We aren’t talking about the aid package. We’re talking about the secret delivery of missiles to Ukraine.

No, I’m saying it’s something. Every time I engage with one of you you’re decrying everything he’s working on as nothing and attributing that ‘nothing’ to his entire presidency.

Reminds me of some of the worst smoke seasons we’ve had in the PNW

I notice the lack of ‘he’s not doing enough’ and ‘he’ll never do enough’ crowd here.

My hallway is shockingly dark when not lit, and the recessed light is so damn harsh I decided to install LED strips up in the corners. But I didn’t want to switch them, so the lights are motion controlled and conditional based on time. During the day, they’re full bright but with a nice color that’s not harsh. At night, only 6 leds light up a nice green so they don’t blast your eyes in the dark.

I have similar control over the kitchen lights but kept the recessed lighting in there. Full bright during the day, dimmed at night.

When the home alarm is triggered, all lights go full bright.

When the garage door is opened, the garage lights turn on.

When the temp in the living room is below 65 in the morning, or at noon, it kicks the heater on until it hits 70.

In the evening, when the outside temp falls below the inside temp, I get sent a message to open the windows. This only triggers in warm months because that crossover doesn’t happen in the cold months. It’s just always warmer inside than out. Similarly, in the mornings, when the temp outside becomes warmer than inside, I get an alert to close the windows. I use Aqara temp sensors on my front and back porches to grab the temps, so it’s very local and takes into account the radiant heat built up from the direct sunlight and works really well. This also has me thinking I might be able to work my contact sensors into the automations too…

I’ve got a contact sensor on my bedroom door to alert me if anyone enters while I’m not home.

My crawl space is encapsulated and I have a large dehumidifier down there. I have a smart switch connected to it so I can have some easy control and monitor power usage. I also have a temp and humidity sensor down there with alerts for if either temp or humidity change too much.

I set up LED lighting on my front porch and have HA turn it on an hour before sunset and off an hour after sunrise. I set it to different colors usually based on holidays, but have it set to a purple that I really like otherwise. Way less harsh than the white porch light.

And of course I can control nearly all the lights in my house from my phone or with Siri.

Having my hallway and kitchen lights be motion activated and brighter/dimmer based on ambient light is fucking great. If you get there you might wind up loving it like I do lol.

Got it. Thanks!

I realized when typing I wasn’t sure

I find it interesting that they said there’d be a larger response if Israel retaliated 2 days ago, but now they’re saying there will be no response to Israel’s retaliatory strike.

I’d be willing to bet you could find one or two Israelies (Israelites?) that hate Israel too.

Gotta add that /s fam

Idiotic take. You’re human, you have vices. It’s that simple.

Here’s some more help: https://factmyth.com/vices-and-virtues-explained/

Do you drink soda or alcohol? Vice.

Do you eat comfort foods when you aren’t strictly needing substance? Vice.

Do you binge watch television? Vice.

Do you doomscroll? Vice.

Do you do anything at all that you look back on and say ‘maybe that’s not the thing I should be doing’ and then go on and do it again? Vice.

No one is so virtuous as to be absent of vice and your self-aggrandizing, holier-than-thou sentiment is disgusting and abhorrent and in my estimation, a vice.

I see you skipped the contextual definition immediately below the last one. Let me help you out:

“A bad habit”

Yes you do have vices.

I’d encourage you to look up what a vice is.

It’s glaringly obvious your vices are different but I guarantee you have your own that some or many of us would find to be wildly irresponsible.

Do you spend every single dollar you get responsibly? Do you have zero vices?

Just because you’re different doesn’t mean you’re better. Get off it with this rhetoric and let people live their lives, especially when it has zero impact on you.

It’s future backward compatibility.

I wonder what all the headline could have said he’s been in contact with. His wife? Car? A BLT? 3 children in a trench coat?

Reflection on history. I don’t see that as an inherently negative thing even though it would ostensibly exclude me.

Do projects that drive us to consider the plights of slaves, Jews in the holocaust, or other groups that were tortured, murdered, or otherwise persecuted en masse elicit this same response to you? If not, why?

It seems to me that the art is doing what it’s intended to do, illicit a reaction. What you do with that reaction, positive or negative, is up to you.

I don’t see it as revenge, I see it as reflection.

In the future I think it’s a really viable option to create more immersive and interactive games. The technology is pretty far away though, not to mention I don’t think most machines could handle the load while also running a game. It’s at best a dream right now, but a pretty interesting idea for 15 years from now.

There was a post where people tried to find the limit not long after it picked up due to the Reddit API shit. I want to say it’s like a thousand something but I. Ant recall for sure.