Tourist cities should have hotel rooms by the hour that are actually clean when you just want to take a nap.
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.
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!
I’d make that deal with the Sharks. Sea bass today, sea urchins tommorow.
How about mutated sea bass?
Every airline seat should be fixed at the reclined position
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.
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.
It’s just recliner theater, I tell ya!
But if you’re also reclined doesn’t that offset it?
Sure, but why not recline all seats permanetly?
That’s exactly what I started off with
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
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.
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.
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.
quit your planet-destroying job
Bunked sleeping buses like Vietnam should be more normalized too so you can lay down for long hauls.
A society based on mutual aid :3
And also bluetooth earbuds without touch controls
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.
I was going to say that yeah, you can actually get even motels and some hotels at hourly rates, usually in high crime areas with rampant prostitution.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
A robot goose with AI controlled steering
Top comment, should be pinned. We need a gaggle of these. A gagglebyte.
Shhh! Nobody tell them…
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.
Government workers should have wages and benefits that go up when the economy goes up.
You missed the more important bit.
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
https://github.com/Alovoa/alovoa
Now make it more popular lol
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…”
Just as bad as Tinder = worthless compared to pre-MatchGroup OkCupid.
Mist-Alovoa ‘lovoa, alovoa, Mmm
They call me mista bombastic
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?
I think this might want a clean sheet design. At least as I understand it, there are issues with privacy in the fediverse/activitypub vis-a-vis non-public messages. I think it’s also an area where, in order to go the most good, you’d want simple signups and easy engagement (to say nothing of being able to trust that your info has been deleted when you delete it).
Clearly, I’m here and I value the philosophical underpinnings of the fediverse, but I think it might not be the best fit for dating.
That said, if you feel like you can solve those problems, you’d be doing a world of good if you’re right.
I feel like we can figure this out with end to end encryption.
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.
What makes BAXY the right way?
Purely preference. That, and I’ve spent about a million times more time on an xbox360 than just about any other console in existence, so it’s what I personally consider the best way. If you or someone you know uses any other way, that’s your deal, but I just can’t retrain myself to like any other format.
The Super Nintendo Standard
It’s not, though. The person I replied to is saying that the lowest button of the cluster should be A, whereas the SNES standard puts B in that spot.
I’ll be damned, you’re right.
Turn-based King of the Hill RPG
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.
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”.
That’s either stupid as hell or utterly brilliant. Either way, I want it.
I’ll tell you h’wat.
