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B33rChiller

Glad your lights are back on, Doc!

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Dr. Honked posted:

the junk, rather than the trunk

# ? Oct 11, 2022 00:51

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# ? May 14, 2024 23:29

Saoshyant

Welcome back to civilization, Doc!

^{awesome spring sig by RavenousScoot}

# ? Oct 11, 2022 01:39

Dr. Honked: eat it you slaaaaaaag

living off the grid is for chumps. gimme that grid. grid me up, daddio

^{thanks deep dish pete moss and Plant MONSTER}

# ? Oct 11, 2022 01:43

roomforthetuna: I don't need to know anything about virii! My CUSTOM PROGRAM keeps me protected! It's not like they'll try to come in through the Internet or something!

Dr. Honked posted:

living off the grid is for chumps. gimme that grid. grid me up, daddio

Usually the point of living off the grid is that you *do* have power, it just doesn't come from an external thing that breaks and can't repair it for 16 days.

But ideally I'd like to be on the grid *and* have a backup source of power etc. Annoyingly, solar panels don't even have an option to work that way unless you throw like an extra $5000 at the setup and then you've got batteries that will probably burn your house down or just stop working the instant you need them.

# ? Oct 11, 2022 01:51

B33rChiller

roomforthetuna posted:

Usually the point of living off the grid is that you *do* have power, it just doesn't come from an external thing that breaks and can't repair it for 16 days.

But ideally I'd like to be on the grid *and* have a backup source of power etc. Annoyingly, solar panels don't even have an option to work that way unless you throw like an extra $5000 at the setup and then you've got batteries that will probably burn your house down or just stop working the instant you need them.

best way I've heard is to have a battery shed, and go for the durable older tech nickel iron batteries. Many more, deeper cycles than lithium, just lower energy density, but that's not such a concern since it's stationary.

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Dr. Honked posted:

the junk, rather than the trunk

# ? Oct 11, 2022 02:25

Dr. Honked: eat it you slaaaaaaag

i just enjoy the rectilinear nature of the grid more than anything

^{thanks deep dish pete moss and Plant MONSTER}

# ? Oct 11, 2022 02:28

Shifty Nipples

Dr. Honked posted:

i just enjoy the rectilinear nature of the grid more than anything

grids be like that sometimes

Thanks Plant MONSTER. and deep dish peat moss and deep dish peat moss and deep dish peat moss

# ? Oct 11, 2022 02:33

roomforthetuna: I don't need to know anything about virii! My CUSTOM PROGRAM keeps me protected! It's not like they'll try to come in through the Internet or something!

B33rChiller posted:

best way I've heard is to have a battery shed, and go for the durable older tech nickel iron batteries. Many more, deeper cycles than lithium, just lower energy density, but that's not such a concern since it's stationary.

Just read up about those, it sounded quite good until I got to the "add distilled water every 3 months" part. Maintaining stuff sucks. :colbert:

# ? Oct 11, 2022 02:50

idiotsavant

roomforthetuna posted:

Just read up about those, it sounded quite good until I got to the "add distilled water every 3 months" part. Maintaining stuff sucks.

maintaining lead acid battery rooms definitely kinda sucks too cause you still have to worry about explosions and fires and stuff happening & need some basic safety controls built-in for that kind of stuff and battery maintenance is kind of annoying plus you have to worry about the acid part of lead-acid for all of it. you can get maintenance-free batteries but they cost more, don't necessarily last as long, and it's more difficult to check and verify that they're good.

# ? Oct 11, 2022 02:59

Escape From Noise

Mungo my Jerrys. It is a crisp Autumn morning.

# ? Oct 11, 2022 02:59

Ohtori Akio

I crave the day when energy storage is just a big ol tank of hydrogen

# ? Oct 11, 2022 03:19

sb hermit

All humans come with a tank of gas

:fart:

# ? Oct 11, 2022 04:22

sb hermit

it's these kinds of leaks, on a massive scale, that can likely contribute something to climate change

the only solution is to make :marc:

-free beans for global consumption

# ? Oct 11, 2022 04:24

sb hermit

chili without kidney beans is a travesty

# ? Oct 11, 2022 04:27

sb hermit

I have never had authentic cincinnati chili mac and it's on my bucket list

# ? Oct 11, 2022 04:28

more falafel please: forums poster

sb hermit posted:

I have never had authentic cincinnati chili mac and it's on my bucket list

it's good! don't think of it like chili, just think of it as a different ground meat and tomato stew. if you think of it as "chili" the spices taste weird. if you think of it as its own thing, inspired by Macedonian dishes, it's really good

thanks Saoshyant and nesamdoom for the sigs!

# ? Oct 11, 2022 06:01

sb hermit

sb hermit posted:

my mind wants to autocorrect that to "mastodonian dishes" and then it goes to a whole other space.

I wonder what a mastodon would taste like.

metallic

# ? Oct 11, 2022 06:45

sb hermit

Code Jockey posted:

metallic

# ? Oct 11, 2022 06:55

Escape From Noise

sb hermit posted:

my mind wants to autocorrect that to "mastodonian dishes" and then it goes to a whole other space.

I wonder what a mastodon would taste like.

You'd have to ask some Russians from 1901.

# ? Oct 11, 2022 07:10

sb hermit

Escape From Noise posted:

You'd have to ask some Russians from 1901.

True

I was thinking something more akin to a Jurassic Park solution where extinct mastodons are re-introduced to 2022 or something. Something a bit more fresh.

# ? Oct 11, 2022 07:18

Escape From Noise

sb hermit posted:

True

I was thinking something more akin to a Jurassic Park solution where extinct mastodons are re-introduced to 2022 or something. Something a bit more fresh.

Jurassic Park, but it's about commercial meat farming.

# ? Oct 11, 2022 07:25

Ohtori Akio

would you eat the mastod�ner

# ? Oct 11, 2022 07:30

Ohtori Akio

lol i have 666 post count

# ? Oct 11, 2022 07:31

Escape From Noise

I drank this last night. It was bad.

# ? Oct 11, 2022 07:40

Ohtori Akio

did you dry your hands off eventually

# ? Oct 11, 2022 07:42

Escape From Noise

No.

# ? Oct 11, 2022 07:44

Ohtori Akio

Terrifying.

# ? Oct 11, 2022 07:46

Andoman: Mae hen wlad fy nhadau yn annwyl i mi

Escape From Noise posted:

I drank this last night. It was bad.

I would try it out of morbid fascination� but with a healthy dose of fear and trepidation. I�m Assuming you were not expecting it to be good?

# ? Oct 11, 2022 08:08

Escape From Noise

Andoman posted:

I would try it out of morbid fascination… but with a healthy dose of fear and trepidation. I’m Assuming you were not expecting it to be good?

Oh. I absolutely expected bad. I took like a couple sips. I have a morbid fascination with these kinds of things. My friends and I had a tradition of getting a Jone's Soda Holiday pack and drinking from what we suspected would be the least bad going towards worse. I still taste the smoked salmon pate and the prosciutto ham and brussel sprouts ones in my nightmares.

# ? Oct 11, 2022 08:29

Escape From Noise

Ohtori Akio posted:

Terrifying.

Moistboyz represent

# ? Oct 11, 2022 08:29

Tebulot: im hip now bois

Hayfever is a piece of poo poo

# ? Oct 11, 2022 10:40

Stoner Sloth

Tebulot posted:

Hayfever is a piece of poo poo

not sure if it would help but there's a relatively new allergen immunotherapy approach that consists of taking pills once a day with a very, very tiny amount of allergens. was just recently reading about a study over several years by monash university that suggested it can prevent hayfever in some people long term

might be worth asking a doc about?

here's an abc article about it:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-10-03/hayfever-breakthrough-daily-treatment-monash/101496448

# ? Oct 11, 2022 12:15