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[–] [email protected] 58 points 8 months ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 25 points 8 months ago

Hold a referendum between all the countries colonised or imperialised by Britain and refer to it as Brexit 2.0 first, just to rub salt in the wound.

It is not enough to see our enemies destroyed but they must be humiliated as well.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 8 months ago

raise doggerland

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[–] [email protected] 56 points 8 months ago (1 children)

De-nazification of the USA.

[–] [email protected] 57 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Why do people keep posting good ideas in the bad idea thread angery

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[–] [email protected] 52 points 8 months ago (2 children)

bioengineer a fungus that can digest plastic and seed the Pacific with it

[–] [email protected] 46 points 8 months ago (8 children)

This is a good one because the most likely outcome of this is that the fungus spreads to all plastics, not just the waste in the ocean, and soon your household items are getting eaten.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 8 months ago

may a hundred thousand mcmansions rot

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[–] [email protected] 46 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Pumping enormous state resources into breaking every record in the Guiness book of world records by such a large margin that they are forever out of reach for any non-state actors. Just draft 100 000 people to break the record for baking the world's biggest cinnamon bun. Pour all of our medical resources into surgically making some CEO 5 meters tall just so it is obvious that the record will never ever be broken again and they eventually have to stop publishing new editions.

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[–] [email protected] 43 points 8 months ago (10 children)
[–] [email protected] 19 points 8 months ago (1 children)

This is mine. I'd have all the kids learn both spoken toki pona and the corresponding sign language. It'd rapidly diverge from the canonical version in real world use, and it's more entertaining than strictly practical, but I just think it'd be neat. And it really wouldn't take much time investment to do.

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[–] [email protected] 42 points 8 months ago (10 children)

IRL Moria. Just make a big fucking dwarven keep IRL in the cascades or the himilayas or norway or literally anywhere idc. Carve a massive stone complex into the side of a mountain, dammit

[–] [email protected] 28 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 39 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

BORN UNDERGROUND

SUCKLED FROM THE TEAT OF STONE

RAISE IN THE DARK

THE SAFETY OF A MOUNTAIN HOME

SKIN MADE OF IRON

STEEL IN THE BONES

pika-pickaxe pika-pickaxe pika-pickaxe pika-pickaxe pika-pickaxe pika-pickaxe

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 8 months ago (1 children)

When I was a kid I had the bright idea during a daydream that if I were to officially acquire Antarctica as territory, either as part of my current country or as a brand new country, I could make the claim that air pollution from other wealthy nations is causing me to lose territory (glaciers melting from climate change). Then, I can fight back against other countries for their inaction towards climate change.

Other idea, build massive communities under the ice and snow in Antarctica, utilizing primarily wind energy above the surface for electricity.

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 8 months ago (6 children)

A rail that runs from South Africa to Chile across the Bering Strait and the Darien Gap

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 8 months ago (1 children)

A 10,000 year breeding program to create the Kwizatch Haderatch.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 8 months ago (5 children)

A 50 year program to domesticate raccoons

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Providing arsenals of nuclear ICBMs to every country so the world can go completely MAD.

Honestly it would probably end in unmitigated disaster but goddamn would we see an end to war and put imperialism on the permanent back foot if it happened.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 8 months ago (1 children)

They did this in my model UN in high school and then voted down my proposal as Nigeria to better protect endangered languages. I was so mad.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Did you fire on the West??

[–] [email protected] 31 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

fuck i shouldve done nuclear blackmail to get mine passed. you are so right

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Call it the nuclear proloferation treaty. And after the initial transfer of icbms give a solid aid, and anti glibal warming pakage for building nuclear and space industries incluiding training funding universities, relevant factories. Inclufe bligations that once your coutry reaches maturity in these industries it has to help others and join in reasearch with other members.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I'm down but I'd want it to be named the Barack Obamna Memorial International Nuclear Proliferation Treaty to stick it to him and his absurd Nobel Prize victory.

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 8 months ago

Trains. Everywhere.

I'm talking a dedicated line from your front door to every one of your friends.

And not just high speed trains either. Themed old timey steam engines for local transportation.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 8 months ago (4 children)

There's a depression in the middle of Australia that's lower than sea level. If we just built the right canal, we could change the climate and ecology of what is currently Central Australia by a wild degree.

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 8 months ago (1 children)

something like Libya's Great Man-Made river.

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Vending machine economy.

Turn stores into giant vending machines. Turn restaurants into automats. Public vending machines with basic human things in them like toilet paper, instant coffee, OTC medicines, first aid, etc. We would create virtually indestructible vending machines and mechanisms. Vending machines and the products inside would use local branding. You would also have exclusive treats that reflect a local culture. Also, no currency to use them, just biometrics.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 8 months ago

Japan reading this: quagsire-pog

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 24 points 8 months ago (1 children)

ban cars, destroy and recycle them all, give everyone an electric tricycle

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 8 months ago (1 children)

High speed rail everywhere

[–] [email protected] 25 points 8 months ago (5 children)
[–] [email protected] 27 points 8 months ago

High speed rail from my bed to the bathroom. This message brought to you by 14 hours of back and forth with food poisoning.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I'd build the world's first international spaceport. If it was USA, I'd build it up the side of the Hawaii volcano. The goal is to get it as high as possible, as close to equator as possible, to take advantage of earth's angular velocity. If possible, building in the Andes would be even better.

Startram gen 2 or bust. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StarTram

Humanity has to cut the cost of space launches by 99% or more if we are ever going to advance to the next phase of history: Mining the asteroid belt for necessary minerals. All progress comes from raw materials in some capacity and the asteroid belt is a near unlimited source.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Russia-Sakhalin-Hokkaido Tunnel,

[–] [email protected] 22 points 8 months ago

First tunnel built by bears, for bears.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Cougar Domestication Project.

There are many problems with house cats, they're too small to cuddle, they can't take down fully grown deer, they're dangerous to local birds.

Mountain Lions solve all these problems, we just have to get them to tolerate human habitats and not eat children until we can have a population of semi-feral mountain lions that live with us the way house cats do.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 8 months ago (6 children)
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[–] [email protected] 21 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Transcontinental package delivery via pneumatic tube

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 8 months ago

In a slightly more reasonable answer: Antarctica colony. Put a big fucking climate control dome over it. Build some wind farms for cheap electricity. Build a giant statue of Lenin like the Colossus of Rhodes there too while you're at it. Establish socialism at the south pole where the imperialists aren't looking

[–] [email protected] 20 points 8 months ago

Make Siberia more livable by building a shit ton of dams in the mountains, creating a vast amount of lakes. I don't know if this will actually do anything. But maybe a lake effect will change the Siberian Highs that causes massive cold weather patterns to hold in the area and it's surroundings? Was an idea to maybe make Vladivostok and the Russian Far East more like Seattle weather wise. More rain, more movement of air generally, lots of fresh water stocked up, maybe routed to central Asia. Idk what would actually happen but it'd be fun to see

[–] [email protected] 20 points 8 months ago (1 children)

make roko's basilisk and a time machine for the express purpose of bullying techbros for eternity.

After that? figure out how centralized of a metropolitan city can be made to make the smallest footprint yet densest population possible to see how that society would change when placed in such an environment.

Maybe figure out how to create seed space ships filled with bacteria'n'shit or whatever to possibly jump-start life on foreign planets, make them as resilient or whatever as possible to survive for immeasurable periods of time and attempt to seed life on all possible life-bearing planets. Definitely never will see any results from it and nobody will definitely will know if it's successful or not, but it seems like a neat thing to do.

maybe make a human machine immortality project that makes a gestalt entity out of all the people that hook up to it and let their noggins get uploaded to it before croaking and see if we can make a single super-entity that transcends the mortal form and possibly creating a new step in the evolution of humanity. shinji-screm

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

make a bunch of those compact walkable linked micro-district cities i have designed in Workers & Resources

where everyone basically lives in a luxury resort designed to cater to their needs while they aren't at work

shit didn't read the bad idea part

[–] [email protected] 20 points 8 months ago

underground cities

[–] [email protected] 19 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Berring strait land bridge. Damming the Mediterranean.

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