I love ground bees! They give me an excuse to not mow the lawn. I'M HELPING THE ENVIRONMENT

Acid rain is another success story for "making a giant collective change to fix a nearly invisible problem".

I think one major difference is that there are enormous companies and entire countries whose way of life truly depends on pumping fossil carbon out of the ground. It wasn't that way for CFCs or NO~x~. Sure, Dow/DuPont/whomever surely lost some profitable investment in freon plants, but they had other business as well, and their old customers switched to buying the new refrigerants from the same suppliers.

In practice that's a kind of "no true scotsman" argument though. Libertarians who actually believe in libertarian ideas are really pretty scarce (and I'd say they're closer to anarchists in thought than most people, though potentially the cool kind of anarchist). Most self-described libertarians either want the government to regulate everyone but them, or they cluelessly take for granted the benefits of the way their world is utterly supported by non-market forces (the house cat analogy).

I played with this briefly a while back, and I think both weechat and hexchat worked okay through a SOCKS proxy.

I can't see the haze but my nose and eyes have been telling me it's here. Time to set up the ol corsi-rosenthal I guess.

Only thing I can think of, maybe it's a bleeder resistor for that cap, and it failed by some kind of internal short which reduced its resistance (and increased its heat dissipation hence the blackened board)? But fails-short is an unusual failure mode for a resistor and 1 GΩ is pretty high even for a bleeder, so maybe we're misreading something.

Isn't Truth Social (Trump's thing) technically part of the fediverse, since it runs on Mastodon? I don't know if they're a far-right equivalent of lemmygrad since I haven't spent time on either but it seems like a fair parallel.

Personally I'm not a fan of eager defederation. I'm skeptical of the benefits of deplatforming and I think that casual use of the banhammer, even if the subjects deserve it, is corrosive to our own ability to think clearly.

That's interesting, so you can flip the relays all you like without trouble as long as the 24DC supply isn't connected? If that's true then your problem presumably isn't the typical inductive kick from the relay coil. It looks like your relay board has stuff on it which is presumably drivers and snubbers so let's assume all of that is adequate to the job.

So, if it's inductive kick from the valve solenoid it's being coupled all the way from there, back through the 24DC supply to the outlet, then forward through the USB supply to your shift register, which is impressive! But not implausible.

Anyway, three places I'd add some stuff:

• The main thing you need is a snubber network across the valve solenoid coil itself, ideally physically close to the valve (you want to minimize the area of the loop formed by the valve coil - wiring - snubber). Something as simple as a freewheel/clamping diode would probably help a lot. This will also improve the lifespan of your relay contacts which are probably arcing a little.
• Small decoupling cap on your breadboard, say 0.1µF on the power supply rails, to keep your logic happy.
• Larger decoupling cap on your 24VDC rails (the bus on the left), just to eat any transients the snubber doesn't deal with. Maybe 1-10µF or so?

It mostly doesn't matter.

If it's a high-current, high-frequency, or low-noise circuit then maybe the inductance or resistance of those traces would matter, but they're very short so probably not.

If you're mass-producing it, then sometimes the reflow or wave solder process works better if the traces leave the pads in particular ways. You'd talk to your manufacturer about this.

If this is a hobby project, you're overthinking it; arrange them in a way that pleases you!

They might be willing to spec it as "quiescent current" (current drawn at 0 load) even if they don't provide a full curve. Annoying that it's not on the datasheet.

I've had middling-to-good results making battery contacts out of springy bronze metal stock. It solders well, it's easy to shape, and if you get the right kind of metal it retains its springiness well. (510 or 544 alloy, maybe? It's been a while.)

Or he's just getting really into the persona of an 1870s immigrant, who would have been using traditional characters anyway! Such attention to detail :D