If only. That would be amazing and thank you for the dream, but they've all got private security, I don't see how this could be done without someone being shot, which changes the whole context and would make it something that could be spun to easily.
But it brings up the whole issue doesn't it? The court feels they will never have to deal with the consequences of any of this. Surely a trump-style president would never come after them.
Damnit, we've been to this movie.
Yes: you absolutely want the outdoor rated PVC if you're getting sun exposure. You can cheat, it's not like the white stuff will be immediately destroyed, but if you want something that will last a bunch of seasons, the "grey" stuff is the way to go. Double check that it's UV rated though, and doesn't just happen to be grey.
To get around all of that, you can bury it. Because you're just doing it for the garden, you don't need to dig down to the frost line. Just make sure you clear the line at the end of the season. Another advantage is that you'll minimize the amount of water that's been baking in the sun idle in the pipes. If it's a heatwave and they're in direct sun, that water can get downright hot to the touch. I've never lost a plant because of it but frankly I'm kind of surprised by that. If you do bury, you might consider running some electrical conduit at the same time, even if you don't put wires in it (DO however include a pull cable for later use). What you do at either end of that is a whole other project, but you can always just cap it and get it to it when you get to it. Solar + Battery usual works great for garden automation stuff, but being able to run an ethernet cable can simplify a lot.
Plastic will hold up fine, but as others have mentioned you might want one of these.. The union allows to remove it. You could do a more simple threaded system IF you are able to completely and freely rotate everything "down stream" of the valve. I'm just going to say the stupid part out loud because I learned pipe stuff the hard way: A ball valve threaded on both sides cannot be loosened from one side without tightening the other (again, unless that other side can freely rotate). Edit: alternatively unions are sold separately, and sometimes you can eek out some flow advantages that way but it's in no way worth thinking about at garden water flow rates.
Finally, a last alternative I've seen done well for gardens that sort of "wrong done right" is putting posts up and stringing a hose over head. It kind of seemed like as much work/expense as burying it, but I guess they had the posts, it came out really sharp in the end. You need a pretty high quality hose though. Baking in the sun and sagging under the water weight can end badly.
Climate change and the housing crisis means both the cost of replacing a home AND the likelihood of needing to is going up. They may not be on the brink of going under, but may be trying to avoid getting into that position.
It is an enormous problem. When a property becomes un-insurable it loses value. When that happens to a TON of property it'll have massive knock ons. Something like 1/3rd of all assets in the US are commercial realestate. This next adjustment will not be pretty, and the real irony is a ton of people who got priced out of home ownership in the first place are going to suffer no matter what.
My understanding is there is, in-fact, a mechanical way to go about it. But it's nothing but a design failure it's not evident to an average user. A deadly one.
Canadian engineers have a tradition around an iron ring as kind of "class ring" when you graduate (they've kind of tried to push it in the states but it didn't catch on in the same way). The notion is "it's heavy, but not because of the weight". It's meant to be a reminder as you go out into the world that what you put on paper has real implications.
I get down on Tesla specifically because they've got... I don't know, 100 years of history to learn from? Like you had the whole world on your side and you gave us the effing "explode on rear impact" pinto, but without the luxury of saving the victims the cremation costs.
That's the part that people don't get and is intentionally hard to find numbers on. The entire appeal was on it not being an influencer centric space. The entire value was always at odds with monetizing that value beyond it's upkeep and paying the people (who apparently aren't that many) a reasonable salary. It is the worst growth case you could have ever had.
My dad was a farmer. I AM AN ORPHAN.
Edit: Ok, I feel bad. But like... I know one dumbass with a cough that won't go away (7 years and counting) because they wouldn't effing listen to me about DE, another who rolled his tractor on to himself and died. Don't take it lightly man. The bill always comes due. We all do what we have to, lord knows I've done some dumb shit, but it ain't cute to dismiss it.
That and post-scarcity doesn't mean "zero scarcity". Like if someone wanted to create a picard funkpop the size of a planet, I don't think they'd be allowed the resource budget.
It's like how it doesn't matter where you live, if you want to buy on the silk road, you need bitcoin. Presumably even the federation can't just make latinum whenever they please, or we wouldn't see them haggle with it. Although, it would be fun to see that they could and just take the responsibility of not crashing non-federation cultures entire economies very seriously, either out of respect or treaty.
Damnit, I want a LD episode where the crew is frustrated and desperately wants to just "buy" their problem away but can't because an economist at command says it'll mean they have to rescue all these non-federation colonies that are currently self sufficient. Come to think of it it's right there with the "you break it you own it" concept of the prime directive.
Don't take it personally. The world is crazy right now and people (including me) get a little... defensive... from having to have more "I can't believe this is something I need to talk about" conversations than I think any of us ever anticipated. Looking at it again your word choice wasn't even off. Hope you're having a good day.
It might be how it's written, but the way it works is people get shot for a bag of skittles.
It gets even more complicated. Deer for instance, cause some property damage, sure but nothing like hogs obviously. HOWEVER, if there are to many, they'll eat up all sorts of plants all winter that other animals and insects depend on in the spring. When state environmental authorities set bag limits, it's not only to preserve a species, they're also depending on hunters to remove a certain amount.
Snow geese were a huge problem for a while because they'd migrate far up north, and spend all summer picking apart vegetation on small islands. Vegititaiton that takes forever to grow up there, and was important to making sure some of those islands didn't erode away... which they did. So near me while the daily bag limit for most birds was 2/day, for those snow geese it was like 25, with no limit on the season.
A good portion of what drives this are things like urban sprawl, etc, but there is no way to remove ourselves from the environment, which means we should do your best to maintain it. Most of these limits and programs are set by highly dedicated people who usually have advanced degrees in a field that pays very poorly. They do it because they care, so I tend to trust them.
I get hunting is unpalatable to a lot of people, but predation is an important part of how ecosystems balance. Left to their own devices these things certainly would stabilize, but the "new normal" may not be pleasant. Those plants excess deer population decimate over the winter may be important to an insect population, which is an important food source for a specific bird during it's migration, that is important to balancing a beetle that decimates a specific tree species later in that birds migratory path or something. So that deer population becomes important to several other species and ecosystems across a broad range.
I'm not really qualified to talk about specifics, but it was really eye opening talking to an ornithologist friend of mine.
edit: another for instance on deer: When tag limits are placed, you usually get something like 2 bucks and maybe 8 does or something (depending on region, what the environmental authority saw doing surveys etc). This isn't just to preserve bucks, it's also that environmentally, it's important to remove more does. Again my point being these hunting limits aren't just permission to a hunt a species, but a request that a species is hunted.
Yeah like... Netflix has peering agreements and whatnot but.. It's not 2005.
Yeah you say that and should be right but I'm more worried about January than I am November...