You’ve gotta let the broken end callus over before you can propagate succulents from leaves. Exposing the wounded tissue to soil before it finishes scabbing up makes it almost certain that you’ll lose the leaf to fungi.

So we didn’t have a primary because Biden was the presumptive nominee… who was later removed long after it was obvious he had no chance.

Sounds very Democratic.

Lets be generous and assume that the blades of your turbine are 1 square meter.

Looking at the map, we can see that the entire Seattle area has an average ground level wind energy density of maybe 50 watts per square meter.

Assuming that the windmill is twice as efficient as every other windmill and can extract 70% of that wind energy, we can estimate that your windmill will output roughly 35 watts of energy on average, enough to slow-charge a laptop, for a total of about 25 kWh per month.

The average American home uses more than 850 kWh per month, so it’d need at least 35 of these twice-as-good-as-normal windmills. A more realistic figure would be “more than 75”.

75 * $320 = $24k, more than twice the price of the average solar install in the Seattle area.

Look at Seattle and tell me which parts have enough wind power for your home windmill:

Why not skip the middleman and go straight solar, then?

Did you not look at the specs on that product? It only produces energy when winds are above 7mph and don’t actually hit the rated output unless the winds are almost 35mph.

Almost none of the country averages an amount of wind power per square meter equivalent to the rating on home turbines at 10 meters above ground level (yellow and red on this map):

Compare to this map of average insolation:

Is the “Not Perfect” party even going to hold a primary this time or does Harris get it by default like Biden last year?

I’m still hoping for another season.

Go on strike and block Republicans from entering congress.

So you agree that it’s wrong, but you think it should be encouraged anyway?

For one, it can get you thrown into a gulag by U.S. border patrol, or jailed in any of the states and countries that require one’s birth certificate to match a bathroom door sign.

For another, it’s all the evidence that bigots in positions of power need to assume someone is trans, and people who are thought to be trans face deadly levels of harassment for that alone.

For literally anyone whose appearance doesn’t match their birth certificate regardless of if they are cis or trans.

That’s so unsafe, how is that a middle position?

That’s an extreme take that I honestly can’t take seriously, communities are defined by either geographic boundaries or some property that their members hold in common.

You wouldn’t say that it’s exclusionary to recognize that a short person isn’t tall or that a New Yorker isn’t a Texan. That’s just nonsense.

The point on humor/irony or “evil” as you framed it is fun as well. In my simple understanding it’s akin to a statement of empowerment much the same as being a bad bitch. Love it. Be the Dr Evil you want to see in the world. Cpt Hammers be damned. (Not that a villain needs permission). I hope one day the status quo catches up to your virtue and you are all able to find new paths of decadent evil to engage in.

Honestly, I had to come back and respond on the last bit of this specifically, because your well-wishing really hits at the heart of my personal feelings on the matter:

As a person-of-villainous-character, the ultimate apotheosis I seek is to not be merely defeated, but vanquished utterly by the absolution of obsolecence.

As long as queer folks are othered, we will always be villainized and in so doing the queer villain identity will be perpetuated. Those who imagine themselves heroes for opposing the existence or dignity of LGBTQIA+ people cannot reject us in any meaningful sense, for queer people exist regardless and it is their opposition that makes us villains.

So, let us take pride in their scorn and wear their shame as a badge of honor until the day that there is no more scorn and shame to be found.

Feet have non-zero surface area so there’s still room for an electric potential between the near and far side of the foot. It’d be smaller so that isn’t an entirely terrible idea, but it is by no means foolproof.

There’s nothing ironic about queer outcasts sharing a bond of unity and common cause with non-queer outcasts without giving up their identity as queer folks.

The venn diagram of Metalheads and Queer Villains is neither a circle nor entirely separate. Indeed, some of my favorite queer villains are also metalheads, punks, and/or transgressive rockers.

There is intersectionality here, and your feeling of “separate but equal” about it is merely a product of a society that abhors the complexity and ambiguity that allows us space to thrive.

People can be more than one thing, we all contain multitudes.

People can also appreciate the uniqueness of a group of folks without themselves being of their number. I, for example, am not a metalhead because I have only tangential interest in the genre, but I have much respect for the way the Metal community makes an effort to reject Nazis and other fascists that try to weasel their in among their number.

Part of the problem is that we have two feet. When lightning strikes the ground nearby, it creates a difference in electric potential between the foot that’s closest to the impact point and the more distant one. If that potential is great enough, then an electric currect can jump through one’s shoe, go up into the body then down the other leg and back to ground.

Laying down only increases the surface area in contact with the ground, so the best thing to do is get inside.

Had to come back and share a comic that hit me pretty hard recently:

https://www.tumblr.com/welldrawnfish/746506639642951681/to-be-trans-is-to-change-for-the-better

Solidarity, my friend! I’m always happy to share with open minds such as yours!