I disagree that it was a good run. There have been great people, great ideas... but they'll all get washed away to nothing in the deluge of those who are empty and careless. I think that's really what bothers me the most. It's not that there are so many terribly stupid people. It's that the intelligent people are so exceedingly rare that they cease to matter within the masses. Actually, maybe that is truly the problem. Intelligence inequality. If we were all stupid or all smart, I feel that everything would be less tragic. If we were all stupid, I and others wouldn't be intelligent enough to experience the differential that causes suffering. If we were all smart, climate change wouldn't even be an issue. There are people who do want to help, who do want better. Few can hear. Most can't even understand when they do. That is unfortunately the nature of being alternative. Perhaps eventually such won't be alternative. Only time can truly tell. Perhaps being human will be something to be proud of... however, I sincerely doubt it. The death we have caused just because we could, within my lifetime let alone further, is basically unforgivable. Our current global oligarchs make Hitler look like a removed. The devastation that has ensued in the last half century and what's coming in the near future is beyond atrocious. The struggle that so many people live every single day, the torture that so many species are actively experiencing, we humans have turned our planet into a literal hell. Maybe something will miraculously break the societal bubble, people will realize how wrong everything has become, and we'll have a sudden burst of sociological evolution. Many are trying! There's just so many more that aren't. In fact, the ones that are most against those trying are the ones with the most power in our world. Until that changes, the odds against us all do seem insurmountable.

I've officially said my goodbyes. It's absolutely fucked over there. This is just one of many serious problems with Reddit. The CEO is tanking it harder than Musk tanked Twitter. He's musk'd it.

My only wish is that people had the ability to care and therefore "wake up". Outside of 0.2% of the global population, they don't and they won't. Our brains are, overall and by mass majority, as dead as the reef is about to be.

Society is a really shitty simulation made by psychotic sadists. No "hacking" was necessarily required. We all agreed to it by doing nothing to actually stop it. Some people just agree more fervently than others. Can definitely be argued as a sort of stockholm syndrome.

I agree! Especially here in the US. Solarpunk has gigantic potential in the Americas overall. I've got big travel plans next year I'm already saving up for but I'll definitely be finding my way to a convention somewhere in the relatively near future.

I fucking love Adam. I wondered where he went. Thanks!

Where was I to find the info on this? I'd like to go if another is held.

Update: I found the link for it at the bottom of the article. It's a german event, also.

I agree. They're not intrinsically related, there is a tiny overlap due to a schism in transhumanist thought. I consider myself a natural transhumanist. Usual transhumanism is entirely cyberpunk territory.

Finally. Jesus fucking christ, took them long enough to do something useful with these sites.

This is more specific to capitalism than just corporatism but I do agree with you.

A good solution to this is for less dependency on them. This is the nature of them taking too much, and that's just... really not going to work out great for them, nor anyone.

I am constantly dumbfounded how many of the highly capitalist nations pretend to have such a focus on family when it's so clear that they care so little about them. More time working = less time with your family. They also push for bigger families too, so that individual children receive even less attention. It's so weird.

I missed this survey. I find the gender demographics intriguing. I'm unsure why this survey was so very male-dominated. That's really something to ponder about. Is it an internet issue, or is it something about the ideology itself? Are women in some way being restricted from solarpunk thought? This is phenomena of note in leftism, as well. I find it very perplexing, especially considering the shared goal of equality in these ideologies. I cannot believe women wouldn't be incredibly attracted to solarpunk, it can quite seriously be summed up with one word: care. If women aren't at least equal in their interest in the ideology, it seems to me something is very wrong. Thanks for doing the survey though. Nice to see what's going on in the community, statistically.

Oh my fuck, finally a rich person did something actually. I never thought I'd see the day.

Seems relevant /shrug

Speaking of ACP, the affordable connectivity program just recently got cut.

Along Came Pollen

I didn't realize grass had reached such an advanced evolution. Obviously it must be exterminated. (/s)

Now that is some seriously adorable art. Thanks for sharing. I'm starting work on making my garden. It's likely going to be a years long project due to the area I'm working with and doing it all myself. I plan to get pictures before and after and post it along with the design sheet and materials. I'm going to try and make it as clean energy as I can, and I'm going to be doing some soil experiments. I've also just arrived to this server and am likely going to be starting up some punk communities that need more representation later in the year.