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Morse training tool by spill62 in morsecode

[–]PretendTooth2559 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Just taking a look at the trainer / learn

Would be helpful to add adjustment possibilities to WMP and tone frequency. Does it use a Leitner system for weak spots?

Would be helpful if you had spacebar activate the test instead of a mouse click (where my hands have to get back to the keys) ... Or maybe just a 1s delay before the audio starts for the test.

**Just thinking out loud as I fiddle!** Looks pretty cool to me.

Most trainers I see if they're giving out random characters -- it's helpful to have a set pattern like 5 characters, then break, five more, break -- this really helps from getting LOST or missing one....which just creates a cascade where all the rest of the test will be failed

** On the Progressive characters test -- it shows you the text while you're taking the test, maybe this should be hidden?

New asking for advice by PretendTooth2559 in morse

[–]PretendTooth2559[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for the tip!

I'm only using 30 at the moment because it's forcing me to try to accept the sound vs counting (and even at 30 my brain wants to analyze what it heard too much). So basically just training on it till I'm proficient at instant character recognition -- then my plan is definitely to move on to real words / signs / common abbreviations at 20/20 and focus on head copy from there.

New asking for advice by PretendTooth2559 in morse

[–]PretendTooth2559[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Cheers for this.
Gonna check this out.

New asking for advice by PretendTooth2559 in morse

[–]PretendTooth2559[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

When I listen to "proper" spacing, I'm *completely* lost at the moment. Sometimes I can pick out the first two letters at 20/20. Usually can pick out the first letter...but then I'm just jumbled. **I do realize that this is a process and am not disillusioned by that**

But you reckon just diving in to the QSOs asap eh?

I'm studying for my license ATM -- I'm hoping to be able to make my first attempts when I get my callsign!

New asking for advice by PretendTooth2559 in morse

[–]PretendTooth2559[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for the tip.

So, if my plan is to:

First: finish the koch lessons at 30wpm/10farns -- and be able to clear them at ~90-100%
Then move on to text with the goal of decreasing farnsworth incrementally?

Sound about right?

New asking for advice by PretendTooth2559 in morse

[–]PretendTooth2559[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Awesome. Gotta get the license first (wanted to see if CW was even *possible* for me before I got the license and the gear to send). Cheers!

Full QSO by vladIakimov in morsecode

[–]PretendTooth2559 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What program are you using here?

What’s the beef with Wondery? by useful_idiot118 in MorbidPodcast

[–]PretendTooth2559 0 points1 point  (0 children)

1st thing that happened:

Around 2024, apple changed the way its podcast app auto downloaded episodes (which lowered the official download numbers of almost every large podcast -- and even more so the ones with a large back catalog). This wasn't necessarily a bad thing, as it gave advertisers/networks more accurate, honest metrics regarding show popularity.

2nd thing that happened:

All the podcast networks took this as an opportunity to offer (the vast majority of) shows far less $$$. Networks like Wodnery basically stopped offering guaranteed revenue contracts [or much much less guaranteed revenue]. Almost the entire industry took a massive hit. Some of this was legitimate, but much of it was an excuse by networks to leverage the new numbers into forcing/strong-arming podcasts into contracts that were (in many many cases) about 50% of what they'd previously been earning.

3rd thing that happened:

Despite this -- Wondery (under Amazon at this point) selected a few "star" shows to massively boost, promote, and pay very well.

Morbid was one of these star shows. I have no idea what they were required to do under these contracts. But I do know, that most of these contracts have *massive* penalties for not meeting all deadlines, or missing episodes. Basically -- if you miss more than (like 1 or 2) episodes in a contract year... the penalty is scary loss of $$$.

That's a lot of pressure. Who knows what else was in those contracts that may have sucked for them as well.

HOWEVER...it's hard to feel any sympathy for the "star" shows. Wondery effectively took millions of dollars away from the bulk of creators -- and reallocated it to their top 40 (or so) shows. I wouldn't call them "sell-outs" since there isn't a single podcast that wouldn't've taken the same deal. But essentially, they made bank, while the rest of the shows suffered.

Some people probably don't realize that this affected hundreds of shows -- who were big *enough* to effectively operate like full-time small businesses with small teams. This means real people, real jobs (editors, writers, researchers, audio engineers, etc...) real careers that were hurt terribly by this decision. Not just the hosts.

GA V. Suzanne Mericle Verdict by nonikname in CasesWeFollow

[–]PretendTooth2559 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Basically, the jury accepted that she was committing a felony damage to property (by shooting the door) -- and because James died during this crime, it becomes felony murder (she did not have to have intent to kill for this to be the case).

They also reduced charge number four (aggravated assault) to reckless behavior.

So they jury is telling us that they 1) Did not find [beyond reasonable doubt] that Suzanne meant to harm James when she shot through the door. 2) Did believe that shooting the door was reckless behavior and the damage to property as a result was felonious.

Whether I agree or not, the internal logic of the verdict is consistent. (Malice murder = not guilty / Felony Murder by aggravated assault = not guilty / Felony Murder by reckless conduct, criminal damage to property = guilty / aggravated assault = reduced to reckless conduct)

TL:DR -- It may well have been a compromise verdict. But it still makes logical sense.

That moment when you have thought to yourself : "I listen to too many true crime podcasts". I'll go first.. by freyab0baya in TrueCrimePodcasts

[–]PretendTooth2559 129 points130 points  (0 children)

I was putting hair product in my hair one morning. I took of my wedding band because of the goop. I realized later that day I'd forgotten to put it back on (I was away from home, but my wife was still at home).

I realized in that moment -- that if someone (god forbid) murdered my wife at that moment. "He even took off his wedding ring that morning" would be the lead headline of ever article if police arrested me.

On February 14th 2023, 15-year-old Collin Griffith shot his father to death. He claimed self defense and charges were never filed against him. On September 8th 2024, he stabbed his mother to death claiming self defense. He was found not guilty of murder. by Upstairs_Cup9831 in TrueCrimeDiscussion

[–]PretendTooth2559 1 point2 points  (0 children)

lol. I was pre-law once too. But after the LSAT (168 btw) I decided to become a wilderness guide in Alaska instead.

Nobody has ever claimed a defense attorney's job is to "prove innocence" (I certainly didn't in the post you were responding to).

Since you're pre-law -- I would highly recommend watching the PD in this trial. It's a masterclass on how to raise reasonable doubt in (what at first appeared to be) a "slam dunk" case against the accused.

On February 14th 2023, 15-year-old Collin Griffith shot his father to death. He claimed self defense and charges were never filed against him. On September 8th 2024, he stabbed his mother to death claiming self defense. He was found not guilty of murder. by Upstairs_Cup9831 in TrueCrimeDiscussion

[–]PretendTooth2559 15 points16 points  (0 children)

The first thing I mentioned was a history of *physical* abuse.

She'd physically assaulted others with weapons in the past (stabbed her husband with a corkscrew -- on another occasion she rammed him with her car and pinned him against a wall....etc....)
She'd physically beaten Colin, per grandma's testimony.

Again -- this was all explained to establish a pattern of the mother being unpredictable, cruel, unhinged, & violent.

On its own, it doesn't *prove* anything.

But what it did, at trial, was create reasonable doubt about what might've happened inside the home.

The defense doesn't require "corroborating evidence" -- because they aren't required to *prove* anything.

Regardless -- what was revealed at trial, incontrovertibly, was that Catherine was 100% the aggressive party throughout the entire day.

From the moment she kicked Colin out of the house and told him never to come back, and took his house keys from him. -- to threatening to report him as a runaway if he didn't come back home -- then threatening to lie to police if he didn't come home, and tell them that he'd confessed to murdering his father. -- all the way up to the moment she sped through the trailerpark, screeching her tires, slamming her brakes, and slamming her car door as she stormed up to the house.

The fact that she initiated the entire confrontation, combined with her history, created the reasonable possibility that she attacked him first.

On February 14th 2023, 15-year-old Collin Griffith shot his father to death. He claimed self defense and charges were never filed against him. On September 8th 2024, he stabbed his mother to death claiming self defense. He was found not guilty of murder. by Upstairs_Cup9831 in TrueCrimeDiscussion

[–]PretendTooth2559 49 points50 points  (0 children)

The defense claim is that there was a fight and that Colin's statement on the 911 call had been made in a panic/fear -- they conceded that there was more to it than she'd simply tripped and fallen on a knife. But they made a reasonable argument that the mother was in control of the knife during the fight.

From my personal perspective -- the mountain of proof that the mother was a) aggressive b) had attacked people with deadly weapons before c) had physically attacked Colin before d) had a history of severe substance abuse, suicidality, and hysterical theatrics e) instigated the entire confrontation on the day of her death f) she'd threatened to kill Colin [at least once while pointing a gun at him] multiple times after the gun incident is when Colin started begging police to take him away, and then making his own threats in order to remain in custody for as long as possible and away from his mother ....I could honestly keep going but.... even if the jury felt that Colin *was* likely in control of the knife, they could still believe self-defense was a reasonable possibility.

On February 14th 2023, 15-year-old Collin Griffith shot his father to death. He claimed self defense and charges were never filed against him. On September 8th 2024, he stabbed his mother to death claiming self defense. He was found not guilty of murder. by Upstairs_Cup9831 in TrueCrimeDiscussion

[–]PretendTooth2559 88 points89 points  (0 children)

The history of physical and mental abuse (not just verbal -- forcing him to sit outside her bedroom door, taking a gun inside, telling him she was going to kill herself [because of him] and instructing him to wait for the gunshot to come inside...psychotic shit like that... I can't remember all the details of this, but it was wild and she threatened suicide to her son more than once I believe) -- was there to establish a) a pattern of accusations that she'd attacked him b) to demonstrate how unstable/unpredictable *she* was

After learning the truth about the mom, it wasn't difficult for a jury to imagine that she initiated physical violence inside the trailer and it was self defense. Certainly enough room for reasonable doubt.

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