aubeynarf
@aubeynarf@lemmynsfw.com
- Comment on Alarmists Bemoan Climate Research Funding Freeze 6 days ago:
It was 20 degrees above average here in Georgia last week, yesterday we had 6 inches of rain in a few hours. Human-caused climate change is real.
Did you know we’ve increased the CO2 concentration by nearly 50% since 1930?
CO2 was known as a heat-trapping gas over 110 years ago. Have you seen this 1912 newspaper excerpt?
- Comment on DOGE Discovers $1.9 Billion HUD Money ‘Misplaced’ By Biden Administration 6 days ago:
It’s 0.4% of of Musk’s gluttonous fortune, and 0.02% of the total federal budget.
With transparency measures being dismantled by the hour, and “mission aligned” talking-point-driven outlets repeating government statements without question, how will you know if this turns out to be an erroneous conclusion ?
- Comment on Why are there silly license requirements? 1 week ago:
There are 14 GMRS frequencies. How soon do you think they would become unusable if even 10,000 casual users in a metro area all went and bought 50W radios?
- Comment on Do you think progressives understand the difference between legal and illegal immigration? 2 weeks ago:
Hey cow boy. Progressives are generally more educated and aware, so yes. Meanwhile, most conservatives don’t understand the difference between, for example, asylum and undocumented border crossings; or that “encounters” doesn’t mean “entries”; or that coming on a vacation visa from South Africa or eastern Europe and starting a business or doing modeling work is illegal.
- Comment on 'These Are Some Of The Insane Priorities' USAID Has Funded: Karoline Leavitt 2 weeks ago:
Called building goodwill. Influence over power
- Comment on How can a US citizen invest outside the reach of the federal government? 2 weeks ago:
Well, they can seize a lot of things because of reciprocal anti-terrorism money laundering agreements with most of the countries you’d want to trust with your money.
resources aimed at wealthy people offshoring their assets might be useful to you
- Comment on How can a US citizen invest outside the reach of the federal government? 2 weeks ago:
well, first you would need to set up a brokerage account outside the US…
For now, though, you can invest in an Ex-US ETF, Vanguard has one that is essentially the total world stock index minus US companies.
- Comment on Electoral politics doesn't get the job done 2 weeks ago:
Have you noticed they’re always paired with messages encouraging voter apathy and disparticipation ?
- Comment on Electoral politics doesn't get the job done 2 weeks ago:
You need to go vote too. Probably for Democrats, if you’re reading this here.
- Comment on Obama's Failure To Close Guantanamo Meant It Was Open for Trump To Use 3 weeks ago:
what is this, account number seven or eight?
Ridiculous to say that anything the Democrats did in the past is to blame for actions Trump takes now.
- Comment on Which side of this dipole is ground? 1 month ago:
in your antenna, the outside of the coax makes up a substantial part of the radiating structure. The orientation of the elements in relationship to that coax will definitely change the radiation pattern, maybe for the better maybe for the worse.
- Comment on Which side of this dipole is ground? 1 month ago:
A 1/4 wave monopole above 1/4 wave radials is also a balanced antenna. unless the coax is carrying common mode currents, the antenna is balanced.
- Comment on Which side of this dipole is ground? 1 month ago:
It does not matter. (It does not matter in a “ground plane” antenna either, the radials have nothing to do with the earth other than being easier to mount with the coax heading downward; in fact, radials should not be touching or buried in the earth as they are RF radiators and RF faces high losses in soil)
- Comment on Which side of this dipole is ground? 1 month ago:
Neither side is ground. Due to electromagnetic field behavior, coax carries equal and opposite AC currents on the inner conductor and the inside surface of the shield; those equal and opposite currents drive the two dipole elements.
RF doesn’t penetrate shielded boxes and coax shields - so the outer surface and inner surface of the coax shield are seen as two different conductors at RF. In the pictured dipole, RF can flow out of the coax and back down the outside (and around the outside of the shielded receiver it’s connected to) because the open end of the coax “connects” them. So the coax shield is very much energized with (and receiving) RF; generally a ferrite bead choke is used to mitigate the unwanted shield currents.
With RF, “ground” doesn’t mean very much. There always has to be a circuit for current to flow; tying some point of the circuit to the chassis or to the power supply negative does not “zero it out” at all.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Invalidation
- Comment on Stop the power abuse happening in the politics community. 2 months ago:
that means allowing any off-topic post?
- Comment on Stop the power abuse happening in the politics community. 2 months ago:
This makes you look like an entitled whiner.
- Comment on Did something about mass produced ice cream change like 10 years ago? 3 months ago:
guar gum, xantham gun, locust bean extract, etc - all emulsifers or texture additives used to mask lower product quality.
Even the expensive stuff, Ben & Jerrys (sold out to PE a while ago), boutique brands at Whole Foods, and even Kirkland premiun have the same list of bullshit.
The only brand I can reliably find without them is Haagen Dazs.
- Comment on Most of the trick-or-treaters have been skipping my house, and I finally figured out why 3 months ago:
The kids on my street do come and knock, but they don’t know what to do then. The just stand there waiting - I’m like “what do you say???”, and they go “uhh, thank you???”
C’mon kids!
- Comment on what's stops one from scavenging the best parts of old phones and putting them into a new one? 3 months ago:
LOL, yeah. Capitalism.
Like the great socialist countries are way ahead with modular, standardized mobile handsets.
- Comment on A more complete explanation for the removal of those Russian Linux kernel maintainers 3 months ago:
lol, right, this is terrorism!
- Comment on A more complete explanation for the removal of those Russian Linux kernel maintainers 3 months ago:
If 10 people are sitting at a table…
- Comment on A more complete explanation for the removal of those Russian Linux kernel maintainers 3 months ago:
When Russian citizens understand there are direct consequences to them, Russian citizens stop supporting Putin’s actions.
- Comment on A more complete explanation for the removal of those Russian Linux kernel maintainers 3 months ago:
Personally I’m glad the sanctions have some bite. You can’t expect to just keep living your life as you wish when your country is obliterating its neighbors and disrupting stability worldwide.
- Comment on What is the food eaten in Close Encounters during the infamous mashed potato scene? 4 months ago:
I’m gonna say fish sticks
- Comment on Why are peole hating on .world? 4 months ago:
Also no downvotes :)
- Comment on Why are peole hating on .world? 4 months ago:
This is why I chose lemmynsfw. No one doubts our intent
- Comment on CBS Debate Moderator’s Immigration ‘Fact Check’ Against Vance Has More Holes Than Swiss Cheese, Experts Say 4 months ago:
Wait, I thought JD Vance was telling you not to listen to experts!
- Comment on Vance Follows Up Debate With Receipts On X: ‘As Promised’ 4 months ago:
guess who is going to be building the new housing stock? How are you gonna get that done if you kick out all the immigrants
- Comment on What can I do with US$10K that is a good investment? 4 months ago:
SPY returns an average 12%
