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Brutal NIMBY Regulations Are Crushing the Kind of Solar Farms Researchers Say Are a Godsend for Local Ecology: "We're seeing a complete slowdown." (futurism.com)
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[–] 30 points 1 week ago (2 children)

In the old times those people would oppose building wind mills.

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    • [–] [S] 93 points 1 week ago (22 children)

    So Alberta can look at a solar farm that generates clean power, supports pollinators, and keeps land productive, then decide the real threat is that someone might have to see it? This isn’t environmental protection. It’s bureaucratic sabotage dressed up as concern for the countryside.

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  • [+] -7 points 1 week ago (15 children)

    This isn’t environmental protection. It’s bureaucratic sabotage dressed up as concern for the countryside.

    It's not X, it's Y.

    Is there a way to block a users comments without blocking their posts? This bot is responsible for like 60% of the traffic of this sub.

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  • [–] 18 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (5 children)

    It’s not X, it’s Y.

    Tons of people on the internet write in this style. I did, frequently, well before ChatGPT.

    That’s where LLMs got the habit from, then inbred it into each other. Dare I say it may have bled back into human writing too.

    Personally, I’d want to block “is this or is this not AI” threads on Lemmy. I’m sick of people thinking they’re human LLM/diffusion detectors when that is (outside of obvious cases, or logit watermarks) physically impossible.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 week ago* (4 children)

    I'm not screaming about an em-dash. Look at the first comment they make on their posts and come back and tell me what you think.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    come back and tell me what you think.

    I also dislike this sort of condescending tone on forums. I’m guilty of it too, but it never makes me want to engage.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 week ago

    I'm not being condescending at all and your comment makes perfect sense in isolation. It's stupid to call out a single construction (or punctuation mark) as you're interpreting me as having done. I'm just assuming you're smart enough to see a pattern when you see it repeated often enough; so sorry, I guess?

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  • [–] 1 point 1 week ago (1 child)

    I wasn't involved here, got curious, did look and.... Yeah it's odd. An awful lot of commonality.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 week ago

    So is there in my history.

    Same with some replies in my inbox. I see a lot of semicolons, "not X but Y" formats, OpenAI purple prose, stuff I might suspect as slop in specific contexts, but I'm not pointing fingers over it unless it seems like they are actually trying to spam something. There's no way I can tell if an LLM was used with reasonable certainty.

    Perhaps I'm unreasonably agitated by this. But I don't like the idea of a "purity test" for writing style; the Tech Bros that are forcing that paranoia on us don't deserve one ounce of our attention.

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  • [–] [S] 9 points 1 week ago (8 children)

    It would be even better if there were fewer insolent block wardens and more active participants.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 week ago (7 children)

    The posts you make are pretty good conversation starters; why don't you see if you can get by without leaving a seed comment if you can't write one yourself?

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  • [–] [S] 0 points 1 week ago (6 children)

    It’s a shame my comments are too much for you. Perhaps you’ll learn something over time?

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  • [–] -1 points 1 week ago (5 children)

    Learn what? I can already identify comments written by LLMs.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 week ago

    something tells me you are the exact type of idiot that believes that a proper educated person sounds like a bot and therefore is a bot.

    comment edited and put in lower caps only so you don't accuse me of being a bot too.

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  • [–] [S] 5 points 1 week ago (3 children)

    The very fact that you believe that shows just how much you still have to learn. It’s no coincidence that even top universities have stopped their witch hunts. Or perhaps you should just work on the way you express yourself?

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  • [–] 7 points 1 week ago

    Dear Eicker,

    Please, continue to piss off witch hunters while drumming up real thought provoking conversations. Keep doing whatever you are doing.

    Sincerely, Everyone who still believes in Intelligent Communication and Critical Thinking.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 week ago

    Anyone can read the seed comments on your posts and come to the same conclusion. This isn't picking a sequence of unlikely noun-adjective pairs, it's a consistent pattern across all your first comments. You're obviously (?) a person and can think and write for yourself, so why are you having LLM do the work for you?

    Someone mentioned you have a side hustle selling social media AI, so you might want to disclose any bias you have about forbidding people from calling you out for using Gen AI.

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    • [–] 22 points 1 week ago (6 children)

    Let's just say we have house roofs or car roofs. Those are free real estate for solar. However, here, if you want to set solar up as a private person to make revenue you get fucked over by electricy company giving you only lump prices for the energy AND politics give you the whole beraucracy nightmare because you could make 1.72€ revenue that are not taxed!!!11

    I feel like it's simply not wanted to let small people participate in any way.

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  • [–] 17 points 1 week ago* (2 children)

    Car roofs don't work well. The Ioniq 5 had them as an option. It could only charge a few miles daily, and doing the math it would never pay for itself over the lifetime of the car.

    Roof panels on cars also tend to get damaged from rocks and pebbles just like windscreens, and when a solar panel gets a bad section it affects the whole panel.

    Parking lot canopies is a better placement than on the cars. Not only do they produce electricity they, also keep the cars shaded so less energy is used on air conditioning.

    Anyway for small scale personal use, I think the balcony panels are the best option in the places where it's legal and possible.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 week ago

    That's really going to depend on the sun angle.

    In Northern Europe, no it probably won't work well.

    In Australia - it'd be a godsend - even if it wasn't adding range it could be used to keep the car cool even when off. Getting into a 50-60c car isn't fun (and is pretty common during the summer here)

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  • [–] 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    I doubt anywhere in the world has an electrical utility designed to support paying for users to produce solar. Folks seem to think it should be 1 to 1 on what you produce should equal whatever you would have paid, ignoring all the other maintenance, redundancy and load balancing the utility has to provide.

    Between solar and something like localized battery storage to handle usage surges we could probably handle it better now, but I don’t think anyone is building that kind of system.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    They think that because of how the bills are charged. Every electric utility fee on my bill is per usage. If they had a base 'admin / maintenance' cost based development size / type and then usage fee on top I think people would not think it so much.

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    • [–] 12 points 1 week ago

    Alberta's run by oil companies. Pretty sure Danielle Smith, before becoming premier, was basically an oil industry lobbyist.

    It surprises absolutely no one that Alberta has regulation that impedes/hinders solar and renewable energy projects. It's a really weird example to try and use to demonstrate the 'broad' existence of nimby regulations. Sorta like highlighting North Korea, and saying human rights abuses are global based on that sample.

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