🎓 Dr. Freemo 🇳🇱 @freemo@social.cleverlibre.org

@TruthSandwich Obviously

For me while I would reduce it overall there are areas I would expand and areas I would reduce. So its not as simple as just blindly cutting things.

@TruthSandwich federal police serve a lot of legitimate purposes, some of which should be enforced... which again, is why i am all for reducing federal gov't but not that way.

@TruthSandwich I dont like anyone attacking education... reducing federal power in general sounds like a good thing. Not sure defunding the federal police is the best way to do that though.

@ndz nothing that far away, but this is APRS so you dont always know the farthest away hit, in fact you rarely do. There is so much crosstalk you need to be as strong as a local signal to get through.

In 12 hours my radio beacon was heard directly by a few fairly long distance stations for the frequency I'm working:

95 miles x2

104 miles x3

156 miles x1

92 miles x2

Sweeet!

You can see for yourself here:

https://aprs.fi/info/a/WI2ARD-1

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@RFDave @brouhaha

Well its a bit more than that, but yea, SWR doesnt substitutde for radiation effiency

Just saw some minor VHF skip or something... my beacon just traveled 155 miles to virginia from my roof... thats unusually far for 2m VHF....

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@kentborg @brouhaha

Yup, it tells you a lot. Suitability as a transmitter is not usually one them.

@barney i do care which one wins between biden and trunp... i just care less about that than i do seeing a third party take enough of a share to displace one of the two main parties. That woukd do far more for america, so thats what i vote for. And again its happened 8 times, so the odds are good enough to be worth the risk.

As for the number of tines a third party won, that isnt what we are measuring. We are measuring the number of tines a third party became a primary party. Different math your doing

@brouhaha thats irrelevant. You just stick a tuner on it or add a capacitor/inductor to match at the feed point.

@barney you can find it in my tineline where i list every tine in us history where a third party becomes a primary party. The coubt was 8.. the math isnt hard to do.

@trinsec @slider7420

Pakleds were actually really smart, thry just had poor linguistic skills.

@TruthSandwich @barney

Bidens odds are obviously much higher, no one can deny that. But the chance of a third party win based off historic data is more than enough for me not to pick one of the two most evil politicians i coukd hope for.

@barney again, not equal, i do see a difference. But its not about the degree of difference. If they were two identicle not evil candidates id also vote for them. I see a difference, bother are just more thsn amply evil enough that it doesnt matter that one is more evil, neither has any right to win.

@TruthSandwich @barney

Not if you actually calculate the historic numbers. Comes out to a bit better than 1 in 12... do the math we have had 46 elections and 8 times a party has switched to a primary party.

@barney well no, as i often say, of the two democrats are very marginally less evil. There is a difference. But one being evil as fuck and the other being evil as fuck just a smidge less, is not enough.

I would vote for them when they are significantly less evil though, as i did with Obama, who i dont regret voting for. But Biden, not a chance in hell.