sheep are the easiest to graze under common panels

These are the studies I have read, but cattle are what exist right outside of town. We have a lot of sheep, too, but not where the panels would go. I would like to find a study about cattle, if you have one to share, that would be great!

Form a local power coop with your neighbors or village, and you might be able to make sure that grocer never loses power again

That is essentially what our power coop has proposed. I think they are talking about solar only, but it hasn’t been popular with the ranchers 🙁️ It was just this year, so I think it will gain traction over time. This climate is complicated with regard to the shade from panels but the studies about solar panels in ranch land are good and I think it will happen, we just need more town folks to show up to the meetings. The grocer incident will be, I think, a game changer. The ranchers depend on that store also.

I am US based, so maybe not relevant, but is it a good replacement for Merlin?

Does this have maps of it’s own?

I use this, it’s pretty great! Not really a replacement for the stock app, but I use a non-stock OS so it doesn’t matter to me. It is more like messaging before GIFs and whatnot, but not hard to figure those things out if you want them.

Ya, it works! But it is very much like a phone interface on the computer. Maybe not perfect but it exists.

Instead of the enhance meme, change it to destabilize.

This is so cool. Hercules were always my favorite insect even though I now live in a place they do not. If this is true to form, it looks like a cross between the annual forms in and the periodical forms I have experienced in different places in the eastern US, or between the periodical eastern and annual western US. None were gold, though 🙂️

As a stop gap to what @wjs018@piefed.wjs018.xyz mentioned, are you able to use the :hide read posts" option? I haven’t used that, I am not sure how it works, but I think at least then you wouldn’t see it. I guess you wouldn’t see other posts to follow up on then.

Is there a good chance new ownership will be better? I cannot imagine them being worse off than being with Nestle, but the one unionized place I worked for that changed hands (a long time ago) certainly went through some challenges with the new owners. I hope it works out great for them!

In the last few years, one of these has gone up adjacent to a new solar installation somewhat close to my area. I wish I heard more about them (especially this one I have seen) but I mostly hear about hydropower since that is the primary source we have. I live really far away from any power source and our local power coop has discussed possibly putting one closer to town but nothing has come of it. I think it could be great but am not sure how these things work in a supplementary capacity. Last year our grocer lost many products due to a fire two hours away causing a lengthy power interruption. I think these things could be great for local power but my view is from a rural western US standpoint and probably won’t apply to many places.

Wow, that sounds about right 🤷‍♂️ thanks for sharing!

But we still get polluted together like a fucking survey

They’re still around! But they don’t grow like they used to. You can find fruiting ones, and they aren’t expected to go extinct (supposedly) because of their growth habits.

They are good people! But they also hid Eric Rudolph so they are complicated people. Lots of neat things there. Thanks for your service!

I don’t think these politicians are thinking about this, but some of these safety features really are masking the lack of driving skill in the US.

I wonder if chestnuts would factor into this if they hadn’t suffered from a blight. They are pretty tasty also, but have a different type of shell.

I can’t help with an ID but my mom used to live in Murphy and I appreciate this little memory of those times ❤️ Lots of chicken of the woods!

This was the main reason my mom’s side didn’t pass language down. Not even food! Just assimilate 🤷‍♂️ But they were peasants in a new country so best to make it work in the easiest way possible. It sounds like OP has it pretty rough 🙁

Wow, I’ve only ever seen head shots of Orwell. I had no idea he was that tall. I don’t remember him mentioning it in any writings but maybe I wasn’t paying enough attention! Literally a head above the rest.