PNC 05/18/2025

PNC Meeting Minutes: May 18th, 2025

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May 18th, 2025

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May 18 20:32:14 DreadPirateDre1 (~u@j87smhr6mhec6.PirateIRC) has joined May 18 20:32:30 DreadPirateDre1 has quit (Quit) May 18 20:49:36 Wanda-FL (~u@itaxzayh2ykxe.PirateIRC) has joined May 18 20:54:47 DreadPirateDrew (~u@j87smhr6mhec6.PirateIRC) has joined May 18 20:54:58 <DreadPirateDrew>ahoy! May 18 20:55:29 <Wanda-FL>ahoy May 18 20:55:55 Marsipann (~u@eng8bu6qtpxnc.PirateIRC) has joined May 18 20:56:04 <Marsipann>hola May 18 20:56:39 <Wanda-FL>omg hi Mars :D May 18 20:56:53 sienderish (~u@frci448j2ugnk.PirateIRC) has joined May 18 20:57:10 BlaseHenryAZ (~u@u9tw4tj8wbh5a.PirateIRC) has joined May 18 20:57:31 <BlaseHenryAZ> Ahoy! May 18 20:58:07 <sienderish> hello all May 18 20:58:27 <NomadOfNorad> Ahoy ye matees May 18 20:59:01 <Ty--> Ahoy May 18 20:59:42 LightRider (~u@pyjchf6nmw6kg.PirateIRC) has joined May 18 21:00:14 <DreadPirateDrew>ok well I suppose we can start with ID's. Drew Bingaman USPP Captain May 18 21:00:29 <Ty-->Ty Clifford, USPP VC / WV Observer May 18 21:00:35 <Wanda-FL>Wanda Ward, FLPP May 18 21:00:38 <LightRider>Frank Flores, TX Rep May 18 21:00:45 <NomadOfNorad>David Hall, Florida rep May 18 21:01:00 <Marsipann>Mars B, OH Observer May 18 21:01:09 <BlaseHenryAZ>Blase Henry, Arizona May 18 21:01:13 <sienderish>Jack Leisey, PA May 18 21:01:36 <Ty--> new faces. : ) 🏴‍☠️ May 18 21:01:53 <DreadPirateDrew>great thanks, any reports, updates, announcements? May 18 21:02:06 mrstove (~u@fy2rsrueawiqc.PirateIRC) has joined May 18 21:03:04 <mrstove>mr stove is from grumpy Ohio land May 18 21:03:19 <Ty--> The nominations poll seems to have stopped at 40 responses. May 18 21:03:47 <Wanda-FL>Do we have noms for everything now? May 18 21:04:23 <DreadPirateDrew>Mitch was collecting them does anyone else know? May 18 21:04:34 pmchi (~u@9d4icj5rm277u.PirateIRC) has joined May 18 21:04:39 <Wanda-FL>speak of the devil May 18 21:04:41 <pmchi> Ahoy May 18 21:04:44 <pmchi> ! May 18 21:04:49 <Wanda-FL>lol May 18 21:04:50 <Ty-->It appears so May 18 21:04:57 <DreadPirateDrew>perfect May 18 21:05:05 <Ty-->unless I am misreading May 18 21:05:31 <Ty-->We even have a few for Young Pirates May 18 21:05:57 <pmchi> Mitch Davilo, Chicagoland/ILPP May 18 21:06:41 <DreadPirateDrew>any other updates or news? May 18 21:07:11 <Ty-->Not here May 18 21:07:14 <pmchi> Speech for 50501 in Quincy went over well! It was nice to be able to speak on the Pirate Party and get a positive response May 18 21:07:47 <Ty-->nice May 18 21:08:20 <LightRider>Awesome May 18 21:10:57 <pmchi> Nothing of note otherwise May 18 21:11:07 <DreadPirateDrew> several of the people I met last night are into protesting and having more events in my area so that could be cool May 18 21:11:53 <Wanda-FL> Nice to see some AZ and OH folks here May 18 21:12:19 <mrstove> Heh. I like the "do what they told ya" song. May 18 21:13:40 <DreadPirateDrew> old school RATM May 18 21:14:15 <BlaseHenryAZ> Always nice to be here May 18 21:14:51 <DreadPirateDrew> is there any pending business? May 18 21:17:09 <pmchi> I’m sure it was discussed before I got here (based on context clues), but how were the nominations looking? May 18 21:17:27 <NomadOfNorad> 40 people on it, I gather May 18 21:17:41 <pmchi> Do we have acceptances for every position? Ie, at least one nominee who accepted the nomination? May 18 21:18:27 <NomadOfNorad> ....or rather 40 responses May 18 21:18:52 <pmchi> 40 is a nice number. I’ll pump the response form tomorrow to see if we can get more responses May 18 21:19:08 <Ty--> I sent them to you, pmchi. May 18 21:19:31 <Ty--> as of 5-18 May 18 21:19:33 <pmchi> Most excellent thank you May 18 21:20:01 * NomadOfNorad plays an air-guitar May 18 21:20:49 <pmchi> Might I ask, if answerable: any updates on the location of the conference? May 18 21:22:16 <DreadPirateDrew> I haven't heard from Darren. I will try to follow up with him this week May 18 21:22:52 <pmchi> Perfecto May 18 21:23:06 <pmchi> Otherwise Drew, I just wanted to say: May 18 21:23:22 <pmchi> I’m proud being a member of the United States Pirate Party May 18 21:23:30 <pmchi> We believe the US should be a good neighbor May 18 21:23:37 <pmchi> We believe in keeping our waters clean May 18 21:23:52 <pmchi> And we believe that if purchasing isn’t ownership, then piracy isn’t theft May 18 21:23:56 <pmchi> And I think that’s neat May 18 21:24:00 <pmchi> Motion to adjourn May 18 21:24:25 <mrstove> I did water monitoring in VA, the testing is easy to force a consultant to falsify May 18 21:24:48 <mrstove> second May 18 21:24:54 <Marsipann> third May 18 21:24:59 <DreadPirateDrew> all in favor say aye May 18 21:25:14 <sienderish> aye May 18 21:25:16 <LightRider> aye May 18 21:25:20 <Wanda-FL> aye May 18 21:25:25 <mrstove> party on discord?? May 18 21:25:27 <BlaseHenryAZ> aye May 18 21:25:50 <LightRider> Capitalism is destroying everything May 18 21:26:03 <DreadPirateDrew> looks good to me. we will be on Jitsi next week. May 18 21:26:24 <sienderish> great, nice meeting you all. nice being here to watch all of this. May 18 21:27:13 <LightRider> Adios May 18 21:27:17 * LightRider (~u@pyjchf6nmw6kg.PirateIRC) has left May 18 21:27:43 * Wanda-FL (~u@itaxzayh2ykxe.PirateIRC) has left May 18 21:27:49 * sienderish has quit (connection closed) May 18 21:27:52 * BlaseHenryAZ has quit (connection closed) May 18 21:28:18 * mrstove (~u@fy2rsrueawiqc.PirateIRC) has left May 18 21:30:09 * DreadPirateDrew has quit (Quit) May 18 21:40:36 * tjcrowley (~u@wsanfwse4fp94.PirateIRC) has joined May 18 22:30:05 * Marsipann has quit (connection closed) May 18 23:34:26 * pmchi has quit (Quit: Connection closed for inactivity)