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…i’ve heard it called confederate heroes day, i think: no, wait, that’s what they did for MLK day…

…look at all those pockets for storing remote controllers, phones, and snacks!..

…awww, man, i thought that was a pop swatch from the thumbnail!..

…i mean that i’ve never seen kerrygold sold in sticks; maybe it’s a regional thing?..

…our kerrygold comes in slabs, not sticks…

…looks more like i’m you, gonna right, stop there…

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…i’ve only done urban installations, but recently i’ve been giving a lot of thought to the localised effect of high-albedo reflective roofs (and other materials) and transpirative tree canopies (and other vegetation) being replaced by low-albedo solar photovoltaic arrays: it measurably increases heat load on the local environment, reduces radiative cooling at night, and drives up overall cooling demand, which presents a deep rabbit-hole of cost-benefit analyses in the tradeoff between reduced grid use during the day versus increased grid use at night, the potential net reduction in carbon emissions therefrom, the added carbon emissions from manufacturing and maintaining solar photovoltaic infrastructure, and the loss of ecosystem carbon capture and biodiversity services from decreased solar exposure and increased heat island effect…

…it’s a poorly-understood subject of ongoing academic study in both urban and natural environments, with the largest arrays i’ve read subjected to that sort of rigorous analysis measuring on the order of 1/300,000 the scale of this proposed project…still, apples-to-apples, that larger study was performed in desert scrubland and measured about 4°C increased local temperatures, which is significant but not a good proxy for the weather effects one would see generated by a 750 square-mile convection cell over truly barren desert…

…back to your original question, most solar photovoltaic panels loose somewhere on the order of ¼ to ½ percent efficiency per °C incease in panel temperature, but like most things in the real world it’s actually much more complicated than a simple multiplier…the short version is that investors wouldn’t be building desert arrays if they didn’t present a short-term economic gain, and they certainly do provide plenty of power despite the increased heat, but the long-term environmental impact of radically altering surface albedo at such a large scale isn’t well-understood relative to the implied let alone actual changes in carbon-intensive energy generation…

…ye gads, just imagine the heat island generated by 750 square miles of black glass: that’s a weather-creating convective air mass…

…i cast speak with animals and asked the horses their names: turns out they were darryl and his brother darrell…

Frog Fractions
Universal Paperclips
Freedom Force
Pilotwings 64

…NeXTstep was built on mach and, although i’m unsure if any antecedents remain in macOS, it was certainly production-ready in its day; i remember a couple of decades ago there were stopgap versions of the HURD built on top of mach instead of their own microkernel but i thought that was only ever intended as a temporary workaround…

…i presume on that basis that sustained developer interest was its greatest hurdle, no pun intended…

edit: …is this the post-mortem you mentioned?..

…the original compact ford ranger was a great little truck!..the midsized replacement forsook its charm, though…

…i’m not even sure who makes compact trucks in australia anymore, but they’re not sold stateside…

…no, that’s just the common american pickup: monster trucks are much larger…

…polar bears are white grizzlies…

…that mercedes wagon is legitimate…

…problem is that manufacturers are discontinuing cars to focus upon SUVs + trucks…

…registration fees should be proportional to GVWR and speed limits (and fines) should be based upon kinetic energy…

…minivans are fantastic purposeful vehicles and probably what one-quarter of SUVs should be driving; the other three-quarters should be driving cars if they hadn’t been swept up in the road-tank arms race…