And there's a moral dimension to it that the guy in the windbreaker is supposed to be untouchable. If your Feds are going out in tactical gear that implies that the Feds don't expect to control the situation well enough to avoid getting stabbed or shot, & that is itself a failure, ex. Waco.

The answer to both is "Yes". I say this as a proponent of Meshtastic as it is a driver of emergent behavior. I am still strongly encouraging people to experiment with it, and join their local communities, and help the technology grow into whatever it ends up being.

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The default (LongFast / MediumFast etc) channels exist only to shitpost.

Give MediumFast (slot 45) a go, that is what the extended bayme.sh (and several other urban areas) seem to be gravitating toward.