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Yeah, I’ve never had such a good massage chair. Super lucky find!

I’ve forgotten the name but this thing I found at goodwill has been great for my hips/lower back while working!!

These are all great and ty for writing it up! I just want to pile on about this point:

What’s stopping them now? There’s lots of copper in the street lamps and various equipment at a store. The answer is that the copper isn’t easy to access. It would take someone way too much time to get any substantial amount of copper from the wires so long as the run back is protected. They would need to rip apart each panel to get to it.

Nothing is stopping them now. Wire theft is a huge problem and mitigation of the risk is a constraint on any commercial electrical installation. It’s so pervasive that street lamps dont use copper wire anymore; they mostly use aluminum wires, so that people don’t have as much of a reason to lop them over and loot the wiring (they do one, discover it’s not copper and then skedaddle instead of doing the whole row). People absolutely can and do steal wiring, all the time (meth makes you so productive)

Restricted access is the only real way we have to deal with this (besides keeping lines energized - yes, horrifyingly that’s a very common technique). A couple cameras and a few hundred a month to a monitoring service to keep an eye out for anyone inside the fence is kinda the only option. l-ion angle grinders man, they’re a problem.

An aside: Carport solar exists, which is basically what people mean when discussing this topic. Unfortunately it’s more or less greenwashing. They do technically work but I haven’t seen one yet that wasn’t severely limited in functionality due to the site and stylistic requirements. They’re no “Solar Freakin Roadways” or anything, but they’re not nearly as useful as the marketing hype would have you believe. They’re large, extremely rigid structures that require drainage accommodation and are very prone to damage due to the nature of the location.

Oh no worries, I just wanted to clarify that you weren’t the user I was referring to despite having downvoted the comment.

Lol thank you, it for sure hasn’t made me the most popular person but at the very least it’s not boring.

I can’t believe I didn’t get you on the list. You’re great! I can’t remember exactly why I tagged you as “lesbOG” but it’s pretty funny. Or at least, I think it’s funny. And really, what else could possibly matter?

I don’t want to overly directly call someone out/incite brigading/etc. but I probably should have been more clear given I do tend to irk people. Hilariously though I’m not talking about the person who downvoted me (sorry @[email protected], I completely forgot we got into it recently, I did not mean you)

You’re also going to have a large energized transmission network running over an area with extremely high foot and vehicle traffic - The low electrocution risk could absolutely be mitigated (unless there’s damage, which is an inevitability for any equipment installed in a parking lot) but that’s not going to be a problem because the entire electrical system is going to be ripped out by a junkie before there’s a chance for anyone to get hurt…

Then there’s also the additional complexity required to clean elevated panels like that, the difficulty in maintenance, complication to firefighting, the list of logistical issues goes on.

There’s a middle ground though, which is to simply dedicate the lowest utilization portion of large parking lots to instead house standard ground solar installations. This is being done successfully in many places, as parking lot utilization is down across pretty much every commercial category post-covid so it’s an easy decision to make (especially in locations like dying malls) and commercial buildings often have very robust grid infrastructure already and underground utility conduits (for things like the lights in parking lots). They’re about the ugliest way to site a solar facility, but so much better than a parking lot…

They always come back…

Huh. I never remember they’re an option on lemmy because they don’t show on Boost, but that’s a really good point for accessibility. Thanks for pointing it out!

Well at least one person on that list thinks I’m an open nazi so… Probably I should have rethought the tags. But ah well I’m tipsy lets go.

RuhRoh I just did those too lol. Pings for everyone!

Also Toy if u are responsible for the tiles and have been holding out I will be so mad

I tag folks based off interactions, so after a couple years on here there’s a lot of names I recognize. Most of them are regular posters or admins (Pugjesus, Stametz, Violet08, Mrdown, Picard Manuver, Geneva Convenience, ada, db0, etc. who don’t need to be bothered with tags) or people who I have a special friendship with like @AntiBullyRanger (I really hope you’re doin’ okay) or my legit bro @[email protected]

Then theres various regular commentators on my NSFW posts like @[email protected] and @[email protected] who I appreciate a ton!

(Personally, I was once asked out of the blue by @[email protected] to give my opinion in a discussion about battery tech. I think at the end this will probably be where I consider my life to have peaked.)

Are you possibly thinking of shadowcat? Jubilee’s ability was energy projection (and ROCKING that 80s futurist outfit), shadowcat was the one that could disrupt electronics by phasing thru them / later became an assassin who could crush your brain. And she was friends with a dragon and besties with Logan and banging Colossus.

… okay I wanted to be shadowcat as a child.

I’m surprised there aren’t more crows on the list - I dont know any locally that ride inside the bus (not allowed) but local flocks, especially ones with a lot of old crows, will ride around on top of the busses to get around town (the local busses are all hybrids, and the battery(?) cases on the roof provide an alcove sheltered from the slipstream where they ride). They’ll also catch rides on passing bike trailers.

Oh man, I helped build one of these when I was a kid. Mostly I watched scooby-doo until they needed tiny monkey hands to crawl into the shell and hold a rachet in some awkward spot, but there was so much sanding of the damn foam block used to form the shell as well. Come out looking like a loonytunes character when you take the mask off, everything just covered in dust except your eyes and mouth…

Super cool to see it progress beyond garage built racers where 50% were so over-specc’d they removed steering linkages to save weight (the first time the course had a 90° turn at the start it disqualified so many teams and people were PISSED)