Phil Landmeier @shuttersparks@social.cleverlibre.org

@karlauerbach Bahahaha!

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@ingalls Years ago, QSLing was much more frequent. If you were active or a contester, doing them every month was a real chore, stacks of mail, significant cost. That's not a complaint but it was serious work that took hours.

I reply to every QSL. I always send QSLs in an envelope because lots of damage occurs in the mail. I only start the process myself if there was something special about the contact. I always include SASE. If it's DX, I look on their QRZ to see what they require for QSLs. Some do cash, some do PayPal. IRCs are not a thing like they were in the old days.

I do LotW and eQSL. I don't respond to email QSLs and that's clearly stated on my QRZ page.

A strange thing I'm running into more and more is people who are on LotW but don't upload contacts unless you email them and request they upload your specific QSO. This seems bizarre. Your logging software will upload everything automatically if you let it.

@crash_course @Adam_Cadmon1 Understood. There are various kinds of swifts. Bird watchers sometimes call the chimney swift the "flying cigar" because of their shape.

@Radical_EgoCom@kolektiva.social In the U.S. you can't expect people to rise up against the people they most revere and want to be. Many Americans feel they are temporarily delayed rich people. They feel they have a right to be rich because it's America where, according to what they've been told since childhood, anyone can become rich.

@GW @antonioserrata @bplein The own the press.

I've been complaining for a couple months about bad eggs. Not rotten eggs, fresh eggs, but eggs that tasted wrong. Some tasted terrible and would leave a solvent-like odor in the room. I love eggs and we go through a lot of them in this household. I usually eat soft-boiled eggs so the flavor is right in my face. Every week I've been trying different brands and types of eggs. Brown, white, fancy, "organic", expensive, everything I could lay hands on. I wondered if maybe I had changed and maybe eggs will never taste right again. Turns out it's not me. I just started a new dozen and tada! eggs that taste like they should. These are Walmart's (!) cage free white eggs in a traditional cardboard carton. Go figure. I'd sure like to know what was up with those eggs that smelled like paint thinner.

#eggs #food #FoodSafety

@crash_course @Adam_Cadmon1 I assume you mean the chimney swifts. I don't have a proven reason but assume it's the lack of insects. Chimney swifts love to fly. They fly all day long snatching insects out of the air.

Since they're most common and active (or used to be) in the late afternoon and twilight a lot of people around here think they're bats.

@Free_Press Meadows is accustomed to wielding power, being the most powerful person in the room. He's out of his element in a courtroom, which is like a miniature monarchy where the judge holds all the power and you have none.

@Adam_Cadmon1 Yes, fireflies are fewer and fewer each year here in North Central West Virginia. 15 years ago, they were plentiful. I used to take time-exposure photos of them at twilight.

Now they are a rarity. Once in a while I'll see a single one.

All insects are down, actually. There used to be lots of Japanese stink bugs. Not anymore. I take walks in the evening and return without a single mosquito bite. They used to eat me alive. The lack of bites is a plus but it's wrong.

There used to be little flocks of chimney swifts zooming around at all hours of the day. You could always see them and hear them twittering as they fed on insects aloft. Their constant background twittering is now replaced by silence. The disappearance happened this year. They were plentiful a few months ago.