“Champagne Socialism!” - People who “can taste the difference” between Champagne^tm and “sparkling wine”

Do they all know? As long as there’s informed consent, more power to the polycule.

If you are like me and grew up in the heart of empire, you will find that the amount of things that we were not told or simply lied to about is mystifying.

When assessing any reaction you have to a particular piece of historical information or if you see a headline and think “well that makes sense from a geopolitical perspective” take a moment and consider the root of those feelings or the source of the conflicting information.

If you are anything like me, you’ll find yourself wondering what the point of the lies or omissions is, why would they lie about these body counts? Why would they downplay the role of the Soviet Union in these world changing efforts?

It sounds overly simplistic, but just asking the question: “could this make a rich person slightly uncomfortable in any way at all” pretty much always gives you the answer.

I always tell new engineers that “not feeling it” falls under “not feeling well” and that they shouldn’t check their email or respond to work messages when they’re not being compensated.

Send your “I’m not feeling well email” and shut it all off and don’t pick up the phone, your time is your time.

Eta: I think hearing that from a senior engineer when I first started out would have kept me from burning out so hard.

Imagine being against these people and thinking “we’re spreading democracy!”

Zwave is a little more reliable, but pricier. ZigBee gets you into mesh networks and gives you a better experience without the drawbacks you’d get going with a purely wifi based experience. Both are mesh networks and fundamentally different than using wifi.

As though at this point China isn’t capable of producing the advanced manufacturing equipment necessary themselves… Well, the fucking around has been underway for some time, I guess we’re about to find out.

If it’s more things than I’ve got fingers I’m obviously not supposed to have it. Counting is reactionary!

For the people who can’t be bothered to deal with ZigBee or zwave, the wifi is always connected to the Internet. Which means that those devices are possible threat vectors.

If you could properly configure a vlan to isolate your untrusted iot devices you would also be entirely capable of configuring a zwave or ZigBee mesh network.

I’ve built my own esphome sensors and have tasmota compatible devices (Shelly, I endorse all of their tasmota capable devices), but the use case is different.

There are different tools for different jobs, that’s why we have these different standards. It’s not about fracturing markets or some other capitalist end goal, it’s about having the right tool for the job. Wifi ain’t it.

If you must use wifi, esphome and tasmota are the best (and only acceptable ones that I know of) options.

• most wifi devices are cloud based, which means they can go out of business or start charging you for access to your device. Or stop updating their app… Or… Etc. Etc.

• wifi is accessible remotely, combined with the cloud point, you increase your surface area for someone accessing your home network without your permission

• adding 20+ iot devices will bog down pretty much all your consumer grade routers. You will degrade performance across your network.

• matter, thread, ZigBee, and zwave are not bespoke or “low tech”. They are standards developed to mitigate the above listed points. They use completely different frequency bands than wifi, they are not designed for high throughput applications.

• you mitigate the “mess” by running locally controlled software on a hub that aggregates all the devices in a communication agnostic way.

I’ve been doing this for a while. Do not use any wifi ones. They’ll update themselves into incompatibility or the cloud service running them will go out of business, or there will be some security breach…

Get yourself a ZigBee dongle, or a zwave dongle, and then get devices compatible with it.

You won’t find yourself buying products that just stop working because capital demands line go up.

I can’t believe they ran a photo of her in the midst of a reaction like that. It’s not very empathetic to kick her while she’s down like that.

Isn’t bibibaby hiding out in Sicily or some shit while all this is going down?

What a bitch. Unfortunately he’s evil enough to get a Kissinger death.

Somehow the British boots are even more bland.

I like this, I also like the idea of using actors names and terrible impressions. It’s a specific style of play for sure, so it doesn’t work for everyone. But I do enjoy the silliness.

The way Kropotkin talks about dishwashers…

Did he catch a brick?

Edit: looks like he hung out at the field office. Wimp.

It’s got a gold star on it. That’s sufficient.

So, this seems to be the case, but I’ve never seen anyone use anything but 73. Or “Good Business.” But I’ve only been a ham for a few minutes.

I will say that most normies have no idea about Nazi weirdos and all the symbols they love.