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[-] gibmiser@lemmy.world 54 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

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.

[-] squaresinger@feddit.de 22 points 11 months ago

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

[-] BudgetBandit@sh.itjust.works 14 points 11 months ago

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

[-] Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 8 points 11 months ago

Sounds like a Wayside School Rule

[-] Attaxalotl@ttrpg.network 2 points 11 months 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.

[-] taaz@biglemmowski.win 39 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

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

[-] MajorHavoc@lemmy.world 23 points 11 months ago

Indeed.

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

[-] Thisfox@sopuli.xyz 18 points 11 months ago

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

[-] Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 12 points 11 months ago
[-] Thisfox@sopuli.xyz 2 points 11 months ago

Yes, sorry, quie right.

[-] MajorHavoc@lemmy.world 9 points 11 months ago

"One man. One vote."

[-] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 6 points 11 months ago

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

[-] Shkshkshk@dice.camp 7 points 11 months ago

@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)

[-] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 3 points 11 months ago

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

[-] Thisfox@sopuli.xyz 15 points 11 months ago

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.

[-] taaz@biglemmowski.win 15 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

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.

[-] hansl@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

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.

[-] shrippen@feddit.de 2 points 11 months ago

Nah, let's go back to newsgroups

[-] AtmaJnana@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

newsgroups are still around. we just don't use then for discussion much anymore.

[-] AVincentInSpace@pawb.social 1 points 9 months ago

You can very easily write cross instance links if you weren't aware, e.g. !memes@lemmy.world -- 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

[-] FuzzyLeonardo@beehaw.org 3 points 11 months ago

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

[-] Akasazh@feddit.nl -1 points 11 months ago

There's a reason chaotic lawful exists in fiction, but rarely in real life. It's because I'm fiction we're aware of the unspoken rules the character adheres to. In real life we can't see those and therefore the character appears chaotic to any observer.

I think quite a lot of neurotypical people who appear chaotic to many people have a very clear ruleset. Take Sheldon from the big bang theory, many of the jokes are around people unknowingly trespassing on his unspoken ruleset.

[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 29 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

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.

[-] trolololol@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago

Neutral neutral Chidi wants a word with you

[-] Squirrel@thelemmy.club 6 points 11 months ago

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

[-] Akasazh@feddit.nl 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

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.

[-] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 2 points 11 months ago

later in live killed himself

... as opposed to when?

[-] Akasazh@feddit.nl 2 points 11 months ago

As in not with the lead poisoning.

Also live=life

[-] jBlight@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

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

[-] Kiosade@lemmy.ca 3 points 11 months ago

Exactly who I thought of too haha

[-] HardlightCereal@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago
[-] Strawberry@lemmy.blahaj.zone 25 points 11 months ago

Lawful Chaotic is a union strategy lol

[-] troyunrau@lemmy.ca 12 points 11 months ago

Malicious compliance

[-] N0body@sh.itjust.works 21 points 11 months ago

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

[-] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 10 points 11 months ago

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

[-] Scrof@sopuli.xyz 19 points 11 months ago

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

[-] Akasazh@feddit.nl 12 points 11 months ago

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/

[-] Hedup@lemm.ee 10 points 11 months 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.

[-] Abnorc@lemm.ee 8 points 11 months 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.”

[-] Thisfox@sopuli.xyz 8 points 11 months ago

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

[-] Rhaedas@kbin.social 2 points 11 months ago

Could also be Malicious Compliance.

[-] webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 7 points 11 months 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).

[-] squaresinger@feddit.de 6 points 11 months ago

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

[-] kemsat@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago

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

[-] jcdenton@lemy.lol 2 points 11 months ago

It changes to fit the circumstance

[-] TheMongoose@kbin.social 1 points 11 months 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.

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