I was reading the Hail Mary Project by Andy Weir. She finished it on her own, so I must assume it was my reading.

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That would make sense if it wasn’t mounted in an upright position. If it was just a transport, I imagine it would be hanging off the side.

I get the sentiment but… When sun isn’t shining the negative prices cause problem for baseline power producers who need to turn off their power plants to avoid the zero to negative power prices.

This causes the power prices to become volatile, since the investments for the power plants that run during the night need to be covered during the night only.

Eventually though the higher price volatility will encourage investments into either demand side adjustability or energy storage systems. This will play out in energy only markets.

The other alternative is to implement a capacity market, which will divide the cost of the baseline production across different production hours by paying producers more for guaranteed production capacity.

I tried doing this for my wife but she called the experience strange. I kind of enjoyed it though.

Is there any other reason for him to hate Mondays apart from Jon being away after a weekend?

Was the person shooting hurt?

I feel like I’m missing a lot of background here…

That’s fair, I honestly don’t know if that would have occurred to me.

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There are maybe 6 or so of the cherry trees, counting out the young ones 5 apple trees and 1 plum tree. The apple trees have gotten too big and I have been removing fairly big branches so most of the effort is processing the resulting cuttings. So far I have done it little by little, so it hasn’t been too taxing.

I will probably plant rowans and more smaller berry bushes. Maybe construct some wicking beds for smaller plants.

This year’s effort will be lightening up the canopy to ensure enough light in the lower layers.

Tools I have for this: chainsaw, clearing saw, pole saw, shredder. I also sometimes use a flip saw to process smaller branches as I find the chainsaw… Untrustworthy . I have spent a total of perhaps 300e on the tools, not counting the flip saw - patiently waiting for good used tools to become available and fixing broken ones has served me well. Latest addition is a Klippo lawn mower. Got it for free, spent 40e fixing it and it works now. A new one is over 900. Granted this values my own time at 0e, but… The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.

I bought one of their long style bbq lighters and was so angry when it didn’t have a refill port. The thing cost over 10 €, how does it not have a refill port?

Hmm, this must be fake, in Finland it is a truth universally acknowledged that a swedish man in possession of a computer must be in want of another man.

Oh boy that ending was brutal, they were toying with him.

You need to post this into the SCP-wiki my man.

Where is the first image from?

It looks a lot like Liberty leading the people, my favorite painting. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberty_Leading_the_People#/media/File:La_Liberté_guidant_le_peuple_-_Eugène_Delacroix_-_Musée_du_Louvre_Peintures_RF_129_-_après_restauration_2024.jpg

Somehow I assume this is not AI and if so… That’s one chill kitty.

I think the poster forgot to finish their sentence with ‘that they were’

That would amount to over half of fossil fuel expenditure.

Cherries, apples, plums in the northern edge of the temperate zone. Recently added buckthorn and blackcurrant although they are not really trees.

I bought an old property with ca 35 year old apple trees and 15 year old cherry / plum all of which had been left abandoned for about a decade. Their size is a problem. The apple trees are very tall and making contact with the building. I have a 7m long saw for trimming them amd I tend to take off one big branch per year and lots of small ones. Really big ones get the chainsaw, which is used to process the branches into firewood.

The cherries produce a lot of small bushlings. I manage them with a clearing saw.

We built a composting toilet which we use to process human waste. That one is emptied to an enclosed thermal compost for about 1-2 years more before being used. Last year we don’t add more stuff to ensure it’s safe to use. Kitchen and garden waste goes to an open compost. When we mow the “lawn” which is more like a field we let the clippings fall where they may to keep the nutrients in.

We process wood and sticks into mulch we use with paper to protect the bushes from weeds.

I apologize for my lack of gardening vocabulary.