Hi. The formulas used to calculate radio station field strengths are not a matter of "1 Unicorn + 1 Unicorn = 2 Unicorns." They are matters of real-world importance -- such as serving a community without interference, and emergency communications -- and measurable results. Wealth on the order of millions, and millions of lives, are on the line every day based on those formulas, and some of our best minds determined their validity to a high degree accuracy. I have taken probably thousands of field strength readings of broadcast stations, and I can assure you that the formulas, which include terms based on the curvature of the Earth's surface, are valid 100 per cent. of the time. Light waves behave similarly. As far as many ancient people believing in a "flat Earth," so what? Most people have always believed in a grab bag of preposterous fictions, and there's little that can be done about that. When I say that _we_ have known about the Earth's sphericity since Eratosthenes' great experiment, "we" does not refer to the great unwashed, many of whom still believe in demons and witches, but to the those who make it their business to know, whose moral compass leads them to approach the truth as closely as possible, and who make high culture possible.

There are still many mysteries at the edges of our knowledge, as for example in the behavior of light, which can be explained as either particles or waves, without either seeming completely satisfactory. We are bumping up against the underlying structure of reality, and against the limits of our ability to know. It gives a feeling of awe.

I rather like Ibsen's take: "The minority is sometimes right, and the majority is always wrong." He was exaggerating, of course, but only slightly.

I worked for decades as a broadcast engineer. The formulas we use to determine the coverage of radio stations work perfectly, and are based on (among other things) the sphericity of the Earth. If the Earth were flat, FM stations from Tasmania could be heard routinely and clearly in the Hollywood hills. We've known about the sphericity of the Earth since Eratosthenes' intelligent experiments 2200 years ago. When the Christians burned the great libraries and philosophic schools, they imposed vulgar Semitic fables on us, such as the "flat Earth." The rediscovery of European science and natural philosophy in the Renaissance got people thinking again, with Columbus's and Magellan's great voyages among the results. Every single radio station in the world, and there are tens of thousands of them, proves that the Earth is a sphere -- as does even the most basic understanding of our intellectual heritage.

And if you rent, you're paying all of that for your landlord. So is an escape from all this even possible?

Thanks for the hard work and truth-telling. Come back as the spirit moves you. There is much on Nostr that is close to unique and lives only tenuously elsewhere, half a whim and a quarter inch away from Jewish censorship.

Yandex isn't bad. Honestly, just looking at what others have created with Midjourney is a pretty good, if artificial, alternative.

Of course it's an ethnicity vastly different from Australians who are doing it to us, and it isn't just anime -- but this is indeed what is happening. Evil forces are redirecting the sexual instincts of White people into directions that do not produce White children.

A simple program in BASIC that mines Bitcoin and also takes over the world.

Just looking at them and thinking about them, you feel like you're bumping up against the unknown structure of the Universe.