Sorry to hear about his impending accidental death
principalkohoutek
joined 3 years ago
Huh who knew it wasn't fun to hang out floating over a 120° ocean
I didn't open the bloomer hope thread cuz I'm a curmudgeon, but I thought of an answer: it's very likely we'll live to see Joe Biden and Donald Trump die and I think there will be tremendous energy and cathartic celebrations when that happens. So, that's something that I look forward to
Spending today at work reading wikipedia pages related to the siege of Leningrad. I can't fathom the despair those people felt, yet they still resisted so fiercely.
Currently reading about the Diary of Tanya Savicheva, a 12 year old girl who documented the deaths of her family members, one by one, until it was just her. She dug trenches and put out fires as her part of the war effort.
Her older sister worked double shifts at a mine factory and then donated blood after work. All this while only being given a 9oz ration of bread each day. She died of exhaustion/malnutrition, along with 100,000 others every month for 900 days.
Thinking of the teamsters driving trucks across frozen Lake Ladoga's "road of life" who fell through the ice trying to deliver supplies to the besieged city.
Would love to be there for next year's 80th VE Day
Yeah I support the troops
Not an occupying force tho
Ah yes, the country that lost ~180,000 troops in the European theater and didn't actually have any battles on it's home turf did much more to defeat the Nazis than the continent-spanning nation that lost about 9,000,000 troops (not counting ~18,000,000 civilians).
For reference, in all it's wars combined over 200 years, America has lost just over 1,000,000 troops in total.
The violence in the fallout show is too much. My partner, who liked the story and visuals, had to turn it off because of how chunky, close-up, and repetitive the gore was. I know the premise of the show is nuclear apocalypse, but it's a little bloody, right?
I watched "Black Twitter: A People's History". The first two episodes were pretty good, would recommend. Insightful, funny, makes a convincing argument. Episode 3 was distilled liberal cringe that included a victory lap for electing Biden in 2020. All the coverage about 2020 was pure trash*. The ideology was getting laid on thick, so I looked up the production company of the show, and it's from Onyx media, which is wholly owned by Hulu-Disney.
*Spent maybe 1 minute on the murder of George Floyd. Didn't mention Breonna Taylor. Didn't mention defund the police. Didn't mention police. Spent several minutes on Joe Biden (specifically the SC dem primary) but didn't mention Bernie. Really egregious oversight. Libs want to pretend the people's uprising of 2020 never happened so badly that they're going to write it out of history.
Brakes are cheap and pretty easy to replace (really) diy. Once your pads wear out, the backing plate will be pressed into the rotor, which will warp the rotor. Rotors are cheap too ($20-$50 each) and easy to replace, so it's not a huge deal if you warp them, but it's not something you should aspire to do.
Also, shops lie about brakepad life all the time, but maybe yours really are at 2mm, which is definitely worth replacing like 6 months ago. Also, your car does most of its braking with the front wheels anyway.
In conclusion,
My "this is not a sting operation" T-shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my shirt
Dissociated lefty was pretty spot on