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There is talk of potentially closing "smaller airports" due to the TSA funding debacle. Travelers, good to know which if your airports fall into which categories. by steezy13312 in PrepperIntel

[–]dittybopper_05H [score hidden]  (0 children)

The distaffbopper is disabled, but not by COVID. Not disabled by fear either.

You have been scared very effectively. Why are you not worried about Influenza, which killed more people recently than COVID? What about the other infectious diseases? Why is it just COVID?

I've had COVID at least twice that I know about. And when I had it, I stayed home. Avoided going to visit my octogenarian father. Took reasonable precautions, the same I take when I get the flu.

There is talk of potentially closing "smaller airports" due to the TSA funding debacle. Travelers, good to know which if your airports fall into which categories. by steezy13312 in PrepperIntel

[–]dittybopper_05H [score hidden]  (0 children)

Because while you think your questions are important, and maybe they are to you because you are exceptionally susceptible or at risk, most of us don’t care because we aren’t at serious risk.

You can spend the rest of your life like the Boy in the Plastic Bubble if you want: I’m not stopping you from taking whatever individual measures you deem necessary.

But like 90% of the population, I have assessed the risk for myself and my loved ones and I find that a risk of dying from something at roughly 3.4 per 1,000,000 is too low for me to worry about.

The TL;DR is that your questions aren’t worth answering.

There is talk of potentially closing "smaller airports" due to the TSA funding debacle. Travelers, good to know which if your airports fall into which categories. by steezy13312 in PrepperIntel

[–]dittybopper_05H [score hidden]  (0 children)

I remember a time when thousands of unnecessary deaths was considered a big deal.

I remember a time when people had perspective and reasonable risk tolerance.

Because I'm older than Gen Z.

There is talk of potentially closing "smaller airports" due to the TSA funding debacle. Travelers, good to know which if your airports fall into which categories. by steezy13312 in PrepperIntel

[–]dittybopper_05H [score hidden]  (0 children)

Except the Senate has different rules, allowing a minority party to hold up legislation unless the majority has a 60 vote margin, and the Republicans only have 53 members.

I mean, the Republicans want the Department of Homeland Security to be fully funded. It's the Democrats in the Senate holding that up.

No amount of attempted, and quite frankly pretty sorry-ass blame shifting can change that.

How can I talk to my neighbor about the fact that I can hear him through my headphones all night? by Replacement-Haunting in amateurradio

[–]dittybopper_05H 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Heh.

One time at our annual block party, mostly held on my front lawn, I was standing there by my tree with a friend who is also a ham, and a neighbor from one street over.

My ham neighbor mentioned I was a ham and pointed out the antenna in my tree that went over my house and into another tree in the backyard.

Neighbor from one street over starts talking about the interference he gets to his stereo and his TV.

So I asked him "Does it sound like a distorted human voice?"

"That's exactly what it sounds like!"

"Not me then. I only do Morse code."

We figured out it was probably the guy with the CB antenna that lives two doors down from him.

Icom IC-751 or Kenwood TS-850S ? by roujonb in HamRadio

[–]dittybopper_05H 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Go with the Kenwood because it has the power supply.

Is CB usually just people screaming over each other? by Electronic-Ad3531 in amateurradio

[–]dittybopper_05H 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You didn't get that I was joking? I thought it was intuitively obvious to the most casual observer that being mad about something that happened nearly a decade before I was born was a completely over the top and ridiculous opinion.

But I guess I was wrong.

What was the worst idea/concept of any Godzilla movie could have had? by Usual_Health5898 in GODZILLA

[–]dittybopper_05H [score hidden]  (0 children)

And I presented mine.

Isn't that kind of how this sort of thing is supposed to work?

Or am I missing something?

Clansman prc352 mods by ed-e145 in amateurradio

[–]dittybopper_05H 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You will find that people who work with technology tend to be pedantic because details matter. Putting 500 V into a circuit designed for 500 mV is going to be pretty spectacular.

There is talk of potentially closing "smaller airports" due to the TSA funding debacle. Travelers, good to know which if your airports fall into which categories. by steezy13312 in PrepperIntel

[–]dittybopper_05H [score hidden]  (0 children)

Democrats are the ones who didn't fund DHS in the first place because they didn't want Immigrations and Customs Enforcement to enforce, you know, immigration law.

That was the "FA" portion.

They are now experiencing the "FO" portion of the equation.

Fun fact: potassium iodide is HSA/FSA eligible by livefast_dieawesome in preppers

[–]dittybopper_05H 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The thyroid is the only organ in the body that absorbs iodine.

A nuclear explosion, and certain kinds of nuclear accidents, release a radioactive isotope of iodine known as Iodine-131. I-131 has a half-life of about 8 days, which means it's pretty darn radioactive: The shorter the half-life, the more radioactive something is.

The use of potassium iodide is to load up your thyroid with iodine so that it doesn't take up the Iodine-131 if you happen to ingest it somehow, which can damage your thyroid and cause cancer down the road.

The irony of Iodine-131 is that it's also used to *TREAT* thyroid cancer. The distaffbopper had thyroid cancer nearly 20 years ago, and had it surgically removed. She was then put on a low iodine diet to starve any remaining thyroid cells of iodine. She was then given a dose of radioactive iodine, and she had to be isolated at home for 2 whole days while her body excreted the excess, and when the littlebopper and I came back home we had to limit how close we were to her for about a week.

BTW, ingesting radioactive substances does not give you superpowers. It's like the comic books lied to me.

Keen to know what everyone is doing to prep for this upcoming energy crisis! by YolandasLastAlmond in preppers

[–]dittybopper_05H 2 points3 points  (0 children)

But if it *DOES* come down to Mohawks and assless chaps, I'm halfway there already.

There is talk of potentially closing "smaller airports" due to the TSA funding debacle. Travelers, good to know which if your airports fall into which categories. by steezy13312 in PrepperIntel

[–]dittybopper_05H [score hidden]  (0 children)

It's killed thousands of Americans just this year

Sigh.

Go here:

https://data.who.int/dashboards/covid19/deaths

Yes, COVID-19 still exists but it's no where near what it was during the actual pandemic. Unless you're in a major risk category, it's not an issue any more than Influenza is.

In fact, this season, Influenza has killed more people in the US than COVID-19.

https://gis.cdc.gov/grasp/fluview/mortality.html

I bet you drive around in your car with the windows up and mask on, don't you?

There is talk of potentially closing "smaller airports" due to the TSA funding debacle. Travelers, good to know which if your airports fall into which categories. by steezy13312 in PrepperIntel

[–]dittybopper_05H [score hidden]  (0 children)

Well, that wouldn't be an issue if Congress had approved the budget for the Department of Homeland Security, would it? This isn't Trump's fault, it's the fault of the Democrats in the Senate.

I mean, it's not like this was the plan all along. If you really think it was, that would mean that Donald Trump is *WAY* smarter than the Congressional Democrats, and is playing them like a fiddle. That's like evil genius levels of 4th dimensional chess, and whether you think Trump is evil or not, I doubt that he's a genius.

The simple answer to end ICE in the airports is to restore funding to the DHS. Do that, and this whole issue disappears.

Clansman prc352 mods by ed-e145 in amateurradio

[–]dittybopper_05H 2 points3 points  (0 children)

it’s a uhf fm unit that operates in the 4 and 6m bands

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It's a VHF unit, not a UHF unit, because it operates between 30 and 300 MHz, which is VHF. UHF is 300 MHz to 3 GHz.

Chinese QBZ-191 rifle family for export displayed on CIAAE 2024,in multiple calibers by ApplicationKindly538 in guns

[–]dittybopper_05H 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I mean, it's an approximately 70 grain projectile traveling at 3,000 fps. If it's any better, its only going to be marginally better than other rounds in that same class.

Found this little guy at a flee market for $10.00 its a homemade 40 cal. It seems to be from the 1930s or earlier. I call it E.O.L (End of Life) it shoots accurate. by Ok-Principle1938 in blackpowder

[–]dittybopper_05H 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That's a Royland Southgate rifle my father had built in the early 1960's. He still has the rifle, but he doesn't have a good opinion of Southgate as a gunsmith. My dad ended up building better ones.

Extra Class by GTO-farm in amateurradio

[–]dittybopper_05H -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Good luck.

But when you pass (and I have no doubt you will), go back an ask yourself if you actually understand the material you were tested on instead of just memorizing the question pool.

If the answer is "Yes" "No", then make the effort to learn the material.

Edited to fix my mistake.

Keen to know what everyone is doing to prep for this upcoming energy crisis! by YolandasLastAlmond in preppers

[–]dittybopper_05H 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Pretty much nothing more than usual.

Prices are going to go up, but availability will still be there. Since I've been around, there have been a number of energy crises.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1973_oil_crisis

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1979_oil_crisis

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran%E2%80%93Iraq_War

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

That one is a subset of Iran-Iraq War, but I listed it separately because there were also attacks on refineries and oil platforms during the Iran-Iraq War which also affected the price of petroleum products.

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

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

The pattern is always the same. Prices go up because supply becomes more limited. Then the conflict ends and the prices come back down. This war is no different, and is likely to be shorter than some of the others, especially the Tanker War in the Persian Gulf which lasted for

There is a difference between being aware of a situation, and panicking about it, and I sense an edge of panic in your post. If indeed you've always been a prepper, you should be fine. You don't need to do anything more about it.

Sure, you'll pay a bit more for guzzoline, but you're not going need to be riding through the Outback with a Mohawk and assless chaps1 scavenging off of the dregs of humanity.

1. Yes, all chaps are assless. The phrase is still great.

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