VenDiagraphein

joined 2 years ago
[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago

I voted to enable because I think it's worth seeing how restoring downvotes goes, but if the feature gets abused to bully or brigade I'm all for turning them right back off. I also think that even though voting rules aren't really enforceable, it would be good to add voting etiquette to the instance wiki as a guideline to help discourage downvoting excessively, or for asking questions & other benign things.

Really I hope the ability is added to restrict who can downvote, or at least to disable federation for downvotes. That would be the best option imo.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (8 children)

Personally, as it currently stands, no. But it could potentially be, given better waste treatment practices and far better regulation and consistently enforced safety requirements.

It's far greener than fossil fuels, when run carefully at least. But between the persistent issues with waste reclamation and harmful leakage, and the massive amount of damage that can be done when mistakes are made or safety is overlooked, I don't think it qualifies as "green".

So from a practical standpoint, I still think new resources are better spent developing infrastructure for solar, wind, geothermal, etc. But as we are phasing out other power sources, pretty much everything else should go before we start to decommission nuclear.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Always nice to see Braiding Sweet grass referenced. And to see Anmism treated with respect. It pairs so beautifully with a solarpunk mentality - each enhances the other.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Tidalpunk is my new favorite solarpunk subgenre. That's a brilliant aquaculture setup

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Don't get me wrong, buying time to stall ecological collapse is better than doing nothing, but it's so frustratingly backwards when it becomes the priority over addressing the issues that are causing that collapse in the first place.

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