Yeah these hit me more than anything else. Not just that I’m attu ed to science but the damage to our country’s future far outweighs anything else.

Corruption can be prosecuted, racism can be condemned, even climate change just makes things worse for a few years longer and we’ll have to figure out how to deal, constitutional violations can be corrected with a new Congress, human rights can be reclaimed …. It’ll never be justice but it can be reversed.

Losing science may never be reversible. Science that drives our technology, our medicine, the entire huge research industry. As scientists are driven away, that’s a very long trail of technology, medicine, research done elsewhere, generations of children and students looking elsewhere

Actually I think of losing science like climate tipping points. If climate change were simply change, we could adapt and reverse. It would be foolish to do that intentionally do ourselves but we could deal with it. But crossing climate tipping points are a much bigger deal, much harder to adapt and likely never reversible

Why would anyone care about poor whites in the mountains? Let them survive in their hovels and shovel coal. They had no organization or other power to affect anyone

That’s crazy. I’m seeing as long as 15 seconds ads and considering no longer wasting my time on YouTube

It’s simpler to believe he just got lost in the system - no treatment is similar to intentionally not treat

While usually I’d encourage looking at rescue dogs maybe this is a scenario to be very careful with that. We got a rescue that had been traumatized and can still be challenging at times. While she’s a real sweetheart, she’s definitely not a starter dog.

I’ll be the anecdotes for that …… spent my whole life with dogs of all sizes and have always been comfortable with them. But the only one that bit was a mini poodle

Then again, as the other guy said, I’ve always paid more attention to dogs that can do damage, vs the mini poodle bit me when I was ignoring it. Of course the most painful part of that was the tetanus shot

But notice they also said there is no evidence toast makes a measurable contribution to this, so toast all you want.

Or what I really got out of it was

• don’t burn your toast
• don’t burn your potatoes
• eat fewer chips

This is good advice in general though

the US continues to artificially prop up its EV market ex-China.

It’s not even that: a little protectionism is normal trade policy globally. This would be fine, if it were temporary and if there was a goal to develop the domestic industry.

The real problem is the combination of protectionism, while also rejecting the technology change and shrinking down to the home market. The protectionism will stop at some point. Realistically it has to. But when it does, American legacy manufacturers will find themselves struggling to sell buggy whips to a world that sees them as museum displays. We’re trying to milk a few more years out of the legacy technology at the cost of totally ignoring the future

Yeah, I have to say, I still see Tesla as the leader by far here in the us. And given how price of cars has skyrocketed, teslas are now also “affordable”. It’s a shame they seem to be abandoning the car market. There’s finally some EV choice but not much, half of the choice was just cancelled, and most are not good.

Rivian is our best choice for the next compelling EV, but R2 cost significantly more than Tesla.

• A lot of people online like the Equinox and it’s inexpensive, but poor efficiency, horrible software and no CarPlay. Also I’ve never seen one. GM cars in general don’t do well in my part of the US so it would be challenge to get people to see they exist
• Lucid looks great on paper and I’m excited to see their mass market vehicles in a year or two, but they e really been struggling. I hope the saudis continue to see it through
• Hyundai/Kia have been kicking ass on choice but low efficiency and still haven’t kicked their historical reputations for poor quality and easy to steal

I do wonder about that. My ex’s uncle decided that financial and legal issues were insurmountable so he could no longer be here. Obviously I have no idea whether a humane option would have been an option, but his issues were clearly temporary so any opportunity to intervene could have saved a lot of collateral damage. Including, while his family appreciated that they didn’t have to discover him, that cop shouldn’t have either

It’s at least scammy but I don’t see how it’s aboveboard at all. It was only like $200 so not worth the cost of finding out

I did spend like a decade trying startups in the hope of one making it, without any luck. Interestingly the only buyout that got me anything was a midsized company, not a startup, purchased by a large company. The only options that have panned out was a midsized company bought by a private equity, where they’ve paid cash

My brothers and I were competitive growing up, so we all cheered for different football teams and hoped our team would beat our brothers. I liked the Jets because I was impressed by stories of Joe Namath being rebellious

You said “army”, so what about Army? The first local hockey game I took my kids to was a local college vs army.

Realistically there is a lot of sports that are not the majors. Maybe there is a minor league team or a college team you want to cheer for.

Or heck, why does it even have to be local? My kid is big time into soccer and our country’s teams don’t have much history, so he and his teammates cheer for teams from other countries

You definitely take both. Apply for unenjoyment asap because it can take a few weeks for the money to start flowing. Also unenjoyment is much lower than pay, so you can’t expect to pay your bills with it

Last time I had to do this was a startup. We all worked insane hours trying to get the product off the ground but then

• layoffs just short of a year so can save on severance
• unemployment lower than my current mortgage
• paid money to buy out my options in case the company made it, but a couple weeks later they reissued them to zero

Sometimes it’s not the wording of the law but the way it’s implemented. Sometimes the law can seem quite egalitarian, but that doesn’t help if the mother is always assumed both the default custodian and less income. Thats no longer as true as it used to be but judges can be old fashioned

I’m quite cynical about it. No matter what is short money, the funding is always for education or fire fighting. It seems more likely they always shuffle around the budget so the shortfall always end up where we’ll vote for it

My experience with a Pi4B has been rock solid and plenty fast for what I’ve tried so far, at low power consumption.

While I had problems in the beginning, it was all from the micro-SD card. People here will recommend staying away but I’ve had no problems since buying an “extreme” card. Well, starting to hit the size limit now - I can no longer kick off multiple concurrent updates because limited free space available on, I think, 16G card. Get bigger

If you’re starting with ha, don’t feel confined to only one.

IMPORTANT: a local area mesh is not just a low powered way of connecting devices but is inherently local-only. Highly recommended

The more common local area meshes include

• Zigbee - open standard, lots of inexpensive sensors
• Z-Wave - devices need to pay for certification but are more standard. I found more smart switches using this in my area
• Thread - the new standard. Same frequency as Zigbee but IPv6 based. Slowly rolling out.

The new Matter/Thread standard has support of the major players (Apple, Google, Amazon) so seems like the way to go for the future, but products are slow to roll out so you can’t count on it yet

Personally I found the strengths of each compelling so quickly added all three of the above to my ha setup. Ha is fine with it so why limit yourself

I follow the principle that devices must work “as expected” for my users, automation adds capabilities but does not replace them. This comes together with a focus on smart switches

• can be used interactively just like any switch
• continue to work as expected even if ha is down
• typically act as routers to strengthen your local area mesh. I have switches acting as routers for Zigbee, zwave, and Thread, so all my local area meshes are solid everywhere
• then I can automate

I still believe it’s a pretty good system that has generally held up well for a couple hundred years.

It’s in tatters right now as all three branches are being run by power hungry sociopaths. Yet The people who run those branches at lower levels are still trying to do their jobs. There are still checks and balances. There is still hope our partly capsized ship will right itself. Authoritarianism required collusion across the heads of all three branches, yet each branch is still partly functioning

That’s frustrating as hell