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

Hobby centers where all of the gear you would need to get started on various hobbies are available for anyone to use on site. Like a library loaded with tools, CNC machines, stuff for knitting, high end computers, art supplies, musical instruments and recording gear, etc. I would limit the ability to take things off-site only to people who cannot visit in person for medical reasons.

The goal is building community and encouraging creating things for fun. It would also promote innovation, art and music, etc, but that would never be the goal, just a nice side effect.

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

These are already a thing in some places at a small scale. Libraries in some areas lend tools, and there are some community tool libraries that either lend tools or lend tools and have workspaces!

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

Two words: Climate Stalin.

The entire economy will be mobilized to solving the climate crisis, to the point where even finding a job will be a total non-issue. The pigs that are polluting nature to death will pay for all this with every penny they got, they have stolen more value than they can ever stuff down their throats. Oil oligarchs and media talking heads will all be tried at the Hague for crimes against humanity. Many useless treats are going to be banned, and yes, we're coming for your Funko Pops, white boy.

One very important detail and job would be hiring a bunch of artists, architects, designers, etc. I want to ensure that my regime looks aesthetic yet villainous, so whether or not I fail as Climate Stalin, 13 year old boys in the future will look to me and not Prince Nick Fuentes II as the badass supervillain to idolize, and eventually support. Also, the people deserve a much more beautiful world than the one I had to endure.

Oh wait, idiots like Nick Fuentes would be seen as scum because I did a cultural revolution where I beat in that delinquency isn't cool.

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

idk if you'll be able to stick the villain part, chinese people had flood stalin all those years back and to this day he's credited with being the hero founder of the first dynasty

like yeah they say everyone got together in harmony under his leadership to build all the infrastructure to fix the floods but come on, it was like 2000 bce, you know that shit was done with slave labor

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

Bike freeways, playgrounds for adults, free/open gyms, and municipal go kart tracks with competitive leagues

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

Arcologies. Entire cities built into single, massive complexes.

[–] WoofWoof91@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago

give them big spider legs too

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

The Culture.

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

Create an artificial language with no exceptions to its rules, then teach it in every school in the world, so that the whole humanity spoke one language.

Also ban smoking

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

I would put arcades in the public libraries and by extension nationalize professional gamer-gulag

Yes id still do the rail/green energy/mass housing megaprojects, but those arent crank enough

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

The iranrood of course. But with fresh water. This involves removing an unimaginable amount of salt from the salt flats in the iranian plateau. So i gess we will turn that salt into plastic?

All golfers must continue to golf, they may not leave the course, they may not stop golfing...

While they're occupied, we finally achieve faster than light interstellar travel. After we all take to the stars, whatever golfers remain shall inherit what is left of the earth.

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

Write into law that there is only one type of Christianity allowed. Every five years the knights of columbus and the freemasons select their top guys for a gladiator fight. If the Knights win then catholicism is the official religion for 5 years, if the masons win it's protestantism.

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

The Russian Orthodox Church would just start a religious order staffed by Russian MMA fighters and it would win every year

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

Try to make local and sustainable industrial productivity with solar metal casting and distributed network of CNC machines.

https://hackaday.com/2022/11/07/smelting-solar-style/

https://hackaday.com/2023/06/25/automate-away-the-drudgery-of-cnc-manufacturing/

~~backyard furnace~~ backyard solar smelter - mao-aggro-shining

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

Alantropa? The TNO brains are leaking.

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

So many agroecological community gardens, so many communal kitchens, bread ovens, and collective food system infrastructure. All food is now grown in agroforestry systems where the farms are also biodiverse refuges for fauna and flora. I would be the single-minded food dude, like corn-man-khrush but for mindful food production.

Also, everyone learns (from other people) to forage local herbs and mushrooms.

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

BAN MULTI LEVEL MARKETING SCHEMES. moon base. ban homeschooling and private schools. no churches over 1000 people allowed. orphanages are the equivalent of the best European style boarding schools one could ask for and any teen can go there. make spanking illegal and send any kid that wants to go to the fancy boarding school. a childrens bill of rights.

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

Maglev network featuring a 100 mile long vactrain built into a mountain range that yeets a rocket into space (and eventually a space station that can refuel/launch the vac trains to a lunar station. That is correct, you will be able to take a train from Mumbai to the moon.)

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

After I've done the full maglev rail network, the tallest structure on Earth. And then a slide coming off the top floor.

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

Bringing streetcars and trams back to as many roads as logistically possible

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

Virtual drug test dummies. I would commission huge banks of supercomputers to simulate the human body for rapid drug tests and general research, and dump money on quantum computing. Idk if this counts as a crank project but it would definitely be immense.

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

i would make every US state square shaped, including hawaii but excepting the then independent republics of florida and alaska

[–] determinism2@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

A circular underground tunnel for bikes. Cyclists have little umbrellas that they open up when they enter the tube and everyone rides clockwise. There are mudflaps at the entrance and exits.

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

We’re bringing back Roman bath houses and including spots to nap in public there in case you have like an hour and a half gap between things you have to do but it’s too far to go home. Really just more public space investment

[–] Mardoniush@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

I'd pour massive amounts of money into arguably crank Bazinga ideas like Life Extension and proper Nanotech. I'd ban all cars and replace with public transport. Thorium power plants in every house! SPAAAAAAAACCCEEEE!

I'd make massive urban farming and gardening projects regardless of economic viability.

I also have Gaddafi-grade western fashion revival ideas. You will have to dress up for all evening events and no a Tuxedo is not gonna cut it. if you want a vision of the future it's an 1700s dance slipper brushing a human face lightly, forever.

I am also for the French Revolutionary calendar. Happy Basil Day!

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

LSD micro-dosing the entire population.

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

I guess it depends on the scale of regime I'd have. Once all the normal stuff happens and people have housing, good jobs, transit, food, healthcare, literacy, half the earth rewilded, and everything else, I'd go buckwild.

We're gonna set up Mars for terraforming. Put a big fuckoff magnet at L1, and put a particle accelerator on Phobos to create a torus of plasma along its orbit, do 'em both, we need a backup because this shit has to last a billion years. Smack it with some ammonia-rich asteroids, shotgun the surface with extremophile lichens and bacteria, build some ecopoiesis domes. Just let it go wild. Not a colonization attempt, just create a trickle of progress and let it slowly improve over time and go wild til we're actually ready to do something with it.

We're going to learn everything we can and we'll save all of our knowledge. We will learn everything we can, uncover old mysteries, and explore. The only limiting factor for sciences should be people-hours. And we're going to make backups. Off-site ones too, maybe even off-world. We should never forget anything ever again.

We're going to preserve languages and learn a universal second language. Teach everyone Esperanto or something, but make sure that people's native languages are preserved and retained. The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis may be bullshit, but I think there's a lot of cultural value in preserving languages. It'd be great for everyone to be able to communicate together, but it's important that we're not losing things along the way to that goal.

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

End natural predation.

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