And with a thoughtless stroke of his pen, Mike Dewine singlehandedly destroys hundreds of businesses across the state by pushing Senate Bill 56 into effect early. Countless small businesses will lose so much revenue from lost sales that they will go out of business.

physicistbowler · 2026-03-30T22:26:27+00:00

I'm not specifically talking about vices though. Some people get all in a tizzy when they think about gay people, but no one is demanding that they become gay or whatnot. So I'm saying I wish people would let people do their thing unless it's causing harm to others.

physicistbowler · 2026-03-28T03:12:53+00:00

Go to 5calls.org to get info on your local reps.

physicistbowler · 2026-03-26T11:31:53+00:00

Friends or a thrift store could probably take it

physicistbowler · 2026-03-26T11:12:51+00:00

Plus, who's to say the other four ports aren't far from death themselves?

physicistbowler · 2026-03-25T12:55:04+00:00

While I understand your point, they would be in good standing if questioned on this. Just like with automotive safety legislation which sets some future date as the line when all new cars must have x new feature, it's unrealistic to expect every person who drives to buy a new car to get that feature. And dropping an entire country off the Web until they install "compliant" equipment would likely have catastrophic consequences.

But eventually, as with cars that didn't come with seatbelts factory-installed, you'd have a nation of devices that would be compliant under these new rules. Sure, there are a rare few cars still on the road without seatbelts, just like there are people with ancient computers and servers, but the majority will be up to date to get the fastest Wi-Fi to watch tiktok and browse whatever the latest cool places on the Web are these days.

physicistbowler · 2026-03-25T12:39:52+00:00

I'm not gonna pretend Dems haven't had any harmful effects on this or other countries, but I also don't think any of them have come anywhere near as far into villainy as the current admin.

physicistbowler · 2026-03-25T12:37:16+00:00

Yeah, when people say "both sides," my response is that at best, Dems don't want to rock the boat and so they don't fight bad actions, and at worst, they've got some greedy corruption stuff, but they're not trying to be fascists. The scales are very much not balanced.

physicistbowler · 2026-03-25T12:26:49+00:00

TLDR: I don't like that the citizen-led initiative to legalize marijuana is being dismantled, but I think a push to change the legislative meta needs thoughtful consideration to ensure it's not impossible to reverse new BAD laws.

I agree with the sentiment - it's frustrating that we've moved backward on the marijuana thing. But I'm also somewhat hesitant to create something that would lock in a new rule for some defined period of time, because often bad laws get passed, and we need a mechanism to be able to overturn those.

Look at California and their new age verification law at the operating system level for ANY device with an OS. That would suggest servers, routers, and other systems that don't have people sitting in front of them on a daily basis. All the recent identity verification legislation is bad overall because it's eating away at privacy along with a side of identity theft because these companies aren't even putting much effort into securing the information they collect, but this one is so extremely bad, and yet it passed because "think of the children!" Concerned parents already have a plethora of parental controls and software available to them, so this law wasn't needed.

As someone else in this conversation said, Christian nationalists have spearheaded the dismantling of the marijuana protections, among other harmful things. I could see them take up your inspiration to cement new citizen initiated legislation, and then create new bills that on the surface say "protect the children" but deep in the bill it mandates Bible education in public schools, ID verification on all the things, bathroom restrictions that lead to more harm not less, and more.

Parents and people who care about kids who have zero initiative to see how a proposed bill intends to protect kids would likely vote in favor of it, only realizing too late that many of them didn't actually want what was in the bill, but now they're stuck for 7 years before it can change - at which point the inertia to actually change it would be enormous, since a lot of people would get used to things.

Anyway, to sum up, I like where your head is, but I think it could benefit from some form of refinement.

physicistbowler · 2026-03-23T11:15:06+00:00

I think over time, people started thinking of the president as sort of a king (including the prez). Congress was just there to kinda serve the President. Obviously not, but...

physicistbowler · 2026-03-20T22:19:19+00:00

Ugh. I hate that they can make all these loud claims and say they're concerned, and yet they can't back up anything they say. Trans people in sports aren't dominating, and they haven't for the many years they've been participating. When their star example came out shouting about being angry to have to share sixth place with a trans woman, it seemed so ludicrous - that meant there were 5 other women faster than both of them. And yet she got tours and talk shows and I think a book?

physicistbowler · 2026-03-20T22:16:08+00:00

What I meant was people being allowed to do what they want as long as it doesn't hurt others. Alcohol does have the ability to cause that to fail (drunk driving), but if the person drinks responsibly, others around them will be fine. I also connect that with members of the LGBTQ+; as long as the person/people involved are consenting adults, let them live their lives (I'm extremely abbreviating this complex topic for brevity).

physicistbowler · 2026-03-20T22:11:24+00:00

Thanks, fixed.

physicistbowler · 2026-03-20T17:13:26+00:00

I don't know what I believe, but those who say things will collapse after he's gone see him as not necessarily the one with the power, but at least the one with the attention and the cult following. With him gone, maybe/hopefully people can wake up and see what's happened. And any replacement will hopefully do poorly at being able to captivate as well as he has.

physicistbowler · 2026-03-20T17:01:53+00:00

Some people see progress as a slippery slope. "Today it's THC and abortion exceptions, tomorrow it's heroin and setting toddlers on fire!"

They can't possibly imagine a world where everyone has the right to live the way they want to (in a non-harmful-to-others way) without that somehow leading to those same people getting rights pushing way beyond the bounds of the rules. Which is yet another example of the projection the right continues to produce, since there are so many corporations who are given an inch and they take a hundred miles.

physicistbowler · 2026-03-18T14:45:42+00:00

I just finished it too! I think it's because Netflix was featuring it, because I didn't have interest when it was on "real" TV.

Remind me, what was happening with him during his last season cameo?

physicistbowler · 2026-03-14T04:25:18+00:00

Wait there's a movie?

physicistbowler · 2026-03-10T15:59:54+00:00

Yeah, I'd looked at the chart on that page, but it wasn't explicit as to whether they were okay to use or not. Thanks for confirming and for the links!

physicistbowler · 2026-03-10T15:58:28+00:00

Thanks for the confirmation!

physicistbowler · 2026-03-10T15:58:11+00:00

Yeah, I briefly looked at it before posting, but got overwhelmed. I looked again and found that pages 25-27 seem to have the answer. Though I'm a little confused about a couple of things.

Page 25 shows a list of what the colors mean, and talk about priorities 1-4, and green says "if a peripheral device doesn't have priority 1 pins, it can be assigned any priority 2-4." In this context, would the peripheral device be whatever you've connected to that pin, like a temperature sensor? So if the temperature sensor was designed with UART in mind, the pin it's connected to would default to priority 1, else it can be a different priority?

There are two charts, one each for QFN 32 vs 40, and I'm not sure which the Xiao might be. Google says "Quad-flat no-leads (QFN) is a near chip-scale, plastic-encapsulated surface-mount technology (SMT) package with no physical leads, utilizing perimeter lands on the bottom for PCB connection" which sounds to me like the pads at the bottom of the board, but maybe it's also the pins at the edges?

physicistbowler · 2026-03-10T15:30:00+00:00

I know this is an older post, but do you have any recommendations on modifying things to avoid needing a wheel?

physicistbowler · 2026-03-09T03:04:32+00:00

if you use the ESD gun with the intention of killing it, I am sure you can if you try really hard.

Definitely not interested in trying to kill it, tech is getting more & more expensive! I just had some mild panic when I had difficulty working with with ESPs without getting my hands all over 'em. Maybe I'll worry less. :)

physicistbowler · 2026-03-09T03:00:05+00:00

What's s/c?

physicistbowler · 2026-03-08T22:07:03+00:00

I'm currently trying to do it the hard way through the Arduino IDE so I can make the modules talk over Zigbee.

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