• CrocodilloBombardino@piefed.social
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    Provide food, housing, clothing, and other essentials to the people for free. Help them set up their own system of mutual support and solidarity. Make money irrelevant.

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    I would divest the world from fossil fuels, fund carbon capture. Build housing and mass transit like mad. Feed everyone who needs it, make education and healthcare human rights.

    Basically star trek.

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      make education and healthcare human rights.

      They are already. Just not respected in the same way everywhere.

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    Lots of bad things to lots of bad people. To quote the Count of Monte Cristo: “I will surely use it for revenge.”

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    If money were no object, I would build a reusable-glass network and force Walmart, Target, Kohl’s, etc. to start a global glass shipping program to take customer-returned glass products (like after you use up all the vinegar, mayonnaise, etc. in your glass jars, etc.) and get them back into the production factories for reuse. All containers would follow standardized sizes (several dozen classifications) to make reuse easy.

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    I would start many companies and organizations based on open source business models developing various software and computer networking technology. The goal for each would be to become self-sustaining (paying employees appropriately but not necessarily attempting to generate profit), and with an objective of creating a unified suite of system administration tools that is equivalent to Microsoft’s Active Directory - but 100% open source and interoperable rather than proprietary.

    Absolutely none of the developed software would include or support any of the kind of surveillance-state functions that are part of the current trend of collecting data on users for “AI”. If possible, technical methods for preventing any such data collection on users would be developed and implemented in every single project.

    Overall the goal would be to out-compete every other computer networking product on the market in terms of convenience, stability and affordability - creating a complete set of best-in-class systems which act as a bulwark against any privacy-invading AI-enabled surveillance software.

    *Edit: also some advocacy organizations like the ACLU and EFF with the same overall goal of reducing the global presence of surveillance-state garbage. Basically the antithesis of anything Peter Thiel is trying to do.

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    Everyone already said the humanitarian ones. I’d live in an off-grid, self-sustaining chalet in a remote mountain location with a wood shop, nice garage for project cars, and high speed internet.

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    I’d start a gay gym with pool, spa, sauna, bar etc. I’m talking about the kind of place where you will see obscenities.

    EDIT: These threads always make me lose my faith with humanity as I read people share their violent and sadistic fantasies.

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    Create an energy efficient system for carbon capture from the atmosphere and the oceans. Something that can be used at the sites for heavy emitters and also generally around the world.

    Create a system to collect the captured carbon and bring it to a central site.

    Fire that carbon off into interstellar space.

    Use the revenue generated from fees from heavy polluters who can’t decarbonise effectively (things like steel making, glass works, air travel) to fund low carbon energy projects and storage/distribution systems for developing nations like in sub-saharan Africa and SE Asia.

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      “fire that carbon off into interstellar space”
      You probably would generate more carbon doing that (because of rocket science)
      Best thing would be putting it back where it came from -> deep underground

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        My infinite money has built a space elevator to eliminate the need for rocket launches.

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        Infinite money gives you as many nuclear reactors as you want, then you can make arbitrary amounts of rocket fuel by electrolys of water.

        It’d still probably be better to shine LEDs at lots of kelp in bits of the sea where there’s not enough natural light for kelp, burn the kelp into charcoal, and bury the charcoal, though.

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    Design a Linux phone. So sick of google and android. Currently looking at Fairphone 6 in the US as postmarketOS just got initial support, still need cellular, WiFi, camera to be functional, but considering it just came out a few months ago, pretty impressive.

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        It didn’t get enough attention or make enough money, so Canonical dropped it. Its still on life support and slowly having some features added by the the open source community under the name ubports, but its slow going (they just updated the entire codebase from Ubuntu 16.04->18.04 and most recently 20.04) and not the best approach in my opinion, as i think every app has to be specifically developed for ubports, unlike postmarketOS where you can install anything in the repo. It also uses halium which is a translation layer for the android kernel that allows rhe Linux side to interact with hardware, since a lot of the drivers to make these phones work, aren’t mainlined.

        Also like any project like this, device support is severely lacking (especially in the US).

        Though admittedly, I didn’t realize you could get fairphone in the US now, and that it might work on us bands. So ubports on fairphone 5 might be good, dunno.

        http://ubports.com/