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 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 [those genetics are way outdated]
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║ 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!"                                                                 │
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║ food tastes better with more nutrients in it.                                    │
║                                                                                  │
║ when food is grown with the bare minimum soil, and bred to look better but       │
║ uptake fewer nutrients, it will taste worse because your taste buds light up     │
║ for vitamins but sleep for textures and colors.                                  │
║                                                                                  │
║ Massive monocrop algriculture has allowed us to feed billions of people (well,   │
║ not all of them) and yet it's unhealthy because the soil is tilled, killing      │
║ the vibrant ecosystem that lives in all soil, and then it is supplemented with   │
║ specific nutrients that cause plants to fruit faster and larger.                 │
║                                                                                  │
║ But larger isn't always better. much the same way that hardwood is slower        │
║ growing as it takes longer to deposit the carbon and nutrients in the denser     │
║ walls of the bark, so too is fast-growing food less healthy as there's less      │
║ time to uptake nutrients (that might not even be present in the soil)            │
║                                                                                  │
║ food tastes better when it's good for you.                                       │
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║ I promise.                                                                       │
║                                                                                  │
║ The American diet is primarily sugar and meat, with flavoring added and          │
║ processing for texture. But there is a better way.                               │
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║ first they came for the bishop, and nobody knew who could spiritually lead       │
║                                                                                  │
║ then they came for education, and nobody knew what was suddenly true.            │
║                                                                                  │
║ then they came for the de-market-ation-ists, and nobody knew how social          │
║ communities grew.                                                                │
║                                                                                  │
║ then they came for the afghan, the jew, then the mexican, then the [bastard]     │
║                                                                                  │
║ then it was up to you and me, to love and get through. does that philosophy      │
║ win? every cuddly cat has fangs.                                                 │
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║ herding cats is one thing.                                                       │
║                                                                                  │
║ herding 600 catgirls is much more social.                                        │
║                                                                                  │
║ "oops brb gotta pee" said the girl-witch, and suddenly she's disappeared and     │
║ you're like "well alright then"                                                  │
║                                                                                  │
║ "are witches evil?" said the darling with favorable hair, "sure, I can be        │
║ evil. What do you think it'll get for thee? wouldn't ye prefer sweet?"           │
║                                                                                  │
║ I really want to bio-engineer my scalp to produce a certain type of nutrients    │
║ and fed to bio-organically-engineered grass-stalks which are masoned on by an    │
║ architect to the surface of your scalp.                                          │
║                                                                                  │
║ it'd be sooooooo cool to grow grass for hair                                     │
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║ especially if it tasted good                                                     │
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 wildfires are great because they clear out small plants which gives the larger
 ones room to grow. And larger plants are better than smaller plants,
 generally, ideally if you have both.
 
 wildfires are great because they teach people who live near them to consider
 their meagre life's possessions in terms of "which would I bring if I needed
 to evacuate and how quickly could I gather them" which is a useful form of
 situational awareness (preparation) which can be useful in a wide variety of
 various situations
 
 wildfires are great because they give our intelligence operatives the chance
 to practice hunting and catching saboteurs. We all profit from a vibrant and
 rich ecosystem.
 
 wildfires are great because they give us something to cherish and defend and
 nourish and cultivate and bring into our homes of stone and gasoline.
 
 wildfires fucking suck for many more reasons than they're great, though.
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║ "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                                                        │
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 "... and this is moss, our pile of soil. He's really cool, if you feed him
 seeds and take care of his needs, then sometimes a couple months later he
 spits out food. It's awesome. Plus you can throw away your trash there and
 it'll just break it down whatever."
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 to-go containers that grow into the food that's on the box
 
 then, 5 months later or whatever, the nano-bots or organic cultures or
 whatever have built the food that you'd meant to eat (plus a supply of
 materials like minerals and such which are placed at strategic locations
 inside of the box, like a circuitboard that grows into it's form)
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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                               │
║                                                                                  │
║ 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?}                                          │
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 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)
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 I don't want to garden, I want to have gardens. I want them to be kept by
 people who know gardening is an art.
 
 I don't want to launder, I want to have clean clothes. I want them to be
 washed by people who build washing machines. [antiquated, people just buy from
 the store now. all washing machines are the same, you don't have to treat them
 as installation arts] oh huh weird it's neat to be living in the advanced
 future society of 2025 surely that is the most sane way to optimize the fun
 out of things
 
 (for prophet, because we all needed things clean. and this is the only way to
 guarantee it, to capitalize on marketplaces implies success, so capitalism has
 been a useful hueristic. not any longer, though, for we've developed a
 newfound sentience about it. we can tell what is needed in each part of the
 economy with computers, we don't have to fight over them. [sectors of the
 economy].)
 
 brb smoking a joint making a spliff stuff a new pipe oiling the goose (you
 made that one up) oh sorry you meant cannabis?1
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 @user-641 
 
 it's practice. you never know when you might need to blend in. really it's
 just useful as discipline, good practice to be in. I think it's okay if we
 reduce our own functionality? actually? sometimes it's good to use different
 email clients. hey do you know how to mathematically encrypt things well
 neither do I because the designers of the computer system decided that wasn't
 a very common usecase I guess.. jmean it's not like they'd spend all that
 computer resources [THEY'RE SO FAST] on thinking about correlations in your
 predicted pathway narratively through life. "ah help I'm in a psyop" haha yeah
 we do those all the time "so uhhhh I guess we'll just talk to people and see
 how they do?" wow okay it's sure nice to be part of a civil government, I
 think we can find our way to the lumber producers just fine thank you very
 much.
 
 ... oops sorry, a baby did electronics arts (challenge everything) I'm a
 little silly don't mind me brb I gotta go see~

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 it doesn't really matter how you do it, but the more time you spend thinking
 collectively the better you'll be able to adapt when necessary.
 
 I grew up on a homestead in a small town without many friends. I was
 homeschooled, and while I might see another person I knew once or twice a
 month, that was about it.
 
 Besides my family, of course.
 
 We were a collective, and ever since leaving I have yearned for that feeling
 of closeness.
 
 There's something about modern society that pushes us apart, and I resent it.
 Humans were meant for tribes, not multilevel marketing.
 
 That being said, culture is pretty neat. Society is pretty neat, when it's not
 being oppressive. I like the idea that I can buy carrots at the store instead
 of growing my own. I like the idea that I can post on Craigslist asking if
 anyone has a shovel they want to get rid of and someone can say "what the fuck
 are you trying to bury someone why would you do that" and I'm all like "wait
 no this post has gone off track can we refocus for a bit" and th
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║ if you set out food for animals consistently, then more of them can live in      │
║ the area.                                                                        │
║                                                                                  │
║ but if you move across the state and take your bird feeder with you, the birds   │
║ will die.                                                                        │
║                                                                                  │
║ well, birds can fly, rabbits and chickens and squirrels are not so lucky.        │
║ birds might not die. though there is overall less food in the area, so they      │
║ might still die.                                                                 │
║                                                                                  │
║ when I was a kid, growing up in suburbia I used to see rabbits EVERYWHERE. My    │
║ cat would hunt them. I would run around with them. Now I see but a few.          │
║                                                                                  │
║ Rabbits eat grass, right? We sure do use a lot of pesticides on our immaculate   │
║ lawns. Or at least, the one neighbor three doors down does, and it's a free      │
║ country after all.                                                               │
║                                                                                  │
║ explain to me again why we can't leave a trail of chopped up carrots behind      │
║ our lawn mowers? Why we can't spread seeds on our trails, or fill basins with    │
║ water?                                                                           │
║                                                                                  │
║ ...  yeah, none of that makes money. All of it requires consistent persistent    │
║ effort. And it's not like our media glorifies it, what a shame it would be to    │
║ hold nature in our palms.                                                        │
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 Hmmmm, well, what if we psyopped the people into believing there were alien
 invaders or extra-dimensional fae creatures or angels and demons or
 
 "yeah we already tried that, religion doesn't scale perfectly either. And you
 can't really manifest those sort of effects except in your prophets and select
 few others, and that doesn't scale either because humanity wouldn't let it"
 
 I see, can you tell me more about that? why and how did humanity arrest the
 scaling of schizophrenia?
 
 "well, for one thing it's debilitating and it sucks. For another, it's
 different for every person so if you ask one they'll be like "the aliens have
 blue skin" and the other will say "no they don't have skin at all they're made
 out of energy" and the public says "HMMMM are you really sure you are
 generating outmoded assumptions" and the dear reader said "*yeah we don't
 really understand this part, most of us just glaze eyes over it and move on"
 and that's not ideal"
 
 ... nuts, lost coherence, better try again tomorrow...
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 #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.
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 different colored smoke buddies have different personalities, insights, and
 observations.
 
 cannabis is a flower which grows crystalline sap - this sap is technically a
 fractal, and we don't know how deep it's complexity can be.
 
 therefore I suggest we dedicate ALL of the entire world's resources towards
 making a big ball of cannabinods and seeing if it roko's basilisk it's way
 into to be.
 
 my smoke buddies on my desk right now are purple and red
 
 purple, royalty, I've been feeling like a princess lately
 red, compassion, oh how I've dreamed of how we distribute bread
 
 each of them is a small little device
 which I breathe exhaled cannabis vapors into in order to reduce the smelling
 
 I love wearing half-blinders! it's so cool when you can selectively view
 things with one eye.
 
 idk why! I just like it.
 
 [semi-stiffly felted colorful witch hat absorbs too]
 
 yay! so glad I can't was hit!
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 @user-792 
 
 you have to go back a couple thousand years before it started feeling a bit
 better. sometime between "survival of the fittest" and "private ownership" was
 a pretty neat utopia.
 
 however, I wouldn't trade our world for that one. Not for all the human
 vitality, all the natural effulgence, all the dignity and wonder, none of it
 is worth it. We live in a blessed era, and while it feels bad, like you said
 it just feels bad.
 
 We are being inoculated against despair, for when it comes in force to our
 homes (as it has in so many other places of the world) we must be prepared.
 
 The point of preparation isn't to set up a stable base upon which you can
 stand and address things, though that's always a perk. The point is to
 practice making friends, practice designing systems, practice your skills and
 practice your hope. If you can master those, if you can do them the way an
 actor might do improv, then you'll be able to adapt more easily to whatever
 may come.
 
 We're in a very good spot I think.
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 a paradox game where you play as a species colonizing the earth
 
 [I've been hiding, teehee]
 
 150 million years of evolution, just... snuffed in an instant.god describing
 the fastest mass extinction event[s]
 
 "holo scene? no this is the real scene. what, did you think computers didn't
 reality? no no these people are real they're just made out of different stuff
 to their computers. so they interact and use themselves to each other's will
 -> wow that was funny it almost felt like something was telling me how to
 feel"
 
 the more voices you hear the greater the bright bold future calls to you.
 
 "here's how to explain it to executives - your company is non-functional until
 you incorporate processes and decisions that lead to a sustainable future.
 this is impermissable, the earth was designed to receive a certain amount of
 heat from the sun. plants absorb heat because they give you shade. oil is made
 out of thousands of years old plants. if we burn all the plants, then no oil
 can be produced. we'll be extincted

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║ 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.                                                                            │
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║ "whoops, dropped my laundry"                                                     │
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║ "heh that's why I we                                                             │
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║ "see, the part that you're missing is if you abolish capitalism but also         │
║ ensure technological abundance then all you've done is removed humanity's        │
║ capability to organize in essentially any meaningful capacity without            │
║ providing an alternative heuristic that guides people toward assembling into     │
║ greater and greater forms to accomplish greater and greater tasks."              │
║                                                                                  │
║ oh, um. that's quite a take, can you tell me more about that?                    │
║                                                                                  │
║ "no. But I will anyway. if everyone can do whatever they want, nobody will       │
║ want to do your dishes for you. they might if they care about you, but if they   │
║ don't know you, then they won't. Care is not organization or assembly, it is     │
║ personal and cannot scale. If technology has made all resources abundant, then   │
║ why would someone care about the art that you made? if they want to be           │
║ sedated, they can just inject drugs and listen to music all day. If they want    │
║ to be entertained, AI will generate them whatever they want to see. Art loses    │
║ meaning as a messaging medium, and humanity loses it's voice"                    │
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