Learn to Garden.

No seriously.

AI represents the pinnacle of consumerism.

The culmination of a system where Humans produce nothing for their own consumption.

Fractured communities of isolated and desperate consumer-workers who cannot survive outside the system they were born into.

To undermine this system requires not just attacking it’s foundation, but digging beneath to the fundament, usurping it through a grass roots refusal to participate.

Beneath the foundations of consumerism, capitalism, and every society we can remember is agriculture.

Stop participating in the high price of groceries.

Start producing your own food, feeding, and growing your community.

You don’t have to make everything from scratch to reject the Door Dash Fast Food Overnight Delivery system that exists entirely to extract profit from the human need to eat.

Use capitalism to your advantage. Buy hydroponics and lights to grow indoors year round. Buy hoop houses to extend outdoor seasons. Buy seeds. Grow seedlings and give them away.

Learn to harvest seeds from the plants you grow.

Cook and preserve food. Fill a pantry/freezer and EAT what’s in it!

Work together with your friends/neighbours to support local farmers and grocers.

Learn about plant Hardiness and what crops will remain/become viable in your region.

Then take this concept and apply it to every other aspect of human existence that’s been coopted to fund a system that ultimately results in AI slop.

  • bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works
    9·
    10 days ago

    I find it hard to build community when the majority of people around me are likely maga nutheads that are one conversation away from saying they want to kill Trans people and enslave blacks.

    So I pretty much keep to myself. Can’t trust people.

    • stabby_cicada@slrpnk.net
      8·
      10 days ago

      I don’t know who the people around you are. I won’t tell you you’re wrong to be afraid of interacting with them.

      But I do know that social media is designed to make you feel that way.

      Social media algorithms find the angriest, the most hateful, the most radical, content on all sides and feed it to you. So you’re going to see people on your side saying the other side wants to kill you, and you’re going to see people on the other side saying they want to kill you, and you’re not going to see the vast majority of people who don’t actually want to kill you.

      Because the more afraid you are of your actual human neighbors, the more time you’ll spend on social media watching ads and being force-fed algorithmic slop. And that slop makes you even more afraid of your neighbors, so you spend even more time online, and so on and so forth.

      So I’d ask you to ask yourself: if you believe people in your community want to kill trans people and enslave blacks, how much of that belief comes from what people in your community have actually said and done, and how much of that belief comes from stuff you’ve heard online?

      • Canaconda@lemmy.caOP
        5·
        10 days ago

        Sound advice. We should be mindful of how social media polarizes us. but I must push back a little on one aspect.

        So I’d ask you to ask yourself: if you believe people in your community want to kill trans people and enslave blacks, how much of that belief comes from what people in your community have actually said and done

        The difference between wanting to kill people and remaining silent among the calls for violence is negligible.

        “Nice people made the best Nazis. My mom grew up next to them. They got along, refused to make waves, looked the other way when things got ugly and focused on happier things than “politics.” They were lovely people who turned their heads as their neighbors were dragged away. You know who weren’t nice people? Resisters.”

        • Naomi Shulman
      • artyom@piefed.socialEnglish
        1·
        9 days ago

        That position mostly comes from looking at what politicians say and do, and looking at who supports them.

    • Canaconda@lemmy.caOP
      4·
      10 days ago

      Building your community doesn’t preclude your right to establish healthy boundaries.

      You can give your MAGA neighbour a potted plant without inviting them to the potlatch. (I think Americans call them block parties?)

      Build it for those that will contribute positively.

    • cecilkorik@lemmy.caEnglish
      4·
      10 days ago

      There are communities out there you can trust, that will both support you and find you very useful, you’ve just got to find them, which isn’t necessarily easy. Like I said, the whole social system has been sabotaged and what we have access to is designed to keep people divided and disconnected from each other. There are a lot of obstacles. Physical proximity is definitely very helpful as a way of getting around many of those obstacles and systems, but it’s not explicitly required. If you can find a community that would fit you and that you need, they may not be close to you. But if you make it a priority, you find a way to either bring yourself to the community or bring some of that community to yourself, whichever turns out to be the more practical option. Or do neither because physical proximity is still not strictly required, it just makes things a lot easier. If it’s easier to stay where you are instead of making it easier to connect with some beneficial form of community then you can do that too (but it’s probably not actually easier, we just become convinced we are stuck when we fail to see any way out).