Blake [he/him] @ Blake @feddit.uk

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Yep, this is a solution looking for a problem really. Either that, or it’s a really bad solution to the car problem.

Tbh eating quality food is simply expensive.

I don’t really agree with that, if you mean in terms of money. Eating healthily can be very cheap, but can consume a lot of time and effort.

Take wholemeal rice with red kidney beans, for example - that’s a very healthy, filling meal and it’s also incredibly cheap.

Honestly, in my experience, the unhealthiest food also tends to be the worst value.

I’ll ask again because it’s important and you kinda brushed past it: have you actually properly checked - e.g. calculated price per 400 kcal, or are you just guessing based on your grocery budget?

bringing the temperature of Paris to ~118° for 90 minutes

Ah, so global warming will take care of the problem for us! Finally some good news. /s

You’re blaming the wrong people, it’s not working class baby boomers that are responsible for our problems, it’s the wealthy ruling elite.

On Sept. 15, 33 of the 35 delivery workers in the area, including non-members of the union, accordingly halted deliveries. The incentives were paid on Sept. 19 through the secondary contractor.

Unions work. If you’re not in a union, join one. If your work place doesn’t have a union, start one. The IWW can help you, search IWW online to find out more, or if you’re in the US:

https://www.iww.org/

If you’re in the UK:

https://iww.org.uk/

Employers should be forced to pay striking workers anyways. Fuck em. Burn the whole system to the ground, it’s exploitative and abusive and it has extracted untold wealth from the working class for centuries.

The quality 3 meals a day I consume and make at home average 5€ per portion

That’s really very high, are you guessing or did you actually work it out for an average day?

I’d want the ability to swap consciousness with other people, with their consent, for a short time.

It would be interesting to see what it’s like to be colour blind, or to experience what things taste like to people who dislike food I enjoy.

No, I mostly just wear t shirts and polo shirts and it doesn’t get wrinkly at all. It appears very neat until you open the drawer, and I’m the only one who does that anyways.

Come on now Aldous, put your glasses on mate.

The "extra" plant matter should be composted, and used to replenish the nutrients back into the soil, and more importantly. The resources used to grow that plant is then restored to the source and more importantly feeds the ecosystem better. Remember the inputs into growing in soil are mostly from the sun, rain and carbon dioxide. They are a completely natural source of solar power and carbon capture.

Is it still a chore if it’s a pleasure to do?

Uh, no. My 2014 Ford Focus (standard trim) senses the tire pressure. I know because one of my wheels had a slow puncture and would always set off the alarm.

The trope is usually depicted as farming them en-mass for consumption, and that’s much less efficient than just growing soy beans.

Sure, in a survival situation, it might make sense to eat insects. But on a large scale, it doesn’t really.

It’s so inefficient you may as well just leave the population to starve, nearly the same effect for much less work!

I suggest joining the IWW, getting involved in direct action and mutual aid and working within your communities to build alternative structures. Start or join a housing co-op or a workers co-op (or both), try to make changes to your living situation which make you more self-sufficient (growing your own food, getting solar panels) and just being helpful, generous and kind.

I think what should come after is a world where people work together to provide everyone with what they need without any abusive structures of power.

What I have proposed, to the best of my knowledge, has never been attempted. This is different from a violent revolution or an authoritarian left-wing state assuming control of a country. This is the removal of the state. It has never been done before.

Absolute nonsense, sorry. Horizontal farming is more than capable of feeding everyone on earth today, and could sustain a population even ten times what we currently have - we’d need to give up meat, of course - which we should be doing anyways.

Simply leaving a field alone will not replenish it with all the nutrients a crop needs.

I mean, it will eventually - it might take a while, sure, but there’s so much land, and with sustainable farming practices (good crop rotation, organic farming, etc.) then soil erosion and nutrient depletion are significantly reduced anyways. It’s definitely much, much easier and significantly less reliant on synthetic nutrients than hydroponics or aeroponics. A lot less work, too!

It sure is. Beyond socialism, even. And it’ll happen, no doubt about it, it’s unstoppable. The only question is how much suffering will have to happen before we get there.

Capitalism will collapse, it’s guaranteed - there’s not really anywhere else for it to go. We’re already witnessing it.

We can either implement an alternative before it breaks down to manage the demise properly and sensibly, or we can just all hang around and watch it fall apart and crash and burn, causing a ton of suffering in the process.

Obviously it’s not just one field that you use again and again. All you need to do to replenish the nutrients in the field is to just let it hang out and don’t do anything with it for a while, and use some other areas in the meantime.

Much, much more stable, renewable and reliable than aeroponics. It’s a cool concept but it’s just nowhere near at the level of competing with good ol fashioned dirt yet!