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.
Exactly!
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:
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. As pointed out elsewhere; check the handkerchief.
Copied from elsewhere in thread:
There is no way for me to get literally anywhere without being downrange. Not in any city in the united states.
You have defined the world as a shooting range, and told me its my fault for being downrange.
I can’t feel one of my legs because of you ‘people’. My back always hurts now. Doctors say it won’t get better. I was on the other side of a ditch, walking on loose dirt and roots when I was hit, because there was a break in the sidewalk. I was wearing bright red. I realky liked that dress, a gift from my first love, and they had to cut it off me-not to mention all the blood. I’m missing teeth. Im never not in pain now. I can’t stand still, there’s no way I can sit comfortably for more than about 90 seconds, sex is a whole fucking production, and It takes about a half hour pillow arranging ritual for me to lay down in a way that won’t make the pain worse tomorrow.
What could I have done better for this not to have been my fault? Believe me, I’ve gone over it in my head. I don’t know why why I did this to myself. I froze for a split second when I realized they weren’t going to stop. They had those really bright lights and I couldn’t see if it was a sedan or a big fuck-off truck. If it was a sedan and I tried to go flat I’d be torn to pieces even if I was fast enough, if it was a killdozer and I tried to roll over it I’d just be crushed like a fly and I would be very lucky if my mangled body didn’t stick in the grille.
I’ve been over it in my head so many times. For a couple months in the hospital, before I was back on solid food and not needing three nurses to help me shit, I couldn’t do anything else. I keep coming back to that split second of hesitation while I was blind, before I, correctly, took my size posture and likely angle the car would be coming from into account. I keep asking myself if I would be okay, or at least less broken, if I’d been faster. If I’d practiced my falls more as a kid.
So tell me. What should I have done? How could I have avoided being downrange?
Fucking tell me coward. Don’t just leave the conversation. Tell me. Tell me why this was justified. Tell me why it was ultimately worth it for me to experience this.
Oooh downvotes but no answers. Fucking cowards. The only people who ever used cars right were the Irish. And they did less harm to innocents than Americans do.
Whataboutism then?
Nah, I dont hate them. I don’t think I’d be enthusiastic about a full like mascot level fur suit during sex, but cat ears and tailplugs are adorable.
You think it ever wasn’t him?
your machine
Thats what they said.
So, nothing?