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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by HarryLime@hexbear.net to c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net

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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[-] NoGodsNoMasters@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

My crank project is a massive geoengineering project to restore Lake Megachad and then expand it beyond its previous greatest extent to create Lake Gigachad

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[-] Moss@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago

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

[-] a_blanqui_slate@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] EnsignRedshirt@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] soy_disantra@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] soy_disantra@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago

oh and trains, I guess, space trains

[-] Ho_Chi_Chungus@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago

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

[-] 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

[-] Satanic_Mills@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago

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

We counting on our phalanges now.

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[-] Alaskaball@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] principalkohoutek@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago

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

[-] WIIHAPPYFEW@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago

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

[-] CommunistBear@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago

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

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[-] Owl@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] Frank@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago

I think the hard part with lightning power is storage. You need some extremely cool/dangerous capacitors that won't detonate on you to pull it off.

[-] Owl@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago

That's if you want to actually harness lightning, say with a really big lighting rod. This would be harnessing electrical potential before it becomes lighting, which would be a much cleaner, more continuous flow.

But a five kilometer tall tower is an absurd engineering feat, and building those unrealistically robust capacitors would almost certainly be easier.

[-] ZoomeristLeninist@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

i liked ur idea and thought abt using airships to hoist a wire up there. those huge HVDC cables that cross oceans are capable of transmitting power in the gigawatt scale. but apparently these things are heavy as fuck at ~50 kg/m. so 5 km of this is 250 metric tons!! airships definitely can’t do that and even a tower that tall would be an engineering marvel.

i just thought of another way while typing this! you could send airships up there with giant batteries and just bring them back to earth when theyre fully charged

[-] Frank@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago

Do orbital skyhooks that support a cable that comes within a few dozen meters of the earth

Sure, there's some material science problems but the room temperature superconductor is going to fix all thaty!

[-] NPa@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago

me, after another long and fulfilling day of getting bombarded with the full force of the heavens for the betterment of humanity soviet-chad

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[-] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago

The Culture.

[-] LaughingLion@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago

Ban lawns. Like, completely. No more lawns. Having one is a punishable offense. I want children to report their parents on this matter. Merciless enforcement. EVERYONE with ground space MUST have a garden.

[-] Frank@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago

One of my not-crank i will actually do this if you fools let me wield power projects is evacuating the suburbs in to high density city cores, mining the burbs for useful materials, the bulldozing them for use as crop lands, light industry, and whatever else is acceptable to have near cities.

[-] usernamesaredifficul@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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

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