Imagine you have infinite dollars backing you. What's the thing you'd want to pursue just because it's something you'd like to do with your life?
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Buy the USA and sell it for scrap, like a venture capitalist.
I have a feeling that's literally the MAGA/Trumpian playbook, lol.
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Increase the infrastructure and speed of public railways in the US. Trains needs to be atleast (1/3) as fast as airliners.
So 150 to 200 MPH? I can get behind that.
I think the real problem with trains though is that because they do multiple stops and airlines don't, the maximum speed isn't the issue.
Take a flight from Portland to San Francisco, under 2 hours, 1 hour, 48 minutes says Google.
Amtrak is 21 hours, double the time as driving it (I say this as someone who HAS driven it. A couple of times now, it's actually a really nice drive.)
But the problem is the multiple stops, you can't go 200 MPH because there isn't enough time to get up to speed before you have to slow down for the next stop.
Portland to Salem is 47 miles. Salem to Albany is 24 miles. Albany to Eugene is 44 miles. You don't really have a chance to open up the speed until you hit the run to Chemult which is 101 miles.
1:55p | 2:22p - Portland, OR - Union Station (PDX)
3:36p | 3:39p - Salem, OR - Amtrak Station (SLM)
4:11p | 4:14p - Albany, OR (ALY)
5:08p | 5:15p - Eugene, OR - Amtrak Station (EUG)
8:13p | 8:13p - Chemult, OR (CMO)
9:58p | 10:08p - Klamath Falls, OR (KFS)
12:45a | 12:45a - Dunsmuir, CA (DUN)
2:31a | 2:31a - Redding, CA - Amtrak Station (RDD)
4:12a | 4:12a - Chico, CA (CIC)
6:28a | 6:48a - Sacramento, CA - Sacramento Valley Station (SAC)
7:05a | 7:05a - Davis, CA (DAV)
7:54a | 7:54a - Martinez, CA (MTZ)
8:29a | 8:39a - Emeryville, CA (EMY)
8:54a | 9:09a - Oakland, CA - Jack London Square Station (OKJ)
Then you hop a bus from Emeryville to San Francisco proper which is another hour or so. Or stay on the train to Oakland and get a bus there. Same deal, about an hour.
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Wasn't there a plan for an Ubuntu phone a few years back? Whatever happened there?
wrote last edited by [email protected]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.
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Two chicks at the same time. I figure I could make that happen if I had infinite dollars.
“Not all women are in to a man just for his money. “
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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.
"fire that carbon off into interstellar space"
You probably would generate more carbon doing that (because of rocket science)
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Large scale: create or take over companies and make them align with my values (good employment conditions & good products basically). Then delegate that work.
I would try to earn money so i dont have to care about my investor/s and ensure i dont crash the economy too much.
After taking enough economy control pressure politics and other firms to follow my values.Low scale: currently i hyperfocus on custom keyboards (absolute noob btw) and thought about creating my own with sliders on the side and knobs and F keys that go beyond 12 and more fancy things
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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 undergroundMy infinite money has built a space elevator to eliminate the need for rocket launches.
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First things first, I'd spend the next five years quietly buying majority shares of major tech companies through proxies and then create a faux investment board that forces these companies to bend to my will.
during those five years I would be collecting as much evidence as possible against all enemies, foreign and domestic, and use it against them as leverage and make them my pawns.
final part of the plan is to apply pressure to world governments to comply or face economic collapse through pressuring licensing and legal redtape for operating businesses across the globe.
my goals are simple
- free the people
- heal the people
- burn out corruption
- abolish capitalism
- free the market
it's far more complex than what I could even begin to describe here, but that's the gist of it.
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I bet I could throw this football over them mountains.
If coach had only put me in.
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“Not all women are in to a man just for his money. “
Well, the type of chicks that'd double up on a dude like me are.
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Oh, multiple assassinations.
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Look for a cure for Alzheimer’s/dementia. Once it’s found give the directions to make the cure away to the world for free.
To find it I’d just keep hiring researchers to look for the cure. A world wide research project.
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Some real good suggestions.
Im going to add
- space elevator
- space hooks around the solar system
- Dyson sphere
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Pay off the debts of all countries in the world thus ushering in an era of peace and co-operation. Also, cocaine and hookers.
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Oh, multiple assassinations.
yeah where's that bullionaire/oligarch/CEO list?
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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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Surely time travel will be possible with infinite money.
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Obviously all the usual stuff like solving hunger, curing disease, ending inequality, fixing climate crisis, etc.
But if we're talking about something just for me... DJing.
Having the time and space to practice mixing vinyl, plus the resources to buy all the records, and better quality equipment.
Having the freedom to do it as a hobby without the pressure of it ever being a job.
Also, I'd buy my football
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Why wouldn't you want to change others lives positively with your life?
I do already, but there were like 15 altruistic answers and no one provided a single actual desire. I appreciate Lemmy’s eternal selflessness, but we can’t even fantasize in a casual conversation without virtue signaling here and it can be a bit tiring sometimes. (Wouldn’t want to be any other place, though)
