Lets trade advertisement for something else and start a new trend?
Hi
I think we could start a new trend to make the world better by trading advertisement for tips and how to behave in a society. The important thing is not to be invasive or change the user experience in any way.
So do you see the top bar where we don't have nothing? I think it would be a great place to have a new phrase on every refresh like this:
"A bottle of plastic is to put in the yellow trash can".
"Open Source is important so we don't rely on company's for everything"
"If you smoke please don't throw butts in to the ground, buy a cheap portable ashtray"
"Remember that not everyone is having good day"
"Don't throw cotton swab in to the toilet"
"When brushing your teeth turn of the water in the dead times or better use a cup to use less water"
"2OATH is always important to have"
"Password manager is a must have now a days (having the same password in everything defeats the purpose)"
"Read more than the titles before you make conclusions"
"When driving don't forget to use the lights when turning/changing lanes"
"Think twice when using paper"
"Beverages are not water"
"Focus a distant point from time to time if you are long hours in front of the monitor)"
"When you are putting music in public you are invading the other space"
"Wait for the people to exit the train before entering"
"If you drink don't drive not because of you but because of the other people"
"Put the phone down while driving, everyone says that can do that before hitting someone"
Before of witch phrase it would say the topic.
I think for this phrases we can't have nothing political, religious or other topics that could change people views or that could offend.
Maybe we could have topics for country's because of the costumes.
Little things like this, I hope I could express the idea(more directs and simple maybe?). And if this is welcome maybe the correct way of doing this is making a repository on gitlab(every file would be a topic maybe) so everyone could add new phrases and use the list for other sites. Of course we would need to get a few trust worthy people that have a good sense of witch phrases to accept or create rules for them.
Maybe there is a better way of creating a public DB but I don't know any at least.
And if people wanted could select the topics they wanted(all or some or none).
This could also show the importance of donating and support open projects so we don't need to get money from third party's in any way and better yet, use the empty space to make the world a better place.
Recycling rules tend to vary based on the city. The only thing you could really say is to follow the local rules.
Well, we can just say "if you don't reticle start doing it" or something like that, its was only to show what kind of phrases we can put together. or "don't throw oil to sink but to the trash, better yet see if you zone has a trash for that"
People are often confused about how to properly dispose of stuff. Aspirational recycling often contaminates recycling to the point where it can't be used and ends up in the landfill anyway.
If I had to pick a slogan it would be: "Keep our recycling clean! When in doubt, throw it out."
But what we really need is not a slogan. It's something like a website that's loaded with the local rules and can accurately answer questions about what goes in the recycle bin. Google and Alexa should be able to answer this question.
I like the idea...but they ought to link to their own topic so people can discuss the sentiment. I don't believe the examples you've posted are all truisms.
I guess the gitlab part could be used for that? every commit is a new phrase and we can discuss the commit ?
just random thought, never really used gitlab
the examples is just to try to explain the idea
I couldn't edit the post, but we could use the country's topic has tips for tourist like "In Germany ask for still water, and not just water in a restaurant"
I've been pushing every single restaurant and bar here in Belgium to give me tap water. It's a thing most refuse to do and they ask you to buy a bottle of water but I find it to be reprehensibly rude.
In France it's a legal requirement to offer free water if asked. This is one of those things where activism can actually fairly easily fix the situation IMO.
I am not referring about tap water. When I asked for water I would get a gasified water, and to me that's just not normal since we only use when we are feeling bad after a meal so it helps. This is not a problem when you notice the bottle but sometimes you open and only then you notice.
Or I am wrong and there are more places that drink gasified water like normal water?
When you ask for water in Germany they give you soda? That's seems so odd.
I had heard ice wasn't really a thing. But just plain water? In America, you just get water whether you want it or not. With ice.
It's not soda, it's carbonated water. Germans love carbonated water, and in a lot of places in Germany that's assumed to be the default when asking for "water", so it's good to specify that you want, indeed, "still" water instead.
Unless you live in California, where most (if not all) restaurants require you to ask first.
Wtf you have to pay for water? Glad I live in the US.
You have to pay because they ask you to buy bottled water.
Make no mistake this is the exception in Europe.
(Also in the US you have to pay for your own health care, YMMV)
I'd rather pay for healthcare than water. Water is a human right, and you can literally die without it.
Yeah, so can you without healthcare. Except healthcare is a lot harder to acquire from random strangers or even the soil if you can't afford it.
I dunno why you're fighting me on this. You pay for bottled water in the US just as I do outside of the US. The problem isn't that, the problem is bars/restaurants defaulting to not serving free water. And I agree they should.
(I think that post was supposed to be a joke)