Give any animal the ability to photosynthesize. Now animals are of course complex creatures that need a variety of nutrients to function properly, and the number of chemicals we’ve seen be able to be photosynthesized is low, but imagine only needing to nude sunbathe for like a half hour to get enough sugars to fulfill your caloric intake, including the less efficient carb->protein/carb->fat conversion and pop a pill for some vitamins. Imagine if all animals had that as a baseline and just needed to hunt/forage for nutrients and vitamins to support auxillary functions.

Overpopulation would be nearly impossible despite massive population booms, with the only real limitation being physical space and the social dynamics of any given species or interspecies interactions.

Conservatives naturally have to be in a rightward spiral at all times. Nearly all conservatives will end up fascist, how fast they do so depends on how much of a rachet the centrist party acts as and how much that centrist party elimates left wing voices.

The rise of crypto and other limited quantity intermediaries shows that stable value step is far easier than it once was, and of course with China and Russia having ridiculous levels of precious metal wealth a worse case scenario would just be a literal gold standard currency for brics transactions.

While the US might throw a hissy fit about this (I mean they invaded Libya exclusively because Libya were launching a gold standard to trying to get non US oil trading to adopt it) they dont have the ability to say no. The US has no manufacturing sector compared to China or Russia, the former of which the US relies on massively for the majority of its domestic manufacturing needs. It also can’t compete in the remote service economy compared to India, and again has outsourced a large chunk of that part of its economy there.

US sanctions only work if the country sanctioned provides nothing of value that can’t be easily done domestically. There’s a reason that China as a whole is not sanctioned despite doing things far worse than Cuba ever did.

Refusing to trade in USD would be the same as sanctions in this scenario, and I’m willing to bet brics has figured out that they have enough demand across their member nations to support not trading with the US.

Yes greenpeace, the Exxon funded anti-green terrorist organization, spread massive amounts of propaganda written by oil companies, including anti nuclear propaganda.

To your second point, nickel-iron batteries by the 1950s had developed to a point where they could compete with ice vehicles (not that they couldn’t earlier as well) and would have made great electric cars and trucks given they were already the primary power source for trains (just in diesel electric form). EVs as we know them today would have been ubiquitous had Edison not been terrible with technology and science.

With that the primary use for petroleum oil would have been eliminated, and we’d need large amounts of cheap electricity by the 1950s, resulting in nuclear being the cheapest option per kWh.

You might ask why bring up green peace if I’m going a half century earlier to start this alternative history timeline… Because there was a revival of interest in EVs and alternatives to oil in the 1960s and 1970s when greenpeace was active. We could have made the switch then to EVs and nuclear plants to power them. 1970s cars were so inefficient that even the nearly century old at the time nickel iron batteries would have still been able to compete with ice engines.

But if we don’t have nuclear to power them, they’re not the environmentally friendly option in a time before efficient solar and wind power, so oils execs just needed to attack nuclear plants and hey, there just happens to be a group of confused hippies arguing against nuclear arms… If you could tie nuclear power to nuclear weapons and get the peace hippies convinced nuclear power leads to nuclear weapons proliferation and also convince them nuclear disasters are somehow worse than oil disasters (which even at the time was not true, it just felt that way due to biased, sponsored, media coverage) then you can convince the core audience of EVs that it’s not worth investing in that tech or nuclear.

To your point in developing nations, yes they can. Foreign owned and operated nuclear plants are incredibly popular at this time, Germany’s nuclear plants in Brazil being an example of nuclear being deployed to a particularly unstable developing country with minimal issues.

Minimizing uses for oil helps carve a path to eliminate it and other carbon based energy sources. Even if nuclear cannot eliminate all use in its own, it’s a cornerstone technology that enables others to land the killing blow.

You could apply the law across all companies in a conglomerate, forcing either competition to be more attractive than monopolizing or forcing the tax to take effect with potential harm to lower income targeted companies within the conglomerate, allowing competition at the lowest income levels to flourish while eliminating it among higher end brands.

I.e. either Yum Brands sells off taco bell in order to focus on higher end options like KFC, or taco bell essentially gets sold off to a new company without the same leadership.

It’s flawed, like all attempts to keep capitalism in check, but it’s easier to sell to a brainwashed public than any left wing option that would actually improve society instead of just slowing capitalism’s journey towards the total enshittification criticality point.

Allah can turn things to ice, and thus would be mint flavored.

We would’ve been saved using 1950s technology if oil companies weren’t so effective with using corporate entities like greenpeace to spread propaganda.

Capitalism did this, conservatives simply defend capitalism as it’s the most effective form of feudalism.

While it’s technically a British invention it’s an Indian British invention via immigrants. It’s like saying america invented pizza or hamburgers. Like it technically is a new thing that was just invented in a place, but against the will of the populace until enough old racists died out to allowthis new variation to take hold.

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UK, United Kingdom, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland are all the currently accepted official names for the fascist TERF island known for beans on toast and conquering the world for spices they never use.

Yes, like the Jewish Nazis that outlived Nazi Germany. There are black white supremacists, there are gay ultra conservative anti gay Christians, you get the picture

Neither, you vote for either of the candidates that don’t support genocide, make sure your local mutual aid network is setup and running well without government funds or permission, organize or join protests, materially support protests you can’t attend, and of course donate directly to Palestinian charities now that Israel has illegally barred unrwa from the region.

Trans people can be Nazis too. There were Jewish Nazis right into the 1950s, don’t think trans people are special or different than any random asshole.

While it’s definitely true the US loves its war mongering, it’s economy is dependent entirely on China and India. If they try to invade either country, it’s game over for the US(and the world), and neither country is particularly vulnerable to the normal CIA methods. Falun gong in China, for example, is the CIA’s best attempt at trying to sell America to the Chinese via homegrown terrorism, and they’re so pathetically obvious it’s doubtful anyone in China has ever fallen for their shit.

Capitalism removed the tools by which the US is a threat, allowing brics to be possible.

The intelligence of liberals has dropped sharply in recent years.

The Germans believed that if they did not commit genocide, they themselves would be genocided.

Trans people that happen to be Nazis believe they have to support a genocide, in order for them to not be genocided.

It’s the same excuse. And if you believe it, you’re genuinely just a Nazi. No way around it. Hope you get what all Nazis deserve, regardless of your immutable characteristics if that’s the case.

Remind me what the trigger was for this current conflict?

Zionist violence in the 1880s primarily harassing Jews that lived in the regions n continuously for the last 4k years.

To your second point, Israel is an apartheid state. There’s no way around that title.

You don’t need the /s when you’re describing the German excuse for the Holocaust.

So the Hitler youth were not Nazis?

If you advocate for that, you get banned in lemmy, especially instances as far right as this one that still upvote comments voting for a genocidal fascist.