solarpunk memes

Bold of you to assume hunter gatherers didn’t ferment alcohol out of naturally growing plants.

...aaand hangovers!

Dental health of hunter gathers looks like it was much better than ours:

"Hunter-gatherers had really good teeth," says Alan Cooper, director of the Australian Centre for Ancient DNA. "[But] as soon as you get to farming populations, you see this massive change. Huge amounts of gum disease. And cavities start cropping up."

Additionally, they had better spacing due to eating tougher foods like high fiber items and tendons. So there's less dental impacting like we have with wisdom teeth.

Yeah, I've had enough medical issues that I'm grateful for modern medicine too. That being said, it could be conceivable to move to more of a hunter-gatherer model of living with modern necessities. It would certainly be interesting to see what that might look like on a societal scale.

Actually patriarchy only came with settling down. They actually had gender equality, which is pretty cool!

Just grabbed it from Anna's to put on my ereader thanks

I read through the summary, and it sounds a lot like how evolutionary development is perceived by the layperson vs. how complex it really is, including the deception that we are at some high point. So the next question in my mind, and based on the summary the authors left to explore as the answer is probably a difficult one to find - are there paths that could have been traveled which didn't lead to similar messes like we find ourselves in? One assumption is always that capitalism and consumption and all that comes with them is inevitable. Maybe not? It would ruin this meme that I found very fitting for society, but that's again based on an inevitable conclusion to be true.

Wow thanks for a read for next weekend

Great book. Debt is also a good one by Graeber

Came to share the same text. It adds a needed level of complexity to this joke and has some incredibly eye opening connections between historical events. The world would be a better place if everyone read this book

It's possible to have great tech without the spying, but it takes a lot of understanding of and ability with computer technology

We have pretty good batteries. I have modelled solar on my house (based on records of the 2011 solar array I have), with 15kW of solar panels and many loads (especially HVAC, water heating, car charging) being done in daylight hours I would only need about 10kWh of battery, but 30kWh would be better for a bit of really bad weather tolerance

The main job of a battery is to provide power between dusk and dawn and to buffer power spikes (like air con starting up) from the solar power, and batteries are well up to doing that

For reference my normal night time power usage is 6kWh in winter, less when the days are longer

Lithium iron phosphate (LiFePO4) batteries are safe and aren't degraded by being charged and discharged daily. Near future battery technologies are less high performing, but are non polluting

Yeah, we can have tech without single use plastics, car dependency, and neo-feudalism (late stage capitalism)

Right tech is rad, just sucks that absolute grosses of people get to decide how all of it works and what it's used for.

I don't think there is a country that doesn't spy on their citizens.

Touching a control for enough heat to cook dinner versus setting a fire