Unregulated? Clearly you don’t know the Bay Area.

Are you sure they weren’t spilled by accident?

I love memes like this because no matter who you are, you can always imagine it’s about your political enemies.

I understand the background I’m just explaining why I don’t want to migrate to mbin. There is no similar instance there to my knowledge.

Humans are just animals surviving however we can, like any living thing. There is no way we were meant to live because there is no intention behind our existence, other than our own intentions. The way we live now is just as natural as we lived 500,000 years ago because both lifestyles evolved from how our nature interacts with the environment we live in.

I agree with you that being free is a better way to live but I think that’s a different and more solid moral argument than speaking of how we were “meant” to live. The latter idea can smuggle all sorts of ideas into the conversation, such as appeals to authority, tradition, religion, etc.

But I like my instance…

I don’t know if he’s put words to his exact ideology but it seems to be anarchist or at least anarchist adjacent, albeit with lots of heterodox opinions on various things. But you’re right that he’s very pro-materialism.

I generally enjoy his content but I haven’t read the book so this series was a bit beyond me.

Honestly I’m not saying I support them exactly but if Trump shuts down global trade with the tariffs maybe there will be a silver lining of fewer invasive species introduced. The world has been absolutely ravaged by them for the past 150 years.

I don’t think anyone really claimed otherwise. 400 years ago was 1625. Unless you thought Marx lived in the 1600s this comment makes little sense.

Any social relation that exists is natural. The term natural is practically meaningless and is built on a fallacious idea that there is one true way humans were meant to live.

Also, natural does not mean better or worse than any other way.

To be fair I think this video was made before the book was actually out. Not sure why he decided to do that but I think I remember him saying in another video that the book was better than expected.

Is he? Where can I find out more about this? I haven’t seen statements from him on this topic.

True, but unfortunately, this species is way over-planted in many cities. I would not recommend them unless they happen to be uncommon in your local area. Urban forests need to be as diverse as possible to resist the constant barrage of pests and diseases being introduced by global trade.

In California we have a relatively new pest called shot-hole borers which are killing off many of the London planes, so we’re scrambling to plant other species that can resist them.

Also, resistance to air pollution isn’t as crucial as it once was due to better emissions technologies.

Your potted tree isn’t a tree in the sense that I’m talking about. The environmental services trees provide are all based on size and so are predominantly provided by larger trees. Cities usually avoid planting these under electrical wires and in smaller tree basins to avoid damage to infrastructure. So practically, there are many urban locations where big trees won’t fit.

Trees don’t attract VC funding the way some dumb new invention does.

I guess this could be useful in places trees don’t fit but I think there are other simpler solutions.

The amount of water required is trivial compared to most other water uses. Especially if correct species are selected.

Don’t forget unbanning tons of Nazis on twitter in the name of “free speech” while silencing their critics.

What can be done about this? Obviously Trump won’t intervene, so what other levers of action can people push against?

That’s kinda how Trump was too though.

Why don’t they like him? He seems repugnant enough to me that he should be a shoe in for MAGA types.