The Heir/Tropical Soulvangelical/TSV at least -implied- a followup on that whole End Fossil Fuels thing, since we are still technically in Climate Week. He's disappointed that EFF didn't do the same. They never did come back on newsradio to say something to the effect of, well Joe Biden didn't do X, Y or Z, so now we get to tell people, don't vote for him next year. It's not atypical for TSV to observe that those activist types who berate the general population for its lack of courage fail to demonstrate any on their own part. Was that all just political hype that PR people for EFF behind the scenes went to program directors for newsradio stations to say, listen, we need you to cover our movement, and place the microphone next to people therein who have -very important things- to say about next year's election. TSV doesn't think he necessarily scared them off by proclaiming that they'll regret taking his President away from him if it came to that. TSV is only so small, and is not likely to have exacted the kind of crickets we heard from EFF after Biden went back to Washington. But now TSV gets to turn page to the subject of BBC 4 LW. While he agrees that the BBC needs to stay on longwave to keep people informed both of emergencies but also current events, he doesn't particularly approve of the nibbling around the edges that pro-longwave is trying to use to convince the BBC to stay on longwave. Stuff like, well if you end transmissions or take down the transmitter, it'll cause heating service problems for homes in the area, or maybe precipitate an accidental nuclear attack. It's the same lack of courage TSV saw with EFF, that pro-longwave isn't willing to take the bull by the horns and encourage both licensed and extra-licensed amateurs to do a 'pirate' syndication after the cutoff date, or at least threaten to do so leading up to the cutoff. Though TSV generally encourages amateurs of all stripes to keep it within the law, the situation with BBC longwave he sees as requiring civil disobedience. What he means by pirate syndication is about syndicating BBC 4 from a web stream to a transmission on the longwave frequency, maybe numerously (and surreptitiously) so that some level of comparable coverage is achieved. TSV says to do this after the cutoff, but not yet until then. If Ofcom comes after them for it, TSV thinks the amateurs may have a case in their own defense at least socially, if not legally. Either syndication or for towns and cities to file lawsuits to get BBC 4 back on longwave or stay on longwave. There are options, and they don't involve what TSV sees as immature and immaterial and ultimately uneffective stunts he seeing going on right now.