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piggybacking on @only_in_ohio@sh.itjust.works great post yesterday

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[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Sexbots / Robotic Prostitution.

Might not be as advanced as in scifi, but...

Its more or less a perfect loophole for strip clubs.

Its not a person servicing you, you're simply paying for temporary use of mechanical equipment, like a gym.

[–] LastYearsIrritant@sopuli.xyz 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Maybe not strictly illegal, but ... as best I can tell, not really currently totally, explicitly legal.

Kind of a gray area, I guess I mean that I think it will become more normalized and 'more' legal.

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 14 points 2 days ago (2 children)

In the USA, it'll become legal for corporations to fully own politicians and be treated as de facto nation states

[–] GladiusB@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago

Read Snow Crash

[–] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

Why stop at owning politicians? Corporations already have a sort of Personhood. Just run the company itself for office.

[–] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago

Hunting the poor for sport.

Alternatively, hunting the rich for sport.

[–] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 6 points 2 days ago
[–] thatradomguy@lemmy.world 26 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Considering I'll be an old fecker in 50 years, I sure hope euthanasia is legal by then.

[–] PlaidBaron@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

It is in some countries already.

[–] nieminen@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

Some US states as well, at least it was a couple years ago. Oregon IIRC

[–] squinky@sh.itjust.works 115 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] roofuskit@lemmy.world 17 points 3 days ago

Depending on the state it's legal now. Arkansas...

[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago

Brutal execution of people committing "crimes".

[–] HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 62 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Many places are legalizing psychedelic mushrooms. MDMA is being used for veteran PTSD, and ibogane is gaining respect for severe addiction

[–] LettyWhiterock@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

I went to a weed store and they were selling shrooms and I was seriously caught off guard.

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[–] njm1314@lemmy.world 29 points 3 days ago

Probably literal slavery instead of the Quasi slavery we have now. They're just going to cut out the middle man I think.

[–] swordgeek@lemmy.ca 68 points 4 days ago (2 children)
[–] Resplendent606@piefed.social 53 points 4 days ago (11 children)

While I get what you're saying, it is technically legal in the United States under an exception in the 13th amendment as punishment for a crime.

See more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penal_labor_in_the_United_States

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[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 34 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

I don't know, slavery is pretty legal in a lot of places, including the USA.

Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.

Sounds pretty legal to me. Just gotta drum up charges against whoever you want to enslave in the USA.

[–] reddig33@lemmy.world 63 points 4 days ago (14 children)

Cannabis. Possibly psilocybin.

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[–] seraphine@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 3 days ago

Look at Cyberpunk 2077... Take your pick

[–] Resplendent606@piefed.social 44 points 4 days ago (3 children)

I could see several forms of human genetic engineering becoming legal. For instance, three-parent children, also known as mitochondrial replacement therapy (MRT) is illegal in most western countries, though it was legalized in the UK, Spain, and Italy. The FDA banned in it in the US in 2015 because it involves human subjects research without prior approval from an institutional review board.

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[–] antlion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 3 days ago

Bodily autonomy

[–] bathing_in_bismuth@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Modifying a 4d hypercube to embed it with perpetual catharsis and spiking someone's drink with it

[–] Nemo@slrpnk.net 14 points 3 days ago (14 children)
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[–] phonics@lemmy.world 17 points 4 days ago

In 50 years we're basically gonna be living in madmax. So everything is legal. Wild west baby

[–] tal@lemmy.today 21 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

I will bet that a lot of genetic engineering restrictions in Europe will be more relaxed in 50 years than they are today.

The introduction of the car had people who were worried about it passing a lot of restrictions too; these went away over time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_flag_traffic_laws

Red flag laws were laws in the United Kingdom and the United States enacted in the late 19th century, requiring drivers of early automobiles to take certain safety precautions, including waving a red flag in front of the vehicle as a warning.

In the United Kingdom, the law required self-propelled vehicles to be led by a pedestrian waving a red flag or carrying a lantern to warn bystanders of the vehicle's approach.

In particular the Locomotives Act 1865, also known as Red Flag Act, stated:

  • Firstly, at least three persons shall be employed to drive or conduct such locomotive, and if more than two waggons or carriages he attached thereto, an additional person shall be employed, who shall take charge of such waggons or carriages;
  • Secondly, one of such persons, while any locomotive is in motion, shall precede such locomotive on foot by not less than sixty yards, and shall carry a red flag constantly displayed, and shall warn the riders and drivers of horses of the approach of such locomotives, and shall signal the driver thereof when it shall be necessary to stop, and shall assist horses, and carriages drawn by horses, passing the same.

The Red Flag Act was repealed in 1896, by which time the internal combustion engine was well into its infancy.[1]

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[–] Wytch@lemmy.zip 17 points 4 days ago (2 children)
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