I guess mine was. I wanted to try it out, but I’m not willing to give away that much of my privacy to any website so it was pretty useless. There was literally nothing: fill out a form and I guess there are supposed to be emails of responses. I live in a major metropolitan area and never got any, but I refused to give details so that’s not a surprise.
I just thought there’d be something to see before I committed my privacy
Hinge won’t even show a landing page with “privacy enabled”
It’s on my list to do something about mine as well. The vendor sells automated modules at a ridiculous price so I don’t want to do that. However I have the reaching poke so it hasn’t been a priority. It’s been quite a few years now so I’m starting to wonder if replacing the blinds will come up in priority before I get to automating them
I’ve got an extra tall living room, and without a 15’ ladder there’s no way I can actuate the pull down shades
Not what you’re looking for but maybe you should have as a backup plan…… I’ve got a pole that works in my similar situation. It telescopes to 12’, has a handle to simplify turning to adjust the blinds, and a hook at the end to grab hold for raising and lowering.
And it’s automated too. I can use a voice assistant to send a command to raise or lower …. As long as one of my kids is in the room. /s
It’s never futile. Sure, Trump will never listen, never care about anyone whose not himself, never face justice (crap, now you’re depressing me), but what about Al the minion who do his bidding. I mean, they’re evil too, but going deeper ….
This all can’t happen without supporters. Maybe it’s voters who are low information or easily manipulated finally seeing the truth. Maybe it’s federal employees feeling the support to do the right thing. Maybe it’s law enforcement growing shame at how they’ve been used. Maybe it’s judicial branch standing up from being marginalized and corporatized, fighting back against legalized bribery and corroded ethics at the highest court.
The billionaires big bill was passed in the senate on a tie breaker. It would have take only one more senator to be swayed. Big elections coming up in a little over a year- your peers might elect someone who will actually serve them. Various states and cities, corps and law firms are standing up for what’s right: maybe you can get one more
I was hoping everyone would turn out for another No Kings event but I guess too many people complained.
If we can’t be proud of the mess we’re in now, maybe we can be proud of the people who speak up, who try to create change. Maybe we can hark back to our origins tearing down oppressive political and corporate systems. Maybe we can hold up the mythical ideas that used to unite us and fight to make them true. It’s our duty as patriotic citizens to set our country on the right path toward one we can be proud of.
Finally I get to be a superhero …. By the power of long showers I help make it impractical to introduce enough poisons into our water supply
I suppose there’s staging a “terrorist” attack as an excuse to invade/nuke some other country
My city facilitated that a decade or two ago by building new indoor reservoirs specifically for water treatment. Now we have a small handful of facilities set upon for massive chemical insertion and holding about half a day’s worth.
That being said, you’d still need the cooperation of people at each site, security at each site, truckers and suppliers. But that’s only one city: multiply that by the thousands of cities plus now you’d need huge amounts of chemicals that someone would surely question. That’s a lot of moving parts.
IF you turn off searching the internet and fetching ads, file search can still be fast. However Microsoft keeps resetting that so I just gave up - winfdows search is not worth ising
The Bluetooth visualization caught my eye, but I’m here for the Alexa integration.
My most amusing automation is telling my teens to goto bed, at midnight on weekends, maybe I can spice it up a bit
Maybe a better approach is to find out what seems attractive in that type of life. You may be able to find it still somewhat near what you’re used to. Massachusetts still has plenty of small towns, lower cost areas, and rural areas, as do the rest of New England. But you’ll still be near whatever friends and family, medical care, transportation, be able to go into Boston if you want, progressive politics, etc
Worst case scenario, the Adirondacks have plenty of cheap low priced places to live. It’s remote but not that remote nor that as jarring a change
Also investigate what the apps do with your data…. Make sure they take good care of it.
That’s certainly the biggest reason I never succeeded with online dating. I’ve never been able to get past creating a profile, with all the personal data you’d have to give, and no way to trust any of them with it.
Maybe I’m biased, I knew someone a couple decades ago planning to build an online dating app and he spent most of his time figuring out how to monetize the data
That’s the problem for those of us less outgoing, those of us whose hobbies are solitary
The solution is inheritance. If you want a more specific flag, inherit from the rainbow, but add an insignia. Now you have a unifying flag that is more meaningful. Also you can skip the complexity of trying to make everyone stand out because the rainbow is all inclusive.
For example, I also like the pink triangle pirate flag. If you want a gay flag, take the rainbow and add that pirate insignia. Think like the US flag which is also a bunch of stripes but with some star insignia. Now you have one clear insignia on a field of inclusiveness
But if you include alphas , you need to be inclusive of betas and sigmas, and other Greek letters still undefined
I believe paying taxes is a fair tradeoff for living in a society. My concerns are that those taxes be applied fairly, even if that impacts me, and that they be used to improve society for its people, even if it costs me more.
I know people who are elderly or have lower income, I have kids in college, I have been between jobs in parts of my career, I’ve had major medical emergencies in my family …. And I have the empathy to want no one to go through that without assistance. I know the only way for people to “pick themselves up by their bootstraps” (I know, I know), is that when they fall off the tightrope they are caught before hitting the ground. I know the only way to break the cycle of poverty and crime is for kids to start with the same opportunities as their peers. I know that technology and science can be directed and accelerated by targeted investments. And yes, even if it costs me more. My successes are a product of my society and it is fair for them to feed back into society
GPS is knowledge of the city. Most cities publish detailed street map data that is immediately imported into gps maps. The car relies on the gps not just for navigating, but even deciding things like what lane. And of course gps’s have much more complete traffic data than your human taxi driver ever did.
While I don’t want to fanboi too much …… as long as nobody is able to do self driving, any approach has potential. Teslas approach has the huge advantage of starting with millions of potential vehicles and they will soon be able to crank out a quarter million robotaxis every year, whereas Waymo is not ready to scale up. They’re going all in with a potential approach and if it succeeds are in position to disrupt the industry.
It might not succeed, but no other company has succeeded yet either. The difference is they went all in, and they were willing to try something different than Internet wisdom
(Actually, as a big fan of what Tesla used to represent, this worries me about their future: Cybertruck flopped, robotaxi may not succeed for years, semi is a very conservative market they may not be able to break into or will be slow take up , and Optimus doesn’t yet have a market. They’re making some extremely risky moves at the same time their profit margins are under a lot of pressure. )
If you want to read it yourself, there’s an entire section. Table of contents ….
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Subtitle B–Health
Sec. 71101. Moratorium on implementation of rule relating to eligibility and enrollment in Medicare Savings Programs. Sec. 71102. Moratorium on implementation of rule relating to eligibility and enrollment for Medicaid, CHIP, and the Basic Health Program. Sec. 71103. Reducing duplicate enrollment under the Medicaid and CHIP programs. Sec. 71104. Ensuring deceased individuals do not remain enrolled. Sec. 71105. Ensuring deceased providers do not remain enrolled. Sec. 71106. Payment reduction related to certain erroneous excess payments under Medicaid. Sec. 71107. Eligibility redeterminations. Sec. 71108. Revising home equity limit for determining eligibility for long-term care services under the Medicaid program. Sec. 71109. Alien Medicaid eligibility. Sec. 71110. Expansion FMAP for emergency Medicaid.
Sec. 71111. Moratorium on implementation of rule relating to staffing standards for long-term care facilities under the Medicare and Medicaid programs. Sec. 71112. Reducing State Medicaid costs. Sec. 71113. Federal payments to prohibited entities.
Sec. 71114. Sunsetting increased FMAP incentive. Sec. 71115. Provider taxes. Sec. 71116. State directed payments. Sec. 71117. Requirements regarding waiver of uniform tax requirement for Medicaid provider tax. Sec. 71118. Requiring budget neutrality for Medicaid demonstration projects under section 1115.
Sec. 71119. Requirement for States to establish Medicaid community engagement requirements for certain individuals. Sec. 71120. Modifying cost sharing requirements for certain expansion individuals under the Medicaid program.
Sec. 71121. Making certain adjustments to coverage of home or community-based services under Medicaid.