My concern is people advocating for expensive and ineffectual strategies because it looks cool in a social media post instead of doing things that are actually useful. We have an insane amount of land to use. Do public transit, do utility-scale solar. Don’t do this nonsense.

Carport solar is a terrible idea.

1. Increased height for structure, likely increased weight as well since you need to make super-duper sure they don’t pancake somebody’s car. This leads to;

2. MUCH greater chance of property damage and resulting payouts (not to mention the risk of somebody’s Timmy managing to shock themselves)

3. Harder to build and maintain due to number 1, as well as having a bunch of cars around, needing to schedule lot closures, etc.

4. Number 3 gets in the way of actually using the parking lot as a parking lot, which is probably going to be pretty unpopular with the property owner and/or lose them money from decreased business.

5. Oh yah, harder to angle due to the constraints you’re under, so less efficient.

All this adds up to making it a lot more expensive than just putting them on the ground. We have TONS of abandoned malls and supermarkets all over the country, just use that smh.

What if - now hear me out - we built more power lines?

Oh no!

Anyway

A rat done bit my sister Nell.

(with Whitey on the Moon)

Her face and arms began to swell.

(and Whitey’s on the Moon)

I can’t pay no doctor bill.

(but Whitey’s on the Moon)

Ten years from now I’ll be paying still.

(while Whitey’s on the Moon)

-“Whitey on the Moon”, Gil Scott-Heron

This is a bit, right?

Really? That’s funny, I seem to remember the DNC canceling the primary last election. Huh. Odd for a party where, “the voters decide who makes up the party”.

I could go either way on this. Having a bunch of armed people and vehicles running around unfamiliar territory basically guarantees you’re gonna have accidents. Heck, people die during training in as controlled an environment as we can manage.

OTOH, that amount of accidents compared to only a few acknowledged combat losses is a bit suss.

Yes

Ya know who HASN’T been invaded any time in the past fifty years? North Korea. Wanna guess why?

Bicycle

Good.

Cope harder lmfao

make intentionally shocking art game gets banned surprisedpikachu.jpg

ITT: people making excuses for using what they know is a hateful word.

Just use a different word. That’s it. It’s very simple. Use literally anything else. People are acting like we’re about to stick a probe up their ass.

Right, so then we rotate words again. This isn’t hard. We’re not trying to find the One True Politically Correct Term; we’re arguing that one (1) specific word has a negative bias and we need to stop using it.

Hi, healthcare worker here. The r-slur hasn’t been used in the medical profession for decades. But hey, feel free to come up with more justifications for why it’s totally fine for you to call people slurs.

I hear a narrator if I decide to; otherwise the words just go directly into my brain like you described. I just had Morgan Freeman read your comment to me for funsies.

A commercial-use van is entirely different from a personal-use car. Conflating the two is disingenuous.

Ah, so it was water heater corrosion. That makes more sense.