Phil Landmeier @shuttersparks@qoto.org

@CStamp @BruceMirken @GottaLaff Yes. It's disturbing that those people walk among us.

@Nonilex He's just playing to the rubes who support him.

@kurtsh Yes, I fear that this will happen to me. Just a matter of when. 71 here and some people think I'm in my 40s. But I sense changes. I look in the mirror and say, "You look older." Not happy with that. I still have the mind I had when I was 19. I do carry two copies of the gene that codes for late aging. I guess that's good. Hmm.

@glynmoody Yes, true. The bad thing is that a fearful society is much easier to control / manipulate.

@exchgr I sometimes go for days without eating meat but my carnivore badge is unharmed. I would assume the reverse is true. ;-)

Interesting way to push back against Large Language Model "AI".

https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.10226

@glynmoody Hmm. People have some weird ideas today. I traveled Europe alone for 3 months when I was 16. Had no significant problems.

@rbreich Yes, "dynamic pricing" is a buzzword I learned about a year-ago. It means price-gouging.

@Spud_Coolzip @kilroy_was_here Exactly. Back in the 1950s that construction technique was called "a plumber's delight". Hahaha.

@originlbookgirl@mastodon.online @lovelylovely Exactly. Old geezer here. Was a Republican in my younger days. Yes, it's exactly as you describe. Back and forth, back and forth, Republicans trash the economy and run up the national debt. People realize it's bad, bring in democrats who repair the damage, but before they can get anything positive done they vote in Republicans again. Wash, rinse, repeat.

@kilroy_was_here Agreed. You encounter diminishing returns and going bigger doesn't buy you what you may think.

Engineer here and I've been around, in, and seen installations that had to be absolutely lightning-proof and were engineered to be so. It's way beyond anything you or I could afford to do.

8 or 10 AWG is fine. If you want more you should switch up to braid and/or copper tubing, not waste your money on solid copper. Connections should be welded. They make thermite weld kits for making serious grounding connections. The cost for all that quickly gets out of hand for regular folks.

For ham radio grounding for lightning (high frequency, fast rise time) and for RF grounding for radio I recommend copper tubing. 1-inch solid copper is a pure waste of money when 1-inch tubing will do the same job.

@Hey_Beth Yes, but overall, it looked like they were caught completely flat-footed -- skunked.

@karlauerbach Hah! Well, I do. I grew up in a family that strongly supported unions. So, as you should expect, I was anti-union when I was young. In the 1970s I turned down a job offer from CBS to become a video engineer when I learned it was a union job. Their chief engineer at the time recommended me. But by the mid 1980s my education improved and I reversed my position.

@ai6yr Hmm. I'll be the judge of that. ;-)