[–] 5 points 1 day ago

They did. 1/3 of eligible voters chose hate and rascim. 1/3 said said anyone but Trump. And almost all of the remaining 1/3 saw the same racist pedophile who straight up told us what he was going to do. They looked at the malevolent evil he represented, weighed out the pros and cons of him being reelected and rather than vote against him, they decided that him winning was acceptable.
If that 1/3 of the country had voted for anyone else, then you might be able to say that they just couldn't agree on who to vote for, and didn't like her politics or the Biden administration or whatever. But that's not what they did. They decided that what he represented was acceptable.

You don't just find that level of hate ”acceptable" without having enough of your own hate to make it not seem that bad.

  • source
  • parent
  • context
  • [–] 9 points 4 days ago (15 children)

    2 things about Obama.

    1. He had no idea what he was doing. He was chosen because he had no experience and would not expect to know how to rock the boat much less try. He was also naive and thought other people could be trusted to at least not hurt themselves in their attempts to hurt everyone else.
    2. He only had a Democratic majority for just a handful of months. Bullshit lawsuits kept him from having the majority that had been voted in for almost a year. When he finally got a majority he got the ACA passed, but even then he didn't have enough of a majority to push it through without watering it down to near useless.

    I think most of us were pretty disappointed that Obama didn't do more, but looking back, it was pretty clear that he was only brought in as the janitor to clean up after the previous cluster fuck.

  • source
  • parent
  • context
  •  

    I am fairly new to home automation and I am looking to add a few physical wall switches to devices that don't have a specific wall switch of their own. I have a couple rooms where I want to put a light on a smart bulb/plug/relay but want to be able to turn the light on/off via a physical interaction at the door, like a normal light switch.
    The only solution I see right now is to expand the hole for the existing light (ceiling fan actually) switch, add another smart switch that doesn't actually have a load, and then set it up so if that switch is turned "on/off" then I have a automation that triggers the smart relay.
    But that seems like gross overkill. I honestly don't care about cutting holes or wiring stuff up, but somehow paying full price for a smart switch and then using it as nothing more than an alternative user interface for yet another smart device seems really wrong.
    Currently I have several kaso/tapo switches installed and have been looking at some smart relays/plugs/bulbs to turn on a lamp, or trigger the light on the fan separately from the fan itself.

    view more: next ›