hell yeah, public transport is better than any car of any type, be it combustion or EVs.

the way that i think about rebirth typically is that you get to inherit the world that you helped create, i.e. if you’ve been a nice person, you’re gonna encounter your previous self in your next life, independent on whether you’ve had children or not, even across species.

so, since we didn’t interfere with alien species, probably we’re not gonna be reborn as them.

We could glorify the farmers and the workers

yeah that is a good point, but not 100% accurate i guess, at least not if you consider “workers” like typical factory or service workers

there was a lot of maths being done the last 60 years, if you consider software development a type of applied maths (which it formally is), and that doesn’t really fit into the categories of “farmer” or “worker”, since it’s non-routine task with no clear goal other than creativity, for which you might or might not get paid, depending on whether people will like it. that can’t really be encompassed into the concept of a “worker” i guess

and that stuff really matters. the US’ economy essentially grew since 1970 because of IT. real economy (production of stuff) stagnated since 1970 (in the US at least). you can see this clearly in diagrams such as this one where oil consumption (which is directly proportional to industrial output) stagnates since 1970. also note that IT companies are the highest-valued companies in the US stock market today, and that’s because they have tremendous significance in the US economy.

thanks, this answer deserves an award

yeah, sanitation is really important, and it’s easy to understand that once you consider that our shit is literally 25% live bacteria by mass. that’s more than a trillion, idk even what the name for numbers that big is. for bacteria, the quantity of bacteria you ingest plays a role (i think) in how dangerous the disease is that you catch, so if you eliminate the biggest source of bacteria, that reduces diseases a lot

yeah, 20 squats are like, what? 2 minutes max? that’s 3 Wh at 100 W power, or 0.003 kWh.

if you get $0.10 per kWh, that’s $0.0003 per passenger, that’s not enough to pay for a bus ticket.

advertisements are brainwashing. think about it: if a company spends $1K on advertisement, it expects to make at least as much through increased sales. That’s the money they steal from you.

genocide is a US tradition

“there’s no ethical consumption”

i used to believe that because consumption typically entailed consuming fossil fuels, which destroys the planet. nowadays, with the revolution of clean, renewable energy, i see no problem anymore. we can consume a lot more than we’re currently doing without really harming the planet once that renewable energy is in place (which, btw, trump is opposed to, because he’s bought by the oil industry)

what, do you think, are the drawbacks of consumerism?

i used to be pretty anti-consumerism too, but a certain bit of consumerism is needed to keep the economy running. otherwise the economy is like a dead wasteland with lots in houses in it, but nothing grows.

The disparity in wealth wasn’t any better under Biden.

It’s worse now. A part of that is due to natural developments (worsening job markets due to AI), but a large part is because trump fails to redistribute wealth from the rich to the poor, thus halting the circulation of money and stifling the economy.

money is like blood in a human, it needs to flow in circles. it cannot only go from bottom to top. there needs to be redistribution from the top to the bottom for the blood to continue to flow. only then can the organism survive.

Nearly eight out of 10 Americans, including 70% of Republicans, fear that Trump’s tariffs will increase the price of everyday goods.

The money that the federal government rises through import tariffs (import taxes) should be redistributed to the people sothat the people can buy american-made products with it.

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oil with a little bit of crushed flour and salt mixed in

don’t forget the sugar!

Basically what unions would have given is if they hadn’t been gutted.

At this time, i wonder, whether “union” is just another term for your local friendly anarchists fighting for your rights? Because that’s how people use the term.

We live in the most exciting times in history

I definitely agree. It’s because we live in the most interesting times in history that there is so much work to do. It is not normal that the work never seems to end, there’s always just more work to do, and it’s because of all the inventions that are constantly made. They demand human labor to be developed, and that’s why we’re spending all our time in laboratories or office spaces, or in service industries serving these fields. It’s all caused by progress, and progress itself demands all of our attention. That is why we have no nature, not because of electricity. I guess

i … don’t really think that “dirt floors” inherently are a problem. sanitation back then sucked but mostly for the cities between 1500 - 1800, because before then big cities weren’t much of a thing and after that soap was invented. idk, maybe i am off about this. correct me if i am wrong.

(btw, does anybody know about the sanitary situation in ancient roman cities?)

but i agree with you.

The gains in efficiency over the last hundred years have been insane. Today’s crumbs are better than the whole cookie back then.

Last time i went to the supermarket, i paid 18€ for a whole bag of food. it was more than enough for a whole day. When i thought how much i had to work for it to pay for it all, it’s like 1.5 hours in total. That is not much. And the food is top quality. No toxins, rather fresh, very nutritious and very convenient to get everything in one place.

i got the martians. it’s a future empire, does that still count?

now great, what will google think of me 🙄

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