MercurySunrise

Society is a really shitty simulation made by psychotic sadists. No “hacking” was necessarily required. We all agreed to it by doing nothing to actually stop it. Some people just agree more fervently than others. Can definitely be argued as a sort of stockholm syndrome.

This is more specific to capitalism than just corporatism but I do agree with you.

I am constantly dumbfounded how many of the highly capitalist nations pretend to have such a focus on family when it’s so clear that they care so little about them. More time working = less time with your family. They also push for bigger families too, so that individual children receive even less attention. It’s so weird.

Extremely peculiar this got no likes. These are good media references. This whole platform is so damn weird.

Update: It’s gotta be the sense of humor.

I think it actually may be a human failing, because human rights have been iffy as hell for all of recorded civilization. This is why it is argued by some that robots could be superior and consider us as too errant to allow continued existence. Perhaps, having an exactly defined and unwavering moral code, actually will make them superior and also save our asses. It seems like the reason human rights keep being disrespected is that people kinda just do whatever they want, and it seems like half the time what they want is cruel or harmful. I think until we find a way to increase mass empathy, our species is definitely gonna keep harming itself until it (and probably everything else) goes extinct. I feel robots (actually existing) are kind of antithetical to empathy, especially under capitalism, especially while made of hazardous materials that require ripping up the earth. I do however think discussion and content of this subject really opens up the dialogue on rights of all intelligent beings and the definitions of intelligence itself and I find that very important. I think we should perhaps be at this time more focused towards expanding the rights of humans and animals before robots, though. Like, this subject is so “getting ahead of ourselves”, as Solarpunks, that it’s almost kinda funny. Strikes me more as Cyberpunk territory, really.

The best media I’ve seen for this concept is “Robots” and anyone interested in this subject for some reason should definitely give it a look. There’s also “I, Robot” and “Blade Runner”.

Yo, we can’t even recognize human rights, as a species. Good luck getting anyone to recognize bot rights - especially when those (at least in our current state of tech) directly interfere with human rights.

My phone, a cheap Moto, has survived probably around 50 drops and falling into a tub. After years it still holds charge fine and I’ve made and sorted through (probably) hundreds of thousands of files of content with it. My current computer has also survived a lot and lasted longer than more expensive ones I’ve had previously. It’s a cheap HP. I don’t know if this is exactly “solarpunk” but it’s technically low-footprint (comparative to industry standards) just because the tech lasts, even through hardship. I’ve also kept all my old tech and plan to recycle it after I’ve retrieved the data. Recycling is solarpunk, I think. I also have a vibrator that’s lasted years, takes only one triple A battery, still works great. I intend to get rechargeable batteries soon. Battery waste is icky and battery recycling is tricky (because they’re made of such hazardous materials). I’m hoping to get a solar roof installed but that’s gonna take quite a bit of time especially since my country doesn’t exactly have the greatest subsidies for residential solar.

Seems relevant /shrug

Speaking of ACP, the affordable connectivity program just recently got cut.

Along Came Pollen

I didn’t realize grass had reached such an advanced evolution. Obviously it must be exterminated. (/s)

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You see a nazi and what do you think is the solution? Another old white guy that’s been mass-murdering colored people because he loves capitalism. Fuck off. You’re a liar and also your incrementalism is literally unacceptable in these times, especially in regards to this specific subject (climate change).

Y’all gotta be some of the most uninformed people I’ve ever had the misfortune of encountering. Also, Biden isn’t left. Not even close. Trump is a nazi and Biden is a classical republican. They’re both right-wing. Why do y’all even vote when you clearly don’t look into politics? Next time y’all wanna be dicks and downvote a communist artist who’s supporting a communist runner during a presidential campaign for a fucking nazi and his dead fish of a “competitor”, find some actual fucking arguments. Oh, that’s right. Y’all can’t. When y’all’s family dies of cancer and heart attack from microplastics, when your brain melts inside your skull from the heat, when your house gets taken out in weather events, when you can’t get food, when our whole fucking species is extinct, you’ll deserve it. Sad part is that other people, people who aren’t evil, don’t. Sadder part is that the people least involved with climate change are going to be hit the hardest and the soonest. I’m gonna fight for them, like Bernie, like Cornel, like the greens and the other ethical independents and third partiers. They deserve the fight. Biden does not. Just like Trump, he’s less than an animal to me. They’re an illness. Capitalism is an illness, climate change is the symptom, and a cure is available. Ignoring that cure only looks bad on y’all in the end, and believe this, you also won’t fucking like what happens.

Agreed

Yeah I don’t believe that for a fucking second. Look up dark money. Also, I guess let’s just ignore all the dead Palestinian children killed with our weapons and our tax money. You are aware that the military industrial complex has a direct hand in the markets causing climate change and pollution, yes? Those who let this continue are part of the bloodshed.

Why don’t you read? Do you really hate it that much?