I agree that wont ever happen. I just don’t agree that humans will do any of that work unless coerced in some way (not by slavery but by saying hey, if you work in shit all day, you can live relatively comforably)… I’ve seen how lazy and unmotivated the average person is, unfortunately, and I can’t see any vital jobs being performed just for the sake of it. I sure as hell would not work for a sewage plant or garbage pickup for nothing.

I agree it’s an alienating system, but that’s what happens when there is billions of humans, and cities with populations over a million.

I just hate it for stuff I am going to use sporadically. Like iracing. In summer I’ll use it like once a month. In winter maybe like 4 times a week. But the price doesn’t change. I could not use it for 3 months and then I wasted that money. I don’t like that. Also, you never own anything then, which is what they want.

Why i wont use iRacing. Sucks that it’s so popular.

Something people never talk about. Who do you think is going to run these utilities and work in sewage plants in your anarchist utopia? People wont do that shit unless it pays good. No one ever talks about who will do the awful jobs that we need to keep comfortable lives.

You’re basically describing “we’ve reviewed ourselves and found nothing wrong!” I.e., Microsoft.

It does always seem like water waste to me…

Sorry, I don’t have the time. I admit I was trolling a bit, because doomer posts really dont help anyone and further entrench people into their views that treehuggers" are nuts. No one is going to convince the public that there is actually a crisis going on with all this doom and gloom. I’d say I don’t know a single person irl who believes in climate change. The biggest issue is you’re trying to tell people they can’t drive their cars, live in houses, or eat meat. All things that people enjoy and will not let go of.

Also, you say scientists have found this time and time again. There has been panic about this going back to the 70s, saying we Will be underwater by 2000. It didn’t happen. This is a big part of why no one will trust it.

Like everyone, I try to do my small part (gardening, not buying something if it’s amassed in a horrid amount of plastic, etc, always looking for used options over new, because I hate waste) but none of that changes the fact that I drive a lot of miles, have a house, and eat meat (not excessive, but probably weekly) Which is all destroying the planet. None of us are going to go live in caves, that’s just not going to happen. We can all do our small part sure, but it’s not going to change anything unless we dismantle all existing systems.

I had basically this exactly same question about how can open source software be safe if just anyone can make it. It was basically the same…sure, you can’t totally trust that people are vetting FOSS for malware…but can you trust big companies to NOT put malware and Spyware in our software? I sure as hell don’t. Seems to be a Good analogy when discussing this type of thing.

Yet another thing awesome on luanti. My friends aren’t convinced it’s minecraft and say it’s a rip off just buy the Microsoft one and im like , no fuck Microsoft not doin it.

I get this more and more from the youngs. Kind of funny. But whatever gets them into music is fine by me! I LOVE soundtracks myself as well.

And I know people asking grok everything and believing it completely even when I warned them. We are doomed.

If you love this, check out the game The Long Drive. Pretty much made by 2 devs. Amazing and hilarious game. Also has hilarious in game radio!

Glaciers have been melting and reforming since the earth existed, we aren’t special. The climate goes through stages

Definitely how it feels sometimes talking to the gamers who literally care about graphics over everything. I care about gameplay…

Seconded Kiwix! Or, start learning some programming- I listen to Python programming videos while I’m doing boring stuff to absorb information…and it’s relaxing ha

Ah yes I tried bazzite too and it wouldn’t even boot for me so I went mint since I had it years ago. It can be annoying if you don’t have the time or don’t enjoy troubleshooting. I’m unsure why freecad is running poor. Nvidia card?

That’s so cool. I do a lot with audio tape (mostly 1/4" 7.5ips and 15ips), but never data tape.

And not even owning it…and they’ll keep upping the price little by little, slowly sucking us dry

Using mint or ?

I’m running pop on 3 machines. One is an old Dell core 2 duo, and I’m amazed how quick it runs and never freezes (10g ram, 120gb ssd). Only issue issue have is the pop shop freezes up sometimes, even on my higher power machine. Otherwise, solid.