As an individual, sure. That’s something relatively manageable. With solar and batteries, it’s easy to keep your essentials powered. But that’s not what the commenter asked. They asked why commercial spaces don’t adopt solar so readily. They’re not in the market to go off grid. It’s not a real selling point. If the power goes out, the warehouses often still run tasks and office workers can generally be sent home. Shoppers will have to wait it out. It’s such a rarity, just about no business, at least not here, loses any significant money in power failures because they’re so rare as it is.

It still helps. I tinted my car. It still gets hot inside, but I did eventually hop between two cars (one untinted) and was able to actually feel a difference. All hots are hot, but some hots are hotter than others. Humans aren’t good at telling hots apart and it takes a lot of testing to get reliable data by thermometer to account for weather.

That being said, I’m pretty sure the image is generated. The closest suv seems to be eating the compact in front. The next solar array spot is 75% as deep with half spaces on the far row.

1/3 of the warehouses in my area have solar panels.

The main factor to stick with grid power, I assume, is the electricity is cheap enough. Panels take a decade or more to pay back in savings. Many tenants won’t stay that long. Many landlords won’t give a shit with directly billing the tenant. Even as an individual homeowner, 10 years is a long way away.

A second angle that’s a relatively recent thing here is my utility no longer allows you to connect oversized solar systems to the grid. Annual production must match annual consumption. I’m not exactly sure how that plays out on the corporate level, as my experience is individual. Even though it gets hot here, many warehouses are not air conditioned. Without AC, energy consumption for a warehouse is way below the available solar space. So, many warehouses are only half or 1/3 covered, of those 1/3 or less warehouses that have any solar at all. Nobody wants to sublet their roof to the electric company, so the space remains unused.

Meanwhile, I’d expect mall and especially office consumption to exceed rooftop production capability, so solar is only worth the little green leaf stick you can put on the front door saying “we went solar!”. Somewhat similarly to not wanting to rent space to the utility on a warehouse, these places would need to be incentivised beyond net-zero cost to do some social benefitting on their property.

The utility company says they’re going green, but in reality, they’re taking credit for private home solar installations. The kwh price keeps going up. They keep telling me switching to LEDs and unplugging chargers will make it better.

I constantly seek new music. I do try to stick with artists/albums for a few weeks in order to actually build a “relationship”, if you will, in the way physical media used to do it. I don’t quite build the sequential memory anymore, but I’m at least proud I can identify obscure bands in a shuffle.

As for variety, the genres are all over. I gravitate towards metal. Maybe numetal. But, it’s not just the instruments or specific genre, it’s the mood and melody. When I worked to compile my ultimate “radio” playlist, I realized it’s way less diverse than I thought. It’s mostly heavy and sad, even what I call pump up jams. Might not be outright sad, but the melodies are usually downward. At least, that’s how it feels. I also appreciate a good buildup. Not a tease before a drop, but stacking more instrumental layers as it continues. Love Deadmau5 for that.

Some pairs: Rammstein/Sonne vs Deadmau5/Strobe Rob Zombie/Dragula vs Noisecontrollers/Pillars of Creation Avenged Sevenfold/Beast and the Harlot vs Taylor Swift/I See You Now

You’re not going to beleive me, but they rhyme

Same. Genre is not important. Melody and mood is apparently the driving factor for me. I’m really here to throw Cellar Darling your way, regarding unusual instruments. They’re rock/metal. The singer’s voice is a bit soft for my expectations but then there’s the hurdy gurdy taking place of lead guitar

That’s an interesting distinction for country that I’ve not considered before. The only trend I noticed is slapping twang and drawl on songs that would otherwise be regular pop songs.

Fuel mileage is a very tangible cost. There’s a general balance between high fuel cost/short average commute and vice versa. Filling a tank might be equal to a couple dining out. The monthly total might resemble the grocery bill. They need to be filled every 1-2 weeks typically. You sit there and watch the total continue ticking up. Driving feels free until you watch the pump, so it’s almost like a penalty in feeling, as if you’re being charged extra. It doesn’t make sense, but that’s a feeling, because your choices while driving don’t necessarily get connected to your upcoming gas bill. And I’ll say while newer cars are considerably more efficient and reduce the number of fillups, they’re more in-your-face with on board MPG displays. Mash the gas and the number dives,. But, keep it high, and you pat yourself on the back, knowing you did your best.

So, it became important because at this point, in most of the world, cars are all easily meeting acceptable safety ratings, power (acceleration), easily reach highway speed, carry 4.5 passengers, and have Bluetooth. So what’s left? Superiority through mileage.

There’s some irony in that the most efficient versions tend to be more expensive. The jump from regular hybrid to plug in hybrid often takes a decade to recoup in gas costs, at least with new cars.

The there’s the irony that it’s not a big deal. I chose the smallest engine of a used ~2010 vehicle. That saved me maybe $2k USD on its own. I get 25mpg. The other engine would get 18, maybe. I’ve spent under $1000 in fuel over the last year of ownership across 7500 miles. A 28% drop in mileage, a 28% increase in consumption, would cost me an extra $350/year. $30/month.

I swear, it’s all a farce, likely pushed by some lobby groups to make citizens feel responsible for the climate and for being poor. Just like how we feel guilty not recycling bottles as exxon burns gas for fun and dumps it in the ocean.

Native English speakers do something similar where they say someone can be “electric”. I’ve had my share of idioms being misunderstood as realistically accurate and I see others all the time.

If it was a joke the whole time, we missed it. It’s hard to convey a humorous tone by text.

There’s still other fabric interactions that can happen. I consistently build a charge getting out of my office chair at work. I wear shoes. I’ve become accustomed to tapping my arm the door frame on the way out. 10/10 times in the winter (dry air), I get a shock. Maybe 7/10 times in summer (more humid, but with AC). Nearly everything I wear is cotton. Sometimes nylon shirts and I assume my socks have spandex or whatever the elastic stuff is. Still, not the clothing known most for static.

Do some testing. See if any other metal things can cause a static shock. A metal home door, a car door, the fridge, toaster, whatever.

1. Can you ever get two shocks in a row?
2. Passing not, does standing there for 3 minutes let you get shocked by the microwave again?
3. If not, can you go back to wherever you usually sit and immediately come back?

I suspect you will find some repeatable sequence. Even if a second shock is weaker, it’s still a sign you’re finding the cause. It’s not ADHD. Electrical energy is very different from the “electricity” in your nervous system and brains. Vastly different in terms of voltage because your nerves are driven by chemical reactions, not massive magneto coils.

As for the heat of the monitor, if you can trust someone, try a blind test. Make sure your eyes can’t see anything. Have them switch the monitor on and off in some way you can’t hear the switch. There is so little heat from modern monitors, blankets block so much heat, and you are likely quite far for radiation heat to be detectable. Honestly, I’d chalk this up more to the ADHD or something else psychological. It’s not that you feel the heat, its that you’re convinced you can feel it and you body is reacting in weird, repeatable ways. Like you just can’t stop thinking about and now body is reacting in a defensive way. Maybe fulk fight or flight with adrenaline, that flushes you with heat. Does your heart race?

And? I talk to non-art students. If you never have to think about it, most people won’t. I promise you, there are plenty of “obvious” topics you are oblivious to and misunderstand. We all have them.

Why are you being so condescending in this thread and still missing the root of the point? The sun’s emission spectrum has more green in the visible band than the other colors. The emission spectrum you keep mentioning. By wavelength distribution, the sun would be “green”. But, because our eyes are terrible spectrometers with bad wavelength resolution but we still like to use crayon descriptions, all the red and green gets interpreted as a combined yellow. You made a snobby comment about how all your art students understand how paint (subtractive) color works, but are you aware how light (additive) color works? Like why an RGB light can make yellow with red and green? Because that’s what makes our yellow sun “green” by certain metrics.

So it stands to reason that if plants were predominantly green on Earth to reject and regulate green-wavelength energy from our sun, a red dwarf, which has more red output, could cause red plants to develop.

A red dwarf isn’t exactly red. Our sun isn’t exactly yellow. Our sun isn’t exactly green, either.

Crying enough to interrupt my breathing with the quivers and and all? When I was 13 at my grandparent’s funeral. That was the first death for me. Emotional tears? Like every other day. Happy, sad story, movie, moving article, beautiful community moment, a good song at the right time, whatever. It’s been like this for over 30 years.

You don’t have to cry. Hopefully, it’s just a sign your brain has readjusted how it ranks stressful situations and not anything more serious than that.

Facing away is my default position when not actively rinsing anything. Either half these comments are trying to be funny with their quips about washing their whole body or they take the faster showers in the world with no soak/relax time

Project Hail Mary doesn’t do that, from what I recall. I think it’s just the US government/military collecting a bunch of scientists. Maybe it’s cut from the adaptation. The mission has a lengthy timeline of decades while the existential threat is already harming the planet. It doesn’t really paint the Earth in any kind of dreamy co-op light from what I recall.

It’s a beautiful movie. I like hard sci-fi drama. My SO does not. We both enjoyed it as it split the difference. It has some beautiful visuals along the way. It’s far from “men being dicks in space” like Ad Astra and it doesn’t do the Armageddon thing with the global livestream. I’m not saying you have to watch it, but it’s just a nice, well done movie worth the time IMO.

I was also uninterested until seeing the astronauts out there. I saw a comment that sums it up: “turns out, I’m not tired of space. I’m tired of Musk and Bezos and corporate bullshit in space.”

I’m still bummed that the mission was reduced to a photographic flyby without any meaningful interaction. There’s nothing especially triumphant about this trip as it was already known to be achievable. That makes me assume there’s something hidden, such as secret probes, positive PR for the US government in the most heinous of times, more cover up for the epstein files, slapping the orange name on yet more activities despite robbing the NASA budget, etc.

But, for an hour or two spread across the last few days, it was still beautiful seeing 4 humans being genuine people. They even got the “end of vacation” sad feeling 24 hours before return. I can’t decry the loss of NASA funding and be disinterested in this. I have to beleive this mission will inspire the next generation there’s still something valuable in bigger projects with cooperation and scientific endeavors. I don’t think we’ll match the power of the first lunar landing anytime soon, but from the Apollo and Shuttles to now, we’ve just been subjected to corporate spaceflight and dick swinging competitions about whose craft docks more often. For just one more time, we don’t have a billionaire’s name visibly attached.

I assumed two equal patients since the mile high club doesn’t require a pilot in the room

Sounds like you got a month out of it. Hopefully the hours are worth it

I couldn’t believe it’d been out for ten years, so I checked. It’s been out for ~10 years, but not 10 years, originally releasing mid 2017