I think FRS is the only thing legally available without a license. You can buy GMRS radios on Amazon that will communicate with FRS radios on all of the FRS channels, see here:

https://wiki.radioreference.com/index.php/FRS/GMRS_combined_channel_chart

However, these radios are VERY limited in an urban area with lots of concrete towers. In my experience the GMRS radios on “high power” really only go one little valley over out in the woods. In the city you might get two or three blocks because of all the concrete. You are required to have a license to use GMRS and identify your station every 15 minutes but almost nobody does it. Hell, I listen to the local walmart using GMRS and you’re not even supposed to use it for commercial purposes.

Maybe Meshtastic? That’s a radio I haven’t messed with and I don’t know about it’s performance in an urban environment.

Ear piece highly recommended. The audio is not like a phone call and in a loud environment you will not be able to copy. Practice beforehand because radio is not like a phone call, you need to have some experience.

Isn’t that what they did if you didn’t want their soft power?

Those who cannot play the sport any more may coach

not plural beans anyway. we like to be monogamous in my house.

just please one bean, thank you.

but if you can find one that wants other beans, more power to you.

That is true, and bought us significant soft power

But for me, knowing that the USA did the Iran and CIA stuff while the USSR did Afghanistan and KGB stuff is enough for me to decide both were elitist assholes that didn’t care for normal humans but just wanted to increase their own power.

That’s actually a pretty solid take from what I know about it. Both powers were being total assholes and wanted control over as much of the world as they could get. USA had strong weapons power but USSR had strong soft power, bringing social programs to people who desperately needed them. Roads and bridges and such.

while Russia was the aggressor in Cuba and arguably in Afghanistan

Fucking pardon me? Russia literally tried to take over Afghanistan after the US gave them weapons to protect them from Russia.

“We are not afraid of the Russians, but we are afraid of their helicopters.”

– Some Afghani

edit: I’d say that the USSR wasn’t really the aggressor in Cuba, that was Fidel and his cohort. Castro literally reached out to the Soviets because he needed help after his revolution.

fucking lol. lmao even.

I hate the three letter club so much

DING!

One point to Aussiemandeus

cruising, eh?

NO, baaaaad ape. Me better you no good. I win you lose whyareyoulikethis. No. bad ape. Existence is suffering.

Like that?

I’m pretty sure that was Bukowski

Says you

Well, your handle is Dr. Wesker so that tracks

I could kick a bunnies ass.

Yeah, but the problem is, the airplanes don’t. The company didn’t think it would be a problem and now it’s a fucking problem.

This can cause a cascade of particles to rain down through our atmosphere, like throwing marbles across a table.

Fucking pardon me? I’m no rocket surgeon but that’s not how it works.

Neither college communists nor queer indigenous feminists think they could ever be assigned to latrine duty

I disagree. look at the failed states right now. USD and precious metals are the most valued means of trade.

Yeah, I know. I have what many would consider an absurd amount of rice and beans and salt so it makes sense to store something that won’t go bad. Gold never spoils. Never.