Oh yeah I’d love to see tech being incorporated more into learning! I learnt more history from playing Civilization 1 when I was 9 than I did in any of my years of primary or secondary schooling.

I’ve also been inspired by the idea of VR as a teaching tool ever since I saw this Simpsons episode.

We have so much better technology options today, yet it feels like we’ve not utilised them at all. Paper books have been replaced with chromebooks, whiteboards by smartboards, and that’s about it. The same function but in a slightly more convenient form, such wasted potential.

Well what sort of changes would you like to see?

I work in education, and so I’m interested in getting to know how others want to see the world change.

So in an idealised utopian future you would want things to stay the same?

That Auroraville map looks like garbage. “Progress Garden”, “Harmony Garden”, “Perfection Garden”, etc. sounds like it was dreamt up by some ‘spiritual’ type who was more concerned with hippy names than any genuine long term plan for a functioning town.

We need realistic plans for living spaces, done with an understanding of the local environment and the needs of the people. They need to be able to evolve and grow naturally as all towns do, not be centrally planned before construction by top-down planners.

Nah Stalinists (and its descendants Juche, Maoism) replace one dictator with another, they’ll never achieve this society.

So why exactly are you in a SolarPunk community if you don’t believe in it?

No, not really.

All of them are about violent uprising because capitalists are never going to willingly give up their power.

If it’s carried out all the way, the end result is a stateless, hierarchy-less society; In such a place you wouldn’t be above or below anyone to exert authority over.

True top left should be Stalin.

Middle left Marx.

Bottom left Kropotkin.

So it’s due for another one soon? I’m going to go delete my computer to be safe.

Check out Ian M. Banks The Culture series. AI and humans do-exist, AI are also super nice and provide stuff for us because we’re basically the equivalent of puppies compared to their level of superiority.

Oh and each of the AI that are ships have names like “Funny, It Worked Last Time…”, “A Series Of Unlikely Explanations”, or “Very Little Gravitas Indeed”.

But in my opinion yes, but we have to co-exist making democratic decisions together. SolarPunk is anarchy, so you can’t just have a machine overlord lording over people.

AnCap is an oxymoron.

Socialism is a waste of time.

Skip to the end step of anarchy, of which SolarPunk is.

Removed by mod

I always found dota to be worse from my casual experience.

People really need to learnt the art of brevity, this just wafted on forever to say very little.

Not true, I’ve been on the main page for 10 minutes now and it’s just a loop.

It hasn’t removed any colours? That’s the standard rainbow flag that’s been around for 50 years now.

Betteridges law says no

Rinderpest joins the ranks of fully eradicated.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rinderpest

This would be amazing on my Valves Steam branded Steam Deck, with high definition OLED screen, whopping 512gb of storage, 30-50% more battery life, and running Valves Steams Steam Decks SteamOS. All for an affordable $549.