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Also, he was released on the 5th (five days ago): https://www.kob.com/new-mexico-news/judge-overturns-decision-grants-couy-griffins-release/6003038/
There are no safeguards that you can put in place and walk away. The only safeguard that works is us, engaged nonstop.
Creating a third party resets the balance of power. It neuters the advantage that the establishment has built up. But it does not keep crooks out, and it does not prevent a new establishment from being built.
No, it isn't wifi. SDR = software defined radio
SDR started with hardware tuners that piped audio in to your sound card's line input. Modern units capture the signal directly with a USB receiver.
Either way, once your computer has the Q/I points, you can feed them through digital signal processing networks (emulated by your CPU) to extract, decode and parse just about anything. And because it is software, once someone has designed the network and published it, you can load it.
In theory, you could snoop some wifi traffic by having your CPU process the signal the hard way instead of using a dedicated chip for it, but in practice, tuners (particularly cheap tuners) don't have anywhere near the bandwidth for it. Also, the wifi bands are probably outside the tunable range of the receivers (you can cheat by using the first harmonic, but wifi range isn't great to begin with).
Airline transponders, satellite weather images, commercial 2-way voice radio traffic, tire pressure monitoring sensors on cars driving by, local "weather" conditions (temperature, humidity, barometer, wind direction/speed, etc), car alarms and remote start units, commercial broadcast AM/FM, all sorts of HAM transmissions. You can almost certainly get your local police/fire/ambulance dispatch - which gets crazy if your area uses digital systems.
And I'm pretty sure that I've only barely scratched the surface. With about $40 worth of hardware and your PC, you can start exploring or running massive spectrum surveys to see what is happening in your area.
Advanced:
Get a Raspberry Pi and a SDR dongle. Set up a good antenna outside your house and another one in your car. You now have an excellent scanner/recorder. Learning SDR gives you access to an absolutely astonishing array of communication and data.
It is also possible to transmit through SDR, but don't do it until you know your power limits and know how to measure your output.
It is unfortunate that the reality of the story isn't as good as the fantasy.
It seems that we need a story about the little guy standing up to injustice in an awe-inspiring manner, so we've created our own fan fiction to meet that need.
This is abortionist logic. If you were given then choice between death and a little hardship, which would you choose? Virtually no one would choose to die, but you seriously believe that you did the right thing by making that choice for them?
Let me guess - you went to public school and were fed a steady diet of nihilism by a team of communist-sympathizers for 12 years, and maybe also went to college where a team of actual communists kept up the good work for 4-6 years more. Right?
And for the record, I'm not saying that being childless is morally the same as having children but killing them. I'm saying that being selfish is not a virtue and no one here is going to be praising you for your foresight or "wisdom".
To everyone else: Yes, life can be hard sometimes. Raising a family is difficult and you will worry about your children's futures. You need to do it anyway if you possibly can.
It is very difficult to shoot three guns at once. May I suggest Arsenal AF2011 for your main hand? If you got two of them, you'd be at 105%.
Michael Crichton liked to talk about The Murray Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect. Murray had nothing to do with it, but Michael discussed it with him once, and he figured the idea would get more traction if it was named after a Nobel Prize winning physicist.
The idea is that you read a story in the newspaper that you know something about and you are astonished how bad the reporting it. They author doesn't understand the issues, he doesn't understand the facts, the author confuses effects for causes, etc.
Then you turn the page, and the amnesia sets in. You forget how bad the reporting was when you understood the story, and you assume that the reporting on this other story, the one that you don't know anything about, is good.
You might not have been serious, but you do it on a cash basis. You calculate the cash value of the corn and the lard. Your income is the higher value, and your cost basis is whichever one you gave up, leading to either a profit or a loss. Talk to a tax professional for the rules regarding your ability to write off losses (if you were the losing party) - it isn't automatic or complete.
This, or activated carbon in powder form, or bentonite clay.
I would heat it up first - fill it with boiling water and let it sit until too hot to handle. Dump it out, dry it thoroughly. Take a sealable container (tupperware, etc) big enough to hold the mug, and start with an inch or so of your choice of drawing material. Put the mug in, and pack the inside and around the outside of the mug until the container is full. Let it sit for a few days.
There is a joke among aid workers in Africa. These are kids who grew up left and took jobs working for NGOs trying to "fix" the damage that whitey did to Africa.
Q: What is the difference between a tourist and a racist?
A: Two weeks
Exposure to actual Africa and real Africans cures these kids of the lies they've been fed pretty damn fast.
This is good advice for everyone, even if you don't believe this particular theory.
Tell yourself / your wife / your kids / whoever that the food stash is for blizzards / wildfires / earthquakes / floods / power outages / pandemic lockdowns / whatever. There is an almost unlimited number of reasons why you should keep a couple of weeks worth of food on hand.
2 weeks is your bare minimum. 1 month would be better, and 2 months even better than that - but a little bit harder to store and justify as you go up the scale. This is food that you regularly eat so that you can rotate it out of storage and into your pantry as it ages.
I would also recommend a bucket of long term / emergency food, and do NOT count that food towards your stored food figure. Rotate the bucket every 5 or 10 years. This is not food that you normally eat, so when you rotate it, make it fun. Tell the kids that you are camping in the house for a week, or actually go camping with it.
My experience is similar, but Minnesota is slightly different.
In 2016, I showed up at the caucus and nominated myself as a delegate from my precinct to the county organization. There were only a few people from my precinct there, and they were happy to let me have it. (There are multiple slots per precinct - we all could have had it if we had wanted to.)
Next thing I know, I'm giving a brief speech at the county convention. At the time, I was the only person openly supporting Trump (they are all rabidly pro-Trump now). After that I know, I'm a delegate from the county to the state convention. I'm reasonably sure that I could have managed to win a seat in the national convention if I'd tried.
I go to one or two meetings every month (my local county organization, and my congressional district), and a few conventions per year, where I have voting rights. I get to vote on changes to party rules and bylaws, statewide party director and other officer roles, who we endorse for every seat from state representative up to President.
I'm also on a first name basis with my state rep and my state senator. Normally I wouldn't give a fuck about that, but they are both pretty based guys. I also got to talk to my congressional candidates before they were famous and give them a very pro-MAGA assessment of what the voters expected from them.
The moral of the story is: show up. It isn't hard.