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All those services exist to benefit the public, and while I don't directly benefit from some of them, I'm happy to pay for them as a member of society. Everybody needs to pitch in for society to function.

Having children is different. I'm sure every parent has their own reasons for procreation, but it's their choice to bring a child into the world because they want to. It's their responsibility to raise the child to adulthood.

Once the child is a functioning member of society and is paying taxes like the rest of us, they have every right to enjoy the same public services that I do. Until then, let the parents pay for their own decisions.

I'm not for a second arguing against public education, and I believe that schools should be properly funded.

In most cases, having children is a choice (rape is abhorrent but I realize it does happen). There is birth control, sterilization surgery, various methods of contraception, and in states that aren't republican shitholes, abortion.

Yes, I'll benefit from educated adults, but if someone decides to have a child, they should be responsible for raising them into adulthood. If I decide I want to buy a piece of land and turn it into a public area, plenty of people will benefit, but it's still my land that I chose to buy, and all costs associated with it are my responsibility.

Reading through the replies here, there are multiple suggestions for ZigBee. I think that's the route I want to go, but I'm not entirely sure how to lay everything out.

I have three separate buildings that need ZigBee devices. I could attach a dongle to the HA server, but that would only have range to work with the devices in that building. My house is much too far away for any wireless access, but it has a 10Gb fiber link to my server rack. The third location doesn't have a wired connection, but it's close enough to get WiFi, and probably close enough to mesh with the ZigBee devices in either of the first two locations.

Is it possible to have multiple ZigBee base stations on the same network; will HA work with this setup? As an alternative, I could maybe install repeaters, but I'm not entirely sure if the locations on my property with electrical connections are close enough together.

Everything gets backed up to a Nextcloud instance running on my main Proxmox hypervisor. Every 24 hours, each VM gets backed up to my NAS. In addition, my Nextcloud VM runs a script every night to upload its entire database to Backblaze.

If you send someone to school for free, somebody is still paying for it. Use childhood education for example; property owners pay for schools with their property taxes, regardless of whether or not they have children in school.

People should pay for themselves, but the cost of education needs to be reasonable enough that they can.

In general, I'm opposed to the idea. College professors don't work for free, and colleges have to pay them. Like it or not, we live in a capitalist society, and everyone needs to be paid. You could raise taxes and fund college publicly, but then you're just passing off the cost of a college education to the taxpayers.

What does need to happen is a tighter regulation of tuition fees. A student should be able to take out a student loan, work a minimum wage job to pay for rent and personal expenses, and be able to pay off their student loan within a few years of graduation. The problem right now is that even if a college student manages to get a job in their field immediately after school, they're stuck paying student loans for a decade or more. 50 years ago, you could work a job flipping burgers, pay for school, and be firmly on your feet a few years after you get your degree. I went to college about 20 years ago, and tuition fees have just about doubled since then. The cost of higher education has far outpaced the average income of a college student.

Nobody should get a free ride; students should pay for school, but they shouldn't be in crippling debt afterwards. There needs to be legislation that forces the cost of education to fit with the minimum wage.

You mentioned youtube channels with "urban" and "city" in the name. I hate cities. I hate the filth, the graffiti, the constant barrage of people invading your personal space, the endless rows of concrete and steel buildings covering what used to be nature. America is a beautiful country that still has plenty of rural areas that people like me can call home. For people like me, cars are a necessity.

As far as cities go, I strongly believe that part of problem with traffic congestion is a lack of space for automobiles. Remove the bike lanes, remove the sidewalks, and convert them into extra lanes of travel for cars.

By your argument, people should not be allowed to live in rural areas. I'm going to use myself as an example. It's about 10 minutes to the nearest grocery store, and a 35 minute drive to the nearest hardware store that carries lumber and sheet goods. Let's say I'm doing improvements on my workshop and I need 20 4x8ft sheets of plywood. I would drive to the store in my full-sized pickup truck, load up the materials I need, and drive them home. On the way back I'm dodging cyclists on my small country road, and the log trucks are driving right down the center of the road because if they stay in their lane, they'll run over a pair of cyclists side by side who are out for a leisurely ride.

What's the alternative when personal automobiles are banned? Should public transit carry all my building materials for me? The cyclists on the road I live on are less inconvenienced by my truck and the log haulers, but at the expense of the people who live here. How do I get my groceries? How do I get to work?

This is going to be an unpopular opinion, but my answer is bicycles. They slow traffic, cause a driving hazard as cars dodge them, and bike lanes take up space that could be used as an additional lane of travel for cars. Some cities around the world are laid out so that bike travel works; American cities are not.

Bikes are great for exercise and should be allowed on tracks and off-road. No vehicle that cannot maintain the speed limit should be allowed on public roads, though. Bicycles should be for exercise, not transportation.

I have the utmost respect for the ffmpeg developers; writing ASM is a skill I do not possess. I do have to wonder, though, would it be easier for cross-platform compatibility to write in C instead. I have always understood that C generally compiles almost directly to assembly with little to no abstraction overhead, and it would not require platform-specific ASM code. What is the logic in choosing ASM over C? I have no doubt there is a good reason.

I don't see addiction as a moral failing; it's a disease. That's why I am strongly in favor of robust social programs to treat mental health and addiction. All health care should be socialized in my opinion, but that's a discussion for another day.

My problem is with people who are continually offered help yet choose not to accept it. I have seen it happen to people I know on more than one occasion. If rehab and sober living facilities are available, but someone makes the choice to continue their lifestyle of addiction or alcoholism, I have absolutely no sympathy for them.

Society should provide the resources for people to succeed in life. If they choose not to take advantage of them, that's their problem, not mine.

I'm far from pure and perfect, and if I ever need help, I hope it's available. Addicts should have access to rehab. If they choose to continue using drugs or refuse help, fuck them. If they take the help that's provided and get clean, I hope they are successful and happy in life.

That's great. I'll do my part to help pay to keep them in jail. At least there, they're not shitting in communal areas, leaving used needles in the park, and breaking into houses.

I agree 100% as long as the criteria for obtaining government help is passing a drug test. I'm more than happy to have my tax dollars help someone who fell on hard times and needs some assistance to become a productive member of society again. I am not happy with my tax dollars going to house someone who would rather feed their meth or opiate addiction than get a job. Let them dig their hole and bury themselves in it.

long double future_time = static_cast(time(nullptr)) + (5.391247L * pow(10.0L, -44.0L))

Fixed-precision arithmetic would probably be more appropriate here, but since I'm lazy, long double works. Although I am curious now if a long double has sufficient precision to give a meaningful value for this.

Now plus the amount of time it takes a photon to move the Planck length.

COVID-19. People simply refused to do the absolute minimum to stop the spread of the virus. At least in my community, everyone was still socializing with friends and family (without a mask, of course), going out to eat, taking part in recreational activities with other people. Something as simple as "stay away from other people until we get this under control" was too hard for the American public. It certain changed my view of the people around me.

I agree that it's quite likely racism is the problem in this instance. My point is that schools should under no circumstances be telling students how they need to wear their hair; apparently this school has a dress code that stipulates hear length. Schools exist to give students the knowledge they need to be successful once they reach the age of 18. They should not be policing how the students groom themselves or dress; that should be up to the parents. There should not be a "dress code" in the first place, outside of "don't show up to school naked."

I didn't experience any of that. I do remember a bug where I would pop out the roof of my car, but it only happened a few times. Maybe I didn't notice any of the other problems, or maybe I just got lucky. Out of all the games I've played in the last several years, Cyberpunk 2077 is the only one I've played through 3 times. I legitimately felt bad for the developers when it was first released because of how much people were shitting on it; judging from my own personal experience,a lot of the criticism was undeserved.

I never really understood the complaints when it first came out. I had a few graphics glitches here and there, but nothing really significant. I think maybe one or two of the quests had bugs. The game had beautiful graphics (especially with RTX), a great story, and it was a lot of fun. I've played through 3 times already.

I am aware that a lot of people had bugs, though, but I have to wonder who. Maybe I just got lucky with my hardware combination (i7-5960x and 2080TI)?