No this is patrick Lemmy.

Basically i’ve always had a personal hatred for single-family homes. I grew up in one, and i hated it. My parents moved into the middle of freaking nowhere when i was born, the neighborhood was dull, it was somewhere in the countryside, you couldn’t go anywhere without driving a car, my mother was always angry and tired and refused to drive me 90% of the time, and when she did drive me, annoyances always happened (like, i’d say to a friend i’d meet them at 3pm, and it’s a 10 minute drive, and we start driving at 2:40pm, and then my mother remembers she has to go grocery shopping first, which takes 45 minutes, and she does that before dropping me off at my friend’s place, stuff like that). It was frustrating.

In the countryside, you’re dependent on fossil fuels. You’re dependent on putting that transparent fluid in your car’s tank day-after-day, which i suspect is a method of mind-controlling the people, because it makes the people feel dependent on some kind of infrastructure (gas station) that they don’t understand. I mean, where does petroleum come from? have you ever seen it produced? the people can’t produce it locally, so they’re dependent on the government’s goodwill that it continues to be provided to them.

if the people had solar panels, a whole lot of things would be less shit. people would feel somewhat more self-reliant, being able to produce their own energy and all, and i guess that would improve people’s self-esteem a lot.

anyways, i’ve always had a very hatred of the single-family home. it has 1000 m³, of which you realistically need about 300 for 4 people, for a kitchen, a toilet, a shower, and beds. the extra room is to brag to your neighbors (“what would the neighbors think if we were poor!”) and mostly to cause yourself a lot of stress while you’re trying to clean that whole space, while you could instead just chill and relax. but i guess relaxing means that you have to face your inner emotions, and we can’t have that! (according to the people i’ve met)

trickle up method

yep, 100%, i gotta remember that phrase.

wealth taxes and handouts to the people would stimulate consumerism and make the economy run hot.

republicans hate the EU

sources?

Because it has been apparent that MAGA is about nothing but money and control since they came on the scene a decade ago. Since then, they have become indelibly tied to treason, corruption, pedophilia, racism, misogyny, ignorance, stupidity, and virtuosic incompetence. Bad Faith is their core value.

the leadership yes, but the people voting for them? I’m not so sure.

I know this is a lot of text all at once, but while i’m here, let me tell you that i think that it’s important that there’s a heavy investment in human spaceflight and especially in settling mars.

I’m not saying that for some delusional reasons of science fiction, but because of the very real and very heavy economic advantages that it has. A massive spaceflight program would create a lot of jobs (if you invest $1b in spaceflight, where does the money go? it goes towards companies that try to build the rockets and necessary machinery, and a large part of that money goes towards jobs and construction materials, so the money continues to circulate in the country.)

And jobs are one of the two very important things that people need to live: food and jobs. Let me illustrate this:

As time progresses forward, we have more resources available (because our production systems work better, as they get improved all the time). but at the same time, a lot of production systems get automated and that reduces the number of jobs. Since people need jobs, new parts of the market need to be developed continuously.

What i’m saying is that if there’s a massive push towards spaceflight, somebody will have to build all of the necessary machinery, equipment, and such, and that would create a lot of jobs. It’s especially important for american people to have jobs, because americans are typically biased towards enterpreneurship and such, and that’s only possible when there’s business to be done. i think that’s a very important aspect of american society. also, martian human settlement would have the advantage that there’s real progress (new lands being explored) and that would also have some positive consequences.

They have created all these imaginary enemies attacking them on every front, and they think THEY are the ones living real life, and the rest of us side with their imaginary enemy.

I think that their ENEMY is actually poverty, i.e. many people struggle economically to make a living. This is due to the progress of time (automation leads to fewer jobs), but since time itself is invisible to many people, they try to find a material, outside enemy. And that’s why they blame (brown) immigration and queer people, because they appeared at the same time (in public, in the case of queer people) as the decline of living standards. So people see that and conflate correlation with causation, and blame these groups.

What’s important to me is whether people think about the situation and try to make good conclusions and proposals. What matters to me is whether MAGA actually tries to improve people’s living condition, instead of just mindlessly trying to hurt people. If they actually try to improve things, i can talk to them and find meaningful paths forward. If they’re just trying to hurt people, such a thing is impossible. So to me, it very much matters why they’re doing this. That’s what i’m researching, and also how to make meaningful plans that are in their interest that actually bring the country forward, instead of just creating more difficulties.

Everything they stand for is in direct opposition to the America ideals.

I beg to differ. The “american ideals” are to be economically prosperous, to open and run your own business, to take what is other’s (indian land), without regrets or looking back.

What i’m saying is that’s exactly what Trump thinks he’s doing. He’s not actually helping american businesses but he and his voters probably think that’s what he’s doing. So, the people themselves see it as very american.

damn, i gotta check out that place later. i wonder how MAGA will interact with the fediverse. like, how can you be anarchistic and bootlicking at the same time?

edit: this is hilarious.

bootlicking: check ✅️

“especially towards Americans”

well, at least this one i can understand. Now i have to think about What the Turtle said to Achill, somehow.

this gotta be a troll account. Why is there an “antifa” community on the https://maga.place/ instance?

the other big difference is that the hurdle to sign up is slightly higher (you have to write 1 sentence of application to register an user account) and that keeps a lot of normies out, which is why the quality of discussion is slightly better (but only slightly).

and also fediverse has less ragebait because ragebait is given by big platforms to keep users on their site for longer, so there’s that advantage. less toxicity.

I think it’s probably because a lot of students don’t see the reward in actually learning stuff anymore.

People are very much feeling this. I talk to lots of people and many (aged 24) say that they feel like they wasted a lot of their time striving for good grades and education while they could have actually enjoyed their lifes, meet friends, enter relationships and have fun. They focused on education because they felt certain that it would lead to a good, well-paying job later in life, which would make it all have been worth it.

Now this is becoming untrue, and people realize they’ve studied/learned for many years, only to be unemployed because the labor market is increasingly lowering demand.

Also note that a big reason why countries have a strong interest in producing solar power in their own country is sothat they’re not reliant on the energy of foreign countries.

We see pretty clearly in germany how energy dependency from other countries (russia) can take unexpectedly bad turns. That’s why countries have a strong incentive to produce energy locally. It’s also more efficient (less transport losses). That balances out the slightly lower solar irradiation. But really, the differences in solar irradiation aren’t that big.

Yep and i fully expect that the rise of solar power globally will dramatically improve the living conditions of the people in the middle east.

Consider this:

Most wars in the middle east have directly or indirectly been waged because of fossil fuels. It’s all about securing the flow of oil from the middle east through military power. Essentially, when the world’s reliance on fossil fuels diminishes, then there’s not so much a strong reason for the US anymore to interfere with the middle east; which will solve a big part of the problems.

You also need to transport the power to where it’s needed, and transporting electricity over vast distances is a bit of a challenge that incurs inefficiencies such as power lost to heat.

More importantly though, if you install the solar panels in Spain, then pipe the electricity to Germany, where it’s consumed in factories, then germany would effectively make itself dependent on Spain and every country between spain and germany (for the cables). That’s a geopolitical risk, in case an international conflict ever breaks out again.

I have thought about this for a while now.

It definitely seems like the whole gender war topic is artificially inflated by social media, which in turn is owned and regulated by billionaires, so i’m inclined to think that yes, the gender wars are a part of a distraction scheme by the rich to keep the people divided, but also i think there maybe is more to it.

Like, i have talked to a lot of people in person, and the common narrative seems to be among a lot of people (maybe a third) that they outright don’t want to have children, never wanted to have any, and simply feel pressured by society to marry and have children at all. In that case, you could look at it like a “liberation movement”. But also, that is only a small part of the population (maybe 1/3). Then you have a lot of people who don’t have an opinion and simply move along with whatever the societal mainstream is (maybe another 60%), and then you have a small amount of anarchists who want to determine their own lifes, and these often do want to have kids. So, a significant part of society (i’d say maybe 60%) is inflluenced by the media, and the media sends two conflicting narratives:

On the one hand, they send the narrative in leftist spaces that “having no children is a good thing and you should all want it. Having children pushes the women into difficult situations since they will end up being the caretaker and such.”

On the other hand, in right-wing circles, especially the white-supremacy movement, they say that having children is good because we need to preserve our white race.

So, if you take these two things together, possibly there’s a push to make right-wing people have more children and left-wing people have less children. But that’s only a guess on my side. I’m still investigating more about this.

(lets be clear the req itself is stupid)

if the government requires that you work when you get help, i guess the proper response is to open a business and employ yourself as a mattress tester - test mattresses’ sleep quality for 8 hours a day or night. It’s a job, it provides no value to society, but it’s a job. Work requirement fulfilled.

yeah, if you borrow from banks. it’s opposite if you try to get VC money, which has never been easier.

not that absolute diarrhea of a video again. in biology, a species is considered endangered or close to extinction if fewer than 200 individuals are left. South Korea today has 52 million inhabitants.

The government should give the people jobs, or money if it fails to provide meaningful jobs.