I have to heavily disagree, but people are allowed to like different things, so I'm glad you got enjoyment out of it.

As a life long guitarist that has played some larger venues in the past... I feel this in my soul.

The amount of care and effort that went into this post has not gone unnoticed. Excellent post, OP.

The true hope is a horizontal power structure.

Do you have a source for that? I get maybe 2 a year.

That is going to forever remind me of this:

Just about every iteration could easily power thousands of mountain sized gravity batteries.

I have been working for and by myself as a machinist for the last 15 years. The first round of steel tariffs hurt a lot, but I was able to pull through just barely. Now, I am losing every contract I've got when they expire (which is soon) and as a small fish I have almost no bargaining power on bids for jobs. I am likely going to have to shutter the business and sell all the equipment.

Estuans interius
Ira vehementi
Estuans interius
Ira vehementi
Sephiroth
Sephiroth

For us, it was Condor Man

Yoda in shambles.

It's kind of funny. My original IRC handle was jawaslayer, because "Who would slaughter innocent Jawas?"