• ReadFanon [any, any]
      hexbear
      25
      3 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.

    • Gucci_Minh [he/him]
      hexbear
      46
      3 months ago

      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.

          • EelBolshevikism [none/use name]
            hexbear
            2
            edit-2
            3 months ago

            It would be funny for there to be a massive sewage management issue in every major population center, at least

            Overall though, maybe we shouldn’t be relying on pipes that slowly poison the environment through the slow shedding of microplastics anyways. As ridiculously painful as the transition would be in this case

            • oregoncom [he/him]
              hexbear
              1
              3 months ago

              lots of medical implants are made of plastic. A great number of medical equipment is also made of plastic. Plastic is used ib critical components in everything from airplanes to powerplants. There's not a lot of things that have the same durability, flexibility, and weight as plastic.

              It would really suck if all plastic actually degraded. A better solution imo is to just stop using it for packaging. It's only marginally more expensive to replace it with wax coated paper in the vast majority of cases.

        • Owl [he/him]
          hexbear
          2
          3 months ago

          Lots of medical equipment is plastic.

    • kristina [she/her]
      hexbear
      9
      3 months ago

      this is cool until you realize humans have a non negligible amount of plastic in their lungs and will get some sort of crazy fungal disease in the lung as a result

  • Utter_Karate [he/him, comrade/them]
    hexbear
    47
    3 months ago

    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.

    • Gorillatactics [none/use name]
      hexbear
      14
      3 months ago

      We can not allow a cinnamon bun gap to develop between us and Nigeria. If I'm elected I will provide a tax credit for all bakers who contribute to making a bigger bun than our enemies.

    • kristina [she/her]
      hexbear
      7
      3 months ago

      atomizing a ceo and lining them all up side by side to make him as tall as possible

    • sappho [she/her]
      hexbear
      20
      3 months ago

      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.

    • Hello_Kitty_enjoyer [none/use name]
      hexbear
      7
      edit-2
      3 months ago

      what's wrong with english

      the british have been (and will continue to be) so humiliated that there's no reason to even be ashamed of it

      • iridaniotter [she/her, they/them]
        hexbear
        16
        3 months ago

        Chauvinism. The world language should be derived from languages across the world, not just Indo-European ones (looking at you Esperanto!)

        • Hello_Kitty_enjoyer [none/use name]
          hexbear
          7
          edit-2
          3 months ago

          yea but there is no such conlang around today

          I think it's better to adopt english and have a large decolonial movement that sets up a parallel Wikipedia where plants and animals and everything else are named after their actual native names instead of "lord smittlington's small pepper"

          I said english was good because esperanto is no better, and everyone already speaks english

  • Ho_Chi_Chungus [she/her]
    hexbear
    43
    3 months ago

    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

      • Ho_Chi_Chungus [she/her]
        hexbear
        38
        edit-2
        3 months ago

        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

    • anaesidemus [he/him]
      hexbear
      15
      3 months ago

      This one, maybe actually a good idea depending on how catastrophic climate change will be.

      Easier than going to Mars

    • anarchoilluminati [comrade/them]
      hexbear
      13
      3 months ago

      All right! On this note.

      I'm dismantling all of the world's urban cities, residential neighborhoods, roads, and other global city infrastructure. The world will undergo a Global Grassification effort for all previous cities, suburban areas, and otherwise abandoned countryside, and so on, to be covered in rolling, green hills.

      Everyone will now live in Global State provided Hobbit Holes, receive two (2) barrels of pipe weed per home, and one (1) livestock animal along with ten (10) seeds to start a small garden [conscientious objectors to the livestock animal, such as vegans, shall instead be entitled to receive double their allotment of pipe weed and seeds] in order to live a rural Hobbit lifestyle. Hobbit towns will have and only allowed to build one (1) public square for gathering as well as trading, one (1) designated area for festivals and public celebrations, one (1) school with kindergarten to postgraduate education, one (1) town library, one (1) medical clinic with free care, and two (2) pubs. Let's all have peace and quiet.

      Any disturbers of peace and quiet shall be summarily executed by the Global Hobbit State.

      • SpiderFarmer [he/him]
        hexbear
        11
        3 months ago

        Fascist Hobbits was one of the wildest things MtG ever conjured up.

          • SpiderFarmer [he/him]
            hexbear
            6
            3 months ago

            So the kithkin (basically hobbits) in the Lorewynn have a borderline gestalt conciousness. It mostly helped them to watch each other's backs and stick together comfily in little hamlets. When the events of Shadowmoor happen and everything gets scary and weird, they got super paranoid, resulting in these hamlets turning into military states.

      • Ho_Chi_Chungus [she/her]
        hexbear
        10
        3 months ago

        oh hell naw i am not about to shave off my beard longer than i am just to live in a "hole" instead of "glorious stone keep kept for several ages by uncountable ancestors"

        • anarchoilluminati [comrade/them]
          hexbear
          9
          3 months ago

          Beards and other forms of dress or appearance are welcome and shall not be discriminated against.

          Otherwise, do not make me tap the sign.

          All disturbers of peace and quiet shall be summarily executed by the Global Hobbit State.

        • Egon [they/them]
          hexbear
          5
          edit-2
          3 months ago

          "uncountable ancestors?" Oooh that's not very dwarfish of you. You should be able to count them all.
          bannin

  • Chillbruh@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    hexbear
    40
    3 months ago

    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.

    • Egon [they/them]
      hexbear
      5
      3 months ago

      People are kinda trying this right now in the EU. To be part.of the EU, member states pledge to do certain things. Part of that is to ensure a bright future for the generations of tomorrow. People are trying to take the EU to court for this, since it is not ensuring a bright future.
      It's not gonna work tho

  • Dessa [she/her]
    hexbear
    34
    3 months ago

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

  • ReadFanon [any, any]
    hexbear
    32
    3 months ago

    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.

    • iridaniotter [she/her, they/them]
      hexbear
      28
      3 months ago

      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.

    • Formerlyfarman [none/use name]
      hexbear
      21
      3 months ago

      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.

      • ReadFanon [any, any]
        hexbear
        19
        3 months ago

        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.

  • Adkml [he/him]
    hexbear
    31
    3 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.

  • keepcarrot [she/her]
    hexbear
    28
    3 months ago

    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.

    • Mardoniush [she/her]
      hexbear
      10
      3 months ago

      With catastrophic effects on climate elsewhere, of course. Like how Greening the Sahara would kill the Amazon because the amazon is fertilised by saharan dust.

      • keepcarrot [she/her]
        hexbear
        4
        3 months ago

        Absolutely. I am super curious tho

        (wait, the Sahara isn't in Australia? What's the knock on effect?)

        • Mardoniush [she/her]
          hexbear
          4
          3 months ago

          The Sahara winds whip up fine desert dust into the upper atmosphere, it floats on the jet stream to the Amazon and fertilizes it with nutrients the rainforest would otherwise deplete.

          I posit turning Lake Eyre into a sea would have similar effects.

    • @SSJ2Marx
      hexbear
      19
      3 months ago

      Nuking Australia to make a big river and irrigate the middle part of the island is one that I've always liked despite being a disaster of an idea.

  • betelgeuse [comrade/them]
    hexbear
    26
    3 months ago

    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.

    • iridaniotter [she/her, they/them]
      hexbear
      16
      edit-2
      3 months ago

      I like the version where they put a multi gigaton nuke as the payload. That way we can send it off to England and kill two birds with one stone