The Sonoff iFan03 ought to do what you want, but it’s WiFi. Supposedly, you can flash new firmware to get rid of the eWeLink cloud app, but I haven’t been succesful with that yet. (I may have fried the serial port?)

I read an interview, probably from NPR, but I can’t find it at the moment. The upshot was that caring for infants is insanely expensive, since they need one-on-one care pretty much continuously.

But parents can’t afford that cost, so, essentially, the price they charge for infant care is a loss-leader, and parents of older children (who need less supervision and thus more favorable staffing ratios) subsidize the cost of caring for infants. Daycare operators are barely keeping afloat.

Edit: Ah, here it is: Baby’s first market failure

This statement right here is Exhibit A for why we need distinct words for figuratively and literally.

One violation every three minutes? That’s insane!

It’s undercounting by at least an order of magnitude.

Our city buses do it as a routine part of many routes, as do school buses. Large trucks and construction vehicles, too. Me, when I’m towing my boat sometimes. Intersections inherently force vehicles into crossing paths. That’s what an intersection is. So, if it’s dangerous, then we shouldn’t have intersections.

Call out the real problem here: shitty, entitled drivers.

Cool. So there’s this intersection near my house where there’s a right-turn slip lane onto a 3-lane stroad. Used to be, it’d have a green arrow at the same time as the opposite direction had green and left-turn green arrow. It saved time by shortening the light cycle. Drivers are supposed to make a turn into the nearest lane of the street they’re entering, so you’d think that two cars could enter three lanes simultaneously, but nope. Too many conflicts with left-turning drivers crossing all three lanes into the far lane that the right-turning drivers were also entering.

So the city changed the light timing.

But, fuck, man, drivers think their shit don’t stink because they don’t even bother to learn all of the laws they’re violating.

(P.S. They also roll through most stop signs.)

I had heard that the second death is when everybody who knew you has died, and the third is the last time somebody speaks your name. The spam stopping would have to be the fourth death.

Okay, so we do hold people in positions of power accountable, so Biden should have locked up the coup leaders on day one. As we have unfortunately seen, the President can act despite objections from the people.

That was the point, wasn’t it? That the U.S. has never held the powerful to account.

I do like spicy pizza, but the idea is that celiac disease means that it’ll return fast and hot, either way.

However they see fit? Like, sexual assault? Shooting wildly into a crowded area? Taking a bribe to forget the whole thing? Grabbing an innocent bystander as a hostage? Nuclear weapons? Hunting down your kin and erasing all traces of your bloodline?

Not ar all. The GOP were angry, or left in stunned silence for weeks; it was fascinating at the time to watch them re-frame the narrative in public, in real time. In the first days, though, I doubt they would’ve objected. And so what if they did? Biden was the President, how would they stop him? If there had been a MAGA uprising, it could have been crushed, just like Occupy Wall Street was.

Also, plenty of people objected to the flouting of due process in 2002. The difference is not that some people objected.

In the aftermath of the 2001 terrorist attack, the government captured and held hundreds of men without due process, which it justified as exigent circumstances. In the aftermath of the nation’s democratic institutions being attacked, which was an exigent circumstance if I’ve ever seen one, it did nothing. There were thousands of people involved, and lots of evidence to collect, but we knew who the ringleaders were. They should have been in Gitmo by the end of the day on January 21st, 2021.

But, as the OC said, this country never holds the powerful accountable.

Pan pizza and wheat beer. Maybe I can’t escape my fate, but I can make it… quite messy for the executioners.

Headlines have their own, unique grammar rules in English. They elide a lot of words to save space.

In general, the semi-colon joins two distinct clauses that could each stand alone as sentences, but it implies more of a relationship between them than a period would. In this headline the implication is that they have not finalized the deal despite good progress because of the President’s hesitation. In contrast, colons join two clauses with the explicit meaning that one clause introduces, or elaborates on, the other. Here, headlinespeak kind of abuses that usage to show that the ideas expressed in the first clause are explained as originating from Vance. It’s much more common to put the name of the person first, like, “Vance: Iran and US…”

So, the headline is saying that according to statements by JD Vance, Iran and the US have made good progress on a deal, but [REDACTED] hasn’t approved it yet.

Episode 8, The Telescope.

I can narrow it down to one line, too. When Herb tells BoJack, “I don’t forgive you.” It flouted the usual sitcom formula, and marked a turn to more complex characters and darker themes.

Fitting perfectly into an economy airliner seat is 10/10, the once every 3-4 years that I do that. But cars have their own issues when you’re below the average size: Bad sightlines, arm rests too high, seatbelts that saw at your throat for the whole trip rather than cross your shoulder, increased injury and mortality rates because of those seatbelts and airbags, which are optimized for taller drivers, controls out of reach, and such.

It’s like white privilege (but obviously less profound): The benefits are in what doesn’t happen to you: No jokes about your height. No failed job interviews. No romantic difficulties because of your height. People don’t constantly interrupt, or act like you’re not even there. That kind of thing.

What kind of idiot takes a gun into a high-crime area? Great way to end up mugged or killed for your gun.

Lives > property.