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Tourist cities should have hotel rooms by the hour that are actually clean when you just want to take a nap.

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 6 months ago (11 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I feel like you'd probably enjoy wandering through the halfbakery...

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

Ever heard of Overwatch?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I've rented an airbnb for a few hours when i had a long layover. Some hotels have day rates. There's an app - hotels by day or something like that.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

Global peace and security.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

Nonprofit versions of vital social tech. If I had the money sitting around, I'd love to start a nonprofit dating site/app. I met my wife on OKC in 2011 before it got bought up and enshittified. It was great and wasn't geared toward just keeping you engaged (they're soooooo bad now!). You'd probably have to gatekeep it with a small fee to disincentive bots, but with a relatively small investment, you could create something really useful for folks without preying on anyone's desperation.

Signal would be a good model for this sort of thing.

Edit: typos

[–] [email protected] 18 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Actually... a Fediverse OK Cupid clone could totally be a thing... runs away to ponder

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago

Mist-Alovoa ‘lovoa, alovoa, Mmm

They call me mista bombastic

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Government workers should have wages and benefits that go up when the economy goes up.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago (1 children)

put all the health sensors in wireless earpiece rather than a watch.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Eh, way more comfortable to wear a watch than an earpiece / headpiece imo

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago

A society based on mutual aid :3

And also bluetooth earbuds without touch controls

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[–] [email protected] 102 points 6 months ago (9 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

the top 50% richest people should have

The rest of people are already working these mandatory jobs.

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[–] [email protected] 44 points 6 months ago (2 children)

A robot goose with AI controlled steering

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

Shhh! Nobody tell them…

[–] [email protected] 27 points 6 months ago

Top comment, should be pinned. We need a gaggle of these. A gagglebyte.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 months ago (5 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 6 months ago (2 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 119 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Living wages in exchange for work.

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