Alec has been on a multi-year quest to get an incandescent color profile from LED Christmas lights. I haven’t watched this episode, but he usually does a pretty good job of recapping at the start of every episode.

It’s always super entertaining, in my opinion.

There’s a big difference between something showing up in a public space, where you’re on your guard, and something showing up in your house, where you’re not.

With everything you know about software engineering and corporate malfeasance, you still don’t think it’s at least plausible that Samsung, whether by coding incompetence or intentional tomfoolery, had a bug that accidentally or “accidentally” turned ads on for even just a few people who didn’t opt in?

You’ve got your cause and effect reversed. He says vile things, so we point out that he is a vile person.

It’s his hatred that makes him say hateful things, not ours.

Making it ironically the most photorealistic thing on the Metaverse.

Walking into a meeting at Kohler and keeping a straight face after saying the words “toilet camera”–and then maintaining that straight face throughout the product’s discussion, greenlighting, development, manufacture, and sale–deserves an Oscar.

Oh, yeah. I think if it was a problem I was willing to spend any more money on than I already had, I could’ve potentially ended up there.

The point isn’t confidence, it’s hope.

I’m a bigger fan of kisses and Higgs, myself.

I think part of what you’re saying is why the Kowloon build can’t deliver that, though.

Nine points. They won a +22 district by nine. Despite active voter suppression.

Yeah, they should be “fretting.”

Yes, yes, yes! But also, it’s particularly notable that she’s white and blond with no accent because they claim to their supporters to be protecting those specific people from “illegals.” Pointing out that they’re not only doing something awful but also defying their own stated principles is always a good thing to do.

The crazy thing is that their margins are super low, and the subscription fee isn’t super onerous (as you mentioned, there are multiple ways to make it back–for instance, we’ve never yet had a year where we didn’t get our Executive membership totally paid for by the rebate check), and yet they still pay substantially more than other employers in pretty much every area, and they’re still one of the most profitable retailers in the country.

Basically, I think every other big box store’s executive team should be fired whenever they say they “can’t” do something like pay their workers or offer benefits or whatever. Obviously you can, because Costco does.

That’s really true. We returned the same vacuum cleaner three times in a year before we decided to just get a different brand.

The porch lights in question are actually string lights, and I just assumed that the power outlet they’re plugged into was too deep on the porch for a light sensor to be reliable. I could definitely be wrong, though.

(Side note, I just realized I said the times slightly wrong. We actually wanted it on at 6:30 and off 15 minutes before sunrise.)

Yeah, I had it turning off before sunrise just fine. The problem is that we didn’t want to turn them on until 6:30, but on the longest day of the year, sunrise actually happens at 6:14, which means that the lights would get the signal to turn off before they got the signal to turn on, which would mean that the lights would stay on all day until the night automation turned them back off again at 10pm. Which…probably doesn’t make a difference, but it would bug my totally-not-neurodivergent brain.

Anyway, I don’t use Home Assistant, but that’s probably the one I’ll choose the next time I move.

Somebody once asked him if that was rehearsed, and he said something along the lines of “actually it takes effort for me to not talk like that the rest of the time.” Which, for just about anyone else, I would assume was a lie, but Brennan? Not terribly unbelievable, tbh.

Absolutely. And it’s clearly making enough waves to pull “established” comedians like Wayne Brady and Ben Schwartz, which makes it feel even more like Whose Line.

That’ll be a massive breakthrough.

Totally fair. In the same vein I would also commend dropout.tv to you, if you’re at all interested in comedy and have a bit of disposable income.