Wandering Adventure Party

@BalooUriza Portland is still 15 degrees south of me. The southernmost part of Sweden is pretty much at the same latitude as the southernmost part of Alaska, and my latitude is within easy driving distance south from Anchorage.

@BalooUriza @pfriedma @f4grx @balkonsolar @derdo The entire balcony solar ecosystem seems to run on "trust me, bro": https://akkoma.pikaböl.se/notice/B0R5fpXelwpqdMCPKa
Maybe I'm paranoid, but I'm not letting any equipment designed with an energised male power plug into my home. If you want local generation, you have a professional wire it into the breaker panel with lots of warning labels.

Then again, my balconies face east and west and the sun hasn't been above the tree tops since October, so I'm not exactly in the target market anyway.

@dianea @faoluin The way it was described to me many years ago was:
Birds are not particularly intelligent. Once you take out the feathers and the huge eyes, there is not much volume left for a brain.
But corvids and parrots are quite intelligent.
Therefore, they are not birds.
Instead, the only logical possibility is that they are the survivors of a crashed alien spaceship.
The engineers became corvids, having dark plumage perfect for working with oily machinery, and mechanical problem solving skills. The bridge officers became parrots, with brightly coloured uniforms and ability to communicate in alien (to them, i.e. human) languages.