This is the kind of headline which will be studied in the future when they’re trying to answer the question of how things got so bad

I listened to something on the Japanese news about this. They’re going to be releasing an 8k ev.

Last one didn’t.

I think it’s a fine starting point. It’s not like we’re telling you to do the surgery yourself.

I think the response is harsh. People have to start looking for answers somewhere and asking other people is perfectly reasonable. You can’t know if you don’t ask.

Well that’s always an option. They’ll decide on their end.

Bring them into a vet first to have this assessed.

A few things about cats, one, they’re incredibly good at hiding pain and injuries. Its a survival strategy, if you look weak in nature, you are a target. You need a vet to assess if they are healthy enough (which honestly, it’s not a super invasive procedure).

Two, cats are inscrutable in terms of their age. This is the second thing you need the vet for.

Third, while your waiting, keep them separate from you house cats or other outdoor cats. Feline leukemia, other shit, you typically don’t vaccine for those diseases in indoor cats.

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I’m generally looking for more industrial uses, or ones that can generate some revenue while not being crazy overhead. Farm related uses would best, and I have done a deep dive into fertilizer production which could be viable. And where I live, crushed aggregate is often used as a base for new greenhouse or shade house installs.

Basically, I already have a potential agrovoltaics solution that I can do with the shade, which infact requires significant shade, but where it’s cheap enough to build this kind of system, there ain’t a huge amount of grid infrastructure, so it would be better to use the power in place. I was thinking rock crushers/ aggregate production because it’s something that depending on if the project is grid connected or not and depending on what the power company is willing to pay, could create aggregate or sell the power directly.

I really don’t want to support crypto but unfortunately, as a plug and pay solution, it’s a pretty easy and direct one.

Other ideas we’ve tossed around are refrigeration and food preservation, but the problem with those is that they need the power when they need the power, and so it’s not exactly a way to sink excess supply.

It’s tough because the overhead demands of any additional power sink almost always require 24 hours operation. Basically, the cost of a system to do “something” with your extra power is almost always such that you should probably just be running it 24/7.

Still open to more ideas but it will need to be able to pay for itself for me to get people on board.

You expressed a “splitter” position on Abugazala prior to the election (it was about 2 months ago), similar to the Mike_from_PA positions (at the time).

So I brought you up as an example of a “hog”.

Yeah I’ve seen the plasma arc thing. I’m vaguely associated with some in the agrovoltaics research community and have considered reaching out. It’s not available to retail consumers yet

Yeah but I can’t turn electricity into clover

It’s wild to me how many “leftists” just eat the slop right up. Looking at those who tanked Abugazala, @silence7@slrpnk.net , Mike from PA types. And I say this as someone notoriously critical of Democrats. Just hogs as far as I’m concerned.

There is no meaningful way I can do something with hydrogen outside of as a feedstock into another process.

Things I’ve considered that would help me, running a gravel crusher, or if there was some scaled down hauber Bausch machine. I use a significant amount of gravel and I am always in need of fertilizer.

I truly want to find someone I can do at the home scale with electricity, which isn’t buttcoin, to take advantage of overproduction.

Well his face is pretty fucked so they’re on their way

No no no… Tell us what happened to the egg

Living their best life

Interesting name for it… 🤔