Tourist cities should have hotel rooms by the hour that are actually clean when you just want to take a nap.
Living wages in exchange for work.
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.
Look at this guy over here. They want to contribute to society and not starve from it. Wild.
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.
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.
Phones should shoot landscape video even when they’re held vertically.
🤯
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.
HOLY FUCK
exactly
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.
A robot goose with AI controlled steering
Top comment, should be pinned. We need a gaggle of these. A gagglebyte.
Shhh! Nobody tell them…
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.
A button on the TV that would make the remote beep so you can find it
Some Roku remotes support this. You issue the command from the mobile app
Turn-based King of the Hill RPG
With lawn mowing minigame
I want to see one of those Street Fighter smash up the car mini games, but it’s Bobby & you have to repeatedly kick someone in the nuts while screaming “DON’T TOUCH MY PURSE”.
Is Ward one of the strongest party members you can get? I mean, he was a wizard even though he also refused the Caninus Spiritus.
I’ll tell you h’wat.
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.
When you get to baggage claim, if you then stand directly at the carousel blocking everyone’s view for more than 10 seconds, trap door opens and a system of pneumatic tubes forcibly jettisons you to the furthest point away in the airport for you to walk back.
Stand back, wait for your luggage to appear, then approach and get your bag and step back to the perimeter.
To get my VC funding in 2024, id also pitch that it “has AI” which is just facial recognition and if you get jettisoned twice in the same year, the third time goes into a shark pit or scorpion pit.
Best we can do is ill-tempered sea bass
How about mutated sea bass?
I’d make that deal with the Sharks. Sea bass today, sea urchins tommorow.
Parking lot lights, that are in/ on each space. That indicates if there is a space available…. Less driving around the lot looking for a space
Most every mall in Asian countries I’ve visited has this system already. This may just be a North America being cheap problem.
Some North American malls have them.
The problem is that a lot of American malls are in decline and can barely afford to keep the escalators working, let alone install these lights.
Many malls in Toronto have this. And as others have said, airports. Pearson International included.
Copyright should go back to 14 years.
Also exclusivity deals should be treated as the monopolies they are.
Ha, you have 14 upvotes right now, cool coincidence.
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.
And one that prohibits “reduced to clear” labels from being too sticky so you can use sandwiches as gifts
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.
Please run for congress. Now.
Prostitution legalized everywhere, with a clean and safe presentation. And nobody should judge people for it in neither side.
Is a functional government based on logic and compassion too much to ask/too cliché?
Renters rights legislation with enough teeth to make present and perspective landlords, both corporate and individual, think twice before not taking care of a property as though they lived there? (Yes, there are stories behind this one)
I guess a company that actually pays me what I’m worth (which I’m not even really looking for that much).
Renters rights legislation with enough teeth to make present and perspective landlords, both corporate and individual, think twice before not taking care of a property as though they lived there? (
Isn’t it mostly an issue on the US side of the pond (and in other third worlds countries). I believe that most European countries have minimum standards regarding renter right, it’s not perfect (and reality is that changing a furnace takes weeks). But every time I read about US feel likes dystopia.
I have been seeing reporting from and have had friends in Australia and New Zealand who have been sharing that it is actually much worse down there than it is in the US. Apparently in NZ most of the legislature is made up of landlords, so the laws are particularly egregious and abusive.
Customer focused companies. A middle ground between non-profit and for profit.
It’s called a B Corp in the US. A public benefit company. It’s for profit, but with a mission. Doctor Bronner’s and Newman’s Own are the two that come to mind.
