[-] Eric 1 points 10 minutes ago

I just assumed that was someone's name. I had never heard that term before.

[-] Eric 1 points 2 hours ago

This was SSB on 20 meters. My next farthest contacts are more like 5000 miles down to Chile and Argentina, same 20W G90 and dipole. I am completely lacking Asia and Africa though

[-] Eric 1 points 3 hours ago

I got licensed in my 30s after wanting to when I was a kid. My farthest contact is 15000km from the US to Australia running 20W into a dipole hanging from a tree.

[-] Eric 7 points 3 hours ago

People do it for convenience. It doesn't seem to bother grapes when you wash the whole bunch together and keep them in the refrigerator.

[-] Eric 3 points 4 hours ago

Kamala Harris as well

[-] Eric 2 points 1 day ago

Oracle has been building AI data centers for a while now

[-] Eric 1 points 1 day ago

There is such a tiny proportion of users that actually interact with social media by posting, commenting etc, but a large proportion of them are completely nuts, myself included

[-] Eric 16 points 2 days ago

After spending over a decade undermining the confidence of US voters

[-] Eric 4 points 3 days ago

Her real life is more absurd than her fictional one with Larry David

[-] Eric 12 points 3 days ago

More dollars than sense

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Apparently smoke and fire confuse IR sensors, so you shouldn't use MANPADs near burning refineries

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https://web.archive.org/web/20260506011916/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/05/the-man-who-blew-up-a-nuclear-power-station-koeberg-south-africa

Read this article today and was amazed. A former fencing champion named Rodney Wilkinson joined up with the ANC. Rodney had been working at the plant which was under construction. A black draftsman he worked with looked the other way when he took the plans for the plant to copy. He was trained by the ANC in espionage tradecraft, and was given 4 limpet mines to place around the reactors. Since the plant was under construction, there was no nuclear material on site. To minimize the risk of casualties, the operation would occur on the weekend. Rodney was successful and escaped and was able to return to South Africa after the fall of Apartheid.

Really incredible story!

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