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SolarMonkey

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  • Obvious choice

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  • Exactly why basically that is my goal :)

    I’m technically too urban to be entirely off-grid, legally, but I see no reason I can’t minimize my draw with a separate breaker system. Whole place needs to be rewired anyway because it’s ancient. Knot and tube ancient.

    But most people aren't willing to go through that, and I cant blame them because there aren't any incentives to doing so, and most people don't realize how much cheaper used solar farm panels are, so it just seems like a really bad deal. And for most, who would have it installed for them, new, maybe thats true. Used with mostly-self-install is much cheaper. Even better if the whole deal needs to be re-wired anyway.

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  • That was amazing and made me rethink not watching that show.. I have it but had no interest in it. Now I have slightly more than zero! Yay! Positive numbers!

  • I'm good, thanks!

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  • This kind of shit is why I refuse to let people talk negatively about their own skills when they try to compare themselves to the more impressive parts of me. Idk how different their lives are than my own was, but there are lots and lots of things that are totally expected of adults that I can’t do because of how fucked up my childhood was. A couple glowing beacons of brilliance in the muck and mire don’t actually make for a well-adjusted person.

    I ain't done shit with the smarts I've got. You might not have the capacity to learn three foreign languages (of different roots, because I found that easier) simultaneously, but who cares? I can’t hold down a job (in any language) to save my life. Sure you might not be able to plan out an entire self-sufficient homestead, but I bet you can actually make moves toward your goals, whatever they are! I can’t, I’ve had the same goal for 30 years and have made minimal progress toward it, other than long long long lists of things that I want to do. I can’t even form proper bonds with people because my childhood taught me to trust nobody but myself, so I'm lonely and isolated.

    The truth is we are all a series of strengths and weaknesses based on the environments in which we are raised. I struggle daily with left and right, but I’m masterful with learning new highly technical information well enough to teach lay-people. I can’t tell time on analogue clocks, but I’ll bust out calculations for close-enough answers to weird physics questions, because I find it interesting. The best experts in one field are the worst novices in most others.

    All this to say: try to be kind to yourself for the places your education and childhood failed you. They weren't your fault, and aren't something you should feel shame about, even if you do make efforts to bring yourself up to speed. There have been various trials of random nonsense bullshit over the years (like the US’ current spiral into illiteracy due to doing away with phonics) that have fucked up generations of people, and those people, just like you, are doing their best with the shit cards they were dealt. We have no control over how we were nurtured, if we even were. And thats ok. It’s part of your story, what makes you the you you are today. You'd be someone totally different if you'd gotten more math and less jesus, and maybe that someone would be better in some ways, but they'd probably be worse in many others.

  • Obvious choice

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  • Yes, thats exactly what they do. No net metering, no discounts or rebates, nothing, but if your power flows back into the grid, they sure will charge for it at the exact same rate as if they created it themselves, and charge you as much as they can get away with to eat into your savings (some utilities around here even make you pay a monthly fee to have your own solar on “their” grid..). No surprise hardly anyone here has solar; it’s generally not worth having unless you can guarantee you use all of the power yourself.

    My locality is mostly hydro power, we don't even really have peak/off-peak rates, just pay the same all the time regardless because they can’t easily adapt to demand anyway. And like yay renewables and stuff, I'm super on board with that aspect, but I'm not on board with having a monopoly on the renewables, since my area is not typical of the state.

  • Obvious choice

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  • I want to do something like that but just have the solar circuits entirely disconnected from the grid, running stuff like fridge, freezer, water heater, car charger, etc (depends how many watts my panels can actually manage in practice; I don't have a ton of space). all without being able to draw from the grid at all.

    My state is pretty shitty about solar, and I don't particularity want to give the electric company my surplus power for free for them to turn around and profit from, so fuck ‘em, ill figure out how to perfectly balance my use with my capacity and just save the spend.

  • Real

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  • I don't have 1.6, so no.

    I’m sure most of the mods I use would be either available or obsolete, but I’m not interested in doing all the work it would take to upgrade everything, and I don’t really feel like I’m missing out.

    Maybe someday I’ll make a whole separate setup for 1.6 and have both, but no time soon.

  • 🧬Cells at overwork🧬—Zach | lastplacecomics.com

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  • I think its supposed to represent those doing resource distribution, rather than strictly guards, which red blood sort of does (oxygen at least, maybe other stuff idk)

  • Americans quit streaming services as cost of living continues to climb, report finds

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  • I bought two right before stuff jumped too badly. Looked about a week later thinking buying another one might be an ok idea, rofl no way I can justify it now..

    So now I'm debating if I really NEED backups.. certainly not of everything.. I still need a video card, and those never did really come back down..

  • YSK about precordial catch syndrome: a recurring sharp, stabbing chest pain that worsens when you take a breath and only lasts a minute

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  • The best way to get rid of it when it happens is to fill your lungs as much as you can, and then bear down lightly like you are pooping. After that it’s gone.

    Happens to me about 3x/yr and always has.

  • This is your brain on drugs

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  • I tried it once, and found it to be intensely lacking in any sort of.. well anything.

    My brain told me everything was tiny, and I heard a whomp whomp whomp whomp for a few minutes and that was it. It tasted like smoking grass clippings over a campfire, and I went “well its a fun plant to grow but I wont be harvesting it again”

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  • Yeah, I want it purely for aesthetics. I like generating 100% of the planet, and sending colonies to far-flung places via dev mode instant travel to settle in isolation, so I spend a decent amount of time looking at the world map. It just bothers me when it’s mostly land. It’s ugly, imo, and you get fewer interesting land/climate combos, even with expanded biomes. Also one of my mods adds things washing up on the beach, like organs, so I'm a big fan of ocean-adjacent tiles.

    Honestly I haven't gotten the new DLC, and probably wont, so I don’t really know anything about the space stuff. I have way too much time and energy invested in my collection of mods and don't have any interest in doing it again (I manage them manually because I don't use steam, so updating/replacing a thousand mods is a big project)

    I’ve been playing whiskerwood on and off, its in early access and runs for shit on my crap windows computer, but it’s all islands and it seems they'll be adding more to water navigation (last patch I installed added ferries and boat docks, and that was a few months ago). I enjoy that sort of thing too, but I don't think rimworld really needs it.

  • 'It doesn’t catch fire': Why China’s "fireproof" sodium battery could be the breakthrough that makes EVs safer than ICE cars

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  • My point is that if they have less energy density, they aren't a particularity great choice for EVs, as the increased battery size to get the same capacity makes the whole thing much heavier, requiring even more battery to move it.

    I guess for like short range vehicles, it might be fine, but at least around here, thats gunna be a pretty tough sell, because everything is spread out.

    It can’t really make EVs safer if its not being used for them due to the drawbacks, is all.

  • 'It doesn’t catch fire': Why China’s "fireproof" sodium battery could be the breakthrough that makes EVs safer than ICE cars

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  • I thought sodium batteries had considerably less energy density than conventional? Is that not a problem anymore? If that hasn't been solved, I don’t see how this helps make EVs safer.

  • If I shared a home with a 36' tall, 2-ton creature, I would be very careful to stay away from its feet while it walked

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  • Mine also try to kill me on the stairs. As soon as I start to walk up, they run up a few stairs ahead of me and then stop like assholes. Especially in the dark. Thankfully they don't hang out on the stairs at other times so I know its going to happen because I hear them.

    I’ve started walking up them very slowly, so now they continue the game in the hallways and are guaranteed to get kicked at least once, at which point I say “by now you know I can’t see in the dark, you deserved that.” Rather than rewarding them with apology attention.

  • Real

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  • So thats where rimworld got the shitty planet generation from. Seriously, I want big contiguous oceans. Not like I can use the vast majority of the planet anyway.

  • A landslide in Wisconsin will make it much harder for MAGA to steal elections

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  • The margin was fantastic, but the turnout sucked. Wisconsin’s population is about 6 million, only 1.5 million voted.

    Spring elections always suck for turnout, but with everything going on, I honestly expected better. Hopefully we can get it together for the other stuff this year.

  • CONSTANTLY being one upped by Uncle Ronnie

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  • Probably this

  • Hindsight is 20/20

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  • The way that makes the most sense for me is intelligence is related to external learning (books, from others, from detailed study of things, etc) whereas wisdom comes primarily from internal observation (self-reflection, personal experience, situational awareness, etc.)

  • what?

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  • From doctor who, a species that was in stasis underground for eons.