ShellMonkey

As nice an idea as it is, coming from one who grew up in a union household, it requires a majority of people to be willing to sacrifice in order to support their peers, and I just don't see it in the modern mentality.

You can't force a union in a shop without majority votes, and even then you have how many states with 'right to work' laws that render them largely ineffectual.

Why let little things like facts and reality get in the way of a good sound byte to an echo chamber audience.

Go for it, Dems are using one of the few effective levers they have at the moment. They want to blame us for not accepting a 'clean' CR that's fine.

The last several months have been a storm of bullshit and dictatorial decisions by a loony who give no shits about anyone but himself, if finding a way to bring him to heel is possible by shutting it all down then I'll help turn out the lights.

Well I don't work for the gov, so I'll blame him several times over to make up for a couple.

Problem here is the tankies so derided here have feelings that don't care about facts.

These are folks who consider China, N. Korea, and Russia to be ideal havens of the workers, regardless of any contrasting data.

Epstein's buddy said what?

This settlement might help because Trump has directed one $22 million payment YouTube will make to the body overseeing his pet project – construction of a ballroom at the White House. Another $2.5 million payment will go to plaintiffs who joined the case and also felt YouTube infringed their rights.

A true man of the people, a couple scraps for however many may have felt their 'rights' to spout their conspiracies in YouTube where infringed, and 10X that for a fancy room for rich people to party in and plan how to become richer.

That's mostly the reason I went for them, trying as some back burner thing to get whatever appliances, lights cameras, etc all figured how I could do them fully in house. Not a huge priority, switches work just fine, but if I do set such things up the idea of it failing because of an Internet outage is a no-go

Dude on the far right (subject of the article?) just had all the look of your classic overly enthusiastic evil underling wanting to get in the bosses good grace.

On totally unrelated news, I'm finding the my new ecobee to be pretty sweet. Supposedly it can be two stepped into homeassistant via Apple's webkit?

Far too early to math all the numbers, but one note to this is that it's entirely possible to start with a median metric and switch to mean from there, their argument being how that's not possible right off the bat.

Start off at a median number, which statisticians love because it flattens out the effects of excessive weights on any particular segment, such as we have in the USA with a small number of obscenely rich people.

But then strip the anomaly from the dataset and recalculate the mean and get a proper average. The median may not move any meaningful amount, but without the anomaly the mean becomes more true to the sample.

You know, this calls for some snarky comment, but I'm pretty sure my Idiocracy meter blew a fuse in there...