What were those new taxes? Here we’re only talking an additional 2% on top of whatever nyc s state and local tax is that could be what 15%? Noticeable but not a dramatic change

Not really but I do believe it’s the future. For any future devices, Matter/Thread is my preference.

But of course using HA means you don’t have to limit yourself. Both my Zigbee and zwave meshes are solid.

I did have a conversation with a friend a few months back who asked what I recommended. It’s tough because

• Matter/Thread is rolling out very slowly so you can’t really count on it yet.
• always avoid WiFi with vendor portals
• is it worth it for a newcomer to invest in Zigbee or zwave?

I don’t think the federal standards ever restricted anything additive. It was always more like minimum standards and equal opportunity. Even with standardized tests, you’re just setting minimum standards. It’s only a problem if you don’t teach those.

So Oklahoma teaching white power will fail to meet minimum standards or equal opportunity, but California adding climate change education is just better education

So we need to annex the Galapagos? Do they have oil?

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Orange Mussolini always liked attention, wanted to be famous……. History will put him up there with Mao and Stalin as causing most deaths

Apparently the orange traitor learned from Jan 6!that he can get away with even the worst crimes. That plausible deniability is microscopically thin

I have to say that while it’s a stupid idea and motivated by spite , it’s more logically consistent than the usual MAGA shitshow

Thanks. I actually hadn’t found that faq. There’s another one about multiple toxic metals, but might not be for Corelle

Ah, childhood memories. When we went to this one relatives house, I never understood why my parents never let us play with the rabbits.

…. After I grew up, I had to wonder what that funny tasting “chicken” really was. Adult Me wants to know

Do you have a different or specific source? I found an daqnabout lead but it only said that they are in compliance and always have been. I recognize the weasel word but only because you brought it up

7, and my “little” brother still has it 40 years later because he doesn’t want to spend money on dishes

A swat on the butt with a magazine is a humiliation fetish now? Holy crap, I thought I was too vanilla

You’re assuming Italian pasta is fancy and expensive. I’m sure some is, but some is just common mass market brands on your grocery shelf. Until this nonsense started I didn’t realize the pasta I sometimes get is from Italy

You missed the part where everything became global. There are well known mass market pasta brands that are owned by Italian companies. The brand I sometimes buy is, and I don’t get it because it’s Italian or the cheapest, but that it’s a good value of quality for a reasonable price

On a similar note, that’s something we seem to have lost with the move toward glass food storage. With plastic containers, there were always choices with a little rack at the bottom so something like a said can remain out of its drippings. But I haven’t seen anything similar for glass …. And containers big enough for a head of lettuce are heavy and expensive

I welcome you!

That’s a tough. Normally I would hope there’d be an easy choice, but things have changed really quickly.

I don’t know much about real life in China but every time the current American administration violates human rights or represses science sacrifices our future to line their pockets or attack our friends and allies, it seems like I read about the Chinese government moving in the opposite direction. The direction of “good”, the direction the US always claimed to be. They seem to be making a lot of smart moves for their economic, technical and scientific future, and for larger influence as a global citizen. I have no way to evaluate the current level of repression but they’re at least saying alot of the right things

And child rapist. Even if you want to be pedantic about what qualifies as pedophilia, statutory rape is still rape and some who’s not an adult is still a child.

And if you want to be extra pedantic, it’s worse. Following a response above, one is a mental disorder that can be lived with, whereas the other is taking action, actually sexually assaulting children

Sure, but solar panels are an end goal. Natural gas is at best an intermediary goal that also established new fossil fuel infrastructure, and may be much worse for the environment than expected, depending on methane leaks