Didn't they allocate 200 billion euro for AI and data centres just a few days ago? 🙃

AND the space is otherwise wasted, AND the cars don't get too hot on a rare sunny day in Cork 😂

there's a place for aesthetics, imo, since visualising how to make the world a better place is an important step for motivating people & having ideals to strive for. 🙌

Absolutely! What I meant is that (for me) solarpunk as a movement is more than just aestietics or even an art genre, for most of the people I know it is equally a philosophy, a goal and to a degree a way of life haha

my nit-picking starts when it's something like an ai-generated image of trees on a skyscraper

Call me names if you want, but by now I just mentally dismiss AI-generated stuff by default, I'm so tired of it...

if you don't mind online/zoom classes, my pro-tip is to look for places in the north like an droichead

Did you just assume I'm in Dublin lol? (I am literally in the middle of Dublin)

Sorry, I'm not fluent myself, I'm trying to learn but it's an complicated affair, especially since I'm relatively new to the country and there doesn't seem to be a lot of places focused on teaching Irish from scratch to adults... However, I have my cupla focal, and am trying to improve!

optimism & helping folks feel informed & empowered is a crucial part of solarpunk

Absolutely agree! I personally think that this is one of the most important ways of how solarpunk is different than the 'aesthietic genres' in how we are actively trying to figure out how to make the world more solarpunk here and now.