Phil Landmeier @shuttersparks@qoto.org

@michael_w_busch @juliusgoat.bsky.social Yes it does. As mentioned, I was mainly referring to opinions and arguments expressed in personal correspondence (letters) between the founders in the years leading up to creation of The Constitution.

@bjn @juliusgoat.bsky.social It's an interesting idea but it doesn't work. One of the problems, which you mention, they didn't see as a problem. There was discussion of only letting citizens that own land vote. (Can't vote wisely unless you have skin in the game.) But they realized that would never work. Some Founders thought it a good idea to place that same requirement (being a "landed" person) on elected representatives.

On the other hand I think the idea of making the states pay their own representatives has merit.

@lovelylovely They're still not listening. What I get now in West Virginia is absolute refusal to engage. "I don't want to talk about it." "I don't want to talk about it."

I dunno what that means.

@europesays Finland, eh? Glad I'm not a Russian on that ship.

@juliusgoat.bsky.social Well, you know, if you read what the Founders wrote in letters between each other, many things are clear. One is that they felt that no politician should get paid to serve by the federal government. If states want to pay their senators, fine. But serving in the House or Senate was unpaid.

Using your position to make money is, of course, criminal corruption, and would land you in prison or worse.

That's all forgotten today. Corruption reigns from town councils to the top of government.

@Npars01 @cdarwin Haven't read the article but I already know. Some regions of the Central Valley have subsided over 100 feet and it takes thousands of years to replenish those aquifers. And even then, they won't be the same as before.

We humans are eating the planet.

@ai6yr Yeah. Pretty wicked when I get it all working properly.

I mainly want to monitor and record temperatures in various rooms, coolers, and freezers, and I want precise data (0.1 C accuracy). Then I might play with other sensors.

I don't want to depend on WiFi and the Internet. LoRa solves that. The primary stuff I want to monitor is about 950 feet from here but LoRa gives me range up to several miles.

@ai6yr
I messed with the ESP32 back in 2019. Fun but had no serious use for it.

These days in my spare time I got my PIC development system back up and running and created some PIC-centric precision temperature sensors. Now I'm working on getting a Raspi talking to an SX1276 LoRa. After that, I'll develop software for the PIC to control a LoRa module and get them talking. Then I'll probably do a PC layout for the PIC and LoRa to easily produce small sensor modules I can install in various places and network them all together with the Raspi. The Raspi will upload the data to my server and it becomes available to monitor. That's the current fun project.

@europesays There's a "funny" story of a conversation that took place after WW2 between a US officer and a Finnish commander.

"You know there are half a million Russian soldiers stationed here in Finland."

"Really? Where are they located?"

"All along the border with Russia, two meters below ground."

@europesays Getting the job done, one Russian at a time.