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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] 3 points 6 months ago (2 children)

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

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

Cragglesβ„’

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] 3 points 6 months ago (2 children)

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.

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

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.

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

Headphones with an internal MicroSD slot or at least lots of internal storage to locally play back music.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

Free gender neutral public toilets, everywhere.

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

An app that removes businesses that you follow on social media that have closed automatically so you don't get anxious.

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

Settling civil disputes with dueling.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

CHEAP capsule hotels. We have a couple here in London but they charge the same as the budget hotels, completely missing the point.

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