meleecrits

joined 11 months ago
[–] meleecrits@lemmy.world 17 points 2 days ago (3 children)

My wife can apply for dual citizenship as the grand daughter of Irish immigrants. Her sister already moved to Ireland about five years ago. We're making plans to protect our son.

I may be called a coward, and part of me would agree, but I've watched this country descend into fascism for over thirty years. I no longer have hope that things will get better.

[–] meleecrits@lemmy.world 37 points 2 days ago (5 children)

My father in law is the son of Irish immigrants. According to Stephen Miller's plan, he can be denaturalized and deported. Is it likely to happen to him? Probably not. He's a relatively wealthy 70 year old. But once the brown people are dealt with, who will they scapegoat next?

[–] meleecrits@lemmy.world 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

To give Bush his credit, he said that "won't be fooled again" line because he realized he was about to say "shame on me," and that would have been used against him for the rest of his presidency.

It actually showed real on the spot adaptability.

[–] meleecrits@lemmy.world 15 points 1 month ago

I feel this goes beyond theory at this point, sadly.

[–] meleecrits@lemmy.world 18 points 3 months ago

MAGA nut jobs: wtf, I love EVs!

[–] meleecrits@lemmy.world 26 points 3 months ago (1 children)

All your boss told you was that if they could, they would pay you less.

All hard work gets you is more work.

[–] meleecrits@lemmy.world 37 points 3 months ago (4 children)

I donated $100 and will probably donate more.

I feel like this is our last attempt at a do over of 2016. I was swindled by Russian propaganda and bought into the "protest by voting third party," and while my vote didn't change anything (New Yorker), a lot of others were also duped in swing states and counties.

[–] meleecrits@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago

This chucklefuck wants to give me more voting power for creampieing (creamping?) my wife? Sure, I'll vote even harder against this idiot.

[–] meleecrits@lemmy.world 19 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Zuckerberg bribed Devos?

[–] meleecrits@lemmy.world 12 points 3 months ago (3 children)

The sequel to Cocaine Bear is going to be lit.

[–] meleecrits@lemmy.world 15 points 3 months ago

Oh they've tried. Go on r/conservative and they were trying to claim this was a dei issue.

[–] meleecrits@lemmy.world 21 points 3 months ago (9 children)

Semi unrelated question (also only semi serious): is there a program or script that can follow a person's trades and make similar trades? Or is she one that, by the time the public knows, it's already too late to jump on the bandwagon?

 

Next school year, my son will be left home after school for a few hours while my wife and I are at work. I'm looking for a way to detect when he's home and have the front door unlock (among other automation scripts that are in place).

I came across this post and was going to get the Tile Pro as it seemed to check off all my requirements:

  • I could put it in his backpack where it can be forgotten.
  • long battery life.
  • Through the Home Assistant integration, it can trigger when it gets in range.
  • It also has a few other beneficial things, so I was thinking of putting one on each of our bicycles in case they're ever stolen. Hell, I could look into putting one on my cat's collar in case she ever gets out.

Then I came across some concerning articles regarding data harvesting. The whole reason I started self-hosting was to prevent data harvesting, so it seems like the Tile is a non-starter for me.

Has anyone been in this (or a similar) situation? Mainly, I'm looking for a device I can put in my son's backpack that can trigger when he's within range, so the house will open for him. BLE seems like it might be a solution, though I run my server on an old Dell r720 enterprise server in my basement, so I don't currently have Bluetooth functionality (and it's pretty far away from the front door, 20+ feet), though getting that is not a dealbreaker for me.

  • Addendum: To people saying just get a key: we have a key for him. I have a monolith sized server in my basement that automates most everything in my house these days, and was curious if anyone had set up something similar to what I was thinking. Home automation is very much a hobby, and I'm using it to learn new things.
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