We have solar. It so happens the people next door also do, but we didn't know that when we started. In the almost two years since we added ours, no one has asked about them, possibly because our house is on the highest hill in the neighborhood and they are not easy to notice from anywhere surrounding. A side benefit it learning that Generac's support is as crappy as their hardware is good, but we refused to give any money to Tesla.
If you are curious to know you could test that out.
Something like, can you believe how hot it is today, I'm so glad I got those solar panels installed, they will save me a ton.
The response will be either
Oh really, i never noticed.
or yeh, but the cost too much.
If you are the green type you could could also use that as a sales pitch.
A bot, sure, but also an extra terrestrial intelligence. Unless we’re talking a Stargate or The Magicians type of scenario where humans exist on a lot of different worlds. After all, they tend to ask you to prove you’re a human.
If they ask you to prove you’re not a robot, then we get into discussing sentient robots from other worlds.
What we’d be really interested in proving if we found proof of other intelligent life is personhood.
Yeah. This. In 42 years in IT, i saw way too many situations where the last thing engineers need is a "team" or "management," or even worse, an outside "team leader," which usually resulted in the engineer's work or the team's work turning directly into cowshit. "Managers" want to talk about doing a thing; engineers want to actually do the thing, and both cannot happen simultaneously.
When they see results deteriorating, "managers" think the solution is "more management," which is never, ever the solution.
I actually used Hot Dog Stand as the inspiration for the color combination on a big internal website years ago. A "committee" was still flapping its gums about the color choice a week before a hard launch, so I simply... decided. A moderately-unpleasant but distinctive combination went into production. I figured that would finally force them to make an actual decision after nine months of meetings. I was wrong. Users seemed to like it OK, nobody complained, so it stayed.
For almost five years.
I actually finally TOLD them, "you never actually decided, so I picked the colors to be deliberately a little obnoxious so you would actually get off the pot and decide."
They were PISSED.
Not long after, I came up with a way for users (not committees of the managers of users, who usually know nothing) to choose their own preferred colors, and over 80% of them never used that feature and left the garish original I had pulled out of my butt in 1999, because now they were used to it.
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