On the Margins

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Offline indefinitely. I'll check messages about once a week. Probably.

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@adesertdryad Maybe this Casey Johnston person has something?
https://t.co/AStMZcw77U

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@TornadoNate Are you serious?

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@jackedcatman @cringe_genius Lol lmao rofl

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@michelletandler That would be good for the majority of the population. 🤷 It wouldn't effect me a lot either way, but something would have to be done about existing mortgages if you don't want serious blowback.

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@HotSolanum @PlumedSerpent7 @ArthurBoreman I'm not 100% in agreement with your thread, but it's a far better explanation of these things than I've seen so far. People mostly don't understand ethnicity, either it's formation or it's development.

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Under ideal conditions in those climates you can maybe support 7 people per acre of crop ground, but you need another 5-10 acres to provide fertility for those crops. And thats before we get to fuel and fiber needs

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I'll start by saying I like Smaje and his vision. But he's not being honest about the UK's ability to feed itself. There are ~70 million people in the UK and only ~15 million acres arable land.

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If we're generous maybe double that via small growing plots on land not considered arable, but still possible to work with hand tools/very small equipment. Still not remotely enough.

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@TheLastFarm 😬🤮

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@TheLastFarm Or if they somehow moved the whole country to the tropics and did full scale agroecological land alteration to the whole thing.

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@TheLastFarm Unless they can live on rocks and raw sewage it's still not going to work.

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@overlook_colony @TheLastFarm I don't expect to ever be making those decisions. I'm having a hard enough time trying to navigate this timeline without my family being on the receiving end.

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@awarenesss @thomasschulzz Unlikely, but I suppose if the AI boosters/doomers are close to right I guess it could happen. I think they're wrong about how consciousness works though.

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@BarkTwain @MarkHertling I read it to that tune and it didn't *quite* work. Close enough that my brain thought it should though.

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@thomasschulzz @awarenesss I didn't say human labor. I said "activity". The machines are merely human action at one or two steps removed.

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@bgcts Makes sense. I don't really understand any of it. My warfare tech stack is still set to trebuchet.

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@pythonrocksnake @fogellxy Depends on location and how many people from elsewhere show up. But most places, yeah.

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@BarkTwain "Sir, this is soup kitchen."