speedingcheese

joined 7 months ago
[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Damn I’m sorry. You captured the feeling beautifully

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago

Call me dense—where is the sample?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Those projects both sound exciting to work on! What a fun field to be in.

And yeah, we’ve got a similar philosophy regarding things to engage with. I’m having trouble implementing it though 😬

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Maybe a dumb question but would hydro on top of a large waterfall work without impacting biodiversity? I ask because maybe there isn’t wildlife that goes down large waterfalls, so no impact.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

I would love to hear about your work if you’re willing. I am so fascinated by the potential of robots in a solarpunk future.

Edited to add that I appreciate you knowing what fight is yours and what isn’t. It’s certainly a necessary skill for mental health and focus nowadays.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Buildings that grow? Can you explain what you mean? My imagination is going wild

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

My thoughts too!! As an author nurturing a seed for a solarpunk novel and who has recently found freedom, I teared up tbh!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Yeah, I’m with you that it’s tough to figure out. Good points, and I didn’t offer a solution because I don’t have one! Just… gah, I left reddit because the echo chamber/hive mind is destructive to intelligent conversation.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Online reputations sound nice in theory, but quickly fall apart in practice. It is essentially a social credit system Like China uses to control people. In a system like what you’re describing, people would probably ding someone that they simply didn’t agree with. That means someone with a controversial but perhaps well thought out and valid take would be booted. Thus, intelligent debates and discussions take a hit and then you have the Echo chamber of Reddit.

https://www.wired.com/story/china-social-credit-system-explained/

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

What is microsolar? Tried looking it up, didn’t come up with much.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

If you need it in a jiffy, but libraries and authors could both use support.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago

To me, the connection wasn’t direct. The author was saying that to move forward and solve humanity’s problems, there needs to be less heroes (guys with spears) and more collaboration (people with bags). Humans love their heroes so it’s an uphill battle.

What I took from my initial read is “stop waiting for others to save the world.” That feels solarpunk to me.

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