/r/CrazyIdeas

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Is your idea too crazy to work? So crazy it might work? Perfect.

Create super hobos? Elaborate. Invisible spiders? Why not? There are no wrong ideas!

Rules
  1. Don't be a dick

  2. Submit original, interesting ideas. Leave sense, rationality, possibility, and ethics to boring people.

  3. Posts must be proposals for new, crazy ideas. Puns, jokes, and wordplay are only allowed as incidental components of more-complete concepts.

  4. No complaining or soapboxing. Offer an (insane) alternative instead.

  5. No posts referencing or relating to politics or political figures.

  6. No done-to-death ideas. If you can find a version of your idea by searching /r/CrazyIdeas, then you aren't being creative enough.

  7. Tag NSFW posts.

NOTE:

Awesome ideas are just as welcome here.

Don't comment saying "This belongs in /r/AwesomeIdeas!"

/r/CrazyIdeas

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4

Cigarettes but they had protein in them

I don't know much about chemicals and tobacco stuffings, but what if when we smoke we could get a little amount of protein.

0 Comments
2025/01/19
13:22 UTC

11

People should protest permissive gun laws by obeying them

In any state where it’s legal to walk around in public with an AR-15, people should peacefully do that outside of legislators’ homes.

Obviously, anyone who does this should take safety precautions like wearing a body camera, and being white.

21 Comments
2025/01/19
12:39 UTC

1

People should stop treating ideas posted here like the fact that they're crazy means they're immune from even constructive criticism

All them being crazy means is they're in the right place not that they're automatically good/right

1 Comment
2025/01/19
11:34 UTC

0

Like posts, comments should just display 0 when their true value is in the negatives.

Often, people will be encouraged to downvote a post not based on its actual content, but by seeing that it is already unpopular. This kind of bandwagoning behavior can be mitigated by simply displaying the number "0" on comments with an upvote count in the negatives. Downvotes will still retain their main effect in hurting user karma and helping hide unsavory comments from the public eye. Anecdotally, I've had posts stay at 0 upvotes for an hour or two before people start to like them, but if my comments get downvoted initially they're almost guaranteed to stay that way.

7 Comments
2025/01/19
10:17 UTC

21

Instead of lethal injections we should just use a car going super fast into a wall

Death row is crazy expensive, and has lots of failures due to complications with the drugs and they aren't humane or painless and everyone has to watch them die in slow agony.

We should just put them in unsafe cars going crazy fast into brick walls. Terminal velocity would turn them into pink mist is in a fraction of a second, so no pain and the crash would be far enough the spectators wouldn't see much and it's cheaper because you just use a clucker car and a sturdy wall that can be reused.

47 Comments
2025/01/19
08:44 UTC

3

Nations don’t engage military for their own interests, only their allies do

Most nations are signatories to UN treaties that stipulate nations must not engage in warfare but instead use peaceful means to resolve conflicts.

The exception is that nations may use military force in self defense.

Unfortunately this is sometimes abused by strong nations have either respond to conflict massively disproportionately, or create false flags as a deceptive casus belli for war.

What if the UN removes self defense exceptions, and instead mandates that a nation may only call on its allies to respond in self defense?

My theory is that allies might be less willing to lose their own men and women in conflicts that are not legitimate.

Thoughts?

1 Comment
2025/01/19
08:02 UTC

1

New tik tok?

Now that tik tok is banned, someone with an idea for a new short form video app/site could step up and take over with the right marketing campaign. I assume there are already other apps like it but not mainstream yet.

4 Comments
2025/01/19
06:14 UTC

19

Iceland, Greenland, and Ireland should switch names one day.

I think people would agree with the change if done correctly.

18 Comments
2025/01/19
06:11 UTC

2

Make a fishing rod where the string just fries the shit out of the fish and kills it

2 Comments
2025/01/19
05:07 UTC

6

A TV show that pulls stories from AITAH, AIO, etc…

That’s pretty much what it is. There is some crazy stuff out there that would make for a great episode of a show lol each episode is a different story!

18 Comments
2025/01/19
04:51 UTC

17

A reboot of the show Dexter, but he's a poop stain splatter analyst.

1 Comment
2025/01/19
03:57 UTC

3

Discount Commercial Day

For one day of the year, all commercials are the same price, we'll call it $100 per 30 second time slot.

Any registered business can enter a commercial, and the winners are all selected at random, regardless of economic/popularity status. You'd only pay the $100 if selected.

Obviously the commercials would be vetted for racism/sexism/generally any crummy behavior, but all participating channels would play the randomly selected commercials all day long. Absolutely no video quality requirements, just maybe a process to get a well balanced audio output for the sake of our own ears.

0 Comments
2025/01/19
03:10 UTC

36

The sea levels are rising, and the moon has no water....

Take the extra water of the sea, and put it on the moon. That gives you water, salt, oxygen, hydrogen, etc.

We are just one space elevator away!

14 Comments
2025/01/19
02:17 UTC

2

I have a strange melody in my head.

I must hear a doom metal version of Back Minuet in G. Can someone make an AI play this?

2 Comments
2025/01/19
00:45 UTC

41

There should be a theme park for old people that's just full of doorways they can stand in.

10 Comments
2025/01/19
00:08 UTC

4

Use gigantic rocket boosters on the planet Venus to move its orbit into a habitable zone

4 Comments
2025/01/18
23:56 UTC

131

A charity that focuses on bringing sex to those who are in need of it.

I know sex work in the US is illegal unless it's like OF or porn. So some sort of charity that pays OF stars to film content with people who submit a form to the charity website. Obviously not everyone who applies would be eligible, but I genuinely feel that a good percentage of men that have chronic mental illness (depression, BPD, etc) could use sexual healing. People with cancer and other terminal illnesses need it too. Companionship is important, and sex is a biological component of companionship that brings a lot of chemicals to the brain that counteract the chemicals that rule a depressed brain (that just pure companionship cannot fix).

104 Comments
2025/01/18
20:16 UTC

1

Remake "Grumpy Old Men" with Robert Deniro and Al Pacino in their old age.

Hell, maybe theyll recreate that diner scene from "Heat."

0 Comments
2025/01/18
18:48 UTC

1

Make people post reasons for upvoting or downvoting posts.

Liking or not like something is fine. Just post why you are upvoting or downvoting it. Must be two full sentences long. Random AI responses or responses that make no sense will be deleted by mods, thereby changing the posts ratings. Actual thought out reasons cannot be deleted.. For all websites. Reddit, YouTube, Facebook, all of them.

22 Comments
2025/01/18
17:14 UTC

5

Inflation proof pricing

People often get frustrated with rising prices due to inflation, and it's a valid concern. However, there are times when purchasing power hasn't actually decreased, yet the complaining persists. This made me think: what if we labeled product prices not only in dollars, euros, or other currencies, but also as a fraction of the minimum wage in your country?

Here's an example:

In my country, the minimum wage is €14.07/hour ($14.45). A liter of milk costs €1.50. Instead of just showing the price as €1.50, the supermarket could include a tag like this:

[€1.50 / 10% MinWage]

This has some clear benifits:

  1. Easier comparison over time: you'd quickly see how price increases relate to income changes

  2. Highlighting disparities: it would be obvious when wages aren't keeping up with inflation.

  3. Awareness for all: even though (hopefully) not everyone earns minmum wage, this system does provide a relatable and consistent benchmark for tracking affordability in the whole of society.

Of course there are nuances since many people earn above minimum wage. For example, labeling something like a house priced at 350,000% of MinWage probably isn’t very useful. But for everyday expenses like groceries, gasoline, or monthly subscriptions, this could be a practical and insightful way to track affordability.

7 Comments
2025/01/18
15:59 UTC

6

Someone should open nightshift versions of companies for 3rd shift workers like 3rd shift daycare

0 Comments
2025/01/18
15:51 UTC

695

Drugs should be offered to people on their death bed.

If youre dieing they should offer you to try any drug you want, since you're dieing anyway. Crack? Acid? Shrooms? yes. yes to all of them, because the worst side effect (death) is already happening regardless.

260 Comments
2025/01/18
15:48 UTC

0

You eat a vegan whole foods diet but you never get a heart attack and diabetes, and if you did you get better

6 Comments
2025/01/18
15:26 UTC

63

Start a YouTube channel where you debunk the existence of Hawaii

A tiny island that US controls in the middle of the Pacific? Get real! The only way I'll believe it really exists is if someone gives me an all expensese paid trip there. If anyone "goes there" call them a schill on a staged set. When someone does pay for me to go there I'll admit it's real and then pivot to other locations that aren't possibly real. Free vacations for life plus ad revenue from all my streams denying the existence of exotic and fun travel locations!!!

14 Comments
2025/01/18
15:25 UTC

49

If a company does layoffs in a year then reports higher profits than the previous year, that extra profit goes to the employees they laid off

20 Comments
2025/01/18
14:49 UTC

2

Remake of Splash with original cast, Tom Hanks and Daryl Hannah

1 Comment
2025/01/18
14:41 UTC

4

An online MarioKart tournament for professional race car drivers.

They must use their Mii so that we can tell who they actually are.

3 Comments
2025/01/18
14:35 UTC

0

Sell micro-companies that are turnkey rental properties with lofted barns converted into homes, for 10% stake in future profits

12x14 lofted barn with electric in - 12,000 - RTO 150/month

15k for plumbing, insulate, shiplap, flooring, shower/toilet plumbing 3k for septic & run electric in

20k for 1/4 acre

50,000 Small biz loan 7.5%

$350 a month Insurance $100 a month

So for 450 a month in expenses, you could rent the tiny home long term or VRBO

Instead of trying to manage that, make it a social enterprise B Corp, and sell these companies for 10% of profits in perpetuity (to fund a salary for someone to arrange the process of making more)

Individual families can then off 600-800 rentals or just pay the 450 a month themselves.

Gives cheap housing option or revenue option at no upfront cost to the "buyer".

Fuck the corpos

9 Comments
2025/01/18
04:19 UTC

2

I want to see a remake of The Rock with the original cast and Darrell Hammond as Sean Connery

4 Comments
2025/01/18
03:47 UTC

5

In the future your UBI is based on your life's value from data minability.

7 Comments
2025/01/18
02:27 UTC

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