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.
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.
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.
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.
I love the idea of reforestation through memorial trees
Catholics weren’t really allowed to be cremated until Vatican 2, in the 60s.
Vatican 2: The New Vaticaning
Blue Laws
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_laws_in_the_United_States
…Blah blah can’t desecrate the sabbath with alcohol…
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Not only can you buy liquor on Sundays in Massachusetts these days, but they even went and legalized tattoos!
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.).
Do drug stores have store brand liquor?
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Mmm gimme some Walgreens Vodka
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
Man that is a way steeper fine than I was expecting!
Is it enforced? And… why?
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.
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I think most people don’t know what the jay walking laws are.
I don’t even know what j walking is
A made up crime created by the auto industry.
Crossing the street at a place that is not a designated crossing area.
That’s a crime?? Wtf.
It makes more sense once you have someone blindly step out in front of your car, almost causing an accident.
Then charge them with almost causing an accident. Why invent something that makes it a crime to step onto roads.
I’ve j-walked (at safe moments) repeatedly in front of cops over the years and they never cared.
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.
I’m from Seattle, Washington, and it’s illegal to pretend your parents are rich here. Not sure why, though 🤷♂️
I’d prefer that to rich kids slumming it and cosplaying poor until they get bored of it
In South Korea, you cannot marry your great grandma’s cousin’s grandkids.
This actually changed in 2005: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Article_809_of_the_Korean_Civil_Code
Nope. That’s about same last name. This is still very much a thing.
The police vow to make a visit if you tie a giraffe to a telephone pole.
It’s technically illegal to consume alcohol in your own backyard if you can be seen from the outside.
The government should have a say in how you cum. Get off the wrong way with the wrong people ; thats a paddling
insane wording but ur right
Can’t buy beer or wine at Walmart before noon on Sundays. But there’s totally a war on Christianity here lol.
You can buy alcohol on Sunday??
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.
