Venus fly traps are actually only in the US. The Carolinas specifically.

Frankly you shouldn’t stop with just IoT devices. My sister wouldn’t listen to the HA so she’s not allowed over. It was a bit of a fight in the family but the dog listens so it got to stay and I think that’s totally reasonable.

Its a cheat code. It doesn’t fix things but it helps everyone put the guns down and remember they’re on the same side. Mix in when things are also good and it’s aces. Just never forget it only works as long as you both do the other work.

Then you’re doing better than most of us! I was worried I was to preachy lol.

Oh also, never underestimate the value of little things on the way home. Been friction at home? Spend $5 on some bath salts. If you guys are on the same page with the big stuff, the little stuff goes a long way. Shit saves marriages and heart attacks lol

Mimicking what others said here, but there is one very important thing: you and your wife need to be on the same page on this.

Owning a business involves your whole family, you can get better at it, but there’s no way around it. Whatever your reasons are for taking this path, make sure they understand. When there’s friction and you need to prioritize the business it will help a lot. The key that helping is to have it be a “we” decision though. You may reach a point where one of you wants to continue and the other doesn’t. You will fight about it. But fighting about if this is getting you where you want to be better than an alternative path is a lot more productive than just fighting about stress.

Re: time: I always say that it’s usually not the hours (although sometimes it certainly is), it’s that you’re never really off. You’ll start to fall into rythem and realize what is critical and what can wait. It gets easier but it never gets easy.

For construction in general, without knowing the type: be very careful to set yourself up for success. Do not get saddled with loans for equipment that you don’t need. Do not be afraid to rent on a per job basis for a while. If it helps you avoid oversizing/buying the wrong piece of equipment it’s well worth it.

Grow your client base intentionally. You’re going to have shitty customers. My best friend does a mix of residential, muni, and private. The shit developers have pulled on him is astounding (“I need to sell a house before I can pay you”). They will grind you on bills because they know their ongoing expenses are less than yours; you’ll cave if they wait. Make liberal use of late fees (usually capped by state) and property leins. The art of “playing the game” and not getting rolled over is hard learned. When you get good clients that pay their bills on time and don’t grind, do whatever you need to keep them. especially now, make sure there are material cost escalation and availability clauses in your contracts.

Last: avoid “the lifestyle”. Do not judge your companys success on the fanciness of the equipment or what it’s name is on. Judge it on the balance sheet. You have no idea what other firms books look like. Be intentional about your networking time. That vendor that hosted a golf outing, did you really get good connections out of it or did you go because you needed a break and could call it “work”? If it’s the latter, would you have been more recharged taking a break with your wife around the house? Networking is intangible, you’re going to be the only one who can make that call.

You will fuck all of this up, thats how you learn. But you CAN do this.

They do still exist, I have a specific but popular vehicle, and there’s a dedicated forum style site directly from 2011.

In a perfect world, that would be folded into the “fediverse” protocols, but like they’re already paying their own hosting etc. In the end that’s all reddit did: absorb some nominal hosting and IT for exposure. It made sense for hype niche communities, which is how reddit grew, but now that they’re killing control of the communities… Well… It turns out people were willing to pay for those servers back when they were expensive…

Discord is amazing for a step beyond group messages. I have no idea how it got into a roll as a “community tool”.

No joke: Uncle Sam was a real guy and Ive been to his grave. I forget if his wife was there (or if he had one).

It might be? I forget exactly what it is in humans, I just remember the pictures I was shown. Midline disorders are nightmare fuel.

Oh I get how it got that way, it’s just unfortunate what that lead to in a clinical setting.

Similar to the meme… godamn did they fuck up by not holding geneticists to something close to… SOME standard naming.

Dated a maternal fetal medicine specialist. She’d come home being like “you ever have to explain to someone they have a mutation in the ‘sonic the hedgehog’ gene of their kid?!” If you’re familiar with what it does in fruit flies (when it was named), it’s fucking horrific in humans. Don’t google it.

That’s not me. Thaaaats asbestos.

I worked in bioelectrochemostry. We had looked into that to see if we could juice reactors. Turns out it’s not the bugs that limit things, but godamn did that stuff make them boogie.

Fucking move man. You’re living in a state that apparently depends on almonds. Where do you think you’re going to keep living? What’s the cutoff? Like you can’t raise a family in a state with no water that depends on almonds.

Not as great as it seems. The thing is, everyone’s retirement is tied to real-estate. The numbers my vary country by country, but nearly all pension funds and mutual funds have significant exposure to real-estate that is just ignoring the issue that those properties may become uninsurable. That’s before what happens due to the economic disruption of all those cities slowly, then at an increased velocity, relocating.

It’s not going to be pretty.

So yes, I realize this a joke map (honestly, a giant, probably mostly freshwater sea, in the US would be a blessing). But what you’re describing is the main issue with climate change.

It’s not going to be “the day after tomorrow”. It will be coastal cities… which are… like nearly ALL of them… losing all their economic value. In the US when having this conversation I say “what do you do when any building in Manhattan is uninsurable? What do you do when it’s sure to have severe damage?”.

For most people there are plenty of places to go, but the “going” is going to be very, very ugly.

Dude, they flubbed this so damn hard by over reaching. A few years ago, when they mentioned there would be a button in word that you could use to make a slide deck of your word dock, I was so excited. The teams meeting part where it will summarize meetings is honestly fantastic in doing Roberts rules of order type stuff. My response was “I hate what this means in terms of privacy, but godamn that sounds useful”.

In turning into an everything all or nothing they massively screwed up. I have a self hosted instance of llama-gpt that I use to solve the “blank page” problem that AI was actually great at.

I have a lot of issues with AI on principle, like a lot of folks. But it blows my mind how hard they screwed up delivery (and I don’t just mean the startups, that’s to be expected). There’s plenty to be said about uber at a principle level, but it’s still bloody convenient. The entire roll out of a AI-ecosystem reeks of this meme: “but we made plans!”.

This is getting heated so I’d like to take this chance to say you’re both wrong and the best off-road vehicles only have two wheels with a constant lock on one of them at all times. Hope this helps.

Tires are well and truly goofy. Black magic engineering. The things you could do in an astrovan with the right tires VS a wrangler with the wrong tires just doesn’t seem right.

Tires are just incredibly use specific, Usain Bolt would do terribly in a sprint with bowling shoes, and would hurt himself bowling in running shoes. It doesn’t matter what you drive if you’ve got the wrong shoes for the drive.

A truly skilled driver/rider might be able to pick a good line, but most of that skill will show when they go “nah. Ain’t doing it”.

Signed - an ADV rider who’s tires are and will forever be a compromise between dirt and tarmac performance.

Agreed, and I spent like a decade in protein engineering and pre-biotic chemistry.

And if someone really wants to be a pedant about it, go ahead and prove conscious “intent” is inherently different than, not just a more complex form of, what’s going on here. If someone’s managed to solve all of the philosophy around consciousness, self, and intent, they could really save us all a bunch a time! Until then, pedantically, you’re not wrong to say the plant “knows” to do this as much as I “know” to pay my rent; it’s all just chemical reactions based on environment.

… Or we could allow people to enjoy the pressures and reasons that give rise to the subtle aspects of organism in this complex ecosystem we call earth without being a dick about it, and trust that the level of language specificity will increase/decrease commiserate to the degree of precision the topic requires.