chapotraphouse

Sponge Cities!

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.

LSD micro-dosing the entire population.

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

I'd take the best aspects of metric and amerikkkan measurement systems and invent DOZENAL METRIC. In fact, all math and counting will be done in base 12.

Build a railway through central America, terminating in Brazil, up through Canada to Alaska and then across to Russia.

Switch the internet from a server-client infrastructure to a p2p one with a small cache on every router using something like IPFS.

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 -

Honestly bringing back the Cult of Reason sounds dope.

Aside from that though, Global Pan-Oceanic Hypertrain Network.

Just for the flex of it.

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

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

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'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.

Global grid of computers for collective use. Like a public cloud. The primary purpose of this would be for economic planning (and voting on priorities for the plan) but also for any other purpose (research, providing services, data storage and distribution, etc).

El sistema everywhere

End natural predation.

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

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.

• Mandatory enforced veganism
• Billionaire gladiatorial fights
• Ban smoking (vapes will be allowed for a 5 year transitional period)

Arcologies. Entire cities built into single, massive complexes.

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

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.

This is conpletely serious but definitely a crank answer:

Create a network of Greenways on the scale of our railroads and interstates, carving out huge swaths of cities and connecting every state and national forest and park.

Then maintain the ecological integrity of these Greenways by making practical indigenous land management and foraging mandatory topics in schools.

I will also maintain a small army of engineers to run clean, running water through the greenways (for handwashing) as well as an army of pilots and EMTs to make sure the Greenway dwellers have access to modern medical infrastructure.

Again, I am completely serious.

Make rokos basilisk real but exclusively target dipshit techbros. And genetically modifying humanity so I can eat all the unhealthy tasty food I want without getting some kind of cancer or turning into a blimp, or anything else really.

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

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

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

We counting on our phalanges now.