I heard a story of someone who was about to be conscripted into the dutch army back in the day.

Before his intake interview he stuffed a load of peanut butter between his butt cheeks.

When they had him come in for the interview, he told them he looked forward to serving, but then proceeded to take a big scoop of peanut butter from out of his pants and eat it.

I assume that wouldn’t work in Russia, because you’d run the risk of becoming a general.

I’ll have 55 of these:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davy_Crockett_(nuclear_device)

Perfect is the enemy of good.

Small scale co-op bicycle manufacture and repair is eminently feasible. Especially if it’s a simple single speed.

The problem with farming is that the world is arguably over-populated, so you need mass scale high tech farming to feed all those people, especially with global soil degradation approaching catastrophic levels and climate change reducing yields.

Small scale farms will never be enough. Also, it would likely actually be more polluting, because you’d end up tilling (which contributes significantly to emissions) or fertilising less productive soil, and need more passes, when you have places where the soil needs relatively little tilling and fertilising. It makes sense to use the most productive soil, in the most efficient way possible, which means large scale and super high tech.

It’s really not for the amateurs. Co-op orchards, jam and juice manufacture? Sure. But it’ll never be enough. That’s best left to the experts.

15 tons of nuclear weapons + delivery systems should do the trick.

Forget about saving the revolution in Ukraine. A few nukes here and there and you could establish anarcho-communism globally. Under my benign leadership, of course.

You’re not carrying supplies for an army of 110,000 in 15 tons.

15 metric tons of pure gold is worth approximately $2 billion US today. I assume gold wasn’t entirely worthless a hundred years ago either.

No thank you, I just ate.

Hey maybe I misunderstood your comment, but your comment seemed to suggest it’s something we layman should look into if we wanted to do something, but if so you might as well suggest people look into car manufacturing.

The problem with farming is that it has become one of the most advanced sectors out there. It’s drones, autonomous tractors, AI, micro-targeting, lasers, ground penetrating radar, it’s three story floating factories that produce finished goods in harbour. It’s far far above the skill level of most of us here, especially if you want to produce the volumes required without high emissions, even more so as the climate changes and soil degradation continues unabated on a global scale.

We’re hurtling towards famines across the globe and all the unrest that causes. Billions are already vulnerable. It is possible we will simply not be able to produce enough food, sooner rather than later.

We’re so fucked. I need to go to sleep.

Sorry grandpa. All your friends are dead.

Oh, yeah.

But I mean piracy filesharing. That was already popular on dial-in BBSes in the 80s.

when I buy rice that was transported thousands of miles before it got to me.

People like to complain about container ships, but they’re ridiculously efficient at transporting cargo, because they transport so much in one go. If you use a container ship to transport only rice, you could probably transport something like 200 million kilograms.

Road transport produces something like 70% of emissions generated by freight transport globally. Sea is only 20%.

That means it’s often less polluting to buy something made on the other side of the world, than from a few hundred miles away, depending on how close you live to the sea/port or a railway station.

local politics and co-operative food production

Meh. The benefits of scale drive down prices, but one of the ways they do that is also by lowering fuel consumption. If you’re producing everything on small farms, it’s likely you’ll use more fuel and create more emissions, than larger farms which can produce at scale and are hyper-efficient. For example, bigger farms use drones and nutrient maps, which allow them to be very targetted in where they sow seeds and spread fertiliser, which means they use much less fertiliser, which means less fuel used.

Farming efficiently also really isn’t something for amateurs. Plenty of large scale farmers have engineering degrees for that very reason, or employ people who do.

Filesharing pre-dates the web.

Fun fact: a tarot deck has 72 different cards. That means there’s 72! combinations, which is a number that is roughly 600,000,000,000,000,000,000,000​ larger than the amount of atoms in the observable universe.

Billy Bunter(that’s where some of the fat-phobia comes from, I think), Naughtiest Girl, but also later shows/books like the Worst Witch which has a bullying raven haired potions teacher.

But also the Earth Sea novels and Pratchett’s Discworld series which also has a school of Wizardry.

Sorry to tell you this, but my father is not a medical doctor.

Almost 50 years ago…

When’s your next prostate check?

C64?

It was also called piracy back then too. It was incredibly common on the Commodore 64 starting in the 80s . They’d often call themselves crackers, because you needed to crack the piracy protection to be able to copy disks.

Those disks and even cassettes would then be shared from person to person or sold in shops or on second hand markets. AFAIK this is also when 1337/leet became popularised, to avoid censorship on BBSes, where file sharing was also possible.

For example, a magazine from 1991:

Note the group is called Elite productions and they call themselves pirates. There’s also mention of crackers, specific events, and I especially enjoy that a piracy/cracking group felt it necessary to add a copyright logo next to the name of their piracy group which was called Elite Productions.

It’s a shame we never got another season of Enterprise. IRC they were working on a Romulan story arc. That and the whole Romulan T’Pol thing.

They also really should have worked out the broader strokes to properly unify the canon. It got especially messy with Picard and the later movies. Especially if you played some Star Trek online.

The meme is about never compromising with fascists.

You can argue that both Stalin/Molotov and Chamberlain had good reasons to sign a (temporary) compromise with fascist Germany. Which means you believe you should sometimes compromise with fascists.

Or you can argue that Stalin and Chamberlain were wrong to compromise with fascists. Which means you agree with the meme that you should never compromise with fascists.

But this meme was originally posted on lemmy.ml, where a lot of users will reflexively defend Stalin for compromising with fascist Germany (they’re also here) but then post memes which say it’s never ok to compromise with fascists. Which is double think. You either think it’s sometimes acceptable, or you think it’s never acceptable to compromise with fascists.

Cognitive dissonance is the mental discomfort people feel when their beliefs conflict with each other. People often react in weird ways when they’re suffering from it. You can witness plenty of it in this comment section.