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My megaproject ideas are mostly pretty standard. I'd build a high speed rail network across North America, and build and expand metro and regional rail systems in and around every city. I'd turn all cities and suburbs into fifteen-minute cities. I'd decommodify housing, and build ten million units of public/social/non-market housing, mostly three bedroom units. I'd link those last three policies together by building TODs around the new Metro and rail stops. And I'd build bicycle networks in every town and city and connect them to the TODs. I'd build bridges and walkways across skyscrapers. I'd put a bidet in every American toilet (uses less water than toilet paper apart from being more comfortable). Fiber internet in every home. A heat pump in every home. An induction stove in every kitchen. Phase out fossil fuels and power everything with Pumped Storage Hydropower and Geothermal. I'd make the US go Metric.

But my truly crazy, obsessive idea would be to bring back the French Revolutionary calendar. Or I'd purge all French influences from English.

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[–] radiofreeval@hexbear.net 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Train racing. No I will not elaborate.

[–] BlueMagaChud@hexbear.net 2 points 2 years ago

with multi-track drifting of course

[–] wtypstanaccount04@hexbear.net 2 points 2 years ago

I'm listening

[–] FunnyUsername@hexbear.net 2 points 2 years ago (5 children)

I would go hard on pushing public nudity as fine. I don't want to be naked in public but human bodies are normal and nothing to he ashamed of.

Americans would fucking hate it but they'll get over it.

[–] Moss@hexbear.net 2 points 2 years ago

Hell yeah unironically. Nudity is literally just not wearing clothes and is not worth being embarrassed about.

[–] Frank@hexbear.net 2 points 2 years ago

I don't consider normalizing nudity a crank position. Honestly I think it's going to end up being an essential part of feminism at some point, desexualizing and destigmatizing the body outside of sexual contexts. And it's 100% achievable. Nudity taboos are entirely cultural and vary widely over time and across cultures.

[–] Nagarjuna@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago

The Home, WA anarchist commune fell apart because of conflict between "the nudes and the prudes." You're playing with fire, be careful.

That said, you can't signify rank or class with clothing if no one wears clothing. Uphold anarcho-naturalist thought.

[–] wtypstanaccount04@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)
[–] Frank@hexbear.net 2 points 2 years ago

The extent to which North Americans, among others, are absolutely incapable of being normal about nudity is disheartening in the extreme.

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[–] Wheaties@hexbear.net 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

High speed rail running the 'spine' of the americas - people should be able to go from Alaska to the far end of Chille and not need to transfer (although one imagines a number of stops along the way)

[–] Wheaties@hexbear.net 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

obviously, this would also be paired with a lot more freight rail, with the goal of eliminating as much intra-americas cargo voyages as possible. Really, that would be the true aim of the project, but the high-speed passenger line would be the forward face of it.

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[–] HauntedBySpectacle@hexbear.net 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Create a large network of state and/or cooperatively owned cannabis farms to mass-produce hemp for industrial purposes, and every strain of quality marijuana known to man. You think the weed's too strong these days? That's ok, the state will devote its resources to developing 10% THC strains that taste like a gourmet meal. You want to be sent to the moon? Why yes, there will be 99.9% pure concentrate oils widely available.

Just as the USSR had an alcohol ration, there will be a mids ration available for all. Any unclaimed rations will be distributed to the gulags to forcibly pacify political prisoners. While high and marginally more open-minded, they will be made to play video games where every character is a black lesbian and all the messaging is based on post-colonial theory. Only after their daily shift constructing and tending the farms is finished, of course.

Any questions?

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[–] glans@hexbear.net 2 points 2 years ago

Community cafeterias. 1 caf per x (tbd) population.

  • informed by national-level dietary guidelines
  • very receptive to local neighborhood dietary preferences and encouraged to develop specialties
  • worker controlled
  • kitchen teams could swap/guest in other neighborhoods to mix things up
  • you can go to cafs in other neighborhoods but there would probably be some system to anticipate demand to avoid over/under prepping (like you have a home caf but you can make reservation at another one?)

You can eat there or get take out.

Benefits:

  • less food waste
  • don't have to waste time shopping, chopping, cooking and cleaning when you don't want to
  • will not have insane "chef" centered kitchen cultures, unless everyone working there votes in favour of this for some reason
[–] Kuori@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago

forced bimbofication + everyone's gay now

taking no questions

[–] hypercube@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago (3 children)

the orbital solar condenser + ground based collection disk from simcity 3000. like normal solar power but spicier

[–] Zoift@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Besides telecom and pure exploration, this is the only reason to actually go to space at all.

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[–] MolotovHalfEmpty@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago (6 children)

Tubes!

  • All mail (letters and small items) to be delivered by a pneumatic tube systems. Civilian tubes are free. Business post cost increases considerably so only important things are sent. I don't want fifteen tubes landing a day with junk mail in them. Parcels to be delivered by traditional post people, but better compensated and with less punishing rounds thanks to lower amounts of corporate mail.

  • New tunnels beneath water to be made of indestructable glass like an aquarium. Other policies will have reduced pollution and helped rewild the rivers and oceans for more to see. More underwater tube tunnels to be built to reduce reliance on planes and boats.

  • Vertical mega-gardens/farms in transparent towers. Tops extend upward to save space and capture sunlight, bottoms extend downward for natural geothermal warming to reduce energy consumption. Different ambient temperatures based on geothermal depth would allow for growing plants and produce native to different climates. No more shipping flowers or fruit across the planet! More tall green towers! See argriculture happen in real time!

[–] Melonius@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] mustardman@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Imo not only the tubes sound like garbage, all his ideas do

[–] EmmaGoldman@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)
[–] MolotovHalfEmpty@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago

With a bit of Gerry Anderson to boot.

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[–] WoofWoof91@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

i'll put chemicals in the water to make the ~~frogs~~ everyone gay

and more dog infrastructure

and retirement homes for cows

superheroes are illegal now

fursonas are mandatory

free kalashnikovs for the unemployed

mao gets beatified

make werewolves real

drag the moon closer

[–] TC_209@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Massive radio telescopes built into the far side of the Moon.

[–] Tychoxii@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago

i like it, then mine would be solar gravitational lens telescope

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