things you're secretly kinda fascisty about

do we really need beck around anymore?

mandatory name changes for people whose names are irritating variations on common names. Kaytlynnes become Caitlins, Madysyns become Madison, Jaydens become...murdered. there should be a Federal Registry of Baby names and it should maintain a blacklists of names that cannot legally appear on a birth certificate. shitstirring names like Hitler and Zyklon and Holocaust would be legal, though. I don't mind parents telegraphing that their children will grow up to be terrible people as long as they don't make cutesy substitutions like Hitlyrr or Xyclon or Hailiecaust.

― flopson and jetsam (unregistered), Monday, February 13, 2012 1:47 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i think the opposite actually, only 50 people allowed per spelling of name, if you want to call your kid erica you gotta think of a better way to spell it

Hey what you got against Erica?!

i don't know if therapy does much for a lot of sex offenders? probably constant monitoring does more good than anything. but i'm really no expert. i'm sure they dope people up a ton to lessen urges and stuff.

― scott seward, Monday, February 13, 2012 1:50 PM (38 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah. sometimes i wonder if this is because nobody has tried very hard to change the behavior of sex offenders. but i don't really knwo what i'm talking about here.

erykah

I have an unusual name and I like it and would hate to have a boring first name like 'max' or 'goole', tho if 300 million people all had weird names it would prob lead to a lot of wasted time w/ people spelling their names I guess

erykah banu

like I actually have spent a decent % of my life spelling my name for people, come to think of it

oh dayo reminds me: religion is mandatory and the religion is baduizm, i.e. erykah badu is god

iirc whenever dan savage opines about child molesters he says they p much have to be castrated or locked up cuz the urges don't go away

iirc

lol I just googled and found someone named "Airikah Nicole". I should prob start spelling mine like that too, huh?

"My son is _also_ named Bort!"

I have an unusual name and I like it and would hate to have a boring first name like 'max' or 'goole', tho if 300 million people all had weird names it would prob lead to a lot of wasted time w/ people spelling their names I guess

― iatee, Monday, February 13, 2012 1:53 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

when your name sounds a lot like "matt" you spend a lot of time spelling it anyway, even if its boring

that's an argument for short names tho, cause you save time. so everyone should have a randomly assigned 3 letter name, w/ every combination of the alphabet

"interesting...*tells govt*"

I'll take 'max'

xps

also, any ilx interface must show when new posts have been made during the composition of your post, to avoid confusion

ilx is a libertarian survival of the fittest atmosphere iirc so maybe we should allocate posting rights for slow typers

i think the opposite actually, only 50 people allowed per spelling of name, if you want to call your kid erica you gotta think of a better way to spell it

― max, Monday, 13 February 2012 18:52 (24 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

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rryq moranis

close (almost) all tax loopholes. a certain portion of everything anyone makes/earns goes to taxes, period. taxes should be steeply progressive, but no matter how much anyone makes, i'd cap them at abt 50%.

as others have said, fund all schools equally. ok w private schools tho.

anyone who can't pay gets free, single-payer basic healthcare simply as a reward for existing. same with basic food/clothing/shelter stuff. otoh, there should be systems by which those who receive such things and are unemployed work on behalf of the gov't, to the extent that they're able and there's a legit need.

gov't should sink TONS of money into R&D in every industry. and should forcibly wean us of our dependence on petroleum.

people should basically be forced to live in cities to the extent possible. single family homes and cars are a cancer, and the government should do everything possible to reduce our dependence on such things.

gov't should regulate the hell out of banks and other financial institutions and strongly limit market speculation.

see yr mandatory 2nd language in schools and raise you one business/economic module

no ratings on music/movies

if school's not for you, monitored and mandatory training/apprenticeship (yr pick of field)

no fucking startup offers on goods/services, it costs what it costs

CEO's are personally liable, whatever it was

you can use autotune if you like, but you then can't charge anyone for the track. yr pick.

I am 100% secretly fascist about religion

if a lead character physically assaults someone more than twice then IT'S A FUCKIN ACTION MOVIE

okay, education-wise, every public high school student should be required to take a mandatory *how to apply for a job/how to fill out a job appication* class. totally painful over the years to see kids come into a place i work and not even be physically capable of speaking to a human. or near-human, in my case. i could totally teach them in ten minutes how to get a job, but i'm busy, like, smoking and looking at the internet and stuff.

"application"

and its totally one of those things that might be one of the most important things they learn in school. if they learned it.

you

you don't have that?

hahahahahha no

that said all we ended up with was an economy full of useless fuckers that wow you at interview

successful and/or rich people must spend one hour of each day reflecting upon how their status can be partially attributed to dumb luck.

Funny, I was just thinking about Alan McGee. He really should have done that hour a day.

anything that lessened his time as a label boss, sure

Well, he "was the one that made the J&MC, House of Love, Oasis and Primal Scream, of course I can start anew with Poptones!"

Sorry, find you are mistaken.

Greenhouse emissions.

In a just world, SUV owners and McMansion buyers would be first against the wall.

we have had a lot of people going on maternity/paternity leave at work and i'm tired of picking up their slack so i would like to be granted non-maternity leave as a benefit for not having kids, and i think it should be the law

heartily supported, in a similar situation atm

I am big time supporter of primary/secondary school uniforms....

designed by Hugo Boss

j/k on the last bit, couldn't help myself, sorry.

we have had a lot of people going on maternity/paternity leave at work and i'm tired of picking up their slack so i would like to be granted non-maternity leave as a benefit for not having kids, and i think it should be the law

― kim tim jim investor (harbl), Monday, February 13, 2012 6:46 PM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I can see how this would be really annoying BUT I think it's pretty much criminal that there is no standard federal maternity leave law in the US beyond the 3 month unpaid BS in the FMLA.

i work for st govt but i think people are still unpaid. i know it's not a vacation, i just think there should be leave for everyone is all. not that fascisty i guess

People from other countries are seriously astounded when they find out that we don't have one and I'm similarly astounded when my friends in the UK get to stay at home for nearly 10 months (yes, I know that's not at full pay).

x-post - Yeah everyone should be able to take some time off tbh. I would be pissed too if I were in that position, I think.

iirc we're at about 6 month's and i think it might even be full pay, with an option of another couple unpaid after.

Whether that's public sector only (or if it's even accurate) i couldn't say

Anyway, once i'm in, it'll be out. A long weekend is all yer gettin

lol

D-Mac - that sounds similar to what they have in the UK. Here companies are required to let a woman take up to 3 months but don't have to pay a cent. A lot of places who do offer paid maternity leave cap it at 6 weeks. SIX WEEKS!

I don't know much in the way of babbies but I do know that 6 week old ones are still very very small.

that is small, ime many of them can't even use simple survival tools like i dunno can openers or microwaves til at least a year

FMLA

seriously don't know, hard to imagine this is not fuck my life, america

back to spirit of thread and points previously touched upon:-

Murderers, rapists, child abusers and ppl driving slowly in the fast lane would be dealt with a minimum of expense to the public purse