Even the best path out of the current situation involves us fighitiny the current rise in fascism around the world, and even an optimistic prediction for the path of climate change is harrowing.

I’m not putting a kid through that.

When I graduated my highschool let me keep my laptop. I still have it, and it’s got the shittiest specs ever. But it is capable of:

• Editing my character sheets
• Displaying battlemaps to the DnD table screen

That’s all I ever use it for, but it does it job well if I ignore that it no longer has a battery¹, and that the screen no longer fully supports itself. I’ve been running linux on it since forever, and it just works.

Eventually, I’ll probably turn it into a simple static website or something. But that will only happen if it stops being useful for DnD because it disintegrates or something.

1. It frequently gets shut down by people accidentally unplugging it/tripping over the cable, but oh well

Now that you’ve put a name to it, yeah, he’s using Persona.

But like I said, it looks fucking awful.

There’s a dude at work who has one and uses it for calls. He says it’s for travel, so he can have “bigger” monitors wherever he goes.

But he always has his camera on, and some AI filter that replaces his face so the headset doesn’t appear.

And it looks fucking awful. It’s at the lowest depths of the uncanny valley. It’s a facade that doesn’t blink right, that floats around, with a mouth that doesn’t match his speech. Its like it was designed to be off-putting.

I love this idea, though I wish they some information about what software it is running.

doesn’t sound like ‘working class high density housing’ to me.

It sounds like your arbitrarily gatekeeping this.

Now a ‘major city’ without rats and roaches??? It has to be a cold as fuck city, definitely not a thing in temperate climates.

It’s temperate.

the power consumption is much more dependent on the quality of the buildings.

To a degree yes, but a larger HVAC system that cools 100 apartments is going to be more efficient that 100 window units. It’s not a guarantee, but it’s far easier to fix when it’s all one building.

I get the impression that all the proponents of these ‘high density’ housing ideas haven’t lived in a high density working class area ever, and probably wouldn’t last long if they get themselves in one.

I live in the heart of a major city in a large apartment building complex that has about 90 units. I don’t have rat problems, cockroaches, or junkies around. The walls are soundproofed well, so I don’t deal with any more noise than a suburb.

You’re confused about the source of your problems.

Higher density leads to:

• Less concrete use
• Less power consumption for heating/cooling
• Less power lines needed
• Shorter distances for power lines
• Less sprawl

It absolutely makes sustainable communities.

I didn’t mean it in a derogatory way. Commie blocks weren’t perfect, but they were a massive success.

It looks like they’re still using I beams and steel for the structure. The wood is for panneling & walls.

So psuedo commie blocks but slightly more eco friendly and capitalist.

It’d probably be fine, it uses the leftover fibers, not literal sugar that dissolves. A layer of waterproofing that’d you’d use for an earthen home or earth ship would probably do the trick.

I think I’d struggle to live in one so small, but I love the look of this one.

And I think they may be overstating how fire proof this particular one is. The solar panels, water heater, electrical systems, windows, and vents could still be damaged. And with the contaminants in the air, you’d probably wouldn’t want to be inside that thing during a fire.

Still, the structure isn’t going anywhere which is far more than can be said for 99.99% of homes. I’d love to live in one of these ans build one. But the U.S. is looking like an increasingly dangerous place to live, so I’m not about to invest 10s of thousands of dollars to make something like this happen.

Been steeling these from work forever. 10/10 they work great for the kitchen.

This is the bad place.

There are some things you can do.

1. Use an old cartridge that is empty, and reset the chip to make it think it’s new and full.
2. Buy an ancient printer from like before the 2000s and use that.
3. Don’t print the zine, and instead print a template to cut out and use spray paint on. A template that includes a QR code to the zine if it’s hosted online, such as the case with sproutdistro. This will be less effective though, as less people will be willing to scan a QR code.
4. Use a stolen printer. So long as the theft can’t be traced back to you, you should be fine. The yellow dots only track things like the serial (which ideally doesn’t point to you and instead points back to some soulless corp), the time (which isn’t all that helpful on its own), and the IP address which can be delt with by not printing over wifi.

Another thing to consider:

Other methods of identification are not as easily recognizable as yellow dots. For example, a modulation of laser intensity and a variation of shades of grey in texts are feasible. As of 2006, it was unknown whether manufacturers were also using these techniques.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printer_tracking_dots

Something to keep in mind for anybody looking to print the really fun stuff. Just beware you take steps to deal with this.

But when you call for the same for swathes of billionaires, oil execs, etc it’s somehow a problem

If you remove the stock market, you end up with over the counter or even worse total back room trading of company stock

The whole point is that there slowly becomes no such thing as company stock. A precursor step for this is a requirement for all new companies to be employee owned non profits/coops.

We need a ban of companies buying other companies. That takes care of mergers.

However the real problem is the lack of proper high taxes for the wealthy. That has to change, so the wealthy can loose their wealth more easily.

We need all of the above.

I think this approach is a good step along the way.

But I also think we need a permanent moratorium on IPOs. The stock market is a vehicle for the rich first and foremost, and it is an inherently anti democratic institution. It needs to die, and such a moratorium would lessen the chaos of it’s death.

We also need a ban on corporate mergers. The stock market at least has the pretense of helping the workers through retirement accounts, but the same cannot be said of mergers.