t’s pretty goddamn difficult to organize mass protests in DC when everyone who feels like you do is living dollar store hot dog to dollar store hot dog and DC is further from you than Moscow is from London.

What I learned in recent years, watching North American news, is that, in a car dependent land, you should protest with vehicles.

What’s fascinated me about the US is that they have a significant population of unhoused people, a lot of them having jobs too. And I kind of see that as their future. And they probably see that as their “worst case”, which only adds to hatred of unhoused people.

There’s an older term that is relevant: “lumpenproletariat”.

The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language defines it as “the lowest stratum of the proletariat. Used originally in Marxist theory to describe those members of the proletariat, especially criminals, vagrants, and the unemployed, who lacked awareness of their collective interest as an oppressed class.”[7] In modern usage, it is commonly defined to include the chronically unemployed, the homeless, and career criminals.[8] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lumpenproletariat

If the masses see themselves as temporarily embarrassed millionaires, they don’t see themselves as proletariat (working class). So you get the “rags to riches” story, but in reverse.

And I posted a different comment here: https://slrpnk.net/post/18679785/13966072

You’re not getting the fact that those feedstocks have their own feedstocks.

Using waste is also misleading, the goal needs to be to reduce waste, not make the waste a co-product. Cooking oil waste isn’t something that’s going to be some reliable feedstock either. In the context of economic “drama”, you can expect restaurants to close down much more or to reuse that oil a lot more times. Even too much: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gutter_oil The biodiesel processors won’t be able to rely on that source, there’s going to be a growing need for the virgin feedstocks.

Your position is essentially the same one as the meat and dairy industries, who are the competitor for that feedstock feed. That includes ‘waste’.

My concern with that is that it creates a choice between:

• feeding airplanes (or cars)
• feeding humans

It’s not as obvious with international markets for agriculture inputs and overproduction, but it’s happening right now if you understand how inputs and land work. It’s the same with meat and dairy. This is going to become more obvious if climate chaos (or other problems) create unstable conditions for agriculture, leading to lower yields and the end of decades of overproduction.

Here’s a documentary like podcast on these topics if you want to get a solid intro to the problems. /u/[email protected]

Reading only headlines is an act of laziness while expecting seriousness, it’s a practice of bad faith. Yes, before you ask, I know WHY people do that.

If you can’t stop yourself from engaging in bad faith, consider not commenting, not voting; just walk on by and check back later, maybe.

This one isn’t going to age well.

What is it made of?

Catabolic capitalism should be avoided.

Are there really people who believe in “sustainable airplane fuel”?

Use some other terms.

Degrowth

Turns from USAID to USFU, perhaps even worse than 20 years ago.

babylon bee

isn’t that the conservative “humor” site?

Nobody knows human nature for sure aside from the fact that we’re very social and very adaptive thanks to that. Our species is about 300k years old, it would be silly to take a tiny bit of that, the last 6k or 10k as an adequate sample size.

Oh, it’s THAT interview. People who have 0 (zero) understanding of sociological methods decide that they’re fountains of facts because talking in front a camera automatically means you’re the same as some experts or professors talking in a lecture or documentary. The video camera, the ultimate (self) validation machine, an indirect visual feedback loop acting as a circular reasoning feedback loop. It’s not enough to have your head up your ass, you also have to build a TV studio in there and do vodcasts.

Wait until you learn about the mycotoxins that can accumulate in wood.

Make them pay by redeveloping for public transit, cycling and walking.