For the same amount of people, you wouldn’t need to.

They supplement and decentralise food production, building resiliency into our systems.

Someone who hates or distrusts humankind certainly isn’t a positive trait.

IMO this is a universal problem. I’ve had neighbours in a single family house that choose to mow their lawn at 7am on a Saturday and have a very loud pickup truck that I can hear start up any time they drive it.

so much hate.

I know you’re not serious but this is a really sad and hateful worldview.

Those are great too :) with some small grocery stores at corners occasionally.

It’s possible to own a condo apartment, or if the building is structured as a co-op, then rent is permanently affordable and you have a stake in how the building is run.

More here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKudSeqHSJk&t=0

Gentle density is awesome too! Rowhouses, duplexes, low-rises: all great options for cities that are zoned to only allow single family housing.

Consider that if you have one bad neighbour in an apartment, then everyone on your floor will also be talking to them and helping to regulate their disruptive behaviour.

Apartments usually have concrete walls so you can’t hear your neighbours. Unfortunately, there are some new builds made by developers trying to maximise profit at the expense of the residents who don’t do this.

Perhaps in some parts of suburban north america. However, well-designed walkable, bikeable cities with proper transit don’t require mega big box stores all in one zoned area that you drive to from a sprawling suburb.

Co-operative run housing largely eliminates those problems.

I wouldn’t be so quick to write off Lemmy since it depends on what server you’re on.

There are many servers, including the one this meme is on, that have plenty of progressive discussions without authoriative mods.

It uses electrolysis, so may as well cut out the middleman and just use electricity to power things without losing efficiency to convert it.

Hear me out, so we make a ton of hydrogen for cars, heating, etc. But it takes lots of methane to make hydrogen. So we give oil companies subsidies so they can do more fracking which is how we get the methane in the first place. This will be great for climat cha—wait a minute…

Their comments were removed since it was a troll account.

Sometimes we all speed read things and miss parts. :)

It sounds like you’re pretty frustrated. There sure is far too much money spent on the military and the human rights abuses it causes. Please consider that there was never any claim made that we need to increase funding there; it’s a strawman argument for something that you’re rightfully upset about.

Who said anything about beurocratic governing bodies?

For what it’s worth, I have never seen the movie and from my perspective, they’re just two characters in a meme.