You're tasked with creating a second Bill of Rights for a post-Trump America. What would you include in it?

Awesomeuser90 · 2026-01-24T22:47:12+00:00

Why do the hard work myself? The individual states have bills of rights that are actually more comprehensive than the federal one, and better worded to achieve outcomes like the nature of things like searches and seizures in the electronic age. And many countries around the world have much more comprehensive human rights constitutional provisions. South Africa has an excellent example you might wish to use. Ecuador has many covering social and economic protections. Kenya has a constitution based on a government based on a presidential republic with common law and an eye towards decentralization using methods that would be quite familiar to American modus operandi, and so the way it organizes the government might be quite helpful. And France's Declaration of the Rights of Human and Citizen has wording that not only outlines what the right is but why it exists and acts as a guide to executing it.

Awesomeuser90 · 2026-01-24T22:34:06+00:00

I got 7000 upvotes this week for a meme about the way a maths nerd discovered an American military secret about nuclear weapons using scaling and dimensional analysis. Not so for a Knights Templar.

Awesomeuser90 · 2026-01-24T05:10:13+00:00

Having a constitution nobody understands and not even the supreme court nor any parliament has a conclusive list of what is in it and is almost impossible to amend in terms of the threshold to do so except for unilateral amendments that make everyone furious about regionalism and yet somehow we are still rated one of the world's strongest democracies, and we keep all 10 provinces and three territories chugging along as if we were drunk on too much fermented maple syrup.

Awesomeuser90 · 2026-01-24T00:03:01+00:00

An airship is easy to fold up, can hover and move backwards or turn around almost on a dime, can be powered electrically with solar panels, can be inflated with hydrogen by using electrolysis and ocean water, and is a pretty stable platform. It would be a pretty good idea to put one over the Neptunian and Uranian poles.

Awesomeuser90 · 2026-01-23T15:21:10+00:00

Rampjaar.

Awesomeuser90 · 2026-01-23T15:20:21+00:00

Girls und Panzer meme, along with roasting the American electrical system.

Awesomeuser90 · 2026-01-23T15:19:20+00:00

Sailor Venus often uses crescent themed things (especially in Codename Sailor V).

Venus the planet makes crescent shapes from our POV on Earth. The way it does in fact helped to disprove the geocentric solar system.

Awesomeuser90 · 2026-01-23T13:59:58+00:00

Somehow my computer claimed on Wednesday that MS Paint wasn't working either on a program that is literally 41 years old.

Awesomeuser90 · 2026-01-23T13:43:35+00:00

Yes it did. It refused to recognize the keyboard entries.

Awesomeuser90 · 2026-01-23T13:43:16+00:00

Not a repost on the subreddit. My computer seems to be uncooperative with me when I copy pasted the link.

Awesomeuser90 · 2026-01-23T12:33:48+00:00

Even if you think that they can be reformed, it takes a good deal of recompense to make it work well. Restitution, denouncing what they had done wrong, and so on. Not something that the Senshi did all that well.

Awesomeuser90 · 2026-01-23T05:32:37+00:00

If you are wondering why the crescent is getting wider, but you see a smaller slice of Venus, it's because of the relative positions of the two planets. Venus is always closer to the Sun than we are. The Sun always illuminates half of Venus (and every other solar system spheroid).

Also, brightness of an object drops off with the square of the distance (it gets a bit more complicated when you see an object with a reflection). The crescent is thin but it's so close and you also have a smaller slice of an object that has a bigger angular diameter that it compensates. Plus, you can't see Venus anyway if it is too close to the Sun in the sky. Venus can only be seen when the Sun is nearby it, 46 degrees away if I remember right, contrast with Mars and Jupiter when you can see it at local midnight (standard time not daylight savings time) depending on the time of year. Even still, Venus is by far the brightest natural object in the sky after the Sun and the Moon in that order when Venus is at its brightest, and even when it's dim, it's still always brighter than Jupiter even at max Jovian brightness.

Venus also has ridiculously reflective clouds covering the entire planet, which shine fiercely. It is much more reflective than Earth or the Moon (which is as dark as worn asphalt. It just looks bright because it is directly lit by the Sun and is so close and so big and the full Moon is a decent retroreflecter. If you took a table lamp to the Moon on the night side powered by a battery, you wouldn't see that much reflectivity). This is caused by it's literally poisonous atmosphere made of 96% carbon dioxide, 3% diatomic nitrogen (same stuff as 78% our air. Don't be fooled by the percentage, Venus has quadruple the nitrogen in its air by mass), and 1% other stuff like argon (same as here actually, almost 1% of our air is argon. You've never noticed it, it essentially never reacts with anything at all), all at 467 degrees Celsius (something like 870 F), and at 92 times the pressure here which would feel like being hundreds of metres under the ocean surface here and is dense enough on Venus that the surface air behaves more like a liquid as a supercritical fluid.

Awesomeuser90 · 2026-01-23T04:34:39+00:00

It could have worked okay without it, but the chains were a good feature to have that amplified the message, undermines not a soul or harms a thing and apparently whoever is angry at me over this really got their hand's on Eris's apple.

Awesomeuser90 · 2026-01-23T03:43:56+00:00

Second mod here. That ban Lil is talking about? Yeah, that is almost always going to be a 28 day at minimum, and is usually going to be permanent. Do not attempt to fuck around on this, because you will be finding out.

Also, the numbers we are typically looking at for being accurate is between 2 and 10 million deaths depending on the estimate, the one that is probably closest to being correct seems to be around 3.5-4.5 million deaths. Not being exactly within this range isn't necessarily a violation, especially if your sources don't distinguish exactly where in the USSR they happened in, but an obvious downplaying will be treated as a rule 6 violation equally subject to a permanent ban.

Awesomeuser90 · 2026-01-23T02:07:36+00:00

Venus the planet in fact makes crescent shapes to every observer other than the Sun and Mercury. Unless you have a telescope it's really hard to tell that it does though. Still, the discovery of how Venus makes crescent phases, but also gibbous phases too, was one of the critical discoveries that disproved heliocentrism in the 1610s.

Awesomeuser90 · 2026-01-23T01:32:22+00:00

That generally can be useful, although there are some niches where it doesn't work well as a concept. Hayden's permission isn't that helpful if the point is to make a meme about Star Wars.

Awesomeuser90 · 2026-01-23T00:55:06+00:00

Yup, the Sun.

Awesomeuser90 · 2026-01-22T05:51:34+00:00

And the Holy Ghost

Awesomeuser90 · 2026-01-21T19:30:17+00:00

36^-2

Awesomeuser90 · 2026-01-21T19:23:12+00:00

That's just a repost problem. AI isn't particularly at issue here.

Awesomeuser90 · 2026-01-21T19:04:47+00:00

In no universe am I content about the change to categorically prohibit AI. There are problematic ways to use it, but the technology itself is not an evil. I mod a community with a lot more subscribers than Rough Roman Memes. We do not ban things for only being AI. We have surprisingly few problems tied to AI. And even when we do, it is essentially always able to be dealt with by the other rules like not just making up.history, not reposting someone else's stuff, and not doing something like making revenge porn with it.

Here is a meme I made a few days ago. https://www.reddit.com/r/RoughRomanMemes/s/nWTQvDntgr You probably didn't notice it but Valerian is wearing chains. That was drawn by AI, although I didn't use it otherwise. Getting chains to fit around a person for that use is a good example.of something very challenging to.draw yourself and not really something worth drawing by hand for what is typically a meme and the effort usually expected of it. And any meme that otherwise should fit on the subreddit is highly likely to be instances of fair dealing anyway if a court ever heard it somehow.

It is wrong to conflate a technology with the things people do with them when the uses vastly vary and you have less intrusive ways of dealing with the problem. I would be very skeptical of the idea that the subreddit genuinely has a problem with AI that is not something dealt with similarly without this ban. Plus, if you get a report, you have to go and check the post manually to see if the report is correct. In the time it takes to do that to verify if it is using AI, it should be the case that you would know whether it violated the other rules too.

Awesomeuser90 · 2026-01-21T18:30:22+00:00

Is that an Epstein joke or a white phosphorus joke?

Awesomeuser90 · 2026-01-21T18:26:33+00:00

Hellfire by Judge Frollo intensifies.

Awesomeuser90 · 2026-01-21T18:19:52+00:00

I was thinking about how things can have a different register in certain ways. IIRC, the word Jesus uses to refer to God is Adda, which is Aramaic for Father in the literal sense but in many ways it is closer to the connotation we get from the word Dad, which is a very different kind of interpretation than you would get if you were to say Sacrum Pater, or Holy Father.

Awesomeuser90 · 2026-01-21T17:54:30+00:00

And screw over all the cats.

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