I work in an esop. It's pretty cool in that we own the company in shares based on tenure, it's not like a union though.
We don't vote on the CEO or the board, we have third party trustees that manage the esop account.
We aren't beholden to external shareholders, which is the absolute best part. Line doesn't go up, it really just affects our retirement accounts, but even then our valuation takes into account stuff like cash on hand and contract stability. So... We have pretty fiscally conservative management, which is a great thing for us.
I have some ducks living in my garage, they don't pay rent, they poop everywhere, and contrary to the meme, they do not enjoy being lifted off the ground.
They do, however, eat vegetables out of my hands, and if I sit on the ground near them the will nibble my hands and feet.
They are incredible and much like dogs we truly don't deserve them.
Alt headline: "Boomers Ruin Economy via Exploitation and Wealth Extraction, Retire to Areas They Haven't Ruined Yet"
Pull quote: "It just feels like there's too much clean air and hopeful youth. I'd really love to be able to relax in my old age, but I just don't feel like I can rest when there's so much we haven't destroyed."
As far as the local control goes, you can keep it from phoning home and it will still work. I don't believe that the Shelly firmware is open source, but they allow you to upload custom firmware that is.
Because you can cut them off from the outside world I don't believe it is doing the same kind of data collection externally unless you allow it to.
The new "mini" versions of their gear is harder to customize apparently but still possible, they still sell the larger versions though too that are easy to modify.
I agree that other protocols are better, but I've found that zwave tends to be more stable and reliable than zigbee. And both are better than Wi-Fi. But Wi-Fi is the easiest to onboard for a beginner.
Sometimes you need a little treat, go for the naproxen. Every once in awhile I'll take one of those for a headache and it makes me realize how much my whole body hurts sometimes.
Honey crisp is becoming more widely available as the variety's patent protections ran out a few years ago. Now that you don't have to have a special license from University of Minnesota to grow them we're gonna be able to get the "generic."
If you don't think "it's magic" after emag theory... At a certain point the math does start to read like spell craft.
"Yes, yes, but what ratio of turns do we need in the transformer?"