chapotraphouse

your proposals are all quite nice but none of them would knowingly ecocide half a continent & cost/generate more power than has ever been used by humanity for the simple goal of refilling the LA River

oh yeah, its NAWAPA TIME

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

the orbital solar condenser + ground based collection disk from simcity 3000. like normal solar power but spicier

I'd make all detached single-family homes near an urban center illegal and start replacing them all with a combination of low-rise attached units for families, and apartment complexes for people without kids (notionally, I'm fine with some intermixing). Make sure that there are services and amenities within walking distance of all newly-densified housing, and run bus service and light rail everywhere. Then I'd ban private vehicles anywhere within view of a skyscraper. You will live in a pleasant, walkable community with greenspace and accessible services, or you will be sent to the reeducation camps.

Also, big bronze statue in a park. Big enough to provide ample shade to park goers in the summer.

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.

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.

My crank project would be a vast public domain and publicly owned version of the Library of Congress, for literature, movies, shows, games, and pretty much any and all media in danger of being lost to time, copyright bullshit, tax write-off skullduggery, or the like. A big part of that project would be attempts to retrieve and restore media that is already considered lost.

I would bring big efforts to resurrect the Irish language by having all sporting events, news broadcasts etc in Irish, having Irish be taught in school before English, having social events where people are expected to speak Irish etc. However this would merely be a Trojan horse for my real goal: slyly take out gendered pronouns from Irish and have everyone's pronouns be gender neutral by default, and only otherwise if specified.

It should be obvious that I'm Irish but we can apply this to any Anglophone country. England speaks Irish now, fuck you

A truman show-esque reality TV program, where donald trump is planted as a regional manager of a small chain restaurant and monitored 24/7.

i'll put chemicals in the water to make the ~~frogs~~ everyone gay

and more dog infrastructure

and retirement homes for cows

superheroes are illegal now

fursonas are mandatory

free kalashnikovs for the unemployed

mao gets beatified

make werewolves real

drag the moon closer

Antarctica colony. Big ass bronze statue staring out over the ocean north like the Colossus of Rhodes

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

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.

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

Arcologies. Entire cities built into single, massive complexes.

I'd want to breed sapience into cows and have them join us in society.