they should be deleted to make sure we dont have this problem anymore

I dont wanna go to Japan how do I get it inside me

I was going to say “living well” but I guess everyone else has put it better when they say no contact

Thanks for this post!

Without trying to treat you combatively, I am reading a lot of the same things in the way you talk about things.

I’ll say again that its possible you and I have seen different solarpunks, but I think you may have waded into a personally difficult topic, since solarpunk as a concept is supposed to be instilled with an awareness that certain kinds of collapse are certain, but that there are things people can do to make life worth living.

When you are dealing with people trying to find hope and talk about what they can do to live well and not contribute to the worlds problems, and you talk negatively, you are going to find responses like these.

Hope that didn’t feel like a pile on

I am not one of these types, but I did want to ask you if people wanting to grow their own crop always brings up these critical views for you.

I personally think “self-sufficiency” (may be the wrong term) in vegetable gardening is a great way for people to increase resilience against famine.

Others have pointed out the anti-consumerism angle - for small scale food gardeners, non-chemical pest deterrance becomes viable in a way impossible for manufacturers of scale, while they can still benefit from any increases in health of the food stock through both traditional selection and genetics research. Very not-Luddites, in that example.

I would also say - and it is possible that I just haven’t checked in on solarpunks recently enough, and I am missing something - but I always thought it was supposed to be the positive answer to doomerism, and to systemic or social collapse, and to the endless barrage of climate collapse news many of us have grown up with. With that in mind, I would question how much the aesthetics and how much individual examples may distort the overall perception of a movement or community.

Overall, is it an obsession with primitivism? I don’t think you are completely wrong. Aesthetics have a major impact on people, so it seems reasonable to me that you are reacting to a dizzying mix of politics and motivations, a lot of c/collapse -grade “this stuff is all gonna fall apart”, and maybe seeing some false positives based on your past experiences having to deal with fringe politics.

Hopefully all of that made any sort of sense

Fantastic comment that speaks to so many of the contradictions of the current political line in the west. This one goes in my special little tankie book that I read at night under the covers

I know I shouldn’t be disappointed it hasn’t already been said, but uh… rap music really came into its own in the 90s. Also, you know… was probably the peak as well.

Seriously?

Sure - if you are looking to play Better Than Wolves or Tekkit specifically (forgive what I am sure are boomer MC mod references) thats what you will go for.

I think my comment was more intended for people who aren’t yet aware of MT, its mod scene, and the huge catalogue of components available in its ContentDB.

holy moly! just when i was hankering for some of those advent burgers

based and the natural progression of things imo

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hey, if you like Minecraft, and you like freedom, you really should check out Minetest, which VoxeLibre is built in. Do some reading about it – it’s an engine, and it lets you build voxel games for you and your friends/kids to play.

unless you WANT to keep supporting bill gate’s cocaine habit with your minecraft bucks

mega “I really don’t care, do u?” energy

ghouls

If you are using Tor or Librewolf, it is probably “letterboxing”, a part of ResistFingerprinting, which you should find in about:config or in the settings.

… but like the other person implied, its not a great idea to disable this. I would like to recommend checking out the EFF’s page on the topic – https://coveryourtracks.eff.org/

But you are an adult, presumably, so I will leave you the information and let you decide. Be safe out there

didn’t click, still depressed

…streamers…??? i guess

(forgive the American POV)

What I anticipate is that government services will start to appear less in people’s lives, very gradually. HOPEFULLY people start to get a bit more involved in their community. Probably, our urban environments will end up worse for wear. Cars will trend rarer and rarer, and hopefully we’ll have some kind of renaissance of automotive maintenance to keep the good vehicles working (spoken as a car hater). HOPEFULLY we will get over the taboo of calorically-expensive human-centric farming (makes sense for some specific, small scale stuff where its not just a soil science and fertilizer supply game). As an extension to that last one - fewer (but not NO) email and service jobs.

Saying all of that sounds kind of rosy or very positive - obviously, the collapse would be bad, there would be hunger, there would be violence… but there already is, I guess? The main point I guess I’m trying to make is that collapse is gradual and I think westerners have seen some of the baby steps.

As a younger person I was a big ‘big government’ and bureaucracy advocate, so this isn’t a libertarian wet dream or something, it’s just informed by the change I’ve seen personally and a bit of extrapolation and history.

Do we have an insight into how much of the writing Seinfeld accomplished in the post-David years? Like, they had a staff of writers, so I’m not sure if Seinfeld was the biggest voice at that time or if he was just being a star

The silenced cries of the side taskbars…

Holy crap why is there a counterfeit xkcd scene