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Fun Stuff => CHATTER => Topic started by: explicit on 16 Jan 2016, 00:20
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Things would sure be better if we could end hate or fix the wage gap, but this thread isn't about that! This thread is about granting wishes that aren't really that important, but you still think could make the world a better place!
My first wish is that people can never comment on articles that don't affect them. I don't need to know that you don't ever play videogames guy who's commenting on a videogame article!
What's your slightly petty wish everyone!?
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I wish people would express their opinions more politely, on the internet or otherwise. And that sleazy people would break a toe.
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I wish people in cubicles would stop checking their voice mail on speaker phone.
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I wish that after waking up everyone was perfectly hydrated. That includes not having to pee.
(It's 0820 am).
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There's something oddly satisfying about a morning pee, though. Don't take that away from me!
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If ethanol made people sleepy before they did stupid things ...
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Stupid people banned from entering Politics
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Stupid people banned from entering Politics
According to our current state of affairs, that's not a minor wish at all! :p
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Toilet paper could only be sold if it's proven to tear crosswise and not lengthwise.
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That mosquitos would die instantly if they come within 4 feet of me.
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I wish that the Fallout games just didn't end and I could keep playing them and loving them forever.
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That everyone had to carry around a bouncy ball and play with it every few hours. No one gets mad when playing with a bouncy ball.
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That major musicians STOP FREAKIN' DYING for a while.
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That when I or anyone says, "No," it is accepted the first time and not questioned.
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Clothes should not look fine on the rack, but outline one's bra when on.
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I would like the ability to turn down my hearing as effectively as closing my eyes does for sight.
Also the ability to forget things at will.
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Did anyone else see this at first and think it was about a kid who wanted to improve the world?
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I wish that the Fallout games just didn't end and I could keep playing them and loving them forever.
Mods :p Some mods for Skyrim for example are major DLC- or whole-new-expansion in scale and quality.
I wish more interviewers were actually competent at interviewing potential job hires.
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Did anyone else see this at first and think it was about a kid who wanted to improve the world?
Are you calling me a child?
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I didn't even see who made it, I saw "minor wishes..." and I interpreted it as "a minor (kid) wishes..." before I clicked and realized what the title meant :parrot:
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Me too!
I wish that people would say exactly what they mean without being rude about it. No lying or tiptoeing around but no unnecessary rudeness.
"Well, that dress isn't so good..." or "That dress makes you look fat." --> "That dress isn't really flattering on you. It kind of emphasizes your hips in a negative way. What about this one instead?"
There are so many people who think that being honest also means just saying it in whatever phrasing comes to mind first. You can be honest AND tactful
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Every ad that looks like an arrow to the next part of the article is banned forever.
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I wish that I always had a pen when I need one. This includes tablet pens.
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I wish that writing a cover letter that just said "I'm iiiiinteresting hiiiireeee meeee" instantly got you a job.
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^This
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^^That!
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^^^Those!
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Unanimous vote. Motion carried, motion passed. Jobs for everyone!
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For that matter, if all bullshit jobs have an application form and a personal statement, the concept of a CV/resume should not exist.
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I actually prefer sending a resume, I've sent out so many applications lately and the ones where you just need to fill out forms are so annoying. You basically need to type out your resume every time anyway, instead of just copying it into an email.
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I'm going to wish for more robot lesbians in videogames.
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Going back to jobs, I wish there was a way for all jobs to call and follow up rather than throw your resume on their pile and hope they see it.
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Yes.
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Sometimes that works (or at least you can get put through), but a few years ago I called and asked to speak to a hiring manager and they seemed shocked and almost mad I'd ask for such a thing. Pretty much got a "don't call us, we won't call you, either".
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So, Method isn't crazy..he is replying to something I think I posted then deleted. Somehow. Even though I don't remember posting it in the first place. Or he(?) read my mind, whatever.
That's why I don't call, I'm afraid to come off as naggy, or some unfortunate secretary has to tell me to bugger off.
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That time I mentioned I didn't give them my name (I would've had I been transferred), so I'm pretty sure it didn't hurt me, but...yeah. What the fuck?
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Fascinating. In German job culture, the general advice is "if you haven't received a response within X days, it cannot hurt to remind them off your application - it shows you are still interested and that that application is important to you".
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Fascinating. In German job culture, the general advice is "if you haven't received a response within X days, it cannot hurt to remind them off your application - it shows you are still interested and that that application is important to you".
Idk, as an American my Dad often tells me the same. And he'd probably know considering the hundreds of people he's hired over the years.
It think the company in question was juststupid in how it viewed applicants.
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This conversation about jobs reminded me of the story that a streamer I follow had recently with his job hunting. Basically, he saw a job posting, applied for it, three weeks passed, posting was still up so he called for some info.
THEM: "We actually already filled that position"
HIM: "... ( 'w')"
HIM: "You could at least take the posting down then? It's on *location*"
THEM: "Sure we'll do that right away".
Fast forward another 2 weeks (to this monday), the thing is still up.
tl;dr: It would be awesome if people took down their ads and flyers when they're no longer useful for anyone.
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It think the company in question was juststupid in how it viewed applicants.
In my case, it was a job for the town I live in.
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An end to blister packaging would improve the world.
Banning car alarms comes to mind.
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If my panic button didn't have absolutely shit range I'd probably use it to find my car all the time.
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Eyeball tracking so that screens don't go blank when I'm trying to read them.
Rental cats.
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Eyeball tracking so that screens don't go blank when I'm trying to read them.
On phones at least, my Android phone has something called SmartStay that uses the front camera to keep the screen on while it detects a face. Although I've never used it so I don't know how well it works.
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Rental cats.
Not sure if it's exactly the same thing, but a few months ago, I saw an article about some Uber drivers in Madison offering to bring kittens for their customers to play with.
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Self-cleaning shower curtains please. I'm not sure I can really be doing with bleach clouds in my bathroom every month or so *cough cough splutter*
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Rental cats.
Would cat cafés be a good compromise on this wish?
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I wish shopping carts had brakes you could set so that they would stay in place on parking lots that aren't level.
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I wish people would walk an extra 20 feet to put their shopping trollies away instead of leaving right in the middle of the parking spaces.
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I wish shopping carts had brakes you could set so that they would stay in place on parking lots that aren't level.
I don't think I have never seen a trolley without brakes, or more commonly a single brake on one of the back wheels. I checked on Google images and it took maybe a hundred images before I saw one with a brake pedal. Huh, I learned something.
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There only minor thing that would make Britain a better place now would be time travel plus a plan to prevent all this from happening at all.
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Rental cats.
This is more or less an actual thing. You can make the world a better place.
Find a no-kill animal shelter in your area and find out if they need foster carers to take care of pets until they are ready for adoption.
For example: https://www.catprotection.org.au/index.php/foster-caring
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There only minor thing that would make Britain a better place now would be time travel plus a plan to prevent all this from happening at all.
Boris and Nigel being eaten alive by badgers?
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Barrett 50 at 500 yards?
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That's not as funny as badgers, at least not to someone from the US like me.
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There only minor thing that would make Britain a better place now would be time travel plus a plan to prevent all this from happening at all.
Boris and Nigel being eaten alive by badgers?
Mushroom Mushroom.
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HERE COMES SNAKE
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In the Orange Box?
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Yeah, I thought it was strange, too.
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Warning labels on oatmeal raisin cookies to put an end to the problem of getting by accident when hoping for chocolate chips.
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I never understood how anyone mistakes raisins for chocolate chips. They don't even look the same.
Personally, I'll take raisins over chocolate any day, but I also don't generally eat cookies anyway.
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There only minor thing that would make Britain a better place now would be time travel plus a plan to prevent all this from happening at all.
Boris and Nigel being eaten alive by badgers?
(http://cdn2-www.craveonline.com/assets/uploads/gallery/top-10-college-mascots/08-wisconsin-badgers-mascot-getty.jpg)
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Warning labels on oatmeal raisin cookies to put an end to the problem of getting by accident when hoping for chocolate chips.
Oatmeal chocolate chips are, strangely, the best combination.
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It would be a minor improvement to the world if people would honor seat-saving. I've left my jacket to reserve a seat only to find someone sitting on top of it. Not in a crowded situation, either. There was another incident like that a couple of days ago, and I've had at least two on the train.
I'd also like some telepathic alarm that pings when it detects that I'm getting absent-minded.
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It would be a minor improvement to the world if people would honor seat-saving.
I'm of two minds on this one. A couple of my local cafés are infested[1] with students during most of the year (although blessedly not so much in the summer), and I really don't feel comfortable sticking my stuff at a space before I order. OTOH, I *have* stepped out of the queue and decided to go elsewhere when someone else just walks in to claim the last spot.[2]
[1] It becomes an infestation when (potential) customers who *aren't* camping-out all day take every available space and one can't even read the news online because there's *no* available bandwidth. I'm enough of a jerk that I'll pull out my laptop just to torrent every linux ISO I can and just sit back and read.
[2] Although I'm happy that they now institute a 2 hour rule per order, it's still wouldn't stop people from tethering or working offline.
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Have we already had "eradicating the common flu"? Because I would take that one right now.
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There only minor thing that would make Britain a better place now would be time travel plus a plan to prevent all this from happening at all.
Boris and Nigel being eaten alive by badgers?
(http://cdn2-www.craveonline.com/assets/uploads/gallery/top-10-college-mascots/08-wisconsin-badgers-mascot-getty.jpg)
Thumbs up for the Bucky reference.
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If falling asleep were under conscious control.
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An adblocker for all of my senses. There aren't many things in this world that I'd like to see burn irrespective of the consequences, but the advertising industry is one of them.
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If falling asleep were under conscious control.
If I could become fully awake at a moment's notice...
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An adblocker for all of my senses. There aren't many things in this world that I'd like to see burn irrespective of the consequences, but the advertising industry is one of them.
I understand the sentiment, but given the vast number of services that are mostly, if not fully paid for by the advertising industry, the consequences are going to be far more severe than you realise. Everything you now use for free - Google, news websites, webcomics, blogs, file hosting - will have to become pay-to-use, meaning small, start-up websites are going to be entirely unsustainable until they attract a significant paying audience. The internet will be dominated even more strongly by services of large corporations with the money to sustain them and the reach to attract enough users.
So, as annoying as they are, for the moment I am thankful for the advertising industry for enabling the richness of free online communities and services we currently have.
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In this case, I was referring to meatspace. I don't really watch tv, so commercials are irrelevant to me, but everywhere, the signal to noise ratio is terrible because of adverts everywhere. Online, I refuse to turn off my adblocker for *anything*. It's just too much of a personal risk.
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new entry: mosquitoes
enough said
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Get rid of the mosquitoes. Fuck em
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http://www.pri.org/stories/2016-04-04/why-famous-biologist-wants-eradicate-killer-mosquitoes
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As an environmental worker, I will say that we all want to, but it's hard without destroying everything or giving birds cancer.
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There's evidence to suggest we could get rid of several species of mosquito without detrimental effects on the environment or ecosystem, namely those that co-evolved with humans and are the biggest threat to us
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Bear in mind, I totally added my comment before seeing any of the previous mosquito disdain.
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The wife of one of my former bosses spent her life reducing mosquito populations in Africa by making modifications to their habitats which interfered with their lifecycle. I don't know how scalable her methods turned out to be.
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One method we have used before to drastically reduce the population of harmful insect species is to breed a bunch of males in a lab, sterilize them, then release them into the population.
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The wife of one of my former bosses spent her life reducing mosquito populations in Africa by making modifications to their habitats which interfered with their lifecycle. I don't know how scalable her methods turned out to be.
I've to wonder myself, cuz Africa's kind of a large place.
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I wish people in cubicles would stop checking their voice mail on speaker phone.
I actually enjoy this but it is likely because I work in a funny place.
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An option as a viewer to organise YouTube playlists that I'm watching chronologically.
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How about a ban on toilet paper that tears lengthwise?
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Or single ply toilet paper in general.
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Or single ply toilet paper in general.
This.
A few months ago my house's waste system backed up several times, flooding the basement with crap. The plumber said to use single ply until the system was repaired.
Let me tell you something, you think the stuff in the public bathrooms are bad? The household single ply TP would be a joke (but it's not funny in the slightest), it's so bad I took home some of the industrial single ply from work (and left a few rolls of my supply of two-ply in exchange). For such thin, easily tearable paper, it's so. damn. rough. If 100 grit sandpaper tore as easily as a tissue, that would be would be household single ply.
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I wish my dad didn't have cancer. It sounds selfish in a thread where it's supposed to be stuff to make the world a better place, but he just does. He visits kids with terminal illnesses. We still send cards to some of them, I think. He just brings happiness to so many people that the world is a better place for having him in it. I want him to be okay so he can be a success story, so he can keep making people's lives better.
And it trickles down. His support of me helps me have a way to eat and live and stuff while doing my work. I'm about to start working on an amazing project that will make the Internet (especially Google) easier to use. Not even kidding. How tf can I do that if my dad is dead? It would be down to me to support my mom and my sister. I think I would break. So make wishes for my dad. For the future of the Internet.
I can't even fathom posting in the Happy Happy Joy Thread about my new job because of this. Please. Wish for me. Wish as hard as you can.
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That's about making the world a better place, and it's not just a minor wish!
I'm with you on that. Betcha everybody is.
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More people realise and accept that sometimes shit isn't about or for them so when it's appropriate to butt the fuck out.
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I like that song! Not many songs are about me, but that one probably is!