chapotraphouse

get this every street by law must have a sign saying its street name

also in the same vein as getting rid of the French influences from English I would make the way people in Norfolk speak the official correct way of pronouncing English that or the west country accent so we all sound like pirates

Buy out the ozempic patent and deliver it to every obese person

Night trains from everywhere to everywhere would be neat. Including neat sleeping cabins so that the population of the world can migrate by climate phases and joy.

But since I played openttd make it river canals and ships that are trolley boats.

I'd put serious resources in to atmospheric carbon scrubbers. But not for any useful or sane purpose. Instead I'd use the carbon to build a 500km tall optically perfect diamond prism in the north atlantic that almost turns England in to a glowing puddle every day, but just misses them. To keep them in line.

I'm too media obsessed for me to fantasize about things that aren't using the position to mandate certain pieces of media be made. Which is kinda dumb so dont put me in power.

I would bring big efforts to resurrect the Irish language by having all sporting events, news broadcasts etc in Irish, having Irish be taught in school before English, having social events where people are expected to speak Irish etc. However this would merely be a Trojan horse for my real goal: slyly take out gendered pronouns from Irish and have everyone's pronouns be gender neutral by default, and only otherwise if specified.

It should be obvious that I'm Irish but we can apply this to any Anglophone country. England speaks Irish now, fuck you

Antarctica colony. Big ass bronze statue staring out over the ocean north like the Colossus of Rhodes

I'd make all detached single-family homes near an urban center illegal and start replacing them all with a combination of low-rise attached units for families, and apartment complexes for people without kids (notionally, I'm fine with some intermixing). Make sure that there are services and amenities within walking distance of all newly-densified housing, and run bus service and light rail everywhere. Then I'd ban private vehicles anywhere within view of a skyscraper. You will live in a pleasant, walkable community with greenspace and accessible services, or you will be sent to the reeducation camps.

Also, big bronze statue in a park. Big enough to provide ample shade to park goers in the summer.

I'd want to breed sapience into cows and have them join us in society.

My crank project isn't even a crank project: bringing back a great freight rail network with carload service (dropping off boxcars directly next to factories) would be immensely beneficial for cutting emissions. Night trains, bringing up the system to a state of good repair, increased speeds, increased frequency, I'm basically just adding on to your already great plan.

I would do a massive irrigation and forestation project in the southwestern US. The accounts of the first settlers to arrive in that area of its climate differ pretty wildly from the climate we observe in it today, and I think that aiming to massively shrink the amount of partial desert is a geoengineering feat that is in reach with current technology and would have massive positive benefits to the region. We'll get the water by forcefully depopulating Las Vegas and moving those people to a less water inefficient area.

I want to de-populate most of the midwest and allow giant herds of buffalo to return to the region.

Every multiplayer pvp game will be mandated to have an unskipabble 10 minute gay kiss/sex scene on startup.

Lithium in the water supply makes a dent in the suicide numbers, but it's been a long time since I was crazy enough to put real thought into it.

i would:

• massively increase the building code standards and provide government-sponsored training for tradespeople to understand and implement them
  there are houses getting built today with foil-faced cardboard sheathing. stick framing and engineered wood are defensible but cardboard sheathing is deranged
• seize unused farmland from big landlords and build solar/wind energy; coupled with nuclear as baseload power plants and large-scale energy storage we could easily replace all fossil fuel power
• on that track, NATIONALIZE THE FUCKING GRID and force Texas to join the rest of the country
• nationalize all utilities (water, internet, etc). fuck AT&T, bring back Ma Bell but this time it's owned by the government

your proposals are all quite nice but none of them would knowingly ecocide half a continent & cost/generate more power than has ever been used by humanity for the simple goal of refilling the LA River

oh yeah, its NAWAPA TIME

I'd start math education with formal logic, elementary number theory, and mathematical language in the first grade. That way everyone has a chance to actually understand the math they're expected to manipulate in high school.

If you built a 5km tall lightning rod, it'd sap all the electrical potential from the clouds before lightning can form. There's gotta be a lot of electric potential there, given that it's enough to make lightning. Catumbo experiences 1.6 million bolts of lightning per year, and the average lightning bolt is 5 gigajoules of power, so harnessing it all would produce about 2.5 gigawatts of power, which is about the same as 2.5 ordinary nuclear power plants. This is clearly not worth it, let's do it.

Duodecimal system baby, fuck this non divisible by 3 system.

We counting on our phalanges now.

A truman show-esque reality TV program, where donald trump is planted as a regional manager of a small chain restaurant and monitored 24/7.