Unlike Hell, the road to Ceredigion is paved with…
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Damn it! So far I’ve avoided subscribing to any streaming service because there are like thousands of them (okay, maybe 10?), but now I may have to spring for Paramount+.
Sigh. So many Star Treks, so little time.
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This video is very long.
I appreciate but do not work with, or (currently) ride horses. I have spent much of my life working with various dogs. Horses are prey animals. Dogs are predator animals. The differences in their outlooks, and their requirements for training, are nearly polar in difference. Still, having a feral animal (a domestic animal living fully in their/her/his wild mindset), especially one as big and dangerous as a horse, trained in a way to live with humans, is a kind of miracle. We just forget how wondrous it is, to have another species’ trust, because it seems so common. It is not.
I am absolutely struck by the transpecies nonverbal communication going on in this video, and it makes me think about my own body language. And my mental language.
Kudos to that patient, insightful, careful trainer. Just wow.
ETA: punctuation
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Are there skid marks on the road?
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Not that I’m a fan, but it’s good to see that her mental health is more stable and I wish her luck.
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Thinking back to my childhood, and how much electricity I could have generated in Kansas winds…
SkySails’ system – like several others under development – relies on a roughly 150 square metre (1,600 sq ft), parachute-like wing to ride on the wind. There are no turbines up in the air, and the tether isn’t an electric wire. Instead, the energy is generated on the ground, from the tug on the line. “The brake on the winch is generating the electricity,” says Fagiano. Software flies the kite autonomously in a figure-of-eight pattern to get the strongest pull possible to produce energy. The system then changes the wing’s flight pattern so it can be pulled in with minimal resistance, expending a little energy to wind it back. This pattern repeats, creating far more energy than it consumes.
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I find myself picturing a horizontal windmill, but on on wagon wheels so it can follow the tornados… 
I’ll leave it to @anon61221983 to unpack the centuries of adverse cultural stereotypes in that… 
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This wind power fence looks like an easier solution. It was on BB before, but I couldn’t find the post:
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Cool. The supposedly fast company that makes them should speed up!
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There is already some similar precedent. 
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I really hope this trend continues: 
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I worry that the reduction in the number of groups means that the groups are consolidating, with the larger groups absorbing the smaller.
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I enjoyed listening to this ~8-minute piece:
… will be looking for a copy of this, mentioned in the podcast:
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That’s sort of how I read it, too – that the extremist vanguard is diminishing, because when it’s no longer extreme, they don’t need a vanguard. The largest consolidation, absent some audible &/or visible effort at cleaning house, would be the RNC itself
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