You act like thats easy for these people. They need to pay someone to make it work.
And if I have do, I won't do anything that's not a necessity, and I will absolutely not make more than the laziest password I can, because that's how I give up.
A lot. I've posted ideas elsewhere. I get the sense you would report me if I posted mine here.
But what actually are yours? Or do you just cry about your favorite oligarch losing a probably-rigged popularity contest, so you have an excuse to feel like a good person while still hating those damn dirty commies?
This is clearly not an anti car community.
A lot of people are in the wrong place at the wrong time. More and more as your killing machines grow. As they claim ever more of our cities. The only forms of transit that might be more dangerous are helicopters and rockets.
Also, its killing the earth. Its the least efficient form of transit. Aside from helicopters rockets and planes.
And there's nowhere you can go with a car you couldn't go with a train, using same or less infrastructure.
So why was it worth it? What was my body sacrificed for?
Yeah but this is different.
Oh my god I'm so fucking sick of hearing about voting. I'm not even going to have the detailed argument with you about this with you.
We could waste time arguing how much shorter GHG reductions would fall of the 'dont end all life' line under Harris. Yeah. But the fact is we wouldnt get there, we would still have a deep seated fascism problem in thus country, and the government would still be an existential threat to life on earth. It just wouldnt single me out for being queer-which admittedly would have been nice. Oh well.
Begging establishment mommy wasn't going to keep humanity as a whole alive any longer than begging establishment creepy pedo uncle will (though, yeah, would have been nice to lower the rape risk when doing so; at least for cis people).
So tell me: what are you actually going to do about it? Like, picks and shovels, not lanyards and ballots. Autocad not outlook. What are you going to actually DO?
Same machine
Yes. Kinda the point.
extremes make everything harder
Yeah extremes do suck.
My first idea, spoilered because its very long:
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Convert all luxury manufacturing to solar and wind power, where possible, and start training people to build and maintain them. Put alternators on every treadmill and exercise bike. Strip them out of cars if you have to. The point is as much to drive home the desperation as it is to generate power. Recover every joule everywhere you can. Not every factory, not every resource can be a part of this, but where factory owners object, take them out of the picture however you see fit.
No more fast fashion disposable tech bullshit. Everything should be built to last.
Kill the wealthy. They could probably be coerced into joining civilization, but it will take too long and they will do too much damage. The lives lost and existential threat that time would take simply is not worth it. The ones who just come over should absolutely be spared; prince linpopo was a better outcome than princess anastasia, and should be a goal where possible. If mark zuckerberg is immediately willing to be a (closely watched) creepy doll-man who jacks off to the roman empire and lives in a 1 bedroom above his dojo/arena; I say let him. Making an example of the ones who won't or can't be trusted may be necessary.
No new gas cars, no new coal or oil infrastructure. No exceptions. Enforce this violently if you have to. The governments are owned, you will noy get them on board.
Build and retrofit nuclear. There will be disasters. They will suck. Put our best and brightest on this to minimize the risk. Its not a forever fix, but it will buy us time while we figure out load balancing.
Switch to trains and nuclear/wind barges. No new asphalt roads. Sorry, they're just not energy efficient. Start tearing up city streets for trolleys and urban freight rail. Don't ask, beyond calling 811, and your engineer or foamer friend for expert advice and standards. Plan and execute. If you keep to trolleys, they won't be heavier than modern trucks, and things like weight concerns won't factor in-you and your friends can do this with hand tools if necessary, like they did 150 years ago.
No more air travel. No more frivolous air freight or next day shipping, unless somebody cones up with some very cool logistics. Maybe we can bring in hyperefficiemt solar gliders, or some sort of hybrid PV air ship in a few years, once we've sorted food and power out. Wouldnt that kick ass?
No more beef or pork for a while. I know. Shit's gonna be lean for a few years. Fuck I'm gonna miss cheese. Keep enough cows and pigs alive to breed them back, work on greening that shit however we can until we can get some amount of it back. Our grandkids should have cheeseburgers. Maybe us in fifteen years. Cut down on chicken and fish.
Generally fix agriculture. This monoculture shit where we adapt the natural world to our machines? It's not earth friendly, its not sustainable, and its not even that healthy long term.
No more "artificial intelligence" or fucking crypto bullshit.. That shit guzzles resources we desperately need, and it provides no value. Let the computer scientists keep working on crap that isn't a dead end. Give free liberated gpu's to every gamer, just to fuck with the fossil lobby's political base, and have enough left over for super computers, should we need them for stuff.
Tell capitalism to fuck off. Stop accepting money. Start doing stuff because you believe in it in your spare time. Maybe steal shit, when it's held by corporations instead of people, just to grate at the taboo. Thus isn't just because I already wanted to do it; the ideology of ownership-as-value will always tend towards cheating, conflict, exploitation, and stagnation. There's no more time to fuck around with that shit, and also:
Be inclusive. No I mean it; this isn't just hippie shit. Every person you leave behind or exclude is a weakness, is someone with no reason not to undermine you. Whether you exclude them for a disability, their birth place, or any demographic info, you should fucking consider if its worth the cost. It's better to have some folks who eat 2000 calories a day and live in a studio apartment. Let the old folks find ways to give people purpose (should they want it), maybe tell stories or help watch kids.
Stop tolerating violence in defence of the old order. Thats anti homeless sweeps and traditional militaries.
Get fucking organized. Find people who know how to do stuff, and find the shit they need to do it. Find people with nothing better to do and find any task you can offer them; nobody likes doing nothing for too long.
Fix everything. Find the little wastes. Streaming 'the office' ten times a year is a waste when you could just download it. Dont ask permission when a corporation is involved.
We dont take radical action and fix this immediately, literally everyone dies, and not in a fast pretty 'nuclear apocalypse' kinda way.
Nothing is unjustified when compared to inaction. No amount of violence or hardship we can inflict will match what we will experience if we do nothing.
It may already be too late.
The people currently in power are at best useless. Dont tell me to beg them. Would take too long anyway; we do not have time to waste on their shit.
So until there's a better idea, gimme everything you've got.
Heat pumps work at >100% thermal efficiency.
Air conditioners dont.
As a Californian, I'm also, hesitantly, with you.
So what are we gonna do about it?
We let this keep happening, everybody dies. Literally everybody. So let's not upld back ideas because they're slipshot or ridiculously violent.
What are we going to do about it?
Just kill ourselves?
Why do we allow this? Why does this pass for art? Why does it even pass for widgets?
No. All manner of meeting. Long lost friends, coworkers at the water cooler, high noon and moonlight duels, anonymous sex, strangers on a train, roadside banditry, love at first sight, street corner begging and door-to-door sales, all distilled down into a yellow-brown paste, stabilized with a bit of gluten and guar gum, and ground up for your burrito. Its why so much of their stuff is vegan.
No. Jokes are funny. Its that thing fascists do where they say it was a joke if you call them on their shit.
Maybe we shouldnt rely on the state, give them the fruits of our labor, or respect their enforcers?
Maybe these occupying armies in our cities should be looked upon less favorably?
Maybe judges should be afraid someone will find out where they live, and congressmen should be really skittish?
See, the idea of obeying the government because its the right thing to do only makes sense when the government is a pooling of collective resources for collective good, and stuff at a scale it would be a bother to fund/organize individually. It only makes sense when the government is yours. Is for your benefit.
I've only met the beneficiaries of this government a couple times. I thought about guillotines every moment of those interactions.
Only in elections. The panthers changed so fucking much and didn't run a single candidate.