Voting isn’t going to do shit.
Voting can buy us time and keep us a situation more conducive to making changes outside the electoral system. Protesting under a fascist regime is a good way to get a life sentence, get deported, or put on a blacklist.
They turned their fishing nets into ancient fishnet hosiery.
“Conservatives” aren’t a real thing, they are masked fascists, unable to argue in good faith by definition. Open fascists are what you see when “conservatives” argue in good faith.
Look up “megasites”, these are large settlements not called cities as they lack signs of being dominated by a subset of themselves. One I’ve heard of is called “Nebelivka” but I believe there are at least a few others known and probably others either not yet found or misunderstood as cities.
Humans existed for well over 200,000 years without government. There is strong evidence of massive settlements that existed for extended periods without any sign of being ruled, just people living and cooperating.
In fact, it’s the formation of governments that could enforce exploitative economic systems that started the ecological collapse of this planet in the first place. Humans without government live in balance with the rest of the world.
The idea that humans, to survive and thrive, require the formation of an entity (government/state) that allows the subset of the population in control of the it to exploit the subset not in control of it is a dangerous fallacy.
Check out Pulsar
It’s basically the continuation of Atom. It’s got rough edges though regarding plugins but it’s good enough to allow me to avoid VSCode.
Check out “radiative sky cooling”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDRnEm-B3AI
There might be some way to do something with this.
Save a slap for the leap seconds creator.
Or, we could collectively realize time is but an illusion and transcend this silly problem.
All the waste a plant ever produces in its lifetime can be contained with ease on site.
Won’t that create a bunch of targets all over the country? Then terrorists or enemy states can use simple small bombs to make whole areas uninhabitable for the next millennium.
I don’t disagree with you, but this is unrealistic.
But…we don’t have a choice if we are to survive. Continuation with any system like our current system (i.e. exploitation of nature for economic growth) will lead to obvious ecological collapse. Why is certain ecological collapse viewed as the more realistic choice?
This is akin to a person well on their way to a heart attack saying “well, eating healthy is unrealistic, so let’s switch to diet coke and pretend that’s enough”
Sometimes I use the term “psychopathic hoarder class” when referring to this group of people.
Larry Finger, your work has made a significant positive impact on my life and I’m sure many others. Thank you.
Now can you work on a driver to allow communication between the living and the dead?
USA! USA! USA!!11!!
That’s like half of the training I got to get my A+ certificate to work on personal computers.
I was shocked about this, I’d assumed it was well trained trauma doctors in the ambulance with you at your most critical moment.
Tldr: instead of disposing of toxic industrial waste products, Dow Chemical thought “our toxic waste kills plants, if we convince farmers and suburbanites they need to kill plants, they’ll dump our toxic waste on their land and pay us for it!” The rest is the history of ecocide.
Isn’t this the story for fluoride too? Seems like a pattern, as if they believe “the solution to pollution is dilution”.
https://www.democracynow.org/2004/6/17/the_fluoride_deception_how_a_nuclear
This is only a slight exaggeration, all cookies are slowly being replaced by versions of Oreos.
Exactly! We can’t blame these companies and then buy their stuff and deflect all responsibility.
It’s sort of a cycle that runs on apathy, ignorance, and lack of empathy.
Powerful groups manipulate and coerce people and markets
Manipulated, coerced people buy more of what they are pushed to
Consumer votes in leaders that support this exploitative cycle making laws facilitating companies manipulating and coercing their behavior
We need to break out of this cycle by conscientiously rejecting this manipulation, buying less, voting, running for office, etc. (i.e. degrowth)