He’s trying to destroy the country. Amassing as many bruises as possible is the point.

God dammit, the ads finally found their way to Lemmy

They were a relatively cheap, healthy, reliable source of protein. Also, they’re delicious.

Eh, idk. I’m sure there’s smart people doing cool things at Starlink, but the actual product itself is basically a brute force approach to Internet access with a ton of downsides

The angry drunk is actually the police man

You’re taking the proposed solution to an extreme end of the spectrum in an effort to argue against it.

We don’t need all ~7 billion of us to become self sufficient farmers. We don’t even need 1 billion of us to become farmers.

What we need in the immediate short term is to encourage the adoption of better agricultural practices, such that the mega farms that currently support us can continue to support us, while minimizing their environmental* impact.

What we need in the medium term is to encourage people to create local food gardens in their communities, via education campaigns and subsidies. By no means does that mean every living being on the planet needs to take up a trowel and a hoe, but people should be encouraged to participate in the production of their own food.

What we need in the long term is to find solutions that turn those local food gardens into permanent, sustainable, long term solutions that can support entire communities. Vertical farming, indoor hydroponics, stuff like that. Which means publicly funded research and more subsidies.

There’s steps to it. It’s a process. It will take time, it won’t happen overnight. No one is suggesting that “a city of a million people abandon all the work they do and collectively invade rural areas to set up farms they have no idea how to run”. That’s a strawman you’ve made up in your head.

How nice of you to conveniently list out all the current events worth having an existential crisis over, in a reply to a person having an existential crisis

I mean 9gag stands for 9 Good American Guys right? What better place to get your accurate American maps from?

They go so fucking hard live too, absolute blast to watch

Also wtf South Africa.

Yeah, can someone help me out with a pronunciation guide on that one?