Swedneck

yeah people love to imagine that “20 year lifespan” means the panel fucking vanish into the ether on the day of, just like with “best by” dates on food…

Can we get solar panel manufacturers to use the same wording as food companies do these days? “Best before, often good after: 2045-01-23. Look, smell, taste before throwing away.”

the hypothesis that tickles my brain the best is that it’s just severe generational trauma from when the sealevel rose and flooded doggerland

Like, imagine if the netherlands gradually started being swallowed by the ocean and all of europe had to adjust to the loss of some of the most productive farmland on the continent. It would suck so hard.
“I remember my great-grandfather talking about buying tomatoes for 4€/kg in the winter, maybe one day you kids will get to know what they taste like..”

it got swallowed by the ocean 😔

guys, i think- i think murder might be bad
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There’s a story on royalroad called Emergence, about a victorian-ish era dude who ends up shipwrecked alone on an island filled with dragons: I love that the story treats penicillin as one of the most powerful things he has access to, along with stuff like the radio.
Like yeah sure guns are scary, but so are massive claws. The ability to cure what has hitherto been utterly untreatable guaranteed wasting death, however? Basically the power of a god.

Another story, Delve, is about a guy being isekai’d into stock fantasy world with DnD-esque mechanics and going “well that’s fucking terrifying, i’m starting a union and inventing OSHA”.

counterpoint: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kbw-veYYd5M

it’s free real estate and a nice way to remove some abject misery from our lives, because big unshaded parking lots are horrible to be near.

We’re not getting rid of parking lots at e.g. hospitals any time soon, and big unshaded parking lots are fucking miserable environments.

Sure, we shouldn’t put solar panels above most parking lots, but they’re utterly obvious for the aforementioned situations.

and this is why we stan open, easy to modify hardware.

in this economy??

i wish actual energy production had something to do with electricity prices, rather than the price being decided by the companies coming together and arguing how much they can milk us for before we decide to just go amish for a month…

i have to wonder if just breathing more protects against lung cancer somehow

it’s perfectly fine at e2e encryption, especially if you’re not federating.

“Open IRC federation is basically never used anymore”

so you admit IRC isn’t federated, lmfao