Currently reading Deep Work, the premise sounds interesting although the book starts of a little too money-focused for my taste.
Finished Learning to Die in the Anthropocene, although it's refreshingly honest it didn't really have anything "Everything is F*cked" didn't say.
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I really liked the series, and I think I found Lain less confusing because I had heard of or read about most concepts used in the series. I loved the characters and the slow progression, and of course the 80s anime aesthetic. The only thing I found a bit sad is the loose ends that aren't brought up again, which makes the ending feel a little unsatisfying.
Maybe I also like the Lain character because I can relate with a unsociable girl who spends most of her time online and tends to loose friends rather than make them...
You are right in that if the majority would change their consumption, the change would be massive. Seeing that as the best solution overlooks that companies put a lot of effort into marketing, advertisement and interfere in pro-consumer lawmaking. So a large-scale change becomes quite hard, especially for low-income households.
Also, speaking of effectiveness: not having children is one of the best choices an individual can make, followed by going vegan.
There is no sustainable consumption under capitalism. Most have already cut down on their personal emissions, less meat, less flying. Good luck on trying to overcome the system by participating in it.
What can help is direct action and direct democracy, building resilience in your community. Which is hard.
I think it's a little backwards that telemetry is so frowned upon in FOSS programs, because in my eyes they can benefit the most from usage data, as they don't have the resources for large testing teams. But it needs to be implemented very carefully not to violate GDPR, the GPL license where applicable, etc, so I see why it's a hard problem to solve.
Probably because it ignores issues that are relevant right now in favor of some theoretical distant future which will probably never pan out.