Tourist cities should have hotel rooms by the hour that are actually clean when you just want to take a nap.
I feel like you’d probably enjoy wandering through the halfbakery…
Oh man I used to be a menace on there.
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.
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
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.
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.
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).
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.
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.
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.
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…
Headphones with an internal MicroSD slot or at least lots of internal storage to locally play back music.
Change grammar so that the plural of a word ending in an s followed by a hard consonant has -es added to the end instead of just -s - e.g. waspes instead of wasps.
Is this to make it easier to pronounce?
Watch out for waspes! They’ll sting you and then you’ll look like me.
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 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.
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
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.
Living wages in exchange for work.
Look at this guy over here. They want to contribute to society and not starve from it. Wild.
But if labour can afford to live, how will we minimise their ability to focus what little energy we leave them with at the end of their shift on improving their situation?
Paying a living wage is a slippery slope that ends in things like healthcare, education and opportunities being available to all, and that’d make them more than just our bought and paid for production labour, that’d make them our rivals.
Candidates for public office should be required to undergo a mental health assessment as part of the process of getting on the ballot, and those who score beyond (above or below, as may be relevant) particular thresholds are barred from seeking office.
I sincerely believe that there’s no single thing we could do that would provide more benefit to the world than to get sociopaths and narcissists and megalomaniacs out of positions of power. Each and every one of the most notable and contentious politicians in the world today is, if you just take a step back and look at them honestly, blatantly profoundly mentally ill. Enough is enough.
The minimum threshold is tricky. Sometimes due to alliance or political dynamic, a party/list struggle to reach 5%. But banning them from running again seems aggressive. An election even lost without any seat nor a public payment of the campaign fee, is a chance for a party to be heard and put back some issues in the debate. Look at the green who often do low score, but sometimes manage to win
That’ll just be used as a tool to discriminate against certain groups of people. If you standardize it to avoid any personal bias, then it’ll be coachable/trainable and then people will work around it.
Imo any random person should be able to run for office
The idea itself is fine, but in practice it wouldn’t work. The kind of people you are trying to screen out in the process would just study do give the responses of a passing assessment, probably with the help of heavily paid mental health professionals.
Psicology is hard to test and prove, most of the things you are looking to test would not be visible in bloodwork or brainscans.
Not to mention, who is in control of making the tests? Mental health/aptitude tests have had a history of being at least a little bit racist, kinda like the old ‘intelligence’ tests that were designed to prevent black people from voting.
And add onto that that Former (felonious) President Trump’s personal Doctor said he was the fittest president ever! The doctors will absolutely be on the payroll when it comes to the most powerful politicians.
Skip the psych exam. Restore the “public servant” aspect.
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All assets are sold and the cash is placed in a trust that earns 1% interest. When you leave office you get your money back.
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24/7 audio and video coverage of your life as long as you are in office. The toilet is not filmed unless someone goes in with you. Other than that, your life is an open book.
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After you leave office, you can teach classes as long as your compensation is no more than the lowest-paid professor at the school that employs you. You can write books. Or you can enjoy your pension. No corporate jobs or partner positions at fancy law firms.
So, we’d be governed by influencers?
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A robot goose with AI controlled steering
Top comment, should be pinned. We need a gaggle of these. A gagglebyte.
Shhh! Nobody tell them…
“nap” lol
