Phil Landmeier @shuttersparks@qoto.org

I wonder if there's a way to get German Rheinmetall / Oerlikon technology to Ukraine. It terminates a drone's mission in no uncertain terms,

https://youtu.be/bdwjcayPuag

Yeah... 66F in Northern West Virginia on November 20th.

The locals, all Trump supporters say, "Yeah. this happens every year."

Uh, excuse me, but, uh, no it doesn't. No it didn't. It didn't when I lived here 20 years ago. It didn't when you grew up here 70 years ago. You've never seen anything like this, yet you bury it and go with the "narrative". Climate change is a hoax.

They are SO deluded that they alter their memory of reality to match the narrative they've been brainwashed to believe. It's incredible to see, and a real education into human nature and how flawed many of us are.

No wonder Hitler had so many followers. No wonder "Reverend" Jim Jones managed to massacre 900 people, including people killing hundreds of their own children. Humans have some SERIOUS and very disturbing flaws when it comes to cult leaders.

Yes, climate change is a hoax. 60 degrees on Thanksgiving is "perfectly normal". (Not that I like the cold. Some do. I don't. But this is NOT normal and is very disturbing. The "damn it's cold" moment should have occurred a month ago. It still hasn't occurred.)

A month ago is when I should have had to bundle up to run an errand at midnight. But no need for that tonight. T-shirt and a ballcap is fine. On November 20th. In Northern West Virginia.

Spectrum Internet service in West Virginia sucks. They sucked 18 years ago when it was Time-Warner and they still suck.

During the 2010s I was on Frontier DSL. It was fine but I needed more speed and I knew more would never come because I was at the maximum distance from the CO. They were even nice enough to hook up two line cards in parallel and four wires to give me good service. No complaints given the technology of the time.

In 2019 I decided to switch to Spectrum and got their fastest service, 40 Mbps. For a couple of years it was okay. Then they switched me up to 80 Mbps at no increase in cost. Great. It actually delivered 65 to 75. No complaints.

Then, about 18 months ago, the service started to degrade. It got slower, but more importantly it began to have service interruptions. It would just stop for 1 to 2 minutes with no throughput. Then start up again until the next interruption. I thought maybe it was my setup here. Rebooting the router didn't seem to have any effect on the interruptions.

Recently I was speaking with a friend here who lives about ten blocks away, also on Spectrum, and she said "Spectrum service is terrible. I have security cameras and there are 1 to 2 minute long gaps where there's nothing. Terrible." Then I knew it wasn't just me.

So now I'm looking at Frontier again. In the meantime, Frontier has been going full speed installing fiber. They installed fiber in my neighborhood about six months ago. My workplace, which is 3 blocks away, has been looking for a better solution. Their DSL is getting worse and worse and when it's out, the credit card machine doesn't work. Not okay. It's a huge headache. So they decided to try Frontier fiber. I thought okay, this is a good test of whether I'll get fiber at my home.

So far it's been solid at work. Not only that, I finally gave it a test tonight. Oh, my goodness, it's quick. They went for the cheapest, slowest service. Yet I did a 265 megabyte download in 5.3 seconds tonight. That's scary fast. I like it. I think I'm going to do it.