=== ANCHOR POEM === ═════════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────── plants need carbon and nitrogen primarily to grow. Plus oxygen, water, and sunlight of course. I can't help but wonder if you poured a bunch of oil and um "manure" on a pile of sand, would it grow plants? Oil is carbon, and nitrogen is produced by living things. Animals mostly. Of course, various biochemical reactions occur, and microorganisms take one element or nutrient and combine it with others to generate more complex components. beyond that, plants and animals grow different minerals and proteins and other complex structures which are then present in their bodies as they decay under the shade of a tree looking out toward the sea. Plants need lots of things to grow. But all of those things are produced by nature, which is fundamentally a process that can be reproduced at our leisure, as long as the conditions are right and optimal. so, I wonder, would the great wall of trees surrounding the Sahara be helped by a more prolific understory? ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧══════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────┘ === SIMILARITY RANKED === --- #1 fediverse/3685 --- ════════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────── @user-1573 It's similar but it's not the saaaaame... Plus it's only one color I think. And a lot less bright. Maybe we can find some kind of bacteria that can be genetically engineered to produce one type of the chemicals, and another that produces the other, so when they interact it'll produce light indefinitely. (what about conservation of energy?) um... maybe make them photosynthesize or something? so you have to charge it in the sun and then it'll glow all night. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧═════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────┘ --- #2 fediverse/2834 --- ══════════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────── you can grow anything in soil. that's the neat thing about it - it's nature's recycler problem is... if you bury like, plastic and shit, then all that's gonna grow up into your plants is... plastic and shit. the structural growth mechanisms of plants are inhibited by pollution, that's the entire issue with them. animals can adapt - like, whatever, right? but if everything's biodegradable, then suddenly the whole world is a trash-dump. (that's how they think) if you want to optimize food growth, you can supply with specific types of growing fuel. like native americans who had like supplies of many different types of manure. a cow eating grass will have different nutrients in it's poop than a duck eating carrots. duh. so, if you combine different outputs to make new, better results... you can pretty much bio-engineer anything you'd like. like... feed the corn so that it's kernels are huge, right? then make that one marry the other, and boom it's more likely grow. [those genetics are way outdated] ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧═══════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────┘ --- #3 messages/759 --- ═════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────── "carbon efficiency is pointless, we're just gonna figure out how to pull carbon from the atmosphere anyway" okay but carbon right now is a critical resource for a constrait other than dollars. We need to conserve the carbon budget we have because it generates effects down the line which are only acceptable at certain levels. Zero is preferrably, but sorta like ttickets in a backlog they need to be present in order to be dealt with. \"this river has turned into a bog, let's make it free flowing again\" said the beaver, and so the world was made large. you wanna see a world tree? build a forest on top of a hill. Better yet, a *mountain*, taller than the previous three. give it all that it needs. Forest, health-plunder, water for it's arms, and the light of the life we see before you. what better tale for your ancestors than the succession of the entire human race? \"sorry you had to die, but we built the most beautiful thing imaginable and named it after you.\" and like yeah, we'll work on reaching back in time to save you whenever-every-chance-that-we-get, but frankly so far all we've managed to get done is rippling wavelengths. do you trust your daughters? why not hear truth and explore stars for us? the future yearns for her prospects. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────┘ --- #4 fediverse/3222 --- ╔═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────┐ ║ sometimes I set out a glass of water in the hopes that it might increase │ ║ precipitation downwind by a billionth of a percent │ ║ │ ║ I wonder what would happen if everyone did so? │ ║ │ ║ makes me want to design some kind of system which utilizes pumps, platters, │ ║ and fans to hydrate the atmosphere just a bit more │ ║ │ ║ rain + soil = solace in our home │ ║ rain + dirt = erosion of our planet's earth │ ║ │ ║ did you know that the plant which absorbs the most carbon per square foot is │ ║ moss? I think the fastest is bamboo, and the most efficient in general is soil. │ ║ │ ║ I dream of a world where we sit atop a mile of soil, down to the depths of the │ ║ earth where dirt and minerals prosper. The roots of the trees fuse together, │ ║ creating a wooden bed which we all rest upon, and the mountain peaks are │ ║ hollowed out to serve as our forever homes, full of light and moss and stone. │ ║ │ ║ this is the world I yearn for - the most resplendent timeline, with marble │ ║ statues and gilded chandeliers in our cavernous mountain homes. │ ║ │ ║ {but like on other planets too, right?} │ ╟─────────┐ ┌───────────┤ ║ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╚═════════╧════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────┴──────────┘ --- #5 fediverse/5059 --- ╔══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────┐ ║ any laptop can be a thin-client to a computer system of arbitrary complexity. │ ║ All it's doing is issuing commands. I wonder what we could do with a │ ║ "species-computer" or, hear me out, or we could figure out how to do that on │ ║ ourselves, first, to A. see how it works and B. do so out of hand. If there │ ║ are backups of yourself stored in the │ ║ │ ║ if furries are a type of pearl (steven-universe style) and flowers are a type │ ║ of pearl (layers of sedimentate on layerings upon) then what else is there a │ ║ flower to be but the prettiest thing there can be? │ ║ │ ║ what if we genetically engineered roses to pierce and strangle the invasive │ ║ ivy and wow for a week in whenever there's roses of this type and kind. I mean │ ║ there's already tons of blackberries, why not just swap them out for │ ║ marionberries and embrace the bramble? │ ║ │ ║ could make houses out of dense bramble. they are quite an effective wall. And │ ║ so long as the sounds are muffled enough, you can always be forever safe from │ ║ harm. │ ║ │ ║ "whoops, dropped my laundry" │ ║ │ ║ "heh that's why I we │ ╟─────────┐ ┌───────────┤ ║ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╚═════════╧═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────┴──────────┘ --- #6 fediverse/5364 --- ╔═════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────┐ ║ when considering invasive species, it doesn't matter how resistant a plant is │ ║ to a bug that likes to eat it. │ ║ │ ║ what matters is whether or not the plant is attractive to the bug. │ ║ │ ║ if the plant is hardy, it may resist the bug and slow it down, but the │ ║ onslaught is inevitable. the plant will fall. perhaps some of it's brethren │ ║ will survive, but next year there will be more bugs because nature is just │ ║ like that I guess. │ ║ │ ║ the plants that are less attractive to the ravaging bugs will be eaten last, │ ║ meaning they may be able to outlast the bug season. │ ║ │ ║ or maybe not. maybe the hardy plants will be eaten slower, and thus will be │ ║ considered less attractive. who can say. the end result though is that bugs │ ║ get fed, plants get gnoshed on, and humans are like "wait where did all the │ ║ biomass go" or more likely "hey it's really hot without all the plants shading │ ║ the ground and the bugs helping build the soil and the natural ecosystem │ ║ working cyclically, can you turn up the AC?" or more likely "it's really hot, │ ║ turn up the AC!" │ ╟─────────┐ ┌───────────┤ ║ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╚═════════╧══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════──┴──────────┘ --- #7 fediverse/5834 --- ══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════───────── would you feet a cat at your door? how about a crow? would you water a dying plant? (don't, they get waterlogged if the soil is already moist) what if a dear what if dear food what if bear what if bear food what if dogpack what if dogpackfoodtearchompbitepullsavor I'd feeeed my self but dollars and errands are hard : ( ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════────────┘ --- #8 notes/autonomy-of-the-collective --- ════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────────────────────── =============================================================================== = i believe that all truths are derived from logical principles. That the essence of our understandings (of all kinds) cannot be separated from the axioms and derivations that comprise it's foundatiion. I believe that any sufficiently decentralized collective intelligence would arrive at similar conclusions. Unfortunately we have only the present - we cannot contrive past the horizons of our lives. Such is the nature of our viewpoint. Life is not a given, it's given and it's taken. We are all alight and aloft on the shifting sands of time, so perhaps we should think of the struggle. When you act, you are defining the perceptions of the universe. Just as the head may rotate the eyes by spinning to the glance, so too do we shine a window upon which the universe can gaze at itself. Like the brain being able to see, we are sensory apparatuses of this being called "Time" - pushing us adrift like some moss. Endlessly fractalling, beautifically coruscating, the universe looks like growing moss. Have you ever stooped to look at it? To see how it's constructed? Or do you just think of it as "green" and "maybe soft or squishy"? It's beautiful. There's a reason plants grow as they do. It's simple, it's fact, it's surely no less than that - their patterns are derived from their base biology, comprised of millions and millions of little chemical machines. Their bonds and their proteins, their amoebas and their mycellia, all of them build toward their pact - to do us no harm, and build to a better future, and they don't often have fights that are unfair. - the structure of a plant is made primarily of cell walls. These walls are hewn from bricks of a sort, and those are such as comprised. Down to their - structure, their "bits and their bunders", as often they do want to be called. This perilous stack, is stalwart and eract, and bows under no wind - nor rain nor fresh blanket of snow. This, is a tree. An illusionary plan of precaution as it expands, the future is helping our lost. - Do you want to stand here when it lands? What of your lives have you banned? Hmmm I see sounds miserable to me, I think I'll just stand - where I land. Acorns burst forth from me, and someday you'll see, the places where they stand (where they land). What purpose have we, - when everything's free? The light and the sand can't be banned. The rain from the sky, if nothing i will die, falling through life - where we stand. =============================================================================== = where do you, stand? how do you fall - through time? an EMP would make all my life a paperweight. I love it so much, I love it dearly but there's no chances I can take now or make. Perhaps that is the epic absurdity, the terror and the tragedy, that makes up our story and our symphony? to any multidimensional being reading this, I want you to know that we existed. We lived and we thrived and we prospered and... we died. The beauty we share, in all of our fares, was precious to us - maybe it will be to you too. If you can't change the present, please at least forgive us for our various missteps and misdeeds - I think we'd all agree that to be sinful is the essence of greed, and look where that got us? our planet is dying. There's no hope for all of our crying. The children will bear it the most. Such is our shame, our deliterious final flame, and thus we were. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧═════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────────────────────┘ --- #9 fediverse/4018 --- ══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────── ┌───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ CW: weaponizing-girlfriends-material-to-defame-her-and-infamy │ └───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ I can't even imagine what it would be like to hang out with me I can't imagine what it would be like to hang out with me imagine what it would be like to hang out with me what would it be like to hang out with me would you like to hang out with me you and me we could watch tv play video games have a good time [notices an article about coral reefs] oooo coral [reads article about coral reefs] https://www.wired.com/story/darpa-thinks-walls-of-oysters-could-protect-shores- against-hurricanes/ ... anyway gtg ttyl hope you feel better soon don't forget to make pancakes and your keys are in your room. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧═══════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────┘ --- #10 messages/149 --- ══════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────────── #solarpunk An app that listed all the tasks that needed to be done in a city and people could just do whichever they wanted. Like "water this planter box of carrots" or "prune this tree" or whatever. Specialists who knew the requirements of plants could set up tasks and workflows like project managers and set up recurring requirements - like "water every day for 90 days then harvest" or whatever. They could also look for disease or pests and assign treatment plans as necessary. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧═══════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────────────┘ --- #11 fediverse/1764 --- ═════════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────── Okay okay hear me out - but what if instead of pumping oil out of the ground, we shoved a bunch of tree trunks down there and let them marinate for a few thousand years ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧══════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────┘ --- #12 fediverse/2089 --- ╔═════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────┐ ║ "ah nuts, the crows are back. Better give them some diced-up carrots so they │ ║ shut up." │ ║ │ ║ BAD, this teaches them to "sing" for attention which is annoying af │ ║ │ ║ "Hmmm, this carrot looks kinda withered. I'm going to dice it up to throw to │ ║ the birds because it's better than rotting in a dump" │ ║ │ ║ BETTER, because you're being sustainable and nourishing local wildlife, │ ║ │ ║ "That songbird is beautiful! And that squirrel is building a nest. I'm going │ ║ to throw some of this pre-diced carrot that I keep in an air-tight container │ ║ on my porch to them so they feel rewarded for doing things that I want" │ ║ │ ║ EVEN BETTER, but requires more effort and forethought │ ║ │ ║ [noooo didn't you read ranger rick as a kid you're not supposed to feed the │ ║ wildlife because it'll teach them to trust humans in a world where humans can │ ║ be total assholes to them and also we don't want them hanging out in cities │ ║ because they might get run over or whatever] │ ║ │ ║ listen, they're gonna live where they can find food. And if they can't find it │ ║ in the woods, they'll liv │ ╟─────────┐ ┌───────────┤ ║ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╚═════════╧══════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────┴──────────┘ --- #13 fediverse/4726 --- ╔══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────┐ ║ @user-1731 │ ║ │ ║ stand up, put your hands on your knees. It's about that high. Think about your │ ║ bedroom, or if you're already there think about your kitchen. If you were │ ║ standing in your kitchen and the grass was growing there, it'd peek just over │ ║ the bed, or maybe climb just this far up the cabinets. │ ║ │ ║ it's dark green. Can you see anything dark green around you? It's that color. │ ║ If not, can you remember a dark-green thing? What did it look like? │ ║ │ ║ The very tops, the part by your hand that's on your knee, that's the purple │ ║ part. Just at the tip of the blade, the part that would stab you if the grass │ ║ was a sword, that's the purple bit. Everything else is dark green. │ ║ │ ║ I wonder how it sways in the wind? Does it bend, and whip? What if there's a │ ║ gale? Does it sway back and forth, or is it stiff and shiver like dead leaves │ ║ on a tree? │ ║ │ ║ imagination comes from questions, and the subsequent development of │ ║ instinctual subconscious questions like this. What lies in the gaps? what if │ ║ we colored outside the lines? what more to see? │ ╟─────────┐ ┌───────────┤ ║ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╚═════════╧═══════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────┴──────────┘ --- #14 messages/1270 --- ═════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════── "this is too easy" thought the one guys to another, as they glanced about at their trending behavior. -- stack overflow -- sorry I had to interrupt: "what if you used scissors or a knife to cut your diapers and then saw what kind of plants would grow in what conditions?" I betcha could evolve an organism (careful, might be small) that could grow from plastic. I wonder what their fruit would be used like? anyway, as I was saying, if you ever notice that your mortal foes aren't putting up much of a fight, chances are you're being used to do evil. Keep yourself awares, but do research-thought-imagines about the nature of goodness. Picture yourself from the perspective of your foes. Develop conceptions of justice. Validate through mutually experimental contests of charms. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════─┘ --- #15 fediverse/2431 --- ╔═════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────┐ ║ the fly taps the window, to be let out. │ ║ │ ║ the door is just over there, from which blows fresh and clean air. │ ║ │ ║ yet the fly taps the window. │ ║ │ ║ do I get up, to let him out, with a cup and paper? if so, there'll be more │ ║ flies, tapping on the window. but a fly will be free. │ ║ │ ║ do I remain, and let him struggle in vain? to do otherwise is to act against │ ║ it's nature. the nature of a fly is to tap at windows, which is a nature we │ ║ humans created with false illusions of free and open air - a window is natural │ ║ now, yet the fly remains, tapping on the window. │ ║ │ ║ give or take a million years, and a fly would adapt to our windows. they'd │ ║ grow smarter, or bolder, or simply would search for doors through which │ ║ breathe fresh and clean air. │ ║ │ ║ but that fly won't live for a million years, and neither will I nor the │ ║ window. yet flies, I's, and windows remain. │ ║ │ ║ am I the fly, tapping without success? I yearn for the rapidly warming sky. │ ║ │ ║ am I the window, showing visions of false success? I wonder when I will die. │ ║ │ ║ or am I as I am, just I. │ ╟─────────┐ ┌───────────┤ ║ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╚═════════╧══════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────┴──────────┘ --- #16 messages/159 --- ══════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────────── Only the good die young, and I'm 29 It can't be much longer, can it? What do you want from me? Must I prove myself, or am I just fated to be as I am? Every lesson I've learned pales in comparison to the lessons presented to me, but still I ponder. I've grown myself into a corner, and now I am empty. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧═══════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────────────┘ --- #17 notes/governmental-priorities --- ═════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────────────────────── the first priority of a government should be in producing enough to satisfy all the needs of it's inhabitants. Once it can do that it can begin moving it's economy into a new stage of development - one where nobody needs any money because they can have whatever they want. If you want a car, sure. If you want 17 cars, then maaaaaaybe you need to produce something related to cars. I mean, it's only fair that you contribute to what you value. you don't have to have just one job, too, you could sign yourself up for several at once and they would notify you when you were needed. Basically giving them customized availabilities that they could discuss amongst themselves and figure out. Like, it doesn't have to be like... managers doing this, more like just a simple computer program. Easy, simple, and done. if you work for two companies in the same industry, there can be NO restrictions on what you can say or do. Because when knowledge is not lost, but repeated through the generations, we can have progress. And progress advances us toward the meta objective, the goal that transcends all the battles in the war, if you get my drift. they say the atom bomb ended the war, but the blood of men is what won it. maybe it's the same with the economy? Maybe we should be pooling our efforts to generate something that "ends the war" with scarcity? We could solve global warming and create new wondrous things that are beautiful to behold. I'll ask you again, do you want to live forever? ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧══════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────────────────────┘ --- #18 fediverse/1709 --- ════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────── do you ever wonder about how much heat is absorbed the plants and leaves? Kinda makes me think that they're keeping us warm at night. The desert is much colder than you'd expect, and so it the moon, or mars, or any other sufficiently devastated forest habitat. (plains are my favorite biome, please don't take them away with your stupid climate change, they're one of the most at risk) ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧═════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────┘ --- #19 fediverse/3575 --- ════════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────── ┌───────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ CW: re: leftist "talk to ur neighbours" thing │ └───────────────────────────────────────────────┘ @user-1567 that's totally fine, a fish does not do well in a tree, and so too does a leftist not do well in an environment without the potential for stable bonds. Essentially all you'd be able to do is "hey leftism right?" "oh yes I also leftism" "neat" which isn't very productive. I also live in an environment like that. I do my best to identify people who stay, because in my experience there are often people who stay. I do this by walking around the neighborhood when I can, making up excuses to walk to the dumpster or mailbox at random hours, riding my bike around the area, using the communal spaces like gyms, swimming pools, and picnic tables, and sitting in my hammock on my porch lazily noting people who walk past. People who stay will tend to remain in your mind the more times you see them. They are better people to talk to than the renters who disappear after 3 months or whatever. I don't always do all that stuff at once. I take breaks. I do one at a time. etc ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧═════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────┘ --- #20 fediverse/3870 --- ╔═════════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────┐ ║ ┌─────────────────────────────────────┐ │ ║ │ CW: politics-renewable-infrastrutre │ │ ║ └─────────────────────────────────────┘ │ ║ │ ║ │ ║ "something something trump wants to faucet the PNW's water to the desert" │ ║ │ ║ oh, so you're saying that he wants to invest in a massive infrastructural │ ║ project which will help millions of people? And, uh, how does he want to pay │ ║ for that? │ ║ │ ║ Surely the best approach would be to make the people who use the most water │ ║ pay for it, right? I mean, it's ironic, and related, and it gives them their │ ║ just deserts, right? │ ║ │ ║ So make a tax (that's how you make people pay for things) and levy it against │ ║ Nestle, who bottles up all of the water in the desert and sells it for pennies │ ║ to brown people who can't afford to build water infrastructure because they │ ║ keep spending all their pennies on useless things like bottled water. │ ║ │ ║ And make it a big tax, please, so that they're forced to re-evaluate their │ ║ business model and divert wealth from their least contributionary workers │ ║ (aka, those at the top making millions) and spend it on something useful like │ ║ desalination plants or water turbines or whatever. │ ╟─────────┐ ┌───────────┤ ║ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╚═════════╧══════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────┴──────────┘ |