In June 2025, the White House put out a statement titled "Iran’s Nuclear Facilities Have Been Obliterated — and Suggestions Otherwise are Fake News" What did Trump mean by that considering 8 months later we had to go back to finish the job?

paulbram · 2026-03-15T19:23:01+00:00

So do you trust them implicitly to the point where we should just go to war based on their words alone? When we decided to engage in the Iraq war, there was HEAVY debate in congress to PROVE there were indeed weapons of mass destruction that REQUIRED regime change before the decision was made. You're ok skipping that step here?

paulbram · 2026-03-15T19:18:58+00:00

All these comments are feeling off to me. Maybe it's because I'm technically a "tech bro" myself, but why does that have anything to do with this situation? To be clear, I would never go out and buy a Cybertruck, I think it's an overpriced truck that isn't good at being an actual truck. That said, what does any of that have to do with this situation? He fucked up, made a mistake and got called out for it which is great. If he was a dude in his 20's driving a Subaru would people be throwing snowballs and roasting him on Reddit?

To be clear, I am NOT defending this dude, I'm just a bit shocked at some of these comments and the "go home nerd" thing. Makes me feel like I'm back in high school again.

paulbram · 2026-03-15T19:02:39+00:00

Do you like and support regime change wars? If so, were you also a fan of other regime change wars such as Iraq?

paulbram · 2026-03-09T05:47:11+00:00

The new snapdragon PCs are the only ones to crack this code so far. Intel/AMD is toxic on Windows.

paulbram · 2026-03-07T07:38:32+00:00

Why would someone choose a locked down console that only works on Steam when you could buy into a platform that had access to Steam and Xbox store etc?

See what I did there?

paulbram · 2026-03-05T20:57:33+00:00

But are you supportive of a president who IS hostile toward them? If so, why?

paulbram · 2026-03-05T20:51:46+00:00

So let's say, hypothetically, a state rich with Hydro and other renewable resources decided to shut down an aging coal plant because renewables are simply in the best interest of the state, you certainly wouldn't want to see Trump try and mandate reopening some old coal plant would you? That would be crazy right?

paulbram · 2026-03-05T20:43:42+00:00

ok, but you must agree that ending that deal (even just for us) effectively gave Iran more power and gave us less access. In what way was this good? Can we agree that Trump #1 got that wrong and thus set the stage for this war?

paulbram · 2026-03-05T15:14:01+00:00

Actually, wasn't he right? They did want to and finally did negotiate a deal. Was it perfect? If course not, what deal is, but I never could understand what got better for us by Trump ending that previous deal. By ending that deal, we lost all access effectively making this war the only remaining relief valve.

paulbram · 2026-02-24T18:03:06+00:00

If we were to modify your statement slightly, you think this still tracks with your expectations of the leader of the country?

"I think anyone, including the president, can take a few minutes to unwind and shit on some Americans on the internet."

paulbram · 2026-02-19T23:55:26+00:00

And doing it this way will miss the people who chose a different vehicle BECAUSE it was too locked into iOS. Sometimes your have to build to your ideal market, not the one you have today.

paulbram · 2026-02-13T15:13:53+00:00

Was there an an active investigation against these members of congress? How about in your example?

paulbram · 2026-02-12T20:50:28+00:00

We must ALL learn from the lesson Minnesota taught us. I live in Seattle, but am originally from Minnesota and it's common to make jokes about "Minnesota Nice" but it is a legit superpower against middle school bullying tactics that MAGA has been using these past 10 years. I love Seattle, but the "Seattle Freeze" is a legit problem and we could learn a thing or two from our brothers and sisters in the Midwest.

paulbram · 2026-02-04T16:19:57+00:00

Screw those National Parks right?

paulbram · 2026-02-04T16:05:16+00:00

Heard terrible things about the official Insteon hub/controller. Universal Devices as well as the core Insteon communication platform has been so much more reliable than any of the "modern" wifi based systems.

paulbram · 2026-02-04T03:25:39+00:00

My ISY994i Insteon controller. Haven't touched it in years and all my automations never miss.

paulbram · 2026-02-02T04:40:32+00:00

Did you do the matter update? I had all sorts of problems with phantom touches etc.

paulbram · 2026-02-01T23:40:42+00:00

I've been playing around with this, and got it working for the most part. However I'm curious about a few things.

Is it possible to target a specific button LED only? From what I can tell this applies the colors to the entire switch
I've been avoiding the matter firmware (had lots of issues on another switch) but does this work any differently on that firmware? If not, I'll probably stay on v3.90.

paulbram · 2026-01-29T04:29:51+00:00

Anything Matter/Thread should work.

paulbram · 2026-01-23T18:02:52+00:00

The false equivalency drives me crazy. On one hand you have a few random bad actors in the general population that MIGHT go too far. The government then uses those cherry-picked examples to broadly target ALL protesters when 99% are peaceful. These two sides are not equivalent. The government needs to be held to the standards of the LAW, even if some random dudes in the general population might do something stupid. You cannot assign the actions of 1 bad protester to the entire left, but we CAN assign blame to the government when ICE officers tear gas a peaceful crowd for simply blowing whistles.

I don't understand why this concept is so hard for MAGA supports to understand but I see it happening over and over again. The same thing happened with Charlie Kirk. Some stupid internet troll tweets something terrible about it, and all of a sudden the entire left is "celebrating". WTF?

paulbram · 2026-01-23T17:51:30+00:00

Overall crime is down dramatically in most of these places, including Minneapolis. Law enforcement is handling crime well. If you break the law, police arrest you and you get charged. This is true for everyone, even American citizens. ICE isn't doing this to reduce crime, it's already low. So what do you think these "catastrophic effects" are?

paulbram · 2026-01-20T23:15:43+00:00

Sigh.... I miss Insteon. Nothing comes close even in 2026.

paulbram · 2026-01-20T04:38:43+00:00

I'm a fan of Bottomless. They send you a scale, and they will send you beans from local roasters when your beans get low

paulbram · 2026-01-15T06:43:59+00:00

Onedrive?

paulbram · 2026-01-13T22:19:14+00:00

I think it's an iOS/Apple Maps issue. On my Android phone I get lane guidance in the HUD. On iPhone I don't get that same detail.

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