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Apartment Indoor Food Garden🌱
  • Very cool! I think I might do something similar but might first try with regular pots. Not sure I want to jump into hydroponics right now.

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    Carbon Capture Will Extend Oil Production by 84 Years, Industry Study Finds
  • You are right, but to be fair most things that are petroleum based are made with it because of economic reasons. Many things don't need to be it's just cheaper that they are. That's because of a combination of factors. If tomorrow every oil field in the world disappeared we would see alternatives for almost everything almost instantly because there would be huge financial incentive for it and many of those things already exist, they just have to compete with a very established and subsidized raw material

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    Are Ecovillages Impossible? | The back-to-the-land 1970s model ecovillage doesn't work for younger generations. Here's what does
  • What's wrong with smaller cities, with more evenly distributed population across countries, with density lowering as you move from the center? Reduces city impact, still promotes dense urbanization and reduces transportation costs if there is something being produces around the city. Also left to nature is a bit impossible in today's world and promotes detachment from feeling like part of nature for most people. Most of Europe and north America is riddled with invasive species or just have been devastated by agriculture or deforestation in the last centuries and if managed correctly which can mean leave it alone humans can have a positive impact on the world. If you could create forests in the desert with plants from around it, wouldn't that be positive?

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    Modern activism and it's role in saving the planet
  • You are right it's kind of exactly what I was looking for, I will look further into that, thank you! As for XR I'll push forward trying to build connections and meeting like minded individuals who might even be interested in adjacent stuff like what you mentioned.

    I'm just afraid that it's all destruction and PR stunts. I believe in demonstrations, up to a certain point. I just feel like they accomplish too little when they are generic. I read somewhere that XR UK was very poorly seen by general population which is a shame because a few years ago they weren't (at least so much).

    I'm afraid that the regular person is going over the hill of being concerned with the planet and just gets annoyed by road blocks and demonstrations fronted by young people to pretend throw paint at art and just give up. Because those people that are affected feel like there is little they can do about the big parts of it. I know the argument of union strikes civil rights protests but I feel like the public opinion is not going in the right direction.

    In the end I feel that if there is going to be any hope of moving the needle of the big issues regular people need feel included and like it's their cause too.

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    Modern activism and it's role in saving the planet
  • I'm actually in the the part of XR in my region most likely to do stuff like that but since XR in my country has very few people doesn't look like I'm going to divert many to do different things but I see what you mean. I'm having an in person event soon so I may try to network in that direction.

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  • Hey so I'm sort of getting involved in my local XR (Extinction Rebelion) group but I have to say after a couple of meetings I'm feeling like it's not really my type.

    I appreciate the enthusiasm and I like the ideas of how the organization runs in a decentralized way but I feel it's very demonstration oriented. Nothing wrong with demonstrations but I starting to think that the time for that has passed.

    I had a sort of idea of the group also having initiatives to promote empathy with the cause, teach about what people can do both on a personal and large scale. From personal decisions to give them the knowledge to use their local political power to make changes. I know that's a bit utopian. Also I don't have many alternatives where I live...

    I don't know. Is XR just a PR thing? All about making people either hate them or love them? Do you think groups like this make a difference?

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    Any book recommendations?
  • Interesting... what made you think The dispossessed has solarpunk elements? Obviously anarchist but I feel like it doesn't have much focus on balance with the natural world, just in how the inhabitants of Anarres feel like the people on Urras have an actual planet and treat it like shit while they have a deserted planet and try as hard as they can to be In balance with it.

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    Godot Engine hits over 50K euros per month in funding
  • I'm with you on that. I feel like open source is the best possible way to security audit and test issues. As any issue will be out there to see, most proprietary code ends ups being years of duct tape which wouldn't fly if a large community of different backgrounds took a look at the code

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    Linux advocacy discussion (mastodon)
  • Don't know why I'm commenting this on a Linux thread but I would like to invite you to read a bit more about socialism, what communism is and why in way shape or form was ever attempted. A true communist society would require a lot of thing that are simply not possible without a massive shift in culture, society and relations to power and globalization. Any communism you are thinking about is mostly marketing communism by the the "communist" countries themselves that started basically as a primitive form of revolution and got stuck in the phase after it in which basically created a authoritarian regime that didn't even attempt to be true communism. Noam Chomsky has a very cool video speaking about leninism which he goes into detail. Don't fall on me for the comment it was just an invite

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    Exodus by Kevin A. Carson, have you read it?
  • Yeah that one. I do recommend it. Yeah that makes sense. The book is not exactly anarchist at least I don't think so but it does fit in that space. But I think it can be read by anyone on the left specially people of the DIY community and such.

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  • Has anyone read this book? I'm currently reading it and I find it an incredible way of looking at the transition to a Post Capitalist society in the 21st century.

    I think the idea of a progressive transition to micro production in which small companies and eventually just communities being able to do things that are currently assumed to be dependent on mass production a great stepping stone to a decentralized and solarpunk future.

    Also do you think there is a relevant amount of people in the instance interested in these type of books of this genre to justify a community?

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    Direct Solar Power: Off-Grid Without Batteries | How we can minimize expensive, ecologically damaging battery storage by changing how we think about energy
  • I'm not sure you are straw manning yourself or you have me confused with another comment. I was agreeing with the commenter. Moral consumption of power is a concept I completely accept. But @stabby_cicada did start the argument with this:

    The point isn’t that some electricity production is reliable 24/7. The point is, if we want an ethos of reduced consumption, we need to give up the idea that we have the right to power on demand 24-7.

    I was answering to that complemented with another comments and agreeing with the whole should use power with a moral attitude. What an aggressive response...

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    Direct Solar Power: Off-Grid Without Batteries | How we can minimize expensive, ecologically damaging battery storage by changing how we think about energy
  • I wasnt agreeing at first with you but I can agree with you on the moral take of energy consumption. Nevertheless I don't think it makes any sense to remove constant electricity from the equation. Human development and prosperity is greatly increased by that availability aswell as communication. Let's say the goal is a post capitalism, non hierarchical decentralized society that outgrows capitalism's growth needs and achieves post scarcity. In order to for this to be real you need constant access to electricity and communications, otherwise you are isolating people and dampening your efforts towards it. I do think you are right and there needs to be some morality in spending but it should be a moral choice not a matter of not being available

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    It Is No Longer Possible to Escape What We Have Done to Ourselves
  • I mean in defense of the other person. It sounds more like the argument is trying to encourage a bigger action. Like don't just do your part, vote/participate for what actually changes things in a larger scale.

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    Lemmy might, MIGHT have a small bias towards the left
  • Markets don’t “create wealth”. People’s work creates wealth. Banks don’t create wealth, they create debt and allow more money to go into circulation than actually exists.

    I think the world would make a giant leap forward if we could all agree on this. Sad thing is that finance basically exist to muddy the waters of what value is. (EDITED, incorrect formating)

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  • Is anyone in this sub or instance a remote worker? I have been one first partially and then completely for a few years now and I began to think as a kinda of solarpunk way of live that has the potential to propel humanity to a more decentralized and sustainable way of life, specially since I plan to move to a smaller town because of it. What do guys feel about it? Do you do it? Don't do it but would like to? Do it it but miss interaction?

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    Hey there! So after taking your advice this is the result. Ended up going with the following setup, nothing too over the top:

    • OS: Debian 12 - bookworm
    • Color Scheme • Everforest - Good vibes!
    • Icons • Papyrus
    • Terminal • Alacritty
    • Desktop • Gnome
    • Gnome tweaks and extension for shell theme and dock
    • Showoff stuff • cbonsai, catnip (sound visualizer) and ranger (as suggested), still doing the dynamic wallpaper thing but because it's for KDE Plasma I'll have to find an alternative or code it myself.
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    Hello everybody!! This is my first post on this instance, glad to be here! So this is a bit of a tangent from most topics I saw here but I wanted to get the opinion of people that's immersed in the aesthetic of solarpunk.

    I'm modding debian (linux) to create a sort of solarpunk software aesthetic. For this I take any suggestions you might have, backgrounds, color palettes small placeholders text anything.

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