“Is there a technology that the left is excited about?!?”

@alter_kaker if surgical violence of billionaires was possible (that is: without it degrading into a carnage of people killing other people) then I'd be happy with it, I'm not gonna lie.

But that's not feasible, so, I'm happy with murder being illegal and the guillotine being a figure of speech of our collective level of anger.

Thank you for understanding

@thomasfuchs solar aircraft.

also, the fediverse

@maikel heh, I'm more sadistic than that. Under Communism, we should make all the former billionaires spend the rest of their days in customer service

@alter_kaker hahahaha. I approve. Btw they shouldn't get toilet breaks.

@noodlemaz @thomasfuchs the tool does matter. If you try to do revolution using authoritarian means, you’ll just replace the rich with a new elite, that will chop off the heads of everyone who might stop them.

@thomasfuchs neuroscience. Also Espresso making machines.

@thomasfuchs Open source software (still).

@thomasfuchs ham radios & mesh!

@janneke @valsombra @thomasfuchs I came to the replies looking for this!

@thomasfuchs @trainguyrom

- wind, tidal, and geothermal energy
- antitrust
- electric transportation
- energy neutral universal housing
- job guarantee, basic income
- universal health care
- democratic circles and cooperative management
- universal education
- food and water security and safety
- air pollution remediation
- environmental resuscitation

@thomasfuchs

Team guillotine, here, mate. Though, I'll take solar if they need someone.

@thomasfuchs windturbines, heat pumps, mRNA development (vax and cancer treatment), bicycles (very lefty!), cargo-bikes, mini eVans, agri-pholtaic...

@unruly now I can't get this idea out of my mind @thomasfuchs

@thomasfuchs I mean, on the consumer products side, Shark|Ninja keep making new stuff that isn't IoT garbage. Not even a way to update a firmware.

It's 90s grade black plastic crap, in an era where that's extravagant. Nothing heirloom but nothing that can be suddenly disabled by a server or extort me for Ninja+. Just cooks my pizza gud.

They recently made a home slushie machine, and a soda machine. The soda machine uses ISO standard bottles and will operate without the syrup cartridges if they ever became too expensive or were no longer manufactured. I actually used a sodastream Pepsi syrup with it tonight. (Sodastream uses a proprietary bottle for their Co2)

@tkissing @thomasfuchs I think vibrators should be allowed even once we've reached world peace (assuming a definition'a "peace" that has a lotta requirements'a be met, w a "peace" narrower in scope guilloutines might still be necessary too, n in any case I don't think we'd have reached wide-scope peace'f vibrators're inaccessible)

@thomasfuchs Trebuchets!

@thomasfuchs @mrundkvist The bottom two. I want a peaceful world. Trains, clean energy and libraries are also exciting.

@alter_kaker @maikel customer service under communism??? You are tainted with westie propaganda, tovarishtsh. Under communism, you have only two types of meat in the store: 1.that blue rotting chicken 2. no meat at all. So shut up and take your one and be lucky that you've got it, cause there is not so much pieces left.

@thomasfuchs
- Bows & Arrows
- Jailbreaks (for devices)
- Home Gardening and Composting
- Windcraft (device go brrr and it kinda fascinates me)
- Growing Mushrooms at home (because food)
- Weaving, spinning and everything textiles (once you can make your own clothes, you basically have God-like powers)
- cooking (making food tasty is already a God-like power taken for granted)
- using speech to communicate ideas rather than fear (yes, speech is technically speaking a technology)

@thomasfuchs oh and let’s not forget:

“Any sufficiently familiar technology is indistinguishable from nature” -Virginia Postrel