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kilroy_was_here

@kilroy_was_here@dobbs.town

Semi-human mutant.

Ham radio operator because I'm trying to contact my home. Sewist because I'm trying to make my experience around these alien freaks more comfortable. Writer because an account of what these strange beings are like may be useful to my people.

18+ only. Kids, I hate you.

Not here to debate.

1/3 caffeine, 1/3 asshole, 1/3 pastrami

The Keith Moon of ham radio

Janitor, pennycandy store beyond the El.

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dukepaaron, to Israel
@dukepaaron@babka.social avatar

Hooboy... the largest left populist movement in the world is wild.

“No cause can justify such degradations that dirty the memory of the victims of the and of the Righteous who saved at risk to their lives,” she said"

https://www.jewishnews.co.uk/disgraceful-act-of-hate-holocaust-memorial-in-paris-painted-with-blood-red-hands/

kilroy_was_here,
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@TonyStark @dukepaaron

It's absolutely despicable. I used to be a lot further left than I am now (I've taken to saying I'm a liberal, not a progressive) and there was always this vomit-inducing undercurrent of antisemitism in it.

I began to wise up and close to door on that kind of politics last year and then October 7th happened and that welded the door shut.

I've also had to divorce myself from the LGBT community over it. So much antisemitism there too that was emboldened by Oct. 7th.

mrcompletely, to jazz
@mrcompletely@heads.social avatar

As a young fella just getting into in the late eighties my first impressions of David Sanborn were that he was corny and overly smooth, in an unhip bag I didn't dig with guys like Metheny and the Breckers. Then he blew my fucking mind with the Night Music show and I've respected him ever since. There was almost no really cool weird music on TV in 1988-90 except that show, and man, Night was legit!!! Nick Cave, Bongwater, Pere Ubu, Miles Davis...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EryYTq-voz0&list=PLpR40se-_3M8QnHhIReAR-s-wTJCOJGBg

kilroy_was_here,
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@mrcompletely

Some Metheny, I like it. Some Metheny I'm still like "What the hell was this guy thinking?"

kilroy_was_here,
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@mrcompletely

So you wear a toga and a blue beret. Got it.

TonyStark, to random
@TonyStark@progressivecafe.social avatar

Media’s breathless, hysterical, round-the-clock, clickbait coverage of the protests is yet another example of how the fourth estate has abandoned any and all responsibility to inform and educate in exchange for advertiser-luring clicks.

I am still waiting for the major part of the media to own up to their role in helping to elect Trump in 2016. Their coverage of everything else has been failing us all and this is no different. A large portion of people have also apparently learned nothing.

kilroy_was_here,
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@TonyStark

In my history classes, we were taught to spot yellow journalism and sensational journalism.

I pretty much only read wire services anymore because the rest falls under one or both of those two. Even sources I came to trust went into a death spiral in 2014-2015.

The presstitutes are looking for easy money nowadays and stoking the flames of chaos is the easiest money there is.

TheJen, to random
@TheJen@beige.party avatar

I gripe about New Mexico and trying to get anything done, but credit where credit is due. Maggie Toulouse-Oliver, our Secretary of State, has done an incredible job fortifying and modernizing our voter registration and voting systems. I was able to change my voter registration online in 5 minutes. Securely. Big fan.

kilroy_was_here,
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@TheJen

Here in PA it's super easy too. Takes me a little longer than 5 mins but most of that time is going to my purse and digging out my driving license to double-check the ID number.

I registered to vote at the DMV when I got my license so I never registered with an actual form, but helping people with the online registration form, it's just as easy as changing an existing one.

TonyStark, to random
@TonyStark@progressivecafe.social avatar

Here’s an example. This account is a kook who’s been suspended from other instances, trying to back up another kook that did get suspended and had also been suspended before for bigotry. mastodon.world doesn’t give a fuck about it. But I do.

If this is someone you enjoy, get away from me.

kilroy_was_here,
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@TonyStark

"The Torah, or the Tanakh"

I'm not Jewish and even I know those two aren't the exact same. That's like saying the Yankees are the entire MLB.

I also had this guy blocked. When I blocked him, I can't remember, when you have over 1000 blocks like I do that's pretty much impossible to remember.

Sidebar: I used to see guys like this all the time on certain forums. Men willing to use women to bolster their own arguments, but unwilling to help women's causes. I can tell em a mile away.

kilroy_was_here, to random
@kilroy_was_here@dobbs.town avatar

Linux is not a replacement for a personality.

Just thought some people needed to hear this.

mentallyalex, to random
@mentallyalex@beige.party avatar

That is correct. Your righteous anger is misplaced and you are at fault, yes.

History will record you as complicit and cooperative to the groups you claim to demonstrate against and protest about. They will refer to you as a "useful idiot" and you will disagree and think it has value.

kilroy_was_here,
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@TonyStark @mentallyalex @GreenFire

This is something I have been trying to say for a long time. When you kick off a revolution, you can no longer control that power vacuum. Whatever is the strongest force will fill it. That force will either be the US military or right wing militias that have been training and salivating for decades for this kind of thing.

Calling for revolution is like thinking that a redeal in a poker game will guarantee you a royal flush. That ain't how it works hoss.

kilroy_was_here,
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@GreenFire @TonyStark @mentallyalex

It didn't go that easily though, it was relatively standard with regard to how difficult it was. They were literally fighting against the largest and most powerful military the world had ever known at that time.

However, education has been gutted so much and the textbooks have been tinkered with so much that the material around the Revolutionary War has been reduced to a series of footnotes. So people think it was as simple as buying a can of Coke.

kilroy_was_here,
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@MJ @TonyStark @GreenFire @maddad @mentallyalex

It'd be just like most wars. The rich kids get off, the poor kids die. Now think of which group these kids calling for revolution tend to come from. It's not the group that would die.

It's damn easy to write checks with your mouth that other people gotta pay for.

TonyStark, to random
@TonyStark@progressivecafe.social avatar

If you’re sharing stuff such as “it’s the Jews” or “it’s all secretly AIPAC”, you’re not progressive, you’re not an “indie journalist”, and you’re not digging up some underground Jewish cabal activity.

You’re a conspiracy theorist no different from Alex Jones or Marjorie Taylor Greene spreading space lasers and people drinking blood and all the right wing stuff you’ve claimed to abhor. You’re no different.

The Jews Aren’t Taking Away TikTok - The Atlantic:
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/04/antisemitism-conspiracy-theories-tiktok/678088/

“Characteristic of anti-Semitic online discourse, these videos and others like them interchangeably reference individual American Jews, American Jewish organizations like the Anti-Defamation League, American pro-Israel lobbying groups like AIPAC, and the state of Israel, as though they are all part of one single- minded international conspiracy to take down TikTok. When a commenter asked Carroll to "look into universal studios pulling their music from TikTok," a reference to the Universal Music conglomerate's dispute with TikTok over royalties, Carroll replied, "Universal CEO is a Jewish man."”
“Consider recent American history: In 2018, a far-right gunman who blamed Jews for mass immigration murdered 11 people in Pittsburgh's Tree of Life synagogue. In 2019, assailants tied to the Black Hebrew Israelite movement attacked a kosher supermarket in Jersey City, killing three; one of the shooters had written on social media about Jews controlling the government. In 2022, an Islamic extremist took an entire congregation hostage in Colleyville, Texas, and demanded that a rabbi get a convict released from a nearby prison. These perpetrators-white supremacist, Black extremist, radical Islamist-had essentially nothing in common other than their belief that a Jewish cabal governed world affairs and was the cause of their problems.”
“The reality is the reverse: Jews constitute just 2 percent of the American population, and although they exercise influence like any other minority, they frequently disagree among themselves and do not dictate the destiny of the majority. Politicians voting against TikTok are pursuing their conception of the national interest, not being suborned to serve some nebulous Jewish interest. Remove the Jews from the equation, and the situation will be the same. Conspiracy theorists typically claim to be combatting concealed power structures. But as in this case, their delusions make them unable to perceive the way power actually works. Thus, conspiratorial anti-Semitism hobbles its adherents, preventing them from rationally organizing to advance their own causes by distracting them with fantastical Jewish plots.”

kilroy_was_here,
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@slcw @TonyStark

My observation of these types is that they aren't looking to make things better, they're just looking for somebody to blame for their problems, and if that makes things worse, then it doesn't matter, they got in their 2 minutes of hate. And they've been propagandized in such a way that they see people to blame everywhere.

slcw, to random
@slcw@newsie.social avatar

If you're ever wondering why we can't have nice things, this is the reason. Two arrogant, thoughtless men figured it would be hilarious if they went to the National Recreation Area, with breathtaking, natural rock formations that took billions of years to form, and destroyed it. Oh, and they brought their families to watch! Wow, what a fun time they must have had. If you know anything about these SOBs, call 888-653-0009 or email nps_isb@nps.gov

https://www.sacbee.com/news/nation-world/national/article287672140.html

kilroy_was_here,
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@slcw

So many man-children walking around these days. It's disgusting.

etherdiver, (edited ) to random
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I have to wonder, do the people idly wondering why the US can't shoot down Russian drones/missiles directly in Ukraine the way they are shooting down Iranian drones/missiles in Israel WANT a nuclear war, or are they just too ignorant of the one ironclad rule of modern warfare (and too lazy to research it in the least) to know any better?

kilroy_was_here,
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@etherdiver @TheJen

There are two going on three generations that never experienced the Cold War and mostly aren't a student of that part of history.

Nuclear weaponry is a Hollywood and television thing to them, not a very real thing with soldiers ready to launch them at a moments' notice 24/7/365.

kilroy_was_here, to random
@kilroy_was_here@dobbs.town avatar

This. Is. Why. I. Just. Want. A Yugo.

https://gizmodo.com/tesla-software-update-traps-woman-in-hot-car-1851407234

TonyStark, to random
@TonyStark@progressivecafe.social avatar

You want jobs? Elect a Democrat.

Bidenomics = record low unemployment, record high stock market, record number of Americans with health insurance, and real wages and national income are rising.

Are we better off now than we were four years ago? Yes.

US economy added a whopping 303,000 jobs last month, far outpacing expectations:
https://www.cnn.com/business/live-news/march-jobs-report-04-05-24/index.html

kilroy_was_here,
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@TonyStark

I've noticed something over the years. Every time a Democrat is in office, the roads get fixed, electric lines get replaced, the roads get plowed nicer in the winter. Every time a Republican is in office, the roads go to shit and they don't get plowed too good.

kilroy_was_here, to hamradio
@kilroy_was_here@dobbs.town avatar

Thinking about buying one of these wee scopes in the future, my Hitachi scope from the 80s is starting to get a little on the weird side and it's definitely on the old and heavy side. I'll never need Tek or even Rigol for the playing around and experimenting I like to do and I like that it's battery-operated. I love the size and the touchscreen feature too.

Anybody have any experiences with these wee units?

https://www.amazon.com/FNIRSI-Handheld-Digital-Tablet-Oscilloscope/dp/B0BBT62Q47

#HamRadio #AmateurRadio #Electronics #Hobbies

kilroy_was_here, to hamradio
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Anybody know if BNC connectors are rain-resistant over a reasonable length of time? By reasonable length of time I don't mean years and years, maybe a few weeks or a few months max.

It seems to me that the silicone rubber gasket inside would provide at least some water resistance. Not N connector levels, but not a UHF connector that's got nothing whatsoever either.

Just trying to cover all the bases, home plate, AND the in and outfield here.

TechBean, (edited ) to food
@TechBean@mstdn.social avatar

Ok, this one is important. It's for science and posterity so please vote and boost liberally. Who has the best in the US?

kilroy_was_here,
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@TechBean

I like grocery store hot dogs boiled for a few mins. Never, ever like grilled hot dogs.

kilroy_was_here, to random
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Are you crazy? Ever spend hours, days, even months adjusting an antenna trying to get the "perfect" SWR?

You might have wasted your time.

Read the science, not the myths... https://www.k3emd.com/downloads/Reflect.pdf

kilroy_was_here, to random
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I don't feel tardy

kilroy_was_here, to music
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xp5wID1FWOk

kilroy_was_here, to random
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I don't use the favorite as a "omg I loved this", I use the favorite as a thank you

kilroy_was_here, to random
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I've gotta GTFO of Pennsylvania. I'm thinking to California. I'd love those LGBT protections.

kilroy_was_here, to RaspberryPi
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Trying out LibreELEC on my very old netbook. Can't play some movies without the video lagging on my Raspberry Pi 3B+. Maybe the additional 200MHz on the processor and the whopping 400 MHz graphics processor will fix it.

MLE_online, to random
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Bizarre to see Lady Gaga in alien goth clothes with no eyebrows shilling migraine medication in an ad.

kilroy_was_here,
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@MLE_online

I heard a parmaceutical ad that Cyndi Lauper cut.

THAT Cyndi Lauper.

I'm not that old, I'm not that old, I'm not that old, I'm not that old, I'm not that.........

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