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

I'd pour massive amounts of money into arguably crank Bazinga ideas like Life Extension and proper Nanotech. I'd ban all cars and replace with public transport. Thorium power plants in every house! SPAAAAAAAACCCEEEE!

I'd make massive urban farming and gardening projects regardless of economic viability.

I also have Gaddafi-grade western fashion revival ideas. You will have to dress up for all evening events and no a Tuxedo is not gonna cut it. if you want a vision of the future it's an 1700s dance slipper brushing a human face lightly, forever.

I am also for the French Revolutionary calendar. Happy Basil Day!

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

Please repeal the great male renunciation while you're at it.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I mean better than charging out the ass for it but if you're supreme ruler couldn't you just fix the food supply to not be so terrible for you? when you stop taking that stuff you gain the weight back, and it has not insignificant side effects

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

Yikes that sounds like communism

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

Every multiplayer pvp game will be mandated to have an unskipabble 10 minute gay kiss/sex scene on startup.

[–] Comp4@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Legalize Nuclear bombs. Blow up the moon

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

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 - mao-aggro-shining

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

forced bimbofication + everyone's gay now

taking no questions

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

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

End natural predation.

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

BAN MULTI LEVEL MARKETING SCHEMES. moon base. ban homeschooling and private schools. no churches over 1000 people allowed. orphanages are the equivalent of the best European style boarding schools one could ask for and any teen can go there. make spanking illegal and send any kid that wants to go to the fancy boarding school. a childrens bill of rights.

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

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

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

I'd put serious resources in to atmospheric carbon scrubbers. But not for any useful or sane purpose. Instead I'd use the carbon to build a 500km tall optically perfect diamond prism in the north atlantic that almost turns England in to a glowing puddle every day, but just misses them. To keep them in line.

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

White people and even former capitalists are given the opportunity to be full, equal members of society

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

LSD micro-dosing the entire population.

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

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.

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