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[Naturegirl1999]

What if they wanna charge taxes on pi units, or lift raise limit of the speed of light in their state?

The first would de incentivize precision, the second is physically impossible

I mean, you can raise the limit of the speed of light all you want, actually? Anyone can say light can go faster than it does. It's just not going to make light actually go any faster.

Raising the speed limit to 20,000 miles per hour wouldn't make people drive that fast, either ('cause they, y'know, can't). Same concept.

Raising the speed limit above that which something can go sounds useless

[McTraveller]

well, to make them more like circles but not quite, go with more sides, so dodecahedron or higher

Well that would really confuse them, since a dodecahedron is a 3D object...

What you want is a megagon.

[Frumple]

Raising the speed limit above that which something can go sounds useless.

Even less helpful than tits on a boar hog, sure.

Or in other words, something you wouldn't be surprised to come out of Indiana legislature

[LordBaal]

Eerie Indiana after all?

[Reelya]

well, to make them more like circles but not quite, go with more sides, so dodecahedron or higher

Well that would really confuse them, since a dodecahedron is a 3D object...

What you want is a megagon.

Not really, the goal here is to minimize the perimeter vs the diameter. Squares are obviously bad here, since if the diameter is 1 then the perimeter is 4 ('pi' of 4 for square wheels) and as you add more sides then pi approaches normal pi. however if you have hexagonal wheels then measure the diameter when sitting flat, you get pi=3, a good saving.

[Maximum Spin]

That should not matter.
Mathematical laws and laws of physics should not be in legislative anyway.
It is pointless for them to be there (as they enforce themselves), and if our observation of them is wrong, then such human laws would make anyone correcting such observation a lawbreaker.

Legislature shouldn’t be trying to change how math works, their job is (should be) to make life better for the citizens

Again, they weren't in any way doing either of those things. They were just trying to adjust the state math curriculum, which is wholly within their purview as a state legislative body. The only problem is that they did not have enough math education to realise that the texts they were trying to make students study were the lunatic ravings of a madman.

[Reelya]

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/08/apple-apologizes-to-wordpress-no-longer-requires-free-app-to-add-purchases/

So Wordpress has a domain/hosting selling business, and they also have a free app for managing your Wordpress account (which is free btw). Apple decided this was no good and blocked the free app and demanded they set up in-app purchases of Wordpress's domains/hosting (so that Apple could get a 30% cut). But if Wordpress actually gave in to that, then if they sold any domains or hosting directly to customers they'd technically be breaching Apple's terms of service - see the Fortnite ban recently for how that works.

So, good precedent there. If you sell anything, and have a free app, no matter how tangential to what you're selling, then Apple might just block your app and demand you shift all your sales business onto their platform.

Apple apparently "realized they dun wrong" and reversed this decision, but I'm guessing it was more because of the huge amount of negative PR generated by the move.

[hector13]

I changed my forum layout to darkling, after... however many years I’vefrequented the lower boards.

[Rolan7]

Welcome, friend.  Your eyeballs will thank you.

[pisskop]

I have my brightness set at . . . 30, to be fair.

[Egan_BW]

hisss, spoiler that, dayling!

[wierd]

I've been using darkling for nearly a decade now.

[Frumple]

Over one, here, I think. Pretty sure it was one of the first things I changed after making an account, because holy hell is it a quality of life improvement.

[wierd]

There's some issues with the darker shades of colored text (unless people politely use the glow tag with a bright complimentary color), like this, (and with polite glow effect)

Otherwise, I totally agree. My retinas are much happier not being subjected to 100% white like that.

[Yoink]

Gosh dang it.   

So, with Facebook threatening to force users to suffer its horrific new design that makes it more unpleasant to look at then ever, I looked into ways to revert to old versions of sites. Boom, I soon discovered the wonders of a user-agent switcher extension!   
The first one I tried was a dud, since it didn't allow for old versions of your browser of choice, but soon I had one that let me view sites as an old-ass version of IE, which spares you from a lot of terrible recent design choices.   

Suddenly, Yahoo and Facebook are both more palatable than they've been in a long time. Well, Yahoo's look hasn't changed back to the classic style, but at least it doesn't have a painful tendency to freeze up when switching between folders, pages, or even just refreshing the page.   
Speaking of refreshing, that'd be a good way to describe this whole trick in general... except that the extension I'm using doesn't have an option to affect only certain urls, and for whatever reason SMF seems to derp the hell out when viewed this way. *groan*