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This is such good advice. You replace the switches one at a time, when you realize that it’d be nice to have that thing automated. Trying to do it all at once… that’s eager optimization. It’s overwhelming, and you’ll end up replacing switches that you never use.
The exception is switch panels; my house has a couple 3- and 4- switch panels. When one of those wants automating, I give it a good, hard think about doing all of them while I’m in there.
But the bite-size advice is gold.
Fantastic resource!
I have tried every kind of switch, so trust me on this: go with z-wave.
I really really like those Eva Logik switches. The fact that they work in 3-way configuration with existing switches makes things so much easier - and cheaper.
Panel 4 is a dream. A couple of years ago my wife discovered this pregnancy pillow that’s basically a ginormous U anti-moat. She loves the damned thing; it’s a soft, defensive wall I have to cross to get to her. It gets ejected during sexy times, but we might as well have separate beds.
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That’s the one upside of AI driving: open Scotch in the car!
Her reaction, no. His reaction, yes. Confidence is sexy, in any gender. Him looking flabbergasted… the gun was justified.
Wall of text incoming, sorry, I get anxious trying to explain myself
I asked; no worries!
I can’t find affordable loose-leaf tea in any store nearby. Ordering something I need regularly online is difficult because I need to remember that I need to do it and then also do it.
Ok, word of warning: I’m a guy, and an engineer, so I’m going to try to solve all of your problems whether you want me to or not. That’s my burden.
I would definitely look for tea online. Unless you’re in a big city, you’ll have better options, and tea ships better than, say, coffee. If you can find a place that sells a tea you like, they may offer an auto-ship service so you don’t have you worry about it.
You say you like having a handful of options to select from - many tea vendors offer samplers and this is an opportunity to go on a culinary voyage of discovery. Once you find a tea you like, from a vendor that has an auto-ship service, you’re set!
As far as brewing, there’s not much more to loose leaf than a tea bag, really. We get keep our tea in big jars, and keep a tea scoop in the jar. With one of those tea infusers I linked, it’s just: one scoop into the infuser, fill with water, and 5 minutes later put the infuser on top of a cup and it dispenses itself. Dump the used leaves in the trash, rinse the infuser, and done. I used to wash the thing, but haven’t in years.
But! Just keep doing what works for you! I just don’t want you to think it’s any more trouble using loose leaf because - in your case - it probably wouldn’t be. And there’s a whole extra world of tea open to you if you can use loose leaf.
Kamala might have.
Hillary is an economically conservative, socially liberal, pro-business politician, like her husband. Very center. Her loss was different from Kamala’s; Hillary actually won the popular vote, and lost only because the electoral college is weighted so heavily in favor of the GOP. If she’d not have made a couple of pretty major gaffs (the open mike SNAFU did her no favors and the aforementioned comment about destroying the oil & gas industry among them) she could have been the first woman US president.
Kamala’s problems were different. Geopolitics worked against her, and by then the GOP had their playbook down pat. She had a hard time really solidifying the left, and maybe she’d indeed have done better if she’d focused more on appealing to progressives, instead of taking them for granted. She was never going to pull votes from Trump’s base; all that was just wasted energy.
I strongly disagree with any statement that Biden’s and her positions on Israel did her any harm. What votes she’d have picked up from the anti-genocide folks would have been swamped by the utter destruction the AIPAC would have wreaked on her. Just the sheer number of dollars they’d have poured into attack campaigns, and while I know that a lot of Jewish folks in the US don’t agree with what the Israeli government is doing, I suspect that, as a block, the majority still leans heavily in support of (or defense of) Israel.
I honestly don’t know why Kamala lost; it was her race to lose, and she did. Maybe if she’d leant more left it’d have helped, but I don’t know.
And you can’t gauge anything political by what you see on Lemmy. With a few notable exceptions, Lemmy leans far left, by a large, vocal majority. Of you’d have bet on this last election based on the sentiment on Lemmy, you’d have list your shirt; despite being critical of the pro-Israel stance, only trolls argued that Trump would be a better outcome for Palestine.
I will die on the hill that one of the biggest mistakes Hillary made was announcing that her Presidency would dismantle the oil & gas industry, as opposed to focusing on creating new, better paying opportunities for current oil & gas workers who were already feeling pressured. The industries would have still have opposed her, but she gave the GOP easy-to-use sound bites to make the blue collar workers think she was coming to take their livelihoods away. She focused on hanging a carrot in front of progressives - who were already in her side - instead of hanging one in front of conservative voters.
By that logic - that fiction is a drug because consuming it releases endorphins or dopamine or whatever - then anything that gives pleasure is a drug.
If you enjoy it, then
Oh no! They were right! TV is a drug!! Rock and roll is a drug! Sex - drug! Not being miserable: definitely a drug. Unless you’re a masochist, in which case: being miserable is a drug!
Good reason.
I’m not sure if any of the GPLs are my ethic, but maybe I’d better review my default of grabbing the BSD license.
She may have only 60% of her body, but he’s got 0% personality.
Where’s the rest of her right arm above the elbow??
So, she was 17. 17 can be super smart in many ways, and sometimes a peak of certain types of creative genius. On the other hand, despite how worldly 17 can feel, most 17 year olds are missing a lot of wisdom you gain only through experience. So I cut her a lot of slack, and “dead” is a pretty serious consequence.
That said, if I’d lived for any number of years with an allergy that would absolutely be fatal without rapid response, even at 17 I would have been extremely cautious about what prepared products I put in my mouth. And I echo another comment: she had a sever but allergy and no Epipen? Were her parents utterly incompetent? I would make sure that’s the one thing she always had with her, and drill into her the consequences. You do not. Fuck. With. Nut. Allergies.
Maybe she developed it late; maybe it had never been a severe reaction before. There are a lot of reasons why this could have gone so wrong without stupidity being involved. But, damn. Food allergies can be really bad, and it seems like someone really fucked up here.
Have you had a chance to try them yet? Did they help at all?
If you’re really fluent.
I lived in Germany for a few years after graduating college with several years of French study under my belt, and there was a point as I was learning German where I would genuinely struggle remembering the right word for things. I’d reach for the German word, and my brain would give me the French word.
Worse was returning to the US. There would be times when I’d be talking and want to say a common word, like “trash can” and I could not for the life of me remember how to say it in English. All I’d get was the German word. I mean, I spent the first 18 years of my life being mono-lingual, and three years in a foreign country and I started forgetting my native tongue.
But the strangest is that now – after 20 years back in the US, when I can practically no longer speak German – it still sometimes happens to me that I’ll reach for a word and get the German one, and can’t remember the English word.
Not instantaneous; just too fast for you to see the trouser snake.
It absolutely implies confidence. And his horrified look on his face, well, fuck him. What an absolute shit reaction to your friend saying they’re better in some way than some artificial, professionally made-up fake persona.
No, your waifu isn’t prettier than your IRL friend, and if that were your reaction to your friend’s statement, kicking you to the curb is the least I’d expect from them.