Video: A Matter of Scale - From the SMALLEST to the LARGEST

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You are in the middle of everything in the Universe.
Let us go on a fantastical journey together - to the impossibly small and the incomprehensibly large!

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1
Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Dec 17, 2023 • 11:06:04am

It’s going to rain… a lot for you up north in central California, but also for you in LA.

Down here near the border we’ll get a bit of rain.

Good for the loquats, which recovered given all the rain last winter, compared to years of drought in prior years.

But few loquat trees remain in my neighborhood. Seems like people have cut most of them down.

Sad.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Dec 17, 2023 • 11:06:26am

“His socks are the size of New Jersey and his T-shirts are as big as China!”

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Hecuba's daughter  Dec 17, 2023 • 11:10:49am

Birbie today

Click to Reveal

Wordle 911 3/6

⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜
🟨🟨⬜🟨⬜
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Group: 3,3,4,5

4
retired cynic  Dec 17, 2023 • 11:13:17am

Meet the woman working to stop the far-right creator money machine
Nandini Jammi is fighting to defund right-wing influencers like Alex Jones
wapo.st (gift link)

When Elon Musk reinstated far-right influencer and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones’s account on X on Sunday night, digital marketer and activist Nandini Jammi sprang into action. She posted on X to alert her followers to his return and began monitoring his posts.
“We’ve been working on alerting advertisers to the two platforms where Alex Jones primarily lives, Rumble and Twitter,” Jammi said, using X’s former name. “Alex Jones has proven to be a dangerous conspiracy theorist, and Twitter is reopening a channel for him to earn ad revenue.”

Good Person!!

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wrenchwench  Dec 17, 2023 • 11:22:38am

It’s such a conceit to say, ‘we’re in the middle’. Our ‘middle’ is our Point of View.

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sizzzzlerz  Dec 17, 2023 • 11:23:40am

Pre-dating From the Smallest to the Largest by 46 years, 1977’s Powers of Ten tours the universe at scales from 10-8 meters to 1024 meters. The animation is outdated now but the story it tells is still amazing and impossible to grasp the magnitudes involved.

Powers of Ten™ (1977)

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nines09  Dec 17, 2023 • 11:23:48am

Some 60’s tune are just as good today. Sonny and Cher had great writers and pro musicians. And great producers.
Cher was 18 years old. 1964.
Great sing along.
I was 13.

Off to take care of some things. Have a good one.

“Baby Don’t Go” (extended remix) - Sonny and Cher

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Decatur Deb  Dec 17, 2023 • 11:27:41am

xkcd.com

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Dec 17, 2023 • 11:31:06am

re: #7 nines09

Cher was 18 years old. 1964.


They say we’re young and we don’t know/
we won’t find out until we grow…

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sizzzzlerz  Dec 17, 2023 • 11:32:23am

re: #7 nines09

Some 60’s tune are just as good today. Sonny and Cher had great writers and pro musicians. And great producers.
Cher was 18 years old. 1964.

Much more than some though I must admit Sonny and Cher weren’t on my list. However, I do like I Got You Babe and The Beat Goes On

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wrenchwench  Dec 17, 2023 • 11:40:59am

Mastodon

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Dec 17, 2023 • 11:43:00am

re: #11 wrenchwench

Smart dog. The dog knows what the cat likes.

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retired cynic  Dec 17, 2023 • 11:45:07am

Buried Under the Ice
Scientists came to Greenland on an unprecedented mission to drill for rocks that would reveal the fate of this fast-melting ice sheet.

wapo.st (another gift link!)

This is a really amazing article. If we can do that, surely our best minds can figure out some mitigations.

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goddamnedfrank  Dec 17, 2023 • 11:47:48am

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sagehen  Dec 17, 2023 • 11:54:07am

re: #14 goddamnedfrank

[Embedded content]

The Europeans didn’t “murder their own children just to frame Jews,” priests and monks murdered the children to keep them from telling their parents the priest had raped them. Then the priest blamed the Jews.

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BeenHereAwhile  Dec 17, 2023 • 11:55:46am

Just a bureaucratic oversight:

(no paywall)

Israel Found the Hamas Money Machine Years Ago. Nobody Turned It Off.
Agents worried as millions poured in. Hamas bought weapons and plotted an attack. The authorities now say the money helped lay the groundwork for the Oct. 7 assault on Israel.

nytimes.com

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mmmirele  Dec 17, 2023 • 11:58:14am

re: #6 sizzzzlerz

Pre-dating From the Smallest to the Largest by 46 years, 1977’s Powers of Ten tours the universe at scales from 10-8 meters to 1024 meters. The animation is outdated now but the story it tells is still amazing and impossible to grasp the magnitudes involved.

[Embedded content]

I remember seeing this in Astronomy 301 at UT Austin back in 1980. It blew my socks off.

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darthstar  Dec 17, 2023 • 11:59:25am

re: #14 goddamnedfrank

The only reason anyone goes to that site is to bathe in the hate. It’s not healthy.

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Dangerman  Dec 17, 2023 • 11:59:39am

my head is so heavy

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darthstar  Dec 17, 2023 • 12:00:35pm

Looks like they’re remaking Beverly hills cop, or at least doing a flashback sequel.
It took the entire commercial for me to recognize. Eddie Murphy

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Dec 17, 2023 • 12:02:03pm

re: #19 Dangerman

A very good looking cat.

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mmmirele  Dec 17, 2023 • 12:09:06pm

I can’t call the pastors involved in this the fucking liars who deserve close encounters with an angle grinder on Xitter, because I’d probably get kicked off. But yeah, that’s where we’re at right now.

arkansasonline.com

This is a completely disgusting story!

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Romantic Heretic  Dec 17, 2023 • 12:10:05pm

re: #6 sizzzzlerz

That used to be my favourite display at the Ontario Science Centre.

It’s going to be closed soon. Our dear ‘conservative’ government is planning on selling the land to condo developers.

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Romantic Heretic  Dec 17, 2023 • 12:13:06pm

re: #9 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I always hear the cover of this song by UB40.

UB40 Featuring Chrissie Hynde - I Got You Babe (Official Music Video)

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Romantic Heretic  Dec 17, 2023 • 12:14:55pm

re: #16 BeenHereAwhile

Quelle surprise! //

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Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅  Dec 17, 2023 • 12:21:17pm

re: #19 Dangerman

Void cats are the best.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Dec 17, 2023 • 12:26:08pm

re: #22 mmmirele

Sickening! 🤬

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n 😷 Trips  Dec 17, 2023 • 12:26:17pm

I read that placard as w-w-w-dot-ripoff-dot-org

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Vicious Babushka  Dec 17, 2023 • 12:27:34pm

Mastodon

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Dec 17, 2023 • 12:28:35pm

re: #29 Vicious Babushka

That sounds good and it looks good too.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Dec 17, 2023 • 12:33:25pm

re: #20 darthstar

Looks like they’re remaking Beverly hills cop, or at least doing a flashback sequel.
It took the entire commercial for me to recognize. Eddie Murphy

It’s not a remake, it’s a sequel:

Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F | Official Teaser Trailer | Netflix

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wrenchwench  Dec 17, 2023 • 12:34:05pm

I tried to ID a birb I saw out the window once, and this was as close as I got:

Mastodon

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silverdolphin  Dec 17, 2023 • 12:35:16pm

re: #16 BeenHereAwhile

Just a bureaucratic oversight:

(no paywall)

Israel Found the Hamas Money Machine Years Ago. Nobody Turned It Off.
Agents worried as millions poured in. Hamas bought weapons and plotted an attack. The authorities now say the money helped lay the groundwork for the Oct. 7 assault on Israel.

nytimes.com

The article buried the fact that it was the Trump administration that ignored it. The article says that efforts were taken in 2022 to cut off the money but no mention of Biden.

Is it a conspiracy to reduce what Biden has been doing? I expect so.

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Dec 17, 2023 • 12:45:42pm

“Set your Disney+ profile to TV-MA to stream.”

Marvel Studios’ Echo | Rampage | Disney+ & Hulu

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TedStriker  Dec 17, 2023 • 12:45:58pm

Reposted from downstairs, primarily for the videos:

re: #211 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Then what were the “Mucle Cars”?

“Muscle cars” were/are usually a bit bigger than “pony cars”, with often the largest engines available; here’s a couple of videos from Ed’s Auto Reviews to illustrate some of the differences:

Ep. 4 The Origins of the Pony Car

(AH) Ep. 6 The Origins of the Muscle Car

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TedStriker  Dec 17, 2023 • 12:55:49pm

re: #35 TedStriker

Ed’s Auto Reviews is really funny and gets funnier past the two videos I posted, as he got more on-camera experience; if you’re a gearhead or are gearhead-adjacent, it’s not hard to fall down the rabbit hole and just binge the channel.

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Eventual Carrion  Dec 17, 2023 • 12:55:59pm

re: #20 darthstar

Looks like they’re remaking Beverly hills cop, or at least doing a flashback sequel.
It took the entire commercial for me to recognize. Eddie Murphy

Yeah, I just saw it during the Bears/Browns game.

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Dangerman  Dec 17, 2023 • 12:59:54pm

re: #21 PhillyPretzel ✅

A very good looking cat.

that’s Squeak.

we named her because of how she used to sound.
not any longer. now she’s a whiny meower

meanwhile, Monster in his last few months developed an obvious squeak. we were gonna change their names but, well, you know.

i think some of her meowing is loneliness. she wonders why she’s the only cat now, and sometimes the only one in the house.

of course when we get home we’re instantly ignored, but that’s another story…

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wrenchwench  Dec 17, 2023 • 1:00:53pm

Alt text helps.

If you read German. At Mastodon, the alt text was in English.

When I hit ‘translate’ for the Autsch, the alt text turned English too.

I cannot copy/paste alt text. I cannot choose the translated version for posting.

Mastodon

Autsch translates as Ouch.

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wrenchwench  Dec 17, 2023 • 1:04:00pm

re: #39 wrenchwench

It’s funny because the whole cartoon is about translation.

Ha ha.

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Vicious Babushka  Dec 17, 2023 • 1:06:49pm

re: #39 wrenchwench

Alt text helps.

If you read German. At Mastodon, the alt text was in English.

When I hit ‘translate’ for the Autsch, the alt text turned English too.

I cannot copy/paste alt text. I cannot choose the translated version for posting.

[Embedded content]

Autsch translates as Ouch.

The caption is: “When the Universal Translator malfunctions”

42
Vicious Babushka  Dec 17, 2023 • 1:08:20pm

Over at the Xitter, a brutal terrorist massacre is simply “how you’re supposed to do decolonization”

Mastodon

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goddamnedfrank  Dec 17, 2023 • 1:13:59pm

This conversation is actually an instructive illustration of AI as a use case for people who don’t understand or appreciate art at all, let alone as a uniquely human endeavor.

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Charles Johnson  Dec 17, 2023 • 1:20:06pm

re: #43 goddamnedfrank

Only a weirdo who “dislikes all music” would think it’s a good idea to have AI-generated “music” for the Homicide series.

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wrenchwench  Dec 17, 2023 • 1:21:31pm

My favorite tuxedo face, now with blep.

Mastodon

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Patricia Kayden  Dec 17, 2023 • 1:23:16pm

re: #23 Romantic Heretic

That used to be my favourite display at the Ontario Science Centre.

It’s going to be closed soon. Our dear ‘conservative’ government is planning on selling the land to condo developers.

Wow. That’s horrible. I remember visiting the Science Center many times as a child and teen. There was a huge ball where you could run your hands and your hair would stand on end. Shame it’s being closed down. Smh

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Dec 17, 2023 • 1:23:20pm

re: #45 wrenchwench

That is a cute kitty.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Dec 17, 2023 • 1:26:27pm

re: #46 Patricia Kayden

Wow. That’s horrible. I remember visiting the Science Center many times as a child and teen. There was a huge ball where you could run your hands and your hair would stand on end. Shame it’s being closed down. Smh

Same. I loved that place. I remember taking a field trip there when I was in school.

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Dec 17, 2023 • 1:26:53pm

re: #23 Romantic Heretic

re: #46 Patricia Kayden

I know it is not in Ontario but Philly has something like it. The Franklin Institute.
fi.edu

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Eclectic Cyborg  Dec 17, 2023 • 1:27:43pm

re: #44 Charles Johnson

Only a weirdo who “dislikes all music” would think it’s a good idea to have AI-generated “music” for the Homicide series.

1. How the fuck do you go through life hating all music?

2. Has it occurred to this dumb motherfucker that AI music would be based on all the non AI music he apparently hates?

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Charles Johnson  Dec 17, 2023 • 1:29:09pm

This medium roast Amazon whole bean coffee is actually very good! And it’s cheaper than most supermarket whole bean packages.

Amazon Fresh Colombia Whole Bean Coffee, Medium Roast, 32 Ounce

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Vicious Babushka  Dec 17, 2023 • 1:30:08pm

Mastodon

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steve_davis  Dec 17, 2023 • 1:32:06pm

Into the Void, the guitar solo at the end, has arguably the tastiest riff—done twice, no less—in hard rock. Always makes me chuckle because it’s clear at the very end that they’re not using a click track and that the coke just kicked in.

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Nerdy Fish  Dec 17, 2023 • 1:32:06pm

re: #50 Eclectic Cyborg

1. How the fuck do you go through life hating all music?

Some people have no soul. See also: Republicans.

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steve_davis  Dec 17, 2023 • 1:34:50pm

re: #10 sizzzzlerz

Much more than some though I must admit Sonny and Cher weren’t on my list. However, I do like I Got You Babe and The Beat Goes On

oh god, the beat goes on…..it’s the lyrics equivalent of somebody running their nails across a chalkboard. but yeah, catchy tune.

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Dec 17, 2023 • 1:38:11pm

Pongo - SNL

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Vicious Babushka  Dec 17, 2023 • 1:38:32pm

re: #55 steve_davis

oh god, the beat goes on…..it’s the lyrics equivalent of somebody running their nails across a chalkboard. but yeah, catchy tune.

Still better than “Simply Having A Wonderful Christmastime”

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silverdolphin  Dec 17, 2023 • 1:40:33pm

Ex-FBI official raises specter missing intel file under Trump was handed to Russia

I assume that the whole investigation at Mar-a-lago may have started to find this one binder. It is so important that they did not even want anyone to know if it was missing. The other ones are important but this is the big kahuna.

It is so sensitive they would not want anyone to know it was even missing. So why is it coming out now? I hope it is due to one of these:

1) They found the document at MAL. It is too sensitive to be allowed into a court case but could still damage Trump by its existence being publicized.

2) The document made it to Putin and we know about that from our own intelligence. So it is being leaked in bits and pieces to damage Trump. What a bombshell if we can show he sold it to Putin!

Hope it is one of these. If we still do not know where it is …

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Eventual Carrion  Dec 17, 2023 • 1:40:55pm

re: #46 Patricia Kayden

Wow. That’s horrible. I remember visiting the Science Center many times as a child and teen. There was a huge ball where you could run your hands and your hair would stand on end. Shame it’s being closed down. Smh

Yes, that is terrible news. My dad would take us up probably once a year for a a few years in the early 70’s. Then when all us kids started having kids he would take them up. It is a 4 hour drive from here so it usually was an over night expedition. Loved that place.

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Dec 17, 2023 • 1:45:28pm

re: #23 Romantic Heretic

That used to be my favourite display at the Ontario Science Centre.

It’s going to be closed soon. Our dear ‘conservative’ government is planning on selling the land to condo developers.

They had to. The museum people are Marxists.

Explore a new interactive exhibition that will empower you to take climate action in your everyday life (Ontario Science Centre)

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Eclectic Cyborg  Dec 17, 2023 • 1:49:16pm

re: #60 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈

Conservatives ruin everything, part #1863

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Hecuba's daughter  Dec 17, 2023 • 1:50:02pm

re: #58 silverdolphin

Ex-FBI official raises specter missing intel file under Trump was handed to Russia

I assume that the whole investigation at Mar-a-lago may have started to find this one binder. It is so important that they did not even want anyone to know if it was missing. The other ones are important but this is the big kahuna.

It is so sensitive they would not want anyone to know it was even missing. So why is it coming out now? I hope it is due to one of these:

1) They found the document at MAL. It is too sensitive to be allowed into a court case but could still damage Trump by its existence being publicized.

2) The document made it to Putin and we know about that from our own intelligence. So it is being leaked in bits and pieces to damage Trump. What a bombshell if we can show he sold it to Putin!

Hope it is one of these. If we still do not know where it is …

Possibly because Cassidy Hutchinson mentioned it in her book Enough which came out at the end of September. Suspect that is what led to the current interest in the topic, especially since she said Meadows walked off with it.

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nines09  Dec 17, 2023 • 1:55:37pm

re: #49 PhillyPretzel ✅

I know it is not in Ontario but Philly has something like it. The Franklin Institute.
fi.edu

Schools would send classes to Franklin Institute every day. School buses would be parked all around it.
So when we cut school in Jr High (7-9 grades) we would travel down to the Parkway and just slip in with the crowd of our age school trippers and walk right in.
I was probably there over 40 times.
School PTC tokens (pre SEPTA days) and free entry. And you didn’t look like a truant.
Fels Planetarium was always a great show.
Win win.

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BeenHereAwhile  Dec 17, 2023 • 1:58:06pm

re: #33 silverdolphin

The article buried the fact that it was the Trump administration that ignored it. The article says that efforts were taken in 2022 to cut off the money but no mention of Biden.

Is itca conspiracy to reduce what Biden has been doing? I expect so.

Israel - especially under Netanyahu - runs its own foreign policy.

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wrenchwench  Dec 17, 2023 • 2:03:03pm

re: #63 nines09

Schools would send classes to Franklin Institute every day. School buses would be parked all around it.
So when we cut school in Jr High (7-9 grades) we would travel down to the Parkway and just slip in with the crowd of our age school trippers and walk right in.
I was probably there over 40 times.
School PTC tokens (pre SEPTA days) and free entry. And you didn’t look like a truant.
Win win.

They needed a ‘truantitorian prize’ to walk alongside the valedictorian at graduation.

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nines09  Dec 17, 2023 • 2:11:46pm

re: #65 wrenchwench

Or a trolly to Kensington and Allegheny Aves and the Elevated.
Buy 5 soft pretzels for a quarter.
Feed yourself and the pigeons.
North to Bridge and Pratt, end of the line, and you just got on the south bound on the same platform to 64th and Market Streets, back to where ever. Get off and walk around Center City, go over to Delaware Ave and walk Shackamaxon.

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Decatur Deb  Dec 17, 2023 • 2:12:30pm

re: #63 nines09

Schools would send classes to Franklin Institute every day. School buses would be parked all around it.
So when we cut school in Jr High (7-9 grades) we would travel down to the Parkway and just slip in with the crowd of our age school trippers and walk right in.
I was probably there over 40 times.
School PTC tokens (pre SEPTA days) and free entry. And you didn’t look like a truant.
Fels Planetarium was always a great show.
Win win.

Buhl Planetarium served that role in ’50s Pittsburgh. It survives as the Heinz Children’s Center, doing much the same things. They had a massive Van de Graaff generator that threw arcs to a brass grounding strip in the walls of the vast hall.

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wrenchwench  Dec 17, 2023 • 2:14:19pm

Not an insect.

Mastodon

Entognatha

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Entognatha are a class of wingless and ametabolous arthropods, which, together with the insects, makes up the subphylum Hexapoda.[1][2] Their mouthparts are entognathous, meaning that they are retracted within the head, unlike the insects.[1] Entognatha are apterous, meaning that they lack wings. The class contains three orders: Collembola (springtails, 9000 species),[3] Diplura (“two-tail”, 1000 species)[4] and Protura (“first-tail”, 800 species)[5].[1][2] These three groups were historically united with the now-obsolete order Thysanura to form the class Apterygota, but it has since been recognized that the hexapodous condition of these animals has evolved independently from that of insects, and independently within each order.[6] The orders might not be closely related, and Entognatha is now considered to be a paraphyletic group.[2]

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HRH Stanley Sea  Dec 17, 2023 • 2:15:08pm

You guys!!!! Back online! The post from earlier that I screenshotted! Lol. It’s been a day.

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Nojay UK  Dec 17, 2023 • 2:15:37pm

re: #68 wrenchwench

Not an insect.

Hexapodia is the key insight.

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wrenchwench  Dec 17, 2023 • 2:17:20pm

re: #67 Decatur Deb

Buhl Planetarium served that role in ’50s Pittsburgh. It survives as the Heinz Children’s Center, doing much the same things. They had a massive Van de Graaff generator that threw arcs to a brass grounding strip in the walls of the vast hall.

Mr. w talked about that one (had a Buhl Drive and a Buhl Park in his town, so it kept coming up).

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Dec 17, 2023 • 2:17:40pm

re: #69 HRH Stanley Sea

Welcome Back. I hope everything is okay with you.

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Decatur Deb  Dec 17, 2023 • 2:19:45pm

re: #71 wrenchwench

Mr. w talked about that one (had a Buhl Drive and a Buhl Park in his town, so it kept coming up).

Christmas at Buhl Planetarium and its Miniature Railroad
heinzhistorycenter.org

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goddamnedfrank  Dec 17, 2023 • 2:23:04pm

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nines09  Dec 17, 2023 • 2:26:09pm

re: #74 goddamnedfrank

Didn’t need to crack any safe to get that info. It’s right there every single day.
Apartheid Sparky Car Bwana Boy blew 44 billion to jerk off on people in public.

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TedStriker  Dec 17, 2023 • 2:26:51pm

re: #23 Romantic Heretic

That used to be my favourite display at the Ontario Science Centre.

It’s going to be closed soon. Our dear ‘conservative’ government is planning on selling the land to condo developers.

Not shut down, but relocating to smaller quarters on the Toronto waterfront by Doug Ford’s provincial government over the objections of the city and pretty much everyone else.

I’m not Canadian, but, like with conservatives here, I have to wonder how dirty Ford is on the plans for the land where the current museum is.

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Mattand  Dec 17, 2023 • 2:27:10pm

re: #74 goddamnedfrank

[Embedded content]

Jesus Christ. Basically “I want to be 4Chan without explicitly declaring it.”

I had to read that fucking thing three times, and each time it’s basically a call to reinvent Twitter as Stormfront.

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Jay C  Dec 17, 2023 • 2:27:35pm

re: #74 goddamnedfrank

[Embedded content]

So are slurs, hate, sexism, Naziism, and/or calls to genocide subject to ANY level of “enforcement” at Elon Musk’s X?

Rhetorical question…..

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Nerdy Fish  Dec 17, 2023 • 2:27:49pm

re: #74 goddamnedfrank

* unsolicited sexual posts sent to another user

Just what the females of Xitter needed, explicit permission for men to send them dick pics without their consent.

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TedStriker  Dec 17, 2023 • 2:32:25pm

re: #79 Nerdy Fish

Just what the females of Xitter needed, explicit permission for men to send them dick pics without their consent.

And Xitter won’t do a goddamn thing about it if reported.

Musk’s doing his best to turn Xitter into a Nazi sausage party.

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wrenchwench  Dec 17, 2023 • 2:33:54pm

Mastodon

That picture is 57 years old.

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Eventual Carrion  Dec 17, 2023 • 2:34:58pm

re: #71 wrenchwench

Mr. w talked about that one (had a Buhl Drive and a Buhl Park in his town, so it kept coming up).

My daughter was a lifeguard at the Buhl Park pool back in her HS and college days.

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Romantic Heretic  Dec 17, 2023 • 2:35:17pm

re: #76 TedStriker

Extremely dirty, and everyone knows it.

There is a protected band of land around the Greater Toronto Area (Toronto and suburbs) Farmland and important water courses in it. It’s called The Greenbelt.

Doug Ford performed a ‘land swap’ exchanging land in the Greenbelt for land elsewhere and opening the released land to developers. Most of the developers have ties to Ford and the Forward-Backward Party. Sorry, Progressive-Conservatives.

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silverdolphin  Dec 17, 2023 • 2:40:47pm

re: #56 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈

[Embedded content]

[I am writing this analysis off the top of my head and from memory. So I am willing to admit it may well be wrong but I wanted to start a conversation that has been bubbling up for me wrt SNL.]

Pongo really weirded me out. Started out kinda off and descended into real horror. The humor did not go in the direction I might expect from safe comedy.

I have to say that SNL this season has been pretty interesting. They may not have the pacing quite down yet and sometimes go too long. I put that on a lot of new cast members and writers.

But their skits have, to my mind, become more and more surrealistic. Which has been fascinating. Like Orcas attacking the North Pole.

North Pole News: Killer Whale Attack

North Pole News: Killer Whale Attack - SNL

I mean, she vomits Skittles!!

Last night they also had a skit whose only point was to describe cats with awful puns for their names. Or another one where a Yankee Trade Christmas saw people trading away amazing gifts for a dancing Santa singing boogie woogie.

They had one cut for time on dealing with people who do not RSVP email invitations, starting with throwing a brick through their window to sending in wild dogs to tear them apart.

Instead of hitting politics and such directly (I do not think we have seen as many overt political skits as in the last few years), they come at issues absurdly indirect. I kinda like it.

Last night I was laughing at the Orca skit even as I was wondering if this was supposed to resonate with real life events like 9/11 or Oct 7 (“Santa knew!!”). They had to know there would likely be some resonance here.

Surrealism has always been part of SNL humor but it seems that most of the recent decades they dealt mostly with situational skits (The Californians. Bill Hader as Stefan. Adam Driver as Kylo Ren in Undercover Boss. Schweaty balls).

And often when they did somethig a little off they simply did not have the courage to take it to its logical end (The Davd S. Pumpkins skit is very surreal but has a pretty conventional ending - he finally did scare them). It seemed they still wanted to leave us comfortable not conflicted. More Mary Tyler Moore humor than All in the Family.

I noticed the surreal aspect last season with Susan Sherman and her instant classic, Meatballs. I think she is having an even greater impact on skits this year.

Meatballs - SNL

This humor makes one uncomfortable even as we smile.

Now this season reminds me of some of the first season’s courage to take things to the absolute limit, even when uncomfortable (Mr. Mike’s impression of 18 inch spikes driven into his eyes. Andy Kaufman in any skit. Save the Liver. Any Samurai skit)

I may not like every skit this year but I am intrigued enough to see where they go this season. Will they be allowed to sharpen this new approach or will NBC want to push them back to comfortable?

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sizzzzlerz  Dec 17, 2023 • 2:42:33pm

re: #55 steve_davis

oh god, the beat goes on…..it’s the lyrics equivalent of somebody running their nails across a chalkboard. but yeah, catchy tune.

We all have our guilty pleasures, things that we’re not proud of. At least I can hold my head high knowing that Paul Anka’s “You’re Having My Baby” is, hands down, the absolute worst song since cavemen were banging two rocks together.

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Vicious Babushka  Dec 17, 2023 • 2:43:51pm

Mastodon

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Backwoods Sleuth  Dec 17, 2023 • 2:44:33pm

re: #85 sizzzzlerz

We all have our guilty pleasures, things that we’re not proud of. At least I can hold my head high knowing that Paul Anka’s “You’re Having My Baby” is, hands down, the absolute worst song since cavemen were banging two rocks together.

No, that honor goes to “Hey Paula”.

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HRH Stanley Sea  Dec 17, 2023 • 2:45:17pm

This is my hood! I’m lucky it’s only my patio. Down the way neighbor had tree thru window. Yay crazy weather. 😬

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sizzzzlerz  Dec 17, 2023 • 2:45:52pm

re: #58 silverdolphin

Ex-FBI official raises specter missing intel file under Trump was handed to Russia

I all if we can show he sold it to Putin!

I’m sure it’s all OK since the fat, orange fuck did his Jedi mind trick and declassified the document before handing it over

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TedStriker  Dec 17, 2023 • 2:46:18pm

re: #85 sizzzzlerz

We all have our guilty pleasures, things that we’re not proud of. At least I can hold my head high knowing that Paul Anka’s “You’re Having My Baby” is, hands down, the absolute worst song since cavemen were banging two rocks together.

I have to say though, when it’s played in the WKRP in Cincinnati pilot, it’s hilarious:

Youtube Video

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Jay C  Dec 17, 2023 • 2:48:31pm

re: #86 Vicious Babushka

[Embedded content]

“Zmas” is the cat, right….?

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nines09  Dec 17, 2023 • 2:50:26pm

re: #81 wrenchwench

They got so screwed in the beginnings of the British Invasion. This is why The Kinks were banned from the United States

Bad boys.
Imagine that.

The Kinks - Apeman 1970

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Dec 17, 2023 • 2:55:14pm

re: #84 silverdolphin

Weekend Update: Christmas Joke Swap 2023 - SNL

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BeenHereAwhile  Dec 17, 2023 • 2:55:14pm

re: #85 sizzzzlerz

We all have our guilty pleasures, things that we’re not proud of. At least I can hold my head high knowing that Paul Anka’s “You’re Having My Baby” is, hands down, the absolute worst song since cavemen were banging two rocks together.

Not what one would expect of Rick Hall, Fame Studios.

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TedStriker  Dec 17, 2023 • 2:58:27pm

re: #94 BeenHereAwhile

Not what one would expect of Rick Hall, Fame Studios.

Hey, everyone’s gotta eat…

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Dec 17, 2023 • 3:00:00pm

re: #88 HRH Stanley Sea

::: charging up my batteries :::
I should have done it earlier.

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nines09  Dec 17, 2023 • 3:01:07pm

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sagehen  Dec 17, 2023 • 3:11:29pm

re: #87 Backwoods Sleuth

No, that honor goes to “Hey Paula”.

“Muskat Love”

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sizzzzlerz  Dec 17, 2023 • 3:11:51pm

My new acoustic guitar was just dropped off by FedEx but I’m not supposed to open the box for 24 hours according to a big label pasted to it. The label warns me to wait to allow the temperature of the enclosed instrument to slowly stabilize to room temperature since its traveled over a variety of climates since it was shipped and shocking it could damage the finish or the wood. I’m inclined to believe it since the company I bought from ships mega-buttloads of these things and has seen all sorts of bad things happen. I’ll wait…

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BeenHereAwhile  Dec 17, 2023 • 3:13:09pm

re: #95 TedStriker

Hey, everyone’s gotta eat…

Rick Hall was a hell of a producer, and this recording made a lotta money for the star making machine behind the popular hit song.

Gotta wonder who at Paul Anka’s record label came up with the idea of hooking Anka up with Rick Hall. That’s thinking out of the box.

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darthstar  Dec 17, 2023 • 3:14:05pm

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darthstar  Dec 17, 2023 • 3:17:07pm

Mastodon

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Jay C  Dec 17, 2023 • 3:17:35pm

re: #100 BeenHereAwhile

Rick Hall was a hell of a producer, and this recording made a lotta money for the star making machine behind the popular hit song.

Gotta wonder who at Paul Anka’s record label came up with the idea of hooking Anka up with Rick Hall. That’s thinking out of the box.

Upping for the Joni Mitchell ref…..

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Belafon  Dec 17, 2023 • 3:18:58pm

re: #35 TedStriker

Reposted from downstairs, primarily for the videos:

“Muscle cars” were/are usually a bit bigger than “pony cars”, with often the largest engines available; here’s a couple of videos from Ed’s Auto Reviews to illustrate some of the differences:

[Embedded content]

The Mustang was created for people who couldn’t afford a muscle car.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Dec 17, 2023 • 3:21:19pm

A few photos I took while at a laundromat a few nights ago:

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nines09  Dec 17, 2023 • 3:25:28pm

re: #99 sizzzzlerz

Wait. There is a valid reason.

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Eventual Carrion  Dec 17, 2023 • 3:25:35pm

re: #99 sizzzzlerz

My new acoustic guitar was just dropped off by FedEx
[snip]

What did you get?

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garzooma  Dec 17, 2023 • 3:26:10pm

re: #92 nines09

They got so screwed in the beginnings of the British Invasion. This is why The Kinks were banned from the United States

Bad boys.
Imagine that.

[Embedded content]

Since ‘tis the season:

YouTube

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Eclectic Cyborg  Dec 17, 2023 • 3:27:54pm

It’s a fucking cult. They don’t care how long they have to wait on dear leader.

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HRH Stanley Sea  Dec 17, 2023 • 3:29:02pm

re: #16 BeenHereAwhile

Just a bureaucratic oversight:

(no paywall)

Israel Found the Hamas Money Machine Years Ago. Nobody Turned It Off.
Agents worried as millions poured in. Hamas bought weapons and plotted an attack. The authorities now say the money helped lay the groundwork for the Oct. 7 assault on Israel.

nytimes.com

Politics has greatly damaged security.

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sagehen  Dec 17, 2023 • 3:30:51pm

re: #104 Belafon

The Mustang was created for people who couldn’t afford a muscle car.

The Mustang was for people with enhanced aesthetic sense (also, it hugged the highway nicely on curves.

The 1966 Mustang convertible is the sexiest car ever to come out of Detroit.

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Charles Johnson  Dec 17, 2023 • 3:32:36pm

Mastodon

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Eventual Carrion  Dec 17, 2023 • 3:32:54pm

Happy Saturnalia to all who celebrate.

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silverdolphin  Dec 17, 2023 • 3:39:22pm

re: #81 wrenchwench

[Embedded content]

That picture is 57 years old.

The Kinks are one of my favorites. Hope it is good. Just saw a video with Dave Davies explaining how he got that distorted fuzz on his guitar before there were digital approaches. Turns out he used a razor blade to cut slits in the speaker cone. Smart.

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jeffreyw  Dec 17, 2023 • 3:41:41pm

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Vicious Babushka  Dec 17, 2023 • 3:45:35pm

re: #98 sagehen

“Muskat Love”

“Go Away Little Girl”

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silverdolphin  Dec 17, 2023 • 3:47:28pm

re: #93 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈

[Embedded content]

Video

The surreal aspect of that was for Che to have poet Hattie Davis brought out next to Colin in a wheelchair. She sat there and shook her head at the awful things Colin said (“If you ask me, You’re even a better Black Widow than Coretta Scott King”). That was the joke and it was powerful. And then at the end, when he extended a hand, she said no way, causing him to break up.

How they pull off such awful jokes, so racist and inappropriate, demonstrates their understanding of just where the line is and how to exploit it. Half the fun is that they do not know the lines before hand. And that Che’s jokes really puncture white privilege in a relatively safe way.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Dec 17, 2023 • 3:48:04pm

re: #85 sizzzzlerz

We all have our guilty pleasures, things that we’re not proud of. At least I can hold my head high knowing that Paul Anka’s “You’re Having My Baby” is, hands down, the absolute worst song since cavemen were banging two rocks together.

There is one worse than that—The Brady Bunch singing American Pie. 🤯

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Vicious Babushka  Dec 17, 2023 • 3:49:14pm

re: #118 Joe Bacon ✅

There is one worse than that—The Brady Bunch singing American Pie. 🤯

Sheryl Crow & Kid Rock “I Put Your Picture Away”

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Backwoods Sleuth  Dec 17, 2023 • 3:49:15pm

re: #104 Belafon

The Mustang was created for people who couldn’t afford a muscle car.

and then there was the Shelby Mustang Cobra

We had one briefly when I was in high school

my father got rid of it because it only got 5mpg

he didn’t know I could shut off the odometer when I took it to the dragstrip.

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Nerdy Fish  Dec 17, 2023 • 3:51:34pm

re: #119 Vicious Babushka

Sheryl Crow & Kid Rock “I Put Your Picture Away”

Oh God. When that song came out, the local country music station played it. ALL. THE. EFFING. TIME. I got so sick of it. And that was before I knew what a raging douchenozzle Kid Rock was.

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Vicious Babushka  Dec 17, 2023 • 3:53:20pm

re: #121 Nerdy Fish

Oh God. When that song came out, the local country music station played it. ALL. THE. EFFING. TIME. I got so sick of it. And that was before I knew what a raging douchenozzle Kid Rock was.

That song is the reason I stopped listening to country music stations.

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Nerdy Fish  Dec 17, 2023 • 3:57:23pm

re: #122 Vicious Babushka

That song is the reason I stopped listening to country music stations.

I stopped listening to country music round about the time I started sliding away from the rabid right. That song didn’t help.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Dec 17, 2023 • 3:58:17pm

And then there’s…this which Irwin Chusid used to play when he did his “Incorrect Music” show.

Y. Bhekhirst - Hot in the Airport (Full Song)

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Alephnaught  Dec 17, 2023 • 4:01:02pm

re: #77 Mattand

Jesus Christ. Basically “I want to be 4Chan without explicitly declaring it.”

I had to read that fucking thing three times, and each time it’s basically a call to reinvent Twitter as Stormfront.

The original article being linked to here (Note that you can only view it once before the paywall kicks in. Also, I was able to access on a private browser tab.) is something else, it gives examples of acceptable post under these supposed new rules. (Put in private for obvious reasons.)

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Eclectic Cyborg  Dec 17, 2023 • 4:05:03pm

Oh, we have an annoying songs competition?

Chumbawamba - Tubthumping

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Decatur Deb  Dec 17, 2023 • 4:05:37pm

re: #111 sagehen

The Mustang was for people with enhanced aesthetic sense (also, it hugged the highway nicely on curves.

The 1966 Mustang convertible is the sexiest car ever to come out of Detroit.

[Embedded content]

Wife-to-Be would pick me up at the barracks in her silver ‘66 fastback. Barely enough room for her basket of fried chicken.

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Backwoods Sleuth  Dec 17, 2023 • 4:06:56pm

re: #120 Backwoods Sleuth

and then there was the Shelby Mustang Cobra

We had one briefly when I was in high school

my father got rid of it because it only got 5mpg

he didn’t know I could shut off the odometer when I took it to the dragstrip.

MrBWS just reminded me that I took it street racing more times the dragstrip…

ok, my bad…

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Joe Bacon ✅  Dec 17, 2023 • 4:08:16pm

And then there’s the trio who inspired Frank Zappa to say they were better than The Beatles…

My Pal Foot Foot

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BeachDem  Dec 17, 2023 • 4:11:24pm

re: #120 Backwoods Sleuth

and then there was the Shelby Mustang Cobra

We had one briefly when I was in high school

my father got rid of it because it only got 5mpg

he didn’t know I could shut off the odometer when I took it to the dragstrip.

My dad worked for Hertz when they had the Hertz sports car club. One summer we had access to several—GT 350H, GT 500H and Dan Gurney Cougar. Fun

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BlueSpotinAL ✅  Dec 17, 2023 • 4:12:35pm

My first Cybertruck sighting!

Stolen from:
bsky.app

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BeenHereAwhile  Dec 17, 2023 • 4:13:57pm

re: #111 sagehen

The Mustang was for people with enhanced aesthetic sense (also, it hugged the highway nicely on curves.

The 1966 Mustang convertible is the sexiest car ever to come out of Detroit.

[Embedded content]

Revamped Falcon platform morphed by Carroll Shelby into nice handling platform.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Dec 17, 2023 • 4:14:36pm

I am very disappointed none of the streaming services currently have Die Hard available at no additional cost.

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Nerdy Fish  Dec 17, 2023 • 4:16:00pm

re: #133 Eclectic Cyborg

I am very disappointed none of the streaming services have Die Hard available at no additional cost.

That’s unfortunate. I was thinking about watching that. I haven’t seen it all the way through.

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silverdolphin  Dec 17, 2023 • 4:17:05pm

re: #120 Backwoods Sleuth

and then there was the Shelby Mustang Cobra

We had one briefly when I was in high school

my father got rid of it because it only got 5mpg

he didn’t know I could shut off the odometer when I took it to the dragstrip.

Neighbor across the street got a gold Shelby Cobra. Then my father got a Mustang Mach 1 in red with a white interior. And he let his oldest teenage son drive it!! To school. (We had had a 64 1/2 Mustang convertible but he had to keep replacing the starter.)

It went 60 mph in idle ;-) Plus the rear sloped so sharply that you really could not see out of the rear view mirror. My brother finally totaled it when he was a freshman in college.

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sagehen  Dec 17, 2023 • 4:17:47pm

re: #127 Decatur Deb

Wife-to-Be would pick me up at the barracks in her silver ‘66 fastback. Barely enough room for her basket of fried chicken.

And that’s why you married her.

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TedStriker  Dec 17, 2023 • 4:18:12pm

re: #133 Eclectic Cyborg

I am very disappointed none of the streaming services have Die Hard available at no additional cost.

re: #134 Nerdy Fish

That’s unfortunate. I was thinking about watching that. I haven’t seen it all the way through.

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immigrant  Dec 17, 2023 • 4:20:37pm

re: #133 Eclectic Cyborg

moviestowatch.tv

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nines09  Dec 17, 2023 • 4:20:44pm

re: #120 Backwoods Sleuth

Most fun 5MPG short you ever drove I bet.
My friend had a 1966 Chevelle SS 396 with the proper everything, including the ass kicking 3 barrel carb with the high rise manifold. Not sure of the horses, but we had numerous chances to kill ourselves.
Beat GTO’s, BOSS Mustangs, and every MOPAR Detroit ride.
Feet on the dash, hands over your ears screaming as the telephone poles looked like blurs. Take 2 blocks to stop.
Lucky boys we were.

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BeenHereAwhile  Dec 17, 2023 • 4:21:50pm

re: #114 silverdolphin

The Kinks are one of my favorites. Hope it is good. Just saw a video with Dave Davies explaining how he got that distorted fuzz on his guitar before there were digital approaches. Turns out he used a razor blade to cut slits in the speaker cone. Smart.

This is the age of machinery
A mechanical nightmare
The wonderful world of technology
Napalm, hydrogen bombs, biological warfare

[…]

You keep all your smart modern writers
Give me William Shakespeare
You keep all your smart modern painters
I’ll take Rembrandt, Titian, Da Vinci and Gainsborough

[…]

Don’t wanna get myself shot down
By some trigger happy policeman
Gotta keep a hold on my sanity
I’m a twentieth-century man but I don’t wanna die here

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sizzzzlerz  Dec 17, 2023 • 4:22:27pm

re: #109 Eclectic Cyborg

[Embedded content]

It’s a fucking cult. They don’t care how long they have to wait on dear leader.

I believe that they revel in the abuse. Think of Kevin Bacon in Animal House being spanked with a paddle, gritting his teeth each time and saying “Thank you, sir. May I have another?”

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Romantic Heretic  Dec 17, 2023 • 4:22:51pm

re: #112 Charles Johnson

How found are you when you’re found by someone who’s lost?

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Decatur Deb  Dec 17, 2023 • 4:25:23pm

re: #136 sagehen

And that’s why you married her.

After I married her I found out she didn’t fry the chicken.

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BeenHereAwhile  Dec 17, 2023 • 4:27:02pm

re: #139 nines09

Most fun 5MPG short you ever drove I bet.
My friend had a 1966 Chevelle SS 396 with the proper everything, including the ass kicking 3 barrel carb with the high rise manifold. Not sure of the horses, but we had numerous chances to kill ourselves.
Beat GTO’s, BOSS Mustangs, and every MOPAR Detroit ride.
Feet on the dash, hands over your ears screaming as the telephone poles looked like blurs. Take 2 blocks to stop.
Lucky boys we were.

Rat motor rules.

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William Lewis  Dec 17, 2023 • 4:37:07pm

re: #111 sagehen

The Mustang was for people with enhanced aesthetic sense (also, it hugged the highway nicely on curves.

The 1966 Mustang convertible is the sexiest car ever to come out of Detroit.

[Embedded content]

Eh, I can’t go that far. Best to come out of Ford? Arguably. But I can think of several others I preferred from other Detroit makers, some long before and some since.

It was probably the closest Detroit came to the perfection of the motor car that was the English sports car from Triumph, Morris, Austin or much less Lotus.

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Tahitinho  Dec 17, 2023 • 8:03:29pm

re: #19 Dangerman

But I am secure in this box.

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Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines  Dec 18, 2023 • 12:53:49pm

re: #80 TedStriker

And Xitter won’t do a goddamn thing about it if reported.

Musk’s doing his best to turn Xitter into a Nazi sausage party.

Lord Soros assures me that the roundups will begin once his trusted acolyte Elon has collected and verified all relevant personal data on the 500,000,000 worst assholes in the world. Trust the Plan!


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