, €10, and €5. and the 10¢’s alloy should become bronze-colour and the 50¢ should be replaced with nickel. bronze silver gold innit

and the human mouth’s development of plaque is reduced. so many animals have better ways of preventing it than us – dogs so much that they can just have a chewey every so often. humans are standardised as only needing mouthwash or maybe chewing gum, “daily” for ritualisation but in truth it can be every few days

and earwax is abolished. “oh but it fights infections” yeah uuh can the ears fight infections with something less fucken disgusting

the standardised aspect ratio, currently 16:9, becomes an approximation of √2:1, ~4.25:3. this gives it the magical property of being the same ratio again when doubled and halved: halve an A4 and it becomes an A5, unfold your folding phone and it’s the same ratio as before

approximation of course, because √2 is irrational and pixels are finite. i’ll be taking the current formats and extending them upwards so they display fine: 1080p (named for its height) remains 1920 wide and is extended to 1358. 1440 is replaced entirely with two 1920s: 1920 tall, 2716 wide. then 4k (2160x3840) becomes 2716x3840

and yes, it is only an approximation of pythagoras’ ratio, but it’s very close: if you put two 4k screens together and upscale a 4k image to use all 3840 pixels of height, a similarly-upscaled horizontal axis would undershoot the new screen by only three columns of pixels. three pixels across two 4k screens is pretty precise

the upscaling might be a little fucky but tbh this shit’s designed for folding phones and other crazy things. only devices with the computational ability would ever be asked to do this

letterboxes and pillarboxes look like this:

all broadcasts and telly shows must be in √2:1. letterboxing on telly shows to pretend like it’s cinema is a scourge and must be crushed. all new cinema construction must be for tallscreen (like imax), and existing widescreen theatres can do what they can do embiggen themselves upwards and downwards rather than shrink themselves lengthways. film can be shorter than tallscreen, but giant letterboxing is uncommon

in order to broadcast a pillarboxed 1920x1358 image onto a 1920x1080 screen, the downscale will lose approximately 20% of its pixels. whoops

all current ISBNs begin with either the digits 978 or 979, occupying the space of an IAN country code to declare that this is an ISBN (in the country of ‘Bookland’), then two digits for the geographic region (a maximum of 100 regions on earth, so many states have to share), then four for the publisher, three for the individual title (yeah only 1000 books per publisher before they need a new code), and one check digit. they were running out of ISBNs, which is why in 2007 they had to give Bookland a second country code. 979 used to be Musicland, the country code of sheet music, before the Bookland nation attacked. all this has done is doubled the possible number of ISBNs, delaying the problem until later

moving to an alphanumeric system solves this supply issue. instead of 1000 possible country codes, there’s 39304

so for ISPNs, instead of 100 there’s over 1000 two-character region codes (which can become ‘registrar codes’), and instead of 10k there’s over a million meg possible publisher codes per registrar, and instead of 1k there’s now 40k possible ISPNs per publisher, for forty billion gig possible ISPNs per registrar and forty trillion tera in only one of Bookland’s two existing IAN county codes

the reason i’m doing this is because i want everything published to be given a ISPN. sheet music and magazine publications already get them, and some registrars are assigning them for other things. so now everything everything everything everything that can be considered ‘published’ gets an ISPN, from film to telly to game

every edition of a work gets a unique ISBN (hardback, paperback, ebook, audiobook etc) and this principle applies to the expanded ISPN. the individual entries can be collated together, but they are separate. so all the many many rereleases of films get their own ISPNs - the IMAX version gets an ISPN while the general theatric gets an ISPN and the streaming release gets an ISPN. and the dvd gets an ISPN and the bluray gets an ISPN and the 4kbluray gets an ISPN, except for the fact that those are being replaced with USB card video releases, which of course gets an ISPN

there’s an ISPN for each video game release on each storefront, but only retrospectively. going forward it’ll be a platform-by-platform thing, one ISPN for Linux, one ISPN for legacy Suryast etc. all digital storefronts offer the ability to transfer your game by packeting it into a code, letting u give it to a friend or sell it on an open market, or even to a different library system if it offers that game (incl the USB card printing kiosks). you can have multiple copies of the same game on all storefronts. all storefronts must offer a guarantee of transfer should they ever close, like is occurring with the deprecation of the Xbox store as a quasi-automatic migration of its libraries to steam: all existing xbox machines (none new shall be wrought unto this earth, and the Xbox 5 is cancelled) are now considered as running Suryast and can play all steam releases that are Suryast compatible, and u can run all xbox games on steam (forevermore, as windows/xbox -> linux translation is super easy)

This week, we going on a city tour

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righthand drive everywhere. as a courtesy i’ll flip all lefthand vehicles on the z axis

standard plug socket everywhere. i don’t think there’s a single best plug (sorry tom scott) but it will be earthed, fused and switched, and 50hz

in fact… the explosion in the number of gtlds lacks any sort of coherency. icann icannot handle this responsibility, so begin retiring most of them. regional registrars are far better prepared for this job to control subdomains under their cctld

even tho irl the anglosphere needs to adopt dd/mm/yyyy as the agreed date format, with the divine ability i can make yyyy/mm/dd the global format. what’s important is that it’s in a correct order. mm/dd/yyyy is insane

1 january is always a monday, and 30 december is always a monday (31 is tuesday), and then it goes back to monday. every date is the same day of the week every year

in fact let’s speed up venus to -24 evil hours. year being -224.7 evil days. making venus spin may reduce the effects of solar radiation in the daytime. but the coriolis effect? on venus? oh baby. oh baby

also, standardise europe as being inside europe. no guyana. no caribbean. no africa. no pacific. no nothing

get all of the eu+ on Central European Time (utc+1). france and spain and benelux are already on utc+1 despite their solar time being closer to ±0, so portugal and ireland and doggerland and the uk can fuckin easily join

similarly, greece, bulgaria, romania, moldova, ukraine, the baltics & finland should join +1 from +2. if spain can, they can

it had to be arbitrary – it’s not like there’s a clear midpoint of earth’s geography, right?

BUT THERE IS: Iŋaluk - the “Diomede Islands”. at pretty much exactly 169°W (11° east of the current meridian), there’s a gap between earth’s eastern and western continents, with two symbolic islands standing either side. the current meridian is well into siberia, cutting off the entire chukotka peninsula. it’s the politically-determined dateline that currently separates the islands. this gap should serve as earth’s prime meridian. the new 180° proceeds south, separating aleutia’s Umnak and Chuginadak islands, crossing the Hawai’ian ridge, going just east of johnston atoll, passing tokelau, then going justtt east of occupied east samoa and niue

on the other side, 11° east passes approximately here:

justtt shaving about 4km off the end of spitsbergen, the line passes east of trondheim and oslo, down the gap between fyn and sjælland, halfway between lübeck and schwerin, past the lidl on eislebenerstraße in erfurt, through the pizza hut on fronmüllerstraße in fürth/nuremburg, through verona, just east of modena and just west of florence, cutting off a little bit of tunisia’s cape bon, and passing off the coast of sfax to make landfall on djerba island. through the sahara, then just west of gombe in nigeria, about halfway between douala and yaounde, through eastern equatorial guinea and reaching the new 0,0 point at gabon’s RN2 road. then south to the ocean

so, unified european time becomes the new utc±0 rather than +1. west iberia and most of ireland goes under 90 minutes discrepancy, kharkyvshchina and zaporyzhzhiashchina go over 90 minutes

🇷🇺🇺🇦🇧🇬и, 🇧🇾i -> 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿i

🇷🇺🇧🇾ы, 🇺🇦i, 🇧🇬ъ -> 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿y

🇺🇦г -> 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿g, even if it’s pronounced different in ukraine

й -> j

x -> h

ч -> č

ш -> š, or ś from russian only

щ -> šč, or š from russian only

ж -> ž

ь -> ’

я, е/є, ï, ë & ю will become either ja, je, ji, jo & ju or á, é, í, ó & ú, according to preference (official & proper transliterations should be in the latter)

“Krushchev went from Kherson to Kyiv” -> Hrušóv went from Herson to Kijiv

netball is standardised into basketball

…one little thing tho. whenever a cent or two-cent is withdrawn from circulation, legislation is never passed to abolish the 1¢ & 2¢ interval, meaning prices remain listed in units that don’t exist (like 99¢), and u have to round up your change at the till. that’s about as insane as a price being listed as 1.5¢ right now. it doesn’t exist yet still legally exists

so pass the legislation officially dividing these currencies into ten (and only ten) subunits. a euro isn’t divided into a hundred cents, it’s divided into ten ten-cents. it’ll still be correct notation to list prices as 10¢, 20¢ etc, but that’s just notation. units below 10 don’t exist. and prices will not be listed below 10. the closest u can get to 99¢ is 90¢

nationalise (for lack of a better term) the wbg, imf and wto into the un, under a permanent economic council (i guess the closest thing we’ll have to a standing world congress). then mandate all wto trade to happen through the wto ¤Unit (brics named it the Unit, not me). ¤Units minted by the world bank and exchanged for forex, forex deposited in the world bank. ¤Unit backed by the forex – most of which would be from larger economies to begin with, of course. rich countries ‘taxed’ with worse exchange rates to fund better exchange rates for poor countries

universal obverse sides, and various reverse sides for different currency areas

one ¤Unit split into 1000₥, or 1,000,000μ. one microunit is about the value of the world’s least valuable currencies. there are notes for one unit, a semiunit, and a quarter-unit, that people irl might encounter from time to time. but mainly for use in international circles, there are coins for 100₥ (C, ‘century’), 50₥ (L, ‘half-century’), 10₥ (D, ‘dime’), 5₥ (V, ‘victor’), and 1₥ (I, ‘iota’). again, i made this years ago. it actually want it to be way less eurocentric

earth’s 336 day year of twelve 28-day months!

with constellation-based month names so that the months with numbered names (september, october etc) aren’t misaligned any more

every month begins on a new moon. the full moon is on the ides. the first of capricorn (1/1) is now both solar and lunar new year, the solstice and the new moon. the other solstice is the first of cancer (1/7) and the equinoxes are the first of aries (1/4) and the first of libra (1/10)

the islamic calendar’s months end on the ‘new moons’, beginning with the new crescent on the second or third. ramadan will no longer drift according to the solar calendar and will always be from 2 pisces (or 3) to eid’s date on 2 aries (or 3), the day after the equinox (or day after that)

the christian calendar does a lot of stuff according to full moons, which is stupid as fuck. what are you, werewolves? easter is not ‘the first sunday after the full moon after the equinox’, it’s the equinox, eid eve. fat monday is the ides of aquarius. lent and ramadan align

with venus being 8 months of 28 and mars being 24 months of 28, the three planets (and earth’s Luna (that’s its proper-noun name now (cope))) will align at the start of every mars year, on 1/1 every even-numbered earth year, every three venus years

universal third-rail electrification of all rail (even if it’s not plugged in everywhere just yet). upgrades to HST standards everywhere that’s possible (of course, that ain’t everywhere)

now – a single gauge, more accurately an interoperability principle, for a number of light-rail modes, including light rail, metro, and modern heavy trams. ‘trams’ should be the same size as metro ‘trains’ – in many places they could be the same vehicle, and the networks be fully integrated

we can build light rail tracks within heavy rail tracks so light rail can piggyback the heavy rail system, if need be

despite europe needing a new treaty, that’s not my responsibility. but i will rename the european commission to ‘european government’, the president of the commission to ‘prime minister of europe’, the council of the eu to the ‘senate’, the european council to the ‘presidium’, the president of the council to the ‘president of europe’, and the european union to ‘europe’

that is, of course, 84 venus/earth/mars days. it’ll keep its fantastic 3:2 orbital resonance, with a year lasting 1.5 mercury days

the only form difference is that the D is slightly thinner than the C

the reason i’m doing this is to standardise memory cards as using the USB-D slot. SD cards, microSD cards, microSD-express, game cards, it’s all replaced with USB cards. insert a card and it goes flush into the USB slot, click it in slightly and it’ll protrude for easy removal

anyway. the new D slots have high-wattage power capacity, displayport functionality, high quality audio output and ultra-fast data transfer all at once. if your tv gives its USB port enough power, you could power a games console using the one displayport USB. one cable, power and display

also, if you buy a game on a digital storefront, you have the legal right to print it onto a usb card, at home or at a public kiosk for only the cost of the card and the box, maybe €2

speed limits across the globe fixed to 100, 50 and 25: 100 for highways, 50 for urban arterials, and 25 for little capillary streets with children playing. we’re bringing back gears for evs, three of them, limiting the vehicle to 25, 50 or 100. no road-legal private vehicle anywhere on the planet can go faster than 100. charlie oscar papa echo

but with 1000km batteries, that means we can have battery buses everywhere, right? no!!! we need trollies! we need a massive trollification initiative to convert approximately all urban bus routes into trolley lines connected to the power grid via pantograph or (ideally) some sort of smart third rail. we need to do this so the vehicles can get elongated, articulated, like a BRT except integrated into the power system. we could even have a hybrid system where trollies can depart the tramlines from time to time to run on battery as buses. options options

so what newton referred to as blue becomes ‘teal’ (rather than cyan, so it’s teal-pink-yellow-key now), what he referred to as indigo becomes ‘blue’, and violet becomes ‘purple’

like i can understand giving products names and packaging that echo existing brands for the sake of customer familiarity, but literally what the fuck is the point of the weird ass fake companies like??

i’ll accept the existence of some true gambling as harm-reduction measures (if they’re criminalised they will go underground, out of the reach of safety regulation) that must all be registered, regulated not-for-profits, and cannot advertise. this covers charity lotteries, community-owned bingo halls that need money to keep the heating on, and sports betting at the stadium only (or online for registered, cardcarrying fanclub members ONLY) that raises money for the club foundation, for the community

make it the case everywhere that gambling for non-monetary physical and digital rewards is still gambling. shut down fifa, fortnite, genshin and umamusume pretty derby as illegal casinos. drag the ceos of ea, microsoft, tencent and ubisoft before the fucking ICC (or a sort of neo-ICC that actually works lol)

taking a profit from any gambling is considered an extreme unacceptability, like usury. house-ery. the highstreet casino is obliterated. ‘gambling’ resorts like vegas and monaco charge money at the door, charge for drinks, and charge for merch – there is no gambling. it’s all play. you cannot cash out. they’ll print your highscore on a tshirt at the end of the night (you have to buy the shirt, otherwise it counts as a prize and is gambling lol)

it doesn’t have to be this way. a metre is one light-caesium, a firm constant, but a gram is defined as the weight of 1cm³ water at max density – one hundredth of a metre, an deliberate step to turn it into a useful scale rather than the Very Big 1m³, a million times bigger thanks to the square-cube law (which would be equal to one Mg & one kl)

but why not do it the other way round? why not say that a m³ of cold water (a kilolitre) is one kilogram, and one thousandth of that is a milligram. so the kg becomes a g, the same frame of reference as m and l. the g becomes an mg, the mg becomes a μg, and the μg becomes a ng. and the Mg (“tonne”) becomes the new Kg

the orders-of-magnitude of numbers, with billion being ‘two’ and trillion being ‘three’ is totally nonsense. they’re 10ˣ going up in three, but a billion is 10³⁽³⁾ and a trillion is 10³⁽⁴⁾. it’s based on multiples after a thousand, but why? should a trillion be written as 10,000³⁽³⁾? nonsense

you get given your number when you’re born, but you have the option to change it to a new one at any point (which numbers became which is like, the closest, most extremely guarded secret). this number is the entirety of your identity as far as the state is concerned – you have absolute sovereignty over any names and marriages and the state and its law are involved in absolutely no way at all

there’s no birthdate on the adult id, just ‘18+’. and to make sure your birthday can’t be inferred, there’s no expiry month, with all ids expiring on Sagittarius 28th of their expiry year, which is randomised between 7 and 13 years after issuing

usage of the loophole typically means it becomes illegal to flag down a “private-hire” vehicle without pre-booking – with the loophole gone, all cabs become flaggable. the hitchhiker’s thumb becomes the typical way of doing it

all territories move to a Pay-As-You-Earn system for all employees. income tax is taken out of your payroll automatically, all money u get is after tax. NO employed person has to ‘do their taxes’. places (like the uk) with multiple separate income taxations (‘national insurance contributions’) simply have them folded together as one rate

mandatory car insurance is done by a public entity to prevent profiteering, and it’s through this single payment that car tax is taken, including odometer tax. i know odo tax is supposed to be the replacement for petrol tax for electric vehicles, but petrol cars should pay both lmao. similarly, municipal home insurance is taken through the property tax payment that outright-homeowners pay, which itself is collected as a single payment with mortgages or rent for everyone else. this single property payment is also where all utility ‘bills’ are payed (power, water, network), if any money is to be charged at all (most places should move to a quota & tariff system)

all list prices include sales tax. places that don’t do that are fucken insane

diabetic people may be mad at me for this, so i’ll compromise by standardising all diabetes as being non-existent. so we’re even

and yes, to stress the fact, under divine law you can eat & drink whatever you want without consequences*. this is already the case, but i think divine codification will help people believe it

This week, the robbers are doing chores

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stenographer: well her bio says she/her...

me: better play it safe anyway [writes "it"]

the ghost of marie curie: [appears out of thin air] ivy... you're the first person to ever correctly gender me in a hundred and eighty-two years. from the bottom of my cold dead heart, thank you.

me: [dies of radiation poisoning]