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In a verdant solarpunk future I would live at the foot and make burnt offerings to the rusting desiccated remains of Bagger 288 (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) by Chaunticleer@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/solarpunk@slrpnk.net

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Every society needs to have its fringe, transgressive counterculture. I would live at the abandoned strip mine, entreating the slumbering devil of ages past. Presuming the steel is not reclaimed for use in homes or ecological projects.

I would pray to it for resilience and to supplicate its spirit to never return. Its thirst for industry must be quelled with songs and the aromas of cooked food, lest it seep back out into the land and inspire folk to consume the earth again.

The creaks and groans of the metal in the wind would lull me to sleep, and its bulk would shelter me from rain.

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[–] vinceman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 6 days ago

You should absolutely read After the Revolution, written by Behind the Bastards host Robert Evans. Heavily features a fringe, transgressive counterculture that built a city on the back of a bagger 288.

[–] tofu@lemmy.nocturnal.garden 5 points 6 days ago

Bagger 288 Bagger 288

[–] daychilde@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

a Bagger 288

There is only one Bagger 288. The excavators are numbered, so it's not a model number, it is a unit number :)

[–] Chaunticleer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

Im so foolish! How did I not know that? I have to change my post. To Wikipedia, I go. Thank you!

Wait the name is more recognizable. What should I do? Just call it "Bagger series excavator"?

[–] daychilde@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Bagger 288 is probably the most well known. I wouldn't worry too much about it but if you wanted to be correct, all you have to do is change "a Bagger 288" to just "Bagger 288" imho :)

[–] Chaunticleer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Ty!

[–] daychilde@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Bagger 288! Bagger 288! :)

[–] syntheticidol@slrpnk.net 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

the deep lore has been mentioned and I am here to witness

[–] daychilde@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

It's kinda hilarious that I think today that night not even bother going viral. Lol. But back then it was unusual

[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

...and then one day some scaffolding fails and you fall deep into the darkness like Gandalf.

This is sweet but for your own safety don't live in one of those.