Tourist cities should have hotel rooms by the hour that are actually clean when you just want to take a nap.
An app that removes businesses that you follow on social media that have closed automatically so you don’t get anxious.
Headphones with an internal MicroSD slot or at least lots of internal storage to locally play back music.
Instead of mandatory military service like some countries have, people should have mandatory public work for two years. Whether it be labor, clerical/administrative, etc, it could help young people learn a new skill, get guaranteed work to get the started, and could potentially save a ton in taxes. It would also create the opportunity to start getting caught up some things that keep getting swept under the rug like bridge maintenance , etc.
Yeah. Similar to this I think junior high should have a bigger focus on being outside. Like one semester should be spend camping or something. It’s such a formative time and so many kids spend it scrolling through reels. There is something so real and unforgiving about Mother Nature that a 13 year old should really know about.
the top 50% richest people should have
The rest of people are already working these mandatory jobs.
The rest of people are already working these mandatory jobs.
Same type of work, sure, but the fruits of their labour are going towards shareholders. The point of public work is that it’s for the public good.
True, still not a huge fan of forced labour. I don’t like the idea of forced anything really.
We had something like that in Germany, if you opted out of military service, you had to do civil service instead, i.e. you had to work in an institution that provided some benefit to the general public.
Most of those jobs were healthcare related, such as working in a hospital, as ambulance driver, kindergarten teacher, assisted living helper etc., or working in a supervisory rule for a company that employed people with disabilities to make sure they don’t get injured in the workplace.
Both my brother and I did it (they later scraped military service, and the civil service as a consequence), and it was really amazing. He went to work in a food factory where people with mental disabilities were employed to sort raw ingredients (think removing debris and washing fruit and vegetables for juice, yoghurt & pickling), I worked as a nurse in a hospital.
Gave both of us a good twist for our careers, he moved on to study education for people with disabilities and now works as a special ed teacher for an integrative school, I went on to work in the development aid sector all across Africa and Central Asia for years.
So what does Germany have now that they’ve scrapped it?
Overworked healthcare staff since nobody can realistically replace the cheap labor coming from a government program, plus an understaffed military (180k personnel instead of 203k as per the budget).
I read that as: They scrapped the whole thing as a consequence of you and your brother doing it? You must have been really bad.
I’d include military service in that. But yes mandatory service for everyone.
Edit. No exceptions if your mom / dad is a senator or anything… medical? Great there is tons of paperwork that needs to be done. Basically every one yeah.
In my country mandatory military service, aka conscription, is used to take away men’s freedoms, you can’t travel, you can’t work, you can’t participate in politics, you can’t go to hotels… Etc… And it’s all necessary for thé but not for me, meaning the generals and the minister’s children don’t go to the military unstead they go to a business school and start companies all over the world, with people’s money… of course
Craggles™
Sandles for the crag allowing belayers to quickly slip them on and off. Toe area capped with light armour and good rubber soles for scrambling. Of course they have accessory loops for quickly attaching to bags for multi-pitch, Gone are the days of sore feet from belaying in climbing shoes, toe damage from catching a whip in flip-flops, or holding up your climbing partner by trying to find your approach shoes and a spot to put them on.
A law that prohibits labels from being too sticky that you can’t reuse the packaging. For example, I should absolutely be able to easily peel off the labels from empty wine bottles and glass jars so I can reuse them.
Or a more general “stickers must adhere stronger to themselves than to whatever they are stuck to”.
Stickers should have a greater sense of self worth and keep it together when people are trying to tear them apart.
And one that prohibits “reduced to clear” labels from being too sticky so you can use sandwiches as gifts
CHEAP capsule hotels. We have a couple here in London but they charge the same as the budget hotels, completely missing the point.
Part of the problem is that a lot of hotel and other property owners don’t want cheap capsule hotels.
Settling civil disputes with dueling.
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.
Mozilla should make a search engine.
I know they will lose all that sweet google revenue.
Governments should support them to encourage a free and open internet, if Google wins a complete monopoly we all lose.
We don’t have to go far back to see an example of what a browser monopoly will look like, just look at IE6…
Free public toilets for men and women, everywhere.
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.
Prostitution legalized everywhere, with a clean and safe presentation. And nobody should judge people for it in neither side.
Phones should shoot landscape video even when they’re held vertically.
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I used to have the moto g stylus, it did that. I loved it’s camera. Too bad I bricked it by trying to downgrade it to unnecessarily install a custom rom.
HOLY FUCK
The image sensor is square… it should just shoot 1:1 scale and let you crop it to an orientation later
Most image sensors are not square, they are 4:3 or 16:9. Square sensors are typically used for more specialty applications.
I agree it could be useful on a phone to have 1:1 sensors, but I would still support the direct recording to standard video resolutions and aspect ratios as otherwise encoder limitations will affect what video you can shoot.
I’d like citizenship swapping services. Some people just don’t wanna stay stuck to their country of birth, especially if renouncing that citizenship is literally impossible (I’m Moroccan, and according to Moroccan law I’ll stay that way to my own detriment, even if I get another citizenship which thankfully is possible).
I bring this up regularly. Trading a doctor for a doctor seems like a fair enough trade & many folks want mobility. The irony of “if you don’t like it here, then leave” being met with your & other nations making it exceedingly difficult to do that. I know several folks would love to have my US passport but where I am at, I would get a lot more value & ease in having a local passport form entry to nearby countries, to visa woes + residency, to opening accounts (dealing with the IRS+SEC means many, many places refuse service), dual pricing, & actually getting some semblence of integration.
Wiser words have never been said.
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.
