• jollyroberts@jolly-piefed.jomandoa.net
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    Aside from the make-the-world-a-better-place stuff, I’ve always wanted to have the space/time to make my own holograms.

    I have this idea for claymation+lasers+holograms to make little stop motion films, but as holograms.

    I don’t know if it’s possible, but if like to play with the tech and find out

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    9 days ago

    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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    9 days ago

    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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    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

    1. free the people
    2. heal the people
    3. burn out corruption
    4. abolish capitalism
    5. 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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    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.