My crank project isn't even a crank project: bringing back a great freight rail network with carload service (dropping off boxcars directly next to factories) would be immensely beneficial for cutting emissions. Night trains, bringing up the system to a state of good repair, increased speeds, increased frequency, I'm basically just adding on to your already great plan.

Mine would just be an effort to roll back the holocene extinction as much as can be done, which includes environmental reconstruction, resurrection of extinct species, and careful reintegration of collapsed ecosystems. That and rebuilding the six grandfathers over top of mt rushmore.

BAN MULTI LEVEL MARKETING SCHEMES. moon base. ban homeschooling and private schools. no churches over 1000 people allowed. orphanages are the equivalent of the best European style boarding schools one could ask for and any teen can go there. make spanking illegal and send any kid that wants to go to the fancy boarding school. a childrens bill of rights.

I'm too media obsessed for me to fantasize about things that aren't using the position to mandate certain pieces of media be made. Which is kinda dumb so dont put me in power.

I'd take the best aspects of metric and amerikkkan measurement systems and invent DOZENAL METRIC. In fact, all math and counting will be done in base 12.

Build a railway through central America, terminating in Brazil, up through Canada to Alaska and then across to Russia.

Switch the internet from a server-client infrastructure to a p2p one with a small cache on every router using something like IPFS.

I'd try to make the education, society, and culture in such a way to try and make almost everybody gay or bisexual to see how much nurture affects sexuality

Every shitter gets a biogas generator and we stop extracting natural (petrochemical) gas but use the existing pipelines for renewable sewer gas power

Sponge Cities!

Thinking of actual crank projects. Mine is probably nuclear powered ships. Decarbonize the oceans!

I'm so into it that I made a video about it

Write into law that there is only one type of Christianity allowed. Every five years the knights of columbus and the freemasons select their top guys for a gladiator fight. If the Knights win then catholicism is the official religion for 5 years, if the masons win it's protestantism.

boooooorrrrring

gladiator games are back for good

a massive cloning facility for bees

El sistema everywhere

So many agroecological community gardens, so many communal kitchens, bread ovens, and collective food system infrastructure. All food is now grown in agroforestry systems where the farms are also biodiverse refuges for fauna and flora. I would be the single-minded food dude, like but for mindful food production.

Also, everyone learns (from other people) to forage local herbs and mushrooms.

I guess I would go huge in on wetlands revitalization in order to have more cute frogs to look at. I would also hire a team of experts to come up with justifications as to why our society required me having a real life Gundam.

i would build everything that would give my granddaughter a better life

National program for graphic novels.

National program for more frogs

National program for the preservation of songbirds

I would pick the last one. Love those little guys so much. Hearing a cool bird keeps me alive sometimes.

Virtual drug test dummies. I would commission huge banks of supercomputers to simulate the human body for rapid drug tests and general research, and dump money on quantum computing. Idk if this counts as a crank project but it would definitely be immense.

I guess mine would be the decolonization of language. Supporting native indigenous languages until they are brought back from the brink of extinction until they completely replace Anglo.

After I've done the full maglev rail network, the tallest structure on Earth. And then a slide coming off the top floor.

The iranrood of course. But with fresh water. This involves removing an unimaginable amount of salt from the salt flats in the iranian plateau. So i gess we will turn that salt into plastic?

Duodecimal system baby, fuck this non divisible by 3 system.

We counting on our phalanges now.

Try to make local and sustainable industrial productivity with solar metal casting and distributed network of CNC machines.

https://hackaday.com/2022/11/07/smelting-solar-style/

https://hackaday.com/2023/06/25/automate-away-the-drudgery-of-cnc-manufacturing/

~~backyard furnace~~ backyard solar smelter -

I would put arcades in the public libraries and by extension nationalize professional

Yes id still do the rail/green energy/mass housing megaprojects, but those arent crank enough

i would make every US state square shaped, including hawaii but excepting the then independent republics of florida and alaska

someone else brought this idea up a couple weeks ago but its been stuck in my brain ever since:

1. seize all gold stores from the wealthy/governments of the world
2. bring the best and brightest computer system engineers and scientists together and develop a new standard of solar-powered computing that emphasizes durability, accessibility, and low power consumption above everything else.
3. melt down all the gold from 1 and use that stockpile to construct public computer services and interfacing devices that are handed out or otherwise available for everyone to use cheaply
4. slowly spin-up new solar-powered datacenters, decommission/cannibalize existing datacenters and sell off those resources to recoup the costs of the project.

thats the view from 10 billion feet up. i think it would be pretty neat.

Plattenbau construction megaproject. Socialism, gray, big blocks and no suburb freedom? Yes, we'll build more.

I would be like Hoxha but build earthships everywhere instead of bunkers.

A circular underground tunnel for bikes. Cyclists have little umbrellas that they open up when they enter the tube and everyone rides clockwise. There are mudflaps at the entrance and exits.

ban gaming

The destruction of all white settlements in desert areas and summar execution of sundown towners

i would order all the garbage to be pilled up at the border ,... Garbage Hoxha Mountain Range..