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stagn wrote

Am I the only one who boils water with a little salt for 10 minutes and when it is ready I add a little oil?
Microwave, automatic machines for cooking rice... I didn't know there were so many complicated ways to make rice

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stagn wrote

Lately I have been quite pessimistic, they are too many and better armed, and if you can create a militia that can survive the confrontation there are many chances that you will have become just what you want to destroy.
And above all.
I no longer believe in "comrades" and friends I see that even the most "anarchists" in the end think only about money and creating hierarchies instead of destroying them, I have seen squats, communes ... friends and comrades do nothing but suck and I have no doubt that a militia would do even worse.

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I don't know, I don't like the fetishization of the green, fertile and prosperous forest. Some of the peoples, particularly I'm referring to the San, who have maintained foraging as their main source as a form of livelihood despite living in a desert, indeed the very lack of arable land has made foraging, and hunting as the only livelihood option.

Speaking specifically about where I live and know well, even though it's far from being a desert it's pretty dry, is obvious that they have greater fears about desertification who grow than I who harvest.
Of course people who plant avocados have fears about desertification-what the fuck do you plant an avocado if you know there's a drought?
But in general cultivated plants are much more vulnerable than wild plants
And full of plants that are subsistence sources for me, that those who cultivate have to weed out all the time to make room for vulnerable plants that need to be cared for and served and then die in the first drought anyway.
Holm and scrub to wild olive, carob trees, mastic trees, etc. dont give a fuck about drought

And nonetheless I have not experimented enough also garrigue and further degradations give subsistence possibilities(brambles, grass seeds...)
But currently these degradations are the cause of man. I have no doubt that when orchards and vineyards are abandoned due to too much drought, forests and savannas full of holm oaks, mastic trees, brambles will grow.... there were before them and will be there after

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As far as I have nothing to say, the problem is when "mutual aid" groups become wrapped up in formalities, recognized associations, and "alternative economies" and leftism varius and implicitly mutual aid becomes just an excuse to advance one's own interests, or those of one's project
While I do not know personally it seems to me that food no bombs groups are not involved in this kind of crap

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stagn OP wrote

Reply to Friday Free Talk? by stagn

I'm thinking of never talk again, it's a waste of time and I'm sick of it, maybe I will pretend that I have lost my voice, maybe I'll make an exception on raddle

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stagn wrote

With so little we cannot claim that ziq is a tankie, but we know for sure that ziq is a tankie supporter

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Reply to comment by veuzi in Friday Free Talk™ by monday

At this time there are no grapes, there are other jobs to be done like planting vines and clearing grass

My grandfather has a small piece of land and since it's old now I'm taking care of it, and there's some vineyard I'm fixing up, so I have a lot of grapes anyway

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stagn wrote

As the paper notes, the water Microsoft used to cool its US-based data centers while training GPT-3 was enough to produce "370 BMW cars or 320 Tesla electric vehicles."

What's more: "ChatGPT needs to 'drink' [the equivalent of] a 500 ml bottle of water for a simple conversation of roughly 20-50 questions and answers,"

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I know it's absurd , but I have a job I like. The pay is very good, it's only 20 days, one day is only 5 hours and I have the afternoon off. It's in a vineyard but there's only hand tools and no chemical junk, most of the work is hand cut weed with no tractors arround to bust my balls with their deafening noise

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An AI gone mad that escapes the control of governments and corporations and destroys human society seems to me the most optimistic scenario, I am more concerned about a scenario where humans manage to control the agi since they will use it to expand their own reign of domination and suffering

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