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

@Baley You have the energy to put on pajamas on your day off? I'm impressed!

What name do you like best for a non-profit #FOSS community for Ham Radio? Think Apache incubator but for Ham plus other open-source services and resources for the community.

FYI I have both the dot com and dot org as well as the hyphenated and non hyphenated versions of the below. Please mention which variant you prefer in comments.

#Ham #HamRadio #Amateur #AmateurRadio #RF #Radio #Foss #Floss #OpenSource #Programming

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.

#Ham #HamRadio #AmateurRadio #EME

@dd0ul wasnt too happy ar first glane... Finally decided to host a CloudLog.

Thanks for the answer

@AmpBenzScientist French is the language I am, by comparison, the worst at... I think even chinese is easier for me honestly.

@TruthSandwich

I am not trolling..

Yes I've done the math..

There have been 59 elections for president in the history of the USA... in that time 8 of those have been elections where a third party from a previous year was one of the two top parties in the current election.

In all those cases the third parties the year before a switch had about the same support as they do now in terms of percentage, and the next year shot up to 50%+

that works out to a 13.5% chance in any one election of a third party with ~2% support or less from a previous year will win that year.

If we look at recent history points of note the last time one came close was Ross perot in 1992 at nearly 20% of the vote, and of course in the early part of 19th centraully where was also a third party coming into the top two.

While all of that does suggest a third party is certainly the long-shot... to say impossible is just not factual... Depending on how you look at iut there is a 13.5% chance at best, at worst maybe a 5% chance of them winning.

Voting for the non-evil choice with a 5% chance I will take any day than voting for teh super-evil choice who is just a tiny bit less evil than the other super-evil choice just because he had a 40% change of winning.

Thats not a strategically wise tradeoff for me.

@AmpBenzScientist

@icedquinn

Why did i read this as "quinn reads the .net spec and then puts it int he basket"

@TruthSandwich

Great, then you shouldnt have much need to keep blasting the two-party conspiracy theory nonsense my way.

@AmpBenzScientist

@TruthSandwich

correct I wont vote for a cannidate who is just as bad as Trump, maybe worse (iswitch who i think is worth day to day)... just because it might cause one candidate i dont want as president to loose to be replaced by another candidate I also dont like..

Im not sure how you dont understand that even if i but your two party nonsense all that will prove to me to me all votes will cause harm, which makes me put 0 value in a vote and is just more likely to push me to a third because at least then im not voting for Trump or his senile evil twin.

@AmpBenzScientist

@TruthSandwich

Well I guess I have to vote for Trump then... Id be throwing away my vote if I voted for biden, I dont think he would stand a chance against Trump. I mean sure Trump is literally the anti-christ, but id be throwing away my vote on biden, so I guess I have to vote Trump...

@AmpBenzScientist

@TruthSandwich

Sure.. i guess im a republican who has never voted republican and only ever voted for democrat or third party.. sure ill take that hilarious label.

@AmpBenzScientist

@TruthSandwich

Its not a protest vote.. its a vote for the ideology we think has any hope of saving the world

@AmpBenzScientist

@AmpBenzScientist

Despite being a registered republican I have once voted for a republican outside of primaries.

I have voted in the past either for the Libertarian party, independent, or the Democrats.

@TruthSandwich

@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 :)