While I don’t know if it’s effective, I do believe it is earnest. PR Bullshit is Masterchef taking Gas money and using “hydrogen burners” and calling that green while the entire fucking industry is a carbon factory, and that’s to say nothing of the fashion industry.

Speaking colloquially, I’m not an expert, just trying to impart intuition.

India has monsoons, and unfortunately the city design is pretty awful for controlling water. There’s far too much concrete / not enough green space, and then insufficient drainage to handle even regular monsoons. In other countries, building out like this is simply illegal. For example, they will do flood modelling for both a new area for property, and each property needs to get approval for floods – both green space and drainage. Nothing like it in India, especially the older areas (informal settlements) which are simply not built for this.

What sucks the most is that India also needs the water. They have underwater reservoirs which cannot fill up because the water stays on the surface, wipes away property and lives, and then goes elsewhere, leaving the water tables barely refreshed. The faster the water comes down in cloudbursts, the worse it is. They really could focus on how to control that water and save lives as well as have better, safer water storage.

Should’ve thought about that before getting buried there…

I think realistically the two are about different time horizons. Anarchism is when the protocols are in our heads. It’s how we live. Communalism, to some extent, is about existing in a world where the implied violence of the system will shut down any “pure” anarchism. Create structure so the hierarchies know how to deal with it.

Sometimes it’s not even about hostility. People just can’t imagine a world without what exists today. Just having anarchism in your head is revolutionary.

I think they did a study in the Amazon, and found that actually the Amazon is strongest when defended by indigenous populations. In fact basically all around the world, all nature is stronger when protected by humans.

I think you could make the case that before capitalism, this would also have been the case in the west. There are clear links between the growth of capitalism and witch burning.

So I kind of want to split it halfway between you two: The reason all the regulation exists is because of how dangerous it is, the reason Nuclear is so expensive and time consuming is because of regulation. I reckon you could basically make a super dangerous Nuclear plant for not much more than a coal plant and in the same time frame. So, you could say it like “nuclear is too time consuming and expensive to be relevant”, or “nuclear is too dangerous to be relevant” and they’re both basically saying the same thing.

Great work bringing it back up. Being unexpectedly down is kind of Solarpunk, and so is getting help from a friend ;)

They do it in some places in Australia, but in supermarkets and not in greengrocers.

Apparently misting veggies like this reduces their life, it’s mostly to make the veggies look more saleable rather than having them last longer (IIUC).

I’m sorry but we have so many nukes that your answer is trivially wrong. Also don’t get technical with the “well is it really destroyed” like yes, if your house is rubble, technically all the mass is still there, a bunch of the walls are still intact, you can probably even still see the floorplan, but it’s no longer a house. You tell someone to draw you an “Earth”, and yeah humans can very much destroy the fuck out of that.

The real shame is that the cities are probably going to restructure to look more like western countries before realising they probably had the right idea the first time around.

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XM4 has button cell battery with leaf spring, so it should be easy to replace if you can get in and out without damaging it.

I watched a Youtube video about this, and yeah, induced demand affects everything, but when it affects Buses, you get more buses, and that’s more efficient. When it affects Trains, you get more trains, and that’s more efficient. The only time it gets less efficient is when it affects cars. The moral of the story was: It wasn’t the Induced Demand, it was the Cars that were the problem.

Flamin’ Galahs!

Hi. Congrats on being a mod. This is pretty nice but honestly I’d prefer if each of these was a separate post and we could just read it and upvote each individual item. I do like your summary / thoughts though, it’s pretty cool.

The other nice (hopefully) side effect is that it can provide the seed activity to hopefully encourage others to also contribute.

Sad thing is, if bikes were invented today, they’d be heavily regulated.

The government can actually help here with subsidies and nice loans for EVs.

I think part of the issue is that the Greens ended up dependent on Russian Gas, and this was overall a bad move.

Liberals will break the law, or create new laws, to stop the left, but think the law is enough to stop the right. The reason is that the Liberal cause is a “nice to have”, but the protection of neoliberalism is a “must have”.

I learnt that from Shaun’s video about JK Rowling, which is eye opening. Basically, nothing bad in her universe ever changes. Slavery remains, because the slaves like it, for instance. Maintaining that status quo is a “must have” for her. Having the heroes fight for what’s right is a “nice to have”, despite being the main story.