scarecrowbob

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by scarecrowbob 3mo ago
I am curious how much of a difference it makes. I have 4kw of panels and 15kwh of storage. I only get down to about 80% most nights (I heat with wood and propane). But my system will charge completely in about 2 hours of full sun. If it t
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by scarecrowbob 3mo ago
"Taking us back to the previous system, and putting in the hard and mundane work of keeping it working is the much better solution if people want redress, not continuous 'we just need to break it a little more because feelz/i
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by scarecrowbob 3mo ago
I don't know your situation but surely you've tried ventilating at night and then closing up the house at a specific time in the day? I only ask because when I moved from the US south to the high desert in NM (about 2KM) I had to
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by scarecrowbob 3mo ago
I live a couple of miles from an airport that houses a fire-fighting air tanker base, and I am somewhat terrified of fires- 120K Acres has burned in my area of the state so far this year. I've also been a ham radio enjoyer and had been
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by scarecrowbob 3mo ago
Yes. I live in a very rural spot with a difficult-to-deal-with Electric Association, with a Ute reservation on one side and unpowered parcels on other sides; I don't think that the easement is a typical issue. And to be clear, I didn&#
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by scarecrowbob 3mo ago
Fortunately for me, I could just bop down to the bog box store and buy a more appropriate fridge from vevor; horses for courses. I've never had to turn off my fridge, though it does have interesting-to-me usage patterns; it's weir
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by scarecrowbob 3mo ago
I am about 2 years in to my off-grid solar setup. The cost for the easement was looking to be about $25k, plus about 30k for the wire, transformer, et. I live in middle of nowhere so I just built out a system myself. I am about 8k into it
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by scarecrowbob 3mo ago
I'm writing this from my off grid shack. I have 15kwh of lifepo, and even if it weren't hooked to 4kw of solar I could still run my fridge, charge my phone, and run the fan in my fireplace for 4-6 days... longer if I dump the frid
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by scarecrowbob 3mo ago
If it helps, I have been in a work group on this issue locally for the last 8 months or so. Most of the folks in that work group are to the left of Democrats, and most of the pro-flock folks here, locally, are Democrats and law-and-order GO
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by scarecrowbob 3mo ago
A lot of us have very little love for authoritarian regimes. At the same time, all through out my life I have seen folks in the US us their fantasies CCP as reason to accept a government that they feel is the gold standard for freeedom. I s
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by scarecrowbob 3mo ago
I don't think most folks I know in the US are willing to touch the historical wrongs (genocide and slavery) with a 3.048M pole.
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by scarecrowbob 3mo ago
I think this view indicates that you have either had very few personal interactions with specific fascists or you don't have a very specific sense of how they are working.
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by scarecrowbob 3mo ago
It's easy to hide a lot of objectionable stuff in metonymy. It feels reasonable to me to think of a "country" as the people who live there; doubly so when discussing a putative democracy. But sure, I will entertain the idea t
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by scarecrowbob 3mo ago
How do some third graders in Alabama deserve this? How do my 22-year-old waiter friends in rural Texas deserve this? What exactly did they do to deserve this?
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by scarecrowbob 3mo ago
People say this a lot, and I usually think it's said by folks who haven't thought about it much. As a person who makes a lot of music, I don't care if folks have fun. In fact I am having such a hard time caring hat folks do
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by scarecrowbob 3mo ago
I get that it's a single case, but Darlene Graham did just take Lindsey Graham's spot, like, yesterday.
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by scarecrowbob 3mo ago
When folks who live around me vote for things I find unethical, then I don't feel bound by those decisions. Also, your position on weapons development is premised on the idea that at lease some of the folks developing the weapons are o
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by scarecrowbob 3mo ago
Because they aren't "safer" for the folks getting killed. Historically, the folks doing the murdering just don't care about the folks they kill, so "safer for the killers" isn't a win for most of us. &quot
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by scarecrowbob 3mo ago
It's possible that you're genuine in your confusion here; it is, however very hard for me to believe that there are people who genuinely don't understand that when the state spends money it -goes somewhere-.
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by scarecrowbob 3mo ago
Its fun for me to read these comments as a person who hates the US military. Because I know the pipe hitters working for JSOC are really just as fucked up and superstitious as any boko haram nutjobs, and the magic that the "operators&q
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by scarecrowbob 3mo ago
Yeah, I don't know how this whole ARPANET thing is really going to play out...
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by scarecrowbob 3mo ago
"That said, it is undeniable that USA would have more issues pulling that off domestically, and, arguably, even internationally." You think so? I spend a lot of time working with (actual) anarchists in the US, and most of us are f
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by scarecrowbob 3mo ago
Yeah a lot of us are tired of it. I dislike the democrats intensely. I also dislike the GOP folks intensely. Which is why I dislike your line of reasoning here: -you- are playing the game we are all tired of. Like, no shit the Dems didn&#x
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by scarecrowbob 3mo ago
Four corners, but out in a county.
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by scarecrowbob 3mo ago
I quit in '23. I didn't have F-U money (heck, I don't have running water) but I did inherit some money from my parents when they passed, enough to buy a shack on some land and to get my living expenses low enough that runnin
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by scarecrowbob 3mo ago
" If you want to start shooting people, then prepare for a well-deserved, long prison sentence." * unless you're a law-enforcement officer, in which case folks like laughing_man are totally okay with you killing folks for van
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by scarecrowbob 3mo ago
Yeh, learn Diné and Ute or go back to Scotland.
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by scarecrowbob 4mo ago
I read it two days ago in the textbook for the EMS course that I am working through right now.
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by scarecrowbob 4mo ago
I only lived in Austin for a couple of years, but I grew up in the Amarillo and Lubbock and am a direct descendant of the racist, slave-holding white settlers who signed on the Texas Declaration of Independence. I can concede that there are
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by scarecrowbob 4mo ago
Oh no, you mean I might not be able to get another really annoying job so I can, what, have more money than I need to live on? I used to get paged at 1am to mess with downed webservers, now I hang out in a shack with no running water in rur

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