Michael Burkhardt

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I’m received a few electronic QSL cards over the past year, and it seems this form of QSLing has some traction. I *LOVE* exchanging paper QSL cards but I just end up scanning them for display anyway so maybe I should get with the 21st century already.

In any case, today I returned the favor to several hams and I sent several new ones for recent QSOs. Here’s the one I sent my dad.

#AmateurRadio #HamRadio #QSL

Pretty good couple of days on 10m and 15m #FT8. I’ve picked up nine new grid squares in Canada, Mexico, Montana, Brazil, the Azores, France, Germany, and Belgium. #HamRadio #AmateurRadio
Cleaning up my office and came across this QSL card from a 20m SSB QSO on 31 Dec 1999. #Y2K #HamRadio #AmateurRadio
Europe rolling in on 10m #FT8 this morning. I logged a couple of new grid squares in France. #HamRadio #AmateurRadio
Video shows Nashville airport police officer threatening to arrest Southwest customers

In a viral video, a Nashville airport police officer appears to threaten to arrest stranded Southwest Airlines customers on Christmas night.

USA TODAY

#ElonMusk, the #Twitter #whiz.

Cartoon by Pat Bagley.

The history of SWA destruction from within.

/forward ​ What happened to Southwest Airlines? ​ I’ve been a pilot for Southwest Airlines for over 35 years. I’ve given my...

reddit

“Pushing more and more people into homeownership actually undermines our ability to improve housing outcomes for all.”

But that’s America: if there are to be winners there must also be losers.

#housing

https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2022/12/homeownership-real-estate-investment-renting/672511/?utm_source=apple_news

The Homeownership Society Was a Mistake

Real estate should be treated as consumption, not investment.

The Atlantic
I’m proud to say I failed this quiz miserably.
Happy Christmas, tooters.
#ChristmasMovies
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/12/23/movies/holiday-christmas-movie-quiz.html
How Well Do You Know Your Holiday Movies?

Between a murderous Santa wielding a sledgehammer and an elf throwing a rave in a corporate mailroom, Christmas movies seem to get more outlandish every year.

I asked #ChatGPT to write a movie script in the film noir style and this is what I got.

#ArtificialIntelligence
#AI
#OpenAI