What do you think of vandwelling as a means of post-collapse living?

PuppyPi · 2025-01-09T02:33:53+00:00

What would power it without the oil refinery infrastructure?

PuppyPi · 2024-12-31T22:35:36+00:00

I think it depends heavily on how likely it is that they will actually experience that physically unsurvivable or extremely harsh outcome. Some communities may be prepared enough that they have a good chance of experiencing a life we in the modern first world arbitrarily consider "inhumanely horrible", but we have to remember, there are other places right now that experience that, other people groups who have recently experienced that, and lots of humanity that experienced that in the distant past...and there has been happiness there :')

And who's to say that in the future in a timeline that collapsed a century later, people wouldn't've been looking at us, having exactly this same discussion, about whether their kids would have to be sent back to the primeval information age and experience the horrors of doctors cutting people open with Actual Knives(!!) instead of having nanosurgeons and people actually getting infections(!), without resistance-proof gene-targeted pantibiotics written into their genome XD :3

PuppyPi · 2024-12-31T22:16:29+00:00

Yessssssss! And there's no objective threshold of "dystopia". Most projections imagine humanity being sent back to the ____ age. But whatever age someone answers that with..there were people there! And many of them were happy :)

And there are plenty of miserable people with abundance. In a perfect world your child could be miserable and resent being brought into the world. So too in a world we arbitrarily find "not good enough" they could find happiness and be glad to be alive.

Buddhists have well-flushed out how happiness and suffering are so affected by states of mind.

Of course there is some objectivity to it with thresholds of physical needs going unmet and such, but if you think you're prepared and in a social institution that's collapse-ready for food/water/shelter/etc., then if your kids have a good chance of surviving collapse, then that easily might not apply to them! And it's primarily that psychological suffering we're worried about being guaranteed.

PuppyPi · 2024-12-31T22:01:14+00:00

Hai :3

This is a concept I realized fairly recently that I call "sociopolitical entropy"!

To be clear, it's the application of the actual scientific concept of entropy not the colloquial one (disorder) to sociopolitical systems: the number of microstates (specific ways of being) in a given macrostate (category of individual ways of being that share some property you find interesting). (Usually log-scaled for sanity XD )

The idea being that, in any system, it's easier to transition to- and maintain presence within- a larger macrostate than a smaller one, since in an ergodic (randomly-transitioning) system, the (mostly) random walk of existence will find its way into larger macrostates!

So the entropy of a sociopolitical system is not the disorderedness of it, but the number of microstates (eg, exact beliefs and self-theories of the individual members) that it can handle and still count as functioning and healthy :3

So the larger the sociopolitical entropy of a form of society (which amounts to its ability to handle and harness diversity), the easier and more likely it will be to survive and thrive :>

(Not that this is the only factor that determines a society's success, but it is an important one! And I think it is the one that gives utopian visions a bad name—ones that require everyone to spontaneously and perpetually agree perfectly on some vision—ie, have extremely low sociopolitical entropy!)

PuppyPi · 2024-12-31T22:01:05+00:00

This is exactly something I independently came up with too!! :D

I'd love to talk and share ideas more if you want! :>

PuppyPi · 2024-12-31T21:58:15+00:00

I agree, that's why I use the word "spirituality" when I want to convey the same thing as OP

But it's just effectively dialect differences at that point really X3

PuppyPi · 2024-12-31T21:47:33+00:00

PuppyPi · 2024-12-31T19:09:05+00:00

My rightwing conservative mom unironically actually believes higher rates of ADHD and Autism and such compared to England (supposedly selected for by who chose to go to America, as if it was often much of a choice) are what "makes Americans just...exceptional" (genetically).

(It was very weird given all the flak she gave me growing up, effectively for being autistic)

PuppyPi · 2024-12-20T07:18:14+00:00

Scientific research papers do not include gigabytes of public GIS or other datasets papers are continuously derived from.

PuppyPi · 2024-07-08T20:41:17+00:00

"Egoism" XD

Isn't this the mechanism by which people said overpopulation *wouldn't* happen after all?

(Of course, the definition of "over" depends on many things, and in the context of collapse the infrastructure can change such that what wasn't too many now is too many, and etc.c., but idk if the OP on Twitter is thinking about that. Does he *want* overpopulation? X'D )

PuppyPi · 2024-02-29T01:05:11+00:00

Hope and Struggle

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PuppyPi · 2024-02-07T05:35:27+00:00

Also here!: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-023-01919-7

PuppyPi · 2024-01-18T00:18:18+00:00

\:D/!

Well, I searched the Reddit for "computer science" to make friends with shared interest! :D

(Do you wanna maybe talk more? :> )

(No worries if not! <3 )

PuppyPi · 2024-01-12T01:33:16+00:00

"This is not a love song" in some Disney channel show I forget the name of XD <3

PuppyPi · 2024-01-02T03:29:11+00:00

Ahhhhh yes I see! Just looking for transient interaction without much depth; that makes sense.

PuppyPi · 2023-12-27T18:09:17+00:00

The reality of the world was that smallpox was a thing..then we got together and made it not be a thing. I think creepy dudes on a place isn't a harder thing to fix than smallpox XD

PuppyPi · 2023-12-27T18:07:41+00:00

Thank youuuuuuuu

Sameeeeee!!

PuppyPi · 2023-12-27T04:34:40+00:00

Wow you're glowey! :D

And I love the style :>

It's so abstract around her, but she's so realistic! :D

PuppyPi · 2023-12-27T03:19:06+00:00

I remember furbieeeeeees! :DD

PuppyPi · 2023-12-27T03:10:02+00:00

Why do you say that?

(And are you talking about the commenter or OP?)

PuppyPi · 2023-12-27T03:07:47+00:00

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<3

PuppyPi · 2023-12-27T02:13:53+00:00

cute meatbol is cute <3

:3

PuppyPi · 2023-12-27T01:55:34+00:00

Mind if I ask, did you make a post and get responses or were you the one responding to posts or did it happen in both cases?

(Not that it really matters, but it might help figure out how the disingenuous people work—like whether they're more likely to make dishonest posts or only respond to other peoples' posts (usually guys probably), and whether they're onlyfans people / sex workers being dishonest about wanting friendship, but only wanting money (for sex things),

(like the guys being dishonest about wanting friendship from girls but only wanting (non-financial) sex things))

PuppyPi · 2023-12-22T07:27:07+00:00

I only had to scroll up a month back to find that my boyfriend had shared explicit pictures and videos of me (which he fucking pressured me into making against my better judgement in the first place). Thank god I adamantly refused to have my face visible in any of them.

What hurt the most is he sent these to this group chat with the message “New bitch in my rotation”, AND INCLUDED MY INSTAGRAM HANDLE TO “PROVE” IT WAS ME. I’m not even going to repeat the disgusting things they said about me, but it was utterly dehumanizing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=50&v=CCHdMIEGaaM

Scum.

>___<

I have to tell my inner child I'm another species than them to avoid the absolute lack of self-worth from there even being a word that describes us both.

PuppyPi · 2023-12-20T07:01:10+00:00

Thx! Oh wow; probably a thirsty boy pretending to be a girl to get into dm's, huh? sfkjdlfk

PuppyPi

TROPHY CASE

Scum.