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@MatejLach @erosdiscordia If you look at the Labour Party in Norway, their positions have also moved further to the center. The Labour Party basically implemented New Public Management in Norway during the 1990s, an idea they apparently got from Margaret Thatcher. But they still have what I'd call a leftist profile, in the sense that they like to accuse the other side of wanting things that right wingers want, even if they'd do exactly the same thing if they were in government...

@MatejLach @erosdiscordia To say it differently: "Ah, yes, America, that's how it works there. It's a different culture."

@MatejLach @erosdiscordia In the context of US politics, it's right wing. In the context of EU politics, that's a typical populist/extreme right wing stance. I just accept these as different planets instead of trying to define it on the same scale. I'd have to accept this shift of thinking if I was going to live in the United States. You have to operate within the room you've been given.

@MatejLach @erosdiscordia In that context, I'd consider them to have taken a reasonably bold leftist stance, because the same person might've taken an even stronger leftist stance if society had allowed for it. People's minds shift based on standards. People define themselves by comparing themselves to other people.

@MatejLach @marsxyz @erosdiscordia The reason it doesn't make much sense to use an absolute definition of left and right becomes evident if you look at the reactionary vs progressive axis. Young progressives often become old reactionaries because the goalposts moved. If the status quo moves left or right, the parties will readjust themselves. The status quo helps define what's politically realistic to accomplish, and what's acceptable to say.

@MatejLach @erosdiscordia I don't think it makes sense to use an absolute scale. The more important question is which direction a party is trying to pull the country in. As far as I can tell, the US left is still trying to pull left, but since the status quo is further right, the starting point is different.

@MatejLach @marsxyz @erosdiscordia It's single payer but they're trying to reduce how much is spent on it basically, and trying to shrink the size of government. They don't necessarily TALK very loudly about this, but they like to sneak it into the budgets...

@MatejLach @marsxyz @erosdiscordia No, but one thing you do see the European right wingers do a fair bit is try to privatise the health sector, or to cut the budgets. There's this idea that you can get health services cheaper if there's free market competition, and then you can cut taxes. I mean, it's the typical right winger thing...

@MatejLach @erosdiscordia Things like gay rights are typical US liberal causes, right? I mean, those are typical European leftist causes too. Granted, few actually oppose such rights in the first place, but the right wing is rarely at the forefront of social change. Progressivism seems to be mainly for the leftists or center-left, no matter which continent you're on.

@MatejLach @erosdiscordia Universal healthcare is a clearly identifiable leftist policy, isn't it? Granted, the implementation doesn't look anything like the version we have in Europe, but that wasn't possible to do within the American system anyway...

@erosdiscordia @MatejLach I frankly don't know what I would've done if faced with the choice between Trump and Clinton in 2016, apart from wasting my vote on a third party candidate. I think the only thing I'd know for certain is that, given the state of the union, I would perhaps be looking for a person who could shake things up a bit, since Obama didn't really deliver on that promise. Clinton wasn't that person, but Trump? Uhh, maybe I would've just stayed home...

@erosdiscordia @MatejLach You know, I never asked myself what I'd vote for if I was constrained to only two parties on opposite extremes of the political spectrum. As a Norwegian and a centrist, I'm spoiled. Not only are there bona fide centrist parties with reps in parliament; the traditional social-democrat and conservative parties are pretty close to centre too.

@Ricardus This is the JFET for the capsule, right? That's where you'd typically use a JFET.

The digital volume controller I'm using for my project has +/- 1 dB steps. I think that's going to produce audible clicks.

Could I eliminate the clicks using noise shaping? If the transition looks like a PWM going from a 0% duty cycle to a 100% duty cycle and the base frequency is above 20 kHz, won't that basically be inaudible?

The only unknown is wether the volume controller is fast enough for that. Anybody know how high you can typically clock an I2C bus against a modern chip?

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@Ricardus JFET for UHF/VHF amplification? Why that one in particular?

@Ricardus What kind of transistors?

@Ricardus It struck me as oddly specific. A lot of people had oddly specific things they wanted to bring into the party program. The whole party was full of people with pet peeves and odd quirks, but very few people with vision.

@Ricardus *we were trying to widen