Tourist cities should have hotel rooms by the hour that are actually clean when you just want to take a nap.
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.
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
That is a thing on the Nvidia Shield, actually!
Finally! I’ve had this thought ever since I was a kid.
An app that removes businesses that you follow on social media that have closed automatically so you don’t get anxious.
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Actually… a Fediverse OK Cupid clone could totally be a thing… runs away to ponder
Idk, isn’t something like OKC like… literally the opposite use case from what ActivityPub/The Fediverse was built to solve?
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I feel like we can figure this out with end to end encryption.
https://github.com/Alovoa/alovoa
Now make it more popular lol
Mist-Alovoa ‘lovoa, alovoa, Mmm
They call me mista bombastic
Just as bad as Tinder = worthless compared to pre-MatchGroup OkCupid.
I’ve got it downloaded but haven’t even opened it lol, I’d have to figure out how to make a dating profile and then I’d have to put a pic of me on the internet which I haven’t done in 14yr lol.
“What are your interests”
“Fuck you mean right now? 'Cause I got megaADHD that shit changes sometimes… I like long walks on the trails and overthinking questions…”
A robot goose with AI controlled steering
Top comment, should be pinned. We need a gaggle of these. A gagglebyte.
Shhh! Nobody tell them…
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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.
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.
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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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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
A society based on mutual aid :3
And also bluetooth earbuds without touch controls
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.
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.
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.
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).
There’s the federal volunteer service, which is the spiritual successor. Basically the same thing, but without being forced into it. There also voluntary social or ecological years, which is kind of the same thing as well.
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.
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.
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
“nap” lol
Wrecking ball duels!
Ever heard of Overwatch?
Government workers should have wages and benefits that go up when the economy goes up.
You missed the more important bit.
Global peace and security.
