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I found that I can't convince google assistant (via bluetooth headset) to find my phone unless my phone is unlocked. The only workaround I've found is to set a 1-second timer.

Want happier employees?

"No."

Every machine is a smoke machine if you operate it wrong enough.

I don't worry too much about how I address peers and superiors, but anyone significantly younger than me, anyone who provides a service to me, and anyone I am teaching gets a "sir" or "ma'am".

The assault weapons ban the US had from 1994 to 2004 didn't force the retirement of the entire set of politicians who voted for it. It simply drove the majority position across party lines, and left everyone wondering how the hell the Democrats become so out of touch with their own constituents.

I pointed out the cost to demonstrate the depth of their concern. You aren't likely to cast a vote to ban your own hobbies. You aren't going to vote to make your collections worthless.

20-some years ago, I took my first concealed carry class. 30 people in the room, and only 6 of us (including me and two of my brothers) had ever fired a gun before.

Democratic leadership never bothered to consider how gun ownership would affect the political opinions of all those new gun owners in swing states. It just shunned them as Republican baby killers, and wondered why they were losing votes.

The number of guns we have is completely irrelevant to the matter at hand. The relevant issue is the opinions of the people who would actually be affected by the law.

Gun control is one of the major reasons why people in 42 of our 50 states are dissatisfied with the Democrats. Gun control is one of the major reasons why Trump is now in office.

Democratic leadership should have learned this lesson two decades ago, when our Federal Assault Weapons Ban sunsetted, Democrats couldn't get it renewed, and the US went from generally banning concealed carry to generally licensing it. Failing to recognize that fact in 2004, Democratic leadership should have picked up on it from pro-gun legislation passing in 42 states. But no, they were hell bent on pushing 1980's gun control efforts, and ignoring any pushback against that position.

Democratic leadership refusing to follow the will of the people is how the US got itself in this disaster.

Gun control in the US is a centrist position, not a leftist position. Both the left wing and the right wing are pro-gun, and largely for the same reasons.

Its the centrist, corporatist, CEO-owned Democratic leadership who doesn't want guns.

We have a scenario where 8 blue states have effectively banned concealed carry, 27 red states have said concealed carry is legal without a license, and 15 (former) swing states need licenses to carry concealed weapons.

Over 30 million Americans have obtained such licenses since the early 2000's. Those 30 million Americans now hold pro-gun opinions. They have each invested thousands of dollars on expensive firearms, ammunition, range time, classes, targets, gun safes/lockers, holsters, belts, clothing compatible with concealment.

Democrats have consistently pushed for "stricter gun laws" like you are talking about. Those gun laws were never popular among the people in 27 red states, and once 30 million people in the (former) swing states started picking up licenses, those laws stopped being popular there as well.

"Stricter gun laws" being popular in only 8 states, yet being a central plank in the Democratic party, is how several swing states have turned reliably red over the past 25 years.

Stricter gun laws gave us Trump. Twice.

This video provides mechanical demonstrations of impedance, SWR, and some other related concepts, making them much more intuitive: AT&T Archives: Similarities of Wave Behavior.

Pros: He never uses the term "complex conjugate"

Cons: Ancient, black and white, monotonous droning.

So, they left a bucket of water to stagnate next to a bus stop?

I'm not trying to solve any problems with Crypto. I'm trying to use their purchasing of electricity to solve a different problem: seasonal variation in solar production.

Due to long, clear, summer days, and short, cloudy winter days, if you have enough solar panels to meet your demand in winter, you have about 400% of what you need to meet demand in the summer, even after accounting for air conditioning loads.

That excess power on the grid crashes the price of power. Unless you can find someone else to buy it, or some way tonuse it. To have enough solar generation capacity to meet your needs year round, you need something that can suck up excess power in the summer. If you can't monetize that excess, you'll never be able to get enough solar online to meet demand year-round.

Storage can conceivably address daily fluctuations, but it won't solve seasonal variation.