By virtue of you actually knowing what a firewall is, and participating in the conversation, on this platform, you are ahead of 99 out of 100 people.

Lemmy keeps telling me nuclear power is stupid. I’ve been screaming for more going on 30-years now. 🤷

LOL, it’s a reverse population map. Works on the stupid because “lots of orange!”

Complex limb? Let me see an elephant tie a granny knot. Maybe with training? OK. Do a square knot.

Complex communication? Elephants have communication skills on par with a 3-4 year old human. An intensely trained dog might top 200 words. My vocabulary is an easy 50,000 words. Yours is too.

Binocular vision is a must, that’s a given. Damn near every animal on the planet has it, even some worms.

Nothing in nature comes close to the dexterity of human hands.

Don’t care how smart you are, you ain’t shit without metallurgy followed by electricity. No metallurgy, no electricity, no tech.

Ever read a science fiction novel where the aliens evolved underwater? The author has to twist the story in knots to try and explain how they gained anything advanced without fire.

What is the charge?!

That is an excellent write up! Well done OP!

Nothing stated by OP was non-factual. Including the last bit. In other news, Trump just won the Presidency, again. Based on:

simple, racist, and hateful explanations to very complex problems

Yet liberals ignored their concerns… Did I mention Trump was elected again?

I’m sorry, is this all making you uncomfortable?

Just looked in our kitchen thing. All steel and wood.

Y’all missing the whole point here.

If an area requires covering, it might as well produce some power. And cells on the ground aren’t as bad as they’re made out.

I have one laying flat in the yard powering a 12V water pump. Been there for 6-months, covered in pollen and dust, weeds growing over one side, grass cuttings on top, never cleaned, works fine. I have another on my shed roof at our camp. Same deal with the pollen and dust, works fine. But guess which one is easier to clean?

Cells don’t have to be pristine to produce power. And if you do want to clean them? The installation pictured looks easy to work with a garden hose and squeegee, couldn’t take 30 minutes. Use concrete instead? OK, now you have to power wash it. What a pain.

They’ve started off as such a clusterfuck I feel Project 2025 may well fall into an unrealized manifesto.

Despite being far better prepared, his minions still have to fight their way through his know-it-all, do-as-I-say attitude.

OP didn’t say he littered. But of course we always assume the worst around here.

Yeah! Fuck you OP!

Keep up the good fight! I’ve got several miles of trail cleaned behind my hood, one more major path to go!

Maybe you do this, if not, take a plastic retail bag, fold it over twice, while pressing the air out, roll it up tight and rubber band it. I always have 2-4 highly compact bags.

Sir! I do not bite my thumb at Aldi, sir!

(I honestly love the place. Saves me piles of money. Every time we go my wife and I are like, “We got a packed cart for $130?!” (Including shrimp, beef and chicken!)

good characters who happen to be (whatever)

There it is!

The one character that felt shoehorned in to me was Idris Elba as Roland in The Gunslinger. Why?! Handsome, buff, young and black are not adjectives anyone has ever used to describe Roland Deschain. LOL, King might as well come out and say he ripped the description off a 40-something Clint Eastwood.

You’re both right, but it’s far too late to take the word back, no point in going on about the origins.

Something funny I noticed at my last two jobs. The people who had their financial act together always brought their lunch. The broke people, like me, almost always ate out. Go figure.

Funny how the people actually making tips never show up in these threads to decry their miserable situation. Why do you think that is?