Had never heard of this, and my first computer had a tape drive. Went to a tiny computer camp and we had a sweet D&D game, but it took 10-minutes to load, if it didn’t fuck up. Had to start it before our break or we’d only have 5 minutes to play.
Things like this did happen. Read about a spy who was busted eating his pie from the wrong direction. Americans start at the tip, Europeans start at the “back”.
This was WWI or WWII and may be apocryphal.
My kinda dude. Read the article if you haven’t already. He’s going to big events and absolutely cleaning up, literally and figuratively.
I find so much cool shit to upcycle, fix, sell, whatever on the side of the road. Go anywhere humans gather for an event and you can haul home loads of goodies. After the 4th of July fireworks on the river we filled the car with brand new chairs, toys, floaties, all sorts of things.
If I were motivated enough, I could make a living picking trash. Had a friend making $400-$600 a week fixing up trashed washers and dryers after work. Another couple made $400 every other weekend at their garage sale. “We steal our neighbor’s trash and sell it back to them.” LOL, they would roll out at 6AM, twice a week on trash day, fill the truck and give away whatever didn’t sell by 2PM. My wife is clocking $200-$300 for a few hours at the flea market, and we haven’t even got serious yet.
I grab shit on the side of the road. Got two nice ceiling fans for free last week. (Lights stops working because the US required voltage limiter burns. Cut it out, free fan.) I’ve replaced nearly every shitty plumbing and electrical device in the house for free. (OK, the sweet new hall light was $1.) Got two bikes for my kids that will take $100 each in new parts and will end up mostly new. Found two nice carpet cleaners that were used once and tossed, need to clean them and sell. Same place chunked a brand new, white, glass-sided mid-tower with factory and upgraded fans. I can go on forever with these tales. And this is all in my spare time.
I’ve got a truck bed and more worth of cans out back. Maybe worked 4 hours over two years? Almost all of the effort was crushing them by hand since I kept breaking the shitty crushers and been too lazy to make one. And that’s not counting the cans I pick out of the woods, usually toss them with the other garbage I get.
You don’t have milk cartons in your country? Come to think of it, I’m not sure the US does any longer. OJ and other drinks can still be had in cartons.
Even better to my mind. I so love shit that turns back into dirt, like literal shit.
Jesus! I could stuff a hog’s carcass in my overflowing can and they would just dump it and go. They mainly seem to care about car batteries and tires, everything else, fuck it, send it.
We have two competing garbage companies, and they do indeed compete. Score one for capitalism working as intended. OTOH, that’s a lot of wasted gas running by my house several times a week.
I’m with the “cool” company. The CEO shoots straight when he emails us. “Those other assholes are cheating! Here’s what went down at the city council meeting (with proof). Can you believe this shit?!”
“I divide my officers into four classes as follows: the clever, the industrious, the lazy, and the stupid. Each officer always possesses two of these qualities. Those who are clever and industrious I appoint to the General Staff. Use can under certain circumstances be made of those who are stupid and lazy. The man who is clever and lazy qualifies for the highest leadership posts. He has the requisite and the mental clarity for difficult decisions. But whoever is stupid and industrious must be got rid of, for he is too dangerous.”
attributed Kurt von Hammerstein-Equord, 1933; possibly apocryphal
A call from the state labor board is every US employer’s fucking nightmare. If these guys were really doing this, the board would hit them like god’s own hammer. And in Florida at least, the board goes with what the employee says and the employer has to prove otherwise.
Funny thing about rights, you have to know what they are and stand up for them.
Other sites give late 60s. That car screams 50s to me, which was like the Cambrian period for trying stupid shit with cars.
English face:
“I’m supposed to convince people this is a good idea?”
You think that pic post-dates 1974?! Crap. Every day I grow older. Further or closer to god’s light, who can say?
(BTW, the corpsman scene leaves me sobbing, every time, no exceptions.)
Gun related scenes are top notch in John Wick. I love how real shit happens like he loses ammo count or jams, instantly remedies the situation. And believe this, plenty of gun nuts counted for him and I’ve never heard anyone call out an inaccuracy.
Also like how there’s nothing fancy. For example, look at what the The Sommelier recommends; Glock pistols, AR-15 rifle and a Benelli for a shotgun. No idea how Hollywood resisted gimmicky bullshit, but I would have screamed if they came with a funky looking KelTec.
The action, morseo in the first movie, is on the bleeding edge of believable. I’m sure by now everyone who has any interest has seen Keanu practice guns, and before that martial arts for *The Matrix".
Hard to overstate how difficult all that is. Targeting while moving is hell, worst with a pistol, but even a shotgun isn’t much better. Notice how he reloads the shotgun before he’s out of ammo, doesn’t have to pump it? You can do the same with a semi-auto anything, don’t shoot the last round before reloading.
I could train like that for weeks and never come close. I can ping every piece of steel, over and over, but even at a creeping walk? LOL, nope. Fuck me, I can’t even master the violin or combat load with a 12-gauge. Hmmm, I’m off tomorrow and have plenty of shells.
EDIT: Speaking of jams, there’s an unscripted “stovepipe” in The Way of The Gun that Benecio del Toro clears with a textbook move. I’ve managed to do that once I saw it!
VIC-20, my first real girlfriend.
Can’t help but think that’s an in joke for those guys. Or they found the dumb sign and had to strike a pose, like something I would do.
No wonder right leaning instance is just shitposts and memes galore.
A conservative visiting lemmy would say the exact same thing. The difference in my mind is that right-wing memes mostly leave me thinking, “No one says or believes that. Fuck you on about?”
Same thoughts I have talking to conservatives IRL. Having only been presented with the most outlandish fruitcakes, they’ve brainwashed into thinking there are legions of fucking nutcase left-wingers out there.
For left-wingers making fun, yeah, the memes more often reflect what the right actually says and believes.
(Yes, I’m biased, but I try really hard to be objective.)
You talking about young people or old people?
Laughing at y’all who didn’t exist before microwave ovens. Mom used to heat shit up on the stove, for all meals, and grandma was terrified of microwaves, evil radiation machines! Still have dad’s microwave detector from Radio Shack, LOL, like microwaves are ionizing. And BTW, you could use the light bulbs to cook on they were so hot. Tried grabbing a wimpy 60W incandescent lately?
When I was last in Chicago my AC died. I could reach out and feel the incandescent bulb from across my tiny apartment. Imagine using a vacuum and a white-hot filament to achieve light. Step up from a candle I guess.
I imagine explaining to my dad, “Nah, we just leave that light on all the time.”
“Doesn’t that run up the bill?”
“No. Not really.”
While we’re telling voodoo tales, The Case of the 500-Mile Email.