Bro, I’d love to change with you. I tend to be the opposite, I fear I often come off as aggressive and rude when in fact I am only pissed off at a computer for beeping the wrong way all week.

You say you have some (good) friends, have you considered just asking that? “How do you perceive me, I worry I look <x>?”

At a store? I have never met an employee like that. How would that even work? Sure, they might try to make some small talk because it helps sell things or because they are bored, but “I’m good / just looking, thanks” is all I’ve ever needed to get them to get the hint.

Fair point, people are different.

Nice try, FBI :)

+1 for the onlookers. I have watched plenty of arguments myself, just trying to build an opinion. Humans work like that.

Not much better, I’d bet. The death penalty does not stop murders from happening. Sure, there might be slightly less, but it would not scare people off the crime, just off getting caught.

Isn’t that just the (American) definition of liberal? That the market works, if restricted and guided enough by the state, so it works in the right way?

I’ve just met more people. Friends coming out kind of forces you to re-evaluate the casual *phobia. I don’t think online can do it. You have to experience and learn yourself.

You do realize that this hobby consists of nerds and pensioners, who sometimes spend thousands on being able to talk to other nerds?

If anything, you might need to politely stop people from over-sharing all the cool stuff they made… :D

As always, the answer is “it depends” :D

Feel free to PM me or ask in a new post

10W at 2m, 70cm and 10m. Except for the 10m, which I have never heard anyone use (*), that fits pretty well with the idea of giving high school kids an aliexpress handheld to get them into STEM.

The ugly part is, you need to do the same regulatory and legal questionnaire that you need to do for the larger licenses.

“N Lizenz” in Germany, for reference

(*) I just remembered that 10m is basically CB, but Ham. So if you find/inherit an old CB radio and want to experiment, it might be a really cheap way into the hobby.

My country just introduced a super-beginners license that can be done with basic high school physics. Of course, severe limitations, basically, a “Baofeng license”. Still great idea.

The fuck? It seems I have been lucky. Most people here follow the “don’t argue politics” advice.

Check out a local club. Literally, check it out. If it is full of arrogant assholes twice your age, leave. If they are cool but you don’t fit in, ask them for advice. There are so many retired radio operators who are doing it to stay “in it”, or retired engineers who finally have time and so on. Most of them are very happy to info-dump about their hobby.

It is fine for ham radio’s original purpose: technical experimentation and connecting people. "Don’t discuss politics’ is a long-standing Gentleman’s (woman’s) agreement for a reason.

If you want to encrypt, go for the ISM bands. Lora, meshtastic, whatever happens at 433 MHz, hell even at 2.4 GHz a few 100mW will get you quite far with the right approach.

The difference is, your stuff will be type-checked. No experimentation, no building the crazy antenna idea that will be surelu fine according to your back of the napkin math.

Unfortunately yes. People wanted this. They still want this. But people were also cheering for like, Mao even after he put millions of his own citizens into the ground, so who knows

And? Seems like your definition and this community’s definition of “science memes” differ. Who cares. What are we even arguing about?

My dude, it’s right there in the description

A place for majestic STEMLORD peacocking, as well as memes about the realities of working in a lab.

Honestly, I have no idea what you are trying to argue

Yeah, that is why it was justified to shoot protesters

If that’s what you think I’m suggesting, you need to work on your reading comprehension.

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Are you suggesting it would have been better to just let the fascists seize power?

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And this burden of proof is on the accuser.

I don’t doubt the stories, but a court would see it in a different way for a good reason. It’s hard to find a solution between slander and rightfully calling someone out.