Brief moment in history…
I remember reading this tip in a magazine. Instead of having a professional photographer at a wedding, put a disposable camera at every table.
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2·5 months agoA lot of difference between shooting protestors and a nuclear war.
Look at Trump’s big military parade. The Army has crack drill teams, expert parachute units, ace helicopter pilots, and dozens of other impressive troops to put on display. No way is the military going to go to war because Donnie is having a tantrum.
Almost as if the other guy didn’t have access to many, many more weapons and the legal right to shoot you.
The only reason the Americans won is that they had the French Navy on their side.
The French went broke supporting the Americans.
Also, the Brits were willing to cede to the Americans. The Brits kept getting US cotton and they were going to get it cheaper because once the British empire withdrew the Americans could expand into the Native nations the British had treaties with.
It’s not comparable in any way.
What part of ‘armored vehicle’ confused you?
If you think your AR-15 is a match for a full on SWAT team, or an armored vehicle, think again.
This isn’t a video game, and there aren’t any respawns in real life.
Ask the folks at MOVE how well fighting back worked for them.
1·5 months agoAlong the lines of the original post.
Compare Angelina Jolie and Elizabeth Taylor, for example. On paper, Angelina is far wealthier, but in terms of day-to-day lifestyles, they are pretty comparable. Only the 0.01% of multi-billionaires have reaped any rewards.
The inflation in luxury goods is staggering. High school kids used to be able to afford concert tickets, football games, and Broadway plays. That Phantom was a year’s salary for a school teacher; now the most expensive cars are twenty year’s salary. It’s not that the products are so much better; there’s a larger pool of very wealthy people. In 1960, if a man’s wife had a job they were considered ‘poor.’ Today, even professionals need two salaries to keep up with the Joneses
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I’m not much of a fan of ‘inflation calculators.’
According to most of them, $1 million in 1960 is $10 million today. But if you look at the actual prices, it makes no sense. $1 million in 1960 would buy two mansions, a fleet of cars, a nice boat, and you’d have enough left over to invest and have an income for several lifetimes.
If you don’t have a good sized freezer, buy one. There are small ones that fit in any home.
Too many veggies? Chop them up and put them in quart sized containers. You can add them to any soup or stew.
I have a five quart pot; make chili/stew/soup and freeze in pint size containers.
My house has a good freezer, here’s the first i searched out as an example.
The people I rate highest were those who openly said they weren’t going for moral reasons. Muhammed Ali couldn’t fight for years because he had religious reasons the government refused to acknowledge. Others went to Canada or Sweden.
Next are people like Bill Clinton. Had a valid student deferment and talked about how bad the war was.
Further down are people who used legal means, but were silent.
Lowest are people like Bush Jr. who finagled his way into the National Guard [and bailed on his last year] and Trump who lied about his medical condition. Both of these two were happy to have other people die to defend their right to be a rich kid.
1·5 months agoThis is where caring counts. We’ve all seen videos where ‘dad reflexes’ kick in and someone reacts in micro-seconds to save a kid. Medical staff was getting paid to show up and be on stand-by. They were expecting a broken leg, or other trauma.
I’ve never been to a billionaire polo match [sad trumpet] but I’d assume that there be some medical staff, like you’d find at any major sporting event where injury is likely. On the other hand, I could see how the staff was prepared for a broken neck and not considering bee stings. Either way, it’s pretty funny.
Leonard Bernstein has entered the chat…
You know that Trump just told the generals to have ‘a parade.’
Kim or Putin would know exactly which tanks and units he wanted, would have specified how many flyovers, and sweated all the details.
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I can’t remember the author or title of the story.
Napoleon wants to give his enemies false information, so he picks a courier who looks bold and dashing, but has a reputation for being a complete fuck up.
The idiot manages to fumble his way past a dozen patrols and deliver the orders.
Exactly what they didn’t want.
332·5 months ago“Well structured query” is what got me.
If I read up on a subject for two hours, chances are I am going to learn things that have nothing to do with the original problem.
I lived in New York City on 9/11/2001.
The Village Voice was a weekly ‘alternative’ newspaper that covered politics, culture, and the arts.
The pot smoking hippies ran dozens of predictions of what would happen. that included two cartoons.
One showed Dubya as Mickey Mouse. the sorcerer’s apprentice was chopping up a broom that looked like Sadam, and getting a million little brooms that looked like bin Ladn. The other was a buddy cop movie where Sadam and bin-Ladn are forced to work together, and eventually learn from each other