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"So you're probably wondering why I'm pissing on the floor".

A year ago my cat was living on the street. Today she has enough passive income to hire her own chef and masseuse. Follow her for more advice.

So, it turns out teleportation is real ...

Empathy and kindness in parenting.

"The art of improvising a seminar while nude"

At the beginning of my talk, I would have everyone turn off their phones and any other electronics. Then for the rest of the 15 minutes, I would have us all just sit around and veg out.

No talking, no distractions, no demands. Just day dream about whatever. You can take a nap if you like. You probably need one if you do.

And then my "talk" would end with "Let's try this every day."

Societal enshitification

I'll talk about world wide wealth caps!

I want that nobody can have a net worth of more than, say, 10 million dollars. After that, all income over that goes 100% to taxes until you're under it.

Imagine the same tax brackets that we now have, bit with much more brackets and the last one is 100%

This simple limit has a huge list of implications. Nobody can be extremely wealthy anymore, governments get so much tax income that they can implement all the socialist rights like free healthcare, free education, universal basic income, etc.

No more poverty

No more wealth inequality, meaning that everybody can live a good life

No more extremely large companies because upu need an incremental amount of shareholders to be able to increase its size..

Corruption? It's hard to buy someone when henl can't really give you much power and the buyer won't be able to offer that much and the risk of getting caught is still the same

You can work harder and earn more, but why would you if your life is good and happy? For those that need to innovate, there is still richdoms to get, but with reasonable limits

This of course needs to be implemented world wide to work well, and the exact limit is for others to function, but I believe this to be possible and extremely positive for humanity.

Needs a lot more work but for the 30 seconds given...

"How to survive in America with 7 mental health issues, 3 health issues, a bum leg, and being gay."

Nutrition supplementation for the poor via soylent green produced from the highest earners in the world.

Climate change and migration. There really isn't such a thing as "illegal" migrants to begin with, let alone that most people don't want to leave their homes but for economic reasons. With climate change destroying the fertility and economic productivity of land, it prompts people to try their luck into more prosperous countries, and they are getting demonised for wanting to have better lives. Most people don't realise this and are distracted by 1% propaganda to blame helpless migrants.

Critical infrastructure vulnerability.

The character of non-violent protests, why I think calling them "peaceful" does them a disservice and what actually separates them from violent ones

We wouldn't need 30 seconds to think about and we would need more like 2+ hours for the talk

Were hyperfixating and info dumping about One Piece, thank you

Gathered friends. We come here once again to recite the tale of Bionicle.

And then I keep the audience busy for 12 hours.

I’ve been reading Gerald Horne’s The Counter-Revolution of 1776, and honestly just summarizing the main points from that book would blow a lot of peoples’ minds.

The career path of being an online guild leader to meat space manager.

I used to manage player orgs in EvE Online... Its basicly a second job and the paralells are real. One of my former space nerds got a job and IIRC is actually a rental car lot manager, we taught him how to use spreadsheets well over 10 years ago so they could figure out how the games industry mechanics.

I’ll start with a joke, “so this guy has been randomly teleported onto a TED talk stage in his underwear…” and then I’d probably talk about how the over prevalence of “easy” in our day to day life has allowed us to become complacent and encourages us to stop fighting the inevitable downfall of life as we see it. All so billionaires can keep existing and we can be doomscrolling without being worried about life outside around the world.

I’d fill the full 30 min.

makes farts with his armpits

I can only talk for 30 minutes? Man, this gonna be rough.

How to protect yourself from narcissistic abuse

Welcome to my Ted talk. Has anyone else noticed it’s always Venus? I bought the Star finder app but every time I scan a star it’s just Venus.

Why is every cool star Venus?

I'd like to thank you all for coming to my TedX on waifu hair color. To begin with we have the ever passionate purple hair...

Reverse-engineering of locked-down chinese ARM-SoC game and tv hardware.

random unexplained teleportation of individuals.

10 years of experiential observations on why people are violent in institutional environments.

The Beatles' album, Revolver (unfortunately for my friends, I can talk about it for at least 30 minutes)

I can tell you pretty much the entire history of the NBA and I can rank each player by tiers. I have included here a note that I have saved on my phone at all times.

Tier 1- Jordan, LeBron, Kareem, Russell

Tier 2- Magic, Bird, Duncan, Wilt, Shaq, Kobe, Steph

Tier 3- Jokic, Moses, KD, Hakeem, Isiah

Tier 4- Dirk, Giannis, Kawhi, Walton

Note: To make it onto my list, you HAVE to have been the best player on a championship team at least once.

The importance of a social safety system and a good (non employer related) healthcare system in order to have a productive workforce and society, and why everyone should have access to good healthcare, food, and stable, clean, pest free housing, regardless of their physical or mental ability to work.

The way we treat our sick, injured, disabled and elderly is atrocious and we should all be ashamed that we let this happen.

I work in EMS and the amount of people I've seen living in the most horrific conditions simply because they got sick or injured and are now permanently disabled absolutely haunts me. I've gone into places that I wouldn't even let an animal exist in and there are people living in absolute squalor. They aren't "lazy" or "looking for handouts" or any other shitty thing that people like to call them to other them, many of them simply had the misfortune to get sick or injured and not have a safety net in place. If you get disabled and aren't lucky enough to have people around you to help support you or haven't been rich enough to be putting money away to live off of for the rest of your life, you are fucked. I have no one in my life and I live paycheck to paycheck on a strict budget, and I see these people and know their life will be my future if I get sick or injured.

Some of them were always going to be permanently disabled, and some of them could have recovered and lived productive lives except they couldn't access the care they needed because of cost and now they're living in shitty poverty situations, still unable to access what they need, and it's too late to recover.

I could go on for a long time about this, and I could add in many other subtopics.

On a slightly related note, I don't in any way shape or form believe that a person's life or value should be linked to the workforce or their ability to labor and I think that's a disgusting concept, but I could also frame a solid argument along those lines and maybe win over some hardcore capitalists who maybe wouldn't give a shit about people otherwise. "Hey those people you don't care about, if you invest some money to ensure they are as healthy as possible and are happy, they'll get back to work creating profit for the company and will be way more productive than if they are sick and unhealthy, which will be way better than spending money paying out disability for the rest of their life."

The difference between activity groups and communities and how to nudge a group toward community (it’s hard).

How and why “no pain no gain” has caused lots of damage.

Could be a subtopic or its own talk how to reintroduce trust in your body for people who are very disconnected from it.

I have a few stories, don't we all?

I was fucking abducted and put on stage, I don't owe these people anything. But, I can talk for 30 minutes about myself, that's all they're getting from me. Also, they'd better shut the fuck up and listen, I don't want to be there, I'm doing them a favor.

i hate these kinds of dreams. and always in my underwear

Id talk about cranking my hog

AROOOOOO

This is a really fun question btw

My horse. Sandy Lou.

Tsukomogami and Patina: In Praise of Old Things

It's the concept that old mechanical things like typewriters and camera lenses (for example) all age individually. They develop their own quirks and foibles as they are used. They almost (as in Tsukomogami) develop a soul.

We are fundamentally losing that to a society that is about consumable mass-produced trash, and on a long enough timeline, it's going to mean losing a fundamental piece of who we are as a society.