Pot/Kettle black…

Hmm, I use Spotify to stream a wake up mix (approved by my SO,) to an Amazon Echo via Home Assistant. Currently, I know of no way to stream arbitrary music files to an Echo. And I know of no consumer grade device that can accept the command to "Shut your cake hole" when we're tired of listening to stuff while being compatible with HA. This is ... inconvenient.

As an aside, and this is all an incredibly “first world” kind of a situation, but I’m not sure how you address the bitterness of some circles (like maybe this thread?) toward the layer of people who got ROI on hard work: I’d also be a proponent of limiting legacy wealth and eating billionaires. I was in college for 15 years at a state school and worked 10 at a university before I made big boy money and got stuff on my own. Not everybody who has some extra money got it by lucky birth or by exploiting the masses and I’ve still got loans to pay, why not own some houses for people like past-me to rent and make a little extra for the effort? I guess it’s easier to see it this way from this side of the problem.

I usually handle this by reminding people-at-large that landlords are not the problem. "Rent-seeking" landlords are the problem. I'd imagine that given the ARR-mindset of some of the larger players also contributes to the negative stereotype. Where the goal is not "Providing a Service", but instead it is "Building Capital", that's where I start to lose interest.

I too, feel that if your annual income is greater than 8 zeros, then you should get a plaque from the IRS saying "Congratulations, you've beaten capitalism this year, now go outside and touch grass." and everything above that is used to actually better society. This is what progressive taxes that were reduced 40 years ago were intended to do (Source: Effects of Reaganomics).

In the thigh pads, clearly.

https://www.nasa.gov/learning-resources/for-kids-and-students/what-is-orbital-debris-grades-5-8/

This is what people are referring to when they talk about junk in orbit.

Neverminding that we have to scan the cards to even begin scanning the (soon to be our) stuff.

Yep, power companies love solar power, until they don't.

It would also force out politicians that might actually be effective.

I feel like no executive should be able to exercise their stock options while they still work at the company.

CHEKOV: We've picked up a minor energy flux reading on one dynoscanner.

TERRELL: Damn! Are you sure? Maybe the scanner's out of adjustment.

I mean, it's like they've never seen it done before.

That's a good idea.

My story took place 20 years ago. I have never driven that sleep deprived again.