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The brain is a truly fantastic thing. The same organ that’s capable of controlling a myriad of passive as well as active bodily functions, comprehending elaborately complex concepts, and providing a unique kind of sentience is also the organ that often slips us a dumb idea. Or two. OK, much more.

But, hey, not all ideas are dumb, despite you thinking so. A curious Twitter user by the name of Bijan asked the internet what’s the dumbest idea people ever had, but are nevertheless convinced it’d still make the world a better place for all.

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Bored Panda has collected some of the best responses from the viral thread and created a curated list for you to enjoy. Vote, comment, and why not tell us some of your ideas in the comment section below!

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I also think they should live on an "average" wage for a year or two so they understand what the average person/family have to go through.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Legalize weed across the states, tax it, and use that money to repair the roads. Call it Operation Pothole.

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Foxxy (The Original)
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Well in Australia it is illegal to ask a breastfeeding mother to leave or move elsewhere etc. Doesn't matter if she is feeding in the middle of a shopping centre, a restaurant etc. From my observations, it seems that other women are the ones that complain about breastfeeding in public, a lot more than men do.

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Danielle Terese
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This one makes me so sad, especially because of how women and PoC are so much more routinely dismissed, leading to sometimes dire consequences.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That should be acceptable. HOWEVER, it should go both ways. I am tried of being polite while a cashier ignores me and gossips with a coworker or cops an attitude.

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René Studer
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Knowing me I would procrastinate until June, then „relax“ during the summer until I finally put together a manuscript in december.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

All the money that is spent on marketing and advertising saved would make products cheaper, and if the product changes are good, it will sell itself X

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It's a lovely thought but I fear that the lure of the dark side will be too strong for many.

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Francesca Annoni
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Like a personal ID coin for shopping cart..if you don't return the cart you don't have your coin back and you can't get the next cart..

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

On a scale of 1 to dumb, this is the dumbest and I absolutely LOVE it!

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I saw a report on some show where they were actually testing the viability of this. In Greenland, IIRC.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Well, the horn is supposed to be used only in case of emergency. If you are in an emergency, you don't need that level of stress added on top of it.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I would say if you drive drunk even just once you lose your license immediately and indefinitely!

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

In the United States there is a large percentage of people who are incarcerated essentially for being poor. They couldn't pay a fine and then they get put in prison.... so.....

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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Can I add that it should also be illegal to ask what you do? Everywhere, not just at parties.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It's certainly not that simple and the US isn't evenly split. Also many "red states" are only red because those in power are messing with election laws so the political leaning of the masses might be different. There are also plenty of conservatives in "blue states"

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yep. We need to redraw districts to be squares or rectangles and be done with it. Don't have a majority anymore? Too bad, so sad.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Here's a better idea: Get over it already and grow up and learn to get along with others even if you have different opinions.

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Mark Berry
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I live in Texas. I would have to move. Hell, most of Austin would have to move too.

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bonnyatlast
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I live near Wimberley. Move the far right community. I'll stay with the retired hippies. In fact put them all in their own country. They deserve each other.

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ToxiCity
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

a] there was something called a Civil War, b] it can't be called UNITED States anymore then

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Robert T
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It'll be the Disunited States - will go quite well with the Disunited Kingdom.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The states aren't divided into North/South anymore. Not like they used to be. To me, the division seems to be more Urban/Rural than anything else.

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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It should be written into the constitution: 1 citizen = 1 vote. With gerrymandering some votes, generally red, are given more weight and importance. Plus every person who pays their taxes should get a vote. Includes people who want to be citizens and are contributing when they don't have to. Plus it keeps selfish bad eggs out. e.g. Trump

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Kathryn Baylis
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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

OK, then how about creating a kind of Molokai to contain all the anti-vaxxers and COVID deniers in one inaccessible place, so the rest of us can stay healthy, cure more diseases, and keep the already eradicated ones where they belong—-in the past.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

There's a reason the US swing states (outside of the stupidity of the electoral college after telegraph was invented) are swing states. Florida for example. They have large rural and anti-communist/conservative voting cuban communities as well as large groups of inner city and NY transplant democratic voters. These states are often microcosms of the nation as a whole - diverse groups that need to come together for a consensus.

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timothy green
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

But the South (red states) can't survive without the tax $$ from the north (blue states). so i say "Let them go."

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The south can survive just fine without the north. We have the agriculture, military, nasa, fishing industry, oil, etc. This isn't 1865.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

it is rural America where both north and south are Republican and Urban which is Democrat. Only 1 of the 10 largest American cities are Republican run, and most rural are GOP as well. You cant split states, look at New York. 53 of 61 counties are GOP controlled, but those 8 counties have 60% of the population, but those 53 have 90% of New Yorks farming and agriculture, which is 35% of the states economic output, and 4th most agri of any state. I live in NY, you can divide NY into 2 states, but the GOP areas would still be north. Even one NYC county is GOP to 4 Democrat, etc.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

As someone who lives in a "red" state who is constantly working to change that color to purple or blue, I can sincerely tell this person to go **** themselves. Also, I moved down here from about 25 miles away from Evanston, so I can tell you that guy doesn't even know that 90% of his own state is red, even though it votes blue. HORRIBLE IDEA that would never solve anything.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Uhm, it's more like West Coast, East Coast and Great Lakes, vs the south not near water, plus the mid west.

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Stijn Kraft
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

They should just stop having massive, powerful countries. Not much good comes from them.

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Eglė Bukauskaitė
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

better, get rid if your archaic 2 party system and calculate votes for a single party, not the "winner takes all" system. There will be no need to redraw voting areas. Profit!

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Unfortunately, states like Calif. and NY fund many of the states in the South. In California, we send more money back to Washington to fund those states than we get back in subsidies.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The South tried this. The North said no, you can't keep other people as slaves.

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Mo Poppins
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

How about conservatives in land-locked states? I don't know about the specifics of dividing the geographical regions, but I do agree about seceding and people who are fundamentally different being able to have the things they want.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This won't work. Splitting a country in half to make both sides happy ends in war. This is what happens with the Israel-Palestinian conflict right now. It also caused the wars between India and Pakistan.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Or, and I'm just spit balling here, or we give the U.S. back to the UK and form the U.U.K. the uber-united kingdom

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Change.org petition for Minnesota, USA to secede and join Canada: https://www.change.org/p/mark-dayton-minnesota-to-seceded-from-the-united-states-of-america-and-join-the-nation-of-canada. I signed it.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

oh, please, no. Texas has more liberals that it seems, but our voting districts are carved up so we are always the minority.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yeah, that is a really dumb idea. As a Northerner living in the warmer South, as hard as it is to stomach all the "Southern Hospitality," it is so much easier when I realize I am not alone in my beliefs and standards.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I am not moving back north b/c the people are stupid down here. I hate the cold.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

We should just send all the jerks of the world into deep space on Bezos's d**k rockets

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Regina Granat
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'd have to move up north and I'm ok with that. We could do house swaps. So someone up there can swap with me and all would be good.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I actually think the split could work on the condition that anyone in either country can easily move into the other, and (if we're being real and describing things accurately) the good country will only trade with the evil country if they limit their evil.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Divide it in thirds. Borders being the Rockies and Mississippi. It would have to be tweaked because of Florida and other south east states. But it's a start

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John Juan
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

How about instead we JOIN all 50 states (archaic divisions anyway) into one country.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

And east & west...how about corrupt politics and not - oh wait, that's the same...

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Danieletc
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yeah, that happened, 170 years ago, didn't play out all that well. How easy they forget.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Check with large southern cities and rural northern ones before you assume that's going to go smoothly.

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DC
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It's more rural vs urban. But that won't work out - an all-rural state is bound to fail, while all-urban states are only known to work well if they're small and rich.

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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I have to admit that I’m curious to see if the Democrat side would go full Jacinda with covid. And for those who don’t know, “full Jacinda” would include not allowing people onto the Democrat side unless they spend two weeks in a guarded quarantine hotel. There are some pretty serious drawbacks to this - there are nowhere near enough rooms for all the people who need to get home - but it would be hilarious to see videos of Trumpers’ reactions.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

And we all know someone would be dissatisfied with that, too, because you just can't make everyone happy :(

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I so agree with this. Republican states and democratic states. And some peace and quiet.

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lara
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The Democrats tried that once before: 1861. They failed at the cost of 750,000 lives.

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Lincoln was wrong to fight to keep the South.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Can't remember where is was, but in a town in Europe everyone parked with their handbrake off so people could move the other cars back and forth as they parked or pulled away so they could all fit in

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