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  1. CW: Chicago area KiwiSDR

    @w8emv When I was lived in FL long ago, I used to listen to on 780kHz. I probably could have heard . I love online , but it was so special before the Internet when even a phone call to distant city was expensive.

  2. @augieray I am very thankful. Fuel prices are at normal historical levels. has doubled while yielding 3% dividends. President Biden is doing a good job.
    Climate change is a huge looming problem, not anyone's fault, that makes all this look like noise.
    I am happy, though, that fuel is available and stocks are up.

  3. @enoch It's nearly right over head at 9pm here in .
    It makes me think of 's triology, the of the , or 's Mars.

  4. @autumn I used through 1997. I remember my ISP in 1997 had access to several popular BBSs around North America with no long-distance fees. I thought that was wonderful, but I only used that feature for a year. Things changed fast.

  5. This article says the US Justice Dept moved to drop fraud and corruption charges against India's richest person after he offered to invest $10B in the US. My understanding is foreign investment directly increases the trade deficit, which is something I thought the current administration was against. I wonder if they're just stupid and think deficits sound bad and investment sounds good or if there's some method to madness.

    nytimes.com/2026/05/14/nyregio

  6. Yesterday, the reported a 27% decrease in deaths in 2024.

    Possible contributing factors according the Drug Policy Alliance:
    - Increased access to , which reverses /#fentanyl overdoses
    - Greater availability of medications like methadone and buprenorphine
    - Funding for treatment and recovery
    - Wider access to fentanyl test strips

    drugpolicy.org/news/funding-cu

    cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/drug-ov

  7. I'm out of touch in that only last year I learned that calculators are no longer produced. I still use my , but but if I want to replace it, I need to buy one on E-Bay. Apparently handheld calculators with buttons and are thing of the past. Time flies.

  8. @aaron.rupar Just after this Johnson reiterates that is doing well and it's "a testament to great leadership."
    It's sad and pathetic that Johnson feels compelled to go along with this when he obviously doesn't want to talk about someone's health issues or participate in this bizarre narrative that someone can reverse a terminal diagnosis with a phone call to the right people.

  9. @shermozle That's how I feel about the app. I like its functionality, but it feels like layers of interpreters running on top of one another.

  10. 40 minutes before the march to the Capitol in

  11. CW: Chicago area KiwiSDR

    @w8emv When I was lived in FL long ago, I used to listen to #WBBM on 780kHz. I probably could have heard #WGN. I love online #SDRs, but it was so special before the Internet when even a phone call to distant city was expensive.

  12. CW: Chicago area KiwiSDR

    @w8emv When I was lived in FL long ago, I used to listen to #WBBM on 780kHz. I probably could have heard #WGN. I love online #SDRs, but it was so special before the Internet when even a phone call to distant city was expensive.

  13. CW: Chicago area KiwiSDR

    @w8emv When I was lived in FL long ago, I used to listen to #WBBM on 780kHz. I probably could have heard #WGN. I love online #SDRs, but it was so special before the Internet when even a phone call to distant city was expensive.

  14. CW: Chicago area KiwiSDR

    @w8emv When I was lived in FL long ago, I used to listen to #WBBM on 780kHz. I probably could have heard #WGN. I love online #SDRs, but it was so special before the Internet when even a phone call to distant city was expensive.

  15. @Firesphere @zl2tod @poleguy @cgervasi @SpaceLifeForm

    Radio frequency gull emissions
    Are jamming up the airwaves now
    Flocks and flocks of swirling birds
    Breaking up my communications, but how?
    My RF emissions are breaking up
    Too much flapping interference math
    I cannot receive you, cannot copy
    The seagulls have disrupted the path
    We must use electronic countermeasures
    Or all will be lost
    The radio communications must continue
    At any and all cost
    We shall lose the war if we cannot communicate
    Using our high power RF transmitter array
    Quick fire up the falcon brigade
    To chase the seagulls away

    #poem #radio #radiofrequency #seagulls (human poem)

  16. on change like the weather. My understanding is it's because the law allows the president to single-handed impose these in an emergency. There's no standard, so the president really wanting it counts as an "emergency". We need reforms so one person cannot raise taxes on a whim!

  17. @[email protected] For me this is like looking at a 600us interval of counting and asking me to count 1 once per ms events. It's hard to know counts per lifetime because I've only directly observed what I hope is <60% of a lifetime.

  18. @leszek I'm happy with because I had Koss headphones that failed after nearly a year, and they send me a new pair today. 🎧

  19. " reactors don’t emit planet-warming greenhouse gases, unlike coal and gas plants, and they can produce electricity around the clock, unlike wind turbines and solar panels."

    "’s reactor uses liquid sodium instead of water, allowing it to operate at lower pressures. In theory, that reduces the need for costly shielding. In an emergency, the plant can be cooled with air vents rather than complicated pump systems. "

    nytimes.com/2026/03/04/climate

  20. @jetton It's not like tools' age dropdown. 😆

  21. I mostly feel the same as I did when I was kid, or at least a kid with an extra 40lbs strapped to my body, but I'm definitely tech-old. 😂 Two more more years before I'm over the hill on this list.
    The form is from a page to request a license for tools.

  22. @GaryRLundberg When I read The Lexus and the Olive Tree, I thought it was about how people in undeveloped areas irrationally resisted development because they were unsophisticated. I didn't see the obvious, that people irrationally, at least from my point of view, clinging to their olive tree are everywhere, not just in developing countries.

  23. "Netanyahu Is Turning Against Biden"
    makes peace in sound almost easy. I'm not knowledgeable about it, but I'm glad there are smart people in the US Department of State and elsewhere working on the problem.

    nytimes.com/2024/01/19/opinion