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hefferton Ohio prison inmates 'built computers and hid them in ceiling' (2017)

The absolute state of mutts lol

hefferton Ohio prison inmates 'built computers and hid them in ceiling' (2017)

>Investigators found software, pornography and articles about making drugs and explosives on the machines.

These are the "winners" you are championing btw. And that's after whatever heinous crime landed them in prison in the first place, and after they stole computers from a program designed to assist them with training and reintegration.

But the soy-faced bleeding hearts of HN can't see past the sheer ingenuity of throwing a PC in the ceiling and plugging in an ethernet cable...

hefferton Ohio prison inmates 'built computers and hid them in ceiling' (2017)

"Oh nooo don't criticise muh heckin criminalerinos, fella!"

You're too domesticated to understand.

hefferton New bill would let New Yorkers hang solar panels from windows

Do these people have any idea how poor efficiency will be when you're mounting perpendicular to the ideal orientation?

This is pure vibes. It makes no sense. And it's really tacky too. Cheap panels hanging off balconies sounds horrible for the aesthetics of an area.

You would hope someone creates panels with cells arranged at an angle so that they point more towards the source. But by then the city will be full of the trashiest junk panels and people only care about the cheapest option anyway.