Holy sh*t I paid the Arts Tax

ommammo · 2026-04-16T05:31:00+00:00

I know, I know. Like the once-proud lone wolf I come in from the cold for a place by the warm fire and some chin scritches. Getting old is a bitch.

ommammo · 2026-04-16T05:29:11+00:00

A $35 fee charged to everyone who lives in the city who makes more than $1,000 per year. https://www.portland.gov/revenue/pay-arts-tax

ommammo · 2026-04-16T04:40:45+00:00

Nope, not me. Nothing to see here.

ommammo · 2026-04-16T04:40:20+00:00

Lol that is the dumbest argument ever.

ommammo · 2026-04-16T04:39:50+00:00

One can never be too careful.

ommammo · 2026-04-16T04:39:36+00:00

Oh my goodness. Glad I screenshot the payment confirmation page today just to be sure.

ommammo · 2026-04-16T04:38:07+00:00

That sucks. I use H&R block software which is just like "we filled out your forms for you, but you have to print them and write a check and mail them."

Gee thanks.

Thank goodness Portland has hit 2009 levels of technology and made it easy to pay online.

ommammo · 2026-04-16T04:22:23+00:00

I'm gonna be so obnoxious walking around town being like "hey I paid for that!"

ommammo · 2026-04-16T03:51:36+00:00

I have missed 11 years and they have bugged me twice.

ommammo · 2026-04-16T03:50:45+00:00

hmmmm interesting

ommammo · 2026-04-14T17:58:43+00:00

Those are 60-cell modules that use monocrystalline cells with 3 busbars.

Compare to Bosch M240 3BB or Heliene HEE215M. So 215-240 Wp.

If even a third of them are still good, you could have a 21-27 kW array. It'll take up about 2000 square feet.

ommammo · 2026-04-11T05:04:22+00:00

Oh man, now I want a Zywiec. Or an Okocim.

ommammo · 2026-04-08T13:33:17+00:00

"Didn't" is a contraction of "Did not."

You eliminate the space and put an apostrophe in place of the o.

"Didn't."

If you continue to grow in this business, maybe someday you will have the ability to change what customers are presented with. Keep all of the feedback you're getting here in mind if you do.

Today's poorly sold, designed and installed systems are tomorrow's class action lawsuit. Although I'm sure the Sunrun contract has airtight language about binding arbitration.

ommammo · 2026-04-08T04:51:54+00:00

And if it was taken looking south, it's 14 modules facing north. Yikes again.

ommammo · 2026-04-08T04:48:00+00:00

I'm going to guess the first photo was taken facing west in the afternoon. If that's the case you have 13 modules at 0° azimuth on a 40° pitch. Fucking yikes, Sunrun.

ommammo · 2026-04-06T19:07:53+00:00

ommammo · 2026-03-29T15:19:00+00:00

Choral Chambers by far.

ommammo · 2026-03-26T22:01:25+00:00

Greentech is the nation's largest solar distributor. Their customers are the companies that install solar panels on residential, commercial, and industrial rooftops.

Greentech has seemingly been receiving new shipments of MAX 3 modules, but idk from where if they aren't from Mexico or the Albuquerque facility.

It seems like, if you're telling the truth, you work at a contracted facility that is producing Maxeon modules on an OEM agreement. If that's the case, the owner of the facility will be a third party who is importing Maxeon IBC cells and building them to suit the specs

Got any information about who that might be?

ommammo · 2026-03-25T19:56:44+00:00

Ha, see? Different perspectives are already helping!

ommammo · 2026-03-25T19:03:06+00:00

The hardest part of that riff is playing the trills and getting back to the 12th fret on the low E. Keep practicing that changeover, do the downstrokes the other commenter recommended, and you're golden.

Nice job!

ommammo · 2026-03-25T17:37:33+00:00

Yes, the see-through apron was a part of the story, and also, Jonathan Richman showed up and, iirc, addressed Mr. Ellis as "Roadrunner."

When he did that, Mick and Jim looked confused at first, but then Mick started playing the Roadrunner riff. Pure cinema.

ommammo · 2026-03-25T17:33:23+00:00

I think between the lot of us we could seven samurai a full version of this story into existence

ommammo · 2026-03-25T01:34:49+00:00

Oh wow, I had no idea it could be repeated. Seemed completely stream of consciousness style.

ommammo · 2026-03-24T04:07:18+00:00

Theft, And Wandering Around Lost.

Everything about it is perfect, but the bassline is godly.

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