infuziSporg

"It's not the heat, it's the UV."

-Yobi Gerra

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Leaving aside the terms of "you have to stop shooting now but we only have to stop shooting 12 hours from now", how many times has Israel kept a ceasefire?

And how many times has the United States kept a formal deal in geopolitics?

Inhumane. Any authority that bombs a hospital should be immediately sanctioned and embargoed by the entire international community until it is fully dismantled.

Y'know what I'm saying?

periodic reminder that when they say "peace" they mean obedience

The best defense imo is to make yourself either useful economically or culturally, or at least not specifically hated by anyone powerful.

The future of warfare, and of organization in general, is distributed. One might even say "swarm-based".

Are you familiar with slaughterbots?

(I'm sorry. But it's better to be aware.)

I went to a show yesterday, expecting to pay at the door. The people running the ticket counter had no physical tickets and were not taking cash, but said "Can you log in on Facebook? That's the best way to do it."

It must have been important to be able to reserve a specific seat in an auditorium that had 4x as much capacity as the crowd that attended.

• Mostly Prosthetic Cat (limbs, tail, plus some organ transplants, still lives a normal life)
• Actual Trained DJ Cat (sounds a lot like my friend who keeps switching songs after 30s)
• Stinky Cat (in fact it has never gotten close enough to catch any smaller animal)
• A pair of Talk-O Cats (not taco cats, those already exist, but these ones actively pretend to chime in on human conversations)

That's not a lot of farmland then.

Depending on perspective, those two affective nouns could be switched.

What happens to the global food exchange when the price of fossil fuels corrects to what it should be? Food items either have a high weight-to-price ratio, or are perishable, or both. Most of the "food mobility throughout history" that you're talking about is luxury foods, with some lighter non-perishables like nuts and oils and dried herbs and dried fruits.

For the average person eating 2400 calories a day prior to coal-powered shipping, less than 300 of those would come from trans-regional exchange. It's just not reasonable to suggest that any large fraction would be like that. You can reason for local greenhouses producing things, but ultimately the world is going to have to simplify back to a radius of less than 300 miles for sourcing food; 3000+ mile shipping is not compatible with food sovereignty, food justice, or climate justice.

You can't just "do the same thing but take capitalism out of the equation". If you grow fresh vegetables for consumption more than 1000 miles away, it's going to be prohibitively expensive. If it's affordable, this comes at a cost either to the workers, or to the environment, or both.

There's a reason why Cuba, North Korea, and Vietnam practice gastronomic autarchy, and it's not because of a "fascist misunderstanding of how the way food systems work". They understand food systems better than treat junkies in the West.