What an wonderful and inspiring human, I rarely see uplifting stuff like this so I enjoyed reading about him. I hope he can achieve all his dreams and see the end of coal in his lifetime.

I tried 1) with my mother, who is sadly hooked on right wing news sources. The fires in Europe are being laid by disgruntled migrants and the "elites" are withholding their geo engineering powers due to greed, they could simply make it rain, but that isn‘t profitable enough or something.

She didn‘t really listen to my perspective. Overall, as always, it was a waste of time trying to communicate about anything of substance. I‘ve had a similar experience with a coworker recently, making me feel pretty hopeless sometimes how many people like that are out there.

I loved this, thank you for sharing. I was in this industry when I was young and it was so awful, we basically learned how to brainwash people into buying shit they don’t want or need. Article described it all well. I turned anti-ad for life.

Sadly, most people seem to either enjoy it or not care. I try to do some good as an IT person by teaching about adblockers, but get this: some people want to see ads, yeah I‘m baffled. So it would be a battle to get rid of ads. Neat to hear there is some small progress though.

Ok so the evidence of this "division" is one guy who made his own NGO and shits on the others, so he can get those who are annoyed by the protest to donate to him instead I guess. Not a bad financial move overall, if those who complained actually gave a shit about the climate, which I don‘t think they do. Those who do probably stick to those groups who we can visibly see doing these protests.

This is some real "if life gives you lemons" type of stuff, I like it.

It‘s just a deflection again, basically spreading the blame onto everyone and anyone, which makes a lot of people defensive and double down or act as useful pawns for conservatives, who want to stall any action on climate change that could hurt their pockets.

I guess it‘s great compared to other big cities, but it could still be better. Not trying to be a downer, but complaining is how we keep the politicians working on this here so it’s in my nature and Vienna could do with even more affordable 2 bedroom apartments. I‘m looking to move there next year and it‘s still a bit too much for someone earning median wage.

Ratatouille, the provencale version (stew like). Eggplant, bell pepper, onion, garlic, zucchini, tomatoes and sometimes olives, I serve with either baguette or rice.

I came here originally cause I think this instance is likely to defederate from Meta (and cause I enjoy the content and want to contribute a bit of course), though I‘m also not the type to raise a big stink if it didn’t, at most I upvote and affirm posts like this.

I really like about the Fediverse that I can basically just move on to another instance which suits me better, if I notice things going a way I don‘t want them to.

Thank you a good suggestion, this is interesting and actually maybe I could make it to this!

Yeah so I edited my comment like 5 times cause I felt so insecure voicing all this, cause I did get a lot of pushback from pretty much anyone I know and ridiculed before even online. So I was afraid they are right, so far it works for me though and I went from suicidal to alright, just from working less.

I hope you can make your coop work, seems like a cool idea too, though it‘s also so hard for small business, a friend of mine has one and it‘s almost like he is his own king and he isn‘t kind to himself either, mainly cause the competition is so fierce.

I don‘t really care if he said other wrong things, even a blind chicken finds corn sometimes, and with this he struck a chord in me.

Even though I’m in country with social safety nets, which DOES help with being able to leave a shit job don‘t get me wrong, but they also look down on you if you ever make use of them and you do get forced back to any job no matter how shit ASAP.

So all in all just feels demeaning to work anyway like a game of "choose your own kingdom" and so as if under a dictator, mainly for me cause some company owners do behave lordly and like to order around others and flex their power over people.

So to escape what always felt wrong to me, as much as I am allowed to by the system, I chose to work less on my own, I chose a "lying flat" lifestyle and it‘s opened up more freedom in my life to stop and think about what I want and why.

It‘s pretty decent for me now (my current king is kind) and I‘m lucky to have this sort of privileged position where I can do this, though it requires sacrifices too (will never own anything or have kids for one) and when I tell others they look at me as if I‘m crazy. Still worth it.

Agreed, just not SAP probably, as this thing is closed source, expensive and seems really focused on the needs of bigger business concerning government regulations and finance etc.

A federated ERP for communities, sounds cool I never thought of it that way, but that would be useful for sure.

That‘s hard, I currently work in SAP Basis (tech side) and I‘m not sure. In a solarpunk world, I feel like my job wouldn‘t exist, as it‘s really focused on the needs of "big business" and needs a ton of energy to run this whole system.

I‘ve been thinking though, things like supply chain, material management, etc seem like they might be useful to have open source for alternative organisations too and I found this: https://erpnext.com/comparisons/sap-alternative though idk how good any of this is truly and I‘m not sure how it would serve solarpunk, I‘m still too new to all this and only work with a small part of it, though it does seem to be the brain of business.

Before that I worked as a System Engineer, for a fossil fuel company… there I learned that the interests of such a company and anyone who wants nature to survive are incompatible, as they were greenwashing things in marketing while lobbying against any change and toasting to their profits behind closed doors. It made me feel like a monster.

Sorry if none of this is useful, I‘m mostly here to learn more about solarpunk from you guys cause I‘m so negative from my experiences and I want to change that towards a more hopeful perspective.

I had an idea I wanted to share, in my town we have food coops, which is small group of people who band together to get local produce from farmers, with a focus on it being sustainable too so I‘ve seen they even go with bikes to get it. Though you have to contribute in work too, but it‘s probably better than the stuff in supermarkets environmentally.

I heard about this and thought about joining but been too shy so far, maybe this will finally push me to go apply.

Communities rise or fall with the people in them, especially those who contribute and less those who lurk.

Piracy communities are typically made up of people who are used to being shattered to rebuild elsewhere, so it makes sense that this would be one of those who have less trouble moving.

Fair question and don’t worry it doesn‘t bother me. I guess it‘s wrong, not like I‘m proud of my phobia or something, but I just don‘t want them near me and I definitely do not want to eat them. I also don‘t want to exterminate them or anything though, I recognise bugs are important to the ecosystem (more important than many animals people hold as pets or even humans tbh who damage it), but that doesn‘t mean I like them or want them near me. Maybe with a bit of exposure therapy I could be less triggered by them too, but just mentally thinking of their importance doesn‘t really change that for me.

If I had a garden maybe then my perspective would actually change now that I think of it, I still wouldn‘t want them in my room at all and still use bug nets, but having them live in the garden and be more often exposed to them that way, a sort of safe co-existence, I think I would grow tougher. It‘s just unlikely to ever happen as I‘m a poor renting city dweller who doesn‘t have ambition to grind for a mortgage.

I‘m also all for the biodiversity though in the cities, due to bugs I stay out of these areas (last time I walked in tall grass I had two ticks and they are dangerous here and I was lax on vaccinations luckily nothing happened), but I like that they can live in those spaces more due to environmentalist efforts.

Yeah sorry I got a bit emotional, I‘m just grossed out by bugs a lot, including the popular sea ones. Though I guess if they are in a powder I wouldn‘t mind as an additive.

It‘s mostly for me the issue that a lot of right wingers are also using these sort of articles to push the "the left wants to force us to eat bugs" narrative, which is untrue (there is no force at all), but I wouldn‘t actually put it past some state‘s politicians to go like "let them eat bugs" as a response to rising food prices either.

In which case I would like to respond by aggressively planting vegetables.

I definitely do not want to… I‘d rather die, sorry. To each their own, but if everything else became unaffordable and I‘d be left with bugs, you‘ll find me smuggling veggies and growing them in the city parks, or on company properties or wherever I can find space.

It is truly absurd. The media (especially cheap anger tabloids) are making them out to be villains to the point they are being attacked.

Since I deal with absurdness by laughing, I want to share a funny article with you a satirical press wrote about this (climate activists being called criminal organisation and treated like terrorists). It‘s in German, but I will translate to make it easier.

https://www.der-postillon.com/2023/05/lg-anschlag.html?m=1

Title: "Another Last Generation terrorist attack: 34 light and 5 severely delayed"

Berlin (dpo) - The terrorist organization Last Generation has struck again: In a serious attack on road traffic, 34 people were slightly delayed and 5 severely delayed in Berlin today. Only through courageous intervention by the police could worse delays be prevented.

Around 9 o'clock in the morning, the terrorists launched their cowardly attack by sticking themselves to a pedestrian crossing in Berlin-Charlottenburg. Their unsuspecting victims had no chance: Within seconds they were stuck in a traffic jam that got worse every minute.

"I can never get these pictures out of my head again," describes a still visibly shocked eyewitness. "It was terrible! Everywhere the bright red heads of the late ones. When I close my eyes, I still hear their angry screams."

Only after 15 agonizing minutes does the police finally arrive. The officials manage to remove the extremists from the road with the help of solvents and with the courageous use of pain attacks. "Fortunately, I was still able to twist the wrist of a terrorist while carrying her away," reports a policeman. "I can't imagine what would have happened if I had just carried her off the street normally!"

In the meantime, a crowd has gathered at the crime scene, which commemorates the late. Wreaths are laid down, songs are occasionally sounded. They are pictures that were no longer thought possible in Germany - pictures from a country heavily marked by climate terrorism.