Where is this map? I’m not finding anything like that on the site.

Edit. Found it. It’s really buried.

People using AI for shit where a much better tool already exists are going to be the death of our society.

As a consumer, PublicSquare’s website is easy to use. You just enter your ZIP code

Where? In the search box I just get a few products that happen to have my zip code in their description (not as a zip, but as a product number or something). Other comments here mention a map, but I’m not seeing that.

Edit: Found it. It’s really buried.

When you surround yourself with “yes men” that are afraid to challenge your choices because your snowflake ego might erupt, then you’ve got nobody you can count on to warn you when you’re about to do something really stupid.

There’s no radio, no Bluetooth, and no speakers of any kind beyond for those required to play basic warning chimes.

Many will consider this a cost-cutting step too far, but the interior was designed for ease of upgrading, with easy mounting space for anything from a simple soundbar to a full sound system.

There’s an integrated phone mount right on the dashboard, but there’s nothing stopping you from bringing something even larger. I expect the low-cost Android tablet and 3D-printing communities to have a field day coming up with in-car media streaming solutions.

a typically male-dominated and controversial Mexican music genre that’s soared into the spotlight in recent years.

The male-dominated part seems to make this an excellent choice considering the subject of her song. Not being familiar with it though, I wondered what makes it controversial. If anyone else is curious about that part…

Quintana’s new music goes further. She uses “corridos,” a type of northern Mexican ballads that has seen both an international renaissance and a backlash, with critics claiming that “narco corridos” — songs that glorify cartel violence and use misogynistic lyrics – have dominated the form.

The topic has grown so heated that the United States even revoked the visas of members of one band who projected the face of a drug cartel boss onto a large screen during a performance.

Instead of banning the corridos as a growing number of Mexican states have done, the country’s first woman president, Claudia Sheinbaum, has proposed that the government promote a new style of corridos that avoid glorifying violence and discrimination against women.

“We’re not banning a musical genre; that would be absurd,” Sheinbaum said recently. “What we’re proposing is that the lyrics not glorify drugs, violence, violence against women or viewing women as a sexual object.”

You two are clearly talking about very specific fires that occurred under very specific conditions. I’m not going to debate what happened or why. That’s for the experts to weigh in on.

I however would like to point out that there are “best practices” for communities and structures in the wildland-urban interface. Relevant to this discussion is the following…

Guidelines for landscaping:

• Keep vegetation from around windows (heat will break glass).
• Keep plants farther than 5 feet (1.5 m) from walls; this is a bare dirt no-grow zone, optional to use mowed green lawn grass and non-combustible mulch with sparse deciduous plants.
• Keep trees from growing within 30 feet (9.1 m) of the structure.
• Keep vegetation thinned within 100 feet (30 m) of the structure.

Guidelines for outdoor maintenance:

• Prune tree limbs back 10 feet (3.0 m) from roofs.
• Separate tree branches from power lines.
• Clear fallen debris from roof, gutters, window wells, and under decks.
• Prune tree branches 6 feet (1.8 m) up from the ground.
• Burn ground of leaf litter and needles.
• Remove and dispose of dead trees and shrubs.

Guidelines for flammables:

• Keep clear of flammables 30 feet (9.1 m) around primary and auxiliary structures including firewood piles.
• Keep clear 10 feet (3.0 m) around propane tanks or fuel oil tanks.

These obviously aren’t going to protect every house from every fire. But that doesn’t mean people should ignore them.

I’m also not implying that anyone affected by the specific fires being discussed above didn’t exercise appropriate caution for where they lived. Certainly some did. Others possibly didn’t.

But the reason these guidelines exist is because there have been people who’s homes were affected by other wildfires, and experts have concluded that the the above conditions have, at times, contributed to the problem, and that people should do their part to mitigate the problems on their property, and help bring awareness to their neighbors.

https://archive.ph/s5zrl

Your thinking of London bridges. 🥁 (I’ll see myself out).

a bumper sticker that says, “Have the day you voted for,”

Want!

Cost of doing business.

The name alone suggests they went into the “research” already knowing the answer and just looking for anything they could call evidence. The Guardian should be utterly embarrassed for giving this a megaphone.

Are we actually conflating bloggers with an agenda with credible scientific researchers now? What’s next Guardian? “Researchers discover the Earth is flat” ??

The CIA of yesteryear approves this idea.

Where destruction is involved, the weapons of the citizen-saboteur are salt, nails, candles, pebbles, thread, or any other materials he might normally be expected to possess as a householder or as a worker in his particular occupation. His arsenal is the kitchen shelf, the trash pile, his own usual kit of tools and supplies. The targets of his sabotage are usually objects to which he has normal and inconspicuous access in everyday life.

https://www.404media.co/declassified-cia-guide-to-sabotaging-fascism-is-suddenly-viral/

unless I am confusing it with another petition thing?

Yes. Obama had a petition thing directly on the Whitehouse website, and he would respond to those that got enough signatures. Trump obviously deleted it.

My general opinion of change.org is that it’s just a placebo for people to feel like they’re doing something productive when they should be calling their relevant political representatives, instead.

However, since the IA appears to have started this petition themselves, I agree with the other commenter that…

if the IA want these signatures, perhaps they need them.

In times like these, it’s hard not to wonder if this wasn’t the act of someone on the inside following the Simple Sabotage Field Manual.

More people should read it (it’s short) for inspiration on what skills they already possess (or can easily learn in advance) to fight fascism when the opportunity presents itself

Edit to add excerpt.

Where destruction is involved, the weapons of the citizen-saboteur are salt, nails, candles, pebbles, thread, or any other materials he might normally be expected to possess as a householder or as a worker in his particular occupation. His arsenal is the kitchen shelf, the trash pile, his own usual kit of tools and supplies. The targets of his sabotage are usually objects to which he has normal and inconspicuous access in everyday life.

A second type of simple sabotage requires no destructive tools whatsoever and produces physical damage, if any, by highly indirect means. It is based on universal opportunities to make faulty decisions, to adopt a noncooperative attitude, and to induce others to follow suit. Making a faulty decision may be simply a matter of placing tools in one spot instead of another. A non-cooperative attitude may involve nothing more than creating an unpleasant situation among one’s fellow workers, engaging in bickerings, or displaying surliness and stupidity.

This suggests the planet may be teeming with microbial life, the researchers said. They stressed, however, that they are not announcing the discovery of actual living organisms but rather a possible biosignature - an indicator of a biological process - and that the findings should be viewed cautiously, with more observations needed.

Researchers that have had the media blow their findings out of proportion and take their words out of context one too many times.

This is exciting enough on it’s own without the “help” of overzealous reporters making click-bait headlines and misleading people.

Double check that the AC unit doesn’t pull more than 15A {Amps). That’s all those smart plugs are rated for. It’s probably fine, but you don’t want to start a fire. I’ve seen pictures of smart plugs that melted when used on some refrigerators.

Good plan. I think the temp sensor will be an excellent addition. Whole setup could pay for itself in saved energy not leaving the AC running unnecessarily.