Avatars just suck and have no purpose.

“US military is a bigger polluter than as many as 140 countries”

" the US military is one of the largest polluters in history, consuming more liquid fuels and emitting more climate-changing gases than most medium-sized countries."

Need to quit this internet addiction. It’s all poison.

How many of us are going to have endure co-workers talking about formula 1 after the weekend? I remember when one enthused how the cars will run on 10% ethanol and how KERs is just another example of why climate change won’t be a problem.

By ‘rapid transformation of society’ I would imagine either primitivism or war communism. I only really want to imagine the latter with everybody mobilized away from their current work into a sort of ecological retreat to rail and sea adjacent areas with climates that don’t require insane amounts of energy and water to live in. We build co-housing that is designed to use as little energy as possible for heating, cooling, ventilation and de-humidification. Though there are facilities for people to cook, most day to day meals are cooked communally using thermal stoves. As much plant based food is grown nearby as possible with a lot of calories coming from precision fermentation of bacteria and fungus fed on hydrogen and carbon dioxide. Clothes on your back have been owned at least once and what labor credits spent on clothing goes towards the maintenance of them.

I don’t know if it is a trope but watching Brendan Gleeson piss for thirty seconds turned me off prestige television for good.

That really can’t even be called engineering anymore. It’s become a painful artisanal craft of hipsterdom guided mostly by aesthetics and petty political squabbles.

There is something so incredibly irritating about the kind of people who hide behind GITS avatars. Like all the JC Dentons on youtube.

Trust: Edgelord volcel seeks validation in a sexless romance with a grieving pregnant teenager.

Always with that permanent scowl on their face as they dogmatically try the same thing again and again to feel like a kid with his first bikini catalogue.

Always-on internet has been a social and environmental disaster. So many people are wasting their lives on banal crap while being caught in dark design patterns. Offpunk is an nascent attempt at this rehabilitation on gemini sites where people try to only going online for short bursts. Don’t know if that is the best place for it because gemini really seems like an attempt to bring back the blogosphere through software blinkers. The vast majority of content on gemini is extremely boring as a result just like with this substack and pretty much all of medium.

Cyberspace needs to die. A democratic internet should be a means to an end designed for climate resilience. Think mailing lists over web forums and social media made more convenient by webmail clients.