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See, that’s what the app is perfect for.

Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna
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ankle-beez

surprisingly forward-thinking of jim henson and co. to make a female character in the 70's that's allowed to be loud-mouthed and violent and kind of overwhelmingly romantic and even a huge bitch at times and not have a moment where any character asks her to change

ankle-beez

going through all the muppet movies in a row made me realize that like. miss piggy was made in the 70's. and it's so rare even today to have a character like her. she's loud, she's selfish, she's funny, she's extremely vain, she's obsessed with romance, she's violent, she's kind of annoying, and there's not a single moment in any of these films where she's asked to tone down any of these personality traits. i am not joking when i say that miss piggy might be one of the best treated female characters ever written

ravewulf
sidras-tak

Tattoo artist and I were debating over where to place my thigh tattoo. I, pants pulled down and half a buttcheek out in a large airy room in front of the windows said nervously “haha, I know I have a lot of thigh to work with” and they go “OMG yes I feel so bad for skinny clients because their art gets all crowded. You could get some nice big pieces on your arms and legs though”. Hell yeah my friend. Yet another W for the fat crowd tonight.

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last-fast-naturalist

And, irrigation canals.

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Saves 82% of water evaporation. 💧

andyteacupcultist

Actually, do cover the fields as well (in some areas at least).

American farmers slid solar panels over 62,000 acres of farmland, and the biggest payoff had almost nothing to do with electricity
Long rows of solar panels march across the desert, and underneath them, where the ground should be baked and bare, there are rows of green.
Energies Media
beatrice-otter

The problem with putting solar panels over fields is that most farm machinery is big and so you can't get it through the panels unless the rows of panels are too far apart to get most of the benefit from the shade. So most of the cultivation has to be done by hand ... and the panels are usually low enough to make it a lot harder on the workers because you spend more time stooping over and at odd angles. So yeah, you do get greater yields per acre with this method!

... you also are spending a lot more on labor costs and your workers are getting hurt more to do it.

So in most cases, OP is right. Don't cover fields. Cover parking lots and canals.

jackironsides

Depends on what kind of fields you're putting them in. Grazing fields don't require farm machinery running through them, and the solar panels allow places for sheep and cattle to rest in the shade. This makes a huge difference to the comfort of the animals here in Australia; there are farms that have already incorporated solar panels for that reason.

Merino sheep grazing under solar panels produce better wool, trial shows
Two farmers running merinos on solar farms in NSW's Central West say their sheep thrive under solar panels, while wool quality has increased
abc.net.au

The linked article in the earlier reblog is talking about crops like zucchini and eggplant, which afaik are generally harvested by hand. I don't know if such crops are usually planted by machine the way that wheat is, but considering there's an apparent increase in yield while also reducing the water use, the inconvenience would likely be worth it for at least some farms even if it changes the sowing technique. (Or alternately, you only cover part of the field, allowing for space between the rows of panels for machinery to be driven. Now that some tractors can be driven by GPS with minimal control by the farmer, that also reduces the chance of collisions and damage to the panels.)

Additionally, if there was wide uptake, I would expect that solar panels could be placed on higher supports, reducing the amount of stooping required. That's a potentially solvable problem. And with some parts of the world – including Australia – becoming drier as the climate changes, the fact that crops can be grown under solar panels with less water is no small matter. It could mean that more of the dwindling supply of irrigation water could be saved for crops like wheat, which are currently impractical to grow under solar panels.

But even if it isn't practicable for large-scale farming operations to put solar panels over crops, there's still millions of hectares of grazing land that could have solar panels put over it perfectly happily. We don't have to limit ourselves to car parks and canals.

rikmach

I think the lesson is “ put solar panels where they would maximize benefit, and don’t assume you know where that is until you research it.”

athenadark

my suggestion - they should be mandatory on the roofs of new warehouse buildings and distribution centres

these are big metal boxes that cost a fortune to heat and cool so taking all of that wasted real estate and using it to help power the grid - it saves THEM money [only excess electricity goes to the grid but it might take off a huge chunk of their bill] saves US money [less draw on the grid] AND it can help manage the heat in their big metal boxes!

I appreciate that existing giant warehouse/distribution centres might find adding them incredibly expensive because of the added problems of building where all the wires etc are covered and dealt with instead of - as you go - but there should be grants FOR this, like here's 20k cover your roof in solar panels, sure it'll probably cost more than this but it's a foot in the door

but making them mandatory on new build giant metal boxes is an easy win for any local authority, like the sun is already baking the roof - might as well benefit from it

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the-bedheaded-league

AO3 is actually the perfect example of how not having censorship of any kind actually makes it *much easier* to avoid triggering or disturbing content that you don't want to see.

I almost never stumble into a fic with content that I'm not at all comfortable with, because the lack of censorship means that everybody tags their shit appropriately. It's super easy to read the ingredients on the tin of each fic and decide if it's for me or not. Meanwhile, on other social media websites where posts are getting incorrectly flagged for being NSFW and people are doing shit like censoring the words "death" or "kill," I end up seeing inappropriate or disturbing content all the fucking time, because it's *never* labelled, because people are afraid to label their shit with tags that might get it removed, so there's no way to filter any of it out!

If you are actually someone who really doesn't ever want to see NSFW content then that is completely possible on ao3 because M rated content is allowed on there, so it's all clearly labelled as such. if you have any "disturbing" topics or potential triggers you never ever want to see, it's easy to filter them out because ao3 allows things to be labelled with stuff like "pedophilia" or "dub-con" so everything is CLEARLY LABELLED! Of course there are going to be people who don't tag everything correctly but I've been on there for over a decade and I've hardly ever seen it happen. People take tagging etiquette very seriously, because it benefits everyone.

Remember how in Prohibition they banned all alcohol of any kind and so alcohol still existed in America but the production went underground and since none of the distilleries were being regulated, a lot of people ended up getting sick because there was all sorts of who knows what kind of toxic shit in their drinks? And then when America re-legalized alcohol, they were able to once again regulate the production of it and literally all alcoholic drinks became safer as a result? And instead of being sold moonshine in an unlabeled mason jar, now all alcoholic drinks have to have very specific information listed on them like alcohol content, ingredients, and allergen risks, so that people know exactly what they're putting in their bodies? Yeah this is a bit like that.

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