GreyEyedGhost @ GreyEyedGhost @lemmy.ca

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There are a variety of aftermarket thermostats available at Canadian Tire, many of which are quite good. The Home Automation enthusiasts seem to be big fans of ecobee, IIRC, and I have seen ecobee thermostats at CT.

But they already have 3rd world status outcomes for maternal mortality, so don't expect it will get better for the middle class. But I'm sure the rich will get richer!

I don't have a Tesla and am just starting to dip my toes into home automation. That said, there's an article on Teslemetry that discusses the cost of these actions and is trying to reduce them to only when necessary. Here's a link. I'm not sure if the HA integration is using the queue they talk about or if it's something that needs to be set by you, but hopefully this gives you a useful starting point. If nothing else, there's a Discord link that may prove useful.

One of the biggest reasons this has been as effective as it has been is due to non-currency capital that was spent previously: soft power. The US has spent the last 70 years building that capital through aid and good will with partners around the world, and trading some of it back for advantageous deals in other sectors. Now, when their global impact is waning, particularly relative to China, he is spending that good will and partnerships built up over decades to extract concessions that would otherwise be considered untenable. And it will work, for a while. But it also means that countries will look to other trading partners rather than sticking with the no-longer-stable partnership with the US, such as the UK's auto industry in the video. The big problem is that soft power, good will to America, is being spent at a tremendous rate while also reducing the amount they build. When the piggy bank is empty, and all their partners have moved on, the dream of independence, which is in reality isolationism, will show its true consequences, a primarily internal economy and no cushioning or expanding effects of global trade. This will probably take longer than Trump being in power for the full effects to be seen, which is doubtless seen as a positive by Republicans. The real question is if it will be enough to make it impossible to support their military at current levels, and if they will then try to use that military to prop up their economy, as has been done elsewhere.

Hour for hour is a bad metric. Bicycling is going to win hands down, but that's not going to be my first answer when I need to travel 500 km. Kilogram-kilometer is far more reasonable, especially if coupled with asking the question of whether that kilogram needs to be moved that kilometer.

Look, I don't know what they do in the privacy of their bedrooms, and I don't think it's my place to ask.

Superb content, as always, and now I have someone else interesting to listen to because of it.

Not terribly, but it would be a little more surprising if they talked from a Canadian perspective yet seemed more interested in Chinese interests than they were in Canadian interests. That also ignores the large Asian population in Canada who may still have ties with or fondness for China.

Wondering if a certain user with a prolific pro-China comment history will suddenly stop posting now that these blocks are in place...

We waited for 30 years to know who Deep Throat was. Does that mean Woodward and Bernstein were full of shit?

We could be witnessing the birth of a meme!

I asked my company if I could use a password manager and they said no. So now they get a set of rotating passwords that are the same for all my work accounts. It doesn't really bother me - it's their data, not mine.

Yes, we mustn't do that, instead we should filibuster for 16 hours.

Or, just perhaps, different cultures have different standards for how they protest in a debate.

I realize everything you say is correct, but framing is everything. So rather than saying he refuses to leave, we should say he's couch surfing at his bitch Andy's place, but Andy doesn't want to be there with him so he's staying at his other place. Which is also completely correct.

I find it funny how someone who thinks the Liberals would think the Conservatives would make it better. Almost as funny as the idea it only took 10 years for the housing market to get to this state.

Travel to the US has dramatically decreased, to the point where WestJet is canceling routes. I also heard somewhere of some snowbirds getting rid of their winter homes. There was one person I know who was in the medical field that sold ther Florida property and bought in Vancouver not long after the COVID pandemic began.

Just because not everyone is doing it doesn't mean no one is doing it, or whether the impact will be significant.

Logically, if tobacco and alcohol are legal, there's no health-related reason for marijuana to be illegal. Both alcohol and weed impair your judgement, and both smoking tobacco and smoking weed are harmful to your lungs. Everything else about alcohol or tobacco vs weed is worse. And giving criminals easy ways to make money is a bad idea.

So, as another response said, legalize it, regulate it, tax it.

"These yoots..."

GM is also used in GURPS, but the 5 guys here who have used it already know that.

And if they want someone to join them, they can always DM me.

I wonder why? The funding increased somewhat in the last decade, which probably had a handy in the new milestones that were achieved, but now we have a state of global uncertainty that is going to impact a lot of major research funding for the next 4 years or so, so I don't expect major changes in the next 10 years.

And so the cycle continues.