You missed the golden one: “Empennage in a Garage”.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empennage

this is fine

Because the results of malpractice only kill, maim, or injure one person at a time.

In aviation, however, the consequences are much more visible; so commercial pilots have regulated limits to flight duty.

E: What I mean to say is I am not ok with this, but what happens is it’s easier for politicians to ignore. It should not be this way, and the current practice of ridiculous hours for the medical profession is properly fucked. Aviation has flight duty limits precisely because it has affected so many at once. In the industry they say that the regulations are “written in blood”.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulatory_capture

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two_Minutes_Hate

Facing execution as a bourgeois? Can’t make it to the event? No worries, we’ll come to you!

I’ve been lurking in your posts since day one, I admire your commitment!

A fantastic point I hadn’t considered, new gear taking up more space. I would also try Hell but for the same issue you mentioned. I did SSTV a bit which is kind of neat.

I’ve tried JT65 a bunch on HF with no luck.

That being said, one can probably find similar arguments when phone came into mainstream, and then again when the FCC eliminated the Morse requirements. The truth is it’s all ham radio, and any arguments to the contrary are rejected outright.

To even get on any of the digital modes, not only must one have the licenses, radio, and antenna, they must also know how to pair the computer up to it to get it to function while also understanding atmospherics.

That’s why the adage goes “a fool and their money are soon parted”.

Making it no longer reflective

Indicates the current state of things.

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You’re spot on. It also assumes one wants to maintain a particular lifestyle. If those interested in living on passive income can adjust their lifestyle more simply, or choose lower CoL locations (SE Asia, for example) dollars can go quite far.

Some quick math on what this looks like:

Assume $70k median income, this means passive income would need to be $140k. In order to get $140k/yr one would need $4M to draw down at 3.5%/yr and meet that goal.

To get to $4M, using the following assumptions: 20% savings rate (not accounting for inflation, raises, bonuses, etc) per year and a 10%ROR on the index funds would take a little more than 35y.

It takes a substantial amount of discipline to do this. If one could make $70k/y starting the year they turn 18, it could be done by the time they’re 53.

Seems like it’s the first step in transferring control of the internet to the government.

A common misunderstanding, planetary systems are marsupials, they must stay in their mother’s protective womb of stellar gasses until they can fend for themselves.

Bruno Mars’ Grenade. Not just because it was overplayed, but once you notice the sound of the beeping from a commercial truck in reverse (beeeeep beeeeep beeeeep…) you can’t unhear it.

I take notes and have discussions with my partners; often we try to diagnose what may have happened, and try to make them lessons-learned from future endeavors.

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There are two rules to happiness.

Rule1: Never say everything you know.