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[-] bonkerfield@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 year ago

Imagine upping the size, running the vacuums on renewables and automating it though. You could distribute farm fresh veggies to the doorstep of everyone in an entire city. I think that'd be solarpunk as hell.

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[-] bonkerfield@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 year ago

I'm a pretty visible positive example I'd say. My objective is to provide reminders to reframe carnism as socially stigmatized. I think this mostly works because a lot of my friends are vegan, but there are a few "bros" who rationalize why they don't need to change.

[-] bonkerfield@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 year ago

It sounds a lot like you want us to be silent so you don't have to think about it.

Most people intellectually understand that torturing and killing animals is wrong and they don't want to do it. But they can put it into the back of their minds unless the vegans in their life remind them of what they look like to us.

And personally, I firmly believe that getting those little reminders from my friends added up over years for me until I realized it was worth it to make the change.

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That seemed like a pretty valuable feature on reddit, and it seems even more valuable given that there can multiple communities with the same name on different servers.

So is it possible to crosspost?

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But then I remember I didn't take their children away, hook them up to a machine to extract food from them, or kill them. And that makes me feel like making fun of carnists is not so bad.

[-] bonkerfield@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 year ago

The challenge that isn't covered here is that the grandeur of Singapore is far far easier to achieve with authoritarian centralization than the anarchic style of solarpunk. And people are compelled by the grandeur of a large expensive project in different ways than the DIY scale.

So how can a ragtag group in SF or Berlin make something that captures imagination just as well as Singapore?

[-] bonkerfield@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 year ago

I'm a huge fan of the ebike for camping too. In 2021, I took a year off work to ebike around the US.

This weekend's adventure was low-key by comparison, just a 14 mile ride from downtown Madison, WI out to a county park campground.

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I love bike camping and am starting to host trips where I live. I highly recommend it to anyone who wants to get to know the rural parts of their region. You can often ask around at bike shops (particularly the adventury types of bike shop) to learn who in the area runs them.

[-] bonkerfield@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 year ago

If you're around Madison, WI I'm running group campouts now! Have one coming up this weekend and will do more over the summer.

[-] bonkerfield@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I have 3 bikes right now. An upright ebike for around town and short trips, a recumbent ebike for 50+ mile trips, and a mtb/commuter (mostly to handle the winters). I ride everywhere around town, and I do lots of bike camping around my area.

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I'm car free so I've had to come up with some creative solutions to moving some big stuff around. Probably the toughest thing I've had to tow is my 12 ft sailboat. I modified my existing trailer to add a tag-along child bike trailer.

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