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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by HarryLime@hexbear.net to c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net

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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[-] FunnyUsername@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] MaoTheLawn@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago

I feel like there would be a crimewave of public wanking

[-] Moss@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago

Hell yeah unironically. Nudity is literally just not wearing clothes and is not worth being embarrassed about.

[-] Nagarjuna@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] Frank@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] wtypstanaccount04@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago
[-] Abracadaniel@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago

what's that quote on women's satisfaction with sex in the GDR?

[-] Frank@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago

The extent to which North Americans, among others, are absolutely incapable of being normal about nudity is disheartening in the extreme.

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