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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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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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.
Wasn't there a plan for an Ubuntu phone a few years back? Whatever happened there?
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Mmm...
First thought, and admittedly half baked and very Neil Breen-ish but I just wanted to play along: maybe go semi-Ozymandias and invest in the largest PMC ever, having even aircraft carriers and ICBMs, backed by technological giants like Microsoft and Space X, but chip them all with some sort of kill switch (that immediately explodes if you try taking it out), and slowly but surely destroy Western/imperialistic military forces around the world, starting with their involvement in the global South. They'd be extremely well compensated, so the mercenaries from opposing militaries would join too. Eventually, take this force to the mainland and, after giving them a period of grace for them to come clean and accept their incarceration/fines willingly, take out all the bankers, corrupt politicians, immoral heads of businesses and shareholders, etc etc (including, of course, Microsoft and SpaceX, lol). The police force, stupid defenders of our slavers, would also be given a warning and asked to stay home or join, before getting rolled over by the chipped PMC. After the military forces of the enemies of humanity are depleted, and the people once again feel like they have their destinies in their hands, establish a new era of unironic God-fearing commie love and peace, without the moral relativism, consumerism and hedonism of yesterday. And, foundationally for these new societies, abolish interest. Finally, move this PMC to some remote island and establish a community there (PTSD is a bitch and I don't want veterans going "First Blood" everywhere), one that is materially comfortable and allows them to have some semblance of normality after shedding so much blood (necessary, but still traumatizing).
Second idea: buy all media and news companies and change their entire modus operandi by reporting only facts, with narratives based on morality, and flood minds with the right ideas (Solomonic post-nihilism [seriously, read Ecclesiastes], Jesus' love for others instead of self, Qur'anic verses, but also the forgotten Western wisdoms like Socratic and Humian epistemology, Kantian morality, Wittgenstein... to ease those who have been hurt/disappointed by organized religion and are beasts of propaganda and entertainment into good thoughts [you can't just go 0-100 the same way an alcoholic cannot go from a daily bottle of vodka to nothing]).
I think my second idea is better but I feel I'd just get taken out before making any major change, lol.
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I feel like a lot of people are missing the “with your life” part of this. While I’m sure I’d love to magically fix the world’s problems, to answer the actual question:
I’ve always pictured a house built into the side of a cliff face that’s right next to a road. The rock pulls away to reveal the garage whenever I’m nearby. I’d have just a few rooms, nothing too crazy. I’ve always loved the idea of an underground house. I’d also have a decent-sized workshop/garage for the many projects I’m always working on.
I’d also try starting my own business for the first time and I’d be curious to see how my skillset applies. I can’t bring myself to do it in today’s current situation.
That and a Lamborghini. Because why the hell not? That’s what fantasy is for.
All this comes with the disclaimer that I don’t have any kids.
Why wouldn't you want to change others lives positively 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)
Best thing would be putting it back where it came from -> deep underground -
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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?
