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Jeff posted a new activity comment

Tue, 20 May 2025 17:54:12 +0000

Does money force us to adopt and live by the common industrial value system, where toys and entertainment are valuable and living systems are not?

I don’t know.

I have spent my life in the money system, earning money to feed, house, clothe, and transport myself. In spite of that I don’t share the value system that drives Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos,…

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The Moral Value of Money

“And more importantly, wishing money away hasn’t worked for us. We must learn that money – and our feelings toward it – are not distinct from one another. They are […]

Jeff posted an update: Been quiet here on Jacklowe.com these recent days, best as […]

Sun, 13 Apr 2025 18:23:02 +0000

Been quiet here on Jacklowe.com these recent days, best as I can see.

I’ve been bumbling around with digital radio, which is something of a side road from my intended destination. I’m too lazy to tell the whole story right now.

I quit participating in social media via Bluesky a little while ago. It’s something of a loss, not that I was gaining…

Jeff posted a new activity comment

Fri, 04 Apr 2025 16:20:34 +0000

I’ve heard all this – Richard’s post – before. I’d be ashamed to write something so totally built of bog standard talking points and other people’s ideas.

But aside from that –

It doesn’t matter how humans perceive the glories of technology. It only matters how Earth perceives them.

She doesn’t appear to like them.

Glorious technology has…

In reply to - joethedoomer posted an update

Sorry to do this but how can these people be so fucking stupid?

https://substack.com/@smokingtyger/note/c-105732940

Jeff posted a new activity comment

Sat, 29 Mar 2025 14:48:01 +0000

@Jack I do have to admit that I am working towards being equipped to use “ham over Internet”. Just keying up and talking about nothing in particular with strangers is a learning process, and it’s a way to do it. In the US, and worldwide as far as I have reached or heard yet, the protocols of calling, responding, and choosing safe topics,… Read more

In reply to - Jeff posted an update in the group Ham Radio

As life goes on…

The ham radio journey means a journey into technology funded by money, making me think of my value system, my actions, and my life.

Somewhere at […]

Jeff posted a new activity comment

Fri, 28 Mar 2025 20:49:00 +0000

Hi Joe.

In the US all licenses except the lowest one allow speech on HF, and even the Technician license (entry level license) is permitted to send Morse Code on them. I’m studying Morse Code, and can recognize any letter or number now, but am not fluent enough to actually communicate that way.

That said, I will be taking my test for the…

In reply to - Jeff posted an update in the group Ham Radio

As life goes on…

The ham radio journey means a journey into technology funded by money, making me think of my value system, my actions, and my life.

Somewhere at […]

Jeff posted a new activity comment

Fri, 28 Mar 2025 14:23:33 +0000

Largely unchanged.

First we had to wait for the insurance adjuster – an interesting title – to come adjust our expectations, if any. Pieces have continued to fall off the building, but it’s large, standing there on its back wall, leaning on my faithful male mulberry tree.

We have been given permission – adjusted? – to begin to tear the pieces…

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Photo from my house back window.

That’s my buggy barn.

21st century high energy wind.

Year old buggy barn. The buggies lived.

Jeff posted a new activity comment

Sun, 16 Mar 2025 15:25:57 +0000

Very dramatic indeed.

No people hurt, no animals hurt. We’ve got other damage too. We lost one of three big sliding doors off our machine shed, and it did some fairly severe damage to Hannah’s house but it’s all fixable. We’re going to see an insurance adjuster sooner or later, but it will take a while because there is so much damage regionally.

In reply to - Jeff posted an update

Photo from my house back window.

That’s my buggy barn.

21st century high energy wind.

Year old buggy barn. The buggies lived.

Jeff posted an update: Photo from my house back window.That's my buggy […]

Sat, 15 Mar 2025 16:02:38 +0000

Photo from my house back window.

That’s my buggy barn.

21st century high energy wind.

Year old buggy barn. The buggies lived.

Jeff posted a new activity comment

Fri, 14 Mar 2025 00:37:51 +0000

@Jack That’s the miracle of modern technology you’re seeing there. I snatched those stills out of a video I took while the guys were up there working. 🤣

In reply to - Jeff posted an update in the group Ham Radio

Y’all saw the picture of my original antenna. We knew it wouldn’t last.

Here’s the new one.

Jeff posted a new activity comment

Fri, 07 Mar 2025 17:42:18 +0000

I’m only hearing distant people through the magic of ham / Internet interfacing. Since my ham interests are based partly on a belief that the Internet will be gone soon, but enough technology to produce 12 vdc and radios may last a bit longer, I see the inherent conflict in ham over Internet.

It’s still interesting.

I’m working on my practice…

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I think everyone remembers my first, temporary antenna.

Now I’ve got a real one, courtesy of the young people here on the farm.

Yesterday I was able to make contact with a ham in Chicago, […]

Jeff posted a new activity comment

Fri, 07 Mar 2025 17:37:47 +0000

I’m inclined to find his reasoning hopelessly anthropocentric.

Basically he says, nothing happened until humans were here to notice it.

Then after we had humans, nothing happened until we invented high energy technology.

While I obviously do agree that things are happening faster, I don’t particularly see time as defined by our experiences.

Just…

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Time Is Speeding Up

“All but the most lumpen among us must feel the tug of the transcendental and the transformative”

~ Terence McKenna

Following on from my previous post, I was pleasantly […]

Jeff posted a new activity comment

Tue, 04 Mar 2025 16:30:42 +0000

I love this, but it’s not news to me. For some reason I stumbled onto Hedy Lamar’s history of scientific genius several years ago. What a woman!

In reply to - Jack posted an update in the group Ham Radio THE PIONEERS OF RADIO: HEDY LAMARR – MORE THAN JUST A PRETTY FACE

“But the real revolution came with the advent of digital communication. Frequency-hopping, along […]

Jeff posted a new activity comment

Tue, 04 Mar 2025 16:28:59 +0000

While I acknowledge that the US has always been a fascist state, this is fundamentally different. We’ve never been this particular fascist state before.

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My primary interest these past years – over a decade – has been in trying to make a reasonable case for widespread slowing as a way to address the global ecosystem catastrophe.

I admit […]

Jeff posted an update: I think everyone remembers my first, temporary antenna.

Tue, 04 Mar 2025 16:27:12 +0000

I think everyone remembers my first, temporary antenna.

Now I’ve got a real one, courtesy of the young people here on the farm.

Yesterday I was able to make contact with a ham in Chicago, by connecting through a repeater in Odessa, MO, 21 miles from here as the bird flies.

21 miles isn’t any kind of a stretch, but it’s a first for me and…

Jeff posted a new activity comment

Tue, 04 Mar 2025 16:21:44 +0000

It has indeed been a while. We’ve been away, and I’ve got some stuff I’ll be posting. Good to hear from you.

I noticed it was pretty slow.

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Hello all. It’s been a while.

How are you faring…?

Jeff posted a new activity comment

Sat, 08 Feb 2025 02:07:09 +0000

Peter and I had a severe falling out a few years ago about his insistence on renoobles and manufacturing. I tried to get him to sign up with Slow Down but he wouldn’t have anything to do it, wound up blocking me. Renoobles or nothing.

It’s a shame he doesn’t know who owns the copper mines, lithium mines, and big factories.

I’ve got a better life…

In reply to - Jeff posted an update

My primary interest these past years – over a decade – has been in trying to make a reasonable case for widespread slowing as a way to address the global ecosystem catastrophe.

I admit […]

Jeff posted an update: My primary interest these past years - over a decade - […]

Fri, 07 Feb 2025 16:06:32 +0000

My primary interest these past years – over a decade – has been in trying to make a reasonable case for widespread slowing as a way to address the global ecosystem catastrophe.

I admit that I’ve finally accepted that my efforts have been an unending waste. Living in the US, post coup, is an experience in befuddlement. If I were younger, perhaps…

Jeff posted a new activity comment

Fri, 07 Feb 2025 15:47:46 +0000

@JoeTheDoomer At times. It almost seems like going to a party where everyone else knows each other, but you’ve never been there before .

I’ve talked twice, but mostly I’m still listening. Getting used to the lingo, the topics, the practices.

In reply to - Jeff posted an update

I put a new post on Ham Radio (the group) today.

My call sign came through today.

I am now a legal ham radio operator in the US and globally with the privileges of a Technician (US entry […]

Jeff posted a new activity comment

Fri, 07 Feb 2025 15:45:16 +0000

@JoeTheDoomer I’m not sure I’d go that far.

In reply to - Jeff posted an update in the group Ham Radio

Kilo Foxtrot Zero Tango Delta Tango!!!

I haz a call sign!

I is legal!

KF0TDT

Jeff posted an update: I put a new post on Ham Radio (the group) today.My call […]

Wed, 05 Feb 2025 18:49:52 +0000

I put a new post on Ham Radio (the group) today.

My call sign came through today.

I am now a legal ham radio operator in the US and globally with the privileges of a Technician (US entry level) license.

This is a big deal to me.

KF0TDT

Jeff posted a new activity comment

Wed, 05 Feb 2025 16:08:58 +0000

@JoeTheDoomer I was just saying that very sentence to Cindy. 🤞

In reply to - Jeff posted an update in the group Ham Radio

In the continuing saga…

This week I bought a handheld. Believe me, I am aware of the contradictions in my life. Right now I’m buying technology like there was […]

Jeff posted a new activity comment

Sun, 02 Feb 2025 23:08:42 +0000

I live near / with some people in their 30s. They think it’s weird, but I’m not sure they think it as strongly as I do.

I spend my life going 😳

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Living in the USA is beyond weird these days.

It is my opinion that the ongoing ecosystem collapse which we have been largely ignoring these past couple of decades is directly related to […]

Jeff posted an update: Living in the USA is beyond weird these days.It is […]

Sun, 02 Feb 2025 18:43:54 +0000

Living in the USA is beyond weird these days.

It is my opinion that the ongoing ecosystem collapse which we have been largely ignoring these past couple of decades is directly related to our government/social collapse, but I can’t prove it. I can’t say, “Here’s the cause and effect trail.”

But that’s how I see it.

Jeff posted a new activity comment

Thu, 30 Jan 2025 18:14:38 +0000

Indoor pic is my radio (left box) and 13.8v power supply (right box.) Looking out through the window is my stepladder antenna mast.

I will be installing an extensible mast at the point of the roof peak within a week or two. In the long run it will also support my HF antenna, after I get an HF transceiver. Since I’ve stumbled onto…

In reply to - Jeff posted an update in the group Ham Radio

@Jack asked me for a picture of my ham station so far.

The stepladder is my antenna mast. It’s shorter than the roof, which isn’t ideal (obviously.)

Yaesu (my brand […]

Jeff posted a new activity comment

Tue, 28 Jan 2025 23:49:53 +0000

And we report this shit in the press, and everyone nods and says, “Yes, micro plastics are killing our children, isn’t it a shame we have to have them,” and

It’s really hard not to scream. I mean, just scream.

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Monterey County declares emergency after massive lithium battery plant fire

Our “news” in Blighty is so often US news these days, probably because we’re essentially a US state now (or, at […]

Jeff posted a new activity comment

Tue, 28 Jan 2025 23:47:03 +0000

@dex3703 not to be disputatious, but US media is not about selling advertising. That’s a profitable side hustle.

The purpose of US media is to fill every mind in America with the unadulterated Billionaire Narrative, all day, every day.

He who controls the information controls the society. America is more carefully programmed than North Korea.

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Can we take a moment to acknowledge the pantomime of hypernormalisation?

It’s rare that I absorb mainstream news these days but I do have a regular cursory scan of the headlines across a […]

Jeff posted a new activity comment

Tue, 28 Jan 2025 23:43:13 +0000

This article takes as a given that industrialization was a positive outcome.

Industrialization has killed the ecosystem, the biosphere, the oceans and the sky.

Capitalism makes a few assholes rich to destroy the world.

Industrial Communism spreads the wealth farther and more evenly while destroying the world.

As will soon become obvious,…

In reply to - Jack posted an update How Communism Is Outcompeting Capitalism

“Everything capitalists told you about capitalism was just some bullshit to sell you more capitalism.”

It may be the end of days but that […]

Jeff posted a new activity comment

Wed, 22 Jan 2025 23:24:32 +0000

They cover license terms and renewal options on the Technician test, but they don’t address the “lapsed 30 years ago” case.

They’ve probably got a rule for it, but I don’t know it.

In reply to - Mick posted an update in the group Ham Radio

Inspired by talking to scouts in Australia during a visit to a local ‘Jamboree on the Air’ event, I obtained a full ham license back in 1984 (G4LMP) – when I was but […]

Jeff posted a new activity comment

Tue, 21 Jan 2025 19:37:01 +0000

@Jack I’d heard that line from him a long time ago and it had never slipped my mind.

Since I believe that the entire universe is conscious, as is every component part of it, I’m totally pleased with his reasoning.

That’s also why I think we could make positive changes in the outcomes of our predicament if we chose to. Not that I see…

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The Science Delusion

Love a bit of Sheldrake…

Jeff posted a new activity comment

Tue, 21 Jan 2025 12:49:17 +0000

Me too. I’m strongly inclined to agree with him. “Grant us one miracle…”

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The Science Delusion

Love a bit of Sheldrake…

Jeff posted a new activity comment

Tue, 21 Jan 2025 02:14:53 +0000

Thanks. It’s in the evening, so I won’t know until fairly late. I’m reasonably comfortable. I’ve taken dozens of practice tests.

Now I’m working on Morse Code. Just for fun – and the chance to work across the the ocean with the lowest license.

In reply to - Jack posted an update in the group Ham Radio @JeffTheDonkeyGuy Good luck with your upcoming test, Jeff. Will look forward to hearing how you get on.

Jeff posted an update: The weather here in Misery (Missouri) USA has […]

Tue, 21 Jan 2025 02:11:59 +0000

The weather here in Misery (Missouri) USA has been pre-heating seasonal.

In other words it sucks. Down around 0F every night, sometimes below 0. The donks are in the indoor stall, but it’s not a heated barn. It’s not even a windproof barn, but it’s still better than outside. They all 3 get in that not-very-big room and be alive, and there’s heat…

Jeff posted an update: I'm trying to post this in the Ham Radio group. Today […]

Sat, 18 Jan 2025 21:48:03 +0000

I’m trying to post this in the Ham Radio group.

Today I successfully got 100 on a practice test. First time so far. This pleases me.

Test on Tuesday.

Jeff posted an update: I've been taking the practice tests on the Ham Radio […]

Fri, 17 Jan 2025 21:23:25 +0000

I’ve been taking the practice tests on the Ham Radio Prep course which I’ve been studying. After about 10 attempts, and no score ever below 93%, I’ve still never scored 100. At least one missed question every time.

I mean, it only takes 76% to pass, but I’m annoyed. I expect better of myself.

I’ll get this. Test on Tuesday.

Jeff posted a new activity comment

Fri, 17 Jan 2025 15:13:28 +0000

Excellent. I’m in my morning fog but I’ll get in there when I become functional.

In reply to - Jeff posted an update

We’re evolving Jack’s site. Since we’ve been talking about ham radio some, Jack created a Ham Forum and I created a Ham Group.

This is an invite to all. Right now none of the current […]

Jeff posted a new activity comment

Fri, 17 Jan 2025 02:09:40 +0000

@JoeTheDoomer I’ll be happy to pass, but I expect better of myself than my current results. I need a string of 100s.

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@Jack here’s my current results on my ham license course. I’m not satisfied. I should be getting 100% every time.

Jeff posted an update: We're evolving Jack's site. Since we've been […]

Fri, 17 Jan 2025 01:51:21 +0000

We’re evolving Jack’s site. Since we’ve been talking about ham radio some, Jack created a Ham Forum and I created a Ham Group.

This is an invite to all. Right now none of the current suspects have ham licenses but we’re talking about getting them, so we definitely won’t dazzle you with brilliance.

You know the other half of that line, so -…

Jeff posted a new activity comment

Fri, 17 Jan 2025 01:46:43 +0000

@Jack I created a Ham Radio group. I did all except invite individuals. I’ll do a post instead. I told it we wanted to have a discussion forum but I didn’t do anything to hook it to yours and don’t know what the outcome will be.

In reply to - Jeff to Jack @Jack , I’m not sure I ought to butt in here, but are you aware of, and have you considered, PHPBB for a discussion board for your site? It maintains easily located, threaded conversations, […]

Jeff posted a new activity comment

Thu, 16 Jan 2025 04:08:30 +0000

It’s easy to set up at minimum service levels, all we’d need here. I’ve done it. But its top level of function is amazing. Here’s the oldest RC hobbyist forum in US, runs entirely on it. Humongous operation. https://www.rcgroups.com/forums/index.php

Jeff: @Jack , I'm not sure I ought to butt in here, but are […]

Thu, 16 Jan 2025 04:04:24 +0000

@Jack , I’m not sure I ought to butt in here, but are you aware of, and have you considered, PHPBB for a discussion board for your site? It maintains easily located, threaded conversations, offers quoting – for the kind of conversations we’re developing here it would be slick as a button.

https://www.phpbb.com/

phpbb.com

phpBB • Free and Open Source Forum Software

phpBB is free and open source forum software that is easy to use, powerful, and highly customisable. Our community offers extensive support to end users.

Jeff posted a new activity comment

Thu, 16 Jan 2025 03:59:08 +0000

@Jack It tells me what I’m getting wrong. It’s not all one. Some of them I yell “NOOO” a thousandth of a second after I click the answer.

I’m taking my test next Tuesday.

No equipment yet. There’s a brick-and-mortar ham shop in KC, and I have to go there to the doc on Friday, so I’ll slip out to the brick& mortar and give my money to a human with…

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@Jack here’s my current results on my ham license course. I’m not satisfied. I should be getting 100% every time.

Jeff posted a new activity comment

Wed, 15 Jan 2025 21:48:54 +0000

@dex3703 I’m using Google News and other news aggregators for that purpose. It’s pretty much ATSS. (All the same ..)

In reply to - Jack posted an update

Morning all,

I did quite a big thing yesterday. I deleted my Twitter, Bluesky and Instagram accounts.

I didn’t just delete the apps from my phone, I deleted the accounts — the product of a […]

Jeff posted an update: World's longest Chihuahua.Also has two heads.

Wed, 15 Jan 2025 21:47:20 +0000

World’s longest Chihuahua.

Also has two heads.

Jeff posted a new activity comment

Wed, 15 Jan 2025 17:56:59 +0000

@JoeTheDoomer Thanks. I’ve never seen another set of concrete proposals which would directly reduce emissions, particularly not immediately. How long does it take to remove a dam? Long time. How do you remove a dam? Diesel fuel.

How long does it take to slow down?

Instant.

How do you slow down?

Burn less fuel.

In reply to - Jeff posted an update

Posted a new essay on Substack tonight. https://open.substack.com/pub/mcfaddenj/p/climate-action-2025?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=5w1e7

Jeff: @Jack here's my current results on my ham license […]

Wed, 15 Jan 2025 17:54:47 +0000

@Jack here’s my current results on my ham license course. I’m not satisfied. I should be getting 100% every time.

Jeff posted a new activity comment

Wed, 15 Jan 2025 17:53:34 +0000

Thank you so much, Jack. I really appreciate you.

In reply to - Jeff posted an update

Posted a new essay on Substack tonight. https://open.substack.com/pub/mcfaddenj/p/climate-action-2025?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=5w1e7

Jeff posted a new activity comment

Wed, 15 Jan 2025 06:03:54 +0000

People still writing about 2030 and 2050, what will happen someday, and I’m like, uh, anybody got a window to look out of?

In reply to - Jack posted an update

Slowly slowly the signs become clearer…

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jan/13/uk-faces-broccoli-and-cauliflower-shortage-this-spring

Jeff posted a new activity comment

Wed, 15 Jan 2025 06:02:32 +0000

Yup. I bought a training course that never expires and covers the first two licenses. I’ll be testing for the Technician (level 1 name here) in another week or two. I made my living pushing electrons so most of it is already in my head somewhere, and I’ve got the foundation to learn the rest. I’m enjoying the pursuit.

In reply to - Jeff to Jack

G’ morning, all. Welcome to Sunday, US time.

The snow is slowly melting and the donks are fed.

Recently @Jack & I got into a conversation about ham radio on here, and rather than string this in […]

Jeff posted an update: Posted a new essay on Substack […]

Wed, 15 Jan 2025 05:58:15 +0000

Posted a new essay on Substack tonight. https://open.substack.com/pub/mcfaddenj/p/climate-action-2025?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=5w1e7

open.substack.com

Climate Action 2025

The Way I See It

Jeff posted a new activity comment

Sun, 12 Jan 2025 17:05:45 +0000

Thanks, @Jack . ‘preciate the boost.

As I recall I got kinda grouchy in that one.

In reply to - Jack to Jeff

Keeping millions of people alive

Speaking of Sundays, been recalling this excellent (and entertaining) video of @JeffTheDonkeyGuy commentating during a Sunday drive.

I first saw it around the time […]