The official position of the government is that the war ended on June 17th. Ignore the fact that we are still participating in a war.

Using a direct link stopped working today and redirects to your subscriptions. The only reason I looked at Reddit was to go to r/all and sort by new to see what was out there.

In emergency situations the benefit is range. You can broadcast further and reach more areas with one station.

Many things are more expensive. Boomers can watch Fox talk about which politician to blame. I’ll stick to blaming the CEOs

Hopefully a non-profit industry group will form and keep it going. This is one where government standardization helps but there are still other ways to make progress.

That used to be true in the area. My family has lived there for generations. It has seen a lot of change and now it’s full of tourists and cabin rentals. It used to be very remote and disconnected from Atlanta but a governor from the area built a nice highway to get people to the mountains and it isn’t all locals now. A lot of people retire there and begin demanding changes to laws. You may be right about a squabble though, mountain towns have family fights that go on for decades.