fd00:: is the new 192.168

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coon_Chicken_Inn Black people and chicken was like leprechauns and breakfast cereal for a while.

My brain definitely focuses better with environmental cues. I mean, I can work just about anywhere, but if I’m not in the mood, then having the environmental cues displaces alternatives. Subjectively, I feel more productive at work. Never had a really bad commute, so I was never motivated to try to set up a ‘work-only’ space at home, but I’d only do a 70 mile one-way drive for very special occasions.

Doesn’t matter if their wealth is illiquid, they can still pay a cash tax on it. Us mere mortals, whose major wealth is a house, pay a wealth tax on it every year. (in fact, considering that most homeowners still have a mortgage, they’re paying wealth tax on more than their actual equity) Most billionaire wealth is stocks, bonds, and real estate which are easily valued

What you’re describing, paying taxes when a purchaser divests assets, is exactly what we do now: a capital gains tax

I can see that. Most of my house gets enough light - or streetlights at night - to walk through with the lights out at midnight. Add in a lumen sensor, though, to dial lights up when it’s cloudy and down when it’s sunny…

When I think of automations, it’s either things like coordinating big power draws to cheap electricity or trivial quality of life enhancements, like turning out the lights in an empty room. The latter, I have trouble justifying to spend on occupancy sensors and smart switches if it’s only going to save 20 Watts of LED or five steps. Once it’s become your hobby, it’s much easier to say, “I’m going to buy these sensors because they’re fun to play with and it gives me joy to see them work.”

I didn’t think I was. I got sucked in by sensors to monitor indoor temp, humidity, air quality… A smart switch to turn lights on and off when I’m not home. Now I’m thinking of how to turn the HVAC fan off when IAQ is good and temperature is comfortable. I’m not ready to have the house turn lights on when I enter a room or start the oven when I get within a mile of the end of my commute, but it’s been growing, one $30 gadget at a time with no subscriptions and no data leaving my LAN.

acetic acid is almost as volatile as water, and the atmosphere contains a lot less of it. If you evaporate vinegar, you’re likely to lose about as much - maybe more - of the acid than the water. So, evaporation is probably not a good way to concentrate vinegar.

This is exactly the kind of semi-ridiculous thing I like about home automations: the power to answer one’s most trivial curiosities.

I’d probably add a logger, so I could follow the history of Mohkno’s food thievery, then try different techniques to discourage her. Have ha also play a recording of you saying ‘Mohkno, no!’ Some activity to distract her during the critical food-stealing window. Or go all-in and get those microchip-reading pet feeders.

I have a ‘roll-your-own’ using an adafruit SCD-30 module https://www.adafruit.com/product/4867 IR-based CO2, temp & humidity; I2C with python libraries, so integrating it with an RPi is easy. Sensor is self-calibrating over time, so if you leave it in a higher CO2 space with no exposure to fresh air, it will eventually drift such that the lowest observed CO2 reports as 420 ppm. Newer SCD-40 is only $45, but different sensor technology.

Dunno about their shipping outside the US.

I do wonder if not having to ‘hear’ words changes the rhythm of reading.

Hadn’t thought of this…what’s your take on poetry, especially meter-forward? Like, Robert W Service or Robert Frost, I feel would be less interesting if they didn’t have their beat.

I don’t do voices or accents when I read. Everything is in the same ‘voice,’ which isn’t quite the same as my spoken voice. My internal voice enunciates much better and slightly lower pitch. It’s more like the voice I wish I had than the voice I do have. :)

No, that’s the way the fediverse is supposed to work. It would be sockpuppeting for both of your accounts, say A@A.social and B@b.social, to have a conversation with each other on a third instance, say !politics@c.social, with which both a & b are federated.

This wasn’t the Nordstream pipeline. This was a Finland-Estonia pipeline and telecoms in Oct 2023.

If you make it to 62, your life expectancy is 21 more years. that mean 21*0.7 = 14.7 years worth of social security payments. Full benefit at age 67 gets you 16 years worth of payments. If they’d raise full retirement age to 70, you’d only collect 13 years of payments.

In the US, social security is a tax on poor people earning less than~$160k. That’s the bottom 90% of earners.

The top 10% of earners collect about half of the country’s personal income. Each of them does have to pay SS tax on the first $160k of earned income, but clearly there’s a huge pool of income that doesn’t pay into social security.

I kinda want to see if we can post enough screenshots from DayZ and Left 4 Dead, calling them photos from our neighborhood to get the AI media to report on a global zombie virus.

Your router knows it’s in trouble when you call it by its government name instead of its 192.168.street.name

I hate that my brain played little riffs of both of those songs for me just by seeing their titles.

Not in their primaries.

With so many states ridiculously gerrymandered, Republican candidates - in non-state-wide races - really only need to beat other republicans. If the Evangelical/anti-abortion block can reliably deliver around 1/3 of voters, they will reliably swing a primary. That keeps the party captured by their radicals, and keeps the country stuck with the ideology of a minority of the minority.

Broth, man. Really not worth it for home cooks. If you’re a restaurant, though, going through dozens of chicken carcasses every day or breaking down beef quarters, all of the broth components are right there. It’s nothing to keep a 20 gallon pot full of bones & veg trimmings simmering for days. Home-made broth is an extravagance of special-bought, unusual items; restaurant broth is garbage collection. Side note, you can add a couple packets of non-flavored gelatin to canned broth to get a much richer experience. Still, I always go out if I have a craving for broth-forward soup.

Sandwiches, too - just doesn’t make any sense for me to buy a whole head of lettuce so I can put one leaf on bread.

I’ll admit to being a hobbyist on the technical side - I went through a couple of moderately expensive home roasting appliances, but I’ve settled on a $100 rotisserie toaster oven to which I added a $25 PID temperature controller. 18 minutes and I get a nice quarter-kilo of beans. I’m less of a coffee connoisseur - my beans all look the same color, even from batch to batch, and all taste decent - I can’t really drink Folgers anymore - but I can’t swear that James Hoffman would approve.

My green beans cost $15/kg, which, because there’s some mass loss during roasting, works out to ~ $18/kg roasted. Throw in a round $1 for electricity (1-1.5 kWh/kg). My local specialty roasters are all around $35-40/kg. 4* 20minutes = 1.3 hours, so I could notionally pay myself $14/hr and still break even. I could double the batch size if I were really concerned with time.

I am still, notionally, paying off those home-roasting appliances, though. They were convenient, but less reliable than the Walmart toaster oven.