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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  • Mathematics and Politics.

    There are many more people who are “working class” than rich. The argument is that if you take some money from a lot of people, you get more money than if you take a lot of money from some people.

    There’s also the argument that if everyone pitches in, the overall burden for each individual is less.

    What this fails to address is that the richer you are, the more you can play with your money and end up with nothing to tax. This is why the rich get richer and the rest of us don’t.

    Running through all that is a thing called “trickle down economics” which claims that the money from the rich ends up in society, but recent reviews of this have proven this to be nonsense. Politicians use this as an argument for the status quo.

    Finally, the rich shape the narrative. Politicians are essentially elected by the rich through their manipulation of the story through their media empires and social media platforms.





  • I’ve done all of these and now get minimal junk mail in the letter box.

    • Contact your municipality and explain the situation and ask for their advice.
    • Contact the people delivering the mail and ask them for advice.
    • Contact your local gardening centre and ask them if they want paper for composting.
    • Put up a no junk mail sign, then contact the companies who are still arriving in your letter box and share your thoughts about their uninvited junk mail. In Australia the last mile delivery of junk mail is often done by one or two companies who don’t want to get a bad name for ignoring your sign.









  • 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