I expect to attain my ham license soon. My interest are to be able to have access to information that might provide situational awareness over the amateur network. I am looking at a starter radio and believe a Yaesu FT-65R HT might be the thing. If there are recommendations for a different starter radio, please share them. Is there a mobile radio, convertible to a base station that I should consider? #hamradio

The forces that bind theoretical understanding are doing so at the expense of scientific understanding. Thus the way theory and theology are related. #science

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Were they garbage because no one took them, or did no one take them because they were garbage?

https://x.com/elandernews/status/1732872897155174481?s=57 I agree with Gore’s statement that democracy works best within a community of like-minded thinkers. Judgements of ‘informed’ are as superfluous as they are sanctimonious. The appearance of the schismogenesis that is necessary for change is what generates the flow, dogma lapses into a stunting stability. We shall see how robust these forces imposing ‘right think’ are as they continue trying to make the world safe for democracy. Those who ‘believe’ in one reality are threatened by other realities, just as Newtonian physics is threatened by Einstein’s physics as the description of the real. Neither is proven true, both provide value to their communities of believers, but one community appears larger.

There is nothing more dogmatic than sharing a belief in a common language.

My new take on presidential politics is that it is as when Ghostbusters where to ‘choose the form of their Destructor!’

We are taught what we must take on faith, and as we learn, too many lose faith.