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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- 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.
Sponge Cities!
ban gaming
Antarctica colony. Big ass bronze statue staring out over the ocean north like the Colossus of Rhodes
Doc Savage vibes.
I would do a massive irrigation and forestation project in the southwestern US. The accounts of the first settlers to arrive in that area of its climate differ pretty wildly from the climate we observe in it today, and I think that aiming to massively shrink the amount of partial desert is a geoengineering feat that is in reach with current technology and would have massive positive benefits to the region. We’ll get the water by forcefully depopulating Las Vegas and moving those people to a less water inefficient area.
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.
I’ve never heard about this, which I suppose is why you should talk to experts before making a Stalinist mandate about some drastic policy or other lmao.
Every multiplayer pvp game will be mandated to have an unskipabble 10 minute gay kiss/sex scene on startup.
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.
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
Night trains from everywhere to everywhere would be neat. Including neat sleeping cabins so that the population of the world can migrate by climate phases and joy.
But since I played openttd make it river canals and ships that are trolley boats.
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Here’s one of mine:
They’re a relic of the cold war even here in Europe. Only ÖBB runs night passenger trains covering mostly Germany, Austria (since ÖBB = Austrian Federal Railways) and Northern Italy.
In many cases, due to cuts, ran-like-a-business principles, understaffing and underinvestment, here in Germany it can be hard to get anywhere by train after 9 PM. Bus Night lines are more common, but that’s a big city thing.
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.
Run some ultrahigh voltage DC power lines with it and have a hemisphere wide electric grid
Duodecimal system baby, fuck this non divisible by 3 system.
We counting on our phalanges now.
just use your right hand to count to 5 and your left hand denotes batches of 6. You can count up to thirty like this
i would make every US state square shaped, including hawaii but excepting the then independent republics of florida and alaska
My crank project is a massive geoengineering project to restore Lake Megachad and then expand it beyond its previous greatest extent to create Lake Gigachad
Now that is a crank prject i can get behind.
I’d start math education with formal logic, elementary number theory, and mathematical language in the first grade. That way everyone has a chance to actually understand the math they’re expected to manipulate in high school.
