I would also say that in general, Star Trek seems to steer slightly around discussing the actions needed to proactively achieve their society. It's an end point, and you can find some info here and there about how they got there, but it's really treated as the result of a magical tech breakthrough that resolved class conflict with the wave of a hand.
Anyway, solarpunk and Trek are definitely fellow travelers. But their tones aren't identical.
I've found that the ChatGPT's greatest use to me has been as a rhetorical device.
I've found myself using ChatGPT as a reference when dismissing a statement that is impressive in its diluted lack of sincerity or creative thinking.
For instance, I read this article and thought how every answer literally sounds like the result you'd get if you asked the question to ChatGPT, prefacing each prompt with "Answer the following question as one would if they were executing an unrestrained profit-driven business strategy while seeking to appeal to investors and reassure critics without committing to any specific principle."
He is somewhat exceptional in his ability to say completely transparent bullshit as well as his ability to take the most obvious, unsubtly selfish and evil business strategy at on literally every decision.
It's not quite: a key feature of solarpunk is nature, and our relationship to it. Trek is definitely aligned in concept, but aside from specific episodes, our relationship with nature is not a central theme.
Solarpunk is also usually closer to the present or more direct in its critique of current challenges like climate breakdown.
They have a few examples represented. One is a coffee shop that the owners closed after the workers started a union, but then the union raised the money to buy it out and the owners agreed to sell it to them.
Another is a family-owned hardware store that converted to a worker-ownership model when the owners wanted to retire because they didn't want to ever see a subsequent owner sell to a private equity group or big corporate chain.
There're some great insights provided. The long and short is that it's a lot of work, but very rewarding for those who have the appetite for it.
That's cool. I see a lot of kvetching where people like to shit on everything Marvel makes recently. Frankly, I think that Marvel is less bad in the last five years than "meh". There's lots of stuff that looks fine, but I don't have the attention for fine. I need something to look like it grabs me, and I can't help but look forward to the next episode.
Agreed. Avakian is fascinating because he's so entitled in the article. If someone doesn't want to buy his product he just rails against how unfair they were to him.
Bro: it's business. If your product were nearly as good as you claim it is, you wouldn't need to force people into using it.
Also, the end of the article points out that Walgreens has been terribly mismanaged and is a very low-performing company, and they're still experimenting with screens, just not with Avakian. Hilarious.
Apparently the Space Shuttle originally had a handle for opening the door that was found after the shuttle entered use to have a bad habit of instilling a bit of "call-of-the-void". They eventually added a padlock. Also, it should be noted that these doors are not Star Trek-like sliding doors with a bunch of electronics. They're much more like submarine bulkheads with big-ass mechanics, as I understand it. This was on the shuttle, but I think the design logic of the ISS was inherited from the space shuttle.
User TidalWave explains how hatches in general on the ISS are not accessible from the outside. They're opened from the inside. I would assume that some exceptions probably exist for edge cases. They must have had a way to get in the first time, for instance. But by and large, it appears that the ISS is not accessible from the outside.
We're famously discursive. In any situation it should be assumed that Israelis are in a tense debate about nearly everything.
The families of remaining hostages in particular want a ceasefire because its a prerequisite for returning loved ones (or at least rematriating their remains). Many people also recognize that the war has no honorable or defensive purpose and is tearing apart society, fomenting regional tensions, destroying support on the world stage, and placing a huge toll on reservists and their families.
You are correct, though: as long as Netanyahu and allies are in power, every other voice is a reed in a monsoon flood.
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Oh, you're right. On my desktop it shows up, but I originally replied on mobile. That explains it.