Unfortunately, I feel this may become the new normal.

A reminder that cities aren't loud, cars are loud.

That's the whole "common sense Conservatives" schtick. It effectively translates to, "just trust us, don't look at the data, we're definitely doing this for the good of the people and not solely those who line our pockets."

Their base, often with limited critical thinking ability, is happy to lap it up as it means they don't have to use their brain.

I'm not sure if they're available with UK plugs, but I've got a pack of Thirdreality Zigbee plugs that monitor energy use and have a button on them to toggle power.

I've got them connected to Home Assistant. Two do a bit of climate control in a coldroom, the others are for occupancy lighting.

A mall that's only random clothes, shoes, and jewellery stores surrounded by an ocean of parking lot is very unattractive.

As you say, a mall with actually useful stores, like grocery, pharmacy, perhaps a restaurant or two (not chain fast food), etc, with residential units on top or very close to constitutes more of a community than a mall and is very likely to be sustainable versus the former.

It starts early in the design process. But at that stage, it would be best to pause installation, have a mechanical engineer do the mechanical design (including equipment selection) based on an energy model and install the recommended equipment.

The cost of doing business.

Income-based fines should really be more commonplace.

And if that option wins, a pool of citizens who have marked that they'd be willing to serve a term in government get randomly selected from each riding to fill each seat. You can only serve if you haven't ran federally before.

Sounds like more of an instance issue than a Boost issue. The only time I've experienced a timeout was when I forgot my instance had planned maintenance.

Not medical advice, but when I can tell it's getting full in there, I pour 50% diluted hydrogen peroxide (just use the cap of the bottle) in my ear, let it bubble away for 5 minutes or so, then use a bulb syringe thing with warm water to flush it out til it's clean. Be careful with pressure and temperature of the water, but it works great.

I could see it being tedious if you had to manually enter long, random string passwords regularly. Though I suppose you could change them to something easier to type. Ctrl+shift+L (bitwarden extension autofill shortcut) is just so much more convenient.

Oh definitely. Its essentially a massive case of 'it's difficult to get someone to understand something when their salary depends on not understanding it.'