Lying to Senate… Isn’t that some sort of an offense?

Fuck. I guess you’re the one attending paintball with a Claymore.

I just wanted to say good luck, we’re all counting on you.

Sure, that’s what the lyrics say. I too know the lyrics. But it sure as shit isn’t what I say when I’m spitting and drooling in my car, trying my damnedest to feel as much like a badass during all of that as I do when SOAD featuring TheFartographer hits “I don’t think you trust…”

I’m lucky if I even say “fable” instead of accidentally repeating “table.” Or “able.” Or just giving up and selflessly letting Serj take it solo, so that he can have the spotlight for once in front of the audience that is my steering wheel and air vents.

Also, you usually crush and shred the materials in solar panels for recycling, so no one cares if replacing a panel means smashing it to quickly get it out between the tracks. Train tracks move far more than most people would expect, so the panels are already going to have a built-in buffer zone in which you can quickly and easily place a panel. As someone else said, something riding on the rails would likely be leveraged for installation.

Rails have a fairly consistent width when measured on a rough scale, as does the vehicle riding the rails have a fairly consistent center point. As long as the electrical leads are robust enough, and the contacts forgiving enough towards slop, the panels could be designed to just drop in. If curves are too difficult or expensive to accommodate, only install at the flats.

As with any program like this, as long as the overall energy output exceeds the cost of installation, then it’s totally a net positive, even at the lowest levels of efficiency. And if parts break, but you’re still netting positive, then little or no maintenance should be considered over the lifetime of each hardware deployment.

The key thing is ensuring that contracts with suppliers and workers are reasonable and benefit local communities. But that’s just about the biggest difficulty with any transaction these days, isn’t it?

One of the cool things about those types of technology is that you can stack them. Something like photovoltaics on top, thermoelectric under that to take advantage of the differential between the heat at the solar cell and something like the ground or the tracks themselves, and underneath all that would be the piezoelectric that you’re talking about.

Of course, everything that you add causes some energy loss between each of the systems, but if you’ve got the money for the hardware, then the sunlight is free, the heat from the solar panels is already a planned energy loss, and the noise/vibrations/movement from the trains are known and accepted losses already. Even though each energy transducer wouldn’t be used in its most efficient way, it would still be a net positive.

Hell, make everything easy to disassemble so that it’s super-repairable, even though that introduced even more inefficiencies: it’s still making use of all the free energy just sitting there and waiting for someone to use it.

My sisters and I used to mix potions and test them out. Usually water, shampoo, toothpaste, other house cleaners we could reach.

First, they’d have me taste it. If it tasted bad, then it was probably a magical cleaning potion.

Then, we’d test it in the bathroom. If it didn’t instantly clean up some random dirt or whatever, then it was probably a powerful stain remover!

Finally, we’d pour it on the carpet. It would often bleach the carpet and we’d call it a success. If it didn’t, then the potion was a dud.

In capitalism, that one person is most often a billionaire. And they don’t do it with one group project at a time; they do it with hundreds all at once. And they say, “I’m kinda famous for how many As that I get, you should probably put my name first on the assignment.”

In socialism, instead of giving out a bunch of worthless letter grades, everyone gets water, fruit, and a piece of candy at the end of each day! When the person with dragon sickness gets to the head of the line, they’re given their food and drink. When they get back in line and tell the teacher, “but I worked on multiple group projects,” the teacher tells them, “yeah, you did nothing a bunch of times. You should have only worked on one, and maybe then you would have been productive. Now fuck off, everyone gets one allotment daily. If I see you get back in line, I’m sending you to the principal for trying to defraud the distribution system.”

And then when that person complains to their classmates, the classmates tell them to shut up and kick them in their shins. Eventually, that selfish little bastard learns that if they’re gonna continue pursuing thievery, then they’re going to have to steal the goods that people purchase by trading their extra pieces of candy, or directly steal the pieces of candy. But stealing is illegal, and they get arrested instead of praised as a genius for trying to game the system.

Ancient texts show that robot hoovers did not have a means of intervention

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DEMOCRACY CON CARNE!

Found myself

What happens if you bite a werewolf?

Sorry, I meant an extra $70. I was irresponsibly drowsy-posting.

Any vacant property should be considered a liability and the landlord should be charged with negligence and endangering the community. If a landlord can’t get enough tenants to occupy their property, and report on ongoing conditions, then they should be required to hire full-time (40 hrs/week) human community members to monitor and occupy a reasonable number of units, while providing daily reports on ongoing conditions.

Waived rent and utility costs would be an acceptable form of payment.

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You just reminded me of a time when $70 felt like nearly unlimited opportunities. Now, $70 means that I might get to buy groceries AND restock on spices.

_Okay ^55%