Where is the money going to come from? Outside of a service economy California doesn't have much.

Agreed, it's a bit of shame because I like the idea of GNOME but the execution and project priorities are just terrible.

LXQT is also good for people who want a Qt based enviroment but don't like kwin.

*BSD is looking better and better.

Agreed in the long term, linux is becoming a mess imo.

Honestly not surprised, GNOME has been tying itself to systemD for years and this was inevtiable. Won't be surprised if Void and other non-systemD distros take the same path.

Unfortunately Thiel's ideas do have a solid chance at manifesting into reality, but in his case he wants to build entirely new cities rather than co-opt old ones (keep an eye on Trump's "freedom cities" btw).

Obviously

Few reasons why it became unpopular on a political level

• WEF types trying to shoehorn in their agendas and corrupting good ideas (walkable cities and sustainable food got turned into surveillance zones and eating the bugs)
• Oil industry propaganda (obvious)
• Boomers
• Megacorps using it as an excuse to snuff out smaller competitors.

If you want to save the planet you will have to start at the local level and practice regenerative agriculture.

Polls show that voters don’t actually prioritize decarbonization and, crucially, aren’t willing to pay much to bring it about.
Axe fossil fuel subsidies and replace them with green technologies like algae fuel grown with wastewater. So much of climate activism got pigeonholed into "just use an electric car bro" and trying to sustain pointless consumerism and terrible agriculture practices.

End result is probably going to turn coastal cities on the west coast into "autonomous republics" that are politically detached to the rest of the country.

IMO balkanization is inevitable but a clean cut "national divorce" is wishful thinking, it's going to get messy but I could be wrong.

Closest thing would be movim (mov.im), but note that Discord itself is several things wrapped into a frontend.