sanity_is_maddening

No, you don’t need to “grow up”. You’re right in feeling the way you do. Growing up in relation to that sounds like giving up. If anyone needs to grow up or give up is the people destroying Nature and people’s lives just so they can get more tokens in a rigged game that always benefits them.

We lost track of what money was supposed to be for… a representation of the resources and services in circulation. In which it was supposed to facilitate trade by creating tokens to facilitate transactions without the requirement of trust in the absence of a good, like when a farmer would need a tool from a blacksmith but the goods that the farmer has are only available when harvested in which the tool that the blacksmith has is required to retrieve them. In the presence of trust, the blacksmith was going to still trade and expect the goods when time was due. In the absence of trust, like in relation to a stranger, this trade wouldn’t go forward. Money as a representational token solved this sort of common issue. And this became a necessity when tribes went above the Dunbar’s number.

Cut to now…

What the hell is an economy even supposed to represent anymore? It is certainly not a representation of the resources and services in circulation, that’s for sure. 6 out of 9 planetary boundaries already breached all to ensure the survival of this abstraction. Some even call it Moloch as a reference to the pagan god which required human sacrifice. I thinks it’s worse, as it requires the sacrifice of everything, not just humans. But it is certainly a clever nod to something that was only real because people believed it to be.

Back to your project. A FOSS Barter Facilitator. There’s nothing I don’t like about this. Just make sure the protocols remain open to federation of future FOSS Barter Facilitators and you have a slice of Utopia to challenge the dystopian hell we’re in.

You have something here that can alleviate people’s lives in times of great need. Resource collapse is imminent now. If that is not at least partially avoided, that makes the collapse of the global economic system inevitable. What happens after that is a fool’s errand to even attempt to guess. We only know it’s not gonna be peaceful and nice given the stupidity in human nature. Scarcity always leads to the forming of new predation systems. That is how predation was formed in Nature. The incapacity for self-regulation led to animals to reproduce and consume more than the regenerative availability of their setting allowed, leading them to predate on each other. This is how violence emerged in Nature and still does to this day. When we lose track of self regulation we return to the scavenger’s rule of the wild.

But this helps in giving people access to trade without the requirement of capital tokens. Huge spikes in inflation, unemployment and mass migrations are only going to increase in volume and in rate as resources continue to collapse worldwide. We’re in a feedback loop and war and A.I. will only accelerate the velocity of it.

Or, you know, we could have more ideas like yours and reduce resource intake, increase individual resiliency and in doing so, lessening the panic in the common struggles.

So…

I’m certainly saving this post and link and share it with anyone who is inclined to listen.

I’m not a coder, so I thank you for such a wonderful contribution to the world.

The basis of understanding the trophic levels is paramount. Whenever one consumes from a trophic level, one is destroying more from the levels below. If people decided tomorrow to only consume carnivorous animals, they would be requiring even more animals, and therefore even more plants, meaning even more microorganisms. The quantity of energy one gets from one animal is less than what the energy intake of that animal was. Always. The larger the animal, the larger the loss. This does not change. Not even in the scavenger’s rule of the wild. Not even amongst other organisms in this planet. Never. It’s basic understanding of entropy and biology, but somehow this eludes the general population. However, the complexity of how trophic balance is achieved is more complex than this.

But still, this is why consuming from the lowest level possible ensures the lowest destruction possible. And why I am a big supporter of Precision Fermentation. Using bacterial and microbial life to grow our food as directly as possible is ingenious.

Sustainability, veganism, ethics… it’s all the same. We should all aspire to live our lives ensuring the minimum destruction possible. And if one uses one’s energy for the protection and the betterment of all life, not just oneself, or just animals, but plants, mycelium life, and microorganisms as well, the better it is to life itself on earth, regardless of species and categorization.

Syntropy vs entropy.

There’s plenty of crisps and chips out there which might not be labeled as vegan, but are still nonetheless made without animal products.

To me, it’s salted dry fruits and nuts all the way in the situation you described. I do some farming and salted peanuts and toasted salted cashews are my favourites. Although cashews are quite on the nose more expensive, so I sprinkle them amongst the peanuts.

Pair me that with some lemonade in a thermos and I’m good to keep going.

I used to snack sandwiches, but that just made me feel like going to lie down after munching on them.

But like I said, there are chips too.

Turning on the heating during an heat wave??? What??? Did they throw some hot rocks and water on the floor of that bus and called it a “sauna on wheels service” while they were at it???

Also wow. And I thought that corruption here where I live in Portugal was bad. We do rank amongst the highest on corruption in the EU. And I bet these awful people take pride amongst themselves when looking at that ranking. May I ask what country is this going on? You don’t have to answer if you don’t feel comfortable doing so.

If you are in one of the countries in Europe that is in the middle of this heatwave, they are at least not bothered by the possibility.

Also, liable. Someone might want to sue.

My girlfriend took notice of the 43°C in the thermometer this weekend.

That kind of heat in a bus ride with no Air-conditioning is going to get someone killed. Not to mention that everyone will suffer regardless and inevitably so.

This is one of the things that defeats me as someone who has been advocating for animal rights for almost twenty years now. How can I assemble some form of hope to establish non-human animal rights when the human rights are so clearly neglected and in some places even revoked these days?

I can’t see the end of exploitation of non-human animals in sight when humans are so uncaring for one another and even willing to hurt each other.

I’m still revolted by many things such as the ones in this post, but I haven’t been shocked by anything in a long time.

I was registered on Lemm.ee. Now I’m registered on piefed.social. So, technically not Lemmy anymore. I do suspect a lot us moved to piefed. That was the general buzz. I genuinely don’t know if the posts and comments of Piefed don’t track on Lemmy. I’m sure the ones amongst piefed users in piefed instances don’t though. That alone could justify a substantial part of that drop. But I’m still here interacting with Lemmy.