Missing The Point<p>But I'm a creep, I'm a weirdo.<br>What the hell am I doing here?<br>I don't belong here.</p><p>I don't care if it hurts<br>I wanna have control<br>I want a perfect body<br>I want a perfect soul<br>I want you to notice<br>When I'm not around<br>You're so fuckin' special<br>I wish I was special</p>
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Grumble<p>My Kenwood TH-D7 handheld is now being programmed over USB from Linux. I suppose this isn't remarkable to anyone but me in 2024...</p><p>I installed a Windows executable from my radio manufacturer on my Linux laptop and it only took me an hour to get to running under Wine. After that screwing around, it runs as well as it does on my Windows desktop.</p><p>I am no newbie to Linux - I used to FTP source code from tsx11.mit.edu and sneaker net it to my 386SX back before there were distros. But I am delighted to find that eventually, shit "just works"(1).</p><p>(1) - *just works *means after reading the man pages, several forum posts, downloading and installing various packages and some shell scripting and at least one reboot to make it all clean and shiny.</p>
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Grumble<p>"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron."<br />**Dwight D. Eisenhower**</p><p>So, roughly, each Sidewinder was two houses for the homeless, each AARGM was education for a doctor. This isn't radical Marxist talk - this is the true cost of America's foreign policy, in the best possible scenario, when no one dies.</p><p>This tradeoff was obvious to a GOP president 70 years ago. This tradeoff is unspeakable by any president today.</p>
Grumble<p>The AIM-9P block 3 Sidewinders cost the Navy $430K each in 2021. The AGM-88E AARGM were $870K each in 2011 - I've got no recent pricing on the contemporary version with upgraded software and no idea if they used the extended range motor. </p><p>Given the long teething problems with the AARGM I'm relieved that it worked.</p>
Grumble<p>Using a multibillion dollar ship to launch hundred-million dollar airplanes shooting million-dollar missiles at ten thousand dollar drones. Back-slapping congratulations all around, then they sailed home to accolades and ribbons.</p><p>And then the Houthi attacked the next ship that sailed by, and 90% of the prior Suez traffic headed south around Africa.</p><p>America: you can't pay more for a military, but you can never seem to accomplish the strategic mission.</p><p><a href="https://www.navytimes.com/news/your-navy/2024/07/25/here-are-the-munitions-navy-jets-used-for-first-time-against-houthis/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">navytimes.com/news/your-navy/2</span><span class="invisible">024/07/25/here-are-the-munitions-navy-jets-used-for-first-time-against-houthis/</span></a></p>
Grumble<p>What a band. *live*</p><p><a href="https://youtu.be/4I6fogrLdsw?si=ReOAbn-ZM6-OiFzM" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">youtu.be/4I6fogrLdsw?si=ReOAbn</span><span class="invisible">-ZM6-OiFzM</span></a></p>
Grumble<p>Palate cleanser...</p><p><a href="https://youtu.be/FJyseYPX2IM?si=SowCapWSBGYpNL-4" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">youtu.be/FJyseYPX2IM?si=SowCap</span><span class="invisible">WSBGYpNL-4</span></a></p>
Church of Jeff<p><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/USHealthcare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USHealthcare</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/universalhealthcare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>universalhealthcare</span></a></p>
Grumble<p><a href="https://youtu.be/3BRVi5m7A_k?si=kuWScWiMU-wpBZ7n" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">youtu.be/3BRVi5m7A_k?si=kuWScW</span><span class="invisible">iMU-wpBZ7n</span></a></p>
Carme Pont<p>Segueix manant ell.</p>
dogzilla<p>Joe Jackson :: You Run Your Mouth (And I’ll Run My Business)</p><p><a href="https://youtu.be/bUvRkijoKss?si=Inx7I28uFwfUBjoQ" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">youtu.be/bUvRkijoKss?si=Inx7I2</span><span class="invisible">8uFwfUBjoQ</span></a></p>
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Steve Herman<p>US Senator Bob Menendez (D-New Jersey) found guilty on all counts in his corruption trial. <a href="https://www.nydailynews.com/2024/07/16/sen-menendez-verdict-corruption-trial/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nydailynews.com/2024/07/16/sen</span><span class="invisible">-menendez-verdict-corruption-trial/</span></a></p>
Spocko<p>Zack Bornstein<br> ALWAYS👏ASK👏POTENTIAL👏EMPLOYERS👏WHY👏THE👏POSITION👏IS👏OPEN👏</p>
bert hubert 🇺🇦🇪🇺🇺🇦<p>An old favorite, "OK doomscrolling is bad but have you SEEN the quality of the doom this week?".</p>
Grumble<p>It ain't like Trump does anything without money changing hands. I assume this was because of Thiel/Musk donations.</p><p><a href="https://apnews.com/article/trump-vice-president-vance-rubio-burgum-rnc-6cc438a8370a21b2631f5a53b06b71d0" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">apnews.com/article/trump-vice-</span><span class="invisible">president-vance-rubio-burgum-rnc-6cc438a8370a21b2631f5a53b06b71d0</span></a></p>
Grumble<p>I don't think the odds are high, maybe 15% (3 in 20), but there's a chance Mr. Trump will decide that the "significant emotional event" he had on Saturday was enough for him. </p><p>Trump likes performing for the crowd, but he never looked very happy rubbing elbows with the crowd. And now he knows he has reason to fear the crowd - even *his *crowd. </p><p>I am confident that Mr. Trump has enough money squirreled away that he could live out his years in luxury, golfing daily, in pampered safety, somewhere in the Middle East. And with little to no chance of extradition. Jared owes him that much.</p>
schalken<p>US state: "political violence is wrong."</p><p>also US state: "our military budget is 849 billion dollars."</p>
Laura Manach :bongoCat:<p>“I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.<br>"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us."</p>
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