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by ratsforhorses 5y ago
Reminds me to recommend "Grapes of wrath" as a wonderful book to read, surprisingly relevant today, off my head there is the description about apples being too expensive to buy fresh so being sold to be canned... and the old guy h
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by ratsforhorses 5y ago
Maybe one could see it as a form of civil disobedience ... surely it counts that the person lets another person take the job he might have taken and ultimately uses less resources than the average worker (commute, buying power, paper trails
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by ratsforhorses 5y ago
I'd have thought with the amount of coffee grounds, leftover food and human manure from so many people, one could have turned their surrounding areas into a self sustaining green belt (with a little help from atmospheric water generati
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by ratsforhorses 5y ago
Yeah but if you take into account the savings on fuel a Renault Zoe newer model for 25k Chf pretty much hits that sweet spot...besides torque acceleration, silence and the good conscience of no toxic smelly fumes are pretty good bonus argum
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by ratsforhorses 5y ago
I'm sure you'll get better answers but I really liked the idea of ventilating greenhouses with salt water.... could be a good way to get the extra liquid needs..a quick google found me this https://www.sciencedirect.com
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by ratsforhorses 5y ago
I like the other guys answer, but also always wondered wether something like this could be integrated ( https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/homebiogas/the-new-home... ) maybe the heavy part under the floor...and th
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by ratsforhorses 5y ago
Just wondering, how about emigrating? or houseboats or more collective living? Are there not cheaper properties in the polders? Why doesn't the government do something to stop the rental empires?
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by ratsforhorses 5y ago
Thank you for that explanation, just a thought has there been any experiments with using the energy of the waves to help save energy? I remember a TED talk, a decade ago a about a flexible sailing boat...cant seem to find the link and then
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by ratsforhorses 5y ago
I agree wholesale with you but would like to point out that in "capitalism" prices for raw materials are often so cheap as to be called free not only in lawless shithole countries (see the films "Tapped" or "Gasland
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by ratsforhorses 5y ago
I use cabbage plants strategically placed, left to go to seed, all the snails hit onme them so you either watch or pick em up and throw them on the compost (or in the pond for the fish?) I heard comfrey leaves can serve the same purpose...
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by ratsforhorses 5y ago
Maybe try making something like a "broadfork" https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadfork Also, try asking a coffee shop for leftover ground and sprinkle it around...
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by ratsforhorses 5y ago
On a side note, check out forest gardening, namely "Plants for a future" is an excellent reference/book pfaf.orgyou, the author whom I had the luck to meet had a "huge" garden nearby in Cornwall
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by ratsforhorses 5y ago
I thought maybe someone here would have some ideas, to spread the word, after all the US got rid of the a hole in chief...Bolsonaro is a cancerous prick anyone who has time and doesn't mind getting a bit sad I'd recommend "th
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Illegal gold miners stalk Amazon as authorities look away(bbc.com)
1 points by ratsforhorses 5y ago|1 comments
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by ratsforhorses 5y ago
Sounds very dismissive, did Bezos earn it or did (do) Amazon's workers? Besides from my understanding she was very supportive when he decided to leave his "cushy" well paid job...etc etc...also beyond the debate here (which
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by ratsforhorses 5y ago
I agree, but would it be agreeable and right if one was to have a free but lower quality version (smaller screen, shortened game, program with fewer options) allowing eyeballs and consumers to best gauge a products quality and thereby valid
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by ratsforhorses 5y ago
Same in Switzerland for gypsy kids till 1972... https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.liberation.fr/planete/1999/...
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by ratsforhorses 5y ago
Thanks for the reference googling I found https://youtu.be/XXBxV6-zamM
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by ratsforhorses 5y ago
Sorry for nitpicking but where does it say California?
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by ratsforhorses 5y ago
Curious, you have a source ? from the wiki "with a constitution promulgated on 12 September 1848. This constitution provided for the cantons' sovereignty, as long as this did not impinge on the Federal Constitution. The creation o
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by ratsforhorses 5y ago
Not quite, I do care about consensus , I find it ironic that often these referendums end up with such a pithy divide yet there is little discussion about how to find a consensus from such a half/half vote ..for those not Swiss it might
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by ratsforhorses 5y ago
But 49% voted for it...of course elsewhere is "more broken" ..however it doesn't take away that often change is held back because of ...1-2%...
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by ratsforhorses 5y ago
I think if you can afford to show by example , you should... any penalty you incur makes you better prepared and more competitive for later...
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by ratsforhorses 5y ago
It would be interesting to see how much pollution is "externalised"... besides public transport and living density is a lot higher than most of the US, AUS or Canada... also how much pollution is caused by corporations from Switze
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by ratsforhorses 5y ago
I was being ironic...
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The Swiss reject key climate change measures(bbc.com)
54 points by ratsforhorses 5y ago|110 comments
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by ratsforhorses 5y ago
It's a sad but apocryphal reality that direct democracy is often the rule of the minority...
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by ratsforhorses 5y ago
Have you seen an increase in productivity?
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by ratsforhorses 5y ago
Sorry to hear that, it's anecdotal evidence, seems very cliché too..... I guess the question is how would one set up a system of checks and balances...in the case of your friends, sometimes pot is a good phase to go through, it certain
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by ratsforhorses 5y ago
How about..a salary based on the resources you need/want to survive...so that those who work less (indirectly contributing more to society by sharing their job, childcare, volunteering or just being mentally healthy enough to think of

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