{"id":107,"date":"2023-02-07T04:28:04","date_gmt":"2023-02-07T04:28:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/straightkey.com\/?p=107"},"modified":"2023-02-07T04:28:05","modified_gmt":"2023-02-07T04:28:05","slug":"childish-assholes-local-2m-net","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/straightkey.com\/?p=107","title":{"rendered":"Childish assholes &#8211; local 2m net"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry\">\n\n\n<p>Tonight, as I monitored a local 2m net, the net control decided to bring up the subject of electric vehicles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One of the participants became agitated. He began spouting off about some anti-Biden stuff.  (I have no idea if what he said was accurate or not, it sounded pretty far-fetched &#8211; but that&#8217;s how some of these tin-foil hat types act regardless of the topic).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Don&#8217;t get me wrong I&#8217;m not sold on them myself&#8211;but I&#8217;m also not freaking out about it either.  I think we have a long way to go before our grid can handle everyone charging electric cars, and I&#8217;m concerned about battery replacement costs and the disposal of expended batteries.  Still, I think adult men should be able to converse about the topic without coming to virtual fisticuffs. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When another net member or two offered some reasonable response to the hysterics of the ranter, he began walking over people and shouting childish gibberish. At least I assume it was the same guy. It sounded like him.  This behavior continued for a few minutes, and then the net ended rather awkwardly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is the part of ham radio I wished to avoid and one of the reasons I let my license expire 20 years ago. I just couldn&#8217;t fit into the local groups &#8212; too many &#8220;extra&#8221; crazies who can&#8217;t allow for anyone to have a different opinion. And this behavior tonight was the epitome of childishness. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>No one spoke up and called the guy out, which is disappointing.  That sort of behavior shouldn&#8217;t be tolerated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I guess I shouldn&#8217;t complain so much about old farts exchanging weather and health reports.  <\/p>\n\n\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight, as I monitored a local 2m net, the net control decided to bring up the subject of electric vehicles. One of the participants became agitated. He began spouting off &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-uncategorized","anons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/straightkey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/straightkey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/straightkey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/straightkey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/straightkey.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=107"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/straightkey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":108,"href":"http:\/\/straightkey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107\/revisions\/108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/straightkey.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/straightkey.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/straightkey.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}