r/CrazyIdeas

Typically in basketball a fouled player gets the 2 free throws. I'm suggesting that you give fouled player/team the option:

freethrows like it's been for decades

OR

the fouling player gets minus 2 points and shoots from their freethrow line to the fouled players basket. (think more than half court) sinking both baskets just to break even.

This should deter the "Foul Shaq bc he can't freethrow" type of mentality.

There are so many corporations that can get away with being evil and breaking the law just because you would waste more money trying to fight them, than you would likely win.

I think that if you have what seems to at first be a credible story of wrongdoing and at very least some evidence to back it up that you shouldn't have to pay anything up front, then even if you lose maybe you pay a reduced amount of legal and court fees or maybe you still pay full fees but over time. If you instead have zero evidence and are clearly just wasting everyones time then yeah you can pay the full fees first if your still wanting to be seen in court.

But if you win? Then not only should you not have to pay up front, but you shouldn't pay at all the cost of going to courts, the legal fees or any other cost that occurred in order to bring about justice. Instead it should be added to their bill. The person being sued should have to pay for making it a legal battle in the first place.

Don't want to pay for someone else's legal fees? Don't make them have to bring you to court!

Shoes for cheerleaders allow a team colour to be inserted into the brand’s logo to match the team’s outfits

So when you're laying on your left side, you can remove the left arm and be much more comfortable. Or sitting cross legged-- my legs are addicted to that but my hips hurt from it. If I could remove my legs, i wouldn't have to cross them.

I'd like them to be easy to reattach.

The amount of gas spent commuting to and from work is sorta dumb. Not to mention the wear and tear on vehicles. My car has over 200k miles on it. When it dies I will have no way to get to work… then what?? All workplace areas should have a combined housing until for free for their employees and their family’s.

You have the option to pause any multiplayer game for a fee, say, 3$ per minute per player in the same match as you, that means you can pay 297$ per minute if you're playing a battle royale game (assuming 99 other players) and they will receive the money split up

Maybe add a fee for the platform too

Some people live for the thrill, and they’ll do anything to achieve it. Even if it means paying a high price. So Dog The Bounty Hunter decides to market a ride along. The entire show is fake. The fugitive is just an actor.

First you arrive at the building and walk in the door. Dog The Bounty Hunter greets you and shakes your hand. You talk and take pictures. Then all of a sudden the phone rings. Dog picks it up. He says a fugitive is on the run. He tells
all his workers to strap up and get in their cars. Including yourself. Then you drive around looking for the fugitive. You stop at an hotel. Open the door. Dog tells you to tackle the fugitive, pepper spray him, and place handcuffs on him.

It’s not cheap however. It costs $5,000 per show. Why? One because Dog The Bounty Hunter is famous. Two because it’s a rare show. Three because he and his workers all have to get paid.

Opposite of a deodorant. A stick or spray to amplify your body odour.

Tell me I'm not the only one here.

I listen to podcasts with my hands full basically all the time. Driving, cooking, half asleep. And here's the thing that gets me: an episode ends, the next one starts, and I have no idea what it even is. Sure, I can hit skip on my headphones, but skip to what? I don't know if the next one is something I'd love or something I'd want gone in five seconds. So I either sit through the intro of every episode to figure out if I want it, or I skip blindly and maybe kill something good. Both are annoying.

Why can't the app just read the title out loud before it plays? Just a quick "next up: whatever" so I actually know what I'm deciding on. Then I skip or stay, no guessing. Phones already do text-to-speech.

The way I picture it, you'd get a couple options. Bare minimum, it reads the title and then the description from the feed. Done. But descriptions are sometimes useless, a lot of them are just ad reads and links. So the better version would be a short AI summary from the actual transcript, no spoilers, so you get a real sense of what the episode is about instead of the show's marketing blurb. Let me pick which one I want. Then I decide.

Another idea along the same lines: a shuffle that keeps multi-parters together. It bugs me when shuffle throws part 3 at you before part 1. The playlist can jumble everything up however it wants, but Part 1 should always land right before Part 2, every time, etc. It seems pretty doable too, something as simple as RegEx catching the "Part 1 / Pt. 2 / (1/3)" patterns in titles, or an NLP model for the messier cases, could flag which episodes belong together and glue them into one unit before the shuffle happens.

Is it just me? Or are there other people out there blindly skipping episodes, half of them probably good, just because there's no way to know what's coming until it's already playing?

Something recently got me thinking about our waste problems as a species. I mean, trash and all. It’s a worldwide conundrum. We reuse or recycle what we can, and try to bury the rest, and shit still makes it all out into the oceans and stuff. Trying to manage it all takes up a tremendous amount of resources.

And think about it. All that trash buried in the landfills, it’s just gonna ride along under neat little man-made slivers of the earth’s surface for eons, until whatever doesn’t break down will eventually, inevitably, get swallowed up by the earth when our tectonic plates subside, essentially recycling it all into the core, right along with the entirety of the ancient civilization we will have become.

So why not simply accelerate that process? Dig a big hole straight down to the bottom of the earth’s crust, right down into the mantle. Yeah, I know, that’s a deep hole, but you’ll know you’ve hit the mantle when your drill bit comes up melted. Then send down a tunnel boring machine. You’ll know you’re there when your TBM disappears. I know it’s sacrificial, but it’ll be worth it. Then drive a huge tube into the hole - like with ramps that fall off into the inside where you can just shove things over the edge and into the hole.

Sure, the bottom of the tube will melt, but who cares? So will everything else! It’ll find a natural boundary all by itself and we can just keep dumping trash down there. Anything and everything, really - trash, plastics, organics, rusted out cars, nuclear waste, concrete and rebar, whatever it is, just drop it down there. The earth’s mantle will make short work of it all, melting everything down to its constituent elements and redistributing them throughout the earth’s core.

I mean, on an elemental scale, everything we have came from the earth, right? So let mother earth’s great digestive tract recycle it. I don’t see why this wouldn’t be the perfect solution.

What if we collaborated whenever a company treated people unfairly and, after verifying the facts, shared honest negative Google reviews based on our experiences?

To make sure we separate legitimate complaints from false accusations, evidence should always be provided. Community members can discuss the facts and decide for themselves whether a complaint is well supported. If someone believes a company has genuinely acted unfairly, they are free to share an honest review based on their own experience.

If you're interested in this idea, it will always be completely free. I see it as a community of people who are tired of being treated unfairly by companies and want to stand up for themselves together.

Businesses care about three things: money, time, and reputation. If our community grows large enough, we can have a real impact on those areas by holding companies accountable. So don't hesitate to get involved. Let's build something that benefits us instead of allowing unfair practices to continue.

If you're interested, please reach out to me. The next step will be creating a Discord server. At this stage it's still just an idea, and I'm looking for like-minded people who want to help build it into something meaningful.

Please share this message as widely as possible. strength in numbers!!