Tourist cities should have hotel rooms by the hour that are actually clean when you just want to take a nap.
Good bluetooth earbuds that are Apple earbud shaped (or an approximation far enough away to not be sued.) There’s litterally “airpods,” “cheap shitty airpod knockoffs,” and then the largest category “skullcandy types with the bullshit in ear inserts.” There’s plenty of quality ones in the skullcandy style, and idk if I just have a tight earussy but they do not fit in my holes.
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
I love my Sennheisers they work really well and dont feel weird in my earussy
I have a pair of the HD555s I love the sound quality of, but their buds look like the type I can’t stand. I want to try em out but that’s too much money for something that I think probably won’t work for me and nobody I know has them to try.
Have you tried any IEMs? I know they are wired but I have a pair of moondrop x crinacle dusk 2s that are amazing sound. I do want to upgrade to the new dusk model with the planar drivers but I dont have the free cash atm
Honestly this is less of an issue for me with wired, there’s plenty non-skullcandy style wired ones, the problem there is the world has decided phones no longer need a 3.5mm jack (which they absolutely do still need imo.) If I could still use wired I wouldn’t even be complaining!
I hate to say it but the apple type c to 3.5mm jack dongle is actually really good and all you really need. You could go for a balls to the wall dongle setup with a micro DAC that plugs into the phone bit youre starting to get into the placebo effect area of audiphile stuff
If my phone had two usb c ports, one top one bottom or even right next to each other, maybe. But excess wear and tear on the only port I can use for charging on a non-repairable device, the inability to charge and use headphones simultaneously, and an OG Xbox controller style dongle like it’s 200fucking3 are unfortunately not solutions to “have correct hole please.”
I don’t need audiophile quality, just “good enough,” combined with “doesn’t hurt ears or use my charging port.”
qi charger? bluetooth to audio dongle to convert your headphones to wireless?
My phone, laptop, & DAP all conveniently have a headphone jack so I can enjoy better quality sound, with no lantency, no spotty connectivity, no pairing lag, no need for firmware upgrades or proprietary apps, a cheaper price, easy to find the monitors since they are tethered together, & with better sustainability without lithium ion batteries while never have to worry about charge either.
What was the upside of wireless again?
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.
Huh, never seen these! I might have to check these out, thanks!
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Headphones with an internal MicroSD slot or at least lots of internal storage to locally play back music.
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.
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.
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
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.
Not to mention, who is in control of making the tests? Mental health/aptitude tests have had a history of being at least a little bit racist, kinda like the old ‘intelligence’ tests that were designed to prevent black people from voting.
And add onto that that Former (felonious) President Trump’s personal Doctor said he was the fittest president ever! The doctors will absolutely be on the payroll when it comes to the most powerful politicians.
Skip the psych exam. Restore the “public servant” aspect.
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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.
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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.
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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.
So, we’d be governed by influencers?
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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
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 want heard 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.
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.
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…”
Mist-Alovoa ‘lovoa, alovoa, Mmm
They call me mista bombastic
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.
Is a functional government based on logic and compassion too much to ask/too cliché?
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? (Yes, there are stories behind this one)
I guess a company that actually pays me what I’m worth (which I’m not even really looking for that much).
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.
I have been seeing reporting from and have had friends in Australia and New Zealand who have been sharing that it is actually much worse down there than it is in the US. Apparently in NZ most of the legislature is made up of landlords, so the laws are particularly egregious and abusive.
Over here in Portugal there’s the European legislation, but whether if it is enforced or not is another story. Some places get ridiculous, and I’d imagine that happens all over Europe too.
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.
Also nationwide lead removal fund.
*International
Yeah but there’s no real international authority for that, and how am I supposed to get my national government to join a treaty organization for that purpose when neither it nor any lower level of my government offer anything similar?
Hey, this thread is about what should be an actual thing, not what is realistic or even feasable to do.
You mention that a nationwide fund for removal of lead in the environment should be a thing, I just countered that there should be an international fund dor the removal of lead since it is an international problem.
Both funds should be a thing.
I mean, I suppose, but at that point it really hits the level of abstract principle rather than plausible policy. Kind of up there with “no more war”, “ending hunger”, or “socialism replacing capitalism”.
And while I do believe that a better world is possible, I really wanted to speak to things that are plausible in the existing political and economic climate in my lifetime.
That’s a fair point I didn’t think about when I made my comment.
Now that you mention it, switching to international scale in politics/activism sounds fantastic, but if often used as a way to divert responsibillity to a party with no authority.
So yeah, a national program is better
git send-xmpp&darcs send --xmppfor realtime, decentralized collaborative patches. The extensibility could fix the UX issues with patches by email & wouldn’t require accounts on someone else’s server or using the severely flawed ‘pull request’ model.You know how the FTC recently banned non-compete clauses (for non-senior roles)?
They should ban the, ‘and other unspecified duties as required’ clauses too.
And forced arbitration should be invalidated.
I’ve got another one: make Mother’s and Father’s Days paid work holidays!
And election day
I’ll take any extra holidays I can get. However, voting by mail is really the way to go. I used to be reluctant to vote, but mail ballots just make it too easy.
Just use the Swedish system, allow a few week of pre and mail voting, and election day is allways on a sunday.
Every citizen is automatically reigistered for voting, and get a voting card sent home, you send that in to mail vote or to pre vote with a sealed envelope with your ballots.
This means that you can even change your vote after mail or pre voting without compromising voter secrecy
Automation AI replacing CEOs
Prostitution legalized everywhere, with a clean and safe presentation. And nobody should judge people for it in neither side.
Hotels not using carpet in their rooms.
This is a noise reduction thing. It’s the same reason apartments only do hardwood on the ground floor. Your downstairs neighbors don’t want to listen to you moving around, and carpet is a great insulator and cushion.
Maybe. Though, there are a lot of solutions to dampen noise while using hard flooring.
(I also know plenty of apartments/condos in my area that use both or just hard flooring in my area)
