Thedogdrinkscoffee
@Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca
- Comment on What is the champagne of champagne? 3 hours ago:
I’m going to avoid the big famous brands that are more marketing than anything, and go with the producer I selected from a blind taste test of the regions producers when on a tour of the region.
Their Vigne d’Or is excellent.
- Comment on I watched several videos on a Combine Harvester's inner workings 6 hours ago:
You end up with more problems than you solve with squish and smoosh. These are sophisticated machines that can all too easily interfere with each others operation. The snuggle method has been proven to improve operability, lower service calls and reduce complaints
- Comment on Humans are part of the ecosystem. 8 hours ago:
There you go doing it again, despite being shown. Your error is deliberate, purposeful. Dangerous, disingenuous and dishonest. You only see what you want and think your blinders fashionable.
- Comment on Humans are part of the ecosystem. 22 hours ago:
The problem is Discrediting by Association. Any meaningful, impactful movement that challe ges the growth paradigm and threatens profiteers is disingenuously categorized as ecofascist.
Reddit/r/collapse wouldn’t talk about population at all for years because of the knee-jerk reaction to lump it in with eugenics and genocide. They grew up and now it is carefully moderated and discussed well. It seems Lemmy ain’t there yet.
If you are an ecology dude like me you remember I=PAT. How can we discuss solutions when we self censor ethical and moral discussions around the P pillar.
- Comment on Humans are part of the ecosystem. 22 hours ago:
Many indigineous peoples uphold sustainability as crucial to their culture.
Many of every other nation, race, culture and creed do to.
It is actually a common logical failing of Western thinking to assume that everyone sees the world and interacts with it the same way (like them).
See how the second sentence describes the crime you committed in the first?
- Comment on Humans are part of the ecosystem. 22 hours ago:
I don’t appreciate the censorship.
- Comment on Humans are part of the ecosystem. 22 hours ago:
Ok, I’m not gonna ask how you force a world to stop having children and rapidly reduce the population.
Force? Take a moment to step out of your body and listen to the nonsense you are saying. Lol! Have you seen birthrates around most of the world? I have to do exactly … nothing! It’s already happening.
Some public relations and education around the purpose and benefits of degrowth would be helpful, but it is entirely voluntary. If someone wants to have 10 children, that’s their choice, but they should have no illusions to the world their children will be raised in. That is part of the education.
All children born have equal rights and are taken care of by the state, community and families, even the family with 10 kids. Support for family planning and abortion services should be frictionless, but that’s the norm already in civilized countries. It’s the shithole countries you have to worry about. Trade blocs of degrowth countries can encourage them with trade rules, aid and sanctions.
Most state subsidies would have to go to redirecting the economy to brace for an aging population then a smaller steady state economy. We have to build the world of the future for the smaller civilization to endure. We need leaders who have a clear vision of what sustainability actually looks like.
This means efficient quality housing (passivehouse) built in walkable cities with extensive public transit. Everything powered by renewables. With less mouths to feed, marginal agricultural lands can be rewilded. There is a principle in ecology that you can save 80% of species by protecting 50% of the land. This is almost easy with a small population. With a large and growing population hoping for a technical miracle breakthrough hail mary, it’s a death sentence.
Also, agricultural techniques can adapt to environmentally sustainable models like permaculture and silvopasture and alleycropping thus rebuilding soils, retaining moisture and soil carbon amd biological activity. This is not currently possible because our population exploded based on monoculture dependent on pumped groundwater from rapidly depleting aquifers, pesticides that are poisoning humans and wildlife and the plastic packaging meant to maximize short term yields. A world where climate change is a major factor, the loss of major breadbaskets when aquifers run dry at the same time as a drought will guarentee millions and millions of deaths by poverty and famine and conflict over remaining resources.
Degrowth says that when these inevitable things happen, do you want a large population to discover there is no room for them on a dying planet, or do you want a small population who can life full healthy meaningful lives restoring the biosphere we broke.
Manufacturing is already being automated, and so is defense. The economy doesn’t want youth for this type of work and with drones and ai it’s only accelerating. Automation and social services will be big employers, as will the infrastructure projects that will bring a sustainable population to light.
Do you want your kids and your nations youth building a sustainable future for mankind, or do you want them dying from pollution, famine and war?
- Comment on Humans are part of the ecosystem. 1 day ago:
You have no idea what you or I are talking about.
Me: I like ice cream.
You: You are a fascist mass murderer.
You never even bother to ask what flavour. Just accusations and assumptions.
bigot noun big·ot ˈbi-gət Synonyms of bigot : a narrow-minded person who obstinately adheres to their own opinions and prejudices especially : one who strongly and unfairly dislikes or feels hatred toward others based on their group membership
You are a bigot.
- Comment on Humans are part of the ecosystem. 1 day ago:
I don’t know who taught you critical thinking, but they failed. This is hard bigot nonsense.
- Comment on Humans are part of the ecosystem. 1 day ago:
Degrowth sides with eugenics, racists, and psychopaths.
Nope. That just a deliberate mischaracterization driven by those who have a stake in growth and consumption.
You could be called a nazi for no reason too, it doesn’t discredit the ideas, its just meaningless noise.
Degrowth is very clearly and unequivocally a moral and ethical plan to right size humanity to where its ecological footprint can be carried sustainably by the earth. No technological miracle hail marys required. No deaths, no racism, no deprivation or suffering or state sponsored goonsquad progroms. Just shrink until you fits where you sits.
- Comment on Ubisoft Closes Halifax Studio Just After Employees Unionized [Updated] 1 day ago:
I for one welcome the closing. I hope Ubisoft makes less, sells less and has to compete with whatever these righteous dudes come up with next. I hope their replacements are even more expensive, and they too have to close down due to raoid unionization.
- Comment on You have to be orchidding me! 1 day ago:
The original retro-futuristic furries.
- Comment on Humans are part of the ecosystem. 1 day ago:
There is a point burried in there that is drowned out by all the fallacious added baggage. Its disingenuous bullshit.
Indigenous Chinese or Indians or Nigerians are not protectors of the earth, just like every other industrial nation. The picture meant to frame “Indigenous” as what Canada calls the indigenous First Nations peoples. It’s relying on the racist trope of the noble savage, forgetting that First Nations aren’t against industrializing their lands, as long as they are included as partner beneficiaries and they don’t maximize returns via egregious environmental destruction on their lands. They also generally want industrialization and trade including water treatment, sanitation and all the other goodies like internet, tv, playstations and the like.
It also targets “capitalist” without looking at the eco-horrors of every other 'ism on earth.
This is a shitpost carefully designed to be a lopsided attack.
- Comment on Humans are part of the ecosystem. 1 day ago:
Absoluetely no one is promoting this. I hear this bullshit argument every time degrowth comes up, but this has NOTHING to do with degrowth and is a bad faith argument full of too many fallacies to mention.
- Comment on Association of Home Appliance Manufacturers wins lawsuit against Colorado. Judge claims there is no evidence that gas stoves cause or contribute to health issues 1 day ago:
Federal “Court”. There is no law and no court federally. There is a fossil fuel funded lobby group masquerading as a court. It’s not the same thing.
One thing Trump taught us is that you can just ignore this federal judgement and let the state enforce its own laws as it sees fit. Non compliant products can be sent for destruction.
- Comment on Dutch students create modular electric car "you can repair yourself" 1 day ago:
Two please!
- Comment on Metal Exclusionary Radical Astronomy 4 days ago:
It’s there. If memory serves, its half-life is 12y, so it is on the list. Just microscopically small font size.
- Comment on Metal Exclusionary Radical Astronomy 4 days ago:
The Coalition for the Respect of the Unique Nature of Isotopes considers this lumping in of isotopes VERY disrespectful. CRUNI prefers this model.
- Comment on Beer is for GIRLS 5 days ago:
Opium…
- Comment on Anyone in the US also feeling extra suicidal after hearing the news today? 6 days ago:
A fundamental choice we get is when to stop playing the game. Fuck moral panic. A mature person can choose for themselves as a mater of bodily autonomy. Of course it’s not always a good choice, and there are consequences, but sovereignty of the soul is a hill I’ll die on. Heh.
- Comment on Does anyone make a bidet that is a combination of a toilet, a Star Trek captain's chair and a touchless carwash? 6 days ago:
Do I want to get completely undressed and shower for a shit? No.
- Comment on Does anyone make a bidet that is a combination of a toilet, a Star Trek captain's chair and a touchless carwash? 6 days ago:
Too hard on the knees and not good when I’m old and arthritic.
- Comment on Does anyone make a bidet that is a combination of a toilet, a Star Trek captain's chair and a touchless carwash? 6 days ago:
I get the feeling a custom fabricated one off is the only solution.
- Comment on Does anyone make a bidet that is a combination of a toilet, a Star Trek captain's chair and a touchless carwash? 6 days ago:
The soapy buttwash is critical. Would you just rinse your hands after going to the bathroom, or would you wash with soap and water? Touchless carwash experience for the full monty including cock and balls. Easy pulse action on the balls. No assault required. Just comfort, convenience and cleanliness.
- Comment on Does anyone make a bidet that is a combination of a toilet, a Star Trek captain's chair and a touchless carwash? 6 days ago:
Honestly, I have already considered such a thing.
- Comment on Does anyone make a bidet that is a combination of a toilet, a Star Trek captain's chair and a touchless carwash? 6 days ago:
Links to make and models please?
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Does anyone make a bidet that is a combination of a toilet, a Star Trek captain's chair and a touchless carwash?lemmy.ca ↗ - Comment on Neat Wheat 6 days ago:
I would CRISPR myself in a heartbeat for a few thing if I could.
- Comment on How much money should one person realistically make or have? 1 week ago:
Bootlicker. Those laws get repealed when you control enough wealth.
- Comment on How much money should one person realistically make or have? 1 week ago:
Good point, but easily resolved with share classes.
Estate taxes don’t help, for example we can’t afford to wait for Musk to die to rectify the political and institutuonal damage he has done and is doing.
