(07-15-2026, 09:00 PM)kalakoa Wrote: fiber cable has reached us (but not doable being so far from road)
Standard MST drops exist up to 2K feet, or they could hard-splice a section of middle-mile. Not impossible.
That’d be right over my head, but a HawaiianTel installer told me they would not hook me up, that it was beyond their distance policy to do so. I was just chatting up the guy installing in Ainaloa. Had no intention to bail on StarLink. Groked a photo of the new box on the telephone pole next to driveway to find out what it was.
And, yes, old solar panels have a second life as panels.
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HotPE: re: towers in Japan over rugged terrain
Similar in Peru, though it is not an island of course. Pylons stretching off into no man’s land from the desert coast to the hydroelectric mountains (so to speak) feeding in lines to Lima. The Maoist Shining Path folks would topple them for sport whenever they wanted to cause power shortages (apigones) in Lima to support their armed strikes. Days off of work and, oh the stars at night!
BALLOT NAME: HUNT, Tamlyn (Tam) LEGAL NAME: TAMLYN M. HUNT Party: DemocraticContest: STATE REPRESENTATIVE, DIST 4
• Filed as a Democratic candidate for STATE REPRESENTATIVE, DIST 4 (Puna area, Hawaiʻi Island) in 2026; campaign website is hunt4house.com.
• District 4 covers Puna, one of the state's most economically vulnerable areas — with the lowest employment and salaries in the state — and a community exposed to supply disruptions and natural disasters.
• Centers her campaign on local food production and local renewable energy as complementary resilience strategies for Puna: growing more food locally and generating power locally reduces dependence on outside supply chains while creating jobs and economic opportunity. Campaign tagline: 'Local food, local power.' (Source: https://hunt4house.com)
• Emphasizes mālama ʻāina as a guiding principle and frames affordable housing, better schools, and economic opportunity as interconnected priorities for a more self-reliant Puna community. (Source: https://hunt4house.com
VOTEHAWAIʻI EDITORIAL INFERENCE
Tamlyn (Tam) Hunt is running for State House District 4 (Puna) on a platform of local food and energy independence. She argues Puna's dangerously low employment rate and exposure to supply disruptions demand investment in self-sufficient local food production and clean power rather than continued dependency on outside systems.
The inference summary is editorial commentary by VoteHawaiʻi.
Bold by me.
To be clear, are you saying https://votehawaii.org is "Just more AI generated slop" and those of us that read it are no more than "simple-minded?"
07-16-2026, 07:27 AM (This post was last modified: 07-16-2026, 07:31 AM by HiloJulie.)
To be clear, are you saying https://votehawaii.org is "Just more AI generated slop" and those of us that read it are no more than "simple-minded?"
Yes.
But at a minimum, votehawaii.org is using AI with very little if any oversight or editing.
What would the conversation be if Greggor was listed on votehawaii.org as a female? How does votehawaii.org become a credible outlet when this type of error is published? Careless error or intentional?
“I could say the stupidest things and you’d clap” -DJT
Not sure how https://votehawaii.org was chosen as some reliable source of information to begin with, but seems to be a good daily reminder why not to trust AI slop projects (or maybe that KKCR's Dr. Yogi, Kaua'i chiropractor and yoga instructor, is the more reliable source for local politics. ;)
Durian Fiend - Everything posted in this thread about Hunt to date has made him less appealing to me.
Yeah, geothermal skeptics and Great Barrington Declaration supporters is quite the thin slice of the electorate to appeal to - maybe needs to try and leave some contrarianism for the rest of Puna. Can always RSVP and ask him his thoughts directly at the meet and greet tomorrow, July 17th, which also includes Tanya Aynessazian, who is running in State Senate District 2 (that's most of Puna, not State Senate District 4) against Joy San Buenaventura.
Energy and resilience. Hawaiʻi should not be importing 90+ percent of its energy from a 2,500-mile fossil-fuel supply line that runs through the Strait of Hormuz. We should be building distributed, networked, locally owned renewable energy on every scale we can — rooftop solar, community solar, geothermal at PGV, EV charging, microgrids, virtual power plants. This is left libertarianism made physical. Power, generated and controlled by the people who use it.
· Personal-freedom and bodily-autonomy guarantees written into state law.
· Honest, evidence-based engagement with every issue — including the uncomfortable ones.
I will not pretend to be anyone other than what I am: a left libertarian, a policy attorney, a writer, an Army veteran, an EV-driving climate guy, a longtime Puna resident, and someone who believes Hawaiʻi can be a model for the world if we have the courage to do this our own way.
"If we are too precise we will be called out because we cannot back it with data."- A.F.
Yeah, geothermal skeptics and Great Barrington Declaration supporters is quite the thin slice of the electorate to appeal to -
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Tam advocates for many wise things including PGV, bodily-autonomy, and more (at link).
Charlie Munger, partner of Warren Buffett in a 2020 talk about the dotcom bubble:
"Well, I think the reason we use the phrase wretched excess is that there are wretched consequences. If you mix the mathematics of the chain letter or the Ponzi scheme with some legitimate development like the development of the internet, you are mixing something which is wretched and irrational and has bad consequences with something that has very good consequences. But you know, if you mix raisins with turds, they're still turds."
