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[–] [email protected] 106 points 1 year ago (3 children)

It's illegal to have your remains decomposed naturally (or one of those cool new methods like composting or alkaline hydrolysis). You're legally required to be stuffed full of embalming chemicals and buried in a box, or cremated, polluting the air and wasting bioavailable nutrients, to be turned into high pH, high sodium ashes.

I think this is because the laws were mainly created by Catholics (this is Louisiana, where we have parishes instead of counties), and people are still too superstitious to make sense.

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

We have a lot of weird hangups on dead bodies and disposal. I wish I could just be buried under a tree when I die.

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

This is what I want. It’s a chance to continue living, even after my consciousness has passed. My death will feed new life, and I find that beautiful.

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

A friend of mine has his will or whatever say in regards to his body "gut me like a fish". And I'm with him on this. Harveat whatever organs are still usefull then just use the rest of me as fetilizer. No need for my body to stop being useful to someone somewhere or hell even being useful to the rest of nature.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I just want to be tossed in the woods and let nature do its course. No embalming, no wasting my ATP with cremation...

What better legacy than to let your body feed into a food web, and have your energy continually transfered between organisms?

Naturally recycling our bodies is kind of a beautiful process of energy exchange, and I think it should be celebrated instead of being so uncomfortable with death as a society that we want to spend all this unnecessary time and money trying to preserve a dead body and sealing it in concrete tomb. It's just dumb...

I just want to be scavenged and fertilize the damn soil. Just toss my limp ass in the woods when I'm dead.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I get the idea that people don't want to get their neighbors' grandpa seeping into shallow groundwater.

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

When I die, just throw me in the trash.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Catholics weren't really allowed to be cremated until Vatican 2, in the 60s.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Vatican 2: The New Vaticaning

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

Vatican 2: Holy Boogaloo

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[–] [email protected] 74 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I live in Hesse, Germany. The dumbest law I know about (that's still in use but rarely enforced) is this:

Aus der Altstadtsatzung der nordhessischen Kleinstadt Bad Sooden-Allendorf: In § 10 Abs. 6 ist geregelt, dass „Sonnenschirme […] beige-, pastell- oder sandfarbig“ sein müssen. Wer dieser Regelung zuwiderhandelt, begeht eine Ordnungswidrigkeit und kann nach dem Gesetz über Ordnungswidrigkeiten (OWiG) mit einer Geldbuße von bis zu 15.000 Euro bestraft werden.

Translation: In that particular town, sun umbrellas have to be pastel/cream colors. If you put one up that is too bright / too dark / too whatever, it can lead to a fine of 15.000€ (ca. $16,700).

Source: https://www.bad-sooden-allendorf.de/politik-ortsrecht/satzungen

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago

Man that is a way steeper fine than I was expecting!

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Is it enforced? And... why?

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago

In all honesty? I have absolutely no idea why this law exists. I only know that, when my mother went to rehab there after a car crash, she wasn't allowed to bring her black umbrella because the facility didn't want to risk a lawsuit. It wasn't even a SUN umbrella, mind you, but they still didn't want to allow it. That's the only reason I know about this dumb law in the first place.

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

$16,700 is why

[–] [email protected] 73 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Blue Laws

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

…Blah blah can’t desecrate the sabbath with alcohol…

¯\( ツ )

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago

Not only can you buy liquor on Sundays in Massachusetts these days, but they even went and legalized tattoos!

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (9 children)

Come to the Chicagoland. Not only can you buy alcohol on Sundays but you can buy it pretty much wherever you want (gas stations, Walgreens, CVS, etc.).

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[–] [email protected] 52 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Until a couple of months ago it was illegal in Sweden for a restaurant owner to allow spontaneous dancing if they did not have a dancing permit. Since July this year they don't have to apply for a permit but still have to notify authorities about arranged dancing.

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[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 year ago (1 children)

In France, it is illegal to name your pig Napoleon.

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

common france L

[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Can't buy beer or wine at Walmart before noon on Sundays. But there's totally a war on Christianity here lol.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

My entire county used to be dry on sundays,..... but I live 2 min from the wv state line and they give no fucks if you Wana get hammered at 7am Sunday so it was pointless. Now we have Sunday sales after like 10 or so I believe, maybe earlier.

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

You can buy alcohol on Sunday??

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Only the last year or so. We had a special thing on the ballot because Republicans were sure it wouldn't pass. It did but still has that noon stipulation.

And side rant here but I'm sick of local people acting like I'm an alcoholic for this bothering me. No, I don't need to drink before noon. I do however schedule my grocery shopping for Sundays before noon as I am a mail carrier with Sunday being my only permanent day off. And I shop in the morning while everyone is at church to beat the crowds. Having to go back out hours later for only alcohol is bullshit.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

I don't even drink and I think those laws are insanity

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It's technically illegal to consume alcohol in your own backyard if you can be seen from the outside.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Mine is J-walking even though police officers J-walk

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

I think most people don't know what the jay walking laws are.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I appreciate the law in Massachusetts, USA where jaywalking is so common that the fine was reduced to $1 for the first three times in a year and a whopping $2 for each time after that.

You can't remove the law, but you can make it silly enough that it's never enforced.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I don't even know what j walking is

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

A made up crime created by the auto industry.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Crossing the street at a place that is not a designated crossing area.

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm from Seattle, Washington, and it's illegal to pretend your parents are rich here. Not sure why, though 🤷‍♂️

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago

Just wait until my father hears about this! Now I'm going home in my 1998 Toyota corola. I only drive it because my parents are trying to teach me what it's like to be one of the poor. They're quite wealthy, you see.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'd prefer that to rich kids slumming it and cosplaying poor until they get bored of it

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago

Well, the DMCA is ridiculous luddite garbage. But it stopped being silly years ago, and shows us our laws are stupid and made by silly people.

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

The police vow to make a visit if you tie a giraffe to a telephone pole.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (2 children)

They still don't like smoking weed here in Atlanta, GA...Or the rest of the state.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's legal here in Oregon. Only, most places will tell you that you can't smoke on the property. And you're not supposed to smoke it outside in public either.

So it's legal to smoke in private outside only. And everyone just smokes inside anyways cause it's fucking dumb how specific that is.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Tbf I like all those restrictions for cigs. It shouldn't be different for weed. At the end of the day, people shouldn't have to breathe in someone else's polluted air if they don't want to.

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

It's a fine (as in they fine you, I'm not Mario), which is better than before, but ive seen the MARTA police go after plenty of people

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

A dozen states still have sodomy laws on the books and only aren’t enforced because of Lawrence v. Texas, a 2003 SCOTUS decision.

Be interesting to see how that plays out the next couple of years.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

Something about weeing in a policeman's hat. There's another one about weeing behind a car as long as you have one hand on it.

Ooh, source: https://www.scotsman.com/news/politics/from-urinating-in-a-policemans-hat-to-wearing-your-sandals-near-to-the-queen-this-country-has-a-host-of-bizarre-legal-offences-2442321 Most other places say that policeman's hat one is nonsense though.

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

The government should have a say in how you cum. Get off the wrong way with the wrong people ; thats a paddling

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

insane wording but ur right

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

Walking across the street outside of the permitted area even if there is not a car in sight.

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