Your garden example is exactly it. I call this American Solarpunk.

Regular solarpunk is the happy version. Everyone has panels, the cities are green, the fight is over and the good guys won. Nice to look at. Not where we live.

American Solarpunk is the fight … happening right now. The sun is free. Rain is free. Dirt is free. And every single thing between you and those free things has a toll booth on it. Permits. Inspections. Interconnection agreements. 25-year leases where some investment firm owns the power coming off your own roof. Utility fees you pay even when you make your own electricity. And now they’re pulling the ladder up for farmers too.

It’s not that they’re against solar. They’re against you having it without them. Same reason they’d come for the garden. A tomato plant doesn’t feed a family, but it teaches you that you don’t need them, and that’s the dangerous part.

So the “punk” in solarpunk should mean what it meant in cyberpunk: the people on the ground finding their own way around the system. Buying panels direct from China. Putting them on a pergola instead of the roof so it’s not a “solar install.” Building a battery bank in the garage without asking anyone. Learning to crimp your own wire. Is this the real movement? It’s not a pretty future. It’s a fight.

Ok, so here is my summary of this… Everything you own is really a promise about the future. Those promises only hold if two things stay steady: the climate and the economy. AI is pulling at the economy by replacing workers. The heat already in the atmosphere is pulling at the climate. So the ground every investment was built on is moving, and the old ways of finding an edge are already dead, most just haven’t noticed yet.

People are selfish, and Indy isn’t asking them to change. He’s saying the smart selfish move is to put a slice of your money into the stuff that keeps the ground still, like cooling cities, stabilizing the Arctic, and keeping land from burning. Think of it as fire insurance for everything else you own. The catch is everyone wants someone else to pay for it…and the people with the most money might just buy a bunker instead. His answer is that no bunker works in a world where everything is connected.

(repeat as I mistakenly posted from my testing account) Anyone catch where Indy mentioned something about … capital flowing into AI is justified by replacing labor, but that’s the cover story…The real search is for something deeper. Do you agree? And with replacing labor: This will cause so much pain and suffering… how do we justify doing that? Its like a deal with the devil?

Did not know what this tabloid is all about. Ick

So true.

I get it… I was just making a comment that he stiffs people on work and deals. Thanks for the clarification though.

Could not find them … but, I found this one by freeCodeCamp.org easy to follow https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfHHvmaMkcA

It was super late… ¯_(ツ)_/¯

Join the club of being owed money. Edward J. Friel Co.: a Philadelphia cabinetmaker never paid more than $83,000 for work completed in 1984 at Trump’s Atlantic City casino. The family business eventually closed. (wtvr) The Paint Spot (Miami): owed about $34,000 for the Doral renovation. A judge ruled for the shop and later ordered Trump’s company to pay about $300,000 in legal fees. Andrew Tesoro: the architect of the Westchester golf clubhouse, offered just $25,000 on a much larger bill. (alternet) Atlantic Plate Glass: lost $450,000 in its final settlement over work on the Taj Mahal. (enewspf) Michael Diehl: a piano dealer who was only partly paid for Taj Mahal pianos.

They are asking for permission now?

Its still there - anyone using claude and asking about the elections can see it.

This is such a profoundly important connection to make. This heating event will unravel many social structures … and sadly be the end of huge numbers of innocent people who never got a chance to live.

In prepping for the heat, I slammed my roof with an additional 18x 400watt panels … even putting them on the north side (n.america). And because this house is older… the AC could not keep up in the 100 F + / 37.7 C + extended heat wave. It didn’t keep up, but it still kept us relatively cool. And I still felt it… not to add to the sense of helplessness describe in this.

In this heat, I also installed solar and batteries on my parents home, 41 panels / concrete tile roof… I did the work myself but had an electrician do the wiring of the inverters/batteries/mid/subpanel. Doing the work on the hot roof made me feel like I was on mars missions… go up during curtain hours and for a limited time.

I share this because I wanted to learn how to do this… because we’re all going to have to learn how to survive this. It’s entirely unrealistic to think that someone would be able to afford or even physically do what I did, but I do think we will need to figure out how to overcome the exploitative markets and previous generations bad decisions to protect each other and humanity’s future.

Consider it a tech demo, not a pitch. I’m using it to try things out. . Next I’d like to explore not storing passwords or email addresses at all, and running small local discriminative models to flag spam. This work will help me with other efforts in my life. That’s the extent of it… well other than having convos with people and trying not to panic that teh world is so crazy.

What I like about the fediverse is that we can talk, and nobody has to adopt anyone else’s interface, view or agenda to do it.

I was just looking … it popped up and I used it. I didn’t take screenshots. Let me see if I can get it to pop again.

:)

TY TY!

Thank you!

Yeh, the bad decisions I’ve made… buying domains is def one of them.

Yeh, there seems to be an effort to dismantle both the EU, US, and any western agreements like five eyes. There have been other times when men gathered in a room and carved up the world… I wasn’t thinking it be in my lifetime when this is attempted again.

Anthropic did the same.