SomeAmateur

GI Joe and BroForce

The US is a massive place. Yes the federal govt can suck but state and local governments are where you see the real day to day effects like roads, local businesses, utilities and parks.

Sit in on a meeting (a lot of stuff is streamed thanks to covid). Get to know the people in office in your area and what they stand for. If you want make your voice heard however you choose and give them some perspective on how an upcoming decision effects you. You can vote wisely and build a community with them from the bottom up.

You can have a surprising level of influence just by reminding people that voters exist and care enough to give input now and then.

And you get the characters' mental commentary that a show usually has trouble getting across

Right and I'm sure it would work but technically Tesla advises responders not to. Idk why or what their recommended alternative might be

I agree but I assume the same goes for most EVs

Has anyone actually looked at the amount of water needes to handle a tesla fire? The pdfs are available and we looked at them when I was a volunteer. It's like 8,000 gallons or something to keep battery temps under control. Our tanker holds 2,000 gallons and foam isn't effective like it is for normal car fires.

A single tesla on fire needs a response similar to a house fire. Most fire response is going to be very strained with multiple, especially if they are at different locations.

Please correct me if I'm wrong, this is my understanding

1 It's a lot better than nothing! Meshtastic firmware sets every node to the LongFast, public encryption channel by default. If it gets fuly factory reset that should still be default. If you want an additional channel with different settings the QR scan feature lets everyone sync settings easily.

You might even be able to manually type in the encryption key but I haven't tried that to see.

2 You can DM nodes in range over the default LongFast channel. You can also set up a separate channel for a group. For example I have one with all my nodes that serves as a family/friends group and also allows for range testing without spamming everyone in range.

3 Voice probably won't be a thing, is the bandwidth is very small and it would be a real struggle to get it to work in a useful way. Still could happen though! Regular radios still work best for voice

Cool, now win an election

Good book but 1984 doesn't have a the plot twist of a Govt spy/AI girlfriend lol

For a game released in 2001, it's mindblowing to see how relevant the themes have become

You can't expect those on the opposite political spectrum to do stuff for you

In a house? With cops raiding it? If you grabbed a gun to defend yourself odds are you would be killed. If it comes to that particular scenario, gun or not, your odds weren't that great to begin with