Highway spending increased by 90% in 2021. This is one of many reasons why car traffic is growing faster than population growth.
Hear me out, so we make a ton of hydrogen for cars, heating, etc. But it takes lots of methane to make hydrogen. So we give oil companies subsidies so they can do more fracking which is how we get the methane in the first place. This will be great for climat cha—wait a minute...
The Linux memes today are 🔥
(But not as much as Windoze machines with CrowdStrike are today)
Our prisons are designed for revenge and punishment not just to those going to prison, but to have a terrifying affect on others.
So ironically, the use of 5 years prison time is the real terrorism, in the literal sense of trying to make people terrified of protesting and of putting someone in a cage for 5 years.
This is great news
I think they're referring to right-wing libertarians specifically.
What a great idea! I'm curious to see how this goes. Would you be open to cross-posting this to the solarpunk farming community? !farming@slrpnk.net
My interpretation of it was that it was satire and not proposing the creation of a fake group. In short, I perceived it as being in agreement with everything you said.
Small-scale, local farming is where it's at. Growing a bucket of potatoes on a balcony or helping out at a community garden are small but achievable steps to bring the food closer to us. In addition to sustainability, it promotes knowledge of how to produce our own food and reduces dependence on large-scale monoculture farming.
It's nice to walk a few paces and pick up an ingredient for dinner with the satisfaction that you nurtured it. But mainly, I just don't feel like going to the grocery store as much lol.
Check out !BalconyGardening@slrpnk.net :)
E-bikes and infrastructure would have been a cheap and effective alternative for those subsidies as well.
Bike lanes are proven to increase revenue for businesses in their vicinity. Car parking takes up valuable space in a city which could be used more productively.