Excellent article, well worth the read.

Uh, hello, that was rhetorical and you read it literally. It’s really obvious that the writer is building an argument against reddit in this phrasing.

RTFA

Blindspot: The Thirteenth Amendment, allowing slave labour for prisoners. Do any slave labour parts manufacturers supply USA auto industry? Do we buy those parts when we buy Big 3?

Abolish slavery everywhere.

Just sayin’

The mail truck can be both those things, bombs need delivery.

Agrivoltaics can be a net benefit for plant productivity depending on the region and field type. Pasture for sheep does fairly well, for instance, as grasses do better with some shade in a lot of cases. It reduces water requirements and simulates a lightly wooded or scrub area.

Devil, details, etc.

Oh it fits in perfectly. A solarpunk future implies a balanced approach to individual rights and community responsibilities. Things are very out of whack under late industrial capitalism.

So your story reads like a community burdened with individualism. Trust is low because selfishness is seen as natural and expected. The culture doesn’t support mutual respect much. Me first. This is widely seen as uncivilized behaviour in modern literature.

So there you are, showing community minded acts, being a quiet leader. You are on the front lines. Be proud and oil your feathers and keep going.

You have an affinity community here, outside your region. Maybe find other like minded folks in your area by looking into the Transition movement.

People have trouble with the concept of partial blame, they want to feel innocent. Black and white thinking, low-resolution ethics.

It’s a necessary suppression to underpin individualist ideologies, I think.

Nevertheless, remember that the ‘footprint’ decisions of one oil exec outweigh the decisions of thousands or millions (or billions if you include descendants) of ordinary folk. But we do also outnumber them to that extent, so we have adequate power collectively.

We, well those of us in environmental activist roles anyway, were using the term regularly and as part of our public messaging in the mid-90’s.

Bill Rees came up with the term at UBC a few years earlier and it was catching fire, but environmentalism is poorly funded so the messages spread slowly. Oil companies saw a grift opportunity and used it as a deflection strategy a few years later. They just got there first, and by throwing gobs of marketing money at it, controlled the narrative.

The message was getting out, but not at hypercapitalist rates. BP oiligarchs don’t deserve credit for popularizing the term. Rees does, he did more than just coin it, he worked with us to make sure we built tools to understand it.

liquitate these assets, buddy

lol I make no excuses or apologies for the imperialists, but stated that your tone and dogmatic absolutism looked suspiciously trollish, but I take it back, you put words in other people’s mouths and remind me of some Trots I used to hang with, very high on the righteousness hormones.

This is functional reform in a capitalist representative democracy. So it will never happen! I expect guillotines before accountability.

That is all true, in one way or another. It is also true that this argument is used sometimes as cover for the Chinese/Russian/$authoritarian regimes of the world, so the waters have been muddied in such discussions, and nuance matters.

Claiming that one rogue country must be punished first, despite the lingering hegemony of the US-led 20thC and other basic geopolitical realities, just makes you look like a weak state agent.

Colonialism is an ongoing crime and needs resolution on many parts of the planet.

Everything Has a Cost

A more vertical angle or double sided would also mitigate that risk.

Some places just get freak storms with boulder hail. Rare.

Great comment, I am compelled to translate for non-locals: “hydro” is canadian for ‘the electric company’.

A 4” pipe with 400’ of head altitude feeds a 3/4” nozzle pelton wheel with around 7000w @ 120v in a basic bush install. I am sure a well engineered system could provide double that or more, but a rooftop tank might run out at night unless it was quite big, and that is definitely micro hydro.

calculations based on living with such a system

They don’t have phone numbers? I will risk the known exposure through the phone system before anything Meta or LinkedIn. Basically if fb or insta is your contact choice, I am going to phone or sms instead.

And where does the money come from?

A 90% tax rate on all oligarchs and related industries, so that is a surprising suggestion coming from an oligarch, but I guess the math still is profitable.

Or, you know, something involving guillotines and pitchforks, and seizure of the means of production and reproduction.

.ml user here thinks that everyone else picks servers due to ideological loyalty-- main character syndrome – let’s just call everyone fascist if they aren’t tankies, eh?

Huh, “profuse and athletic urinators” is better grammar.