Luckily it’s pretty reliable if I stick to the cacique brand.

I can also vouch for their cheese! I mean, I’m a gringo but it’s still pretty good.

I only had one job that used C#, and it was the worst job I ever had. Even with the worst possible way to be introduced to the language, I still love it.

But how do we know an s will be the next letter? 😟

Oooooh. My great-grandma had a clam chowder recipe that uses salt pork (similar to bacon). I bet spam would be an amazing substitute!

I don’t like soup weather all that much, but soup sure does make it bearable

Honestly, that’s just it. You’ll get people on the right using hyped rhetoric about “the left”, “liberals”, “leftists” and other synonyms that can be used to describe anyone from Hillary Clinton to AOC and beyond. Are there people (particularly in the “and beyond” category) that an average person may be concerned with? Sure. Are they clearly explaining that they don’t mean half the country? Absolutely not.

There’s a difference between “I know we’re not your employer any longer, but you’re still forbidden from this thing” and “hey, I know we’re all kind of disappointed and emotions are hot right now. What people say to the media can come back to haunt us. Please don’t do that, especially if that’s not your area of expertise, as it may have implications in the next election”

That, plus a couple other things I saw in different places, ended up doing exactly what I wanted! I posted my final solution above. Thanks for finding a piece to the puzzle!

That just might work! It’s definitely an easy way to control both at the same time. I just need to figure out a way to change the group’s dimness when the dimness on one light’s physical switch (a Kasa, unlike the Zigbee one next to it). Maybe an automation for that, targeting the group instead of a single device

Honestly, I’ve been kind of wondering what his tea leaves read. I’m not sure about everything he’s predicted, but he was right about Trump in 2016 and the predicted red wave in 2022 being a dud.

Taking a different approach of starting simple and working up,

100.0 works

{{100.0}} does not work

“{{100.0}}” also does not work

Combining this with similar comments, plus adding in the math to convert to a percent, I tried this:

brightness_pct: "{{state_attr('light.kitchen_sink_ceiling', 'brightness') | float(0) /255*100}}"

Still getting the same message

Message malformed: expected float for dictionary value @ data['brightness_pct']

For what it’s worth, if I try to set brightness instead of brightness_pct, I get a different message

Message malformed: extra keys not allowed @ data['brightness']

(I’m assuming that device just doesn’t accept a brightness attribute - not a big deal to math it out though)

Is “breaks silence” the “slams” equivalent in headline writing when someone gives an opinion?

Isn’t he supposed to be banned from NY?

Honest question: huh?

No arguments there… But the 2008 bailouts are severely misunderstood.

In all fairness though, those industry bailouts were generally recovered

Early estimates for the bailout’s risk cost were as much as $700 billion; however, TARP recovered $441.7 billion from $426.4 billion invested, earning a $15.3 billion profit (an annualized rate of return of 0.6%), which may have been a loss when adjusted for inflation

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency_Economic_Stabilization_Act_of_2008

Ok, that last part about still being a net loss after inflation is fair, but we’re talking about a possible rounding error here, not a 12-figure loss for the Treasury.

Oh, I misread your comment to say that he named himself that because he’s not a god, like there was some back story or something!

Absolutely agree that what he said is more important than the stage name used when saying it

As someone who just hasn’t heard of him before his interview with Kamala, could you tell me the point? Genuinely curious.

The big question is if you can charge at home. Depending on the car, it’s feasible to do so on a normal outlet if you drive ~30 miles or less per day. A 240 volt outlet can be a game changer on top of that though. My setup charges my car 0-100 in about 6 hours (you know, overnight, when I’m not doing anything and electricity is cheapest). But if I were in an apartment and had no access to overnight charging I’d consider other options.

(Chevy Bolt EUV)

This is a thing? My wife texted me some wonderful legendary nonsense when she took some Benadryl for a cold several years ago!