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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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[–] EnsignRedshirt@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years 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.

[–] EndMilkInCrisps@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I'd want to breed sapience into cows and have them join us in society.

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

In addition to massive expansion of the north and south American rail systems my megaproject would be a rail link across the Bering Strait to connect AfroEurasia to North and South America. My dream is being able to travel from Cape Horn to Cape Town almost entirely by rail

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[–] HiImThomasPynchon@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago (6 children)

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.

[–] Alaskaball@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years 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.

[–] 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

[–] MolotovHalfEmpty@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago (10 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 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 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.

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

I'm aware really. It seems I wasn't treating the post with the seriousness that people here expected.

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

Valid. I do like the idea of futurama tubes though. Sounds fun!

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

I was tempted to suggest those too, but selfishly I get vertigo so my travelling through transparent tubes is limited to aquariums and nonsense future tunnels.

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[–] Dolores@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago (5 children)

your proposals are all quite nice but none of them would knowingly ecocide half a continent & cost/generate more power than has ever been used by humanity for the simple goal of refilling the LA River

oh yeah, its NAWAPA TIME

[–] mustardman@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Don't you leave us hanging like that. Copy the relevant paragraph from wikipedia so I don't have to google

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[–] wtypstanaccount04@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago

i'm listening

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[–] TC_209@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Massive radio telescopes built into the far side of the Moon.

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

can we get Arecibo back too pls

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