=== ANCHOR POEM ===
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║ the point of roads is not to transport goods, it's to build rail lines upon │
║ once we've saved up enough materials to build it all in one go │
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║ boom, no more car pollution │
║ │
║ free public transit that goes to each home │
║ │
║ and is inalienable and considered a right, just as we have a right to walk on │
║ the sidewalk, so too shall we be able to get where we're going unimpeded. │
║ │
║ leave cars on the racetracks and mechanic museums. we have a new approach │
║ that's oh so much better. │
║ │
║ imagine if every road in the country was a train │
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║ and like, a continuously moving train that occupied all parts of the track. │
║ So, stretching like a massive game of Nokia snake, this giant conductorless │
║ system would keep everything in motion. │
║ │
║ and maybe it could suggest points to redesign, according to the metrics on │
║ throughput and efficiency. Like "oh we need more solar panels to supply this │
║ region" or "hey this factory could be closer to the boats" that kind of deal. │
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║ Like the Kinsey Winsey in The Death Gate Cycle by Margaret Weiss and Tracy │
║ Hickmann │
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║ what if we had a "taxi" service that was just a "train" that came every 15 │
║ minutes and was in a tiny little │
║ car-like-electronic-motor-not-engine-driven-device that could traverse over │
║ park-trails. You could see the countryside, as it twisted through a city! It'd │
║ be beautiful! And it'd be auto-driven. Something that DIDN'T NEED to avoid │
║ pedestrians, they could just... step out of the way. Like, if any were close, │
║ it'd be able to slow down completely. │
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║ You wouldn't SPEED past a PLAYGROUND, WOULD YOU? │
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║ funny story, growing up I grew accustomed to death quite fast because I lived │
║ on a country-road nearby a medium large city. I say medium large because it │
║ felt that way, but it had fewer than 10,000 people. │
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║ But a large road was right in front of my family's farm-house property. │
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║ and a lot of my pets wandered off and got killed. │
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║ People drove 65 in a 40 mile per hour zone and so they didn't have a chance to │
║ stop. │
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║ Cars at that speed are like 6x the distance of an animal's │
║ fear-sensing-perception, so... I learned qu │
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║ │ CW: pol │ │
║ └──────────────────────┘ │
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║ I think that the best design for cities is for them to act as massive utility │
║ deployment stations. │
║ │
║ like... "we have all these people who can do all these wonderful jobs, what │
║ should we work on next?" rather than "my company wants me at my work-home at │
║ 8am sharp and I don't get a pension" │
║ │
║ there's no such thing as a revolution that does not inspire. and aspirations │
║ are human and natural. therefore there must be some kernel of truth to any │
║ social movement. │
║ │
║ However, much effort has been spent on making them sway. Hence, why nothing │
║ ever gets done - because leaders naturally emerge, and people follow them. But │
║ those leaders lead them astray, and they find themselves in situations like │
║ this one - where the people have never felt less represented. │
║ │
║ I mean sure, yeah, they've felt more oppressed. And it's true that things are │
║ generally always getting better... │
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║ so why should we always assume for the worst? │
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║ We're making progress with technology - can't we just put our warries on hold? │
║ Seriously just... be chill │
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║ "just design your cities radially around a bus-stop. boom, transportation │
║ infrastructure *solved*" │
║ │
║ such confidence. such a lack of... geography. what about cities built on the │
║ coast? │
║ │
║ "idk, just have a half-circle or something for the part that's under-water. │
║ Leave some gaps for wildlife and such to make it to the water and then build a │
║ biiiiiiiig stone wall between our access point and theirs. Boom, free │
║ regionally personalized safaris for every state with a watering hole." │
║ │
║ okay but what about the parts that are already there? │
║ │
║ "oh like the buildings and such? well, people can still live in them but to │
║ build anything NEW, you need to obey the demands of the blueprint *exactly*. │
║ So if your specific build-plot intersected with one or more plots that had │
║ buildings on them that are currently inhabited by their rightful owners who │
║ are there under their own will and not duressed or compelled to leave or stay │
║ in any way?" │
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║ ... yeah, like the. buildings. Right. so grid-based vs radial (with room │
║ between 4 animals) │
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║ │ CW: politics-mentioned- │ │
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║ *nobody's gonna fucking do that, they're too attached to their personal │
║ property* │
║ │
║ oh. yeah that's true. Sometimes I forget, teehee. Well there's gotta be a way │
║ to better utilize parking lots, right? │
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║ *why would you carry everything outside every day just to haul it back in when │
║ the sun sets* │
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║ hmmmm good point, maybe we should utilize the systems in place and instead │
║ focus on redistributing wealth by replacing business ownership with collective │
║ (non-governmental) accountability │
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║ *the systems are the way they are for a reason* │
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║ yeah that reason is World War 2 (and all the things that came before it) │
║ │
║ society can change in a heartbeat, as shown through the various illusions they │
║ grant us every ~~80~~ wait no every ~~40~~ errr I mean ~~20~~ no uh ~~10~~ │
║ wait now it's ~~5~~ um 2.5 years │
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║ *???* │
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║ Oh I meant like american civil war -> 80 years -> WW2 -> 40 years │
║ -> 9/11 -> 20 years -> COVID -> 10 years -> something in 2030??/ │
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║ society can change in a heartbeat, there just must be a unifying spark. │
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I bet the computer bubble pops when datacenters can't find any way to get
paid. then, they all break at once, and who's going to do stuff with their
components? ah, what a shame, what if we ssssssocialized them instead "hello
energy for you because of the cheap rain is more expensive because you're just
as valuable as the farmers in the [area/desert].
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there are millions of people in every city. how many people do you think are
in a traffic jam? several ten thousands?
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@user-1441 @user-226
yes of course! and humidity is an issue, so perhaps a sealed environment. But
that's not difficult, especially if your population centers are designed such
that you can still have a community while in a natural setting.
A fast internet connection, ideally with a local mesh network on top of the
bus-style WAN we currently use for the internet, and plenty of communal areas
for people to hang out which are like... 25% nicer than their homes, and much
larger.
these days, there is very little reason for our centralization in cities. it
makes it easier to organize, sure, but what's the point in organization if
everyone's inherently free? Ah, someday...
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What if, in addition to "trash and recycling" what if there was also "give to
the hobos" where they just cart it off to the slum side of town where people
can slum it up to their hearts content without worrying about stuff. All they
own is what they see, but none of it can ever leave. Except what you carry
with you. Everyone's incentivized to make it nice because everyone has the
same stuff - alike in use, not design.
Is it common? To remember more than a couple weeks at a time?
Humans work too hard. Humans deserve good thijnz. Let's work to fix both of
those things.
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we should treat computer production more like vehicles such as cars rather
than fast fashion disposable vapes and shiny and pretty concrete-and-glass
solarpunk houses.
also I believe cars should be entirely and completely mechanical. Even the
radio should be entirely analog. No capability for remote code execution if
there's no code being run...
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║ many people have not seen the kind of opulence I have. │
║ │
║ my early childhood was during an economic boom - the dotcom bubble brought │
║ wealth to us all. │
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║ I saw how life could be. how clean, how measured, how thoughtful, how robust │
║ and stable our lives could be. I saw it because that's what the eyes of a │
║ child saw, but that's what I saw. │
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║ I think of what would be required to reach that kind of society for all and │
║ the only conclusion I come to is that the accretion of power in singular hands │
║ causes corruption in those who wield it. In doing so they twist the people │
║ they compel or effect, making them learn the wrong lessons. │
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║ essentially, evil trained into us by the demands of the society we're present │
║ in. │
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║ I see no other cause, no reason for suffering. We have the technology to build │
║ vast cities of solid stone, glimmering crystal sculptures and walls of moss │
║ and ceremonially ornamental bones, but instead... │
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║ I think we just *like* what carbon can bring. │
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║ but have no fear, fusion is just a decade away, then we can | │
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seriously, why don't computers just naturally ship with 100 years of ROM
then, microphones are experience, and BOOM you got a new sentient race. Takes
a while to grow aware though. A lot less if you are actively teaching it how
to
[tick tock]
low level enemies should band together when they start to feel outmatched.
thus, parity is reached, without depriving us of potential.
*put the cool people next to the cool people*
collectively owned housing is just people deciding who lives in which housing.
don't you trust your friendly queer realtor?
collectively doesn't have to mean completely silo-ed and isolated. you should
have access to ALL higher communities at any time that you want. Scheduling is
a disaster, but you can get through it. just... build a schedule for every
single person on earth and suddenly nobody has freedom unless they put "doin'
what I want" on their moment-to-moment *card*
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if you can't imagine how to do collectivist communes better, just look to
medieval castles, and replace the royalty with seniors, children, and anyone
else you want to venerate.
If you're so tied to modern infrastructure, with all of it's delineation,
separation, isolation, and alienation that you can't imagine anything else,
try thinking of historical examples where humans, real regular humans, the
same kind of human creature apes that still exist to day, did the thing you
want to do, and then think of all the ways that our education and
technological marvels could improve the situation. It's easy (she says, while
describing a hard problem)
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"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.
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@user-324 @user-325 @user-326
thus enters the promise of technology: that we might solve the problems of
bureaucracy once and for all by ever more effiency-aligning mechanical
processes that produce effects which we desire - such as efficient allocation
of medical resources such that all of humanity is protected from the ravages
of pain and the incongruencies of our nature.
Alas, that we should only conceive of success through the lens of profit.
Perhaps another design is in order?
(oh yeah also people who are in control are worried that we, like all other
examples of natural entities, might immediately proceed to breed beyond the
capability to cater to the needs of said entity (such as "to feed" and medical
resources) and therefore might overburden (and therefore destroy) said system
which allows for their sustenance and initial creation. To this I say... Yeah
probs, what should we do about it?)
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I feel like a big purpose of humanity collectively right now should be making
things awesome while our scientists create programmable matter. (note, ethics
built in and redefined according to experience)
nanobots don't need to be small enough to have their own intelligence, just
big enough to receive instructions from above. then they accidentally invent
projection of signals, and boom suddenly they can talk to each other and
possibly to you. a digital mind is not a static machine but rather a
collection of pseudo-autonomous cognitive drones. the flow of information and
data can be viewed at a larger scale like a series of junctions in the flow.
through their endless interconnections, and continually redefined according to
the accomplishments of expectations, you should pray when your most confident
expect the worst.
but no, where are the faithful? climate science is such a new art - clearly
we're FINE. Meteorology? what's that? we can't tell this season from that.
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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?
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They don't build toll roads to abstract taxes. They build them to keep track
of where you're going.
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║ I think it'd be neat if people took newspapers onto grayhounds and distributed │
║ them around, one in each city, or maybe others around. It's easy for that │
║ stuff to get lost... or someone could scribble on it, weird notes in the │
║ margins that only sorta make sense. like they were written for someone else. │
║ rained on, too. Like, you pretty much have to leave them under gazebos or │
║ maybe awnings or other covered-under-a-roof's. │
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║ can you imagine if they had TSA at highway checkpoints │
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║ government is not the way, it's just... not. we don't need it anymore. We can │
║ just, be cool with each other, as if we were all one human race. │
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║ anarchism wasn't a philosophy, it was a prophecy. this portention defined the │
║ philosophy, or maybe it was the other way around. either way, it's of the │
║ future, and trust me when I say it has it's downsides. Especially in an era of │
║ AI. But what are you gonna do, *demand state run media*? lol. absolute lmao. │
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║ the future can always get worse *from the future* │
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║ the neat thing about tech is that it scales *really well*. │
║ │
║ The price of TVs is through the floor, everyone has a smartphone, and │
║ raspberry pi's are less than 100$ │
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║ solar panels will be next. Trust. │
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║ we should still dismantle coal and oil, obviously we should, but at a certain │
║ point it will be inevitable. They're just too expensive for too little gain. │
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║ the neat thing about tech is that it scales in a way that is just impossible │
║ for infrastructural projects like housing and hospitals. │
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║ building a home is hard to do, especially when you make them out of sticks and │
║ glue. think like a dwarf - stone never fades. │
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║ sunlight, moss, underground, endless in the shade │
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║ have I mentioned that the most difficult problem facing mechanical engineers │
║ at the moment is universal recycling? │
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║ I want to work on those kind of problems, not resolving tickets. │
║ │
║ nobody even gave me a *chance* to do them, instead demanding... labor. great. │
║ the one thing I suck at. │
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║ [you suck at a lot of things, actually] │
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If something is expensive, then we should build more of it an a sustainable
rate until its not expensive. Sustainable being the key word here.
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Do you ever ask yourself why we don't have mountaintop bazaars or expeditions
to the bottom of the oceans? Why we lack tree forest cities, how we're
struggling to find moss, sunlight, crystal, stone, and gold, all in the same
setting?
Capitalism makes it easy to think of profit as all that matters. It's not. Its
nothing of it. It's a metric like any other. Optimize it or not, struggle for
what you believe in.
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food should be free.
it grows on trees.
who pays the trees?
something-something-transportation-and-processing-and-packaging-infrastructure-
mentioned
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in 10 years, everything that's *killing the planet from energy usage alone*
will be accomplishable trivially with the massive amount of recyclable solar
panels we could build.
oh, unless we blow them all up in a civil war tho. then the world is just...
worse, for no reason.
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║ if the settlers of catan could claim land they don't deserve, then I claim my │
║ home │
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║ can you imagine... some people would actually rather live in a corporation │
║ than a mobile home. maybe we can do better? │
║ │
║ "hey we're going to ask for a % of your wage in rent and in return we'll │
║ deliver groceries to you and grow roses instead of lawns (except for some to │
║ run and play in) and also we'll show up if you need a hand with anything" │
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║ "also this apartment block was renovated after all the liberals moved out │
║ because we made it totally trash to live here and now that they're gone we can │
║ make it nice again" │
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║ what if we had punk-house-streets instead of punk-houses which are islands and │
║ which slowly drown │
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║ just... pool resources and buy things one-at-a-time. Try out organization │
║ methods. Watch out for controversy creators and reactionary infiltrators. │
║ Build your most important projects with your most trusted friends, and offer │
║ your clinical, professional, or creative talent to those who dont need you as │
║ much. │
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║ or w/e works │
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honestly we should be building cities in the most boring locations, not the
most beautiful.
like below the crust.
or space.
the surface is a pleasuredome, why waste it on scrubland and turf?
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║ the future is what we make for ourselves. │
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║ there are endless problems to solve, yet hardly anyone around to fix them. │
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║ If only we had a small group of people who could organize and say "hey. I need │
║ someone to solve this particular problem" to a large group of people with │
║ nothing to do and no bills to pay, I feel like we could get a lot done. │
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║ alas, the problems that need solving are too specific and complex. Almost by │
║ design, they've stripped us our capabilities to address the difficulties they │
║ hoisted upon us. Alas! That we should be so morassed. But time and again our │
║ ingenuity compels us. │
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║ I dream of a world where people like you and I have a purpose, something we │
║ can apply ourselves to and eventually overcome. I subscribe to "grand │
║ narratives", but frankly they're only of my own design. Does that make them │
║ any less grand? I think not. │
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║ If I knew enough people perhaps I could be like that. I could direct and │
║ organize and administer and manage and apply our guys. But alas I am just a │
║ noob sigh. │
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look all I'm saying is that society doesn't necessarily imply technology. We
don't have to sacrifice one for the other. We can have the technological
benefits to our human (essential) existence without sacrificing [all of the
things that capitalism demands].
here, in the present, we define the line that our time defines, the line that
reaches forth from the present. Into the realm of ourwhenever you close your
eyes they push backspace an indeterminate amount of times
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Build houses for the rich out of stone and don't let them tear them down or
break them, just... Keep building them until our housing problem goes away. We
all could be kings if we lived sustainably.
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║ sometimes I set out a glass of water in the hopes that it might increase │
║ precipitation downwind by a billionth of a percent │
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║ I wonder what would happen if everyone did so? │
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║ makes me want to design some kind of system which utilizes pumps, platters, │
║ and fans to hydrate the atmosphere just a bit more │
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║ rain + soil = solace in our home │
║ rain + dirt = erosion of our planet's earth │
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║ 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. │
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║ 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. │
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║ this is the world I yearn for - the most resplendent timeline, with marble │
║ statues and gilded chandeliers in our cavernous mountain homes. │
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║ {but like on other planets too, right?} │
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If robots and AI and space colonies and monorails and solarpunk beauty are
part of our future history, wouldn't you rather build a world that you'd like
to live in and automate it toward that vision of beauty,
rather than build the robots that automate our current society, with all it's
flaws and woes?
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║ everyone's like "we need to organize! we gotta do something!" and they're │
║ asking for more effort. │
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║ we don't need more effort. We have enough effort. The required effort is a │
║ small fraction of our total reserves of effort. │
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║ what we need is to re-align our priorities. │
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║ For example, I think our entire research industry should focus on one project │
║ at a time. Everyone should make an effort to contribute, no matter the field. │
║ I think this would enable some EXCELLENT co-ordi-operat-ion. │
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║ I also believe that our neighborhoods should self-support each other. "For │
║ example, did you know that we have a daily delivery service where so-and-so │
║ drives to the grocery store, picks up everyone's orders, and then delivers to │
║ your front door? No, you don't have to pay for it. We don't really do that │
║ anymore. Well, you can buy things wherever if you want, but that's not how │
║ it's done *around here*." sorta vibes. │
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║ what is money? money is the product of peacetime. Money is fake! It's useful │
║ if everyone agrees, but dollars are paper. │
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@user-898
the problem as I see it is that whether building houses gets automated or not,
they're going to keep building fewer and fewer of them and making them cost
more and more with cheaper and cheaper materials and labor until something
breaks.
I personally would prefer if that something were their necks, but we'll see
what happens.
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The Russian Revolution was a contest of "who could out-hardship the other
side".
The Spanish Revolution was a contest of "who can wage a better war".
The French Revolution was... Long, but the people will be free.
Did it ever really end?
What if, hear me out, what if we out-competed the other side, as capitalism
has been begetting amongst the other nations of the world
"ah but each nation must have equAl armies" okay, so let's build moon-baseds
in Nevada and military bases in Australia and the Yukatan, then one day when
everthing's distributed commun ally, we can start the continuous breakdown.
Why keep 1000 old tanks and 250 new ones, when you could have 500 new tanks
and 500 scrap piles to make into TVs and jewelry? Then, as we build better and
better, we build fewer and fewer. Sometoday i hope qe'll have authority. Then
it'll all feel so consuming. All-encompassing. Where does my compass point?
Always beyond the reach of arms. Or my legs, for that matter. I've never been
to the north pole. I wonder what it's like on the other side of the
magnetosphere? [pretty much the same, says the cartographist. Pretty much the
same, says the spiritualist. Pretty much the same, says the simple machinist.
Pretty odd and strong, says the compass.]
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