I've never used google home, so I'm totally in the dark here--but if they haven't previously implemented a feature as simple as a button or switch, how can it do anything else at all? It's the most basic of input methods.
At any rate, occupancy sensors / motion sensors basically operate on the same premise as a physical switch in any home automation system I've ever used. Without that capability can it even be called a smart home system?

Because it involves him being an Israeli asset. How does an non-credentialed private school teacher with a history of poor performance and allegations of misconduct with the young ladies move into the financial sector with Bear Stearns and immediately begin making tens of millions of dollars? They don't.

One must never question the methods or the motives of our greatest ally, or they will be branded an antisemite and made a pariah of polite society, the one that's cool with turning predominately women and children, and unarmed men who occupy a densely populated open air prison camp into bits and pieces using our tax dollars.

Why burn it when you can sell it to someone for a whole lot more? It's not like there won't be a buyer for it in the future.

The US government gave moderna alone $10+ billion in grants and advance purchase agreements regardless of the eventual effectiveness; that doesn't count what their extortionist salespeople gleamed from the rest of the world. More billionaires were created at that time than any other point in history. It's said that among all of those companies producing C19 vaccines, the eventual PROFIT was 90 billion USD.

Just between us, I think they did a little bit better than "free". A sensible corporation, of course, would be expected to retain some of that windfall and expend it on research and making their products better, more effective, safer, etc. rather than immediately turning around and making their boards, main shareholders and a handful of executives unfathomably, impossibly rich.

Renewables makes little sense in the context of AI focused data centers, which require very consistent power supply. Some of them are planning on 1GW of power usage once fully built out, but there are some already in the 500MW range. We are talking about an installation needing ~2000 acres of solar panels just to power the base load of a midrange AI center with NO consideration for night time use, basically double that to account for the night usage, add in another 20-30% for variability in either solar or wind sources. And throw in some ginormous battery system the likes of which the world has never seen, and you're beginning to get an idea of what's required just to support one data center.

The one thing people fail to recognize about dog whistles is that you have to be a dog to hear them.

Perhaps the gay dating portion of the site was a better, more productive use of time, but the straight side represented only the dregs of society. As I remember, the sheer quantity of low quality mutants was most impressive; and that was once one managed fed to filter out the obvious sex workers, scammers, trafficked individuals, etc.

Regarding the "Fishing boats": even the most adherent of the mainstream lefty agitproppers have long since abandoned that narrative, because it's so easily disproven by even a layman with a modicum of knowledge. Fishing boats don't have a hundred thousand plus dollars worth of Yamaha outboards on them. They don't go 80+ miles per hour, they don't go beyond the horizon in the middle of night, and they actually carry fishing gear and tackle, which anyone with a functioning eye can plainly see none of those boats had.

You're like five news cycles behind the times, bub. There is no argument that you can provide which would prove these boats were not up to no good. On the other hand, is there an argument that maybe we shouldn't blow them out of the water? Maybe try making that argument instead of repeating stale propaganda.

If a teacher earning 100k can't improvise a short lesson on how to read an analog clock and make it also applicable to other aspects of the class, or life in general (fractions, counting by fives, understanding of language, time management) then the teacher / curriculum may be the lowest common denominator.

As I've outlined, there is already violence. There has been violence. Literal nonstop violence. It will end when both sides want it to end, but that is the one condition that absolutely must be met, since without a will there is no way.

I don't even think it would be that hard, if there were truly a will for it, and if peace were truly pursued it would heal so many facets of life in the area, Israel wouldn't need Iron domes or Samson options; IDF budget could be repurposed in meaningful ways that help the population.

A) Israel needs to stop being the stereotype in its relations. Full stop, whatever things that could be perceived as Jewy: just stop doing them.
B) start recognizing your neighbors as human beings instead of amalek. Honor the intent of agreements and don't weasel your way around them. That includes ceasefires: if your people open up on unarmed civilians, they need to be publicly PROSECUTED instead of privately ATTABOY'D. Also stop justifying rape of POWs. It's beyond sick.
C) don't murder peace delegations, especially don't send missiles into foreign countries to murder peace delegations. Crazy, right?
D) absolutely stop settler activities
E) acknowledge how you've manipulated the situation (supporting Hamas publicly and secretly) and prepare to institute reparations
F) recognition of the Palestinian people internationally, lead the world into supporting a Palestinian government you'd be comfortable having as a neighbor.
G) build reasonable accommodation (not tent cities) in NEGATIVE FIRE ZONES, with international oversight, and invite survivors to start new lives there. Strictly uphold their security.

The idea that "before oct 7 the violence was mostly not going on" is insane on the face of it, as the population of Gaza has been under constant blockade since the early 90s--therefore under constant military threat and in fact enduring a constant act of war throughout the last 35 years--multiple generations essentially living in an open air concentration camp.
Blockading a civilian population can be considered at once: an act of war, and a war crime; especially if aid is withheld as it has been multiple times. People have an individual and a collective right of self-defense. That includes Israelis, of course, but it also includes Palestinians.
The situation is entirely untenable all around, and it doesn't help that it's been engineered to be perpetual by the more powerful, more connected side of the conflict--so they can continue to nibble away at Palestine with the settler strategy. I can only imagine the righteous indignation we would witness if the situation were reversed.

You can go back clear before Israel was a country and find that j-ish terrorist agents bombed British policemen, hotels, did drivebys against civilians in the days after WWI wrapped up. How far back do you want to go? 1890s, when it was still Ottoman Empire clay, and schemers were trying to bring Europe into conflict with the ottomans? Because it's there too.

Who started what and when? What does it matter? Who holds the power NOW? You can scarcely call what is being prosecuted a war any more than fish in a barrel are capable of waging war against someone with a gun shooting randomly at the barrel.

Generous tax breaks, favorable exchange rate, labor rates are generally lower, and large pool of potential actors who look like, act like and sound like your typical white protestant Americanââthe typical Jane / Joe, except more attractive and healthy on average. The scenery is familiar to small towns all across the rockies, and snow is more predictable than a lot of areas in the US rockies, all of which lends to wintery Christmas vibes.

Meritocracy is what leading institutions do to achieve world class research, which is one reason why the best research is increasingly NOT happening in the USA. Meritocracy is color blind, and whatever is between one's legs does not enter the calculus of whether an idea is valid or not. Interestingly, they talk about the achievements of this institution what happened in the 50s-90s, not what they've done since 2010.

I will give DEI one thing: what it does, if properly implemented, is bring in people with diverse and varied life experiences. I'm even willing to admit that might be advantageous; oftentimes a different point of view is valuable. However, it also brings in a lot of distractions and people who occupied the bottom rungs of their class scores, and grading curves shifted lower due to underachievement--but the administration will not accept most of the class failing. The optics would be HORRENDOUS.

If I find myself or my family members needing to go under a knife, I do not want my surgeon and anesthesiologist to be diverse. I naturally want them to be the best, the most experienced professional in their field. Recognizing that it's not possible to always get those people, we have to accept that we may get someone with middling competency, who passed at the bottom of their class. Fine, they are called doctor as well. What we should not accept lowering of those standards just to bring in an underrepresented, underperforming doctor. Sorry not sorry.

Same with pilots. I don't care if the pilot of my plane is an albino, trans, polka-dotted moomoo-wearing Eskimo, as long as it doesn't distract they them performing their duty. I want them to be a GOOD, safe, competent pilot, who earned their position because they demonstrated merit, not because they were shoehorned and kept in the job by a DEI cultist in HR despite numerous repeated near-misses.

Except the workforce doesn't become optional in any case. It becomes absolutely redundant, and it will be eliminated.
In a globalized capitalist society without any guardrails, it can be assumed that if there is a way to optimize something to provide greater shareholder value / CEO pay and bonuses, it will be done. Just as if something was cheaper to produce in Asia, virtually all of that work will be done in Asia; if AI does something, anything less expensively than a laborer, that work will be moved to AI. That is not to say that some workers may be kept around as tokens, or objects of abuse--bullying robots just doesn't have the same feel.; they will be like the caucasians employed in Hong Kong. Look at us! We are doing well enough to employ a useless white guy!

In this world, It's a constant race to the bottom, consequences be damned. If AI cuts the legs off the working class, and ultimately the whole economy topples as a result, they will not care, so long as the financial quarter before the collapse was the best, most profitable quarter ever.