so many of the world's problems boil down to a handful of tech bros who made that book their entire personality.
congratulations on escaping the Rand death cult
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iRiver= S tier mp3 nostalgia
burn it all down.
we don't need these cameras and tracking systems everywhere all the time. they don't make anyone "safer".
Beyond: Two Souls
you can also tag people on Lemmy, or at least I can. look for the About User menu then "Add Tag" or "Tag user" from their profile
interesting note: a flavor of techno fascism actually started in the 30s, it was called Technocracy, Inc.
The technocracy movement was a social movement active in the United States and Canada in the 1930s which favored technocracy as a system of government over representative democracy [...] a California engineer, invented the word technocracy in 1919 to describe "the rule of the people made effective through the agency of their servants, the scientists and engineers"
here's an article explaining how Musk, Thiel, and Andreessen (and other tech billionaires) have adopted a similar philosophy with the "Charter Cities" ancap utopianism they're working to replace democracy with.
A 1930s movement wanted to merge the US, Canada and Greenland. Here’s why it has modern resonances
appreciate the rec, I've been a patreon to Climate Town for years and already listened to that episode of CDH...
my point still stands. "too much" is a spectrum, my opinion likely differs significantly from most people, including Rollie's. i lean towards the Daniel Quinn side of environmental ethics, which definitely places more than just fat over consuming Americans in the category of unsustainable cultures.
(I'm not saying this is my personal opinion so don't roast me plz):
it's not that there are too many people.
it's that there are too many people living under a regime that compels them to wantonly consume, pollute, and generally destroy the ecosystem in favor of the sole benefit of a miniscule number of oligarchs
in other words, the planet has the carrying capacity to sustain all of us theoretically, but not practically as things are today, at least not if humans continue living according to capitalist hyper consumptive individualism.
so yeah, there are too many people - unless we effectively reprogram all of modern culture to embrace a sustainable and pro environmental ethics... which you and I know, isn't going to happen.
QED: too many people.
note: this is different from the other commenters take because it's not making claims about human nature as being inherently bad. it's just claiming that the system/culture people are born into is bad and does in fact impose artificial limitations on the capacity of the planet to support diverse ecosystems
I'm extremely skeptical corningware contains lead which can come off.... it's sealed, ultra hard ceramic. that's not how people have historically gotten lead contamination. there's probably more lead in the soil in their front yard than in every piece of corningware in the house....
please don't destroy these, just donate them to a thrift shop so sensible folks can use them as intended. many of those vintage ceramics are collectibles, more importantly they are infinity reusable.
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if one good thing can come from these senseless murders, let it be this. these services should not be allowed to operate without strict regulation.