I’ll start.
Laws:
Aggravated Digital Piracy. Downloading probably thousands dollars worth of content. yaRrr 🏴☠️ (btw, check out: !piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com it’s blocked by lemmy.world instance btw)
I flew a drone without FAA LAANC approval, and beyond “line of sight” rules. (I checked air radar online, there were zero flights near me at such low altitudes that I was flying my drone, so zero safety issues)
I sent a string of encrypted text over Ham Radio bands as a “proof of concept” for a off-grid comucation method. (Rattlegram is an app on Android and iOS, that can convert text to audio; Secure Space Encryptor (SSE) is an open source encryption app that can encrypt a string of plaintext into a string of ciphertext (this app is called “Paranoia Text Encryption” on iOS), you can copy-paste this ciphertext into Rattlegram and sent it over Ham Radio, then reverse the process on the other end. Voila, encrypted off-grid communications) Encryption over Ham Radio is illegal, but whatever lmfao, fuck the FCC.
A lot of jaywalking, because I was feeling suicidal and didn’t care. Never got a fine lol.
School rules:
Probably the most common is the no-phone rule. (don’t worry, my education was fine, didn’t miss anything important)
My high-school (in the USA) made you wear a tie, I often don’t until staff tells me to, then proptly take it off when they are out of sight. (It’s so fucking unfortable) Idk why they even have dress codes when my school was so “ghetto” af.
Workplace:
That no-phone rule again 🙃
Oh, I used a pen and wrote marxist shit on the bathroom walls at my workplace (I’m not even a marxist, I just wanna fuck shit up). Never got caught. Statute of limitations probably expired by now, can’t even sue me if they now found out who did it.
Websites: A lot of Terms of Service. A lot of community rules in forums.
What rules have you broken? 👀
I live in a country that doesn’t care about piracy and has super strong protections for people who pirate, but i’d imagine i would be in deep trouble if i lived in a different country. I don’t download that much, but i do seed my entire jellyfin library with no speedcaps. Here’s this month’s upload stats for my network
I ran a stop sign today.
In my company vehicle.
In Germany when there’s construction work done in a city they love to put up signs “cyclists step off your bike” while they create a temporary path for cars. Fuck no! Why would lazy turds in their pollution metal boxes have more right to use the street than me? I’ll only hop off and push my bike if car drivers do the same.
Software piracy in terms of what would have been the longest sentence.
I almost cut a mechanics fingers off after he used an emergency stop as a LOTO. I would Probably not be guilty in the eyes of law or workplace safety rules but sure would have felt the worst if something bad happened.
Get stabbed, stab back.
That’a called self-defence, not illegal (or do you live in one of those countries that punish people for self defence? 🤔)
When I was a toddler, and my parents took me shopping, as soon as I got anywhere near the part of the store/shop that had bread, I’d always end up quickly stealing a baguette, opening it, and start eating it. By the time my parents paid for everything the baguette was nearly non existent. Of course my parents paid for the baguette in the end, but I’m pretty sure it’s against the rules to steal and eat one and then force your parents to pay for it. Little old toddler me didn’t care about the rules!
I still absolutely love baguettes.
Yo dawg, you can’t just leave out the FAA (drones violations) and FCC (radio usage violations). We have feelings too 😭
Wtf guys stop admitting to shit.
magnetic card cloning (fairly simple) and gaining access to some card controlled areas. Got caught though and had to attend a meeting.
Aside from the usual ones (jaywalking in particular wouldn’t be atypical), I technically broke every rule in school at least once (all except two exactly once). I say “technically” because the rule-enforcement format at my school tempted classmates to snitch on each other for the smallest things. Like, did I walk into class two seconds after the bell? Did I laugh too loudly at something a classmate did that wasn’t supposed to get ridicule? Did I wear the wrong socks for my uniform (and yes it was the same uniform as you)? Anything like these would get you in trouble.
It was rumored that the moment I broke a rule more than once, I would face something more serious, like mandatory appointments or something. There were only two I broke twice. One of them was because, on one April Fool’s Day, everyone wanted to pull one of those cheesy end-of-the-year-style pranks where everyone shows up in the uniform of another school, but people didn’t get the memo on what uniform it was going to be, so when everyone came in that day, it looked like comic-con, and I went with a friend’s (who went to another school with another uniform). The teachers just shook their head about that. The other rule I broke twice was exam cheating; first time got me caught, second time allowed me to graduate (and I didn’t get caught for that, though I fear what would happen if it got out).
My most severe punishment from school and the only one I remember getting me an in-school suspension was when they asked me to help write the yearbook, and I got to the part where everyone played the “most likely to” game, and we had an entry put in as a form of dark humor (disclaimer, DON’T do this, I admit it currently but I would neither encourage it nor use the same humor today even though the same thing has happened before… also don’t harm innocent people). I was in the in-school suspension for a day where they add suspenders to your uniform as their own cheesy cruel joke (their chosen mark of someone being suspended). Because the protocol works based on punishment escalation, any rule after that would’ve gotten me removed from the school, so it’s a good thing they didn’t catch me cheating on that test.
The funny thing is here in Australia u can get away with that joke because unlike some 3rd world countries we don’t have schools shootings 31 times a month.
I imagine it still would inspire equal caution, no? I know there are a lot of people from there who have had sympathies towards people who have recently become known for that (which no nation is really unique for right now). It has become so visibly precautionary that almost nobody shies away anymore from the urge to avoid them in their communities. As is how it should be.
Nar we would joke about it with teachers and each other and nobody cared cos we all knew it wouldn’t happen.
We played pumped up kicks and would joke about how the American had such holy school kids.
I think you have been so institutionalised in the American system that u don’t realise this isn’t a problem most of the civilised world deals with. To us school shooting are a joke about how dumb Americans are nothing more.
I use a green laser pointer to sight my telescope…
I’m careful there’s no planes or anything but all the same.
I mean, that isn’t illegal. It’s only illegal if you point it at a plane (or attempted to point it at a plane).
That’s why I’m careful, but there have been times I’ve swung it too far when the adjustment slips, so… very quick path from totally fine to felony.
Nice try glowy
Just like a glowy would say
The worst thing I’ve done is warn people not to admit to their crimes on a public internet forum.
I described an NFL game without the express written consent of NFL productions
yaRrr 🏴☠️
A lot of jaywalking,
this is one i do not do. ever.
if i’m gonna get run over–and if i survive, i’m not working again. ever… not have it be ‘my fault’ and not get a dime.
