Who here really has the time to stand, think and waste in the shower?

Me, my village gets its water from a spring in the mountains above that provides many times what we consume. Water is just a flatrate utility. The energy to heat it comes exclusively from photovoltaics and solar thermal panels between April and October. Standing under the hot shower is literally free for me in those months.

Rest of the year, eh, okay I either pay for electricity or stuff four more pieces of wood into the stove for half an hour worth of hot shower water, so, basically free as well.

So, you go ahead and build one then.

Yes. And awake-keepening because my arm tends to die off like that, but what can you do 🤷

That’s what I guess as well. Well, he’s got that figured out, I think:

Same with mine. When he was new to us, he ran away twice so I put him on a leash strictly and put a GPS tracker on him. Thought he just wasn’t one of those off the leash dogs. A year later a friend of mine told me “just cut him loose”. I told him he runs, he looked at the dog and said “nah. He isn’t going to. Try it.”

Was hectars and hectars of his private forest, so I thought “what the hell, we’ll find him with the tracker when he’s hungry” and massive surprise: He really never ran off. Not that day and never since. 20m ahead, 20m back, never have to worry, as soon as people can be heard or he loses sight of me he’s by my side immediately.

That’s why OpenStreetMap and a user friendly client app like Komoot is usually the better option for planning offroad activities.

Even if this state isn’t mapped yet, you’d just add the surface state and the blockage for the next person.

That sentence does not make any sense whatsoever. SATA and SAS are hot pluggable as well.

A manufacturing company around here is currently building their own energy solution involving solar panels and three wind generators, iirc. They do set up a hydrogen generator because they need the hydrogen for some processes but they are not building it bigger than necessary for that, citing that using it for energy storage as well would be less cost efficient than some short term energy storage using battery buffers on site and relying on the grid for the rest.

Hydrogen generators don’t pay for themselves if they only run now and then, that’s why nobody has built one just to use the excess energy only.

“We value our customers privacy”

I mean, I can imagine that. I’m sure they know the exact market value of every behavioral data point they can extract from me and the negative impact my desire for privacy has on that value.

The correct answer is to raise both hands and eyebrows, excuse yourself from the table, walk off and keep walking until sufficient distance has been reached. Switching mode of transportation on the way is acceptable.

Yes, not open burning of course, but burning in power plants with proper filtering. That is about the only way to avoid the introduction of more microplastic particles.

No, collection and burning is though.

Soooo, they manufacture their goods with a lot of plastics around them and then directly dump them into the environment? Or is there another step in between where some of the responsibility might be located as well?

The fascist play social media like a fiddle.

Yeah, I’m just staying away from that. There are enough other things that can end up in my frying pan with less crawling through the woods while hanging my continued existence on my ability to read and memorize two books worth of not-plant-descriptions.

As German comedian Volker Pispers said: “It’s important to know who the enemy is. If you know the enemy, every day has a proper, basic structure.”

You, sir, have a way with words.

Jeesus Christ Lemmy.

Start the VPN from the phone though, otherwise the TTL-trick will still work for them.