Yeah, not to mention, adding any sort of electronic components to the thing would be dicey at best. A lot of bathrooms don't even have power outlets anywhere near the toilet.
I'd prefer some sort of pressure-activated valve or something, but this is an engineering challenge that's beyond my meager skills.
Yeah, he's trying to play 3 dimensional chess (and also doing that poorly, mind you), while we're trying to like...build a house. Our goals aren't aligned, our actions aren't aligned, our resources aren't aligned.
They're trying to make a violent example of him because they're running scared. They're terrified of copycats. They think that projecting an image of fearless anger will distract from the fact that they're always looking over their shoulders.
I have a wifi-enabled garage door opener whose manufacturer discontinued the Google Home connection for so that you have to use their app and see their Amazon or Walmart ads. I also have a wifi-enabled alarm system whose manufacturer apparently doesn't care about Matter integration or whatever. So leaving the house in my car requires the use of two different apps (three if I also need to turn off lights).
In actuality I just use the physical buttons. But there was a time that I had a beautiful dream of getting a smart lock and setting my house up to lock the doors, close the garage door, and arm the alarm when I pushed a button in the car--and, more importantly, undo all of those things in reverse when I got home.
Toilets can appear to have flushed fully, but still have...material...stuck in the U-bend that hasn't completely evacuated the toilet. A subsequent flush won't work, even though the water in the bowl is clean.
Ask me how I know.
That said, this could almost certainly be better-solved in other ways. Maybe by preventing the tank from refilling if there's still something in the u-bend (then you'd know it needed attention because there'd be no water in it)?
Toilets can appear to have flushed fully, but still have...material...stuck in the U-bend that hasn't completely evacuated the toilet. A subsequent flush won't work, even though the water in the bowl is clean.
Well, he entered a guilty plea, so that part is fairly open-and-shut. Of course jury nullification isn't out of the question, but really this case is most likely to come down to a question of sentencing.
Just hoping won’t ensure there are free and fair elections in 2026.
I didn't suggest it would. I'm saying don't pre-emptively do the Republicans' job of suppressing turnout for them. Get active now, don't just snipe online.
Turnout won’t matter if nobody protects democracy.
Agreed. So what are you doing to make that happen? Aside from sniping at people online.
This sort of thing isn't helpful. You do what you can while you can. You assume there will be an election until there isn't. I know what you're saying, but unless you have a better option, all it's going to do is depress turnout just like it did in 2024.
Oh, by no means am I saying that people in your circles are dumb for not using "milquetoast," I'm just saying that the things that are popular in one sphere aren't necessarily popular in another.
Yeah, not to mention, adding any sort of electronic components to the thing would be dicey at best. A lot of bathrooms don't even have power outlets anywhere near the toilet.
I'd prefer some sort of pressure-activated valve or something, but this is an engineering challenge that's beyond my meager skills.