Beastimus
@Beastimus@slrpnk.net
If you called for help but no one came, how would you feel? Despite sad songs sung by cowboys, believe that not all roses have thorns. Dare to be stupid but don’t be an American Idiot.
- Comment on Things are about to finally change! 1 day ago:
Yeah, you’re dead on, and believe me, a lot of us know it, and I hope we do fix it. I’m doing as much as I can I guess, and I promise that there are a lot of other people doing what they can, even if its not publicized like the bad stuff. We’ll see if it matters in the end.
- Comment on Bingo 1 day ago:
The president also pardoned a bunch of domestic terrorists, screwed over our farmers, and undermined our energy security and trade domination, not to mention replacing every federal job he could with incompetent buffoons. I hate that old white guy.
- Comment on Things are about to finally change! 1 day ago:
I understand the sentiment (believe me, we agree more on the democrats than we disagree), but unless you’ve got some guns you’re gonna go shoot in DC that’s probably not gonna be how it happens.
Otherwise, we cannot get new parties (with legit political power on a federal level) without serious election reform, reform that will only happen from within the current party structure. So while we need new parties in the long run, we’ve got some work to do for which we are going to have to work with Democrats.
- Comment on Things are about to finally change! 1 day ago:
How do you propose they do that? Keep in mind that your proposal must not give up more power to Republicans.
- Comment on We’ve unlocked a holy grail in clean energy. It’s only the beginning. 3 days ago:
I really don’t get Vox’s need to sensationalize everything. I hope the US battery storage capacity increases by what we need I guess. But a “holy grail in clean energy” is not tech we’ve had for years is increasingly ramping up capacity, “holy grail in clean energy” would be like the sudden commercial practicality of fusion for energy generation.
Batteries are good and cool, but like, why that headline?
- Comment on In Indiana, Putting Up Solar Panels Is Doing God’s Work 3 days ago:
Keep it going!
- Comment on In Indiana, Putting Up Solar Panels Is Doing God’s Work 3 days ago:
Absolutely!
- Comment on What should I store in a 1 Gallon (3.7 liter) Pickle Jar? 1 week ago:
One day, one day.
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- Comment on U.S. leads countries where golf courses occupy more land than solar, wind plants 1 month ago:
This has already been posted here I think
- Comment on Trump Paralyzes the U.S. Wind Power Industry | The president, who despises wind turbines, has paused federal permits and leasing for such projects, putting company plans in limbo 1 month ago:
They require federal permits for the installations even if its on private property.
- Comment on Countries across the world use more land for golf courses than wind or solar energy 1 month ago:
In places where the golf is on the edges of cities, absolutely. It just depends on where the course is and what’s surrounding it. Obviously not all courses are in places where all (or even most) uses make sense. I feel there’s a lot of debate here on what exactly the best use to replace golf with would be, and the answer is always that it depends on location and surrounding context. I think the vast majority of us agree that golf is a waste of space, energy, and water, which serves an almost entirely exclusionary function, and all most of us disagree on is what the best use is to replace it.
Since before we use it for other purposes we need to reclaim it from golf, I think almost everyone in this thread agrees on all policies (about this matter) relevant for essentially the entirety of the foreseeable future, which I think sometimes gets lost in this conversation (and others.)
- Comment on Countries across the world use more land for golf courses than wind or solar energy 1 month ago:
Golf sucks, we should eliminate it. Recycle the land into multiple uses, e.g. housing, green/park space (which it currently isn’t), commercial space, and if the course is located in such a place where it makes sense to put a solar farm (not too close to dense housing), solar. It need not all be one thing. Realistically, this won’t happen in most places without a lot of other stuff happening first. But if we see it, that would be frickin’ awesome. For normal people, just start to de-normalize it as a pass time, disk golf is a good alternative that requires less space and usually coexists with nature.
