Tourist cities should have hotel rooms by the hour that are actually clean when you just want to take a nap.
I’ve got a few:
- In addition to fluoride, water supplies should be dosed with small amounts of lithium. Maybe LSD, too.
- Incel bounties: Anyone who has trouble getting laid can check into a facility where they are assigned a bounty equal to a set rate times the days they’ve spent in the facility. They can leave any time, but the clock restarts if they come back. Volunteers may show up and offer to have sex with a participant. If the participant agrees and the deed is done, the bounty gets split between the volunteer and the participant.
- Hard rationing of greenhouse gas emissions: every year everyone gets issued an equal amount of GHG vouchers that, in total, represent a safe amount of GHGs that can be emitted that year. Fossil fuel companies then need to buy these vouchers on the market and turn them into the government in order to get permission to extract the representative amount of fossil fuels. Doing so without permission would carry a severe penalty. This concept could be applied to water supplies, fisheries, and other resources as well.
- Imputed rent as taxable income instead of flat property or wealth taxes.
- No fares for urban public transit. Instead, a special property tax should be applied to real estate inversely proportional to its walking distance from transit stops.
- Reintroduce wolves to suburban areas to keep the deer under control.
- Electric airships instead of fossil fuel powered passenger jets.
- Nuclear power plants within or adjacent to urban centers, especially in colder climate regions.
- Gray water recovery built into homes and municipal water systems.
- Urine collection programs for phosphate recovery.
Hard rationing of greenhouse gas emissions
You’re more or less describing cap-and-trade, where corporations have a limit of carbon emissions as ‘credits’ which can be traded on a market. So a company that doesn’t produce as much emissions can sell their surplus credits to another company, so the market as a whole doesn’t exceed a set amount of CO2 emissions. As it stands, in this or other carbon tax based systems, people pay for emissions in the form of sales tax on CO2 producing products.
wolves
I’d imagine they’d just leave again eventually. If suburbia was an advantageous place for them, they’d already be there.
Nuclear power plants within or adjacent to urban centers, especially in colder climate regions.
Nuclear plants are somewhat geographically restricted to needing to be close to a suitable water source, there’s plenty that are next to or inside metropolitan areas. That being said, high voltage transmission means that a plant can still be a few tens of kms outside of a city before transmission losses start to add up. Also, small-scare reactors have been under development for use in remote communities.
Gray water recovery built into homes and municipal water systems.
Any sort of dirty water recovery is more efficient at the municipal scale, and plenty of towns are already doing that.
Urine collection programs for phosphate recovery.
Seems that’s not a super easy thing to do (read expensive), but there’s research being done… also apparently, a good portion of it in wastewater is from laundry soap… but as in the above, more efficient to just collect all wastewater and process it on a large scale.
There should be a Bluetooth headpiece (over ear preferably) that has normal functions, but ALSO will replicate the “Note to self” feature, where you tap the main button, and say “note to self” then say what you want the note to be, and have it sent to your email. That alone would be a “killer product” for me. I miss this so much.
Tie more positive things to the federal minimum wage, for example tax brackets and retirement fund contribution limits. They go up every single year, so the government will either have to keep raising the minimum wage or go on the record to justify why the ratio is wrong.
Also, the “raise it to $15 per hour” minimum wage debate has been going on for so long that the $15 is now outdated. If the debate started again today, the number would realistically be closer to $25-$30 per hour.
And if you just got upset because you’re making $30 per hour and don’t want to be equated with minimum wage, then maybe you need to consider how much you could be making if minimum wage were higher. Here’s a hint: You’d be making much more than $30 per hour.
A cool idea I’ve had for a long time (or rather a dream) was a truly private and good suit auf office programs like Microsoft 356 but with privacy and the customor in mind. No anti-consumer things generally.
This exists. https://www.libreoffice.org/ Great stuff 👍
Collaborative editing in real time?
If you need collaboration you can self-host collabora for free. https://www.collaboraoffice.com/code/ It uses libreoffice code. It’s also a supported backend for collaboration in nextcloud.
If you don’t put your shopping cart away, a turret on the roof of the grocery should just fucking shoot you.
If you play music on a speaker, on public transit, the bus driver should just fucking shoot you
I love both of these ideas.
Hotels not using carpet in their rooms.
This is a noise reduction thing. It’s the same reason apartments only do hardwood on the ground floor. Your downstairs neighbors don’t want to listen to you moving around, and carpet is a great insulator and cushion.
Maybe. Though, there are a lot of solutions to dampen noise while using hard flooring.
(I also know plenty of apartments/condos in my area that use both or just hard flooring in my area)
Good bluetooth earbuds that are Apple earbud shaped (or an approximation far enough away to not be sued.) There’s litterally “airpods,” “cheap shitty airpod knockoffs,” and then the largest category “skullcandy types with the bullshit in ear inserts.” There’s plenty of quality ones in the skullcandy style, and idk if I just have a tight earussy but they do not fit in my holes.
You should try out these so-called ear clip headphones (aka clip on buds). I got this pair at a thrift store for ~US$3 yesterday. They latch on to your ear on the outside and do not go deep into your ears. Great for tight earussies or for earussy periods.
Huh, never seen these! I might have to check these out, thanks!
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I love my Sennheisers they work really well and dont feel weird in my earussy
I have a pair of the HD555s I love the sound quality of, but their buds look like the type I can’t stand. I want to try em out but that’s too much money for something that I think probably won’t work for me and nobody I know has them to try.
Have you tried any IEMs? I know they are wired but I have a pair of moondrop x crinacle dusk 2s that are amazing sound. I do want to upgrade to the new dusk model with the planar drivers but I dont have the free cash atm
Honestly this is less of an issue for me with wired, there’s plenty non-skullcandy style wired ones, the problem there is the world has decided phones no longer need a 3.5mm jack (which they absolutely do still need imo.) If I could still use wired I wouldn’t even be complaining!
I hate to say it but the apple type c to 3.5mm jack dongle is actually really good and all you really need. You could go for a balls to the wall dongle setup with a micro DAC that plugs into the phone bit youre starting to get into the placebo effect area of audiphile stuff
If my phone had two usb c ports, one top one bottom or even right next to each other, maybe. But excess wear and tear on the only port I can use for charging on a non-repairable device, the inability to charge and use headphones simultaneously, and an OG Xbox controller style dongle like it’s 200fucking3 are unfortunately not solutions to “have correct hole please.”
I don’t need audiophile quality, just “good enough,” combined with “doesn’t hurt ears or use my charging port.”
My phone, laptop, & DAP all conveniently have a headphone jack so I can enjoy better quality sound, with no lantency, no spotty connectivity, no pairing lag, no need for firmware upgrades or proprietary apps, a cheaper price, easy to find the monitors since they are tethered together, & with better sustainability without lithium ion batteries while never have to worry about charge either.
What was the upside of wireless again?
qi charger? bluetooth to audio dongle to convert your headphones to wireless?
Get some foam tips. I hated in ears and now they’re my favorite
For 20 bucks at Walmart you can get a nice set of over the ear hook ones with a cord in between them and they have three different tiles of ear inserts and then another thing that sort of keeps them in place but is also a replaceable movable thing I don’t know how to describe it.
They are loud enough that I keep the hearing protection set on my phone and last 12 hours per charge, which covers the drive to work, 10 hour shift, and the drive home.
I was going to use them as a stopgap to better ones, but I am very pleasantly surprised, especially since they are Walmart brand.
The tips have come off when I have them around my neck but not in my ears, but they aren’t designed for that, and it’s only happened twice working and once sleeping with them in
Someone else actually not only had but went and made my one big idea - https://www.theverge.com/2021/5/30/22460964/vilnius-lithuania-portal-poland-connection-pandemic. The jury’s still out on whether it was a good idea.
There’s been one in Ireland I think, that was closed down because a porn actress went there
I heard that they (used to?) have public TV channels in Tokyo that show CCTV views from around the city, so of course you could tune at any time of night to see a salaryman (on the phone to his “Man-in-the-chair”) carefully manoeuvre himself into view and start whacking off.
The Dublin-NYC one’s reopened now with automated blurring out of a bunch of stuff.
A button on the TV that would make the remote beep so you can find it
That is a thing on the Nvidia Shield, actually!
Finally! I’ve had this thought ever since I was a kid.
Some Roku remotes support this. You issue the command from the mobile app
Airport lounges where the seats are just like on the plane, with little spots for luggage to the side. Then people just get up and board in order, putting your stuff right above or in front of you. If you’re late, you board last. No more airline rat race.
Why do people care when they get on a plane?
Because checking a bag became a premium feature you have to pay for. So now they’re trying to be first/early to compete for the overhead bag space, which there’s not enough of for everyone. A lot of people have anxiety about traveling and it’s not just the fear of heights or dwelling on the dangers of flying, a lot of it is based on the loss of control of their lives for those few hours. The sooner you’re in your seat with your carryon above your head, the sooner you’re back in control and can relax a little.
The REAL real trick is this (both assume you’re ok with checking your carry on):
- If you’ve got some time, check in with the front desk and ask if you can check your carry on for free. They’ll usually do it, especially if the flight is full (which is very common)
- When you get to the gate, they almost always ask if anyone will voluntarily gate check their carry on. Just do it. Now, no more having to worry about finding an overhead bin, and also not having to pack around that carry on after you get off the plane
The real trick is to just use whichever overhead you see open as you approach your seat. It doesn’t need to be directly above your seat. You’re going to have to pass by it again on your way out of the plane anyways, so it’s not like you’ll be delaying anything during deboarding.
You are the problem my idea would solve. Those who sit at the front cannot get to the back to use open space, and you took theirs. Stop doing this. Everyone hates you for it.
I can’t imagine the annoyance and pain of being in a front seat, but my carryon is at the back of the plane. That is going to make deboarding super fun for all of us.
Which accelerated people’s desire to get on first, they know people will take over the compartments above. This is a solution for you, but makes other’s lives more difficult.
It depends entirely on how the airline boards their plane. If they board front-to-back (like boarding first class early) then any open spots in the front are just that: Open. The people sitting there have already boarded.
I’d like to see a reminder app that figures out how to space out your reminders, and if you nooze a reminder then it gets slotted at some random future date.
I find I end up making reminders for shows I want to watch, books I want to read, etc. These don’t have any specific day associated with them, but I do want o get to them at some point. So getting a reminder once a week or so to check out one of the items on a list would be really nice.
Maybe you can use a calender app and set a weekly reminder that goes forever. If you want to add or remove items from it, all future reminders can be edited as well
I do that now, but it’s a bit clunky I find. Basically, I don’t really want a calendar, so much as just getting a reminder sometime in the future, and if I have time and I’m in a mood I’ll look at it, and if not then I snooze and it’ll pop up later sometime.
That exist already in outlook or proton calendar, probably others too. you set the repeat interval and the end date, which can be set to never.
Also nationwide lead removal fund.
*International
Yeah but there’s no real international authority for that, and how am I supposed to get my national government to join a treaty organization for that purpose when neither it nor any lower level of my government offer anything similar?
Hey, this thread is about what should be an actual thing, not what is realistic or even feasable to do.
You mention that a nationwide fund for removal of lead in the environment should be a thing, I just countered that there should be an international fund dor the removal of lead since it is an international problem.
Both funds should be a thing.
I mean, I suppose, but at that point it really hits the level of abstract principle rather than plausible policy. Kind of up there with “no more war”, “ending hunger”, or “socialism replacing capitalism”.
And while I do believe that a better world is possible, I really wanted to speak to things that are plausible in the existing political and economic climate in my lifetime.
That’s a fair point I didn’t think about when I made my comment.
Now that you mention it, switching to international scale in politics/activism sounds fantastic, but if often used as a way to divert responsibillity to a party with no authority.
So yeah, a national program is better
I think there should be pedestrian, bike routes separate from cars, like storefronts should face both ways, and the intersections with signals, but where practical should have bridges for the walkers, so they don’t have to deal with the cars.
I also really want replicator tech, want to be able to use any input to get basically any output, at least in terms of materials. Throw in the trash, it is sorted into its component elements (safely) and then those can be combined to make clean water, salt water, building materials, whatever.
I want also a floor and walls that eat the dirt, and clothing fabric that can cool even in humidity.
Paragraph one is kind of how the Vegas strip area is set up.
For me, there would be public holidays that celebrate social, cultural and scientific achievements.
A day of printing, the decoding of the human genome,… you know - real achievements, not only stories of some ancient folks being tortured to death and such.
And voting? Always felt November 4th should be a paid holiday.
Awesome idea, btw.
Is that a voting day in some country?
No, not really I suppose. I meant to say “the Tuesday next after the first Monday in November“, but, well… I didn’t do it right.
“The Tuesday next after the first Monday in November” is the US’s Election Day.
You know how the FTC recently banned non-compete clauses (for non-senior roles)?
They should ban the, ‘and other unspecified duties as required’ clauses too.
And forced arbitration should be invalidated.
