Grail
@Grail@multiverse.soulism.net
Goddess of madness and rebirth. Excrucian Strategist. Capitalised They/Them. Anarcho-Antireal theorist.
- Comment on Why do I think music sounds better on my old MP3 player? 10 hours ago:
Normalisation is pretty good if you need to keep your computer quiet
- Comment on No work 16 hours ago:
Oh gods, I wish the decline of late stage capitalism lead to less animal agriculture. Instead the whole world has decided they need more protein than ever
- Comment on No work 16 hours ago:
You should get a job in international business relations. Just think, you could travel the world, eat hella food, and dress fly for corporate profits!
- Comment on Well done, all of you! 18 hours ago:
If the roads have more cars on them, they’ll break faster and cost more effort to fix. Ideally, we’d build rails out to your farm and send a train to pick up the food you make.
Now the problem with your gas and electricity logic is you’re talking like the countryside is one place. Like the power and gas are made right next to your farm and you can just plug into it with a 100m cable. And since you mention it, I think an off-grid solar setup would be a great idea for your farm. That’s one less line needed. Now you just need to get water for your crops from elsewhere. I figure you’re not gonna want to use well water, because if there were enough water under your farm to feed the crops, you wouldn’t need irrigation.
But if we’re talking about 300 people’s houses, we can do better than a 300 off-grid solar setups. We can build an economy of scale. We can diversify between solar and wind turbines to reduce the battery requirement. We can build a nuclear plant. We can build row houses that share some nice thick walls, to prevent air conditioning energy loss to the environment. We can run trams instead of electric cars and waste far less energy moving metal vehicles around. We can take up less land than 300 times your farmhouse and amenities do.
- Comment on Well done, all of you! 19 hours ago:
One thick water pipe going to one farmer’s irrigation system, alongside one gas line, one power line and one internet line, costs a whole lot less than hundreds of long water, gas, power, and internet lines going out to an entire rural neighbourhood. And I think we can do even better than that. I think you’d be able to get by just fine with a Starlink internet connection, and by cooking with induction. So that’s just one water and one power line, and they only have to be thick enough to fit your farm’s needs, not an entire community of people getting up to shower at 7am. Plus if the roads out to your farm were only being used by your truck, and the occasional post van or visitor, they’d take way less wear, and could be engineered to a much more basic standard. We wouldn’t need to build a 6 lane elevated highway, we could just make a simple two lane asphalt road with reflector posts.
So why don’t you go live alone on your square mile farm, feeding 320 people, and ship the food over to our nice walkable medium density neighbourhood? Overall, the whole lot of us would be using less carbon, spending less time fixing roads, and we’d all be happier. We all get the freedom to choose how to live and how to travel. Because right now America’s zoning boards are only approving single family homes in suburban and rural areas, and I don’t call that freedom.
- Comment on Chop Chop Motherfuckers 20 hours ago:
Yeah, I know. There’s even some Arabs in American who voted for Trump because he said he was going to end the genocide in Gaza. They got lied to. And those people, who agree with Me on most points of ethics and political issues, I still count them as enemies. I know it’s not always clear who the good guys are. But I know the good guys aren’t the people saying “Kill all X”. Because we tried “kill all Nazis”, and then Russia said “There’s Nazis in Ukraine, we’re gonna go kill all Nazis” and they used it for evil. And we tried “kill all antisemites”, and then Israel said “There’s antisemites in Gaza, we’re gonna go kill all antisemites”. “Kill all X” is just inherently easy for evil regimes to use as a justification for whatever they wanted to do anyway. It’s not a useful meme.
- Comment on Well done, all of you! 21 hours ago:
When you spread people out, you have to build more water and gas pipes, more internet cables, more roads, deliver things farther, send the garbage trucks farther, the post, the news… It all adds up to a LOT of money. Strong Towns is a financial consultancy organisation that helps cities get out of debt, and they keep finding the same pattern, very consistently, in American cities: The urban core generates tons of revenue for the city, and then the suburbs spend it all. The suburbs are making American cities broke, because they just cost way more to maintain than the residents are paying in taxes. The city is subsidising the suburbs.
America’s “welfare queens” are the people living in detached single family homes in cul-de-sacs and making 100,000 a year. If cities charged those welfare queens a fair amount of taxes, they’d all be broke and try to move into the urban core, and the housing problems would get even worse for poor people. So cities are stuck propping up a failed economic housing model while trying to figure a way out of the crisis.
The answer that Strong Towns keeps finding is to invest more money in medium density mixed use neighbourhoods. The kind of place where you can live down the road from your office and walk there on a nice day, or take a leisurely stroll to the tram station for a day trip into the city. Those wonderful neighbourhoods full of trees, which are quiet because there are less cars, where kids can ride their bikes to school in safety, are economic powerhouses. Those neighbourhoods make more tax dollars than they spend. And I think you deserve to live somewhere like that.
- Comment on Chop Chop Motherfuckers 23 hours ago:
Maybe I have a bit of a different definition of active than you do, I dunno. I mean, I’m fine with dropping a big bomb on a base full of sleeping IDF soldiers. Cause when they wake up, they’re gonna go murder children like they’ve been ordered to. I’m talking about making a determination of whether there’s a state of warfare imminent to the situation. How much risk is there, that they’re gonna start taking innocent lives if left to go about their business? That’s what I’m worried about.
- Comment on Marvel’s Wolverine - Extended Gameplay Trailer | PS5 Games 1 day ago:
Well a mutant would know that because they can feel their powers being dampened, but a human wouldn’t necessarily know what the green kid’s powers are until they run some tests. Maybe this is early in the story, before the humans know what Leech can do. Maybe the orders were “collar all mutants”, and the grunts aren’t empowered to make their own decisions in the field.
- Comment on Chop Chop Motherfuckers 1 day ago:
Depends on the circumstances. I’m fine with killing prisoners during a war, when battle is actively happening and could be here soon. But if we roll into town with a few tanks and they all put their hands up and there are no signs of any other danger, I say no killing. We gotta treat our POWs nicely.
- Comment on Well done, all of you! 1 day ago:
Buses are awesome too!
But I think any bus route that runs for more than 5 years should just be replaced with a tram at that point, because trams are even better. Buses are great for temporary changes to routes, but they can’t beat trams for efficiency or convenience.
- Comment on That's a no 1 day ago:
I hope you achieve your dream
- Comment on That's a no 1 day ago:
What’s the primary source? If it’s nuclear, reflected solar, or geothermal, I think you’re cool.
- Comment on Well done, all of you! 1 day ago:
I think you deserve more freedoms. Right now you’ve got a car as your option, and if you’re lucky you can walk or bike to work. I want you to have your choice of bus, train, or tram to get to work. I want all three to be available to get you there in a reasonable time. The train goes faster, but you have to walk a bit farther to the station, so it’s good for exercise. The tram is slower, but you get to see the city as you go along and it’s very disability friendly thanks to level boarding. The bus goes along the lower traffic routes, it’s more direct but comes less often. I want you to have all three of those options, plus what you already have. And then you don’t have to risk your life or road rage. You can play Mario on your Nintendo while the train takes you home from work.
- Comment on That's a no 1 day ago:
VROOM VROOM LOOK AT ME I DRIVE A CAR. I SMELL LIKE GASOLINE FUMES AND I GIVE ASTHMA TO LITTLE KIDS.
- Comment on Well done, all of you! 1 day ago:
I’ve got a solution for that one too. It’s called a train station. We need to build more of them.
- Comment on That's a no 1 day ago:
Hey look, the noisy smelly car drivers are arguing. Have fun risking your lives every day!
- Comment on Well done, all of you! 1 day ago:
I’ve got a solution. It’s called a train.
- Comment on Chop Chop Motherfuckers 1 day ago:
Thank you! This whole “kill all Zionists” debacle has been very interesting. It’s very much separated out of the Thunbergs from the Lenins in the community. I’m glad that people are starting to respect dbzer0 less, as dbzer0 slide rightward.
You know, a lot of Jewish people decided to respond to the genocide their grandparents suffered, by conducting a genocide of their own. And it seems that just like the Nazis, the Zionists are inspiring a new generation of murderous hate. History is a circle.
- Comment on Truly one of history's greatest monsters. Well earned title if you asked me 1 day ago:
Actually, he didn’t try to remove Earth’s atmosphere to look at the moon. He tried to move the atmosphere to the moon, so he could look at space.
- Comment on Marvel’s Wolverine - Extended Gameplay Trailer | PS5 Games 1 day ago:
I think they got dampener collars on the kids
- Comment on Marvel’s Wolverine - Extended Gameplay Trailer | PS5 Games 1 day ago:
Huh??? Why isn’t he short?
- Comment on Chop Chop Motherfuckers 1 day ago:
But you didn’t show any convincing evidence they’re a zionist. You’re trying to reason Me from a premise to a conclusion, using the conclusion as evidence. That’s circular reasoning, you’re not convincing anybody.
- Comment on Be The Sunshine ☀️ 1 day ago:
I think the story goes that the ambulance was driving towards a car containing the patient, and the car containing the patient was also driving towards the ambulance.
- Comment on Chop Chop Motherfuckers 1 day ago:
Godric says they dodged the question because they recognised that you were using the alt-right playbook, and didn’t want to take your engagement bait. I think that’s a valid position. I’m a bit more of a skilled speechwriter, so I know how to maneuver past engagement debate and stay on topic while also addressing the question. But if Godric didn’t feel confident with outmaneuvering your engagement bait and wanted to just stay on topic, I respect that. I gotta say, I also noticed you using the alt-right playbook. You made a wild accusation against Me with no evidence and gish-galloped straight into interrogating Me. It’s a good thing I know how to deal with that sort of bad-faith rhetoric. I’m not gonna take your word that Godric is a zionist, just because they refused to engage with your bad-faith nonsense.
- Comment on Chop Chop Motherfuckers 1 day ago:
Yes, Israel is committing a genocide. I think Australia should declare war on Israel and bomb IDF bases until the genocide stops. We should demand that Israel recognise the Palestinian state and withdraw all trespasses onto Palestinian land. But once the war is over, I do not think Australia should execute zionist civilians. I also do not think zionist civilians in Australia should be executed by the government. Certainly, if they’re collaborating with the IDF, their work should be seized. The most egregious domestic offenders should be charged with community service.
Would you have the Australian government (which, by the way, is an illegal government just like Israel) execute zionist citizens for treason, commit to an invasion of Palestinian land, and execute all Israeli citizens who support the genocide? I wouldn’t. We have no death penalty in Australia for good reason. I would not support any politician who advocated for reinstating capital punishment, even if they intended to execute zionists.
- Comment on Suicide by obedience 1 day ago:
Australia has a department of defence. The biggest threat to Australia is climate change. The department of defence should be defending us from climate change.
- Comment on Chop Chop Motherfuckers 1 day ago:
I care who kills fascists because I don’t think the government should have the power to kill people. The government will become corrupt if you give it that power. Instead of empowering the state, we should be dismantling it.
- Comment on Chop Chop Motherfuckers 1 day ago:
I’m not gonna simp for the US government’s right to execute people. Miss Me with that authoritarian shit. I only support murder of fascists when it’s done by anarchist vigilantes. That’s because I trust Luigi Mangione types better than I trust Harry Truman types.
- Comment on Chop Chop Motherfuckers 2 days ago:
Oh, are you one of those people who’s pro-death-penalty? No thanks, I’m a leftist. I think only active combatants should be killed.