Tourist cities should have hotel rooms by the hour that are actually clean when you just want to take a nap.
Humanity should be instantly deleted
You first
no u
Bloodborne remaster and on PC
(Pls miyazaki I beg you!)
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.
You’re more or less describing cap-and-trade…
I don’t think I am. Under cap-and-trade, it’s still possible for more than a safe amount of fossil fuels to be extracted from the ground within a given time period and subsequently burned. There’s some similarity in the market mechanism, but in my scheme it’s connected to actual fossil fuel extraction, not hypothetical emissions quantities.
If suburbia was an advantageous place for them, they’d already be there. …
I don’t think the wolves are instinctively avoiding human populations. Wolves were deliberately exterminated from these places, so deliberate efforts are required to bring them back.
… 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.
Transmission losses aren’t the issue. If the plants are close to where people live and work then you can take advantage of cogeneration to provide district heating and utility steam. Also, urban nuclear plants can strengthen the relationship with agricultural regions by generating hydrogen/ammonia for GHG free fertilizer.
Any sort of dirty water recovery is more efficient at the municipal scale…
I agree, but homes should already have the plumbing to automatically collect bathing and laundry water for flushing toilets. The excess can get sent to the municipal water treatment plant and set aside for industrial uses.
Seems that’s not a super easy thing to do (read expensive)…
It gets more inefficient if the pee is mixed with the rest of the wastewater, so the idea is to adapt our bathrooms to help keep it separate. Perhaps converting to composting toilets, which collect urine separately, is the way go to here to help with gray water management as well. Anyway, if recovering phosphate from urine seems expensive, that’s just relative to mining it from problematic places.
I’ve got another one: make Mother’s and Father’s Days paid work holidays!
And election day
I’ll take any extra holidays I can get. However, voting by mail is really the way to go. I used to be reluctant to vote, but mail ballots just make it too easy.
Just use the Swedish system, allow a few week of pre and mail voting, and election day is allways on a sunday.
Every citizen is automatically reigistered for voting, and get a voting card sent home, you send that in to mail vote or to pre vote with a sealed envelope with your ballots.
This means that you can even change your vote after mail or pre voting without compromising voter secrecy
Every airline seat should be fixed at the reclined position
Bunked sleeping buses like Vietnam should be more normalized too so you can lay down for long hauls.
I disagree and most people who fly constantly are with me.
I fly for work upwards of 4 times a month for 4 hour flights, the best flights are where no one reclines theor chair.
If you’re tall your already touching the seat in front.
Then they recline you have that on top of your knees, and a chair in your face.
The recline is needed for overnight flights. On short haul, it’s unnecessary indeed. I think some airline have ordered seats without recline already.
Nope, the recline function make almost zero comfort change for the occupant, but for the person behind it has huge impact.
But if you’re also reclined doesn’t that offset it?
Sure, but why not recline all seats permanetly?
Because then they wouldn’t be able to tell you to return your seat to the upright position for landing.
They do that for safety
That’s exactly what I started off with
To be clear: I don’t recline when there’s someone behind me
However
As someone who gets lower back pains from sitting in an uncomfortable position for long, the recline function makes a huuuuuge impact. Recently rode a bus with no recline (and nobody behind me) and by the end of the 1.5 hour ride, I felt horrible.
Comfort for both the reclinee and the person behind don’t have to be mutually exclusive.
You sound like middle management, you come up with a simple sounding idea with zero idea on how to do it, only this simple idea is impossible without huge, HUGE changes to airplane design and vast increases in ticket cost.
What the fuck are you on? This is not an Airbus engineering war room.
The title of the post is “What’s an idea you have that should be an actual thing?” not “What’s an idea you have that should be an actual thing and it must realistically be made possible”?
Lighten up.
Wow, here I am making a joke, and are just calling for me to lighten up?
Calm down.
Oh. Hehe.
Sorry.
It’s hard to read people’s intentions with just text sometimes.
It happens, I hoped it would be clear enough when I brought up middle management, but I guess I missread the situation.
It’s just recliner theater, I tell ya!
Why not make sure that both are comfortable? The issue is not the reclining seat. The issue is the space in between the seats. So, the issue is the airlines, not the passengers.
Sure, but increasing the seat size will increase ticket cost.
Well, that’s a different argument. The original argument was “permanent seat reclining” and you replied:
Nope, the recline function make almost zero comfort change for the occupant, but for the person behind it has huge impact.
You didn’t mention cost until now.
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.
A robot goose with AI controlled steering
Shhh! Nobody tell them…
Top comment, should be pinned. We need a gaggle of these. A gagglebyte.
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.
Since airspace is reserved for airport traffic, the furthest point is more than likely about 50k feet straight up.
I’m ok with that.
Yes please!
Retirement should be 45
Wrecking ball duels!
Ever heard of Overwatch?
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.
Headphones with an internal MicroSD slot or at least lots of internal storage to locally play back music.
put all the health sensors in wireless earpiece rather than a watch.
Eh, way more comfortable to wear a watch than an earpiece / headpiece imo
if its an either or I can see that. of course many people use an earpiece anyway when they use a phone. Its a rare site for me to see someone on the phone with it up to their ear. Heck its more often I see (and hear) the folks using speakerphone.
After an impromptu upscale bar/lounge crawl with the wifey the other day…
A shoe that can easily go back and forth from high heel/wedge to comfortable flats w/o much, if any, tooling or carrying around extra parts. She also brought a clutch purse
Wifey was dead the next day from foot pain of walking between places.
Tbh all you’d really need to do is make the heel’s stick a lug and the shoe’s heel a spot to catch it. Line the lugs up with the hole and twist it to lock it in, twist again to unlock it and pull it out. Or could just use screws, maybe a long one through the bottom (and inset a little to avoid clicky clacky screws) that doesn’t fit all the way to the human heel but catches the shoe.
Google search foldable flats. Dr Scholl’s even makes some.
Yeah. But she wanted to carry a really small purse that wouldn’t be able to hold the foldable :(
Something I have discussed before aside, a communication reform would be nice. The world of language is way too chaotic, with too many people who think their way of communicating should be universal and not enough people with that opinion questioning how they can change theirs in the name of efficiency/sufficiency.
Esperanto?
I wish. My failed attempts at mastery made me learn how messy it is.
Toki Pona/Kokanu come to mind. Something minimalist would be key.
