yes the real world of existing, cheap renewable energy that is already being prioritized for use by miners due to its being cheaper than using non-renewables in the long run. you can go and look at the vast array of large scale mining operations that are using green energy. i firmly believe that green energy offers exponentially larger supplies of energy, and if bitcoin miners are building their operations around cheap, renewable energy then doesnt that serve to hasten adoption of those very green energy technologies?

yeah then i can buy more

you get a % of every sale and resell of the tokenized art as the creator.

If we had the capabilities to produce synthetic meat on a wide enough scale, then would you consider it a moral obligation of humans to work towards decoupling various natural predator-prey relationships by protecting the prey and providing synthetic alternatives to the predators? I’m curious if the same ethical obligations apply under non-human engineered, system-wide instances of slaughtering.

Because if the point isn’t only climate restoration but rather also the ending of unnecessary suffering, then it seems the natural predator-prey relationship that exists in the wild becomes unnecessary given sufficient human technology and management.

I know this isn’t exactly relevant to your response, but I’ve been pondering on the ethical implications of widely available synthetic meats.

Well the animals will breed naturally while they are on the rangeland, this is typically what happens anyways. You’d have to implement some type of population control if you wanted to maintain lack of population growth. I’m not sure if that’s really what you meant by not breed them.

It’s also not only about the effect it has on the animal, but the effect it has on the climate system as a whole. Managed grazing of pastureland is going to be necessary for the rapid restoration of lands. We can’t artificially recreate the positive effect animals have on the land without using animals themselves, and if we don’t actively manage it then the restoration will not be rapid enough to combat desertification.

What about using animals as components in permaculture-type land restoration programs? Cows and pigs are great at restoring rangeland and making healthy pasture if managed properly. Also, the creation of healthy pasture from degraded land sequesters carbon in the soil while increasing the production of biomass which also sequesters carbon.

ehhhhhhh it was certainly distinct classes at one point during the power struggle between the two groups. now the aristocracy has taken a back seat to the bourgeoisie so the distinction isn’t as palpable.

Thanks for putting effort into fighting this nonsense. This poster is making medical concerns arbitrary by bringing attention away from the syndrome of obesity and focusing on the symptoms which possibly can be “present at every BMI level.”

Your analogy of the syndrome of smoking causing the symptom of lung cancer is apt here. For how are we to stop endemic lung cancer without stopping endemic smoking, and how are we to stop what are provably endemic symptoms of obesity without first dealing with obesity?

(my usage of ‘symptoms’ and ‘syndrome’ was chosen bc the word syndrome is widely considered ‘that which causes symptoms’. by calling obesity a syndrome, i am only claiming that it produces symptoms. there is not meant to be any further negative connotation than it being the thing that produces symptoms)

i feel like this analogy and analysis is lacking structure and clarity. it reads like obscure metaphysics

there might be something there, but i can’t quite parse it

truly the zeitgeist of our times

Oh absolutely; however, if the bitcoin or whatever is seen as the money-commodity to the rest of the world and if your stated society is under capitalist-encirclement, then there would still be a large incentive for dissidents in the stated society to wield currencies from the capitalist-bloc.

if central banks integrate blockchain tech into their respective fiat currencies then money could quite literally be just moved out of country thru the blockchain. it’s likely they could eventually find the recipient address and demand reparations thru military intervention or simply issue them corresponding debt in accordance with the lost capital.

and perhaps GRIN too now, but i need to do more research

well if the boys from /c/finance and all get together maybe we can get our own chip manufacturing off the ground. i’ve been thinking about moving into research and majors based on figuring out how to manufacture computing parts. we could literally build the peoples’ chip

i have, im saying you are the one posturing. imagine acting like kant isn’t relevant to an understanding of hegel and marx’s usage of dialectics. and also zizek is a materialist lmfaooo, a main thesis of his is that hegel was one also btw

what, telling people to read books you yourself haven’t read, will do to a mf

lmfaooooooooooooooooo

just because you affirm your interpretation of the state of affairs as fact doesn’t mean it isn’t still just your interpretation of the state of affairs. what a weak fucking argument you have when you have to just affirm your view as if it was just a “fact of reality” as you say. as if reality isn’t structured by our ideologies. read kant and zizek

yes that is why china’s gdp growth has been so inefficient compared to USA

lmfao cope, they are telling you to read lenin so you know their working definition of what a socialist state is.

Great article, lots of take aways. I loved the idea of “power mapping” your local community with a strong marxist analysis and then organizing around that analysis. Truly goes to show how powerful applied theory can be; it illuminated a path to victory that routed around all the “paper-tiger” institutional small-town power brokers.