[-] leftytighty@slrpnk.net 3 points 7 hours ago

Legislative bodies get their "teeth" by the state monopoly on violence. The UN having teeth would have to mean UN forces, and it'd even have to mean those forces being among the strongest in the world.

It's a diplomatic tool, not anything else. It encourages communication and collaboration and discourages conflict.

[-] leftytighty@slrpnk.net 2 points 7 hours ago

Binary data is almost always more compact than text data

[-] leftytighty@slrpnk.net 8 points 12 hours ago

Yeah, I was gonna say. I'm sure it'll meet my expectations, and I'll be disappointed.

[-] leftytighty@slrpnk.net 2 points 12 hours ago

Indeed, supposing they could use software to cause the battery to ignite is one thing (the most plausible part) but your other points are the crux of it.

I'm a boomboom builder btw

[-] leftytighty@slrpnk.net 12 points 13 hours ago

If I called myself an accountant then implied something that's very implausible about accounting you'd be right to question it.

These weren't hacked battery overloads they were explosives.

[-] leftytighty@slrpnk.net 2 points 16 hours ago

true the world's capitalist countries are not susceptible to this

[-] leftytighty@slrpnk.net 9 points 16 hours ago

My dad works at Steam

[-] leftytighty@slrpnk.net 4 points 1 day ago

Now westerners will worry when lining up for concerts or flights and the increased security expenditure will impact their economy

I guess you support ISIS terror attacks as a brilliant play too?

[-] leftytighty@slrpnk.net 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

What this person is proposing is functionally similar to forms of anarchism and anarchist theory has some answers to these kinds of questions.

For example the communes could have a federation where representatives are sent to settle disputes. Likewise instead of a fixed 2000 people with walls between you could have people in several smaller overlapping communities which act as bridges across a network of communities. Similar to how a person can be a family member and a company employee and a resident of an apartment building etc.

Though I don't completely buy in to everything it says, https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/peter-gelderloos-anarchy-works goes into how anarchist communities can and have worked

[-] leftytighty@slrpnk.net 19 points 3 days ago

shitposting on lemmy for example

[-] leftytighty@slrpnk.net 4 points 3 days ago

One problem with "voting with your wallet" like this is some wallets are bigger than others and it's not always easy and affordable to do the sustainable thing. Add to this that powerful lobbies (oil and gas, dairy, animal agriculture) use regulatory capture and other means to make their products the cheaper option for the consumer.

State action to drive green technologies down in price like that of China is met with tariffs and other protectionist measures that drive those prices right back up.

This is yet another tragedy of late stage capitalism sucking all wealth out of the working class, people may want to live more sustainably but they have to buy the cheap, disposable, subsidized options. Voting with your wallet isn't easy when your wallet is empty.

I'm fairly privileged and I lead a vegan lifestyle, and I can pay extra to have some luxuries like the meat substitutes, vegan restaurants, or non-fast-fashion clothing. Others might be able to do the same, cheaper, but at a lower quality of life.

If we tackled wealth inequality with any vigor at all, more people could do this.

[-] leftytighty@slrpnk.net 1 points 3 days ago

I don't disagree, and in fact it is a huge part of the problem and we actively subsidize its production let alone limiting it. However the end result will be the same, so it's not like saying "why should I have to recycle/deal with waste because companies are making single use products" because unlike in that case the alternative still has you eating less meat.

Consider checking out this entertaining and informative video about how wild things get https://youtu.be/XusyNT_k-1c?si=K_gxkl0X60kFmvw0.

Overseas nations grow animal feed in the US and ship it halfway across the world to feed their cattle. It's absurd.

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