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Life imitating art. And it's unsurprising that these people have the maturity of teenage boys.

I stopped playing online games some years back because this sort of thing was far too common. And I bet it's even worse now.

This is pretty much it. The disengaged public needs simple, three-word slogans and they need to stick on message, relentlessly (and it needs to connect emotionally as you said).

And while it goes against every instinct of those who are college educated, you need to say things with over the top confidence. Hedging makes sense in the academic world, but average people trust people with excessive confidence.

I have been reading a lot more since the 2016 result. It wasn't the only reason, but it was a major one (especially non-fiction).

This is good for america because reasons.

People with lifted pickup trucks can now go into even more debt, so they can flex on the "poors" (while complaining about their "economic anxiety").

You can actually play from the UI too, but it's not particularly nice to use (or intended to be used that way).

Another issue is that zwave isn't available in all countries (or it is but uses incompatible frequencies) so it's less useful outside the big markets.

I'll add pinchflat as an alternative with the same aim.

That's the point of this standard, at least in theory. Same with the older but still common ZigBee standard.

Internalised misogyny and all of that.

and other department is a bunch of guys in a half ton truck with buckets of water.

More like a bunch of guys actively pouring fuel on the fire while calling fire itself a "liberal hoax".

Perplexica is one example. I also seem to remember there is some way to integrate it with SearxNG which is a self hosted meta search engine.