Phil Landmeier @shuttersparks@qoto.org

@HopelessDemigod Yeah. I did the self-employed things a couple of times for several years. There are perks but also increased stress.

Anyway, here's an adventure in ham radio for your enjoyment: https://youtube.com/shorts/Gm-bq3ynSuU?feature=shared

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@DemocracyMattersALot I think a large part of Trump's motivation in all this (running for president) is to fuck with people. He hates people and want's to prove to himself he's better and smarter than everyone else.

The funny thing is, his followers are so stupid, he appears to be succeeding.

@HopelessDemigod Yes. Mine technically began on Sunday but we have a bunch of Thanksgiving takeout orders that I worked on all day today. But now there should be nothing until next Friday. On the other hand, also no income. :-(

@randahl Yeah, this is beyond ridiculous. I just took a delivery of microprocessors today. COO=Mexico.

What he's doing is raising taxes without saying he's raising taxes. Tariffs are nothing but taxes ON US. But the rubes that voted for him don't understand how any of that works.

@HopelessDemigod Should work fine. Kind of hard to lose a fish tape. Tends to be big and heavy. Lol.

@BrianJopek It's also a leading question. If the person is a homophobe, it's not a promising relationship.

@paul_ipv6 @ai6yr
I should add that I don't like cold. Not my thing. I enjoy looking at a winter scene through a large plate glass window from indoors where it's nice and warm. Going out in it is "interesting', for a short while.

I remember my first encounter with Donner Pass. Put on chains many other times but only remember one other time besides my Donner experience and that was much worse. It was in Idaho near Yellowstone Park in winter. I won't go into detail because you'll all think I'm insane for even attempting such a thing.

My father had taught me about the story of the Donner Party and it was in the back of my mind. While I was struggling with the chains in the blowing snow, etc., the little voice in the back of my mind was talking. "People died here, you know... Not far from here, you know... For the same reason you will die here if you don't solve this, you know... You chose to come here now at this time... You could have waited... But you didn't... And now you're in it... You're really in it... Nobody will come to help you, you know... It's just you and your machines against the weather that doesn't care about you at all. At all... You're just dust...fertilizer for the trees, you know..."

@marcoarment Yes, funny how that is. Hmm.

@paul_ipv6 @ai6yr Yeah, good advice. But i like DIY. I HAVE to know how to do it myself. So yeah, pain, cuts, blood... and you learn to bring proper gloves, lighting, and skill. This is the process. Learn or die.

@camless @dougfir @ai6yr I did. Lucky.

@Okanogen Since Trump is afraid of rain and wind, he'd better buckle up. The rough ride of climate change is just getting started.

Okay. I'm very impressed. Don't know quite what to say here. Jaw-dropping.

https://youtu.be/d2qPFtG3a2o?feature=shared

@dougfir @ai6yr That's great. I was fortunate that I was raised by a serious and highly experienced vehicle driver. He taught me well starting at age 12. At age 16 I received 2 weeks of training in high performance driving at the school at the Nurburgring. Very exciting. Given what I did afterward, probably saved my life several times. But putting chains on was never part of any of my training.

Being young and knowing that zillions of people put chains on, how hard can it be? Everybody does it. Can't be that hard.

Hahaha. Youthful hubris. Actually it's not that hard if you know what you're doing, but I still hate doing it. If you don't know what you're doing, well... good luck.

@ai6yr Been there, done that, more than once. In fact, Donner Pass is where I first learned how to put chains on. It wasn't fun. It's never fun. But it's especially not fun when you have no prior experience.

@va3db Hahaha. Yes. Mine look exactly the same.

@lauren Oh, and I love the feature of the GUI file manager where I can right click on a folder and open a terminal in that folder.