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this post was submitted on 04 Apr 2025
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This is straight freebasing idealism. Zero material concern of things like “do we have the climate and soil capable of growing this plant” no, we can completely ignore biological reality if we just bootstrap the can-do entrepreneurial drive hard enough.
never tell the mayos about real tangible things that exist
they'll get it into their head to burn even more fossil fuels until you can grow coconuts in montana
what if i put a greenhouse next to a datacenter
probably have to do with the fact that advance economy is so alien to actual manufacturing that they can just pitch stupid shit à la McKinsey and see that sticks
there was a Juicero-tier startup that was going to grow plants inside some kind of computer climate controlled box
trying to remember/find the article
Tech bros reinventing the green house
Compared to their actual product, which was a machine that squeezed a bag, it is pretty impressive.
Box with lightbulb is a lot less impressive TBH, at least juicero had moving parts and shit, even if it was ludicrously overengineered
Oh it was like a fridge where you grow herbs under red light.
Spend long enough around agriculture and they will learn that this is much harder and frustrating than what those nice backyard growing youtubers will have you think it is.
Besides feeding a family is different than large scale agriculture.
Our Will will Triumph over the material conditions and we shall have our pumpkin spiced lattes!
Besides ignoring that retooling agricultural production is difficult. Like it took a lot of effort for cash crops to be faced out in post revolutionary states.