...revealing that DST and the clock shift is one of the stupidest fucking things those dipshits in government endorse. The claims aren't that abandoning that ridiculous fiasco is going to end obesity and unhealthy dietary and life choices. The claim is that the extra stress from fucking around with the fucking clocks causes an increase in catastrophic or slow corrosive health outcomes. There are lots of other negatives related to jacking around people's sleep schedules, like a pretty well documented increase of traffic accidents immediately following the shift.

There are a lot of words that can be used to describe DST. Most of mine are profanity; but they all boil down to one: stupid. DST is stupid. End it because it's stupid. It doesn't work. It's wasteful, and causes measurable harm every time the clocks get fucked with.

Someone said that the problem is that half of us want the clocks to settle on DST and the other half want it set on standard time, and that's why we haven't ended it. I disagree. Most of us who want it gone don't care which way we settle, as long as that wasteful moronathon gets ended. With prejudice.

That's their real name. TicketBastard. They are absolutely a monopoly, and I doubt that we're ever going to see much movement on that because they really have the market locked down behind their completely shitty purchasing experience. I'm surprised that the prevailing idea is that they "don't do enough" to prevent predatory ticket resale when the investigation should be whether or not they're involved in price fixing with the scalpers.

Does that include "delivery charges"?

I live in New Hampshire in the US, and I'm paying $0.23/kWh, or $230.00/MWh. That doesn't include delivery charges, which are as much as or more than the electricity cost. Since they separate delivery charges, the actual rate I'm paying is more like $0.46 to $0.50 per kWh; so, slip-sticking the orders of magnitude, $500/MWh.

Are you gonna be be a complete bastard and tell me that you get residential 460V three phase, too? Just like the Finns?

I've seen a couple recommendations to go HomeAssisstant. I agree completely, even with the caveat that there's some work in that. That said, I'm in year 7 with HomeAssisstant, and don't see other options that are as capable.

Similarly, Tasmota and ESP Home are high on my list of preferred firmwares. If I can Run a device on either of those, or even better, if they come with one of those firmwares pre-installed, that's a win. Shelly is mostly a win, and they're enough of a win that I reommend their stuff without much or any reservation. Tuya can absolutely go screw themselves with a rusty wire brush.

Companies that violate their agreements like Futurhome need to run into the ground and their owners made permanently, personally bankrupt. IANAL, but the words "class action" seem to fit this scenario. There's definitely harm and numerosity.

No, and anything after his name in that question is superfluous.

But it's easier if you already have them pre-positioned...

No button with a fingerprint reader, and "AI" trash. The button, and less "intelligence" were major selling points for the SE that I bought a couple years ago. I explicitly do not want "AI". This is an anti-feature. I explicitly do not want facial recognition. This is also an anti-feature. Time to start looking for something that actually works close to the way I want it to, again.

It should read "PC Shipments Stuck in Neutral Because of AI Buzz"

I'm going to not so dangerously speculate that most people are very done with all the spying that industry does on them. They're sick of the constant barrage of ads from every goddamned electronic thing they buy; and that "AI" buzzword just means more of that shit is going to be shoveled into their brainspace. That's a huge net negative for the average person, irrespective of what some delusionally extroverted influencer is peddling.

I think it's safe to say that "AI means don't buy" for most people.

Cronyism. Thought that was obvious.

Because it's fascism, but neither the Democrats nor the Republicans can afford to admit to that embarrassing truth.

I really despise this really common logical fallacy (ambiguity) that people spout about rights. This statement is patently false. Lying, libel, and slander are not free speech. Nobody has the right to libel or slander another person. You do not have a right to lie, especially not about another person, intentionally, in ways that damage them.

You can say damaging things about someone if they are true. If Mann had been compared to Ancel Keyes, that would have been accurate and defensible. The hockey stick model was terrible.

Has it really been 18 years of this corner of the Drug War stupidity? I hope any regulator who supported this garbage drowns in their own snot. This bullshit needs to be unfucked.

...And ban all of the candidates who had their hats in the ring when RON won from being a candidate for rest of this and the following election cycle for the position they attempting to win. Meaning, if you're a candidate for a US. Senatorial seat, and RON wins, you are banned from candidacy for any elected position in this election and from candidacy for any other elected position for 6 years.

...And Federal Reserve Notes aren't a scam?

If it isn't then why does a vanishingly small number of bankers collect interest on nearly every dollar issued? (Nearly, because coins are fiat money issued by the United States Treasury Department. While the Treasury mints paper specie, it does not issue Federal Reserve Notes. They're issued by the private banking cartel most people wrongly believe is a government agency. The Federal Reserve System is a government sponsored monopoly cartel of banks established because of a successful conspiracy. ...And to embrace a possible genetic fallacy, Wilson signed it into law. Everything that racist shitbag did is questionable.

How is that not a scam?

I'm not arguing that all cryptocurrency isn't a scam. I'm stating that the usual implied or explicit comparator, existing usurious fiat currencies, isn't a leg you should stand on.

Yeah. They did. It's been picked for decades. The lane is "Arrogating authority so that my faction can abuse it now without consideration of long term consequences."

Many people are comfortable with poor or wrong opinions from the Court because those opinions appear to cater to their subjective value judgements. For example, Obergefell v. Hodges is wrongly decided because it legalizes same sex marriage. It is absolutely not wrongly decided because it provides for homosexual couples to establish a domestic union. It is absolutely wrongly decided because it wrongly asserts that the government has any authority to assert with respect to who may marry or for what reasons provided all parties are consenting. This opinion arrogates that authority, and is threfore tyrannous, irrespective of whether the Court panders to an immediate goal of enabling the rights of homesexual people. The wording of the opinion pretends to grant rights, attempts to redefine "marriage," and asserts the court's authority to condone or prohibit what it poorly defines as "marriages." The only correct decision the Court could have come to, in the context of the First Amendment, is to assert that neither the Federal Government nor any subordinate government has the authority to interfere in the establishment of "marriages" under any name, be it "domestic partnership," "holy matrimony," or "fuckbuddies for life" between consenting partners irrespective of their sexual or romantic orientation, and that it is a High Crime for any government official to interfere in the establishment of a marriage between consenting parties. Or, the Court should have established that was never illegal for consenting people, gay or otherwise, to marry because the government is prohibited from interfering in those types of things, and any prohibitions are and always have been unconstitutionally illegal. Instead of recognizing our rights of conscience, enumerated as freedom of expression and religion, they granted a privilege to a high profile minority, denigrating all of our rights in the process.

That's typical of those meddling dipshits. They will always weasel out of recognizing the boundaries of government when it suits the Court majority's political prejudices, even when those boundaries are explicitly stated in the government's charter.

So, now that the throne is held by a different faction of authoritarian assholes, we have to suppress what the new junta labels as BadThink. That's what this current USSC opinion enables.

Note that the immediately previous statement is emphatically not an endorsement of Traitor Trump. It's a condemnation of whoever is handling Biden. They're both evil and stupid, but express their evil and stupidity in radically different ways.