Thus, read their theory, study the conditions.

God has a chance to do the funniest thing ever. She doesn’t seem to care about so much stuff, it would be crazy if she showed up now.

Star Trek has an economic system, it’s not run “on science.” Star Trek is functionally fully automated luxury communism. Under capitalism we have the technology to have no scarcity, but that’s not profitable, so capitalists create scarcity by destroying excess product and not giving it to those in need. In Star Trek they have a duplicator thing so no one is in need and no one can make a profit. It is a communist utopia. If you want to see a rational society that implements policy for scientifically planned good look at China. Their ultimate goal is communism, but today for now their achievements include lifting hundreds of millions out of poverty, heavily subsidizing green technology allowing it to be cheap and accessible, and lifting people’s living standards so that the life expectancy is higher the wealthy western countries.

Fake numbers about a US enemy from harvard? Shouldn’t we be hearing about the 10% who didn’t like the government being punished if there actually is coercion?

Science has no goal. It cannot determine policy. It can tell you how certain policies may affect certain metrics, but it matters who decides what metrics matter ie. do we care if people have food, or if line go up.

Again, you think China is investing hundreds of billions for show?

China has basically no human rights, they fucking paint grass green so they can pretend to reach their goals.

Largest afforestation in the world by far is “painting grass green” to you.

They have laws, forbidding to collect cooking oil out of trash cans and the sewers.

The horror, how could anyone live in a dystopia like that. Worst law ever.

They systematically disappear Uyghurs to off site facilities

It’s called peaceful terrorism prevention. They had a handful of terrorist attacks and Wahhabism had spread from China’s neighbors, so they educated and developed that area rather than shooting anything that moves. This approach has made lots of progress and the program is over.

And do you think as a Chinese citizen you would criticise the government in a servey if literally everything you do is monitored, everywhere you go in a city is filmed by cameras, every app in the app store has to be approved by the government?

That’s projection from the US and UK where it’s much worse.

and hides their “we have the highest build rate of coal plants” side

Their existing coal plants are far more efficient than those in the west, and they’re ceasing to make more.

Gonna need a source on your surveillance claims.

Again, if it sucks so bad why does the polling show it’s pretty livable?

Take a look at the comrade above’s comment if you haven’t.

Tbf there is a resource extraction problem, but that is significantly higher in the "we just need to line Elon Musk's pockets so more people have cyber trucks" approach than the "you can have a good EV for yourself if you want but we also have great public buses and trains running on renewables" approach.

Edit: the book that I mentioned criticizes both approaches and offers an interesting hemp based solution. I think it's right and hopefully China more hops on that train. Anyway, I forgot your original comment mentioned it being "just as bad as oil" which is blanketly absurd.

Same, though I’m out of practice.

That’s fine in Europe, but to any USians reading clover is not native here and there are natives you could/should be planting. Honey bees are also not native fyi, shout-out to native pollinators.

Lol, just because people claim to be something doesn’t make them so. Elon Musk is a hypocrite , a racist, a transphobe, a benefactor of slavery, and a massive exploiter, of course Jesus wouldn’t approve. Would Jesus have approved of Chattel slavery in the US because southerners used Christianity to justify their way of life? Jesus isn’t out here whipping people anymore. He made it pretty clear that the punishment for exploitation and cruelty on earth is spiritual suffering. “It is easier for a camel to get through the eye of a needle than a rich man to get into heaven.” Elon Musk does not appear to be happy now, and I’m sure if hell exists, he’s going there.

I’ve been playing a lot of Wii U Super Smash Bros. I can finally beat level 9s as a random character more than half of the time.