Tourist cities should have hotel rooms by the hour that are actually clean when you just want to take a nap.
Living wages in exchange for work.
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.
Look at this guy over here. They want to contribute to society and not starve from it. Wild.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
Global peace and security.
Settling civil disputes with dueling.
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.
Free gender neutral public toilets, everywhere.
Everywhere? Where will we put all the existing things? You can’t turn the whole world in to just toilets, that’s taking the piss!
A cool idea I’ve had for a long time (or rather a dream) was a truly private and good suit auf office programs like Microsoft 356 but with privacy and the customor in mind. No anti-consumer things generally.
This exists. https://www.libreoffice.org/ Great stuff 👍
Collaborative editing in real time?
If you need collaboration you can self-host collabora for free. https://www.collaboraoffice.com/code/ It uses libreoffice code. It’s also a supported backend for collaboration in nextcloud.
Libreoffice has some great tools but when you use Excel and Word for 8 hours a day and then switch to calc or writer it can be really frustrating. LibreOffice also lacks collaboration, as mentioned by Tehdastehdas
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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.
Voting days should be mandatory holidays
But then we’d all get pissed the day before and be too hungover to go and vote
I’m 50 years old and for as long as I can remember voting days in my country are a national holiday from the lowest government post to the highest.
That’s a thing where I am from. Also, only day where alcohol cannot be sold, as you must do your duty sober. Fair compromise if you ask me: if I already know who I am voting for, I also had the prescience to buy my booze the night before :)
Lots of countries vote on Sundays which solves that problem
It skews the results towards christian-backed candidates - Sunday mass gets people out of their houses, clergy reminds them to vote and at least hints who they should vote for and they do on their way home.
I have never heard of that being an issue in my country where it is a constitutional requirement for elections to be held on Sundays or public holidays.
It is an issue in Poland. Close to 30% of the population is at Sunday mass and even if priests were perfectly neutral (and they very much aren’t) simply people deciding “I’m already out, I might as well vote” does make an impact on the outcome. Every time liberals and socialists score an election win is after electorate mobilization that counters that.
BTW I agree that voting should happen on a statutory holiday, but it shouldn’t be one associated with a majority religion.
Absolutely
A button on the TV that would make the remote beep so you can find it
Some Roku remotes support this. You issue the command from the mobile app
That is a thing on the Nvidia Shield, actually!
Finally! I’ve had this thought ever since I was a kid.
There’s this suit of useful little programs called Microsoft PowerToys, I always thought it should include a tool that allows you to quickly swap the contents of monitors around in multi-monitor setups.
e.g. move all open windows from monitor 1 to monitor 2 and vice-versa, while retaining their (approximate) position.
This may already be a thing, I haven’t really checked.
Kde plasma does almost everything you can imagine
I use KDE Plasma on a regular basis but I’m not aware of that being a feature. Maybe you can do it with virtual desktops, though.
I have a keyboard combination shortcut for switching windows from screen to screen in kde plasma
Just moving single windows or multiple?
Single windows
I see, there’s a native windows shortcut that does the same thing (Windows-Key + Arrow Keys)
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That’s only useful though if someone looking for this function also happens to be looking for a tiling window manager. I assume most people needing this don’t want a tiling window manager.
Retirement should be 45
An app that removes businesses that you follow on social media that have closed automatically so you don’t get anxious.
Red Alert 2 remaster
I’ll just wait for OpenRA to integrate TS and RA2 into their enginge.
I’m too much of a boomer sadly. I want a 1 to 1 remake
You don’t want that, the controlls of the original C&C franchise was terrible.
Left click to both select and order units and right click just clear the selection?
No, terrible.
I played it today and it doesn’t bother me that much. That said, right click move would be better. I want that, decouple game speed and frame rate, and decouple zoom from resolution. The rest I’m fine with
I’m sure EA will do it justice
That is a fear of mine lol. They did a good job with the first remaster but who knows if they’d keep it up
of course they’ll keep it up. it’ll even have extra content, like multiple currencies, battlepasses, seasons and XP boosters.
You torture me, friend 😅
could do ra 1&2 in a modern engine.
All billionaires in electric chairs.
Is this like Robot Wars?
Sure, that’s one way we could go with it. To the death.
