The idea of a slow and careful crafts movement aligns with a more sustainable society, because it slows things down. Best way of slowing down is like this: create things very beautiful, even out of broken stuff.

Naughty mushrooms doing theirs again, they are so good. I got remembered I never was the uninspired believer in a mechanical world I had become, and turned back to animist knower - a lot of what you write resonates very much with me! Congrats to getting out of the rat race, faraway friend. Cautious as well with the little prankstershrooms. Remember grounding inbetween flights. So many people are getting out - once we get together we will be unstoppable!

Yours is just one of many versions of ‘why I personally don’t do anything’: I’m all for change, but the others don’t want!

Society will never be fully aligned on the solutions and you cannot expect everyone to agree with you, but you still can work for your preferred solutions in smaller groups?

Listening to whatever you like is punk as fuck

Not if you want to make cheese with it

First of all, a hug from far, and may the alienation go away soon.

Second, I’ve found there’s no point in discussing politics with people. Not with friends, not with strangers. There’s no point in trying to find people ‘aligned enough’ with my political ideas. Since I’ve accepted that I feel that my attempts at spreading anarchism lead so much further! As long as I never mention the word (or any other political jargon), and always, always approach my fellow humans as humans and try to inquire about what moves them, not tell them what I think they should do.

What do you think is missing in your neighbourhood? If you think it’s human contact, try to start there and invent ways to encourage friendly contact. Maybe create a point for food sharing or book sharing. If people are too shy to speak to each other in person at this point, give them other options, so they can lose their shyness gradually.

Where are you based? I found myself facing the same problem. In my small rural community a 2nd hand and artisan market proved to be effective to get people out of their houses and meet up. No need to throw political theory at them immediately, it’s just great they appeared. Though I do admit there’s already a bit of a community to work with and entertainment is sparse around here so it’s easy to get people’s attention. Where are you based? Not sure what would work best there.

The organizing steps that worked so far for me and bf are described in the Community community of this instance (and the many social anxieties suffered by a person who wants to encourage community but isn’t very social to begin with).

The gist is really just that blockchains are a ton of computers everywhere recording the same list of transactions permanently, under a certain set of rules, and a normal database is just that, but under one person/company’s control

So do all Bitcoin or Ethereum holders have some kind of general assembly or online vote to decide under what rules their currency is run? Does one bitcoin equal one vote? Which blockchains are private, which are not?

Also, banking (including their computing systems) already adheres to a set of rules, luckily. Unfortunately heavily eroded by powerful global players, but very functional, at least in Europe. Hey there’s even cooperative banks and credit unions here if you look carefully! In my opinion we should seek to build common sense and evolve to an economy based on mutual trust, not build technology based on general mistrust.

Get off the internet if you don’t like datacenters and technology.

Non-haters don’t care about the differences between datacenters, technology and blockchain. They want M.O.R.E. T.E.C.H. because it’s new and shiny. ;)

I do understand my banking statement, and even most of the fees I’m paying or my account. I don’t really understand what happens in a blockchain. If you can explain it to me like I’m 5 maybe I’d be more likely to adopt the technology. I’ve heard rumours that it’s really just a glorified database - if that is true, what’s the difference between databases we already have, and this new fancy kind?

What are you even trying to say? I am still trying to find something actually useful where blockchain is necessary that doesn’t spend as much energy as a small country. Every ‘explanation’ of why I should adopt this tech for my project/business/government/younameit is intransparent as heck. Lots of hot air, especially emanating from all those data centers. Fuck blockchain and AI.

Stopped reading at blockchain technology.

No, conciseness is the ability to describe things in few words. You probably meant to say consumption.

Not really, and @TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world has explained above why saving seeds can be technically quite challenging even for advanced gardeners. However there is another side to this - it is good that people consider saving seeds again, and learn how to. Because a lot of regionally adapted (easy to grow in certain places) varieties got lost when people stopped saving seeds and companies started doing it instead.

That’s a very good point. If the seeds people get from a seed library tend to be unreliable the idea will not thrive in the long term. A regular education offer about seed saving will help people and plants. Or people could note on their contributed seeds if their seed saving efforts are advanced or just ‘I collected a seed’.

I could imagine a sort of ‘plant patronage’ in a seed library where groups of people specialize in and care for certain plants or groups of plants.

Hahahaha I feel called out. Also, ‘Too butch for cottagecore, too granny for punk’ is a perfect slogan for Solarpunk

You are probably correct, there’s probably gravity energy applications where water isn’t the best option.

No. This problem has been solved long ago, with water. Water is already providing gravitational energy storage all over the world. I don’t think using different types of weight adds value to the process.

That is a beautiful and impressive list of inspirations you have collected on here, thanks for putting together and sharing! May it inspire many to personal action and towards working together for an abundant future.

I’m sure these drawers can be combined in an ecologically useful way!

Also who are those weirdos having neither an onion nor a mealworm drawer? Whatever is it people keep in their drawers these days, socks? Cutlery?

This isn’t really about “You can only be one of the cool kids if you’re at least 89.5% self sufficient.” It’s more on the line of “Hey, try to grow at least one sad plant in the best way you can manage, it’s going to make everything a little better.” Back when I only had a balcony I had boxes and bags with sad plants, now I have a garden with happier plants. We learn while our plants keep us company, and maybe one day can apply what we’ve learned in luckier circumstances. No attempt of caring for life is ever really lost.

By the way, if light conditions where you live are really bad you can always grow mushrooms instead of plants, they are not as demanding as plants.

Or hell, here’s a dodgy pro-tip if you are a die-hard bacon fan but can’t handle the environmental impact: go for a mealworm farm in a drawer. I promise the buggers taste similar to bacon and are the most sustainable animal protein you can imagine. All they need is food scraps and a dark space where they can crawl around. (Don’t let them escape into your kitchen)