wonderingwanderer

Looked like O’Neill’s work. That’s the same book O’Neill Cylinders are from

Good point, just wanted to clarify

I agree, but I’d also include heating (whether natural gas or otherwise) and internet access. Maybe even cell service

Yup, I agree wholeheartedly. Major industries, especially ones that provide basic necessities and utilities (and I’m including web access in that, because let’s be honest), should all be considered public services anyway and should be provided for with tax dollars and centralized planning accountable to the constituencies.

They’ve also maintained a hundred-year plan since at least the 90s.

At any given moment, their strategic policy is looking so far ahead that everyone in the government will be dead and their grandkids will be old by the time it comes to term.

US politics can’t seem to past the four-year election cycle. Biden tried with the Green New Deal, Build Back Better, and CHIPS, but you see where those landed. Severely diminished bills that narrowly passed and were among the first things on the chopping block when his successor entered office.

And yet people call it a grift because it would have taken at least 8-10 years to see the results even if it hadn’t been dismantled.

The amount of systemic change that needs to happen in the political and economic landscape realistically cannot happen in under four years from start to finish. It will require long-term investments in infrastructure projects that take years to build, which means at some point voters are gonna have to be patient and stop flipping sides whenever conditions don’t materially improve overnight.

In other words, we’re fucked…

“I am the way, the truth, and the LIGHT”

Every photovoltaic cell is actually doing the job of a priest blessing communion. By the indwelling of the Holy Spirit, all that copper wire is actually transubstantiated into the Body and Blood of Christ.

This is the WAY. And that’s God’s Honest Truth, yep 👍

Is Fussy pronounced with a u as in “putt” or u as in “put”?

Reminds me of Marshall’s career choice dilemmas throughout How I Met Your Mother

That’s absurd. People should use repurposed EV batteries and just power their homes on solar without connecting to the grid. I get that it’s probably a legal requirement to connect your solar to the grid, but that’s bullshit and nothing short of state-sanctioned theft.

That’s so fucked up. Even people who install solar have to give free energy to the utility company, who probably still charge them for energy…

Someone really dedicated to finding you could theoretically analyze a series of random points over time and extrapolate the radius and center of the circle, effectively locating your radio

It honestly wouldn’t be that complicated after collecting enough random points