Ok so this photo is insane and represents the advancement in the medical field. It is one of those photos that you could show to people from the past and they will be shocked...
I've been seeing so many different cats, that I keep getting the "10,000-Year Earworm to Discourage Settlement Near Nuclear Waste Repositories" song by Emperor X stuck in my head:
In case you don't know the story: this song was commissioned by the 99 Percent Invisible podcast for their episode on how to warn people in the far future to stay away from nuclear waste deposits.
The idea is that no civilisation existed for as long as the time that radioactive waste remains dangerous. Hence, we need ways to warn people that are robust for lost of language, symbols, etc.
One idea was to breed cats that light up in the presence of radiation, and to then create a folk song about the importance of keeping cats, and the importance of leaving (with the cat) when the cat changes colour.
Das forcierte Spielen auf der Klaviatur der Ängste ersetzt praktikable Konzepte durch eine billige Politik des Dagegen. Merz, Söder und der ganze Tross hinter den Parteichefs arbeitet sich an der aggressiven Trumpisierung der Politik ab an deren Ende Menschen zu Gewalt als politischem Mittel greifen. Aber das wollen sie dann natürlich nie gewesen sein.
I see many posts of companies and their representatives stating that they work for a "greener and more sustainable future".
Are they insane or blunt ignorant and really think the present is already "green" and "sustainable" and they'll just make the future a bit more green and sustainable?
Many years ago - when I was very young and you were even younger - it was standard for an ISP to provide all their users with a small amount of webspace. Both Pipex and Demon offered webspace back in 1996. If my hazy memory is correct, they offered a few megabytes - more than […]
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The title and the guy telling the story pretend it's all just farm in & outputs, but quite at the start he mentions that he starts with food scraps from local restaurants... So, that's external input in my book.
The other external input is all the machinery and the fossil fuels that are used.
To be more resilient in an uncertain/collapsing future scenario these are not the type of solutions that can be sustained.
I'm all in favor of composting and producing food (yourself) and as locally as possible, but please don't lie to yourself about the degree of 'sustainability' when you are working like this, even if it involves composting stuff yourself.