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.
Train racing. No I will not elaborate.
I’m listening
with multi-track drifting of course
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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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 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.
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.
Hell yeah unironically. Nudity is literally just not wearing clothes and is not worth being embarrassed about.
I feel like there would be a crimewave of public wanking
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.
what’s that quote on women’s satisfaction with sex in the GDR?
The Home, WA anarchist commune fell apart because of conflict between “the nudes and the prudes.” You’re playing with fire, be careful.
That said, you can’t signify rank or class with clothing if no one wears clothing. Uphold anarcho-naturalist thought.
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
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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.
The Walled City of Silicon. Fake VCs dispensing fake money for fake web3/crypto/blockchain projects to keep these guys docile and happy. Actually we wouldn’t have to change anything…
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Nightly performances at the Magic Kingdom Castle Square where the royal family gets guilottined.
How are they gonna come up with enough new princesses to sustain that?
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
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Nevada is actually the only water efficient area in the Southwest.
About 97-99% of their water usage gets recycled. Arizona and California are the biggest drain on Lake Mead and the Colorado river.
If you just built Nevada’s water recycling infrastructure in the rest of the Southwest, you probably wouldn’t need to relocate anyone. At least not for water scarcity reasons, it might be too late to do anything about dangerous temperatures, I don’t know the science there.
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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
- massively increase the building code standards and provide government-sponsored training for tradespeople to understand and implement them
Convert all standard mathematics from base 10 to base 12
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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.
LSD micro-dosing the entire population.
Some people will do really, really badly with that. I hope it’s optional.
With microdosing? Only with allergies surely? What examples of negative effects of microdosing are there? They’re supposed to be so small that there’s no feeling of the effects at all.
forced bimbofication + everyone’s gay now
taking no questions
