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You can buy premade nodes on AliExpress or Etsy that are easy to use and portable. Pair it to your phone and start war driving.

Now that I live in a dense urban city, the number of nodes is wild.

Only due to Senate rules that they regularly like to blow up, but in this situation have decided that Senate rules are suddenly sacrosanct. Normally, they can only use reconciliation on a budget item once per year, per Senate rules, and they used that to pass One Beautiful Bill. They could nuke the rule and then do it as often as they like, but now they're suddenly institutionalists?

I have a lot of obscure interests, but not as obscure as yours.

• Finding former Pizza Huts in North America. It's just such an iconic building design. There's a documentary out now on them, but I've been fascinated for almost a decade now.

• Meshtastic

• John le Carré novels. He was huge decades ago, but basically nobody knows the name now besides Boomers and genre fans.

Many of the free tier streaming services are packed with this content. Tubi, Roku, Plex Movies & TV, Google TV.

Recently started We Were Eight Years in Power by Ta-Nehisi Coates. It feels quite apt in the current moment.

Germanic/Nordic name. I'm an American. The name sounds like it comes from my European heritage, but it has no family history, just randomly selected. And my spelling is less common in America, which has led to a lifetime of having to spell it out or correct when it has been mistranscribed (literally, people would read it from a paper and transcribe it wrong when typing it).

Now that I live in the Netherlands, at least there are no transcription errors. People are less unfamiliar with my spelling here

With sharpie

Sells company to a big evil corporation. Complains when corporation does evil things.

Don't worry, soon your internet presence on every web site will have to be linked to your real identity, for the children or something

Trump is already drafting Poland's expulsion from NATO

I just finished The Man in the Rubber Mask by Robert Llewelyn. Nothing I would recommend to non-fans of Red Dwarf, but it's pleasantly readable

Now I'm reading Small Gods by Terry Pratchett. It's amusing, has decent world building, but it reads like it was written by or for someone with ADHD - scenes are so short and jump around, it's kind of frustrating.