no need. its probably classified as food - just sell it in the cafeteria.

at this point i expect the anonymous tips to be limited hangout trying to obfuscate the really depraved shit

Solarpunk feels reminiscent of that Marx quote, that it is, at one and the same time, the expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering. It is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people. (Although it's transposed onto the political realm and urban design rather than the spiritual.)

This is why I think its important to be charitable about criticisms of Solarpunk. It does come from a genuine place. It's not the vapid futurism that Tech Oligarchs sell. And the video does make this point well: its not enough to have an aesthetic, you have to ask yourself how you get to that Solarpunk ideal, because, after all is said and done, if your aesthetic and your wellwishes do not arise from a concrete programme it becomes the easiest thing to co-op. Especially by said Tech Oligarchs. This, of course, without asking oneself any questions about de-growth, consumerism or the economic system in place. Even within a capitalist framework you have to be smart about it, otherwise you'll never get those walkable cities you so desire.

finklestein debated a guy saying that you can't prove genocide intent even if israel just happens to genocide the palestinians and would still call for the public execution of the epstein class

I always thought that the problem with stuff like the Solarpunk Manifesto is that it's like Soviet Aesthetic purged of workers and labor. I could make a drawing or a song based on the ideal of Communism, such as it may exist in the far (hopefully not too far) future. Soviet art tends not to depict that per se, instead what you see is workers labouring and happy to be labouring under Socialism, building out that Communist ideal. Solarpunk as an ideology is meant to be an antidote to despair, so the ideal Solarpunk world is already built.

The focus of Soviet art always seemed on people, wether they were working, fighting or building that Communist ideal. The focus of Solarpunk is on places, it is farms, gardens and green plazas, all devoid of mosquitoes, never being built but always being used - and I think only a minority of the Solarpunk artists caught up with that and started adding people on work suits doing the work of maintaining those places.

This is a picture I found online of a Sistema Agro-Florestal (Agri-Forest System) in Brazil. It is an idea that is arising under capitalism to combine local, native flora with staple foods and cash crops, in a way that permits you to more reliably control pests and cut back on both fertilizer and presticides. It also allows you to utilize land for food production without completely breaking down natural ecosystems, as native fauna like birds, mammals and insects, can make use of the Forest part of the system for transit and other purposes.

If I'm not mistaken, this sort of thing is also becoming a thing in upscale coffee farms in order to a) improve crop quality due to symbiosis, b) reduce vulnerability to extreme weather events such as heatwaves and extreme rains. There's also the idea to increase cocoa production in Brazil back to historical levels, as the country has had to deal with the Witch's Broom plague for decades at this point. So its not limited to small scale family farms either. Again, its an idea of that is arising in capitalist Brazil and, presumably, in many other places as well.

This is a drawing by a magazine in capitalist Brazil depicting an idealized version of Agri-Forest systems.. There's a guy using a hoe to till the soil and there's another guy climbing a ladder to harvest fruit. Idealized in a way, as there's no use of machinery, not even for watering crops. But its something human and achievable right away.

And this is a Solarpunk farm. Labor is only implied - the lady is having her cup of coffee in the morning, raring to go. But go where? The even larger implication is that everything is automated. The future is optimistic. Even the picking of delicate, fresh fruit has been optimized by ghibli octoarms machines.

Then you've got the floating gardens in places like Mexico, which harness native techniques to create pockets of extreme fertility and endurance in the middle of Mexico City. It really is something to behold but it is not something that can be appreciated without the labor involved in creating, maintaining and cleaning canal farms in the middle of a metropolis.

My hypothesis is that what forces of production remain in the US are so regressive that the people with a positive, environmental outlook into the future just aren't in industry or farming. They are city dwellers who, for the most part, wish their cities were livable spaces. Whereas elsewhere in the Global South, however regressive the landowners and capitalists may be when it comes to rewarding labor, environmental pressures do force them and their media to open the way for different ways of doing things. Even if it starts as a cynical ploy to acquire carbon credits or greenwash their initiatives of capital, something like a large scale sugar farm that doesn't do harvest burns respond to a real, social demand for fewer miserable months of mass air pollution in a year, for an instance - while also being a frontier for capital investment.

This piece from nakedcapitalism is what convinced me. Yes, institutional purchases are on the rise, but purchases by Central Banks were just diesel to the fire that is american goldbug culture. Because Trump is now president that goldbug culture has a new frontier. It's not just weird right wing weirdoes but scores of online liberals with the disposable income to go abroad started who are making videos talking about how they no longer feel safe holding dollars and how they are going to buy gold because the world is dedollarizing. And it was the retail and institutional people who were holding the bag this past week, not the Central Banks who generally acquire gold in a slow and steady pace almost regardless of price.

an even deeper existential issue is that any weirdness you see might just be normal in jeffrey's life, mannerisms and the demonic cult that rules the USA

one of the comments point out that one hour and 22 minutes in a guy shows up behind jeffrey and starts pissing, then looks at the camera and then starts pissing again.

It appears that the singular thing which motivates anything out of the Indian Government is any suggestion that Modi is not the most sovereign president in the history of humanity. All that friction after the short war with Pakistan and the one thing that pissed India off was the demand (and to be fair they are right in this) that Modi and the BJP government 'recognize' Trump as the one calling the shots and as the peacemaker. Now this.

And to be fair, there's no reason to be so bullish on China as to ignore certain underlying problems. Real Estate is the basis of the economy. From what I understand, leveraging price of Real Estate is partly how the chinese provinces financed their state driven investment and debt. All societies have to deal with this problem, only the president of the United States went on camera and said he'll do nothing to improve affordability because anyone who isn't a landlord is lazy and doesn't deserve a home.

they think chomsky was a Person of Power

so their friendship isn't costly?