It’s not very feasible for my husband who has cerebral palsy unless we did a lot of expensive setup so he could do most of it seated.
Well, I guess he can be the one sitting inside and shelling peas, cleaning out jars for canning, and slicing things up to go in the dehydrator.
The problem with Mr. White here is that he’s still internalizing capitalistic individualism.
“Everyone should grow their own food and be self sufficient.” – Nope.
“The local community should grow food for each other and be self sufficient.” – Yes.
Food self-sufficiency is much more realistic on a community scale than on an individual scale. And it can help with all the problems listed here:
People who don’t have access to land – can share the land of others who do have access to land
People with health problems – can be assisted by the community and still help out where they can (maybe their health problems prevent them from effectively weeding or harvesting, but maybe they could still help with sorting/processing/preserving)
People who value food security – with a larger community growing more diverse crops, you’re less likely to have catastrophic crop failure
People who hate zucchini – again, with a larger community growing more diverse crops, there would be more options for what to eat
People with health issues are incapable of gardening in some way so must rely on the industry.
Though, on the other hand, fresh-grown food from a garden (and a bit of moderate exercise) is likely to help with a lot of health issues…
Can’t wait for the calls from outraged customers demanding that I honor the AI-hallucinated offers they found on my website. (The AI decided that customers were more likely to stay on my webpage if my prices were 80% lower.)
Do we not know of any habitable zone exoplanets orbiting stars hotter than the sun? Or is that just not shown on this chart for some reason?
But 99% of the problems can be avoided if you just don’t do stupid things.
People who say you need a profit motive to do work are just passionless and detached from the world…
You might even say they’re feeling alienated, as a certain German economist might say.
I do, actually. But I’m not going to spend it on this frivolous bullshit.
I think instead I’ll install some solar panels on my house…
Honestly, yes, I think it’s one of the best examples of anarchism in action the world has ever seen. And an especially pertinent example to point out to those who’d say things like, “Why would anyone do work or innovate without a profit motive?” Lots of good and innovative software, made without any profit incentive by a collective of people who are working on it just because they want to and they enjoy it.
the point is that they will be locked into a walled garden with minimally-powerful hardware. Can such a device even really be considered a PC anymore?
My main laptop is an ancient chromebook that I jailbroke and put Linux on.
While they’re locked down, I wouldn’t really consider them to be a PC. But if you can unlock them…
Yes. Not because Linux PCs become so much more common, but because Windows PCs become much less common.
More and more people (normies) don’t own a desktop and only use tablets or phones. As the percentage of normies who own a desktop decreases, it will become more of just a nerd thing to have an actual desktop PC … and those kinds of people are much more likely to run Linux.
Are they finally discovering that AI slop is bad?
Yeah, yeah. Only mostly untouchable.
Me, still using Pirate Bay since before most of the people in this sub were born.
And that’s why I have a seed target of 0.9, so I’ll never have seeded the entirety of anything.
In my youth I was taught that democracy meant that the government served the people.
In your youth, your teachers lied to you.
This particular image is from a university research reactor. I’d assume most of those doohickeys are various measurement probes, measuring things like temperature and the levels of different types of radiation.
But I already have spicy water, as pictured above.
Well, I suppose they’re sometimes also used in watch dials, to make the watch readable at night?
Just when I was about to upgrade my router, too. Fuck.