mojo_raisin

Exactly! We can't blame these companies and then buy their stuff and deflect all responsibility.

It's sort of a cycle that runs on apathy, ignorance, and lack of empathy.

Powerful groups manipulate and coerce people and markets

Manipulated, coerced people buy more of what they are pushed to

Consumer votes in leaders that support this exploitative cycle making laws facilitating companies manipulating and coercing their behavior

We need to break out of this cycle by conscientiously rejecting this manipulation, buying less, voting, running for office, etc. (i.e. degrowth)

Voting isn’t going to do shit.

Voting can buy us time and keep us a situation more conducive to making changes outside the electoral system. Protesting under a fascist regime is a good way to get a life sentence, get deported, or put on a blacklist.

Unfortunately, as long as we leave political offices to be filled by the worst of us this will continue. Voting is only half the battle.

Have I not seen both Harris and Walz in rural areas almost every day lately going into small shops and union factories... putting tons of money and energy into swing states and states not normally considered in play for the Democrats? I don't remember seeing either of them spending much energy going to Manhattan, Los Angeles, San Diego, etc. that I remember. I've heard them both talk about rural areas mostly and being incredibly important and listen to their concerns.

The US is huge, they are two people, it's impossible for them to visit every small town.

They turned their fishing nets into ancient fishnet hosiery.

"Conservatives" aren't a real thing, they are masked fascists, unable to argue in good faith by definition. Open fascists are what you see when "conservatives" argue in good faith.

This is the essence of state.

Like hormesis works in reverse for them

Funny, I've mentally annotated mormons my whole life as likely to commit sexual violence and child abuse.

The job of CEO seems the far easier to replace with AI. A fairly basic algorithm with weighted goals and parameters (chosen by the board) + LLM + character avatar would probably perform better than most CEOs. Leave out the LLM if you want it to spout nonsense like this Amazon Cloud CEO.

Miracle Workers with Daniel Radcliffe, Steve Buscemi, and a great cast. Each season is a different setting, it's so good.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymOWZkY1b5Y

For carbon sequestration, which also needs to happen.

Agree, but I think virtually all methods typically talked about are nonsense. Using massive fossil resources to design, build, and maintain giant machines or many smaller machines will ultimately do little to slow ecological collapse even if it does reduce carbon somewhat after some years needed to break even on production. The only sequestration method I've ever heard about that makes any sense to me is neighborhood scale production and use of biochar (and avoiding buying any sort of purpose made biochar device that required fossil resources to produce and ship to you). I make biochar in my backyard fire pit (which is a low smoke design) with used coffee tins (i.e. trash) and use the resulting biochar and ash in my compost.

Harm reduction is valid.

Agree, Any and all scientifically backed methods to allow us time for degrowth should be considered. I'm not convinced nuclear energy should be a significant part of this though, too many downsides and risks.