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  • Indoor agriculture has many advantages, but it also needs cheap land, and cheap energy. That usually means a balance between close to major urban centers, but far enough away to have a lot of room (including solar). Greenhouses, even tall ones, with multiple stories is the path to go. Solar and owning land means complete cost certainty for energy.

    Advantages include low water, pesticide, fungicide, long growing season, high yields, and resilience to climate. It is global south and high north that need the resilience, and who have the most threatened agriculture states.







  • California is a safe D for president. Electoral college system means that all that matters is how individual states vote independently. Most states give all of their electoral college “points” to the winner of the state. California is one of those states. It is the Red states with republican governors and congresses that gerrymander, voter purge, and voter suppress their “blue Urban” areas into having 4 hour voting wait lines.



  • AIPAC is tiny compared to some of the Super PACs out there.

    They all need to be AIPAC allies if they want influence. Israel usually gets little funding compared to the theft provided to other lobbyists. Oil industry spoke out very strongly against university protests against genocide, for example. Vowing to never hire any graduates from those schools. AIPAC funded record primary spending against democrats who “supported a ceasefire”. A politician can love their other lobbyists/interest groups as long as they love Israel too.

    Cabinet appointments are subject to AIPAC veto. Then have influence on hires. Israel replaced Netanyahu as PM for about a week. New guy said he didn’t understand need to fund/support Ukraine… Gone.

    US and EU have sanctioned Venezuela

    EU and South American states are vassal colonies, subject to US dictates on minor things. backing up US propaganda never validates it.






  • UBI is needed for power redistribution more than wealth redistribution. Sure, one good reason is the employment displacement from robotics/ai. But a robot tax is far inferior to general income taxes. Beyond your examples, pipes and wires into your home are automation. Machines with human operators are automation as well.

    Even if you were to only tax the robot users, what about those who get rich from building yachts for the robot users?

    China has a big lead in robotics because nearly all manufacturing is done there. That is there massive competitive advantage in EVs as an example. As a national competitiveness, and consumer prices, measure, incentivizing people to go collect their water from a nearby river, and heating wood from nearby trees, and otherwise committing to full employment through less automated processes, is a massive decline in standard of living.

    UBI does let you create your own job. Sales and design will always be needed, even if design is inputs into an AI prompt. Without the disempowerment of warmongering rulership, AI will serve the disinformation and murder needs of that rulership. UBI/freedom dividends funded by taxes on extreme income is the path to make the winners pay for human sustainability instead of human extermination.