Yeah but a car build with bicycle parts. Drastically less energy, recyclable and environmentally sustainable. Build a state owned factory to build a million of these micro cars for the big cities and ban all cars. It’s technologically feasible right now and it would be more luxurious for people. You need to add a little bit of honey to your environmentalism lol.

Look at something like the podbike and imagine that as a self driving micro taxi that goes 50 kmh max. Little embedded energy, material and only needs small batteries and incredibly energy efficient because of aerodynamics (slimmer). Energy efficient even compared to trains or busses, especially in areas or times with lower utilization.

If you want to eliminate cars and make mass transit work as energy efficient as possible, you NEED self driving single seater cars (or double seaters with face to face).

I agree with you, we should be building with higher urban density. Even in the country, build apartment blocks in the middle of farmland that can be efficiently heated or cooled. And the inhabitants harvest their own food in the vicinity instead of relying on imports. The solution isn’t for individuals to get solar to power their AC, it’s still way too many resources and embedded energy. A little social engineering, mild gulagification and we could easily solve climate change.

But that is no way to attain or maintain power or wealth, so we won’t be doing any of that shit. You better read some Machiavelli you fool! How dare you suggest things like that here? 🤭 🫠 🥵 👍

I’ve been looking into this air fryer / self-stirring cooking pot “Delonghi Multifry”. Could work to get it mixed with butter while air frying.

Although I’m mostly thinking about air frying breaded chickpeas, noodles / spätzle, gnocchi and potatoes. Not to save on oil mind you, just to avoid having to get off my ass and stir the pan all the time.

You’re not wrong. Obama won because he was a corporatist and easily manipulated and ran on empty slogans, so he had the backing of the mainstream. Harris did too, but AOC won’t have that backing.

That also means she could run on actual popular policies. Something Trump did. His voters now kinda got the same scam with him than the progressives got with Obama lol.

But there is deeply entrenched propaganda in the media and the minds of people. Like you’d need a movement that comes together. But you can see the liberals in this thread would balk at any tankie demanding and end to US or EU imperialism lol, just like they will balk at putting another women on the ticket.

Yeah absolutely. Material incentives are needed, but they don’t need to be so high, just fair. Certainly not a monopoly over predictable technological progress (more or less predictable) that allows them to prevent people using that progress. Especially since that monopoly is being captured by capitalists.

And incentives can and should be non-materialist too. Think of a oscar or grammy show for the best new inventions. Or something similar to crowdsourcing platforms where people can vote on what inventions they want to see rewarded and implemented. A bank that can finance risky ventures like this instead of concentrating more wealth. We have more tools and possibilities today and we need an updated economic theory that can use these tools.

The idea of a lone inventor that can profit of his own invention is sort of like fantasy economics today. I believe it comes from comics and superhero movies lol. Reality is privatizing profit and socializing the costs of previous research and slowing down implementation of progress.

I believe everyone can, it just takes practice and is only relevant for 120hz games. Or VR.

It’s not about opinion, there is scientific studies that give you evidence how the democratic interest of the vast majority is not represented, but the rich.

There are also historical theories that explain why this neo-fascism was the inevitable outcome of neoliberal policies, because material conditions degraded. That’s why it’s happening everywhere, not just the US.

The democrats shifted to the right, or away from social democratic policies since Trump not because they are winning strategies - but because they know the alternative for the voter is even worse. So policy not according to being able to win, but being able to gain and maintain power (donors, influence) and wealth.

Policy currently has absolutely nothing to do with ideals, ethics or ideology. Those are just pretty words sold to the masses.

You’ll need drastic changes, a purge and redistribution of wealth and power and the news and social media.

Time to block this community lol

People, in general, do not work for material gain. They work because they have to in order to live, procreate and raise their children. People want a minimum amount of prosperity and economic safety. Beyond that, they want to work in a way and a place that fulfills them. Work itself is fun when done right, and working with others is awesome. Not even the “smart ones” or whatever work mainly for material gain in general. There are an overwhelming amount of counter examples to any variation of your claim. It would be more accurate to say people work for fame and glory, or to get laid (again reproductive success).

But even if what you said was true, it does not justify a complete monopoly. You could have something like “congrats you patented a new idea - if it catches on you will get a free house as a price!”

Of course you know all this and are just arguing facetiously. If “the person who can solve climate change” does anything but trade stocks they would contradict your argument. There is no money in inventing climate solutions. But nice insult to the people who are working on things like that.

Your actual argument is that we reward gambling and non-productive activity too much. That the smartest people are not working towards the survival or wellbeing of humanity, but for… crumbs off the table of the capitalists. That our economic system is not efficient in working towards our shared human values.

Patents mean genocide.

They slow down adoption of innovation and raise prices to levels the market can afford. With the existential need to change and improve like 50% of all industrial processes, this results in too slow change. It never mattered if climate change is anthropogenic or not.

Wow. You’re accusing me of using Plagiarism while keeping Plagiarism secret, and then continue to demolish my argument. What an impressive display of strawmanship. Which is, by the way, the evil cousin to plagiarism lol

But all kidding aside, if you’re going to argue laws and legality this is very boring, because it depends on the country and solely on who has the most money and power to buy and sell those laws. Your argument might be valid or not depending on me being in a country with those laws or in international waters. Or having enough money to buy lobbyists to change those laws.

Personally I think a discussion about this has to be about ethics, about right and wrong. And fan fiction is clearly wrong because it steals hypothetical profits from hypothetical future monetization of an publishers commissioned work. How could one do that to the innocent shareholders?

I believe the only solution would be something like Choam company that manages all the intellectual property of the world and the technofeudalists can gain stakes. Then they can sell AI training data to AI companies as long as they comply with the relevant regulations. Like clearly AI mustn’t be used by child molesters or terrorist scum. Only this will guarantee security and prosperity.

My apologies. How about this. I have some old reddit silver that I can give you as compensation?

Source seems to be: https://www.metalsucks.net/2025/06/22/another-woman-comes-forward-accusing-jared-leto-of-abuse-and-sexual-misconduct/

So I first met him when I had just turned 17 and he was 33. I met him after a 30 Seconds to Mars concert. He was immediately flirtatious. And I want to make it clear, I thought this was cool at the time. I was a senior in high school from a small town. This was a big celebrity. And he was handsome. I thought it was cool. I would say by the second show, he had started to move from just like flirting to saying things of a more sexual nature.

… with thunderous applause.

I don’t know enough history of WWI but it certainly feels like this to me. Like the climate wars have started, but everyone is being gaslit into thinking it’s just this or that reason or bad guy.

You can just feel this tension in the zeitgeist, like “oooh these liberal cucks don’t want us to nuuuuke someone, oh no, they’d really get soooo maaaad about nuking a little, would really be a shaaaaame hahaha”

Like if you’d make a referendum on whether or not to sell a few nukes to Ukraine, it would totally go through.

Karma does have monetary value, and some fanfic writers even traded their stolen fame for paid positions as writers. If someone enjoys something, it could have been monetized, so at the very least you have lost opportunity costs that could have become shareholder value. That’s what fanfic writers take from those who own the IP.

I’m just pointing out the obvious hypocrisy. Personally I don’t believe in copyright. Copyright and IP law is theft and a violation of freedom of expression.

It’s sort of like a pre-emptive exaggeration. It’s definitely possible WWIII starts with this. Ukraine, Trade War, Iran, then Taiwan and India-Pakistan. There is a non-zero chance it will escalate without stopping.

But by making fun of this “hysterical overreaction” now you prevent any serious anti-war opposition from gaining ground. At least that is what the psychological effect of this is: calming down the libs.

Doesn’t Fanfic violate the copyrights of the author and publishing houses anyway? The argument is sort of hilarious. These thieves are breaking the law, stealing the intellectual property of genuine authors and then clutching their pearls if someone else does it too.

It’s called edging. You continually push “edgy” funny jokes because they are so crass and rebellious that you eventually arrive at the wonderful magnificent fascist USA we have today. That’s how gamer culture took over the white house.

I mean sometimes you can just not say an offensive word, even if you think it’s funny.