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[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

I love Solarpunk but I don't know why they like cablecars/dangleways so much. Like there are places that use them as public transport (Medellín) but unless the landscape the city is in is very mountainous then they're not really useful as a form of transportation.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Are they having a street fight in the middle of the intersection?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Lol it does look like that

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Earth streets would be really shitty when it rains, shure i also dont want beton everywhere but can we pls get at least a bycicle lane?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Really beautiful. We shouldn't let capitalism ruin our utopia of the future, that's a way of winning without playing the game.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago (2 children)

My problem is that I absolutely loath gardening. I love the gardens; I hate the upkeep. Weeding, tending, watering, repotting, fertilizing, pruning... I'd rather clean toilets. It's so hard on my back, I'm miserable being outside when it's hot or humid, and we don't control the weather.

Someone's taking care of all that. It's lovely... if it's someone else.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

I got you, fam! I would love to be the one breaking my back, sweating in the dirt, and fighting the weeds. Especially if someone else is handling the toilets. From my point of view, the thing we seem to be missing the most in society today is a sense of real purpose. I think I could absolutely find that through working a community-sustaining garden.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago (2 children)

robots tending gardens cant be too far away

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

They exist, but they're crude. Indoor farms tend to be labor intensive, meaning they have a lot of incentive to automate, but nobody has a really good system yet.

Knowing when a tomato is ripe and how to pick it off the plant is one of the better uses for AI image recognition and robotics, IMO.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

So, you're on favor of enslaving robots.

Duly noted, H-#1D0146641.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 4 months ago

Solarpunk my beloved (≧▽≦)

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 months ago

Replace cable cars with trains and I’m in

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago (2 children)

fck that’s so much walking on those streets, I cannot handle that

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

You can't handle it because you're used to sitting in your car. This is healthier

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

How do you like cycling?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Have y’all seen Singapore? Gardens by the Bay are truly a vision for the future

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Singapore is more fucked up than aspirational if you ask me. It might look nice but it's a capitalist place that totally misses the spirit of solarpunk.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I just appreciate their innovation in green architecture, I am not aware of any other particularities with the place. I think all countries have their warts and what not though

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Their criminal justice system leaves much to be desired in the mercy area

[–] [email protected] 23 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago

I dunno I stole it too some time ago