Train racing. No I will not elaborate.
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Banned? DM Wmill to appeal.
No anti-nautilism posts. See: Eco-fascism Primer
Gossip posts go in c/gossip. Don't post low-hanging fruit here after it gets removed from c/gossip
with multi-track drifting of course
I'm listening
Create a large network of state and/or cooperatively owned cannabis farms to mass-produce hemp for industrial purposes, and every strain of quality marijuana known to man. You think the weed's too strong these days? That's ok, the state will devote its resources to developing 10% THC strains that taste like a gourmet meal. You want to be sent to the moon? Why yes, there will be 99.9% pure concentrate oils widely available.
Just as the USSR had an alcohol ration, there will be a mids ration available for all. Any unclaimed rations will be distributed to the gulags to forcibly pacify political prisoners. While high and marginally more open-minded, they will be made to play video games where every character is a black lesbian and all the messaging is based on post-colonial theory. Only after their daily shift constructing and tending the farms is finished, of course.
Any questions?
Community cafeterias. 1 caf per x (tbd) population.
- informed by national-level dietary guidelines
- very receptive to local neighborhood dietary preferences and encouraged to develop specialties
- worker controlled
- kitchen teams could swap/guest in other neighborhoods to mix things up
- you can go to cafs in other neighborhoods but there would probably be some system to anticipate demand to avoid over/under prepping (like you have a home caf but you can make reservation at another one?)
You can eat there or get take out.
Benefits:
- less food waste
- don't have to waste time shopping, chopping, cooking and cleaning when you don't want to
- will not have insane "chef" centered kitchen cultures, unless everyone working there votes in favour of this for some reason
High speed rail running the 'spine' of the americas - people should be able to go from Alaska to the far end of Chille and not need to transfer (although one imagines a number of stops along the way)
obviously, this would also be paired with a lot more freight rail, with the goal of eliminating as much intra-americas cargo voyages as possible. Really, that would be the true aim of the project, but the high-speed passenger line would be the forward face of it.
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
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
My crank project would be a vast public domain and publicly owned version of the Library of Congress, for literature, movies, shows, games, and pretty much any and all media in danger of being lost to time, copyright bullshit, tax write-off skullduggery, or the like. A big part of that project would be attempts to retrieve and restore media that is already considered lost.
Let's be real, your crank project would be designing the Silicon Valley gulag
Where's the crank part? We can just put a wall around it and make it one of those closed cities they stuffed politically compromised scientists into to work.
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.
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.
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.
The GDR already beat you to it
The extent to which North Americans, among others, are absolutely incapable of being normal about nudity is disheartening in the extreme.
I don't consider normalizing nudity a crank position. Honestly I think it's going to end up being an essential part of feminism at some point, desexualizing and destigmatizing the body outside of sexual contexts. And it's 100% achievable. Nudity taboos are entirely cultural and vary widely over time and across cultures.
I feel like there would be a crimewave of public wanking
the orbital solar condenser + ground based collection disk from simcity 3000. like normal solar power but spicier
Bringing streetcars and trams back to as many roads as logistically possible