Chapo0114 [comrade/them, he/him]

psytrance

hey man, leave psytrance and goa out of this

I just wanted to say thank you for arguing against the celebration of the murder of children.

You are beautiful. Thanks for sharing your compassionate indignation, I agree fully.

Having royal family members can provide some legitimacy to the insurrections.

Are we idealists with a great man view of history now? Do we think these symbols actually hold real power to sway a insurrection’s success one way or the other?

Interestingly, finding that out helped me shake out some of my back in college

Trumpism

But do they support literally any other of our war criminal presidents? Why do you all act like America was somehow a force for good and not terror before Trump was elected?

Oh no, oh fuck, you made me want to play golf.

Hydroelectricity

Destroys aquaculture. TVA has absolutely killed those rivers, and there is no way to sugar coat that.

Geothermal can’t be used in most places (but should absolutely be used where it can be)

Biomass is just burning shit all over again (thought that was the point of not burning coal).

I’m also skeptical of the pivot from using renewables as a decentralized solution and then touting a massive grid which requires lots of infrastructure. Unless your problem with centralization is targetability by bombing.

I’ve not heard much about compressed air as an energy storage medium, or thermal storage besides from using solar arrays to reflect light and melt a metal core (like Gemasolar which is another centralized solution), but I’ve heard nothing good about hydrogen except from breathless techbro types.

Meanwhile Nuclear is a mature technology now, absolutely a less dangerous solution than coal (even without looking a climate change knock-on effects, just looking at the effects coal dust has on populations near coal-fired plants), and can be used to meet the base-load of a local grid with various renewable solutions used to meet peak load demands.

How do we deal with balancing the uneven load renewables produce in places where pumped hydro isn’t an option for power storage? I.e. lowland areas. Here in the southeastern US, night almost always means no wind as well as the obvious no sun. Chemical batteries, afaik, aren’t a sustainable solution ATM.

Degrowth could definitely only be accomplished under a socialist model where we aren’t price gouged for food and housing. A life with less work and less disposable crap sounds really fucking good though.

Fuck, isn’t that the truth. I fell in love the first time largely because she would/could actually talk with me about feelings and fears and I felt seen as a person for the first time.

life will beat the egotism out of you

I’ve met way too many mediocre (mostly)white (mainly)men who think they know everything to believe that.

I heard (could be mistaken) that there is a group in Texas that has shown up, armed, several times when tent cities were going to be torn down and averted their distruction, at least temporarily. Should def be a nationwide movement, but there would need to be a way to identify when the pigs were going to roll in.

The first time I realized I was, for lack of a better word, different than the people I grew up around is when one of my high school buddies just casually said we should “just glass the middle east and get it over with”. Glassing is a term we got from Halo which means to incinerate an area with such a high heat the surface turns to glass. His proposed method was obviously nuclear bombs.

No one else thought it was an outlandish thing to say, much less a truly abhorrent one.

My cats origin:

1. A momma cat showed up pregnant and had her kittens under the trailer we were living in. The rest of her kittens disappeared, and she was a feral, but we took the remaining kitten in, our bestest baby boy.

2. Adopted from shelter so #1 would have a friend. It didn’t work, he only likes humans lmao. Fortunately for her, a few months later…

3. We heard what we thought was a injured bird outside our apartment in the middle of the night. Turned out to be an oil covered baby kitten. She was adopted by #2 :)

Not on his whims though, he can’t just go outside alone. And before we had a yard it was on leash only, which is something most people could do if their cat did show antsy behavior.

I have three cats. Only one ever showed interest in outside, so we got him a harness and leash. He loves it, the best treat in the world. Now we live somewhere with a fenced in back yard, so we let him out with no leash on supervised play times, and one of his sisters has shown an interest so she comes with us into the yard. When we can’t be with them as supervision, they stay inside. Not so different from a small child.

We also play with them all daily and are currently building an elaborate climbing wall to keep them entertained better during the sweltering heat of summer. At no occasion do they need the opportunity to murder in order to be happy.

I’m disengaging.

Curious, as the person who you were originally responding to deleted their comment. Is that per year or a one time expenditure?

Also, 36k is still literally 44-80% higher than your initial claim.

Apes of the State have a cool sound, will have to dig more into them.