Soldering alone wouldn’t work. The house is a monolithic dome, so it has over 20 inches of concrete for the outer most dome layer. I’d have to drill with masonry bolts and risk cracking the concrete of the house for it.

To add about the dressing house up or down,

During the last winter even when it was snowing and in the single-digits outside, we didn’t have to turn on the heating for the house using the boiler. By dressing the house up, and ourselves dressing up a bit, the house was plenty warm and comfortable.

For me I admit not as much as I’d like.

I was unable to get solar panels for my house, due to the city’s rulings. My house being a dome lacks a traditional roof for solar panels, and the city has a lot of strict rulings against solar panels not on roofs, mostly because the city council hates solar energy. Of course, I have small solar panels with power stations in the yard.

The house also is specifically one that is efficient for such purposes, and we practice dressing it up during the year. Currently we have blackout curtains over the windows that get hotter during the day-time barring the south-facing in my office, where I simply close that door. We also have curtains over hallways. While we have to use a rolling air conditioner due to the house’s setup, we focus on only cooling the room that we are in or sleep in during the day-time, and during the night even if it is still 70s to 80s outside, we do what we can do to cool the rest of the house.

I have my own garden I grow vegetables and herbs in, as well as having an indoor garden in a south-facing window with a trellis shelf I built. I am able to grow plants year round. I pickle, dehydrate, and similar methods for everything I grow for the purposes of usage throughout the year, including using the brine from pickling for recipes. Also we make stuff during the night-time and put it to cool, making it able to be eaten several meals instead of every meal-time turning on a stove and cooking.

My spouse and I both have knowledge on repair, both around the house but also clothing, adding our own bits of charm when needed. I also have experience with repairing my bicycle as well as repairing my car, having been a mechanic in the past.

One of the hardest parts of these articles is that I love hearing about them, hearing how much people are making progress and change, until I see the locations. I love seeing that a metropolitan area has this, and it warms my heart to see people able to make progress.

My bike is not a cargo bike, just a normal city bike with bags on it, which is satisfactory for the 3 miles of highway I have to bike to the nearest store, and then 3 miles back, ever since the one that was closer had closed down. I do this at night, or first in the morning, as where I live during the daytime it reaches over 100 degrees Fahrenheit, over 39 degrees Celsius.

Seeing this non-stop on Reddit, now seeing it migrated here lol.

It is stalking me like my intrusive thoughts to become a hermit in the woods.

What disgusts me is that this is both.

A good long-term solution!

A good short-term solution would be cutting out the rich who are creating AI data centers and destroying the environment too!

My big red flag was when I had a client bawling because they remembered the day was the anniversary of their child’s death.

And said “okay” before walking on to complete my rounds.

I may now have more reason to look at Ubuntu Touch again.

That you can ignore it and it’ll go away.

Ahh then, I see your thoughts. Well it depends on what your area needs. I personally would not mind seeing them converted into akin to flea markets or such as an easy one.

Hmm, I guess I was thinking that when I was younger and we had flea markets during the weekends in large parking lots that you could shut down a parking lot for a weekend with the shade of the solar panels.

I would rather see them repurposed than simply dedicate the amount of energy to destruction, personally.

But that is just how my brain works. I admit I am not the best Solarpunk.

I won’t lie, my thought is, can’t we just have both?

There has been research into the benefits of solar panels over farmland, and also are benefits of solar panels over parking lots.

Call me an insane idealist, I would love the idea of implementing over both.

Honestly, someone once told me “f★★★ 'em. They’re a bunch of p★★★ scared of you living but too chickens★★★ to kill you themselves.” And that made me really stop and think for a time. My spite for a time became my motivation.

and I’m convinced. I was just jumping on to look for a BIFL pencil.

This is sadly my answer somedays too. I do what I can, but accept that there is much I can’t because of the Corporations and Government. If it means I use my horno to cook once a week, or even twice a week? Then so be it.

Sadly not wrong. A normal person has to suffer.

I always find myself sitting here wanting to just say “So what” to these people when they say “We’re suing you!” over such ridiculous things.

A lawsuit isn’t a magical banishment incantation. It is not a written contract with an eldritch entity to unmake a place. A lawsuit is nothing.

Welp, may Bluesky and Kirky Boy both Rest in Piss.