Such a great project!

Sounds like ‘installed’ might be overselling it a little unfortunately - given that jerks carried them off. There are a few types of epoxy that could help. Pretty sure even JB Weld will stick wood to concrete. And they make some amazing specialist adhesives. It won’t stop the city but might delay the NIMBYs for a day or two. (Especially if they’re as old as I am and they throw their back out trying to pick it up the first time).

Boss makes a dollar…

I think things are going to get a good deal worse in the next few years, but also that the old systems crumbling could make space for something better. But if we want better things to grow, people will need hope and roadmaps. They need to know that things could be done differently and those solutions have to feel reasonable. And I think that’s where solarpunk media comes in.

I think fiction has an incredible ability to make these potential realities feel familiar and comfortable and attainable, to wear off all the rough edges and propaganda. Solarpunk settings can help people tour their options, and see what library economies, public transit-heavy cities, and robust systems of support and mutual aid look and feel like, how they might work (and problems that might arise and how they could be solved). So when someone starts trying to scare them about the dangers of socialism or anarchy they already know better because, in a way, they’ve been there.

When I work on solarpunk art, write solarpunk fiction, my research is mostly around rebuilding. What practices, technologies, infrastructures make sense for a society that’s trying to rebuild better. My hope is that we can speak to this generation and the ones that follow it, provide big dreams and suggestions on techniques, and hope they’ll recognize opportunities to improve things when they see them.

I think there’s still plenty of spots for nuanced discussions on the net (including this instance), but you probably won’t have much luck finding them in communities dedicated to posting memes.

I don’t think it’s unreasonable to expect absurd qualifications for an absurd salary, let alone a broad understanding of the basics of his industry.

Thanks! How’s this look? I added one to the barn and one to the house, pointed in different directions.

Thanks! I’d appreciate it! And I’ll read up on them anyways because I find military history and the way kit gets adapted and upgraded very interesting

Thank you so much! I can definitely add the cantenna dish - should it be pointed in any particular direction?

It is! On a previous project I read up a bunch on agricultural UAVs and how some farms even send out multiple passes with different types of drones before going out in person to inspect an issue, and I fell in love with the idea of a farmer adding a sort of drone hangar to their barn. It’s probably not a realistic amount of UAVs but I love the visual of drones just pouring out like bats.

Thanks! I really love working in this style, it’s a sort of photobash/collage and it’s an absolute blast. I really enjoy doing rural cyberpunk scenes - I actually did a very short webcomic in the same style and similar setting. The single panel ones might hit the same vibe for you.

Thanks so much! That sounds great (and pretty cyberpunk) so I’d love to add them but ‘ASIP military antenna 1960s’ isn’t finding me much at first glance - could you link an image so I can reference it while looking for examples?

That’s good to know! I can definitely add some electrical clutter!

The Behind the Bastards episodes on him were really good. As someone who once read his comic daily I also took some reassurance from the fact that he had an open suggestion line and was essentially publishing croudsourced jokes submitted by a large portion of the tech sector for a long part of Dilbert’s run.

Same, similar context to ‘bleeding hearts’ (edit: just reread the post and saw this was already mentioned)

The one near me took a couple years to really fade. It’s mostly covered by Ivy that grew over it, but anyone could cut it down. Considering the somewhat progressive message I’m surprised nobody did so the day it went up.

They’re doing their level best.

I don’t even know. I guess folks from the suburbs would call the cops and get an animal control officer to come out if they saw a bear in their yard? But my town was way too small to have animal control - theres like 2 cops and the emergency system switches over to the state troopers at night.

And again, bears live in the woods, of you build your house in their woods they’re gonna walk on your deck occasionally.

We get this in my hometown - people see the place, decide they want to live in the forest. They clearcut a chunk of it and build their house. Then when a bear wanders into their new yard (following the same territory it always has) they call the cops.

Between the massive corporate wealth at stake and the millions of people literally addicted to the product, it’s hard now to imagine governments being able to ban them (and I lived through it).

Beets?