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Wall switches are fine by me, I just don't like smart bulbs

For me at least, it's not about speeds, but stability. Prior to installing relays, smart switches and whatnot in my house I could stream games from my PC to my phone/laptop flawlessly, but after installing them all it's completely unplayable due to stutters and latency. Download speeds are more or less the same though

Ultimately whether it matters will depend on your use case, like most things

Yeah the people who are responding to this saying "who cares, it's just corporations being harmed" are thinking too small picture. The corporations aren't going even harmed that much by this, not on a global scale, they'll just shut down the most affected stores. Then who suffers? All the residents of those communities.

Look, I don't like big mega corps like Target and Walmart, but the fact is that they can afford to sell goods to people at way lower prices than small retailers. Don't misunderstand me, I know that's because they've put a stranglehold around suppliers and built giant monopolies, but the effect is the same. The world would be a much better place if giant retail monopolies all disappeared, but it would have terrible consequences for them to only dissappear from the poorest and most crime laden communities

I'm honestly pretty impressed, I don't think you have a single comment that isn't down voted to hell lol

I'm sure it's just because you're telling "hard truths" and not that you're an asshole though

Are there any reputable relay brands that work with zigbee? I prefer relays, but I agree that wifi based relays are basically like installing low power wifi jammers in your house lol (OK, that's an exaggeration, but it is an issue)

You don't. Part of love is openness, you can't love a person while not being willing to share the fact that you love them. Pretty much by definition

As I recall (it's been a while) you have that backwards, Snape was the OG at blocking mind reading, but only reasonably proficient at doing it himself, whereas Dumbledore was able to weedle memories out of people that they didn't even know they had

It's literally a core facet of dumbledores character that he's always genial and calm, even in the face of total disaster. It's part of what made him an intimidating wizard.

Even besides that though, why wouldn't he ask calmly? One of two things are true

1. Harry did put his name in the goblet and is lying about it, in which case going full on "DIDYOUPUTYOURNAMEINTHEGOBLETOFFIRE!?!?" is only likely to put Harry on the defensive and make him less likely to own up.
2. Harry didnt put his name in the goblet and is being setup by voldy or his buddies. In which case Harry is a victim and should be handled as such. At this point Dumbledore had very good reasons to think this was the more likely of the two.

Dont get me wrong, if you wanna talk about JKRs shitty writing, I'll happily join you, but this is actually an example of good writing on her part, given that the character in question is supposed to be the smartest wizard alive, it makes perfect sense that he'd react rationally instead of lashing out emotionally

That's awesome, but the real question is - will we be able to buy one for MSRP?

I've never thought to ask this before, but is seating for congress preassigned? Or is it a "first come first serve" deal?

6 months or so, I'd say

What are "business certificates" and what does it mean for Trump to have them revoked?

If it's shared like a meme, it's a meme - that's literally the only qualification

If you're asking this because you're considering starting - dont. I vaped for a little while in college, started out with the 0 nicotine juices, but after trying a few nicotine ones I found I liked the "throat hit" you got from the nicotine versions, as well as the head high.

One day I lost my vape and that's when I realized how unexpectedly I got hooked. I stopped then and there and it's only because I hadn't been at it too long that I was able to quit cold turkey and permanently (10 years since then now).

The fact is that on the "pro" side, you get a mild buzz, and only when you're vaping stronger concentrations than you're used to and that's about it. I started because I thought it was cool and it was a conversation starter at parties (vaping was more novel then and college freshmen are easy to impress), but I'm so glad I knocked that shit off before it really got it's hooks into me.

On the con side its expensive, unhealthy (only considered "healthy" when compared to sucking smoke), uncool to everyone over the age of 20, and highly addictive (if using nicotine, but even if you plan to stick with 0 nicotine juice, you may eventually cave, I did.)

Basically there's very little reason to start and a lot of really compelling reasons to never pick it up

Because despite how the internet likes to talk, you can't generalize an entire generation in a single lemmy comment while still being accurate

I mean, I'm not anti-sex-worker by any means, but hero?

Genuinely curious how you came to that conclusion

I mean, I'd say a dish that's 100 years old is fairly old and customary at this point. Not ancient or anything, but 100 years is nothing to sneeze at

YNAB

Always takes like 20 seconds to load a super simple web app

The thing is though, Low effort, high special effect action, action over plot moviesis nothing new, before marvel it was transformers and so on all the way back to shoot em up westerns at the dawn of cinema.

Its not like before the MCU, you're average movie goer was watching super artistic cerebral movies, and comic book movies took that all away, like this guy is acting

This has always felt like one of those arguments that just kicks the can.

Yes, there are 100% some homeless people who are in such a bad place that they'd outright refuse a home even if you gave it to them free of charge (or would immediately sell it for drug money/burn it down because it's filled with alien Spyware or something), but I'd wager that if you actually gave a lot of these people a stable home, and food in their fridge so they weren't literally fighting for their lives on the street, they'd be able to self improve a lot more than people give them credit for.

A lot of homeless are just people who had one bad turn after another and are just unable to break the cycle because our system really isn't built to let them do so. I think we should also be providing mental Healthcare and addiction support to these people, but saying that should come before giving them a sense of stability and safety is ass backwards imo