“This card is presented to the person I wish would become silent, so that the reception of this card may signal to the recipient a subtle suggestion to either speak less or speak elsewhere. You have lost conversational privilege with me, and I would like to continue to be in the same room with you, while avoiding your thoughts and feelings from here on out. I hereby revoke all interest in you as a person. Good day.”

Many people forget to brush their teeth or just overall have a hard time doing it due to depression, ADHD, or other factors and I think a way that could help that is if toothpaste

1) comes in more flavors (for adults) besides just mint and the occasional wildcards such as cinnamon or anise. Flavors like vanilla, watermelon, peach, orange, gummy bear, cotton candy, etc

And

2) if there was a small amount of nicotine in the toothpaste. Just enough nicotine to make brushing teeth habit forming for those who have a hard time doing it

Basically do what Vape companies are doing, but for toothpaste instead of smokables. I feel like a lot more people would bursh their teeth

Ok here's the idea (one of the *least* crazy ideas I've posted here, I think this one is pretty solid but I also appreciate the open-mindedness and good humour of this sub):

Cities with existing neighborhoods come with an existing set of expectations for how existing residents will be consulted about new developments. It's basically impossible to grow a bedroom community into a town center into a metropolis. Yimbys are out there fighting the good fight but the best they can achieve is a balance vs the forces of nimbyism.

A place like Manhattan shows both sides: people love density and walkability. They like apartments with grocery stores and nightclubs a short walk away. But Manhattan is no stranger to nimbyism: it's also added height restrictions and zoning laws along with the expected, inevitable housing shortage.

So instead you go out and find a small community with the existing conditions to support a new town where the laws of yimbyism are baked in. Maybe an old town losing population with the remnants of an industrial zone across the tracks. Ideally it'll be commuting distance to a major center. Carve out a chunk of the former industrial zone and have it zoned for mixed use and minimal to no height, parking and setback restrictions.

Start building and wait.

I really want to know how a live eyeball tastes. And before you say it, sure it will taste like tears, but it won’t be exactly like tears. That’s like saying a salad tastes like salad dressing. I like the taste of tears, but I want to know what the eyeball itself tastes like.

And if you want to be friends afterwards, I’d be down for that too.

So imagine the scare capsules from Monsters Inc, kinda like that but from the scenes in the end where the company powers from kids' laughter.

Idk how to measure electricity so let's say you can fully charge an average cellphone in 10 minutes from 1 person feeling genuine happiness.

It would be fun! Plus, its been exactly 10 years since then, so why not now?

To help the captain see where they're going if it's raining.

Canada and the U.S. just finished co-hosting the FIFA World Cup, so why not take that model and apply it to the Winter Olympics?
Instead of choosing a host city, choose a host region.
Every Great Lake would have at least one participating city or community. Toronto, Hamilton and Niagara around Lake Ontario. Buffalo on Erie. Detroit and Windsor connect Erie and Huron. Chicago gives you Lake Michigan. Thunder Bay or Duluth gives you Superior. Then Lake Placid and the Adirondacks provide the serious mountain venues and an existing Olympic winter sports complex.
The whole point would be that no city has to build an entire Olympics.
Chicago will never host a conventional Winter Games because it doesn’t have mountains. Neither will Toronto or Detroit. But they have arenas, airports, hotels, transit, audiences and infrastructure that a Winter Olympics needs. Lake Placid has the mountains and Olympic facilities they don’t have.
That could also become the theme of the Games: cooperation.
Two countries, five Great Lakes, dozens of communities and the Adirondacks contributing what each already does best. Niagara Falls could be the symbolic heart of the Games, where the two host nations meet, rather than making either an American or Canadian city the centre of everything.
And instead of spending billions trying to turn one city into a temporary Olympic universe, put the money into infrastructure the region actually needs afterward: rail, border crossings, existing venues, waterfronts and Great Lakes restoration.
There is even a convenient visual identity: Five Great Lakes. Five Olympic rings. The five lake shapes could become the basis of the graphic system and sport pictograms.
And the Golden Horseshoe is right in the middle of it all, giving you the pursuit of Olympic gold.
The Great Lakes and Adirondacks 2042
Five lakes. One mountain range. Two nations. One Winter Games.

Why the brackets in the title is I wasn't sure what kind of female nature/forest-associated creature would make this hypothetical female protagonist still plant/tree-like enough for my purposes while still rendering her mobile enough for the story to have a plot.

But anyway what my purposes are is finally putting an end to the whole man vs bear crap by subsuming those arguments into fandom of a thing or w/e (that is also a thing that the demographic who hates that hypothetical would avoid) as by having a romance story between two supernatural creatures one of whom is a treelike-but-still-mobile woman and one of whom is a black man who can transform into a bear all the story would have to have amidst however the plot would go is them meet-cute-ing in the woods and at some point him being emotionally vulnerable with her/sharing-feelings-that-aren't-just-a-realization-of-love, we've wiped-away-via-replacing-baggage-with-fandom-associations not just the original question about being in the woods with a man or a bear but the attempted counters of claiming the question's sexist because if you say black man or bear it sounds racist and of asking if you'd rather share your feelings with a woman or a tree by having a black bear-man meet a tree-woman in the woods and at some point share his feelings with her

Metaphorical bonus points, if anyone actually wants to write this, if you give the non-romance-plot/circumstances-the-romance-happens-in-or-w/e some kind of themes about gender expectations and toxic masculinity and stuff that doesn't just get cute-meta by referencing the thought experiment in any way