Yes. Elon Musk is bombing Russia. You’re welcome to retaliate at your soonest convenience.

I think there’s a similar attraction to all erogenous areas, but due to cultural reasons breasts are ones that are always covered and their uncovering signals intimacy.

Favoring big breasts is mostly a cultural thing with some links to biological instincts that I wouldn’t give much weight to.

“Jiggling” transfers information about their structure and your brain can create a model on their “feel” without touching.

Junkie sleeping on a street on his face and chest, legs hanging over him in an arc having his shoe heals next to his ears.

If Russia looses it’s bases in Syria, it’ll have a hard time supplying it’s African operations.

China has interests in Africa, Russia has influence in Africa, China has interest in Russia.

Russia looses it’s influence in Africa, China has zero interest in Russia.

My job.

It’s what David Graeber - Bullshit jobs defines as “duct tapers” and “box tickers”

My cats don’t like when I “blow bubbles” in their stomach (Devon Rex, so almost hairless stomach), but I still do it 😁. Dog is sharped so that it’s dick reaches it’s chest plate, so that’s a no go.

in a forest on a pile of sharp edged boulders

Same, although my offspring has already left the nest, but addition to the Mrs I got my house full of plants and animals.

Maybe I’m not that sane 🤔

Oh boy, where do I start. FOSS mostly

• 8Vim - when I’m drunk or moving a lot
• DotDash - when I wan’t to write with morse code just for fun.
• Hackers keyboard - for SSH terminal stuff
• Unexpected keyboard - for SSH terminal stuff and when I need a lot of special characters.
• Thumb-key - when I really have only one hand to write
• Traditional T9 - when I write English and want a good auto-complete.
• Kboard - for my kamoji needs and often reoccurring short messages.

Lemmy was mentioned few times when people were discussing leaving Reddit. When the purge date came I installed Jerboa.

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My life has been running in 5 year cycles. Every 5 years something changes to make it different. It’s been 4 years now.

At first yes, and I was planning to put raspberry + HAL-sensor + relay to handle the switch when average current to the batteries lowered, but to my surprise batteries charged enough with both connected. Battery charge controller is right next to the panels and there is some distance to the heating element. It appears that the MPPT battery charge controller so much lower resistance path that the current favors it.

My test setup only has 300Ah of battery, capacity at 12V, so it’s charged quite quickly. Battery power only runs living room devices 50" TV, monitor, laptop, steamdeck, cable modem that are used about 4-6h a day and rarely on at the same time.

If it’s a hot summers day, I might manually direct all to AC

… or if there’s some catastrophic blackout during winter I can connect batteries to a radiator water circulation pump and heat the home by burning wood. This is very improbable, but at least there’s something.

Not sure if my “notes” apply unless we share similarities in geographic and market.

Backgroud:

• 1\3 of my country is in the arctic circle
• During summer sun hardly sets, during winter is hardly rises (up nort, not at all)
• Energy is produced mainly with Nuclear (main bulk), hydro, wind, solar (lately on the rise), coal (transfered to backup)
• it doesn’t get hot, so cooling is rarely needed during summer,
• from may to september electricity is mostly dirt cheap. Nickle and dime stuff. It has even been negative. During winter it’s quite expensive.
• most panel systems here use some amount directly but sell most of their production to the grid and then buy it back when there’s not enough own production. No batteries involved. Energy broker takes a cut and so does the grid company.

1. Salesmen that have come to my door to sell panel sets use annual average energy price and even that has been exaggerated. It totally ignores that you will be producing most when energy price is lowest. Their sales pitch calculations are designed to be hard to follow and then they rub the wonderous estimates in your face. You can’t base a reclamation on unrealized results.

2. People who say that they have saved a ton of money with panels are usually those who have had fixed value pricing and totally ignore the fact that they would have saved most of it during summer time having energy market based pricing, which they now need to have in order to sell their solar juice to the grid and later buy it back. They of course suffer during the winter, but ignore that because that “has nothing to do with panels” (because it’s dark and panels are covered in snow.

3. If I’d been connected to the grid, counter-intuitively the panels facing West would the most usefull, not the ones facing South, because they were active when I used the most. In our market the more you can use your own production the better and this high North sun is still somewhat usefull late in the evening.

4. If off-grid, lithum based batteries seem to be the only viable option. They are however a fire hazard. Up here if you store them outside, you need to insulate the space and keep it above freezing from December to March and that takes energy, when it’s most expensive. You can dismantle your battery setup and store them unconnected more safely indoors, but that is not for the layman.

This is becoming too long I’ll add more later

I’m using 220V/6kW heating element. When used with 60VDC directly from the panels, it’s about 0,45kW. No need for control system, since that is too weak to bring the water to boil. It’s function is just to decrease the consumption of heating oil. Oil burner is set to start at eavening just before enyone needs hot water and panel output goes down. Oil burner heats the water in the tank to 80ºC. It’s about 40-60ºC next morning when the sun rises, depending on the consumption.

I build an off-grid solar power set on my back yard and tracked it’s results for two years. It was only 500W in 3 directions (east, south and west)

It first charged the batteries and then used the rest to heat water if no direct use was present.

Learned a lot and noticed that many ideas and mental images about it were bullshit. Still usefull if applied to right applications.

Not gonna buy a bigger set and will use the existing ones to just heat water till they give up.

I thought the government would pay the dept. Just forgetting 3rd party debts is crazy. It would destroy all trust in debt market.

Just wait a bit.

Libre Office will break their computer and lose their emails.

Few buttons in a different place and they no longer instantly know how to use it == broken.

People stagnate and tech savvy people don’t realise how tech savvy they are.

Yeah. Isn’t that kinda illegal.

There is a reason why they call that shithole authoritarian.