Make a T-shirt with that

Very cool! I'm mostly excited to see the boom of the solar energy industry. Not just for selling but also for personal use. Feel like a whole new thing is coming that somehow not tainted by another industry hidden interests

My clothes last me an unusual amount of time when compared with most people I think (15 year old tshirts) and don't really buy clothes at all unless something is at the limit of repairability or looking very bad.

I want to ride my bike more. I work from home so I use it mostly to go the gym but I want to use for more things. Like shopping and stuff like that. I'm thinking of buying an electric one to help out since I live in a city with steep hills and an electric one would make it more likely to use.

Why do you say that? I have the complete opposite impression. Working class people are wither going liberal or authoritarian/populist depending on the amount of studies they have and general vibe around them. People outside of that are really rare. Which honestly feels depressing.

I mean in defense of the other person. It sounds more like the argument is trying to encourage a bigger action. Like don't just do your part, vote/participate for what actually changes things in a larger scale.

I'm with you on that. I feel like open source is the best possible way to security audit and test issues. As any issue will be out there to see, most proprietary code ends ups being years of duct tape which wouldn't fly if a large community of different backgrounds took a look at the code

Very cool! I think I might do something similar but might first try with regular pots. Not sure I want to jump into hydroponics right now.

Is it? Maybe both? A movement against climate change makes sense? A movement for climate change in the sense of raising the issue could also make sense? What a funny language

I'm extremely sceptic of carbon credits as a whole. The logic is just flawed. Not because the way you can make carbon credits but because it effectively created a marked where you can buy rights to pollute. For most companies that will be just a matter of economics. If I can make more money by polluting more if I make enough I can just pay to offset the carbon I added to the atmosphere. And seems a bit sad for a country to concede land to a company even if given resource extraction alternatives makes it not that bad.

Me too. Currently I do find that I have a minimal relationship with my current team which isn't the end of the world but at one point I had a team that I never met in person that was the best team I ever had and I was only there 6 months. I think like with in person relationships the person's involved matter a lot. Also the will that most of team has to make an effort to know each other.

What's your book name? And where can I get it? Where did you move to?

I'll counter that with the community being the people you want it to be and not the forced work place culture. You can have the same community for years while changing jobs in the meantime. I don't understand your argument regarding cars. Fully remote allows one to orchestrate his own live to never have to drive. If you have no commute and you have access to things near you, why would you drive? I understand that it depends on the person and live conditions. But from strictly flexibility perspective you are more able to decide how you live than the alternative.

Cool comment

Why do think you tend to work longer hours? I never had that that issue but I feel is very related to the work itself.

What? Is the server Portugal based? I'm surprised to see fellow Portuguese people around here. Always assumed it was american or danish or something. Good to know!

About the blackout I would stay away from jumping to theories right now since the investigation is still on going and way too much was made up in that afternoon with no power. I think the latest theory is related to instability caused maybe by too much solar power suddenly injected into the network in Spain, which caused the network to crash which in turn crashed the Portuguese one. But, as far as I read this is the latest theory not a definite one so take it with a grain of salt.

I did try the cowork thing. I did it in Porto, Portugal but I think that because real estate here is fundamentally broken there is no way that it works. I did found some places but the good ones were expensive and the bad ones were also expensive just not that much. And only the really good ones were better than working at a library or a coffee shop.

I don't think the remote work itself is solarpunk but I think it gives a slight opening to create solarpunk communities. Less time commuting, more time spent with people you want to spend time with and less with coworkers, community and political envolvment, sports, etc... Besides, I agree that a good deal of remote jobs are not inherently useful to the world but just the fact that it opens a way for a lot of people to move from big urban centers to smaller urban centers, reduces centralization and with it can move the workers that can't do their work remotely also to the decentralized communities.

Meeting hell, I know the feeling... I'll be rooting for your veggie patch!

You are right, but to be fair most things that are petroleum based are made with it because of economic reasons. Many things don't need to be it's just cheaper that they are. That's because of a combination of factors. If tomorrow every oil field in the world disappeared we would see alternatives for almost everything almost instantly because there would be huge financial incentive for it and many of those things already exist, they just have to compete with a very established and subsidized raw material

Debian is the GOAT

Love the community idea. I'm trying to get involved in a local charter of XR. I'm subscribing the community!