Crazy Ideas

See who yells back POLO!!!!

Here's what we do. We schedule a Lemmy meet-up. In BOSTON. And then we take a picture with all the half naked and drunk people all spilling their beer!!! Then, we wait until there's a domestic terrorist situation happening in real time, and we direct the police to arrest a completely innocent man based on absolutely no facts.....but we FEEL like it's him.

Yeah! That's the ticket!

and its' drivers work only under Windows ME for no apparent reason.

So maybe Waldo shows up at an orgy, or a strip club, or a rave. Maybe he's doing his taxes. Maybe he's at the Jan 6th riots.

The possibilities are endless!

So from now on instead of having governments stalling public works projects by saying "that will cost 115 billion dollars" they should be required to say that will cost 1.15 bezos.

(The light from the takeoff event is just now reaching their planet from Earth all those lightyears away)

For the sake of concreteness, let's take the Joe Biden registering to run in the 2024 Democratic Primary. He signs up and is asked for an election handle, aka username, screenname, whatever.

He tries "joe biden" but that is taken, as is "joebiden"... So yada yada yada, he settles on "joe4unions" or maybe something a professional would come with, but we'll go with "joe4unions".

Here's the Crazy Idea: New election rule. Candidates may never claim to be their handle; the handle cannot claim to be the candidates.

The handle can link data, post anonymized stump speeches, name-drop ("jack kennedy was a friend of mine. and user4164, you're no jack kennedy."), whatever.

joe4unions can insist he will run the country just like Joe Biden, but he can't say anything that, had joe4unions not really been Biden, could be considered fraud.

Chaos Online Primaries ensue to get the top 10 candidates. Remember, they actually had to register in person. There were eligibility checks . So it's not open-internet signups, but it's not far off. there could be admin-level policing (DNC) so all the Dean Brownings of PA can't be lying out there.

Now online voting doesn't exist (yet?) so I don't have some kinks worked out. I hope no one was here for something well-thought out.

Now top 10 candidates chosen by Jan 2024 can now run the "normal" process.

What do you think? have fun hating my idea!

Let's find that person.

As should teachers and staff receive Orange Heart medals as part of their retirement if they are victims of a school shooting.

A supervillain builds a bunch of robots to fight a war against everyone. The countries of the world will have to cooperate and make alliances to beat them.

Plus, now it would actually be moral to build cool weapons.

Examples such as:

This week you have to end every sentence by shouting your favorite food.

This week you have to start every comment with, "I beg your pardon."

"He did it baby! We're going to celebrate his Nosantaday on saturday! I'm so proud of him!"

Force some kind of tax per second of observed ad per person.

To clarify, I don't mean paying people to watch ads.

I mean that as consumers watching ads, even inadvertibly, is time consuming. Time is equal money, therefore We should be paid for hour time.

Here are the references if you don't know what I'm talking about.

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And my personal favorite, Shia LaBeouf - Just Do It (Make Your Dreams Come True)

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