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In the summer you could theoretically station-keep a few of these over a city for a few hours at least with proper wind and lift gas planning. Could be enough to fly a stripped town T1000e or similar meshtastic relay during a natural disaster

These pico balloons weigh grams.

Yeah, I think ours was less than 10 grams.

As rules go, IIRC at least here in the Czech Republic anything below 100 g is unregulated, you just need to have a licensed amateur radio operator, so that the probe can broadcast in the 20 meter WSPR band under his callsign.


Parent to mine mentioned 4 pounds.

That balloon was several orders is magnitude heavier, pico balloons pose no risk.

Note that there are operators running balloons several orders bigger still, like Aerostar. They're essentially flying mid size satellites


That was a much larger balloon that had sand ballast. The sand was what did the damage

Don't conflate "populace" with "lobbying groups". The populace wants health care and this ain't it.

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Uh, Marx is the one who said "Under no pretext..." but who's keeping score at this point.

Yes, I get that you're trying to express a deeply RWNJ partisan view but as a proud LWNJ I must express that the real world is much more complicated than "commies are nuts yo". Perhaps the issue is rampant authoritarianism?


Who, Mamdani? He's a democratic socialist, not a communist.

It's like you just confused RAM with SSD because they both involve gigabytes.


"If there was any system that could guarantee each person housing, whether you call it the abolition of private property or you call it, you know, just a statewide housing guarantee, it is preferable to what is going on right now.", Mamdani, 2020

"We have to ensure we are unapologetic about our socialism", Mamdani, 2021

"There are also other issues we firmly believe in [...] weather is the end goal of seizing the means of production", Mamdani, 2021

"We will replace the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism.", Mamdani, 2026

It's funny. You people go up in arms calling Elon Musk a fascist because he made a suspicious gesture with his right hand. But, then you have a guy outright telling you he wants to "seize the means of production" and you make excuses on why he is not actually a communist.


> Anna Grzymala-Busse, a Stanford University international studies professor, said that seizing the means of production is a socialist and communist goal. "The difference is that with communism, there is also one ruling party that brooks no opposition and no pluralist civil society," she said.

https://www.politifact.com/article/2025/jul/03/seizing-means...

Collectivism and some amount of state controlled means of production are typical of many leftist systems. America already does this in many places: military, power, education, civil works. Communism stands out among other -isms on the left in that it is single-party and incompatible with democracy.

> suspicious gesture with his right hand

It was a Nazi salute. Don't believe me? Go to a crowded street corner and do the "suspicious gesture," and gauge the reaction.


> "The difference is that with communism, there is also one ruling party that brooks no opposition and no pluralist civil society,"

So, you proved his point.


He doesn't have a point, because he doesn't know how socialism and communism are alike, and how they differ. He's arguing against what he imagined I wrote.

Again, you're just demonstrating that you don't know the definitions, relationships, and differences between, communism and socialism.

Not that anyone defending Musk's nazi salute should be trusted on anything whatsoever.


Yeah article aside, looking back on all the AGI stuff from the last year or so really puts our current moment in protective.

This whole paradigm of AI research is cool and all but it's ultimately a simple machine that probabilistically forms text. It's really good at making stuff that sounds smart but like looking at an AI picture, it falls apart the harder you look at it. It's good at producing stuff that looks like code and often kinda works but based on the other comments in this thread I don't think people really grasp how these models work.


Do you see what's going on around you or do you just stare at pictures of cats on your iPhone™

When you invest you get shares. Shares come with votes. Do you think these people are voting to make your life better or do you think they're voting to arbitrarily raise prices to increase the value of their shares?

No, someone probably setup a fake feeder pretending to be an ADSB receiver.

ADSB sites aren't any sort of official thing. You can send whatever data you want to them. Just because it's there doesn't mean it ever went over the air as an ADSB broadcast.

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