robotElder2 [he/him]

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  • I think we’re picturing a very different level of brightness achievable per plant. Replacing one street light would require a very large amount of glowing vegetation. Just the maintenance would be prohibitive. A city would need more gardeners than all other civil servants combined. And nevermind whether the fertilizer is produced from sewage or petrochemicals the runoff would be an enormous pollutant in its own right. Also it would be least effective in winter when the need for artificial light is greatest.




  • People are turned into nothics by the god Vecna when they discover secrets that mortals should not know (particularly RE the elder god Tharzidun) to keep the knowledge from spreading. If youre putting a bunch of nothics in one place you should establish how and why all these people gained forbidden knowledge and why turning the first few didn’t stop the others. You could maybe make special nothics who used to be specific characters before turning and have kept some of their old abilities. If Tharzidun is involved you have an easy explanation for the presence of any aberrations, especially beholders and beholderkin. Any one eyed aberration is probably related to Tharzidun somehow.









  • You don’t consciously support capitalism but you uncriticaly accept and repeat all their lies about every serious alternative. You are a useful idiot of theirs. I suppose you also think that Venezuela is a ‘narco terror state’? And if not why do you believe the state department when it lies about its other enemies? And no, it does not follow that just because someone who actually thought nothing would be quiet that someone verbose must be dominated by propaganda. I went through an anarchist phase myself as a dumb college kid. What moved me past it was not exposure to Chinese propaganda but a more thorough examination of capitalist propaganda and how it informed my view of the rest of the world even as I nominally rejected its source. After deworming my brain a bit the numbers on emissions and renewable installations spoke for themselves.





  • Sure individual veterans of many different militias would accrue individual military knowledge but no amount of individual knowledge is sufficient on its own, there is also a need for institutional knowledge. Leadership must have an intimate understanding of the force which it leads. Effective logistical practices must be developed. Long term relationships with other allied forces must be cultivated. All of this is achieved through the repeated iteration and refinement of military institutions over many subsequent conflicts. These necessities cannot be liquidated and reformed at will.


  • The need to disassemble and then reform your military inbetween each action doesn’t strike you as an extreme limitation? Just how fast do you think you can pull a militia together if you want to do it from scratch in response to each case of capitalist aggression? I agree that both our movements would need much greater numbers in order to challenge the west militarily but I don’t see how an anarchist force could maintain those numbers if they had them when you only ever want to field completely green, newly formed units. Seems like your just feeding shelter cats to coyotes.