Headline gave me a chuckle. This once, I’m not reading the article. My American ass don’t need the depression.

Disasters like the Titanic weren’t particularly weird events 100 years ago. People were living the Cambrian Explosion of mechanics, crazy shit, died all sorts of horrific ways, like drowning in hot molasses. A dozen people die in a UPS plane crash or in a single Russian attack; Front page news. In the day; “Heard a dozen men were buried alive in the local coal mine today. Shame that. What’s for dinner?”

Guess what made this event stick out was the braggadocio. Unsinkable my ass. Also, wasn’t that a ship of unusual size? “I don’t believe they exist.” Also, lots of prominent people went down, and there were plenty of survivors to tell the tale. Imagine an over-hyped space plane exploding with Musk, Bezos, Zuckerberg, et al. onboard.

I’ll never understand why they didn’t make the compartment bulkheads go all the way to the ceiling.

It was SO worse back in the day. My first wife laughed about the old man down the street, “Yeah, all us little girls knew what we were in for if we went to his house! ‘Go in there, you’re on your own!’”

I think the fix is more on educating kids than catching predators. Molesters in one’s family are the tough ones to catch. Molesters beget molesters, gotta break that cycle, no idea how.

Roots are my jam. Don’t know what they are, but there are some wild bits on the trail, especially near the waters.

First pic I’ve seen on here that made me draw a quick breath. Holy. Shit.

The Gates Foundation has been a significant player in 3rd world disease eradication.

Lemmy: FUCK HIM!

I was around when Microsoft exploded onto the scene. Oh you bet he did some evil, monopolistic shit to get it rolling, but I also remember what computing was like before Windows.

Between my friends and I we had 5 different home computers. Nothing was interoperable, not even the version of BASIC, total clusterfuck. Tech was crawling compared to after Windows snapped everything into focus. Yes, I wish Linux had come sooner, but it’s a clusterfuck as well.

Geese are funny to me. First time I ran into one was on my college campus, squawking and pecking and pitching a fit. AH! Many years later I realized I could snatch a goose by the neck, twist his head off and haul his carcass home for dinner. Not that I’ve done that, but the option is there.

I’ve been pecked by an emu, while tripping acid, and while I probably couldn’t kill one with my bare hands, sufficiently motivated ape >>> dumb bird.

Left pic was exactly the arrangement for the girl’s room in the dive bar I used to frequent, big joke among us regulars. Also, since those were the only two accommodations for ladies, us dudes would often get conscripted to stand guard over the men’s room so the women could use both. Sometime ya gotta clear up the backlog!

Coming out and seeing 12 women in line, “Go. I’ll watch the door.”

Open the jar while it’s warm, easy money.

I am SO down! Remember the cliff face of bangs?!

Didn’t age so well on us dudes. (Yes, that’s me, 1989, newspaper class.)

I could absolutely see Mother as a Doors tune.

The DOJ is under Trump, so that’s a non-starter. Speaker Johnson is keeping the House closed down so our new Congresswoman from Arizona can’t get sworn in and cast the deciding vote to force release.

See Trump with a bit of struggle trying to stand up? His dementia has advanced to the stage of showing it physically. That’s not my armchair opinion, I’ve read several articles where doctors are pointing it out.

I don’t think Trump is annoyed, I think he’s trying to figure out what’s going on. The man is utterly checked out. Seen the video of Japan’s new PM guiding him around like a stoned toddler?

Actually listening to him speak for several minutes is horrifying. Reading excepts and watching short clips just doesn’t get the level of dementia across. Seen the video where Japan’s new prime minister has to lead him around? Trump’s walking around, utterly glazed, doing the thorazine shuffle. If a cop saw me walking down the street like that, confronted me and found me in Trump’s condition, I’d either be in jail for public intoxication or checked into the ER.

Really hard to watch without screaming, “Why isn’t every media outlet on the planet hammering this home! The most powerful man in the world should be in a care home!”

First administration was bad enough, but he’s so, so very far worse off now.

I see it as a commentary on how quickly times were changing back then. What’s telling is what some are reading into it.

Close! I had a fuzzy notion of a flat instrument with a bunch of strings that you hold in your lap.

I see no criticism in the comic at all. Young men of the previous generation wanted the girl on the left, now they want the flapper. It’s just a comment on how far and how quickly society was changing 100-years ago.

Also, if the artist were making fun of the flapper they wouldn’t have drawn her as so attractive. Maybe it’s just me, but she’s leaving me hot and bothered. :)

I get that bit. Must have missed some news about Oilcel? Somebody posted a story but I was hoping for video to make it more clear.

We have a pet chameleon and it’s hilarious to watch his eyeballs. Loose some crickets in there and his vision is all over the place. Wonder how they process the asynchronous views.