What’s your goal in using fake info? If it’s general privacy, it’s easy enough to register where your info is private to the registrar

I’ve been wanting one of those all day, but I’m out of milk/cream.

I don’t suppose anyone thought of humane conditions while building a concentration camp in a Florida swamp. Even prisoners deserve something to control the heat, the humidity, the mosquitoes, or were causing yet more needless deaths

And yes, employees overseeing obviously inhumane conditions should absolutely face justice for those illnesses and deaths

It’s on my list to do something about mine as well. The vendor sells automated modules at a ridiculous price so I don’t want to do that. However I have the reaching poke so it hasn’t been a priority. It’s been quite a few years now so I’m starting to wonder if replacing the blinds will come up in priority before I get to automating them

I’ve got an extra tall living room, and without a 15’ ladder there’s no way I can actuate the pull down shades

Not what you’re looking for but maybe you should have as a backup plan…… I’ve got a pole that works in my similar situation. It telescopes to 12’, has a handle to simplify turning to adjust the blinds, and a hook at the end to grab hold for raising and lowering.

And it’s automated too. I can use a voice assistant to send a command to raise or lower …. As long as one of my kids is in the room. /s

Definitely 6. I’m up on my chair, looking at work but it’s all topsy-turvy and I can’t focus on getting things done

Their motivation is always ads. The ai response is longer and takes time to read so more time looking at their ads. If the answer is sufficient, you might not even click away to the search result.

AI is a potential huge bonanza to search sites, letting them suck up the ad revenue that used to goto the search results

This is why we can’t have good things

• https://www.roofingcontractor.com/articles/100892-the-battle-over-cool-roofs-heats-up-following-tennessee-rollbacks

The Bluetooth visualization caught my eye, but I’m here for the Alexa integration.

My most amusing automation is telling my teens to goto bed, at midnight on weekends, maybe I can spice it up a bit

Harris and Biden both supported Israel and their right to retaliate, regardless of the extent of that retaliation. However they never advocated direct involvement and they certainly never threatened using nuclear weapons. Both sides are not the same

Bar snack? Loaded potato skins

Far better to elect the person threatening to drop nuclear weapons on Iran?

If people are drowning, anybody who promises to throw them a life bouy looks like a fucking heroe to them.

But it really looks more like I’m trying to call for a rescue and you knock the phone out of my hand to hail the guy throwing rocks in the water

Would you still riot

if I was barely able to afford rent and heard “stay the course”

…. And you had the awareness to see the historically huge investments in infrastructure, supply chains, renewable energy, EVs that would have added thousands of jobs? that inflation had been trending down and was near normal? Repeated attempts to implement assistance for the student loan crisis over Republican objections? Etc

Biden did a lot of the right things for all of us, but we needed to stay the course long enough for them to take effect and we needed to be both aware that they existed and patient enough to understand that some things take time.

Instead we voted for an orange child to throw tantrums and break all our toys.

Destruction is fast and easy, but building is much harder and takes more time

Cool, thanks

Don’t laugh - you can buy bamboo cutting boards very cheaply and they grow back quickly.

My brother was willing to try wooden cutting boards based on bamboo being cheap enough that in the worst case scenario they were disposable

Wow, even the Cross Bronx is seeing less traffic? That’s amazing!

I haven’t driven through there lately but will have to dig into it a bit: GPS tends to take me through the city if I travel south and I have no idea if it crosses over into the congestion pricing zone. And it’s not like I can set GPS to avoid tolls - no one has that kind of time

All posturing and bullying aside ….

Building a nuclear weapon is “easy” and the knowledge is generally available. However enriching uranium is much tougher. For many decades the most effective way to limit nuclear weapon proliferation has been to restrict enrichment efforts.

I hope you’re not questioning why it’s a good idea to limit how many countries have nuclear weapons. Sure, the ones that have them are due for plenty of criticism but you can’t escape the math of more countries with nuclear weapons means more chances of someone using one.

As a citizen of the only country to use a nuke in anger …. I’m fine with everyone else calling that out assuming they’re serious about preventing it from ever happening again

My parents would never allow that, but among my excesses in college: pulling all nighters with a package of double stuffed and a 2L bottle of Mountain Dew. Now I feel nauseous even thinking about it, and my heart probably wouldn’t hold out

Well you see, moderation is key.

• take 2-4, reseal the package
• repeat until done