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If you want to automate your home a bit, but you don't want any "smart" tech, you can just buy remote controlled power sockets instead

They are a lot cheaper and easier to set up and use than some home automation smart tech nonsense

They don't need an app (but some models come with optional apps and there are apps that are compatible with most of these)

Many of them use the 433mhz frequency to communicate, which makes most models compatible with each other, even if they are from different manufacturers

The tech has been around for a long time and will be around for a long time to come

You don't have to put any fucking corporate listening devices like an amazon echo in your home

The system intrinsically abuses poor people.

This meme, for instance, is assuredly being spread around due to the combination of a fandom reference + funny short shorts. It currently has 7,717 reblogs and I’m very willing to bet that the last, say, 5 people in the reblog chain from me did not notice that the man is wearing an explicitly Christian-nationalist shirt.

Here’s a clearer picture from Google.

[image description: a google shop listing for yellow version of the shirt called “peaceful not harmless tee” that more clearly shows that it is an illustration of a skull wearing a lion helmet with crossed swords along with flanking iconography showing the Christian symbol of Chi-Rho and a machine gun with three arrows. Text is stylized “Peaceful not harmless” and “bene mori” and “protector nation” with an american flag. End image description]

Take just a minute to look beyond the guy’s ass and remember the reality of the world we live in right now. With the chi-rho + gun + american flag iconography combo, the Christian nationalist message of this shirt is really not subtle.

White Nationalism is spreading like wildfire online right now and I am no longer asking, I am telling you that you HAVE TO BE AWARE OF IT because YOU are capable of spreading it too, and the negative effects of that don’t care if you didn’t realize.

The Port Gamble S’Klallam Tribe made this card for their citizens to present to ICE.

If you are in a different federally recognized tribe in Washington State:

“I am a member of the (insert tribe here) Tribal Nation, which is Tribal Nation federally recognized by the United States.

This means I am also a United States citizen according to the U.S. Citizenship Act of 1924, 8 USC Section 1401.

Our tribe’s enrollment office number is (insert phone number here).

"The hat is customizable," he said, struggling with the velcro patch on the front. "If I need it, I have an ICE one too. I pick based off the business i walk into."

"Customizable is an important hat descriptor," I said. "what can I get you?"

"You wouldn't believe how offended people get these days," he said. "And I'm supposed to do something about it if you're offended? You chose to be offended!"

"We all have hundreds of thousands of decisions everyday," I said. I thickened my accent. "That's what my stepdad always said. But I can make one easier - we have a delicious Ethiopian roast available."

"Like if I told you you have a bull ring," he said, "because bulls have rings in their noses. Is that offensive?"

I laughed. "I've heard that before."

"It's a joke, but people get offended. Maybe you're offended."

I looked at him. I smiled. "You aren't trying to offend me though, right?"

Of course he was. I was being friendly and the friendlier I was, the faster he switched topics. He was saying anything inflammatory he could think of to see if I'd take the bait. After about 20 minutes of my redirecting and deescalating, he settled into a more normal interaction. He took up too much of my time showing me a product I'd feigned mild interest in to get him to stop talking about getting accused of inappropriate behavior at work. When we finally disengaged, he spent 10 minutes trying to catch my eye again. When he failed, he left.

There's this new breed of customer who insists on trying to incite political conversation through their clothing and, when that doesnt work, their snide little comments. If I owned my own business, maybe I would have given the guy the fight he wanted. But I work for a corporation and I love paying my bills so I deescalated.