Moonside

Moonside wrote

Reply to comment by oolong in Stop Planting Trees, Says Guy Who Inspired World to Plant a Trillion Trees by oolong

Yeah. I feel that plenty of progressives neglect the role of the state and international institutions that aren't multinational corporations in environmental predicament. In a sense this is a conservative reform, but merely stopping subsidies (except those funding restoration work) for forestry would be a clear improvement since it would remove marginal forestland from production, that is, no-one will bother maintaining roads for logging access. It would also decrease clear cutting since a lot of the labor tasks only useful for clear cutting are presently subsidized by governments. Now a near total ban on clear cutting would be pretty awesome, all things considered, but a lot of trouble has to do with what public sector enthusiastically encourages rather than merely fails to curtail in the private sector. This doubly so when public bodies own natural resources, like oil and forests.

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Moonside wrote (edited )

Reply to comment by oolong in Stop Planting Trees, Says Guy Who Inspired World to Plant a Trillion Trees by oolong

I think that's reductive. NGOs, states and basic normies were all pretty into afforestration as a strategy, when we degrowth permie environmentalists were already into simply cutting down fewer forests and lengthening the cutting cycle; agroforestry, coppicing and pollarding; wetland and grassland restoration; and beaver ponds and other water cycle restoration; biocarbon as soil amendment. Like beaver ponds soak up 2-3 times as much carbon per area as a boreal forest does, but they do a lot more besides.

It's a complicated set of interests even on the site of capitalists, imho. Extractive industries especially in forestry and mining and landowners in general on the one hand and other capitalists probably don't exactly have the same interests on this topic.

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Moonside wrote

Reply to comment by twovests in babe i love you. but it's just like email. it's easy. just pick an instance please. no no not that one. DEFINITELY not that one. that one's good bu- oh nono not that one. maybe we can host one? it'll be $20/mo plus $30/year? babe? babe don't go by twovests

I'm not superversed in Linux lore, but wasn't that already a thing in Debian before? I don't remember borking up anything using Debian through installation shenanigans and exclusively used command line since it was more convenient than GUI tools. (Now I'm regrettably running an inherited Windows laptop which has a dead battery. Requiescat in pace, my zombie laptop, but not just yet.)

BTW Debian > Ubuntu. I used to run Debian without any desktop environment, just using some ultra haxor window manager software coded in Haskell and extensible through Haskell scripting instead. It was blissful in the sense that Linux is good - a genuine alternative and a way to rethink the way you interact with computers. Truth is that automating window management and relieving your pinching muscles from work makes a ton of sense. The desktop metaphor is alien to our current reality where files and folders don't substantially exist anymore (they're more a convenience to the software engineer than users) and dragging things along your desk in real life has become obsolete. It's just too much work to precision work dragging windows.

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Moonside wrote

Reply to babe i love you. but it's just like email. it's easy. just pick an instance please. no no not that one. DEFINITELY not that one. that one's good bu- oh nono not that one. maybe we can host one? it'll be $20/mo plus $30/year? babe? babe don't go by twovests

Hot take: using mastodon is good in the way Linux is good as a user: it's different and a genuine alternative. So beginner distros all suck: not as easy as windows or Mac but also nothing new on the table. All the twitter clones suffer from this Ubuntu syndrome.

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Moonside wrote

Reply to winamp. it really whips the llama's ass by winter

I agree, I feel like there's a lot of design space that's been flattened by how tied to media consumption is to software (YouTube, Netflix, Spotify) and hardware platforms (specific brands of smart TVs etc.).

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