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  • Your Belkin Wemo smart home device could stop working this week: Here's what to do about it

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  • I think a lot of them can be flashed with something from tasmota. I did it years ago to integrate it with Home Assistant and monitor the amount of electricity the washing machine was using and turn a conspicuous light bright magenta so I didn't forget to move laundry to the dryer.

  • If someone adtually wrote and hand sent you a letter, would you respond in kind?

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  • My sister sent me a letter a few years ago and we exchanged maybe 5 before I set a boundary on religious content and that was the last letter.

    Generally I like to edit my thoughts and ink doesn't have a backspace key so it's one of my least favorite ways of communicating.

    My grandmother used to send a weekly letter to her 6 children (a copy of the original) which was basically how we heard what everybody was up to before social media. It was definitely one way.

  • please state the nature of your emergency

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  • soft jelly thing rule

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  • What's everyone's favorite bug?

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  • The wheel bug! My partner stumbled across it during field work and sent a picture and we eventually identified it. It looks like it has a gear embedded in its back. I just think they're neat.

    Another favorite is fireflies.

    Honorable mention to beetles generally as folding wings are fascinating.

  • Trump unleashes chaotic late-night tirade against Europe, vows to take Greenland

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  • Sic burn.

  • Trump’s Letter to Norway Should Be the Last Straw

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  • Enough to kill a bunch of sea creatures.

  • Embarassing rule

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  • They just haven't hit their evil arc yet.

  • Onebagging by train

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  • At that length, one of the biggest changes from a week long trip was laundry. If you're staying places with washing machines, you still have to take into consideration detergent. You might be able to get small amounts locally, but I ended up only being able to find large bottles of heavily perfumed liquids that were a pain to deal with. Dryers were non-existent or ineffective, so having the time and tools for air drying were also important. Local Laundromats had the detergent built into the cycle, but again it was heavily perfumed. But they were the only place with working dryers. There's always sink laundry in a pinch; this has some recommendations.

    Having clothes that you don't have to wash as often helps as well; there's a reason every one bag site recommends merino wool in spite of its price. It picks up odors less which also means you can reduce some of the pieces you'd take just to be able to have clean clothes on any given day.

  • Embarassing rule

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  • In the meantime, people in the US will be exposed to large amounts of pollution as the EPA rolls back rules, more people will die of preventable diseases due to vaccine guidance, healthcare being too expensive to use, and a brain drain of doctors, while the people get screwed over by corporations because consumer protections disappear, trucks get bigger and deadlier, the economy being shit due to deteriorated foreign relationships, over policing by violent psychopaths with incentives to fill private prisons, the supreme court decisions and jackasses that will stick around for much longer than a dozen years, and mass shootings continue to not even be national news. And that's all going to get fixed in a few years while facing a far right headwind? I've got my doubts.

  • (G)rooted [@spaceboycantlol]

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  • This is what happens when you run everything as root.

  • How do I dip my toe into artisinal cheesemaking

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  • There's cheese making kits available, maybe start there.

  • The U.S. have purchased these territories

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  • To appease Bugs Bunny's desire to get rid of Mar a Lago

  • Onebagging by train

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  • Even though going by train will free you from carry on size limits, still try and stay light.

    How long are you planning on traveling? Have you done much onebagging before?

  • Looking for a super hero system recommendation.

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  • You'll want a character builder, but otherwise it's 3d6 for most skill checks and a variable number of d6 for damage. You can check it out here. Most of it is about how to build powers, but once that's done, gameplay goes pretty quickly.

  • Looking for a super hero system recommendation.

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  • Champions

    https://www.herogames.com/hero_system_basics.html/

    I used to play some previous editions. It's extremely flexible. It's a point buy system. It has, for example, ways of defining a power that requires something external (which makes it cheaper in points), e.g. flight using a jet pack, and if that thing can be taken away. So you could build a Spider-Man that has web shooters that require ammo or you can make the one that spurts ropes right from his wrists.

    It's also flexible in that there are two types of damage. The first is more for a more brawly combat where you get them down to 0 stamina (or whatever it's called) and they're unconscious. Then there's killing attacks that go for hp with an eye for making the other character dead. This makes it very easy for codes of conduct (e.g. no killing, which is also done with points) to easily be defined mechanically. Attacks can also be defined by what they can get through, like a psychic attack won't be dampened by physical defense (but might have a weakness against unobtainium).

    There's also ways to build plot into characters. You can buy things like people important to your character ( that you may have to rescue), sidekicks, information contacts, nemesis, superior officers, organizations, etc.

    My group managed to make great knock offs of Superman, the Flash, Iron Man, etc., but also had no problem with making a Sentai squad or a character that could copy abilities by absorbing them (which I suppose both MegaMan and Rogue do, but in different ways which you could define with this system).

    And depending upon how many points you play with can determine if you're doing Daredevil keeping the streets clean type things or Avengers save the multiverses type thing.

  • "Smoking Behind the Supermarket With You" New Teaser Visual and PV, July Debut

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  • Really looking forward to this one. It'll be interesting to see how the short scenes translate into episodes and how they do the voices.

  • The wise little kitten says you should.

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  • The little kitten is indeed wise.

  • Trump says the US ‘shouldn’t even have an election’ in 2026 because of all his accomplishments

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  • Which is by design. It's why to GOP is going after mail in votes and why polling places have been disappearing. It's why election day will never be a holiday. They want in to suck to vote. They want you in line for hours without food or water.. They want you to have to arrange time off of work to do so. They purge voter rolls. Etc.. Etc.

    It's easy to blame individuals for systemic problems and call it a day, but you lose out on some nuance at best and some major issues in reality.