medium_adult_son [he/him] @ medium_adult_son @hexbear.net

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Home Assistant is great. If i had more time I'd set up some ESP modules (cost is not an issue, they are very cheap).

It runs on a raspberry pi 3 or newer or a docker container on an existing server, plus a zigbee or zwave usb device that can be bought off AliExpress.

I would like to get a weather sensor or non-cloud doorbell camera working with it, but for now i have cheap zigbee lights and switches.

For less than the cost of a few philips hue bulbs and bridge, I put in some cheap floor, ceiling, and wall lamps and smart bulbs - my old house has very few ceiling lights. I can see better and they automatically dim and get warmer at night.

I know some Airbnbs run by apartments or property management companies have noise sensors in them that automatically snitch on you. It wouldn't surprise me if landlords started doing this or installed doorbell cameras, etc.

Can you hop on the Pokèterminal and send my mom a message while you're there? I videocalled her earlier but it went to Professor Oak, he was in a bed that looks just like hers. My Pokècommunicator must be on the fritz.

There is a joke about how Albanese is a well-known American brand of gummi bears beans but I haven't cracked that bean yet.

🎼

Here comes Dick, he's wearing a purse. Here comes Jane, with a wallet sporting a chain.

Now wallet meets boy, and wallet meets girl

They both look the same, they're overstuffed with pocket change.

And they love each other so

Androgynous 🎶

Having an autism diagnosis has already been a hurdle to approval for adopting a child. If that existed, to me it meant neurodivergent people would be a target in the future.

The Ken Burns PBS documentary about National Parks has a good overview of their history.

It breezes through the expulsion of the indigenous people from the future national park land, and goes on a pro-car tear near the end of the series. But the stories of artists/photographers and creation of newer parks was nice.

The national parks used to be far too unregulated, but the best part of them (the visitors would come by train!) has been replaced by cars :(

The Tom Cruise film from 2013? It has good enough CGI already, why remake it?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oblivion_(2013_film)

This is grim. I assume that wood is from the Lebanese cedar tree that is on their flag.

https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Cedrus_libani

Now do the US colonies territories!

I wonder what Puerto Rico's biggest international trading partner is? (Not certain of the other colonies' situations)

They are forced to ship everything via Amerikkkan made, owned, and operated ships. So even without the sanctions on Venezuela, which i think is the closest mainland country, they are in effect sanctioned as non-voting second-class "citizens" on the imperial periphery.

Apparently Ireland has the most international imports, and the top for exports were the Dutch.

I wouldn't be surprised if they came up with true "loitering" solar-powered drones that either stay in the air indefinitely or land/fly in tandem to deny access across a boundary. It would be both expensive and avoid the law against "land" mines.

https://www.foodstandards.gov.scot/consumers/food-safety/buying-food-eating-out/glycerol-in-slush-ice-drinks

Glycerol is sometimes put in these, I think because it lowers the freezing temperature.

Children get sent to the hospital after drinking too much of these. They put actual antifreeze or propylene glycol in these frozen drinks.

If you've ever seen the Tommy Lee Jones film Volcano, you would know that those concrete road barriers (I think they're called Jersey Ts) are all you need to stop pyroclastic flow.

If this ever happened, the new state would be even more of a tax haven or credit card zone of interest than Delaware or South Dakota.

It would become a Próspera (libertarian special economic zone in Honduras that their government now trying to remove) within the United States and immediately be set upon by crypto miners and libertarians.

The existing residents would violently revolt against the fact that their rural communities now have real estate speculation, raw sewage in the rivers, and black bears in the streets eating garbage.

Nintendo could pay the salary for one retro gaming hardware restoration YouTuber and they would be able to restore and set up every single console within months

An entire wing of the museum could show how they restore the old consoles, replace the capacitors, use new or new old stock chips to replace failed ones, de-yellow the console plastic, etc.

A- in Standing class

A+ in Sunglasses class

Big-o and Little-o notation

FIFO and LIFO

You can turn the extra wine into vinegar. it does this naturally if you leave it open for a few weeks. This depends on the alcohol content, and you can buy starter bacteria for the process to speed it up.

What they did do was not pass any laws, nor even form a committee to investigate it, and then pass on the "solution" to for-profit companies that go into schools and give 5 year olds PTSD after the "drills" they make them go through.