AnarchistSpaceDad @freakazoid@retro.social

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Can't seem to hit any digipeaters from the campground at Raccoon Creek State Park in #Pennsylvania from my TH-D72 at 5W. The only digi I can really pick up from here is N8GD-2, 18 miles to the west. Will need to bring the mobile rig next time I guess. Or at least a better antenna to hook the HT to.

Haven't had any luck displaying stations from the radio in #APRSDroid. It appears to just hang when it receives a waypoint. Would be nice to be able to get a tactical display without needing a laptop.

#APRS #hamradio

Holding these companies accountable after the fact is never going to stop this kind of thing from happening. We simply can't rely on corporations to police themselves. It's also completely obvious that politicians and regulators are in the same position and have no incentive at all to make sure this doesn't happen yet again.

I used to be opposed to applying the precautionary principle to regulation, but I was wrong. If something hasn't been proven safe, we shouldn't be allowing companies to use it. Of course, our current system is incapable of proving anything safe, either. So maybe we just have to make sure the consequences for this sort of shit involve guillotines.

https://www.levernews.com/forever-chemicals-makers-hid-dangers-for-decades/

"I'll stop the motor of the world." -John Galt

Sounds good to me. When do we start?

Liz can squat more weight than I can at the gym. So now I don't have to bring in heavy things from the car due to being stronger than her.

Now I have to do it out of fear.

I'm trying to get into the habit of journaling so I can answer questions like "did I already take painkillers" or "how much beer did I drink last week". Orgzly seems to mostly do what I want, but it has no calendar integration. JTX Board has calendar integration and also seems like it may do what I want, but I immediately ran into a really basic bug: first journal I made has a date of yesterday, and no matter how I try to change the date it remains on yesterday.

Anyone have a recommendation for an open source Android app that lets me journal small events with tags that I can search later?

Why do I need separate apps, servers, and follows/followers for music, video, books, and text again?

Grusch isn't claiming to have seen or participated in anything. He's not even claiming to have seen photographs. At least Bob Lazar claimed to have directly seen a craft and worked with its reactor, though so many of Lazar's claims have been conclusively disproven that he has no credibility at all.

We know there are people who have worked for the government who have delilberately spread disinformation about UFOs. Is it that implausible that some of that disinformation has ended up floating around within government circles as "fact", either deliberately as a loyalty test or just through the natural tendency of rumors to spread?

My mom once dated a guy who worked for a government contractor who told me that the government had alien spacecraft, and also that there was a secret submarine base under San Luis Obispo. I think this is just the kind of shit that constantly goes around in those circles.

#UFO

A whistleblower claims the US has #alien vehicles. But where’s the proof?
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jun/09/ufo-alien-vehicles-us-whistleblower-evidence-where-is-proof

If I'm not able to watch YT videos with Invidious, I guess I'll just have to stop following people who share YT links.

YouTube Orders 'Invidious' Privacy Software to Shut Down in 7 Days * TorrentFreak
https://torrentfreak.com/youtube-orders-invidious-privacy-software-to-shut-down-in-7-days-230609/

The real story is not how prolific the ransomware gangs have become but how ransomwarable our economy already was.