Onno (VK6FLAB)

Anything and everything Amateur Radio and beyond. Heavily into Open Source and SDR, working on a multi band monitor and transmitter.

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  • Onno (VK6FLAB)@lemmy.radiotoDad Jokes@lemmy.worldTalking about sexuality
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    Trying to Explain my Sexuality to my Dad

    Me: Okay, so I would identify as bisexual.

    Dad: And that means you would have a male partner.

    Me: Yep.

    Dad: Or a female partner.

    Me: Yep.

    Dad: And that means you’re bi.

    Me: Yep.

    Dad: So that means if you don’t find a partner you’re on standbi?

    Me:

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    Me: Did you just

    #bisexual #lgbtq+ #convo with my dad #conversation #my dad is amazing

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  • A Statement From Linda Ronstadt

    Sept. II, 2024

    San Francisco

    Donald Trump is holding a rally on Thursday in a rented hall in my hometown, Tucson. I would prefer to ignore that sad fact. But since the building has my name on it. I need to say something.

    It saddens me to see the former President bring his hate show to Tucson, a town with deep Mexican-American roots and a joyful. tolerant spirit.

    I don’t just deplore his toxic politics, his hatred of women. immigrants and people of color, his criminality, dishonesty and ignorance although there’s that.

    For me it comes down to this: In Nogales and across the southern border, the Trump Administration systematically ripped apart migrant families seeking asylum. Family separation made orphans of thousands of little children and babies, and brutalized their desperate mothers and fathers. It remains a humanitarian catastrophe that Physicians for Human Rights said met the criteria for torture.

    There is no forgiving or forgetting the heartbreak he caused.

    Trump first ran for President warning about rapists coming in from Mexico. I’m worried about keeping the rapist out of the White House.

    Linda Ronstadt

    P.S. to J.D. Vance:

    I raised two adopted children in Tucson as a single mom. They are both grown and living in their own houses. I live with a cat. Am I half a childless cat lady because I’m unmarried and didn’t give birth to my kids? Call me what you want, but this cat lady will be voting proudly in November for Kamala Harris and Tim Walz.

    Link Ronstadt


  • As an end user, ie. not someone who either hosts an instance or has extra permissions, can we in anyway see who voted on a post or comment?

    I’m asking because over the time I’ve been here, I’ve noticed that many, but not all, posts or comments attract a solitary down vote.

    I see this type of thing all over the place. Sometimes it’s two down votes, indicating that it happens more than once.

    I note that human behaviour might explain this to some extent, but the voting happens almost immediately, in the face of either no response, or positive interactions.

    Feels a lot like the Reddit down vote bots.




  • I experienced this crazy onslaught of advertising to the point of reducing how much I watched YouTube. I was pretty upset and not at all inclined to pay, especially since YouTube was even putting ads on my own videos without me seeing a single cent, because my channel is too small.

    Then my partner bought me a few months of a Premium Subscription as a Christmas gift.

    It was pointed out to me that I watched more YouTube than any other streaming service which I was paying for.

    Combined with background music on mobile, it’s changed my life.

    I’m still unimpressed with the business model, but the alternative is so far worse.

    Find me a self publishing video platform with the reach of YouTube that doesn’t require self hosting and I’ll happily move my content there.