In terms of software, yes. But HA can be run on nearly anything—there’s no need to buy their hardware to use it.

Having a world map that has pins on it based on location EXIF data in photos

Don’t you get that in NC already, if you go to Maps > My Photos ?

I think eggs, potatoes, and tofu are in a similar category: there are so many drastically different ways of preparing them that it’s impossible to generalize—and when someone does, I just assume that they haven’t yet found the exceptions.

Using your person state makes it easier to update HA when you get a new phone, especially if you have a lot of automations that use it.

It depends on what you would have bought otherwise—you presumably buy a limited amount of clothing, so what purchase is it replacing?

It’s also possible that a subsequent shopper who was set on buying Shein but was checking thrift stores first will now buy new items instead—but I can’t say how likely that might be.

Sending letters via post to friends in the same city wasn’t uncommon—but beyond that, you could leave messages at common locations. Like if you both go to the same shop once a week, you could leave messages for each other with the shopkeeper.

You can have a phenomenon that looks like noise at small sample sizes, but becomes obvious when the size increases.

For one small business, a 5% change in productivity for one day might be business as usual, while for a nation it would be alarming.

It never made it into production because the workers keep taking smoke breaks.

What you’re describing isn’t capitalism per se, but a free market. They tend to be correlated, but you can have either one without the other. Capitalism strictly speaking is about private ownership of production—when private investors control industry and reap all the profits after wages and taxes.

Crony capitalism is when capitalists influence the state to reduce wages and taxes, and to manipulate the market at the expense of rival investors. It tends to be the outcome in any state where spending money to influence policy generates a positive return (i.e., most of them).

It’s fair to judge people for the collective actions of a group they’ve voluntarily joined—a political party, a military, an occupation, etc.

But when you look at the behavior of a whole country (or any other group that people belong to by birth), you’re seeing what any other group of humans would do when raised in similar circumstances. You can judge their institutions and their leadership, but when you judge them as people you’re judging all of humanity.

30 years ago?

So right about the time The Truman Show came out?

Did your friend perhaps watch it while high?

Other comments are correctly stating that the sun is white, but appears yellow/orange due to the blue light being scattered—but that doesn’t fully address the issue, because objects seen under a white light with an orange filter in front would still have an orange cast.

The difference with the sun is that the scattered blue light is still reaching objects via the light from the rest of the sky—it’s the orange light from the sun combining with the blue light from the sky that makes things appear white.

That, and Spain (or whoever else) wouldn’t be coming in fresh off the surrender of Granada, with the attitude that all non-Christian states must be conquered as a matter of principle.

Columbus’ return to Spain.

His failure to return discourages further attempts for a while; and when contact is eventually made, it isn’t Spain in the immediate aftermath of the Reconquista looking to continue its momentum.

Meanwhile, the New World is made aware of Europe and perhaps acquires some resistance to Old World diseases before any larger confrontations.

Convincing people to dismiss their crimes as “white collar crap” is the most insidious trick of successful criminals.

Research isn’t advice, either—it can provide the data to make an informed decision, but you still need to figure out what information is relevant to your particular case and how it applies.

In particular, you shouldn’t read a random study or research paper and take it as an actionable recommendation—you need to be familiar with other similar studies, and how they fit into the current state of the rest of their field.

Most of the underlying concepts are left wing, but the people using the label aren’t.

(The main example I can think of is Foldvary, who I’d hesitate to call either left- or right-wing).

It’s basically a version of Georgism, rebranded to avoid Georgism’s left-wing association.

Is [contingency] something that may be contingent on other things that may take time to verify?

Lots of actors never get into drugs, and lots of other people do anyway. We’re just more aware of the actors because they’re living under a spotlight. (They probably also get more attention because they contradict the stereotype of drug users being poor and unsuccessful.)

Also, plenty of actors do volunteering, charity, and activism too.