• space_of_eights@lemmy.mlNederlands
          1·
          3 months ago

          Netherlands. Thailand and Morocco are even worse I guess. There, you’ll get punished harshly for beinig openly anti-monarchy. I feel sorry for those countries.

          • Taalnazi@lemmy.worldNederlands
            1·
            2 months ago

            The Dutch monarchy isn’t too harsh on lèse-majestè, though I did shift from monarchist to republican almost overnight when our king said that “if you as a civil servant don’t like the far-right party PVV ruling, then you should be free to look for work elsewhere.”

            Well gee it’s not that easy for everyone to get accepted in work if you get discriminated, and gee, you need money due to this stupid capitalist system. While all the king does is look pretty and pay less tax… any person in the top 10% of their economy should pay way more.

            • Taalnazi@lemmy.worldNederlands
              1·
              2 months ago

              This is untrue, you can drive if you have autism. However, formally you’d have to undergo an extra “examination” which in practice is a 5 minute talk that’ll cost €300, oh and, you have to pay it yourself.

              Even driving instructors tell you it’s bullshit and won’t bat an eye for not doing that.

              If you get found out of not having done this examination, and an accident occurs, however, then the police may be an ass. Which is bullshit as there’s your medical diagnosis, and autism should by itself not have consequences for driving ability. Dementia however…

              • Duamerthrax@lemmy.world
                1·
                2 months ago

                Well, I know of at least one person who’s choosing not to get diagnosed as a direct result of that policy.

    • Cryophilia@lemmy.world
      1·
      3 months ago

      Medieval peasant uprisings were inevitably put down and the perpetrators brutally massacred, and also their families.

      The first successful uprisings weren’t until the 1800s.

    • PostProcess@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      3 months ago

      As I understand it, the trebuchet is technically a catapult, I think you are trying to undermine it by referring to the lowly mangonel which is certainly inferior.

      • thesporkeffect@lemmy.world
        2·
        3 months ago

        If my Age of Empires knowledge serves, you can just crank out a pantload of mangonels and start blasting before the trebuchets have time to set up and reduce your town to rubble

  • MuchPineapples@lemmy.world
    263·
    3 months ago

    The stockade is something we desperately need. Some people need to learn how other people see them. Driving 50mph in a living area, stockade. Making a lot of noise at 6 in the morning, believe it or not, stockade. Being a racist cunt, straight to the stockade.

    • skyspydude1@lemmy.world
      3·
      3 months ago

      This was one of the really interesting plot elements in World War Z, where towards the end of the war where they couldn’t really afford to be wasting resources on prisons, they brought back corporal and public punishment. They’d put people in stockades to let the entire community know they were caught doing something like stealing their neighbor’s firewood, or publicly lashing executives who were war-profiteering, and only imprisoning the absolute worst offenders who were incapable of integrating back into society.

      For a silly zombie novel, it honestly has a phenomenal amount of prettt interesting social commentary, and is absolutely worth a listen to the unabridged audiobook.

    • Liz@midwest.socialEnglish
      1·
      3 months ago

      I genuinely, honestly, 100% believe you should be able to option for physical punishment when being reprimanded for minor things. Pepper spray to the face, electric shock, mild caning, etc. Anything that would have little to no harm, even in the short term, but hurts like a bitch. I don’t think you should be able to sentence someone to pain, but that the person being sentenced should be able to choose pain instead.

  • Etterra@lemmy.world
    17·
    3 months ago

    Dueling. I say we use it as an option to reply to a civil lawsuit. Able bodied adults only, no proxies, and if you refuse then you have to do a trial and they can weigh your refusal as evidence against you.

    Swords only, no guns.

    • tetris11@lemmy.ml
      6·
      3 months ago

      Benefit is that dueling was primarily done by rich white guys over issues of ego, so our tech CEOs would fit in just nicely whilst having the join benefit of removing half of them from the gene pool

      • Etterra@lemmy.world
        2·
        3 months ago

        I know people who have swordsmanship experience that would to totally sue Musky over privacy violations and choose trial by combat.

  • RBWells@lemmy.world
    14·
    3 months ago

    I guess we could use a little ice age right around now, and it would also be nice to have a Renaissance around the corner.

    Someone said inns and taverns, and yes it’s a missing piece of housing here - long term hotels with food, bars/restaurants with rooms to rent above.

    Not much though, it is not a time I’d visit.