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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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[–] MolotovHalfEmpty@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago (2 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!

[–] EmmaGoldman@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

Aquarium glass isn't indestructible, it's just really thick acrylic. Large aquarium panels may be as much as 60cm/24 inch thick. They're rated to a certain level of pressure they can safely hold, and if the water was to go too much higher (as it might in a flood if it was in a lake or river) they will break.

Also, even if your river or lake has no pollution, you're not going to see too much, sediment, algae, and other natural aspects of the aquatic environment will cloud you from seeing the fish who won't want to hang out near the scary tunnel if they can avoid it.

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[–] Melonius@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago (8 children)
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[–] Farman@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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?

[–] Abraxiel@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

National program for graphic novels.

National program for more frogs

National program for the preservation of songbirds

I would pick the last one. Love those little guys so much. Hearing a cool bird keeps me alive sometimes.

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[–] CliffordBigRedDog@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago

Giant solar shield in orbit so that i dont have to see the sun

[–] WoofWoof91@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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

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[–] uralsolo@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

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[–] Owl@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago (6 children)

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.

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[–] Kuori@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago

forced bimbofication + everyone's gay now

taking no questions

[–] FunnyUsername@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago (7 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.

[–] Nagarjuna@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year 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.

[–] MaoTheLawn@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago

I feel like there would be a crimewave of public wanking

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[–] SaniFlush@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago

Sponge Cities! spongebob-party

I guess mine would be the decolonization of language. Supporting native indigenous languages until they are brought back from the brink of extinction until they completely replace Anglo.

[–] Self_Hating_Moid@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago

The destruction of all white settlements in desert areas and summar execution of sundown towners

[–] GaveUp@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I'd try to make the education, society, and culture in such a way to try and make almost everybody gay or bisexual to see how much nurture affects sexuality

Talks about a society that may or may not have encouraged sexual assaultIdea inspired by the Romans being super gay but I'm not sure if that was because of culture or just rape

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[–] wtypstanaccount04@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thinking of actual crank projects. Mine is probably nuclear powered ships. Decarbonize the oceans!

I'm so into it that I made a video about it

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[–] Finger@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago

i would build everything that would give my granddaughter a better life

[–] Abracadaniel@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago
  • An eco-corps jobs program tasked with removal of invasive species and restoration of degraded habitats.
  • The best elements of scouting would be folded into the education system and become the core of its new outdoor skills portion. Everyone would learn how to safely & responsibly conduct themselves while enjoying the outdoors.
[–] TheModerateTankie@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago

I would be like Hoxha but build earthships everywhere instead of bunkers.

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