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So apparently I just realized when i first started as a ham over a decade ago I participated in an E-M-E contact (Earth-Moon-Earth). I had no idea what it was at the time but i see in my notes it just says "EME net?" and now as a more expiernced ham i literally know I was talking with someone by bouncing our signals off the moon..... soooo cool.

@freemo Even our first President immediately went back on his word and started The Whiskey Rebellion. It takes a bad person to be a good president.

@AmpBenzScientist I looked into desantis, I think he might even be worse than trump if thats possible...

@thor I cant speak to your language. But as someone who is particularly aweful at learning new languages I can say of all the languages I ever attempted the non-dead language I found the easiest would be German.

That said of all languages I am best at latin, and even that not anywhere near great... I think it being a deadlanguage no one is alive to correct my bad pronunciation either :)

@freemo I'm French and live in the US. I've been sticking to SI units for almost the 20 years that I've been here. I know what's good and won't let it go.

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@freemo @LouisIngenthron @admitsWrongIfProven A fully legalized drug trade would generate wealth and improve the standard of living, even for those with problems.

When compared to Smart Device manufacturers and their corruption of government. A legal drug trade is morally superior.

@LouisIngenthron

Cheese burgers and houses **are** wealth... Based on your wording you are confusing "wealth" (things that have utility and value) and money..

If you have profit alone, then you just are moving money around.. you arent generating wealth (or money)... in order to generate wealth you must increase the overall number of things in society with utility... So yes what i said already was in line with what your saying, you just are using wealth in the way of "collecting wealth" which is not the same as "generating wealth".

> The people who actually create those things should be the wealthy in a just society, not the people who were born to it.

Agreed, like the people who sacraficed decades to create the idea, get funding, investing in the building, getting the money to pay people to do the labour, etc... yes the owners who risk everything and actually create the wealth are the people who should be wealthy.

@admitsWrongIfProven

@freemo @TruthSandwich Oh you vote Libertarian too? That's all I've voted for except in local elections.

In the land of the Free we have the freedom from choice. Looking at it another way, we have quite a bit in common with The CCP. The Federalist Papers likely inspired Communism.

@TruthSandwich

Obviously I dont buy the two party nonsense... but even if i assumed it were true for a second...

If my choices are:

1) Vote Biden - Help Biden a lot, hurt Trump a lot

2) Vote Trump - Hurt Biden a lot, Help Trump a lot

3) Vote Third party - Hurt Biden a little, Help Trump a little, Help third parties show better numbers and support for future elections.

I will go with 3 every single time... It reduces how much I help either candidate (more so than a direct vote for Trump as I'm sure you will agree)... and has some positive effect on the adoption of third parties by people int he future....

#3 is the clear win for me, even in a two party system.

Can anyone suggest a candidate other than Biden or Trump that look fairly moderate and a good choice? I have ruled out all third-party, all alternative democrats, and of course Trump... This leaves me thinking maybe one of the republican candidates are worth voting for but so far every one of those I checked out are pretty horrific too...

Is there even one candidate that is remotely a reasonable and moderate choice?

@freemo Florida Man DeSantis seems to be a stronger candidate for Red gang. He opposed the thing that failed to stop the other thing that was going around.

Essentially anyone who hated the actions taken would be highly tempted to vote for Florida Man. Unlike the Dolphins, he could be going places. There's also concealed carry without a permit in Florida now. There's medical weed too.

He seems to be pragmatic and that's what the US needs.

@thendrix There seems to be a history of shady operations. Civil Rights leaders don't just blackmail themselves, usually.

@thendrix Orders are orders and they come from up the chain. From what I've heard they just keep their heads down and try to retire.

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