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Someone else actually not only had but went and made my one big idea - https://www.theverge.com/2021/5/30/22460964/vilnius-lithuania-portal-poland-connection-pandemic. The jury’s still out on whether it was a good idea.

A button on the TV that would make the remote beep so you can find it

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).

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.

Customer focused companies. A middle ground between non-profit and for profit.

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.

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.

Turn-based King of the Hill RPG

Phones should shoot landscape video even when they’re held vertically.

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All gamepads that have it having a BAXY control scheme. That's B right, A down, X left, Y up for the buttons on the right side of the gamepad. I can't tell you how many times I have pressed the wrong buttons when playing certain games all because the 3rd party switch controller I have uses ABYX or because I don't remember where the symbols are on a PlayStation controller. Dreamcast and original Xbox had their shit together with how they used BAXY for their controllers and to this day I may shit on Microsoft, but not on the BAXY control scheme on their gamepads.

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.