This is great, but I’m more excited for non-binary God!

Is this malicious compliance?

Both Z-Wave and Zigbee work by plugging the respective adapters into the AUX-2 USB port. The product page says that the Zigbee adapter works with ZHA (not Zigbee2MQTT), but hasn’t been extensively tested yet.

The product announcement explains that they’re essentially doing USB-over-IP to support the Z-Wave adapter, but they can’t get Thread to work that way. The timing isn’t precise enough, or somesuch. They will need to write new firmware to turn the AUX-2 itself into a Thread router to make it work.

No, it’s just a subtle illusion. My guess is that the visual cortex processes simple shapes first, and then fills in color, so it processes the border quickly, and the complex, color image of the frog more slowly. When I shake the screen, the image of the frog seems to lag behind the motion of the border ever so slightly. It took me a while to notice the effect.

As a thinking-out-loud digression, there was that movie several years ago, The Corporation, which took the idea of corporate personhood a step further, and psychoanalyzed them. (Spoiler: Corporations are extreme sociopaths.) I’ve talked to my brother, the professional therapist, about applying the same lens to cultures, and we agree: The United States is a deeply traumatized culture.

There are probably lots of reasons for it (settled by unpleasant weirdos who were kicked out of Europe, founded on genocide, slavery, a civil war, waves of immigrants who fled traumas in their home countries, etc.), but whatever the cause, this sort of shut-up-and-deal-with-it attitude that we don’t deserve a better physical environment feels like a trauma response at a societal level. (Also, see: The “I fear other people and don’t want to be near them” criticism of public transit.)

And this attitude, friends, is why the United States is a shithole country.

The Republican Party keeps trying.

There is such a story, but the allegation was made before he and Epstein had met. Human memory is fallible, so if it happened, it wasn’t him.

It does seem plausible enough that the story gets repeated, though.

Nothing happened after Obama killed her older brother, so that was to be expected.

The Maverick is a station wagon with part of the roof removed, like a present day El Camino. Change my mind.

Oh, hooray. Here comes January 6th Part 2: January 3rd.

To be fair, the US has only a handful of cities, such as New York. Mostly, it has urban agglomerations, like Los Angeles.

I can offer a preview of what the future holds: People-oriented areas of the city that are beautiful, interesting, safe, and pleasant to spend time in. The carbrained people will want to go there, but they will carp endlessly about the lack of parking. The connection between lack of parking and the desirable destination won’t occur to them.

Using a phone while riding a bike is overwhelmingly likely to injure the rider, and only the rider. Ask me how I know.

(Thankfully, it was one of the classic Nokia candy-bar phones, and it was unharmed.)

Yah, that’s the thing foreigners don’t get. America is so fracking huge, there’s simply no space available to build food stores close to houses. /s

Coincidentally, a high number of these weak social ties* is one of the best predictors of life satisfaction and good mental health. In contrast, there’s a strong correlation between longer car commutes and less life satisfaction and poorer mental health.

Huh, I knew both of these facts independently, and somehow never put them together side-by-side like this before.

* People that you see and lightly interact with regularly, though you don’t know them. Like the guy you see on the tram every day, for example.

As a bicyclist, I do pay insurance. It’s rolled in to my umbrella liability coverage. It’s super-cheap, because the danger that I create is so minimal.

If it wasn’t, the premium I’d pay for bicycle rider insurance wouldn’t cover the bulk mail rate for the company to send me a printed insurance card.

So she needs to bring the industrial-strength degreaser and disinfectant. Got it.

That flow chart is pure, concentrated evil. At least now I know that zero is: dash-dash-dash-dash-dash-dash-dash-dash-dash-dash-dash-dash-dash-dash-dit.