No prob! Also, I found that Archive.org has the whole Galaxy Ranger series in much higher DVD quality compared to what’s on youtube.

While the voice acting can be hit or miss, you may enjoy The Adventures of The Galaxy Rangers. It has a particularly awesome 80’s soundtrack and great visuals, and the plots are a bit more mature than the usual fare of that time.

Silverhawks is in a similar vain style wise, but it has more in common with Thundercats writing wise from what I recall of it (more juvenile), so adults may not get as much from it.

Megas XLR was a pretty good humorous take on the Mech genre from Toonami, and the whole series is on YouTube..

World only defederated from the piracy communities, not the whole instance.

Not unless you use AI, which encourages water and energy waste that contributes to climate change.

You could try reading the video transcript if you prefer not to watch it. You can access it by clicking on the ‘In This Video’ button to the right of the play and volume buttons on the video itself.

That’s kinda his trademark, actually. He often combines it with a heavy dose of sardonic humor.

I can’t say that I’ve done a purposefully slow jog. I tend to push myself to where I become out of breath and then need to walk to catch it (which is kinda easy for me to do, and may be related to having asthma as a kid, but not entirely sure), so that could be why. A friend gave me a fitness band a while back that can display bpm, I’ll try using it next time to see what happens if I maintain that 133bpm range. Thanks for the suggestion! :D

My opinion is that painting with such a broad brush that anyone who simply jogs in the woods is performing a selfish act and unable to appreciate nature the correct way is an elitist claim, as it doesn’t allow for people who do deeply respect and appreciate nature, but who may also enjoy exercising among it, or for people who experience nature differently from the way you do.

You seem to have an absolutist viewpoint that there is objectively only one correct way of experiencing nature. No one is stopping you from making that argument, but you are not entitled to everyone agreeing with that viewpoint or how it is presented.

I just don’t like when people pretend they aren’t taking drugs when they are.

There are many people who do not appear to experience ‘runners high’. I am one of those people, I have never experienced any noticeable pleasant side-effects from exercise itself, just a rather unpleasant burning sensation in my lungs. Regardless, I still ride my bike or jog to maintain my health, and I vastly prefer doing so amongst nature if I can.

you are framing this conversation in a way that if I criticize a broad cultural movement centered around the outdoors for being shallow this necessarily means I think I am superior.

Claiming the way an entire subset of other people experience nature is inferior and shallow compared to yours is kinda the definition of a sense of superiority, yeah.

I have no problem criticizing people who litter in nature, or destroy it in some way, but putting every jogger into the same box, with disregard to the variability of those people’s respect and appreciation of nature just due to the way they personally enjoy it? Oof.

By saying jogging through nature is inherently selfish compared to walking through it. I’d also say you pretty clearly look down upon those who like to exercise in nature based on your other comments here, and your framing of people doing it for ‘the drug chemicals’.

You say you’re not bashing them, but I’m not sure that defense works since you’re kind’ve framing a different way of experiencing nature as inherently inferior and ‘selfish’ compared to your preferred way, instead of framing it as two equally valid ways to experience it (as long as it doesn’t hurt the local ecology, or leave any litter).

The overall vibe I get is a sense of elitism that only your own preferred slower way of taking in nature and pondering it is the truly valid and meaningful way of experiencing it. But that’s just my 2 cents.

I am saying it is fundamentally selfish and is a different pursuit than trying to actually connect with, observe and know nature by listening instead of pressing your body to its physical limit just to prove you can and get those sweet exercise drug chemicals going in your brain.

That really comes off as very elitist, IMO.

No prob! I found it from this really awesome video on musical notation, which goes over all the attempts to update it or replace it, if you’re interested in that sorta stuff :)

This video goes into Syria’s electric grid, and how people have setup their solar installs. It shows batteries are used quite thoroughly, and doesn’t appear to be grid-tied or formed into a micro-grid, AFAICT.

It is, though for people who have less land, it’s possible to convert a front yard into growing area (if you’re not in an HOA that doesn’t allow that, good reason to attempt to get on the board to change that rule, if you do).

For apartment dwellers, there’s also the option of balcony gardening, which we have a community for at [email protected] :)

I think the video is a good source of practical knowledge of how to begin gardening, but it will need to be modified for each individuals circumstances.

Hopefully, we all won’t require a massive war to figure out solar should be invested into.

The Iran war is kinda doing just that, though renewable was going up pretty steadily even before it.

Definitely was a typo on my part!

There’s this photo from the same location in a Aljazeera article on the area. Apparently they are the Sheikh Maqsoud and Ashrafieh neighborhoods.

Interesting question. From what I gathered from this nature study on that, it seems that solar farms can increase ambient temperature compared to an area with some vegetation, which may be due to the panel preventing the ground from irradiating heat as effectively (by like, bouncing it off the back of the panel) and removing the vegetation that cools the area from evaporation.

But I think on a rooftop that may not have as much thermal mass as the ground, it may not have that effect, and overall should lessen the cooling needs of a building somewhat due to the shade the panels provide. Panels also don’t get quite as hot as an unshielded roof, since they do reflect some infrared energy despite their dark color.

tl:dr, probably not much or at all since they’re on a rooftop, and if it does, it could probably be mitigated by planting more trees and vegetation in the city (which can drop temps up to 8 degrees). But that’s mostly an educated guess.

Krita (a digital painting and Photoshop alternative). I’ve been enjoying using it for probably 10 years now, and it’s only continued to steadily improve. Fantastic program.

Linuxdaw.org, an awesome database of VSTs (virtual instruments) and effects that natively support Linux. It’s a great resource for musicians trying to escape the enshittification and spying of Windows.

Yeah, if they’d gone with a decentralized model, it’d be able to scale up without the extreme operating costs (Lemmy/piefed is a good example of that in practice).

Currently our best decentralized/federated instant messengers are XMPP and Deltachat, which cost peanuts to host.