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Really? The Nest Thermostat should still be able to control your heaters even without internet. https://nest.com/support/article/Do-I-need-Wi-Fi-to-use-Nest

I hate the pages that wait a couple seconds for you to scroll down and start reading, then they have a banner ad at the top that auto-expands, which makes the spot you are reading scroll down, then after you have re-scrolled to compensate, the banner ad auto-collapses to make the spot you are reading scroll back up so you have to re-re-scroll to re-compensate.

I don't know why they got raided any more than you. (I suspect it to be exactly how the article presents it since I have no reason to think otherwise.) I was just pointing out that they did mention it again in the article since you seemed to have missed it in your skipping through.

The last full paragraph wraps it up thus: The Hartes are also a white, financially sound couple who both happened to have worked for the CIA. Most people on the receiving end of these raids aren’t white, aren’t middle-class, didn’t once work for a federal law enforcement agency and don’t have $25,000 to fund a fight in court.

I believe it to say that even with intimate knowledge of US law enforcement, they still had trouble getting answers and results... the rest of us are equally screwed.

If you send me to get you lunch and I pay for it, say $8, with my own money, you would reimburse me the $8. If you gave me an extra $1 for my trouble, you have compensated me.

> If you want to make someone afraid for their life, prepare the tool you can use to end it.

If you want to make someone afraid for their life, second guess them every time they prepare the tool they can use to save it. Remember, it is not just black people getting shot out there.

While all of what you said might be true... it shouldn't be a felony to hand out flyers telling people what others had decided not to tell them. If the jury has a set of rights then they should be made aware of those rights, even the unpopular ones. If people feel strongly enough that a particular jury right should be revoked, then they should pursue steps to revoke it. But they really shouldn't be arresting people for passing out that information.

In addition to that, they have almost no accountability for breaking your checked bags or the stuff inside. One time we had an industrial plastic tool case get damaged. It appeared as though the fork from a forklift had rammed into it and punched completely through... damaging several pieces of equipment inside. This was not "normal wear and tear" like a scuff on the outside. This was right fucked up... but they still tried to screw us over. We needed this tool box to do our jobs and didn't have time to wait for them to put the claim all the way through and send us what they thought was a suitable replacement. We needed to buy a new one now and get reimbursed later. They fought us on that but finally gave in. But they did manage to screw us by not coving ANY of the broken equipment inside.

Wow... she was really rude on that audio clip. I understand she was a bit freaked out but she was rude while the cops were being very calm with her. She just keeps talking in circles, interrupting them, asking the same questions over again but ignoring the responses. Oh and the clapping. I can totally picture this scene.

I see how that came across differently than I meant. And I actually don't really care what the other country does. If they don't care to know when people are coming and going that is between them and their people. One time (maybe 20 years ago) I was driving around the German countryside and accidentally drove into Austria. There was no indication that I had done so (at least none that I had seen). I was surprised how easy it was to do it by accident.

Agreed. I don't think we need a wall either. But we do need something. I was just pointing out that putting up a wall doesn't make you a bad person.

#1 & #3 are just different implementations of the same idea. Putting up a wall does make you "North Korea" any more than having a locked front door on your house does. You can simultaneously make it easier for them to enter legally AND harder to enter illegally.

I'm not exactly sure who gets the info every time my passport gets scanned but I would imagine both the country I'm leaving and the country I'm entering know about it. I've never been out of country for more than a few weeks at a time (and never was it to move there) but I find it hard to believe that moving to a different country would be less strict than just visiting for a couple weeks.

I didn't say we needed to track people as they move about the interior of the country. That would be ridiculous. But it is not too much to ask that we know who is coming and going across the border. When I leave the country my passport is scanned. They know I have left. They know when I return.

Think of it this way. You have a door on your house. When people come over, they knock on the door and you let them in at your discretion. You know who is in your house. But once in, you don't have to follow them all over as they use the bathroom or get a glass of water. You have certain amount of trust that they won't slip away and try on all your underwear. However, if they do, you probably would ask them to leave and might not open the door for them next time.

As I said in the last part of my statement.

> Measuring migration flows between Mexico and the U.S. is challenging because there are no official counts of how many Mexican immigrants enter and leave the U.S. each year.

I think this is the biggest problem. I don't really care if people want to relocate from one country to another. I just care that they do it legally and the two countries know about it. If you are paying a coyote to sneak you across a lightly patrolled stretch of the border in the middle of the night... you should know you are doing it wrong. "Securing the border" does not have to mean "lock all those dirty Mexicans out." It can just mean "let's make sure we know who is coming and going." I do recognize that the process can be problematic and could use an overhaul... but anytime anyone even mentions any type of reform, they just get shouted down. Because... racist!

I quote the author: Not long ago, I was walking with a friend to a crowded restaurant when I spotted two cops in line and froze. I tried to figure out how to get around them without having to walk past them. I no longer wanted to eat there, but I didn’t want to ruin my friend’s evening. As we stood in line, 10 or so people back, my eyes stayed on them. I’ve always gone out of my way to avoid generalizations. I imagined that perhaps these two cops were good people, but I couldn’t stop thinking about what the Santa Monica police had done to me. I found a lump in my throat as I tried to separate them from the system that had terrified me. I realized that if I needed help, I didn’t think I could ask them for it.

I'm not sure what she intended to say with this closing paragraph but it seems like she has come to realize why some people get uneasy around certain other people. If you have had bad experiences with some members of a particular group (cops, PoC, lawyers, etc) you might have reservations about future interactions with other members of that group. Even if she doesn't like that she has those thoughts, she is admitting to trying to avoid some people just based on her past experience. This is exactly what other people get called racist for feeling. Something to think about.

Why would you ever want that? After seeing that script, I checked his own and sure enough... he runs it on his own. It only took a few clicks to see that it just changes some number on one file a few times a day. If you are "decorating your calendar" like that to impress people, you're just going to look foolish. Or is there some grand plan I'm missing?

... and then carrying that scale around like you do a phone? Lots of things are being replaced by phones/apps because you always have your phone. Do you always have your scale?

Some might advise you to keep pushing her and pushing her because "we need more women in STEM" and all that. I would advise you to just let her be. We like to teach our children that they can be anything they want to be when they grow up. So... maybe she doesn't want to be a software developer.

"We need more women in STEM... even if we have to drag them kicking and screaming", said no one ever.

It seems like it can hover over land pretty well on take off. I wonder if he sticks to water primarily for the softer landing if things malfunction.

I've seen that one before. Truly an amazing work of art.

Regardless of how many of one group of people are mistreated, it is not a given that anyone from that group that claims mistreatment is being truthful. Sometimes people who seek attention will pick an issue that many think is beyond reproach because they know they will have a guaranteed support group. People get raped everyday and it is not very PC to question the validity of such a claim. Yet people have been found to make false rape claims. People get discriminated against everyday and it is not very PC to question it. But people have been found to fabricate (or exaggerate) stories. Usually when people come out and start to question a claim, they just get lumped into the "haters" group. They are labeled as "part of the problem." But often those questioning are the only ones that actually care about the truth.

Since the world at large does not have trigger warnings, it must be terrifying for those effected to even leave the house. How does one even function in the world when at any minute something could trigger without warning?

Showing my age as well. I thought the same thing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5x5OXfe9KY

Books are also widely copied and shared... as audio files or eBook files.

Handrails don't keep off-trail hikers from hiking off trail. Trail etiquette keeps people on trail. Respect to nature keeps people on trail.

Garbage cans in the middle of nowhere still need to be emptied or else they become full and no longer serve the need. A lot of these places are remote. It might take several hours to empty one trash can. Our parks barely have enough resources to maintain as they are. We shouldn't need to pay someone to hike in and remove your trash. I don't think it is too much to ask that if you hiked in with 5 full snickers bars that you hike out with their wrappers. Your pack always gets lighter as you go so there really is no excuse for not coming out with all your trash.

That reminds of this hamburger machine: http://www.gizmag.com/hamburger-machine/25159/

That could be solved easily (and probably more accurately) by just having a few nudge buttons or some other UI. Use them for those "Move left a few more inches" or "Back up just a little more" situations. These cars should be able to do fine maneuvering/adjustments much better than a lot of people can.

> when Ann is yelling stuff Bob can put his fingers in his ears, but can't cover Ann's mouth nor Catalina's ears

I really really wish more people would get this. Too many people in Bob's position try to go beyond just coving their own ears. And that extends beyond Reddit.