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Co-operative run housing largely eliminates those problems.

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Perhaps in some parts of suburban north america. However, well-designed walkable, bikeable cities with proper transit don't require mega big box stores all in one zoned area that you drive to from a sprawling suburb.

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Consider that if you have one bad neighbour in an apartment, then everyone on your floor will also be talking to them and helping to regulate their disruptive behaviour.

Apartments usually have concrete walls so you can't hear your neighbours. Unfortunately, there are some new builds made by developers trying to maximise profit at the expense of the residents who don't do this.

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Gentle density is awesome too! Rowhouses, duplexes, low-rises: all great options for cities that are zoned to only allow single family housing.

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It's possible to own a condo apartment, or if the building is structured as a co-op, then rent is permanently affordable and you have a stake in how the building is run.

More here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKudSeqHSJk&t=0

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Those are great too :) with some small grocery stores at corners occasionally.

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I know you're not serious but this is a really sad and hateful worldview.

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so much hate.

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IMO this is a universal problem. I've had neighbours in a single family house that choose to mow their lawn at 7am on a Saturday and have a very loud pickup truck that I can hear start up any time they drive it.

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They supplement and decentralise food production, building resiliency into our systems.

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For the same amount of people, you wouldn't need to.

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I wouldn't be so quick to write off Lemmy since it depends on what server you're on.

There are many servers, including the one this meme is on, that have plenty of progressive discussions without authoriative mods.

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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...

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It uses electrolysis, so may as well cut out the middleman and just use electricity to power things without losing efficiency to convert it.

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Who said anything about beurocratic governing bodies?

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It sounds like you're pretty frustrated. There sure is far too much money spent on the military and the human rights abuses it causes. Please consider that there was never any claim made that we need to increase funding there; it's a strawman argument for something that you're rightfully upset about.

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Sometimes we all speed read things and miss parts. :)

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Their comments were removed since it was a troll account.

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I think the point is that gentrified areas are prim and proper and tagging pushes back on the gentrified aesthetic.

There's also the phenomenon of guerrilla gardening beautifying a neighbourhood, which can cause developers to take note of it as a "desireable area" and bring luxury development. Tagging has the opposite effect.

I don't know enough about Berlin to comment there, but it can be true that city can still have a high average rent, at the same time as tagging a building and the surrounding area can decrease rent by deterring rich people.

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I actually find that both MAGA folks and modern conservatives are big on Laissez-faire capitalism.

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Consider starting a discussion instead of low-effort, snarky remarks. The latter is just toxic.

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Do you find that the types of people who seek authority over others are reasonable, educated, and mentally stable?

Dehumanizing groups of people as "wildlife" though... That's kinda messed up.

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This is true while the meme is also not CCP/Kremlin propaganda.

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Firefox still supports uBlock origin. 👌

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"Growth is no longer economic; increasing GDP does not necessarily increase human welfare."
— In Defense of Degrowth by Giorgos Kallis

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Relevant meme :P
https://slrpnk.net/post/12165327

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I find it fascinating how it's called methane in this context, but natural gas when oil companies sell their fracking bi-product to heat homes and run water heaters.

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This is one study. Both the author of this article and you should not be so quick to draw strong conclusions.

For instance, the idea that early humanoids took the form of "cavemen" who ate a ton of meat is debated, and largely built on assumptions made from finding hunting tools.

More recent evidence of the oldest known fossilized human feces has shown very amounts of dietary fiber - much more than our modern diet. The amount of meat eaten in the USA today is not historically common.

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I think that holds internationally, but the USA eats a massive amount of meat and less beans comparatively.

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For what it's worth, I have never seen the movie and from my perspective, they're just two characters in a meme.

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This one seems pretty cool though.

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Minimum 10 vacation days though.:(

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This is super helpful!

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I'm all for using methane as a biproduct of sewage or composting, however "natural gas" used to heat homes, generate electricity, or power cars is a misnomer. Natural gas from oil companies for these purposes are just them selling us the methane biproduct of fracking. Solar > natural gas power plants and heat pumps > natural gas heaters.

Unfortunately, most methane used today is contributing to global warming and increasing the profitability of fracking and oil.

It's akin to how dairy companies get whey as a biproduct when they skim milk and instead of throwing it out, they started selling it for protein powder and as a food additive to increase profits.

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That was the case for most of the time heat pumps existed which is why the claim that you can't use heat pumps in very cold climates is still common.

However, the technology has improved significantly and there are now modern cold climate heat pumps which have eliminated the need for natural gas furnaces. Over 2/3 of households in Norway use heat pumps today.

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Honestly, these cooling tech ideas would all go great in an Urbanism wiki.

@ProdigalFrog What do you think?

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I tried pasting a peertube link and peertube server in Jerboa but unfortunately nothing came up. Perhaps I'm doing it wrong?

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