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@james_xond They're called books

People who grew up without internet, how did you deal with boredom at home?

@chevrolet Not everyone wants big SUVs. And with gas prices being what they are now just imagine how popular this car would be if it was still available and was still relatively inexpensive compared to all the SUVs #BringBacktheSpark

@chevrolet It even impressed this guy! which is not easy to do. Don't just watch the video, read the comments. People love the Spark and want it back! I love my Spark and I don't know what I'm going to do if something happens to it #BringBacktheSpark youtu.be/dnRvG37CpkE?si…

@joshuatheard @hwinkler4real ...the tests, you don't become a pilot. The very fact that a person passed the test and became a pilot MEANS that they're qualified.

@joshuatheard @hwinkler4real And that point was STILL completely wrong. What, do you think they give one test to white people and a separate much easier test to black people or any other person of color? JFC🤦‍♀️ There are standardized tests that you have to pass to become a pilot. If you don't pass

WHAT do they say ? Can’t judge a book by its cover

@guardian youtu.be/-7sNB-OnF6o?si…

@sjredmond @otokyo__ With that extended list, I think using a computer punch card is the only one I haven't done

20 but The list is so 80s and 90s 21. Ridden in the front seat of a car in between two parents smoking with the windows rolled up and nobody wearing a seatbelt. 22. Owned a pair of clogs 23. Used a sliderule. 24. Sat in the smoking section of an airplane. 25. Sat in the smoking section of a theatre. 26. Walked to the store to pick up cigarettes and tampons for your mom as a 5 year old. 27. Gone to a concert without your parents at the age of 12. 28. Used a set of Encyclopedias 29. Typed Univerity essays with a manual typewriter and whiteout. 30. Used a computer punch card

6 for me!! I feel confident nobody Has all 20 How many for you?

@hwinkler4real I'm only in my 40s and I have all 20

19

@ceraliza Dexter. After the first episode I couldn't stop.

Can someone please recommend a tv series that's actually addictive, the kind that makes people stay up all night and finish season one in a sitting?

@MJMcKean youtu.be/apINnUdjPkg?si…

@Matt_Pinner You can actually see an example of this in the movie 'Poltergeist'

My grandparents told me that in the old days, TV channels would stop broadcasting around midnight. They'd play the national anthem & then go completely off air until morning. Is that real, or are they just messing with me?

I’m sorry for the long post but a lot of you have followed me for a long time, since 2016 when I was one of the first to repeatedly call out Trump for being a Russian asset. I don’t know how else to say this, as a person who has studied cults (wrote a bestseller about it) and totalitarian states. I’ve been attacked on Fox News, berated by the VP and others and like many of you, I’ve gotten death threats. So please believe me when I say this. Things have changed. ICE is going to be the vehicle for fascism in this country. The extra-judicial practices (no warrants, no ID), the masks (anonymity leads to horrors again and again throughout history), the dehumanization of immigrants and Democrats (dehumanization precedes arrests, torture, murder, again and again). No we are not going to be Nazi Germany because nothing in history matches Nazi Germany. But fascism has arrived in America. Here is how it is going to happen: ICE will be the vehicle, the gestapo empowered by the President, to enforce his will, first among vulnerable undocumented people, then among legal immigrants, then among political rivals, then among citizens who speak out against the Trump grift. This is not a hypothetical. It’s happening. That Big Dumb Racist bill gives $170 billion dollars for an organization which has no respect for the constitution, no oversight, nothing but marching orders from a couple racist, power-hungry madmen. $170 billion to build hidden prisons with no oversight. To put this in perspective, this is 62% larger than the entire federal prison system. $170 billion to drag people out of their places of work, parks, homes. $170 billion to hire racist little man babies who hide their faces as they assault children, old people, pregnant women. How do you think this goes? How has this ever gone in history? We are entering a dark period. Our only hope is to draw the line now. To stick up for our friends and neighbors, our co-workers and loved ones, who are undocumented and being hunted. If morality or empathy for them is not enough to motivate you, fine. Then let this be your motivation: if you don’t draw this line, you are next. Do you think Trump will grow a conscience? Do you think Stephen Miller will have any trouble going from, “these people are criminals” (them) to “these people are helping criminals?” (You, by being against Trump). To “we must arrest the traitors opposing our efforts to arrest criminals?” (You or anyone you care about who publicly opposes Trump.) Do you think republican congressman are going to care? To lift onefinger to protect you? To do anything which gets in the way of Trump’s agenda? A person who has no problem letting children with cancer die in order to put a few dollars in the pockets of rich men will have no problem with letting Democrats and activists rot in jail for trying to stop it. This has happened again and again throughout the world. And now it’s happening here. I wish I had concrete plans. I don’t. Not now. All I know is the first step for change is identifying the gravity of the truth. And the truth is fascism has arrived in America. And we must stop it in its tracks or it will swallow all of us.

@lady_valor_07 Frank Darabond director of Shawshank Redemption, The Green Mile and the Mist

Name a famous "Frank" ?

@Cary_Elwes I'm so so sorry. I'm absolutely gutted by this news and I didn't even know him, I was just a fan. I can't imagine what all of Rob and Michele's friends and family are going through today. My thoughts are with all of you 🙏😞🥀

No words…

@MJMcKean 😥So sorry for this news I can't imagine what all of Rob and Michele's friends and loved ones are feeling right now So I'll simply say that my thoughts are with you all🙏😞🥀

@DavidSm9054342 @JamesTate121 Really? Cuz you know what's interesting? America is has a population of Black people Other people of color Trans people Oh and let's not forget Women, People who are 'everyday Americans' and the right has absolutely no reservation about displaying their contempt for them

@JamesTate121 This has got to be the ultimate, the truest, and the most honest expression of the utter contempt, disgust, and disdain the left holds for everyday Americans. Read it again, everyone.

“Let’s just say the quiet part out loud: America didn’t get hijacked by ‘patriots.’ It got hijacked by failures — and by the very smart, very cynical people who realized how easy those failures are to manipulate. For decades, the United States has produced a whole population of folks who never did the reading, never did the learning, never gained any skills, never grew emotionally, never took accountability for a single thing in their lives — and then reached adulthood furious that the world wasn’t built around their bad decisions. They flunked out of life, coasted on the easiest path possible, and then expected the entire country to bend so they never have to feel uncomfortable or inadequate. Enter the political strategists who said, ‘Oh wow…this country has a gigantic pool of angry, insecure underachievers who will believe absolutely anything that absolves them of responsibility. If we just tell them they’re right and everyone else is wrong, they’ll worship us.’ And that’s exactly what happened. A movement didn’t rise because these people were strong. It rose because someone finally figured out how to weaponize their weakness. Tell the failures they’re actually the real Americans. Tell the losers that the smart people secretly envy them. Tell the ones who never succeeded that their lack of success is someone else’s fault. Tell the folks who never grew up that maturity is ‘woke.’ And suddenly you’ve built an army — not of thinkers, not of leaders, not of contributors — but of emotionally fragile adults addicted to being lied to because the truth hurts too much. Meanwhile, the people at the top of this movement? They don’t respect them. They don’t admire them. They don’t even like them. They use them. Because they know these people don’t want solutions — they want soothing. They don’t want progress — they want validation. They don’t want responsibility — they want stories that make them feel better about failing at life. So the grifters show up and say, ‘Hey buddy, none of this is your fault. You’re perfect. It’s the immigrants, the books, the teachers, the scientists, the cities, the gays, the trans people — anyone but you.’ And the failures eat it up like dessert. Because it feels good. Because it’s easier. Because they finally found a political movement where doing the least, learning nothing, and hating everyone is not only accepted — it’s celebrated. This movement isn’t powered by greatness. It’s powered by fragility, by resentment, by the bottom of the class finally hearing a bedtime story where they’re the heroes instead of the ones who fell behind. And the people in charge? They laugh behind closed doors. They know exactly who they’re dealing with. They know if you give failures an enemy to hate and a fantasy to believe in, they’ll hand you the keys to the country — and thank you for the privilege. America doesn’t have a ‘patriot problem.’ America has a failure problem — and a ruling class that learned how to turn those failures into a political ATM. It’d be tragic if it weren’t so predictable.” - Joann Blake

@Tabithatribex4 @JamesTate121 Way to completely reinforce his point there. Gold star for you. Honestly, you guys just use 'word salad' now to describe anybody who talks or writes longer than a paragraph and at higher than a second grade level. Here, use one of these. Maybe it'll help

@JamesTate121 That’s just a lot of word salad, such a waste of time!

@VeraShokina @TheCinesthetic Wondered if somebody was going to post this one. Glad you did so I don't have to 😊

@TheCinesthetic The Usual Suspects ending youtube.com/watch?v=XYXXhn…

What's the best moment where a character REALIZES something?

Name a canceled TV show that deserves another season.

@ohhanxiety Or you could just go to this website and look at the list and see what names appeal to you nameberry.com/list/248/old-l…