habitualcynic

Yup, this was it for my wife and me too. We don’t use enough to make it worthwhile and I held out for next generation tech.

Well, with the tax rebates expiring, we’re getting them installed by end of year. It should take 9 years to break even, so not awful, and really it’s always sat just about there with our usage. But it’s insane that we aren’t funding this or chasing it harder. Having that much decentralized capacity, while surely difficult to plan for, adds priceless resilience.

Edited to add: added bonus, we’ll be less stingy with the AC in the summer! Only 108 today… this is fine.

MVP

“When you make something idiot-proof, the world builds a better idiot.”

This

The exam found Trump, 79, has chronic venous insufficiency.

As someone who has been treated for this, I can confidently say bullshit. His ankles are swollen like he got them beaten and broken with a crow bar for not paying his debts.

My professional medical diagnosis is he has demon legs with no knees.

Source: making it up but I’m right.

It happens but never fast enough, and man the church has its problems. We had one call the pope a wolf in sheep’s clothing for supporting “the jab”; people walked out.

A couple months later, he was removed without goodbyes or explanation, and is no longer a priest. I would like more swift and public justice for the ones causing public scandal.

Hah true. I guess I just want to see “Trump Agriculture Chief talking point compared to nazi ideology because it is”

Mocked? Only mocked?

This is one of the most abhorrent statements ever made by a politician that wasn’t in a slavery or open racism era.

They are testing the waters for this and worse. This needs to be spotlighted, shamed, and crushed.

Unfortunately, say goodbye to removal of tax exempt status: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/07/us/politics/irs-churches-politics-endorse-candidates.html

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Their titles and thumbnails are clickbait, but I disagree here. First, plenty of YouTubers have shared that clickbait titles lead to more views at an insanely high ratio, so it’s worth it.

Yeah, integrity might oppose, but if you have a message to send, you gotta go to your audience. I can see both sides, I personally wouldn’t do it, but I would rather have their voice than not.

Their journalism IS better than legacy media right now. That’s just the said state of current media. CBS could have defeated the shakedown lawsuit, chose to settle. Paramount could have, chose to settle. None asking the hard questions when they have GOP on as guests.

Meidas Touch doesn’t get GOP interviewees that I’ve seen, so we can’t compare apples to apples, but I bet they would ask a better question than what is little better than “why are republicans so great” like Fox does.

That said, I long for the days (if they really existed before the 80s) of true investigative journalism and reporters of immense integrity without as much concern for ratings and profit.

So cool and so lucky! That’s like winning a nerd lottery!

Wholeheartedly agree. I have a couple automations that run, they always have a failed error message even though they run successfully, and setting them up made me want to cry under my desk.

I want to make one to automatically text my wife my location and start recording video in case I’m stopped by ICE, but I’ve waited for weeks because I hate using the app so much.