On the contrary, it's showing the strength of federation: when an insurance can't go on, the communities and users are able to migrate to other instances and keep enjoying the fediverse.

I got a waterproof case, so I use mine as a coaster.

Seconded. When I was vegan I'd already been vegetarian for years. Meat, including fake meat, held no appeal.

Solarpunk is still very communitarian with a healthy dash of anarchism. The focus is on sustainability and using technology to support both human and ecological flourishing rather than that of metahuman entities like businesses, states, or organizations.

What you see as "doomsday pepper shit" and "subsistence farming" is radical anticonsumerism. People wanting to support themselves and each other rather than make money and buy products.

Solarpunks aren't luddites or antisocial, quite the opposite. That's what you see to be missing.

Why penalize the ownership class when you can stomp on the underclass instead?

big fucking /s

No. Protecting human rights is not authoritarian.

I didn't start until my late thirties. I didn't have enough income. It's not a confession. I'm not ashamed.

Emergency vehicles are not personal vehicles.

We want to ban cars, not:

• tradespersons' work trucks and vans

• public transit, including taxis and paratransit vans

• emergency vehicles

• shipping trucks

• vintage cars-as-art-objects (though we would ban driving them)

AI isn't reserved for a human-level general intelligence. The computer-controlled avatars in some videogames are AI. My phone's text-to-speech is AI. And yes, LLMs, like the smaller Markov-chain models before them, are AI.

Yeah, you asked some rando, not an employee.

Doesn't matter how good the content is if I have to fight the interface to get to it.

Man, the main virtue of lemmy is the lack of intrusive videos and images.