They’re like thinking (OMG. Someone is different from me… someone doesn’t believe the same as I do … I can’t ever feel secure with that … got to … got to fix that … )
For centuries the treatment gays got was ‘stay hidden or else’. No respect in that from me.
Fine Leiber-Stoller song there. English beat group the The Searchers covered it, made it to US#3 in 1965. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rXhXLsNJL8
Good old limeland … even in the pokey, you get a cuppa. LOL.
The ‘Sunshine’ song was inspired by his current wife. 30 years in Ireland.
Stuck in there though… last charting album was in 1976. Looks to still have some faithful fans, last compilation album 2021, new album ‘Gaelia’ in 2022, AND he’s planning a concert series for 2025.
In the big, big grocery store I use, there isn’t much choice about plastic. Over (I estimate) 80% of the products (outside of fresh fruits & veggies) either are containerized in plastic, or is boxed or canned food which is wrapped-in plastic (e.g. cereal) and covered with or wrapped-in plastic. We need to see a big turnaround in this situation.
I don’t see much recognition - from manufacturers or consumers - of how many tens of tons of tossed-away plastic are carried out of most of these stores every day. Consumers have few alternatives … no sign that food packagers give a damn … or that stores (most are corporate-owned) are struggling to make wiser choices.
It’s a lot bigger problem than what container we use to carry our purchase to the car.
Poor governor of Georgia, one more in a long, long line.
I learned much of what I know about how facts are misrepresented by reading advertisements by the industry. Like the full-page regional newspaper ad along the lines of "One myth about nuclear power is … instead the fact is this … " back in the 1970s. Or my all-time favorite fact, one of the earliest: Safe, clean, ‘too cheap to meter’, said AEC chairman Lewis Strauss, in 1954.
Maybe it was catching? But the facts, like those countless millions of escaped curies, were invisible. Convenient.
This 14-year-old Fermi story might help: https://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-detroit-nuclear-20161003-snap-story.html
Way to start out with an ad hominem. Cheap too. Since you’re ‘certain’ (and I know very well that’s hard to come by for this sacred cow), your #1 reference?
Way to start out with an ad hominem. Cheap too. Since you’re ‘certain’ (and I know that’s hard to come by for this sacred cow), your #1 reference?
He had more significant things to do with his life. Whatever, good for him. It worked for a lot of big-shots’ kids. During Vietnam, Bush Jr. spent two years in the Texas Air Nation Guard. During Vietnam, Trump got deferred for bad feet or college 5 times.
That’s thanks to the training (started with Rickover) and discipline and no shareholders. Commercial nukes don’t measure up, e.g. when it comes to leakages and knowing what to do in case.
Really! It didn’t hurt when I didn’t exist before. And there remains a chance that we -will- get back. May it be in some time that is … less senseless.
Another single basic mechanism (for some in the world, anyway) is: acceptance.
Not saying you have to like death. But it’s all around us, and people who live closer to nature get to see death regularly, from carnivorous animals (little choice) to plants which green, bear fruit, and fade away in fall. Most people don’t ever need to embrace death, but recognize it’s part of the natural order.
Denial points us away from the real and is mentally unhealthy. Acceptance releases us from that potential fear and stress. It also encourages us to truly appreciate what we have, especially while we have it, and ever afterward for our good fortune while we had it. Life is change.
Acceptance reminds us to ‘drink life to the lees’, like Omar Khayyam. Not to waste our time on adverts, or fashion trends, or fretting about things we can’t do anything about, or worrying about what might be. When we’re sure we’ve done our best in this wiggy world, we need ask ourselves no more. Compassion for ourselves empowers us to share that with others.
Wouldn’t that be ‘ping’ ?
GOSH I’d like to see that be 2 times longer, and have some price-ranges.
What the US needed was a pull-out-the-stops wartime operation. What we got was a lot of hot air and heel-dragging excuses. After all of these years, it’s more than clear what side our ‘leadership’ is beholding to.
Ask the people of Vancouver, BC … they’ve had a 50-mile ‘Skytrain’ since 1985. The 2023 ridership was 141 Million.
“Works perfectly” huh? That’s better than most can claim before freezing! ACT NOW! for a BIG discount!
Variations on that song went back a long ways. (Here’s some more on that: https://www.thevintagenews.com/2018/01/25/the-house-of-the-rising-sun-2-2/
The earliest known recording seems to be this by Clarence Ashley and Gwen Foster. It’s a banjo choon from 1933. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=147kS8O59Qs
And here are some snatches of lots of other versions: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJNFqhMJ4DA
They don’t talk about it a lot, but. If it looks really bad, I suspect that what the grid operators will do is disconnect and shut down as much of it as possible and wait it out. Better to have no electricity for a week than for hundreds of transformers to be ruined …
Great film… and nobody but Robin could have done that scene so well. Phew.