The internet interprets censorship as damage and routes around it.

–Gilmore Conjecture

A Mark VI only has a 18 to 160 kiloton yield.

Can we replace it with a B83?

Thanks! I did not know this.

Off to make some space on my phone…

Do we know what instance banned her?

There is a folder in my (Linux) desktop called “Old Desktop”

There’s a folder inside “Old Desktop” called… “Old Desktop”.

Have you been living in a hole or something?

Confirm to me that you are aware of Trump’s attacks on “birthright citizenship”.

Do you understand the difference between “Democracy” and “Populism”?

Democracy is the idea that political authority is conveyed through the consent of the people.

Populism is the idea that political authority is conveyed by the will of the majority.

When 90 people want to kill off 10, Democracy says that those 10 people are part of the source of political power. Their deaths are out of bounds for the rest of the populace to even consider.

Populism says that the 90 are free to call for the destruction of the 10.

Societal endorsement of voluntary euthanasia promotes a perverse, populistic viewpoint, as opposed to our democratic ideology.

Populism is two wolves and a sheep voting on dinner. Democracy is whatever keeps the sheep off that particular ballot.

I have no problem with medically-assisted suicide to prevent pain and suffering in cases of terminal illness. I have no moral or ethical problems with suicide in general (although society’s position should be to intervene and prevent suicide where we reasonably can.) My issue is in giving society the authority to ask its members to kill themselves.

No. You’d create perverse incentives where people would be shunned by society for refusing to kill themselves.

Instead, we eliminate work-as-a-necessity by meeting everyone’s “needs” and transform society to work-as-a-luxury: Employment isn’t for meeting our essential survival needs, but for our social wants.

As for the “apartment”: We have sufficient quantity of vacant housing that every homeless person in the country could be housed today, and even if there weren’t, it would be easy to build. What’s lacking is the motivation to do it.

The problem with Nazi jokes is that Nazis don’t think they are funny, and nobody else thinks they are jokes.

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If anybody needs me, I’ll be here for the next half hour or so.

FRS and GMRS have similar restrictions on encoding, and also limits or prohibitions on digital/data modes.

Ignorance of the law is not an excuse, but compliance with the letter while violating the “spirit” is generally acceptable.

The restriction is against encoding for purposes of obscuring meaning. You can use encryption for things like authentication or controlling remote equipment.

“Rattlegram” seems to be similar to the AFSK systems used for Packet Radio, APRS, etc. You might look into those methods before implementing your own.

Assuming Rattlegram encoding can fit within the audio bandwidth (which might not be the case on the narrower, longer-range ham bands) you should be able to use Rattlegram to send ordinary text messages. However, you would be allowed to use SSE to send authentication and control messages.

You could only use this approach on frequencies allocated for digital modes.

I don’t think the major issue is pregnant invading soldiers.

That’s because you’re using a logical, rational definition of “soldier”. Texas isn’t, and neither is Trump.

They are treating immigration as an actual invasion. They are saying that “soldiers” are coming in to the US and having kids.

They haven’t been quiet about what they are doing, but so far, we have been treating it as hyperbole. It isn’t hyperbole. They are acting on it.

How do I quantify this to my hypothetical parents who reject climate change, and to my hypothetical siblings who don’t know one way or another?

It excludes far more than diplomats, and that’s what makes this approach so dangerous.

In a “Red Dawn” situation, local police certainly can arrest members of the invading army. “Enemy Combatants” are not subject to the laws of the United States. Enemy combatants cannot be charged with crimes under US law simply for engaging in hostilities. They can be held indefinitely as POWs. They don’t have to involve the judicial system to “repatriate” them to their country of origin, rather than deporting them.

If you want to see how history is going to play out on this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Order_10450

Exactly.

Will the increased snow cover at lower latitudes reduce warming? (I’m guessing probably yes, due to increased albedo. But, snow is also an insulator, and might be holding ground heat. I don’t know which effect will be greater.)

If it does reduce warming, will the amount be significant relative to anthropogenic climate change? (I’m guessing probably not.)

And just out of curiosity, did the Southern Hemisphere experience similar polar disturbances last winter, or in the past few years?