Even better, don't eat chicken either. Chicken still takes up more land simply by requiring land to grow feed. Anything plant-based will be a better solution.

Sooo...are you delusional or is this a joke of some kind?

I have no idea what genre 'grass on a spaceship' is, but I love it.

Yah, replace the UPS with USPS and it'd be bangin

None of these points are relevant. Nobody is selling SMRs as better than large-scale plants (at least I hope they're not). The point of SMRs is that they are much easier to bring in and put down. A huge portion of the world still runs on fossil fuels, often with frequent brownouts or scheduled blackouts. Being able to bring in a RELIABLE non-fossil fuel power plant at a smaller scale would be huge. Distributed solar has some pretty awesome potential for individual households if you don't care about on- demand power, but you do eventually need something for your denser cities etc.

It unironically is.

Posts like the above are why I'm a communist now.

One potential path is to redefine what we think of as 'work'. That word is almost always used to refer to the types of things you can attach a monetary value to. Truth is, though, there's an awful lot of work that gets left out of the definition. Raising kids is work - hell, being pregnant is work. Caring for relatives is work. Growing stuff in your garden is work. Learning new skills is work. Caring for the environment - everything from land management to rewilding to picking up litter - is work. Running social clubs, talking to your neighbors, and generally participating in society is work, particularly when it's so easy to just look at a screen.

Obviously, saying that we simply need to change the way everything thinks is a bit pie in the sky. But I think it's a serious tactic to try to employ. We're letting the capitalists define what 'useful work' is, and we're hurting for it.

This was a hard 'no' from me until I read the article. Let's be honest with ourselves - either we foster these sort of closed gardens or we go play in the infinite shit-filled sandbox the rest of the Internet is becoming. This honestly just sounds like moving to an RSS-only model, which is something I could get behind.

Or, you know, the Israelis could stop bombing hospitals, undo their Constitutional amendement declaring that Israel is 'for Jews', extend the vote to the entire occupied territory, and start a justice and reconciliation commision that punishes current and past acts of bigoted violence.

But nope, the only two possible choices are that somebody gets genocided.

If that's legit their position, then they have no candidate in 2024

Yes. That's literally their point.

80% of the US population, and about half of the world population, lives in urban areas.

By 2050, those figures will be 90% and 75%, respectively.

Planning better urban areas won't help everyone, but it will help the supermajority.

I, for one, welcome our new Sioux overlords.