to be honest i think most of the actual real-world appeal is the social dimension, which is almost entirely separate from the mechanical process of getting a ding for jumping on a goomba 100 times

fyi somewhere in microsoft’s hellscape i hear there is a way to sign up for another year of extended support security updates for win10

do you always just carry a quest 64 cart around in your back pocket or smth?

mad respect if yes

oh goddamnit i have to redo my equalizer plugins, don’t i

picture alt text: a microphone from some company named fifine

and the part that really pisses me off is the assertion that focusing on impact reduction is 'politics of scarcity' and that's actually just helping conservatism. in the end, the authors are just spoiled brats mad that they might not get all their toys for christmas.

'we NEED to have all this to have the future we want'
is basically the key point of the book.

the book honestly makes some pretty legit points about the housing market and academia but holy shit, all of its marshaled in favor of a guileless guilt-free utopianism that i just cannot support

'solar panels might take up a lot of room, but we'll have fusion someday.'
oh? will. we. now.
'but we won't take up that space because we'll have a gazillion oodles of free energy, so we'll have skyscraper farm towers instead of ""horizontal"" farming'
o.k.

its just fucking ostrich head-in-sand politics all the way down

summary of a section towards the beginning:
"one of the easiest ways to cut emissions is eating less meat. but people like eating meat, so that's impossible. well, what can you do? let's change nothing, and eventually someone will mass produce lab meat so i don't have to think about it anymore"

this book isn't specific about anything. it paints so many pictures of a utopia, then throws up its hands and says if we just cut red tape and don't make any hard choices, we can have it all. this is just the leftist version of conservative free-hand-of-the-market ideology.

why are you tantalizing me with rewilding talk if you're gonna presume we cover 500 thou sq km in solar panels, not even counting the land we'd have to clear for transmission? nevermind how harmful to the environment manufacturing all these panels would be?

these people do not live in reality

finished the book. my main takeaway is that, yes, i suppose it would be very easy to imagine a society where everything is 'abundant' if you just assume we will find some way to invent limitless guilt-free energy generation. god, this shit just doesn't add up

Humanity impacts the world too much already. Their solution: impact it more, but because it's Good Thing instead of Bad Thing, it's ok.

Spoilers: it is entirely possible for us to collectively commit total ecocide and ruin the planet without any further global warming at all

Ah yes, of course. This transitions into a discussion about how much land area we'd need for new solar and wind installations ("one plausible path": 590,000 km/sq). Why am I not surprised? I loathe these kinds of conversations, where Thought Leaders just do a find+replace (bad thing) w/ (good thing)

i was nearly cracking up at this comically-written passage, like, what do you _think_ you’re doing when you plug your dryer in, bro? but then i realized they were implying gas powered dryers. i must admit, i’ve never heard of one before. are these actually commonplace elsewhere?

to be 100% fair, this is the opening fantasy about what life *could* look like. it’s also got shit like all meat being lab grown and nuclear fusion power. they do use footnotes eksewhere