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Cake day: June 11th, 2023

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  • First: There are plenty of reasons to be concerned, but none to be scared; at least not yet.

    Second: Getting your legal transition through as soon as possible is certainly a good idea considering the admittedly worrying circumstances.

    Third: The now strongest party (in the EU elections in Austria) is not conservative but extremist right. In the EU parliament, there are three groups of right-wing parties: EPP (right-conservative), reform (far-right), ID (identiterians, extremist-right). The FPÖ (“freedom party”) is part of the extremist group.

    All in all, don’t be scared; live’s too valuable for that. You can do this. And the legal transition is significantly easier in Austria that e.g. in Germany or Italy. So yes, consider doing it here as soon as possible.






  • I like the intention, but I’m worried about the advice near the end

    Learn to see things that aren’t “leftist” as radical.

    I.e. a whole bunch of settle for less

    I want leftist spaces, groups, what have you without tankies, not community centers who dislike the current government.

    Am I missing something? I’m new to this 🥺






  • Your explanation works very well, but completely falls apart in the last paragraph.

    Solar power production clearly is (at least in part) a post-scarsity scenario, given we literally have too much power on the grid.

    Furthermore, calling the power market anything like “free” is just plain wrong. A liberal approach to market regulation here would have led to disaster a long time ago, for the reasons you described at the beginning of your comment.

    The market “works” because of, not inspite of regulation.

    And negative prices are a good thing for consumers, not market failure.