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  @JanetGrBr@mastodon.social @leeloo@c.im @Cdespinosa@mastodon.social In my little patch of western democracy we’ve had success in replacing our representatives (that forms government sometimes) with someone who will only do so with climate action and the associated necessary minimums of honesty and anti-corruption. It doesn’t HAVE to be “people versus the government” and indeed it gets hard when it is. The logical extreme of that is revolution, and democracy is far better to defend, apply and u...

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  @atpfm@mastodon.social With my solar-battery-support-group hat on: #solar #battery In one sense, it is right to say “solar with PowerWall … is incredibly expensive, INCREDIBLY EXPENSIVE” as @caseyliss@mastodon.social points out It is indeed “car money” (in my terms), whether second-hand car money (or what we used to think of as that) or new car money … sure Two things there: The ROI on this stuff is incredible now, when done right, give or take, etc: Because it can cut your power bill by 15...

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  @atpfm@mastodon.social Perhaps to fold into the “metric bit” — let’s do a PSA on everybody’s casual mistake on “hurts” like @caseyliss@mastodon.social Or like this weatherman reading a script about digital transmission: https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxGGYK8VNn4BUDg7bZYZ9KnNF53y1e1yMm This is Dr Heinrich Hertz — don’t worry, he’s 100 years older than you and he only discovered radio waves, but you don’t have to remember his first name, let alone try to say it You don’t even need to say his last...