Phil Landmeier @shuttersparks@qoto.org

@aka_quant_noir Excellent idea. Somewhere past the Oort Cloud sounds like a good start. All kinds of space for their expansion. That's why we call it space.

@NanoRaptor I'm old fashioned. Still use my own collection of 35,000 tracks. Only use streaming for certain recent stuff I don't have in my collection.

@randahl Shooting himself in the foot, which he constantly does.

@DemocracyMattersALot Seems to me he should keep his mouth shut until he's confirmed. Fortunately, these people are stupid.

@Alice Hahahaha. Learned civics in the 1960s, when it was straightforward. It scares me that people today that vote don't have any idea about the hierarchy of jurisdiction, from federal, to state, to county, to city. No, the feds cannot set the speed limit in my city. No, my city council can't pass a law that tries to affect people in the next state over. No, a governor or mayor cannot do something that affects US foreign policy.

This should all be obvious stuff but people today have no clue. Very disturbing.

@Dtl @mcnees I should add, I suppose, that if we want to talk about misogyny, this is a fine place to start. There are many other places we could start, like Marie Curie. The topic is so enormous it doesn't matter where we start.

We can talk for quite a while about Jocelyn Bell. After Bell, there's a LONG list we can examine. It goes on, and on, and on, and on, and on.

I'm a guy so I don't have to deal with this shit personally. What pisses me off is that we are, as I mentioned elsewhere, throwing away, discarding, 50 percent of our human intelligence on this asinine thing that some human males seem to think is important: misogyny.

Well, no, human females are NOT inferior to males in the arena that matters the most, which is intelligence. They're right in there with us. I know it. I've seen it. I've worked with females for 50 years in the fields of engineering, math, etc. And I'm tired of this shit. Done.

Anyway, sorry. Sorry for ranting. I'm just really pissed off. Not just because of the unfairness, but because what's coming for us with climate change is going to kill the vast majority of us, and my offspring, and we're throwing away half of our brains on a ridiculous predilection that a lot of human males seem to have.

Just knock it off. Stop it. Y'all look like idiots and future generations will not view this kindly. Get it?

@8petros Not sure what you are asking. I'm a ham, KW2P, and am currently experimenting with LoRa.

I'm a retired hardware and software engineer. Been doing this since 1968 and before. In my spare time, which is all to short, I'm tinkering with the SX1276 LoRa chip. Quite interesting it is, but has nothing to do with ham radio. LoRa is spread spectrum communication in the unlicensed 915 MHz band (in the USA). So unrelated to ham radio.

In terms of ham radio, I enjoy all modes, but especially CW.

So, jumping into the conversation here with that.

@Dtl @mcnees Wow. I'd be so honored to meet her just for a moment.

@ai6yr Well, it's Thanksgiving in Northern West Virginia and I can go outside without a jacket. Weather is fine.

But it's not fine. This weather here now is what I remember from Southern California around Thanksgiving. But I'm not in Southern California, I'm in West Virginia, where there should be bitter cold and snow now. Instead, it's 58 degrees F.

Everything's fine. This happens every year, says the Trump supporters.

Funny, that's not what I remember from the 2000's and 2010's. Snow and spikes below zero is what I remember. But maybe I'm wrong. The MAGA people must be right. Right?

@Dtl @mcnees Wow. Really. All I can say is I'm honored to speak with you, who met her in person.

And yes, I'm very fortunate to have met some greats in person and even worked with them closely, but there are more that I've never met.

For me, there's something special about meeting such a person eye-to-eye. Maybe silly on my part, but that's how I am.

@mcnees I wish I could have met her. Wow. Joe Taylor, one of my engineering heroes, was triggered by her discovery, and ran with it. Joe won a Nobel Prize for his work. Bell is almost forgotten except to us few who know.

Fairness does not yet exist in the world. This is irritating to me. Not that this diminishes Joe Taylor's amazing work then and on through the Voyager project and revolutionary communication modes used by ham radio operators like me.

BUT, BUT, BUT, what about Jocelyn Bell? Nobody's heard of her. That's fucked up, and no getting around it.

And what about Emmy Noether???

And what about Cecilia Payne???

All I can say is I'm glad I was born a male. Pure luck, of course. Being male enabled me to proceed without any hindrance in my career.

Half of humanity is female and females are just as likely to be brilliant as males. We need to fix this and fix it now. NOW. With misogynism we are throwing away HALF of our intelligence. It's ridiculous, unconscionable, unforgiveable. And we can't afford it any longer. We NEED all of our intelligence to deal with the problems ahead.

So please, people knock this shit off. NOW. Just stop it. Please. Our survival depends on it.

@ai6yr You just have to find the right girl, which can take some doing, but it's worth it.