Notices by captain typ0 (inkslinger@coales.co), page 30

A solarpunk utopia, with flashback scenes describing the incredibly tedious and technocratic ways in which government bureaucrats averted the climate crisis.

@adasauce The year of the linux desktop!

That said, I'm so crippled by my own climate anxiety that at least donating to charitable orgs (or, probably better, activist groups) would be doing more than nothing...

They followed that up by talking about giving our charitable dollars to environmental orgs which is slightly less terrible, but still frustrating because both of their "good news/solution" idea were just...spend money like a good little consumer, rather than actually *doing* something.

I mean, yeah, I'll try to reduce my footprint through so-called ethical consumption. But I'm not going to lie to my child and tell her the good news is that we can prop up the system that caused this catastrophe in the first place by, uh, shopping at IKEA instead of All-Our-Furniture-Is-Made-From-Petroleum Inc.

On the radio this morning they were talking to a child psychologist about how parents can help kids dealing with climate anxiety. "Be honest with them, at an age-appropriate level, but also share the good news. Tell them about the sustainable corporation we can buy from..." And that was when I literally gave the middle finger to my radio. I'd have yelled at it, too, if the rest of my family wasn't still in bed.

The vehicle we were looking at is sold (well, someone else has a deposit, so it'll probably sell). Now looking at a newer model year and this one is actually MORE fuel efficient than our old car, despite being larger. So...win?

On the fediverse, no one knows you're a neoliberal pretending to be a communist because you just want someone to love you.

I mean, they ASSUME that's what you are. But they don't know for sure.

🎶 And I think my spaceship knows which way to go— 🎶

NASA board of directors: And we think you need to do way more work on your mission plan, wtf

@msh Yeah. That's what we had. We're a one car family, since we both walk to work and mostly use the car on weekends and for towing the trailer.

Our Escape was big enough for the relatively low weight of the Trillium, but did feel like it struggled on hills sometimes, so something a touch bigger wouldn't hurt, especially since we'd like to take the camper through the mountains at some point.

@nessotropheion @interneteh Very clearly a work of fiction.

Researching vehicles, based on what seems to be available on the used car market right now: I'm busy obsessing over fuel economy and then my wife says, "Not that it's not important, but we don't actually drive that much and, hopefully, this will be the last fossil fuel vehicle we ever buy. Marginal differences in fuel economy aren't going to make that much difference."

OK, fine, I'll try to stress a little less about it and look at the bigger picture.

If looks could kill, Greta Thunberg would have murdered everyone who refused to lift a finger to fix the climate crisis today.

I don't think I've ever seen such righteous anger on the face of a child before today.

I found a used Ford Flex online. Looks pretty swank. Comparable price to what we paid for our Escape. Almost identical fuel economy, despite actually being a bigger vehicle (seats 7, which we usually wouldn't need, but would be good when my wife's parents are in town).

It's sold by the place that advertises as being the place to go when you can't get credit, which is a bit sketchy, but we'd be paying cash anyway, since we'll have the insurance payout and some money in our savings.

@lain M