Only a subset of food can be grown locally and that local food is only available seasonally. It’s the system we already have.

We’re probably talking about different things, like “you can’t grow almonds or citrus fruit locally”. But humans can clearly survive on a local diet pretty much everywhere, it’s just a question of population density. Your food staple would simply be what kind of calorie crop grows locally, plus vegetables and greenhouses for exotic fruit.

And yeah, all of this is a social solution through and though. Like you’d want to encourage people to help plant and harvest. But this might differ from of community to community. Some might want to use more automation with robotics. You really don’t want a uniform regime. One man’s utopia is another man’s gulag.

People already love to eat or order out. You could have a cafeteria for each apartment block and robots delivering inside the building like a hotel. This would still be drastic reduction, even compared to shopping by car. Going shopping by foot or bike in your local city neighborhood is probably still more, because you don’t have to transport the harvested food using trucks but process it locally.

The greatest luxury of all would be to have free time.

That doesn’t follow. The same work needs to be done

No it doesn’t! We can drastically reduce the amount of work that needs to be done! That is the whole point! You can look at it as capitalism being incredibly inefficient. Or incredibly efficient at creating unequal conditions benefiting those with capital (and vastly inefficient conditions for those without).

A major driver of this is advertising or “brainwashing” people to buy garbage they don’t need. Or the advertising industry itself - think of the stock value of all the social and TV media, it is completely financed by advertising, and all the downstream industry that is fed by it. All that is waste!

Or planned obsolescence, purposefully producing goods and appliances that break within one or two year.

Or things like a byzantine tax code, or complicated laws. Or regulations or land ownership preventing efficient reorganization of cities or infrastructure.

PS: And yeah the obvious impossibility is that those who own and profit from all these inefficiency would never allow this. But we shouldn’t forget or deny it’s possible.

If this is how you see the Democratic Party, I don’t see how you have any right to call yourself a moderate and not a radical.

This is sort of hilarious, because I’d think you have a duty to call yourself a radical. If you’re not a radical by now, then you’re just a collaborator. It’s not about black and white, it’s about black and blacker.

Of course one has to act and vote in a sane manner and play politics, but if your rhetoric and our demands aren’t seen as radical by the mainstream, that’s a problem. Like e.g. universal healthcare.

Modern Liberalism claims to be for individual equality but that’s kind of a lie. It has the same mechanisms to distribute economic and political power than Classic Liberalism, Libertarianism or Neoliberalism. Capital rules everything.

MAGAts understand that the Democrats believe in inequality just like the fascists do, just inequality based on class instead of on identity. So for them it’s perfectly logical to choose identity instead. They are not wrong about the hypocrisy of liberals, pretending to care about equality for some specific group but ignoring the inequality for all. It was fine until prosperity started to plummet.

The only problem is really consent and the propaganda against these goals. E.g. Air conditioning or cooking is rather nitpicking, those are not real issues, technological advances and passive house design would easily solve that. With Kite Power you already have unlimited energy.

And you could build a huge apartment block surrounded by nature, growing food directly around you and sharing infrastructure. Everyone could get a luxurious apartment with high ceilings and a killer view for everyone. If drastically less people need to commute to work, we wouldn’t need to live in a city. You could also have communal kitchens or diners or cafeteria.

The greatest luxury of all would be to have free time. To enjoy life, to study and learn for free, to raise your children in peace. Not consumerism. Let the masses produce VR games if they have too much free time.

I also disagree that it requires full on communism, a UBI or expanded bill of rights for the human necessities to reach a decent living standard (DLS) could work too. You’d just heavily regulate, ban industrial meat production, bad advertising to avoid consumerism etc.

This should be banned for self-censorsh!t.

That’d be blaming the one bad egg, not the the institutions. Neoliberals will ally themselves with fascists to fight socialists. But I guess it’s possible. Also good strategy, blame the rogue politician instead of their moral bankruptcy.

The real issue is that Cuomo isn’t a right-wing Nazi

He’s trying to split the vote as a spoiler candidate to allow the NAZI party win. Which makes him a NAZI collaborator.

Haha I wondered how they would try to stop Mamdani becoming mayor.

There probably are ad-men who pride themselves on being able to make any word filthy, or make people love even the filthiest of things. The only obstacle is in who has the most money to spend on the best ad-men and can hire the smartest sociopaths. Checkmate socialists!

This is just copium.

To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies, to hold simultaneously two opinions which cancelled out, knowing them to be contradictory and believing in both of them, to use logic against logic, to repudiate morality while laying claim to it, to believe that democracy was impossible and that the Party was the guardian of democracy, to forget whatever it was necessary to forget, then to draw it back into memory again at the moment when it was needed, and then promptly to forget it again, and above all, to apply the same process to the process itself—that was the ultimate subtlety: consciously to induce unconsciousness, and then, once again, to become unconscious of the act of hypnosis you had just performed. Even to understand the word—doublethink—involved the use of doublethink.

You’re projecting. Every accusation is a confession.

Emotion > Facts. Most people have been trained to blindly accept things and cheer on what fits with their agenda. Like technbro’s exaggerating LLMs, or people like you misrepresenting LLMs as mere statistical word generators without intelligence. That’s like saying a computer is just wires and switches, or missing the forest for the trees. Both is equally false.

Yet if it fits with the emotional needs or with dogma, then other will agree. It’s a convenient and comforting “A vs B” worldview we’ve been trained to accept. And so the satisfying notion and misinformation keeps spreading.

LLMs tell us more about human intelligence and the human slop we’ve been generating. It tells us that most people are not that much more than statistical word generators.

Victim blaming has arrived for gun violence. This marks an historic achievement in the development of propaganda!´

Thousands of cops and fascists are smacking themselves in the forehead right now and saying: Wow! Actually I invented this! I’ve been saying years ago “Hey, why are you hitting yourself?”

Gravity is just a side effect of the fundamental laziness of all things. Causality moves slower near mass, so it’s kind of relaxing to move towards it. That’s why everyone does it.

PS: There is actually a SciShow Spacetime video about gravity being an emergent property instead of a fundamental force. And no I didn’t get this from ChatGPT, I’m just that dumb when it comes to advanced physics haha.

Thanks. The rhyme doesn’t really make sense though, right? Or am I missing something?

MEME FYI: Essentially, submissive and breedable is meant to be an absurd, funny term of endearment, especially when used towards men, who might not particularly take the terms “submissive” or “breedable” as compliments in a traditional sense. It’s often used in the LGBTQ+ community and towards more effeminite men, including femboys like F1nnster, to compliment them on looking, well, submissive and breedable.

Except, this context is missing in this meme, here it is associated with a girl portraying a character that was sold as part of a deal to be bred with. It is no longer absurd or flipping gender roles. That was her value, being breedable. It doesn’t matter who stamets is, same rules apply. Memes mutate and change. Your body my choice.

In the original context it is funny because it is absurd, they are men joking among each other knowing they don’t breed, and they are also not in danger of being used as sex slaves powerful men. It’s funny because we live in a post-homophobic, post-misogynist and post-racial world. They even shut down the f*****-suicide prevention hotline recently because it was no longer needed!

You can criticize me for using the completely goonerified word “edging” because that is just triggering. I thought it was clever since words have power precisely because they have hidden meaning.

It’s called edging. You continually push “edgy” funny jokes because they are so crass and rebellious that you eventually arrive at the wonderful magnificent fascist USA we have today. That’s how gamer culture took over the white house.

I mean sometimes you can just not say an offensive word, even if you think it’s funny.

It’s misogyny. Literal boomer humor on new clothes.