I was never able to really make all that stuff work in the first place so I’ve got three “smart” bulbs I bought in maybe 2018 that still (mostly) work, and am generally switching my smart plugs to mechanical timers because I only really use them for grow lights.

I do feel better about being away from home overnight in winter with my weather station (which includes a sensor inside the house) but everything adds nothing to my life at all.

Black sheep?

You mean the person in charge of the family drug trafficking operation, right? https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/toronto/globe-investigation-the-ford-familys-history-with-drug-dealing/article12153014/

Shut the fuck up refers to talking to cops or even about your activities/plans in public. I wasn’t saying you can’t vent.

I say this with kindness: what do your comments add to the discussion? Sometimes people just want to vent. It’s cool. Just scroll past.

Why didn’t I scroll past your comment? Because I thought it might be useful to remind people to shut the fuck up.

Comrade, organizing online is fraught in the best of times but I think people are hyper aware of the risks of talking about these things online right now.

https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/sustainable-finance-reporting/air-canada-flight-attendants-try-build-us-gains-unpaid-work-2025-08-06/

Air Canada (AC.TO), flight attendants want to make gains on unpaid work that go beyond recent advances secured by their U.S. counterparts, a union leader said on Wednesday, in a fresh test of the way airlines compensate cabin crews.

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New labor agreements at American Airlines (AAL.O), and Alaska Airlines (ALK.N), legally require carriers to start the clock for paying flight attendants when passengers are boarding, not when the flight starts to taxi down the runway. Those gains came after Delta Air Lines (DAL.N), whose flight attendants are not in a union, instituted boarding pay for its cabin crew at half of their hourly wages in 2022 when they were trying to organize.