I am NOT Jim West.

Grass is a pestilence that should be eradicated worldwide, but legumes can be excellent support species, and some even make tasty fruits. Dialium guineense is one that most people don’t seem to know, but apparently bonobos like it!

food forests

I would argue that growing your own food and NOT cooking it is even more revolutionary.

I am a furry woodland creature, and I approve this meme.

EDIT: I am using “furry” as a synonym for “mammalian” here.

my bees

my goats and chickens and cows

A solarpunk culture would strive to dissolve every form of social hierarchy and domination – whether based on class, race, gender, sexuality, ability, or species – dispersing the power some individuals or groups wield over others and thus increasing the aggregate freedom of all; empowering the disempowered and including the excluded. It is rooted in the legacy of such liberatory movements as anti-authoritarian socialism, feminism, racial justice, queer and trans liberation, disability struggles, animal liberation, and digital freedom projects.

Owning other beings as property is not solarpunk.

Riding a goose to work is not compatible with the solarpunk values of anti-speciesism and animal liberation.

Meh. I’ve never even seen such a soil, and I can grow food just fine here. Society has overstayed its welcome anyway.

Banana~ 🙃

I hear about Python probably at least as much as I hear about Rust, to be fair. I looked at some Python code years ago and seem to remember the code looking more like a shell script than like other programming languages I had seen, so the ease and readability aspects make sense. If ever I do start programming, I won’t start by learning Rust. Baby steps.

Is Rust really so obscure? I’m not a programmer, but I seem to hear about Rust frequently in any remotely halfway-techy space.

Always check terms and privacy policy before signing up, but these seem like they will be here to stay:

• lemmy.cafe
• sopuli.xyz
• slrpnk.net
• lemmy.dbzer0.com
• anarchist.nexus
• scribe.disroot.org

Those are all Lemmy and PieFed, and I’m not so familiar with Mastodon and others. Maybe look at mas.to ?

Banana.

I wonder how many people want to get out and just don’t know where they can go or how to get there…

Librewolf is also an option, which is basically just FF with arkenfox preinstalled.

I don’t think that it’s just that. Librewolf probably makes many of the same changes, but from what I understand, it is a completely separate project, so not all of the arkenfox changes are included in Librewolf and vice versa.

I live in the rainforest. There is zero grass here except in the places that have been disturbed by humans.

Yeah, because fuck biodiversity.

Have you ever seen how grass grows? It is the exact opposite of biodiversity. Even the grazing herbivores who usually eat grass stand to benefit from the eradication of grass and its replacement with a more diverse assortment of vegetation. Even the animal exploitation industry’s own publications explain the nutritional benefits of leguminous and other non-grass “forage” and attempt to calculate the amount of grass that can be included in the animals’ diets (in order to save money) without compromising weight gain. I have personally seen cows and goats go out of their way, crossing several hectares of pasture, to consume whatever non-grass vegetation they could find (often baby fruit trees) rather than eat the grass available to them.

So yes, let’s kill all the “native” grass and plant a diverse array of trees, shrubs, palms, forbs, vines, and herbaceous ground-covers. Everyone in the world would benefit except perhaps the ruling class and a few other parasites.

Or has been so extensively selected by humans (intentionally or unintentionally) that it no longer resembles the original wild form. Either way, the world would be a more pleasant place without grass.

Exploiting and killing other beings is NOT solarpunk.

A solarpunk culture would strive to dissolve every form of social hierarchy and domination – whether based on class, race, gender, sexuality, ability, or species – dispersing the power some individuals or groups wield over others and thus increasing the aggregate freedom of all; empowering the disempowered and including the excluded. It is rooted in the legacy of such liberatory movements as anti-authoritarian socialism, feminism, racial justice, queer and trans liberation, disability struggles, animal liberation, and digital freedom projects.

I hate the feeling of grass touching me. I’m reluctant to even rip it out by hand, as that would require touching it. I get at the roots with the machete and dislodge it that way so that I only need to touch it briefly in order to fling it onto the neighbour’s land. Even then, I feel like I need to scrub myself afterwards.

Allegedly. We can’t know that for sure, and honestly, I have serious doubts.