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So yesterday I received my new very portable Short Wave radio (SWL, only). I was playing around and setting some of the 550 presets (like two or three per band, including the time signal).
A fair number of the national broadcasts are gone (my main interest)
Anyway - back to the story. The voices - so countrified (by design?)
- preaching their idea of the word of deity (and how all others will be damned in hell)
- right-wing politics, conspiracy theories, and anti-vaccination comments.
- proper interpretations of scientific data (and more coverups).
- New feature: everyone's got a website and email.
And everyone's selling stuff (prayer shawls, paid-casts, books,etc. A general testimony to the verification that the supply of morons is not only substantial but persistent, as well. I'm not sure how this fits in with Darwin, evolution, and survival of the fittest(maybe that's why they know Darwin's work is a fraud!).
There are AM (=MW) and FM radio bands, too . . . so it will be useful for quite some time.
Pretty much the same offerings as ever, minus some of the more useful broadcasts. These SW voices broadcast, and for all they know, they're talking to no one. The denial of reality now dominates the radio bands like never before. They must 'know something' - for one cannot be a successful con-man without knowing something.
One cannot help but keep coming back to the thought that these voices understand the pulse of the teaming herds and unwashed masses. Endlessly sowing distrust and fear.
Wherever you are, it is time for you to say: "It can happen here"
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So ... basically what you're saying is "radio has become the same as TV but without the pictures"?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Actually, the internet has become more like radio.
Lot's of fake news sent out by anyone who wants to send out anything.
A decent potential that no one is every going to look at whatever you do.
Dumbing down of the interfaces to keep the moron-pond well stocked.
Yup - social networking on the internet - just pixilated[^]* radio.
* This can be worked into a TOTD
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| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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Wait! Radio is still a thing?
In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem. ~ Ronald Reagan
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"Talk hard!" -- Pump Up the Volume
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There's nothing more scary than group-think insanity clubs - especially when they've got imaginary beings om their side.
Slogans aren't solutions.
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A programming language is a tool; nothing more, nothing less.
But we have 'group-think insanity clubs' here that bash programming languages because it is 'the thing to do'... what's the difference?
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In terms of process, very little. In terms of body-count, a hell of a lot.
Slogans aren't solutions.
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W∴ Balboos wrote: "It can happen here"
It is happening here. 
Marc
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Oh, you poor deluded fool. 
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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W∴ Balboos wrote: A fair number of the national broadcasts are gone (my main interest)
 Radio Australia shut down its last SW transmitters in the last few days. Radio Australia - Wikipedia[^] I remember visiting the Shepparton transmitters with a WIA SWL group in about 1961. You could hear a very distorted program coming from the huge modulation transformers.
Cheers,
Peter
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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Fruitless point about fast lover (9)
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Scrotums!
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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Wouldn't that be scrota? Not quite the intended answer either way. 
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Worthless?
"It is easy to decipher extraterrestrial signals after deciphering Javascript and VB6 themselves.", ISanti[ ^]
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No - kind of on the wrong track (but at least it has 9 letters, relates to the clue in some way and is devoid of mildly inappropriate anatomical references - so you're technically in the lead!)
Slogans aren't solutions.
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Infertile???
cheers,
Super
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Too much of good is bad,mix some evil in it
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Not that I'm aware of 
I think like lw@zi's answer, it's taking the clue in the wrong direction.
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detonator
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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That one, you might have to explain to me.
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Somewhat more reliable than that - hopefully.
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The (almost seasonal) solution:
Fruitless = VAIN
Point = E(ast)
= VAINE with "fast" stuck in the middle.
Fast = LENT
Giving us a lover, our VA-LENT-INE (who may or may not have a scrotum depending on our preferences; may or not be infertile; may or may not be worthless and may possibly drive an Italian car).
I'll do an easier one on Monday.
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Minuteman?
if (Object.DividedByZero == true) { Universe.Implode(); }
Meus ratio ex fortis machina. Simplicitatis de formae ac munus. -Foothill, 2016
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