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)

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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!

The bill etc would be processed by a department called: Wizards of the Costs

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.

Original video

The standout clip

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

24/7 public livestreaming bodycams for everyone in politics

Steps:

1. Schedule races in only Trump counties
2. Heavily publicize it via monster truck style ads
3. Have people asking and recording mildly leading questions about gender and sexuality to audiences waiting to get in.
4. At halfway through the race, inform audience that all drivers are current/former contestants on Ru Paul's drag race
5. Profit off of video compilation of rednecks questioning their sexuality