Inshallah

even the stars are ill at ease

I have gotten some nice blends from Adagio

doesn’t seem like it needs to increase the electric usage by that much, you only need a RasberryPi or equivalent to run the server, and you control everything with your phone… the outlets and solenoids shouldn’t need much power to do their thing. I saw earlier today how many options for EVs are available in South America (anywhere outside the US imperial core, actually) and it was a bit shocking. The conversion to EV business seems like a great idea - especially if they can standardize replacement parts that would be amazing.

Home assistant is great for home automation stuff like lights and cameras and AC and such but for controlling your water system you might want something less complex / more purpose-designed. There are many arduino-based projects for doing exactly what you’re looking for - https://arduinogetstarted.com/tutorials/arduino-automatic-irrigation-system or https://www.instructables.com/Automatic-Plant-Watering-System-Using-Soil-Moistur/ are two i just looked up real quick. I’m sure it would be possible with assistant as well though if you just wanted to centralize.

Except that when companies can’t make money they adapt by buying politicians to mandate use of their dirty product and outlawing alternatives. Voting with your wallet only goes so far, whereas taking out one CEO has managed to affect the behavior of an entire class. Imagine if they were hunted at the rate of american schoolkids.

Upvoted for freetube link, Chomsky is also pretty on point most of the time

bbc bringing the hard hitting investigative climate updates again

There’s also a very uncool colonial system involved where many small growers are not allowed to sell or export thier coffee crop without jumping through exploitative regulatory hoops that increase the cost at every step. Not to discount the climate impact on the crops. The added cost comes down to greed in both cases - the ones taking advantage of farmers developing countries and marking up the product more and more and the greed of people profitmaxxing regardless of causing and making the climate crisis worse.

The idea of the family is so pernicious when it is used to justify abuse and avoiding responsibility and consequences of bad behavior. Cutting people off when they’re consistently being harmful assholes shouldn’t be contigent upon blood relation or any other kind of personal or group association and all the people selling “family is forever” or “traditional family values” are doing it because they themselves are the abusive asshole that doesn’t want to be cut out

from what i understand it’s moving to an even hotter place either next or in the next few years

I would think the Muslim world would be getting more interested in climate discussions with temps during Hajj being lethal (1200 deaths this year alone)

moving soon and I hope the new neighbors aren’t like that :P (the homophobes, i meant - the ones in the article souns amazing)

that’s cool. might be super effective to throw stuff up like that around outside lands while it’s on, if you’re able to plan that far ahead. is this right in front of mozilla & xitter? lol

was scrolling down to see if anybody had mentioned them yet, but yeah when they have stock they seem to really know their stuff when it comes to footwear. the youtube channel is very informative

That was great :) thanks for the rec