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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Train racing. No I will not elaborate.
with multi-track drifting of course
I’m listening
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.
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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
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?
Also linen! Massive state linen and wool production so no one ever has to wear cotton, the shittiest fiber, again!
I’d want to breed sapience into cows and have them join us in society.
I think the cows might have beef with humans, sans India
Nah once I bring forth the glorious utopia of vegankind they will forgive us.
Rocko’sHeffer’s Modern Basilisk, the sentient cows will kill everyone who wasn’t a vegan since birth, and then farm the vegans as their food supply.
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.
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.
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.
Just put battery in your water supply
your BRAIN EELS need to be RECHARGED
Putting lithium salts into the water supply maybe isn’t actually the worst idea in the world. It definitely would need more study in terms of how this might impact people taking medications which interact poorly with lithium.
I think the real answer is that people need better access to mental healthcare.
Yeah that would solve quite a bit.
we told you about throwing car batteries in the ocean
we fuckin told you dawg
Weird, I used to take lithium on prescription and I’m like 80% water.
humans aren’t 80% water in the same way a nearly full glass of water is.
Okay but that lithium pill isn’t going to set a nearly full glass of tapwater on fire either
it’s probably not pure lithium. And also it only burns in proportion to the amount of lithium you put in but lithium and water causes a fire
plus anti-depressants have side effects and medication can interact with other medicine people take so probably just make anti-depressants freely available but you need to get them from a pharmacist is the best way
Lithium in pharmacology specifically refers to lithium salts, usually lithium carbonate or lithium citrate. It’s not elemental lithium but it is still just called lithium, regardless of which salt is prescribed. Clarification is usually done by specifying a brand example for generics.
Buy out the ozempic patent and deliver it to every obese person
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
Yikes that sounds like communism
I need more info
Semaglutide has an off-label use as a weight-loss aid. It is effective. However, if you’re in the US, it’ll cost you like $1000/month because your insurance won’t cover it for that reason.
I don’t think anywhere has approved it purely for weight loss either, it’s just getting some off-label prescriptions, and there was a mini-crisis where 95% of the ozempic prescriptions in North America were being written by a single doctor in Nova Scotia, and then distributed by mail pharmacies across Canada to US buyers.
Thanks
I wager that many obese people are insecure about their bodies. Giving them a drug to lose weight would potentially bring them happiness, lead to better socialization, less physical disability and comorbid diseases, alleviating the healthcare industry burden. Skinnier people touch grass more, run marathons, etc
Bike freeways, playgrounds for adults, free/open gyms, and municipal go kart tracks with competitive leagues
Massive radio telescopes built into the far side of the Moon.
can we get Arecibo back too pls
The chinese already built an even bigger one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five-hundred-meter_Aperture_Spherical_Telescope
i like it, then mine would be solar gravitational lens telescope
Two words: Climate Stalin.
The entire economy will be mobilized to solving the climate crisis, to the point where even finding a job will be a total non-issue. The pigs that are polluting nature to death will pay for all this with every penny they got, they have stolen more value than they can ever stuff down their throats. Oil oligarchs and media talking heads will all be tried at the Hague for crimes against humanity. Many useless treats are going to be banned, and yes, we’re coming for your Funko Pops, white boy.
One very important detail and job would be hiring a bunch of artists, architects, designers, etc. I want to ensure that my regime looks aesthetic yet villainous, so whether or not I fail as Climate Stalin, 13 year old boys in the future will look to me and not Prince Nick Fuentes II as the badass supervillain to idolize, and eventually support. Also, the people deserve a much more beautiful world than the one I had to endure.
Oh wait, idiots like Nick Fuentes would be seen as scum because I did a cultural revolution where I beat in that delinquency isn’t cool.
idk if you’ll be able to stick the villain part, chinese people had flood stalin all those years back and to this day he’s credited with being the hero founder of the first dynasty
like yeah they say everyone got together in harmony under his leadership to build all the infrastructure to fix the floods but come on, it was like 2000 bce, you know that shit was done with slave labor
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.
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.
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
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!
me, after another long and fulfilling day of getting bombarded with the full force of the heavens for the betterment of humanity
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.
That’s my fucking president
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.
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.
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
Building a coherent rail network for Africa is a must
The Bering Strait rail link if built could decimate the entire container ship industry. DO IT
Create an artificial language with no exceptions to its rules, then teach it in every school in the world, so that the whole humanity spoke one language.
Also ban smoking
I used to be for this, but then I started finding out about all that is lost when a language is, and now it makes me sad to think of losing any more than we already have. But also, pragmatically, it’d be awesome to not have language barriers. Need sci-fi style universal translators.
Need sci-fi style universal translators.
We’re honestly pretty fucking close right now
