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   ?? Humpleupagus ?? (humpleupagus@eveningzoo.club)'s status on Tuesday, 13-Jun-2023 05:24:44 JST ?? Humpleupagus ??
   No Amazon for you! Take that racists! 🤨
   
   https://medium.com/@bjax_/a-tale-of-unwanted-disruption-my-week-without-amazon-df1074e3818b
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     Ricky "Bender" LaFluer :nv: (evil_bender@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Tuesday, 13-Jun-2023 05:28:41 JST Ricky "Bender" LaFluer :nv:

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     It was awful! I had to go into town and support the fucking Johnsons business.
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     ?? Humpleupagus ?? (humpleupagus@eveningzoo.club)'s status on Tuesday, 13-Jun-2023 05:28:41 JST ?? Humpleupagus ??

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     • Ricky "Bender" LaFluer :nv:
     This guy had a smart home. He couldn't turn on his lights. 🙄
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     ?? Humpleupagus ?? (humpleupagus@eveningzoo.club)'s status on Tuesday, 13-Jun-2023 05:35:01 JST ?? Humpleupagus ??

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     • Ricky "Bender" LaFluer :nv:
     I will not allow pg&e to control my thermostat. If it becomes mandatory, I will setup a fake one that reports to them and real one that runs my air.
     
     I hate smart appliances particularly because they all require wifi. I have switches in every room in my house, and none of the smart plugs, etc, I've seen online use ethernet. They want me to get brain cancer.
     
     Nonetheless, there are open source solutions re smarthomes that don't require you to be on their grid.
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     Ricky "Bender" LaFluer :nv: (evil_bender@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Tuesday, 13-Jun-2023 05:35:02 JST Ricky "Bender" LaFluer :nv:

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     I find this hilarious. For almost a decade I was told I'm crazy for resisting wi-fi appliances, thermostats, Alexa devices etc. Even my phone goes in a privacy pouch when I'm not using it.
     
     This exact bullshit here. I won't comply!
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     EvilSandmich (evilsandmich@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 13-Jun-2023 05:38:38 JST EvilSandmich

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     @Humpleupagus Doorbell says:
     >“Excuse me, can I help you?”
     Black guy hears:
     >"Fuck you nigger!"
     Many such cases.
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     ?? Humpleupagus ?? (humpleupagus@eveningzoo.club)'s status on Tuesday, 13-Jun-2023 05:38:38 JST ?? Humpleupagus ??

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     • EvilSandmich
     My door bell says "nigggg...eer nigggg...eer"
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     JeffreyNull (pereavaitraison@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 13-Jun-2023 05:49:31 JST JeffreyNull

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     • Ricky "Bender" LaFluer :nv:
     @Humpleupagus @Evil_Bender Ever deal with one of those Google Nest thermostats? People are fooled into getting them because they're nice looking, but they are electronic cancer.
     
     Just de-fucking the thing so you can use it as a manual temp switch is a major headache. It's like three-layers deep with government monitoring and eco programming.
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     ?? Humpleupagus ?? (humpleupagus@eveningzoo.club)'s status on Tuesday, 13-Jun-2023 05:49:31 JST ?? Humpleupagus ??

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     • Ricky "Bender" LaFluer :nv:
     No, the fanciest thermostat I own is an old school programmable one at my office. The one in my house is a simple thermostat with an LCD display that shows the time and temperature.
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     ?? Humpleupagus ?? (humpleupagus@eveningzoo.club)'s status on Tuesday, 13-Jun-2023 06:01:16 JST ?? Humpleupagus ??

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     • Ricky "Bender" LaFluer :nv:
     My parents have one that's hooked up the grid. They got it because PG&E offers a discount. Typical boomer reasoning. But it may not matter to them, they keep the house at 84 in the summer. I won't visit them on hot days. They can come to my ice box.
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     JeffreyNull (pereavaitraison@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 13-Jun-2023 06:01:17 JST JeffreyNull

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     • Ricky "Bender" LaFluer :nv:
     @Humpleupagus @Evil_Bender Ours is even older school than that. I've got one of those circular honeywell notched dial ones with the little needles you squint as.
     
     I know about the Nest because the wife does real estate and was trying to sell a house that kept going damp and hot every time someone showed up to look at it. She would swear that she had set it for a reasonable a/c level just hours before.
     
     And she had.
     
     But the fucking thing has default eco-programming and avails itself of motion sense... I believe it even uses satellites for this shit, if you can believe it.
     
     So I had to look it up online and go back to "fix" it.
     
     So you can program it to act as an old fashioned manual thermostat, but should your power go out, when it comes back on, it defaults to government fuckery as a first option.
     
     Can you imagine trying to live with that bullshit?
     
     My wife eventually sold the house, but that idiocy probably scared away 2-3 buyers who, reasonably, suspected the HVAC system was broken.
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     ?? Humpleupagus ?? (humpleupagus@eveningzoo.club)'s status on Tuesday, 13-Jun-2023 06:13:23 JST ?? Humpleupagus ??

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     • Ricky "Bender" LaFluer :nv:
     The irony will be that people will start shooting when their AC goes off for extended periods during the summer. There will be not revolution as long as people have cool air.
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     JeffreyNull (pereavaitraison@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 13-Jun-2023 06:13:24 JST JeffreyNull

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     • Ricky "Bender" LaFluer :nv:
     @Humpleupagus @Evil_Bender Liberals have been trying to do this puritanical idiocy with people's heat, a/c, water, gas forever. It's just that they're more successful now than they ever had been in the past.
     
     There's really no meaningful science behind any of it, but they love the feeling of punishing people for no reason. You're guilty -- somehow.
     
     When you factor in heating, a/c dishwashers, clothes washers and dryers, kitchen appliances, toilets, shower heads... American life is considerably more cumbersome than it used to be. And for absolutely no good reason.
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     Ademan (ademan@thebag.social)'s status on Tuesday, 13-Jun-2023 06:29:27 JST Ademan

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     • Ricky "Bender" LaFluer :nv:

     I’m gonna let the retards at pg&e control my thermostat because they have mismanaged the state’s generation and transmission infrastructure that fucking poorly they can’t handle peak demand

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     ?? Humpleupagus ?? (humpleupagus@eveningzoo.club)'s status on Tuesday, 13-Jun-2023 06:29:27 JST ?? Humpleupagus ??

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     • Ademan
     * they can't handle peak demand or wind unless Gavin Newsom is being recalled, in which case the power stays on no matter what.
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     ?? Humpleupagus ?? (humpleupagus@eveningzoo.club)'s status on Tuesday, 13-Jun-2023 07:18:25 JST ?? Humpleupagus ??

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     • Rudolf_von_Goldenbaum
     Just wait until they find out that my door lock says "chick chink." 😏
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     Rudolf_von_Goldenbaum (rudolf_von_goldenbaum@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 13-Jun-2023 07:18:27 JST Rudolf_von_Goldenbaum

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     @Humpleupagus "Let me be clear: I fully support Amazon taking measures to ensure the safety of their drivers."
     Translation: "I'm okay with you doing this to actual racists"
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     sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Tuesday, 13-Jun-2023 07:18:27 JST sj_zero

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     • Rudolf_von_Goldenbaum
     "we at Amazon do not support racist doorbells"
     
     Uh wut?
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     ?? Humpleupagus ?? (humpleupagus@eveningzoo.club)'s status on Tuesday, 13-Jun-2023 07:24:05 JST ?? Humpleupagus ??

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     • Rudolf_von_Goldenbaum
     • DeadDrudge
     Or "oh yeah. Stick it in me, faggot."
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     DeadDrudge (jeddrudge@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Tuesday, 13-Jun-2023 07:24:06 JST DeadDrudge

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     • Rudolf_von_Goldenbaum
     Or chink chick, as the case may be...🤷♂️