I live in a sober living apartment building. They sometimes get donation boxes from different places and you can ask the security guard to let you back to where they keep them and pick out whatever you need. I think I influenced them and got them into some good habits with that by bringing back to the wellness center on the bottom floor what I didn’t use one month and explaining my reasoning that someone else might need it, because then later they told me to do that when I took a box a different month as if they had come up with the idea. Felt like I made a difference, even though they pretended like it was totally their ingenious social worker idea. Anyway, now it basically constitutes a food pantry anyone here can access with the security guard’s permission. They give you resources in the wellness center that point you to local food banks and sometimes offer to drive people there. Others have their own cars and can drive each other.

Wow. Shocker. Capitalism isn’t so easily reformable toward sustainability. I don’t understand why more democrats, like the ones who have been up until now relying on the sentiment of large financial institutions and corporations to finish the job of addressing climate change, don’t get their head in the game and realize how eco-unfriendly so much of capitalism is, and, depending on one’s definition of capitalism, how eco-unfriendly all of capitalism may be. I think some of them have developed a greater love for their white picket fence-esque life as marketed to them in real time than for understanding the impact of scientific information about climate change on the life of the planet including their own per an authentic scientific understanding - because the latter starts to look more socialist by almost every definition of socialism.

Oh no, I think you misunderstood me. I’m not arguing against alternative energy. I’m just highlighting some problems with solar tech and alternative energy systems that are relavant to the overall discussion of the very necessary transition away from fossil fuels. That’s good for First Solar. I’m not one to leave things to the economy to magically handle. I’m hoping there are people on here with some kind of connection somewhere, directly or indirectly, I can serve as a central repository of information to. I run a small nonprofit think tank focused on solving the polycrisis.

Fundamentally there is only so much oil in the ground. That’s all anyone is driving at, and everyone seems to be ignoring that. Plus it’s all shale oil now which is much more expensive to extract. The EROEI is going down as a result and all that oil is being wasted on routine economic activity. Other countries, where the rest of the shale oil will be, are getting much stronger and more able to defend themselves. Why is the concern with predictions? The main point is the working implication of introntrovertible material circumstances on the picture of the future. The economy itself must change. Being concerned with precise predictions even ignores the implication of ‘the bumpy plateau’ which is what I think we’re in now, bumpy not because of that one metric of global world oil production, but because of all of the factors that must distort around it in order to produce it and thereby distort and jeapordize the economy.

A fungus infecting the ecosystem and crops in the san joaquin valley that makes people get this fever thing, makes everyone sniffly kind of and some other stuff.

Here it is then : https://slrpnk.net/c/Peak_Oil

Yeah it sure is cheap living in the bread basket of the world, the san joaquin valley. My rent is 334. I even have housing assistance. Ag ag ag is all I hear here, and everyone has no idea how unsustainable industrialized agriculture is. Plus the droughts, the toxicity, the general poverty, and also valley fever.

There’s a lot of environmental problems with all that that aren’t being solved and at least are worth talking about somewhere like a Peak Oil discussion community. The mining of minerals for solar panels for instance. Or the continuing inability to dispose sustainably of used batteries. And red states aren’t really transitioning to alternative energy, and may sour to alternative energy and reverse it. A fascist-dominated republican federal government may sabotage alternative energy in blue states. There’s also the wear and tear issue of alternative energy systems - they have to be repaired with components that are themselves manufactured with materials continually mined from the finite supply somewhere in the world which itself causes environmental destruction. And there are many problems with EVs. How weird that none of this is still being discussed in one place on here.

Also, yeah it is complicated. But there is one thing I like to radically simplify it to sometimes that I feel keeps getting lost in the noise : there is only so much oil in the ground, and society does not seem to be properly coping with that reality yet all things considered.

Well I thought I’d consult people first. But yeah this is the bumpy plateau is usually my whole thing and now there is all the drama of oil depletion itself sputtering into view.

Hello all.

Just wondering - why isn’t there a Peak Oil community on SLRPNK? Seems like an incredibly obvious thing to have. I’m getting really paranoid here - I feel like oil company agents try to infililtrate places like this and have stuff like that blocked and removed, and I’m wondering if that’s what’s happened here. It just seems like there should obviously be a dedicated Peak Oil community on SLRPNK. There are way more obscure communities on here than that.

Cascadian Laboratories Incorporated “CascaLab” on Facebook pages. Our website is down and our donation mechanism doesn’t work right now. We’re very small and new, since 2022 we were founded. We do almost nothing but feyerabend-inspired research remote from one another. It’s kind of coddiwompling and we try to research ways of making sure we’re not doing armchair research, that we’re actually testing real world things. One thing I test is home economics solutions. We’re actually wondering about creating a federated network of nonprofit think tanks of similar size just meeting the minimum requirements for a 501 ( c ) 3 each of them rather than actually scaling. I picked some of my closest friends, those among them who were most excited about doing it. I used legalzoom to create it.

Something I’ve found is actually working on oneself physically, practicing good physiological health so that one can biomechanically maintain good hand eye coordination, can avoid dropping or bumping equipment or devices for long periods of time (like many many everyday people are well known to constantly do), maintaining good awareness of your environment, and being able to connect with your equipment, devices, and hardware pragmatically the way a blue collar worker might personally connect with their machinery. This way, you can really stretch the lifespan of your hardware. Also, remember that brokenness is relative and along a gradient, not a binary question - if you can get functionality out of a device or hardware, especially according to your prioritization of need, then fundamentally it works; you just have to ‘jimmy it a little bit’ maybe, to use a blue-collar-ism.

I have a laptop from the early 2000s I maintain, an Xbox one I use for most functions still from 2018 or earlier, two android smartphones both for different purposes over 3 years old each without ever having used phone covers. And I went for a physical at the clinic and they said my stats on my health were above the 90th percentile of health for my age. I’m a bioregionalist so I’m always trying to be systemically “of” my surroundings, region, and community as a vital living breathing human being, and I use ASMR videos on YouTube to liven up my sensory capacities to connect therein to my surroundings and maintain a solid environmental awareness; helps in not dropping or bumping things hardly ever, or spilling liquids on anything.

Those are my first principles.

There are so many authors to let into my soul and digest. I operate a small 501 ( c ) 3 think tank so I’ve been in the process of letting Paul Feyerabend into my soul. It’s a real emotional move to sit down and start absorbing a new author, to be honest. I was going to start on Marcuse next.