[worry]

They should make a solar power pinwheel hat where the brim is the panel and it spins the propeller.

[QuickTidal]

worry, on 21 November 2024 - 02:25 PM, said:

They should make a solar power pinwheel hat where the brim is the panel and it spins the propeller.

You joke, but I would wear the shit out of that.

[Briar King]

Yep and I can find sites that say the exact opposite so you can take your incorrectly away from me and us. Believe me I’ve seen both but I’ve seen way more to oppose then support. Not willing to test out noise, heat, $, loss of habitat with a many x square mile project starting a 20 sec golf ride away to be proven right or wrong esp in a residential area vs industrial. Put solar in space where it belongs. It’s funny that that $87 million was going to all that stuff *cough bribe but yet not one thing on site or in person saying it will decrease people’s bills it’s parked by.

Being in hurricane land is another reason we fought it.

This post has been edited by Briar King: 21 November 2024 - 06:24 PM

[Azath Vitr (D'ivers]

Briar King, on 21 November 2024 - 06:20 PM, said:

Yep and I can find sites that say the exact opposite so you can take your incorrectly away from me and us. Believe me I've seen both but I've seen way more to oppose then support. Not willing to test out noise, heat, $, loss of habitat with a many x square mile project starting a 20 sec golf ride away to be proven right or wrong esp in a residential area vs industrial. Put solar in space where it belongs.

You mean... outer space?

Like, shoot it into the sun? That would be fitting... solar energy belongs in the sun. As Go* intended (and Trump, Our Lord Go*-President, willeth...).

But it's good that people there are at least worrying a little about the climate warming.

Briar King, on 21 November 2024 - 06:20 PM, said:

It's funny that that $87 million was going to all that stuff *cough bribe but yet not one thing on site or in person saying it will decrease people's bills it's parked by.

Those bribes should be going to you! And the other good citoyens of Spicybayouland... (but only the good ones)

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Being in hurricane land is another reason we fought it.

Got to give whichever fossil fuel company crony came up with the petition some credit for a rousing bit of vivid imagery to close it out with:

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due to climate change, the chance of us having another major hurricane in that time is very high. Imagine thousands of solar panels becoming airborne and the chemicals from the broken solar panels leaching into the ground and atmosphere, which would have devastating effects, not only on our generation, but for generations to come. We ask, as a community, NOT to approve the construction of this solar panel farm. Thank you!

https://www.change.o...olar-panel-farm

Climate change is a very real and present danger... which is why we can't have clean energy. Not around here. It's the devil's work. So makes things hot. And noisy. Plus where's my cut?

This post has been edited by Azath Vitr (D'ivers: 21 November 2024 - 06:45 PM

[Briar King]

Dyson sphere

[amphibian]

The wildlife damage is insignificant in comparison to what oil drilling, coal mining, and fracking do.

Solar farms are generally huge boosts for cheap energy regionally and act mostly to get people to be less beholden to keeping the mega companies like Shell, Exxon etc happy.

I'd be thrilled to get a big one in my area. California, Texas, Arizona are going bananas with their solar expansions both in commercial and for individual homes. This stuff is working and it's working well even with the Texas utilities/energy distribution being mismanaged to an unbelievable degree.

This post has been edited by amphibian: 21 November 2024 - 07:14 PM

[QuickTidal]

Briar King, on 21 November 2024 - 06:20 PM, said:

Yep and I can find sites that say the exact opposite so you can take your incorrectly away from me and us.

Bk come on man, you and I both know that "I can find sites" means nothing in the face of actual data though. The internet is filled with mis and disinformation.

You live in Big Oil country. It's no surprise that the fossil fuel industry planted the usual lies about renewables and clean energy into the media.

No one is blaming you though, least of all me.

Briar King, on 21 November 2024 - 06:20 PM, said:

Believe me I’ve seen both but I’ve seen way more to oppose then support.

Yeah I get that, but that doesn't make them right either. It just makes them fearful. Which is the point of the fossil fuel industries lies.

Briar King, on 21 November 2024 - 06:20 PM, said:

Not willing to test out noise, heat, $, loss of habitat with a many x square mile project starting a 20 sec golf ride away to be proven right or wrong esp in a residential area vs industrial. Put solar in space where it belongs. It’s funny that that $87 million was going to all that stuff *cough bribe but yet not one thing on site or in person saying it will decrease people’s bills it’s parked by.

Right, but I think the overall point is that "testing it" was not required. Tonnes of solar farms exist across the planet and that data is freely available and I expect was part of their presentation.

Briar King, on 21 November 2024 - 06:20 PM, said:

Being in hurricane land is another reason we fought it.

7 hurricanes in 25 years in your region it appears. So let's say that such a solar farm existed already during that time, and the panels were destroyed every single time (which is probably not the case since the newest panels are designed to handle weather) that would still only 7 company-led cleanups in 25 years. I'm not going to lie, those numbers are well within the margin of error for such a project in such a region. But that's really besides the point because in China, where there are more than a few much larger Solar Parks than the one proposed, they have been shown to withstand Typhoon's (what they call Hurricanes) very well with only one notable incident of destruction (when Super Typhoon Yagi made landfall in Hainan Province) worth noting in all the years those parks have existed in a similarly-in-the-path-of-weather place.

But the rejection in your region also seemed to also hinge on one pretty major myth:

That when solar panels break, they become hazardous to human and environmental health. This was found to not be true at all in modern panels, and cleanup is pretty easy and happens quickly.

Shrug.

Briar King, on 21 November 2024 - 06:20 PM, said:

It’s funny that that $87 million was going to all that stuff *cough bribe but yet not one thing on site or in person saying it will decrease people’s bills it’s parked by

So hang on, you don't think an $87million infusion into your economy would help you individually? Solar allows homeowners, businesses, and municipalities alike to keep their energy sources local and invest money into their economies by investing in locally produced solar. Your energy would be able to come from that solar farm VS where it currently comes from, your electricity bills would drop, and it would make you less dependant on other grids that could fail under strain. Query: Do you know how much money your state spends on out of state energy production VS how much a solar farm would produce and cost? That's math I would have done because I would put good money down on solar saving you every month just by dint of it being a cheaper thing to produce.

Not to mention that with the state not needing to spend as much out of state on energy, they could spend that on everything else you might need fund infusions in (schools, roads, parks, ect.)...unless your concern is that those govt bodies would not spend that savings well and THAT in turn would not help you individually...which ...I mean all of them appear to be Republicans. So I can understand not trusting Republicans to have your best interests at heart. That tracks.

I'm not trying to come down on you man, just saying maybe the place with the 7th largest US refinery of petrochemicals has a vested interest in making sure Clean Energy never catches on there.

This post has been edited by QuickTidal: 21 November 2024 - 08:01 PM

[Tsundoku]

Well, that escalated quickly.

I'm thinking maybe every post from BK's #19514 should go into the IPCC climate report (& general climate change thread?)

Also, QT - I propose the opposite: A pinwheel hat with a propeller that is wind-driven and lights up a panel! Especially effective when you're moving faster than a dawdle.
Or, even better - por que no los dos?

This post has been edited by Tsundoku: 21 November 2024 - 08:42 PM

[TheRetiredBridgeburner]

Signed up for a waiting list for an autism assessment this morning.

Feels good to have made the decision. Work are becoming more corporate and less individually caring in their approach to staff as the company grows, so I think having something official to bring to requests for reasonable adjustments may well (sadly) be necessary. I also think it will allow me to have conversations with certain people in my life (partner's family, for instance) if I have something on paper. It won't change any preconceptions and they are still free to think whatever they like, but it feels like it will enable me to say "I've explained why this is difficult for me" more freely, and how that is received is on them.

One huge positive is the doctor has a specific interest in presentation in women, which makes the wait justified. I could probably find someone who could see me quicker, but someone who knows what they're looking for in terms of how differently women can present from the basis in research (all based on men) feels much more comfortable.

This post has been edited by TheRetiredBridgeburner: 22 November 2024 - 10:06 AM

[worry]

That's pretty great news. Hugely under-diagnosed (and invisiblized) in women and girls.


Everyone here should probably book an assessment. Maybe just bring in some photos of your bookshelves and see if that's enough.

[TheRetiredBridgeburner]

worry, on 22 November 2024 - 10:43 AM, said:

That's pretty great news. Hugely under-diagnosed (and invisiblized) in women and girls.


Everyone here should probably book an assessment. Maybe just bring in some photos of your bookshelves and see if that's enough.

How many books on a given topic counts as a hyperfocused interest. Asking for a friend. I am the friend

[Azath Vitr (D'ivers]

The big one finally came.

And it didn't wipe out humanity. (Well, not yet...) Or make a mess.

There was only a minor extinction-level event.

Before the pandemic, after fasting for five days I'd ease back in to eating, especially foods high in fiber. Primarily to avoid impaction, which can be very nasty. Though also because a five-day fast can kill off much of your gut microbiome, depending on whether / how much / what you do eat during the fast. In my case the hardest part of my chocolate fast was near the end of day two when I had extreme nausea---which I imagine might have been part of my gut microbiome dying off. Or maybe not---seems a little quick (for a mass die-off, at least)?

But since the pandemic is still going on and I really don't want to hazard getting long covid, I decided to prioritize eating more earlier. And replenishing my gut microbiome.

As such I expected to take a massive dump the day after I ended my fast.

But no. No more than when I had been fasting.

I was ready to nuke my bowels with milk of magnesia, prune juice, stool softeners, and additional laxatives if need be.

First I looked up how long it usually takes food to come out as poop. Of course I've read this many times before and forgotten it. 2 to 5 days on average. Okay, not so terrible, I thought. And with my deplenished gut microbiome it might take a bit longer.

Then by day four I was a little concerned. I did poop a little more, but it wasn't the behemoth I was expecting. Made sure to give my abdominal muscles plenty of stimulation. And a bit of massage. Prayed for the floodgates to open.

And then this morning, in the middle of my breakfast, like the Heavens parting, I could feel it coming, stopped eating, and sprinted over to the toilet... like an inverted Jonah, I shat Leviathans.

Now my insides feel so much more spacious... and relaxed, and satisfied. Satiated, almost, with emptiness.

This post has been edited by Azath Vitr (D'ivers: 22 November 2024 - 01:09 PM

[QuickTidal]

Tsundoku, on 21 November 2024 - 07:57 PM, said:

Well, that escalated quickly.

I'm thinking maybe every post from BK's #19514 should go into the IPCC climate report (& general climate change thread?)

Fair point, this kind of got discussion-y. My bad.

Tsundoku, on 21 November 2024 - 07:57 PM, said:

Also, QT - I propose the opposite: A pinwheel hat with a propeller that is wind-driven and lights up a panel! Especially effective when you're moving faster than a dawdle.
Or, even better - por que no los dos?

I would wear either!

In fact at Disney my son saw some kid with a pinwheel hat and said "I want one of those"....so it likely runs in the family.

[QuickTidal]

worry, on 22 November 2024 - 10:43 AM, said:

That's pretty great news. Hugely under-diagnosed (and invisiblized) in women and girls.


Everyone here should probably book an assessment. Maybe just bring in some photos of your bookshelves and see if that's enough.

Both my kids are ADHD (as are my wife and I to an extent) and my son is also the process of being assessed for mild autism. So I think you're right, it's massively undiagnosed and it bleeds into a tonne of other regions.


Funny ADHD story, my dad who is DEEPLY OCD said when we told him about the kids he said: "ADHD? Bah, it's fine. He's just rambunctious. When I was a kid my sisters had to take me outside because I was so rambunctious I annoyed my mom"....YEAH DAD TELL ME MORE ABOUT YOUR UNDIAGNOSED BOOMER ADHD. LOL

[QuickTidal]

TheRetiredBridgeburner, on 22 November 2024 - 11:06 AM, said:

worry, on 22 November 2024 - 10:43 AM, said:

That's pretty great news. Hugely under-diagnosed (and invisiblized) in women and girls.


Everyone here should probably book an assessment. Maybe just bring in some photos of your bookshelves and see if that's enough.

How many books on a given topic counts as a hyperfocused interest. Asking for a friend. I am the friend

Forgodssake don't look at my shelf of Patrick O'Brian collection, with the giant hardcover Royal Navy books, next to the Napoleonic war non-fiction, next to a Nelson Biography, with a LEGO ship in a bottle sitting on top of it, and bookended by two wrought iron sailors....theres nothing whatsoever hyperfocused there! LOOK AWAY!

[TheRetiredBridgeburner]

QuickTidal, on 22 November 2024 - 02:08 PM, said:

TheRetiredBridgeburner, on 22 November 2024 - 11:06 AM, said:

worry, on 22 November 2024 - 10:43 AM, said:

That's pretty great news. Hugely under-diagnosed (and invisiblized) in women and girls.


Everyone here should probably book an assessment. Maybe just bring in some photos of your bookshelves and see if that's enough.

How many books on a given topic counts as a hyperfocused interest. Asking for a friend. I am the friend

Forgodssake don't look at my shelf of Patrick O'Brian collection, with the giant hardcover Royal Navy books, next to the Napoleonic war non-fiction, next to a Nelson Biography, with a LEGO ship in a bottle sitting on top of it, and bookended by two wrought iron sailors....theres nothing whatsoever hyperfocused there! LOOK AWAY!

Or my five separate books about the life of Anne Boleyn... if we widen it to historical women the total is in double figures and history books generally is mental. I have my niche

This post has been edited by TheRetiredBridgeburner: 22 November 2024 - 02:41 PM

[Tiste Simeon]

TheRetiredBridgeburner, on 22 November 2024 - 02:31 PM, said:

QuickTidal, on 22 November 2024 - 02:08 PM, said:

TheRetiredBridgeburner, on 22 November 2024 - 11:06 AM, said:

worry, on 22 November 2024 - 10:43 AM, said:

That's pretty great news. Hugely under-diagnosed (and invisiblized) in women and girls.


Everyone here should probably book an assessment. Maybe just bring in some photos of your bookshelves and see if that's enough.

How many books on a given topic counts as a hyperfocused interest. Asking for a friend. I am the friend

Forgodssake don't look at my shelf of Patrick O'Brian collection, with the giant hardcover Royal Navy books, next to the Napoleonic war non-fiction, next to a Nelson Biography, with a LEGO ship in a bottle sitting on top of it, and bookended by two wrought iron sailors....theres nothing whatsoever hyperfocused there! LOOK AWAY!

Or my five separate books about the life of Anne Boleyn... if we widen it to historical women the total is in double figures and history books generally is mental. I have my niche

I'd like to put the two of you in a large room with a ton of books and just observe what happens

[QuickTidal]

Tiste Simeon, on 22 November 2024 - 03:13 PM, said:

TheRetiredBridgeburner, on 22 November 2024 - 02:31 PM, said:

QuickTidal, on 22 November 2024 - 02:08 PM, said:

TheRetiredBridgeburner, on 22 November 2024 - 11:06 AM, said:

worry, on 22 November 2024 - 10:43 AM, said:

That's pretty great news. Hugely under-diagnosed (and invisiblized) in women and girls.


Everyone here should probably book an assessment. Maybe just bring in some photos of your bookshelves and see if that's enough.

How many books on a given topic counts as a hyperfocused interest. Asking for a friend. I am the friend

Forgodssake don't look at my shelf of Patrick O'Brian collection, with the giant hardcover Royal Navy books, next to the Napoleonic war non-fiction, next to a Nelson Biography, with a LEGO ship in a bottle sitting on top of it, and bookended by two wrought iron sailors....theres nothing whatsoever hyperfocused there! LOOK AWAY!

Or my five separate books about the life of Anne Boleyn... if we widen it to historical women the total is in double figures and history books generally is mental. I have my niche

I'd like to put the two of you in a large room with a ton of books and just observe what happens

We'd become a librarian superteam. Probably.

[Mezla PigDog]

I'm not purposefully ignoring the assessment enlightenment, it's amazing news for people to find a route forward that feels right. But Azath just posted about a life affirming turd. Which deserves recognition. We've all had them - I had one last Saturday morning that changed the outlook of my whole weekend.

But!!

Butt??

The industry I work in is mad for microbiome testing. I'm a believer that the microbiome is important the more we understand it. However the research out there in this subject is almost unanimously quackery. Just watch yourself, Azath. If it doesn't feel good, it's not good.

[Abyss]

Research has shown that humans only use 10% of their microbiome.