Phil Landmeier @shuttersparks@social.cleverlibre.org
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So. Cal. engineer (hardware/software, retired, he/him), born at 313 ppm, musician, chef, now living in West Virginia. KW2P ham radio (the original social network), father of three, grandfather, astronomy, solar dynamics, photography, writing, birding, birdwatching, eBird, fountain pens, cats and dog, reader of banned books, Chairman of the Charcuterie Board, Whisk Manager, Compuserve refugee, founder of The Church of The Unwarranted Assumption. Crypto is short for cryptography. Blog: shuttersparks.net
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"To hold a pen is to be at war." --Voltaire
Joined Nov 2022
@weezmgk Wow. Nice! I'm an HF guy without much experience at VHF. 25 years ago I did a little bit of hilltopping during a contest. Had a 13 el yagi. Made one 400 mile shot up the central valley of California. But that's about the full extent of it. Hah.
I accidentally encountered tropo ducting. One time I was coming over the Cajon Pass near Los Angeles and heard KH6 calls. Pulled the car over and worked some repeaters in Hawaii from my handheld (!) They said it wasn't unusual. Crazy.
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This week, a bailiff stopped me and acted as though I was in the wrong place as I walked through a portion of the courthouse that is restricted to attorneys and judges.
I'm an attorney. I was wearing a suit and conducting myself just like every other attorney in that area.
This is not the first time that has happened. I can think of several other instances in various counties where courthouse security has assumed that my black skin means I must not be an attorney.
I'm tired of it.
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In the United States, it's that deeply embedded view that the constitutional amendments safeguarding freedom of speech mean that you can allow a hostile power to exploit it in order to damage your society. That is the biggest problem that the United States is facing.—Keir Giles on @radicalizedpod
https://open.substack.com/pub/heidicuda/p/reds-under-the-bed-russias-war-on?utm_source=direct&r=1tfo38&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
@kevinrns Yeah. Exactly.
@MicheleV_AK She didn't do such a bad job on the makeup either.
@weezmgk That's quite a shot on 2 meters. 💪
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@dgar I think this is called a traffic attenuator.
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One nice thing about American law is how you can often state what the law is in a neutral, unbiased, objective manner and it still sounds deranged and Kafkaesque.
"A U.S. government panel tasked with crafting federal sentencing policy on Thursday proposed curtailing the ability of judges to impose longer sentences on criminal defendants based on conduct for which they were acquitted at trial, a practice that the U.S. Supreme Court is considering addressing."
@kevinrns Sounds like that would be an interesting set of facts to analyze. I would imagine that class divisions are at the root of it. Seems the only explanation for how a population can be exporting food and starving at the same time.
@TruthSandwich@toad.social @lauren It appears to be demolishing itself. No intervention necessary at the present time.
@kevinrns That I knew of. :-)
@kevinrns Ahh, I did not know that story at all. Never heard of it. And yes, that's definitely movie material.
It's irritating to run across a story like this that I ought to know about, yet somehow, in 60+ years of reading history, I've never heard of. There's something wrong with that.
General Sherman's prophetic letter, written on the eve of the U.S. Civil War
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We told yall that cops are so whatever abt murdering the citizenry that they dont even bother to make sure they have the right address. But yall said no charges, thats fine with us actually, gotta break a few eggs and all
#ACAB #DefundThePolice
"A few days ago, Madison County cops went to the wrong house and killed a man - a janitor at a local school for 15 years" https://youtu.be/QwLCVynHvGM
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When I got back home to my sky, I could immediately see all the satellites crawling across my sky again, and it was like a punch in the gut. They're still here, they're still bright, and they're still totally changing the night sky for everyone who can see it.
But now I understand why people aren't outraged by our night sky being destroyed for profit: they can't see this change, thanks to the light pollution that the vast majority of us live in.
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Breaking: Not only is Kevin McCarthy refusing to call for the resignation of fraudster George Santos — he now says he will be granting Santos committee assignments.
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Every House Republican just voted against the Women's Health Protection Act.
@erictopol Glad to hear it. Got mine 13 days ago so it should be at full strength about now.
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Meet Dave from 🇨🇦. He came to help 🇺🇦 army with his EOD/demining background. He’s a grandfather who couldn't sit and watch what was happening in 🇺🇦 He helped us on the last delivery in safer locations. 🌧️ at our drop off points for 35th & 79th Brigades. 🙏 Dave & Patrick from 🇨🇦
- Website
- https://shuttersparks.net
So. Cal. engineer (hardware/software, retired, he/him), born at 313 ppm, musician, chef, now living in West Virginia. KW2P ham radio (the original social network), father of three, grandfather, astronomy, solar dynamics, photography, writing, birding, birdwatching, eBird, fountain pens, cats and dog, reader of banned books, Chairman of the Charcuterie Board, Whisk Manager, Compuserve refugee, founder of The Church of The Unwarranted Assumption. Crypto is short for cryptography. Blog: shuttersparks.net
#HamRadio
#Morse
#MorseCode
#Birding
#BirdWatching
#eBird
#wv
#WestVirginia
#food
#cooking
#astronomy
#physics
#engineering
#photography
#FountainPens
"To hold a pen is to be at war." --Voltaire
Joined Nov 2022
