LOL! The face on the frog is SO apt! I know EXACTLY the feeling.

Thanks for the laugh.

Seems that “masculine leadership” of the kind he espouses has lead to some of the most grievous criminal abuses in history.

You think the ideas for the gas chambers at Auschwitz, Bergen-Belsen, Dachau or Treblinka… hell the entire ideology of the Third Reich wasn’t the fullest expression of “masculine leadership” run amok?

This guy’s a menace to humanity.

…and obviously totally cucked and hating on women because of it.

Pro tip: Starting in mid summer, take each string of lights and stretch it out, hang it across a backyard or along a hall or even just put it up around a room. Let the summer heat, soften the plastic and when you take it down and pack it up after the kinks and coils have loosened, carefully coil it in loops that are 12 to 14 inches across. Tie off with cable ties or pieces of ribbon and lay the coils flat in a box. When you go to use them later, you can hang the coil off an arm and just carefully spool the string out as you go. That way, there’s no spinning, unwinding ball of kinked and curled lights to deal with. Just nice loose coils.

Sause: Art director/decorator for a handful of stores with a background as an IA stagehand… (…whose specialty was working with lighting directors…)

Holy moly! Those Tru-tone bulbs… What I’ve been looking for, for at least a decade. SO MUCH THANKS!!!

:)

001-05-1120 was the number on the fake SS cards that used to be the inserts in wallets that had a clear plastic window for your ID. It is actually a number that the SSA set aside for advertising.

I use it where any business requires a SS number to get services.

It was possible, but both bombs - Fat Man and Little Boy were in the kiloton range of size, and not like the modern nuclear arsenal that are in megatons of size, so the nuclear fallout at the time was much more limited.

Also, given the prevailing winds flow from west to east, much of the radioactive material fell into the Pacific just east of Japan. Now the rampant nuclear testing (once the scientific community worked out that a nuclear detnation would NOT set the atmosphere on fire - like some suspected it might…) which happened in the Pacific and in the Southwestern US during the 50’s and 60’s, was an entirely different animal.

That caused a lot of problems in the US and on the Pacific Islands and atolls downwind.

NGL, dad probably totaly forgot about the event. If it’s one of many “blow ups” they seems to gloss it all over and it fades away.

My own dad separated himself from his family, ran off to California to “find himself” in the early 90’s and died there. Alone. I went out in 2018 to see him one last time and spent 4 days cleaning his filty cottage while he sat in front of his computer and played games. We went out to dinner one of the days I was there and I realized that I no longer knew the man sitting across the table from me. Odd feeling that.

All the love I’d had just had faded away over the years - even before he left, he was notorious for promising to spend time with me and then not showing up. It was always some excuse that he couldn’t make it… 9 times out of 10 it was him just forgetting. It was depressing to be on the end of that indifference, to say the least.

Said my goodbyes and knew that it was the last time I would see him.

Tried several months later to help him get admitted to the VA for medical care and even offered to go out and pick him up and bring him back east to a VA hospital nearby and he made all sorts of excuses. Oh well, I tried.

I miss the man I knew when I was little before my folks got divorced and my mom took me out west… THAT man was long gone by the time I went to live with him for the last three years I was in High School.

I guess what I’m trying to say is that it is okay to be ambivalent or have no feelings whatsoever about your parents after they die. It happens to a lot of people.

Of all my relatives now dead, the ones I cry over mostly are my grandparents. They were way cool and I spent time with them - into my 50’s - so I got to know them as adults, as peers and equals, which is an amazing experience.

Bandcamp to buy from and to find new stuff, I listen to SomaFM which has 30 or so different streams. Right now I’m lo-fi vibing on Tiki Time and listening to Quiet Lagoon by Kenny Sasaki and the Tiki Boys… Delightful on this wretchedly cold night.

Nomark Selects V.1 - I love Amon Tobin!

…your insurance provider is likely to only cover the schedule from the government…

Honestly, I doubt that. Insurers have the actuarial tables which represent the unvarnished, apolitical, straight numbers.

If the actuarials show that there is increased mortality and more importantly for them, increased morbidity (sickness) from not getting vaccinations on schedule, they’ll offer clinics to their members.

(The insurance that comes from my husband’s employer offers vaccine clinics for influenza and covid still, in spite of what the government is spewing.)

They’re not paying attention to the nonsense coming out of the beltway as they’ve got the actual numerical proof of what works and what doesn’t.

Insurance is the ONE industry that doesn’t deal with political fairy tales and governmental opinions.

They don’t give a shit because the numbers don’t lie and their profits are completely tied to them. That is all they look at.

I got a measles booster last spring since I’m old enough to have gotten the older non-viable vaccine from the mid-60’s. The insurance covered it no questions asked.

Again, from now until this malevolently incompetent adminstration is gone, it is imperative for everyone to look historically at what is needed WRT vaccinations and make sure to stay on top of the critical ones.

Just because Secretary Brainworm is saying something and getting others to play “yes man” to his insanity, does not oblige anyone in the public to listen to and obey, the shit they’re currently spewing.

Fuck those morons.

Too fucking bad, cunt.

Rolled his eyes and groaned. Oyyy.

LOL!

Bwahahahah! Oh, I think Beeple’s gonna give Banksy a run for his money!

"…there’s no difference between NFT’s and dog shit "

That’s perfect!

Oh, dear God… I have to send this to my husband! It’s totally his style!

Thanks!

Author Keith Laumer wrote of a form of this in his early 70’s short sci-fi story, Of Death What Dreams. In the story, it was called “Booking the Vistat Run” and it was a gambling option for the ultra wealthy who bet on the lives and deaths of the poor.

Lotsa shit’s coming down that was written about decades ago in various sci-fi stories.

FFS, look at the Star Trek communicators from the 60’s show… and a flip phone.

Damn, this is … hmm. I don’t know… but I do like it!

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Yeah, I hadn’t seen it in a long time. It was much better then I remember. Am thinking of digging out my old 250GB drive from the mid 2000’s and fire it up and see if it still works - I have all the seasons of TOS in SD tucked away. Might be time to rewatch all of them. There’s a few that I want to watch again - Let That Be Your Last Battlefield, Plato’s Stepchildren, and The Children Shall Lead.