What's an idea you have that should be an actual thing?

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.

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.

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.

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

The image sensor is square... it should just shoot 1:1 scale and let you crop it to an orientation later

I used to have the moto g stylus, it did that. I loved it's camera. Too bad I bricked it by trying to downgrade it to unnecessarily install a custom rom.

HOLY FUCK

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

Shhh! Nobody tell them…

And voting? Always felt November 4th should be a paid holiday.

Awesome idea, btw.

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

https://github.com/Alovoa/alovoa

Now make it more popular lol

Yep, that would encourage new ideas way more than the current system.

Oh, and Disney should not be allowed to lobby for copyright law changes

Also exclusivity deals should be treated as the monopolies they are.

Ha, you have 14 upvotes right now, cool coincidence.

That is a thing on the Nvidia Shield, actually!

Some Roku remotes support this. You issue the command from the mobile app

With lawn mowing minigame

That's either stupid as hell or utterly brilliant. Either way, I want it.

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.

I'll tell you h'wat.

I have seen these in airport parking garages - green when the spot is empty, red when occupied and visible from the end of the aisle.

What really blew my mind was seeing the exact same functionality for stalls in the restroom.

Most every mall in Asian countries I've visited has this system already. This may just be a North America being cheap problem.

Many malls in Toronto have this. And as others have said, airports. Pearson International included.

Best we can do is ill-tempered sea bass

Yes please!

Since airspace is reserved for airport traffic, the furthest point is more than likely about 50k feet straight up.

I'm ok with that.

And forced arbitration should be invalidated.

I love both of these ideas.

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? (

Isn't it mostly an issue on the US side of the pond (and in other third worlds countries). I believe that most European countries have minimum standards regarding renter right, it's not perfect (and reality is that changing a furnace takes weeks). But every time I read about US feel likes dystopia.

And one that prohibits "reduced to clear" labels from being too sticky so you can use sandwiches as gifts

Or a more general "stickers must adhere stronger to themselves than to whatever they are stuck to".

Please run for congress. Now.

It's called a B Corp in the US. A public benefit company. It's for profit, but with a mission. Doctor Bronner's and Newman's Own are the two that come to mind.

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.

That'll just be used as a tool to discriminate against certain groups of people. If you standardize it to avoid any personal bias, then it'll be coachable/trainable and then people will work around it.

Imo any random person should be able to run for office

Skip the psych exam. Restore the “public servant” aspect.

1. All assets are sold and the cash is placed in a trust that earns 1% interest. When you leave office you get your money back.
2. 24/7 audio and video coverage of your life as long as you are in office. The toilet is not filmed unless someone goes in with you. Other than that, your life is an open book.
3. After you leave office, you can teach classes as long as your compensation is no more than the lowest-paid professor at the school that employs you. You can write books. Or you can enjoy your pension. No corporate jobs or partner positions at fancy law firms.

The minimum threshold is tricky. Sometimes due to alliance or political dynamic, a party/list struggle to reach 5%. But banning them from running again seems aggressive. An election even lost without any seat nor a public payment of the campaign fee, is a chance for a party to be heard and put back some issues in the debate. Look at the green who often do low score, but sometimes manage to win

And election day

Lots of countries vote on Sundays which solves that problem

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.

But then we'd all get pissed the day before and be too hungover to go and vote

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 :)

Absolutely

Oh man I used to be a menace on there.

Very cool website, thanks for sharing!

You should try out these so-called ear clip headphones (aka clip on buds). I got this pair at a thrift store for ~US$3 yesterday. They latch on to your ear on the outside and do not go deep into your ears. Great for tight earussies or for earussy periods.

I love my Sennheisers they work really well and dont feel weird in my earussy

Get some foam tips. I hated in ears and now they're my favorite

For 20 bucks at Walmart you can get a nice set of over the ear hook ones with a cord in between them and they have three different tiles of ear inserts and then another thing that sort of keeps them in place but is also a replaceable movable thing I don’t know how to describe it.

They are loud enough that I keep the hearing protection set on my phone and last 12 hours per charge, which covers the drive to work, 10 hour shift, and the drive home.

I was going to use them as a stopgap to better ones, but I am very pleasantly surprised, especially since they are Walmart brand.

The tips have come off when I have them around my neck but not in my ears, but they aren’t designed for that, and it’s only happened twice working and once sleeping with them in

That's why I like my galaxy beats live buds. They don't really sit in ear- mostly they sit just outside.

Is this like Robot Wars?

I'll just wait for OpenRA to integrate TS and RA2 into their enginge.

I'm sure EA will do it justice

could do ra 1&2 in a modern engine.

Nope, the recline function make almost zero comfort change for the occupant, but for the person behind it has huge impact.

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.

Bunked sleeping buses like Vietnam should be more normalized too so you can lay down for long hauls.

The recline is needed for overnight flights. On short haul, it's unnecessary indeed. I think some airline have ordered seats without recline already.

*International