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Someday...

RIP Harambe. I hoist a beer in his honor!

@kimmie_c_ When I was a kid our folks would take us out to eat about once a week, typically to a place like Duff's (buffet style place), Quincy's (steak house like Golden Corral), or grab pizza for a quick dinner at home. But it wasn't expected, and it was always considered a treat.

Gen X here... I remember going to McDonald's for birthday parties & on rare occasions w/ my family for a treat. Eating out was NEVER an everyday occurrence... not even weekly. Months would go buy w/ nothing but grocery store bought food. Where are these people getting their info?

@MoundLore @WordpeckerUSA I was surprised to find that you could still buy Kenmore products. We recently bought a stick vacuum and carpet shampooer that have proven to be well made and reliable. I'd love to see Sears make a comeback.

A lot of Americans remember Sears as a dying store in a half-empty mall. That’s not what Sears was. Sears was how American factories entered ordinary houses. Kenmore in the kitchen. Craftsman in the garage. DieHard under the hood. Coldspot humming in the corner. Lawn tractors in sheds. Socket sets in drawers that nobody was allowed to lose. It was basements, workbenches, catalogs, part numbers, repairmen, delivery trucks, credit accounts, and old men who could hear a washer struggling before it finally quit. A kid could flip through the Wish Book and learn what adulthood looked like. Tools. Appliances. Work boots. School clothes. A bicycle. Sometimes even a whole house ordered by mail and built piece by piece after the materials came in by rail. That was the part Sears understood. America was full of people trying to build stable lives with practical things. Then the practical world got replaced by a disposable one. The catalogs vanished. The stores hollowed out. Manufacturing moved overseas. Repair got expensive. Replacement got cheap. The people who knew how everything worked got older, retired, or died, and a lot of what they knew went with them. People call it the death of a department store. I don’t. Sears was one of the last national systems that still assumed ordinary Americans should know how to maintain the world around them instead of just replacing it. That’s the strange poverty nobody talks about now. Not having fewer things. Having more than ever and understanding almost none of them.

@gatorgar I watched it in person from my junior high school about 15 miles away in Satellite Beach. We all immediately knew that something was wrong, since most of us had parents who were military or affiliated with the space program. We were sent home early from school that day.

Where were you when the Challenger exploded during launch? I know a lot of folks were in school and saw it happen live. I wasn’t born yet, but this seems to be one of those moments like the assassination of JFK. Everyone has a story. Tell me yours. I want to hear it.

@gatorgar My dad worked on every set of SRB's from the post-Challenger return to flight until the end of the program. We were all so very proud of him and our country.

Majestic. This was the America I grew up in. If you weren’t there, you have no idea what it was like. We had spaceships. Real ones.

Here is a huge positive to modern life that gets no press. I have an old 2009 Toyota, and the AUX port crapped out about a year ago. Went to YouTube. Young, enthusiastic guy explains how to fix it. It is not obvious - involves taking the dashboard apart in a counter-intuitive way, but once you see it, it's a 15 minute fix. There are actually dozens of videos showing how to do this, and they collectively have well over 200k views. Had this happened in 1995, I would have just lived with it. But the combo of the replacement AUX jack available from Amazon and the video of the simple (but not obvious) fix, I fixed it. I HAVE DONE THIS DOZENS OF TIMES. Replaced the control panel of my dishwasher. Replaced the ice maker in the fridge. Fixed a wonky sanding head on my drill press. Mastered a bandsaw technique that I use for my sculpture. On and on and on... I think it is likely no exaggeration to say billions of fixes and skill upgrades have been performed worldwide that would not have been performed if it were not for the instruction freely given peer-to-peer on YouTube. Take a moment to be happy about this. The busted item keeps performing, rather than going to the landfill. The person learning and doing the fix gains a sense of mastery and saves money. It's an unmixed blessing. Stop doomscrolling. Think of what is busted in your house, find the YouTube video on how to fix it, and fix it.

@DSchell4 @BlondeOfWar He should drive it. Sports cars don't deserve to be stuck in garages and forgotten. They're for driving and making memories.

@BlondeOfWar I have a good friend that has an 85 with 375 mi on it He bought it at Barrett a few yrs ago He really doesn't know what to do with it I told him to donate it to the NCM

Imagine buying a brand new Corvette in 1982 and parking it in a garage until today. That’s what someone did with this beauty. Only 33 miles on it and covered in over 40 years of filth. This detailing transformation is so satisfying and this champagne color is stunning.🤩

Alice Cooper speaking about Redemption👇

I do not want to hear a f*cking word about both sides turning down the rhetoric. Political violence is not a both sides issue. It is a Left issue. The Left has a monopoly on political violence. Full stop.

𝙂𝙤𝙙, 𝙥𝙡𝙚𝙖𝙨𝙚 𝙛𝙤𝙧𝙜𝙞𝙫𝙚 𝙢𝙚 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙢𝙮 𝙢𝙞𝙨𝙩𝙖𝙠𝙚𝙨. 𝙂𝙞𝙫𝙚 𝙢𝙚 𝙨𝙩𝙧𝙚𝙣𝙜𝙩𝙝 𝙩𝙤 𝙗𝙚𝙘𝙤𝙢𝙚 𝙗𝙚𝙩𝙩𝙚𝙧, 𝙝𝙚𝙖𝙡 𝙢𝙮 𝙗𝙤𝙙𝙮, 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙜𝙪𝙞𝙙𝙚 𝙢𝙚 𝙞𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙧𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙩 𝙥𝙖𝙩𝙝. 𝙃𝙚𝙡𝙥 𝙢𝙚 𝙨𝙩𝙖𝙮 𝙝𝙚𝙖𝙡𝙩𝙝𝙮 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙥𝙚𝙖𝙘𝙚𝙛𝙪𝙡. 𝘼𝙢𝙚𝙣.

Just in case no one tells you today. You’re worth having around. You’re worth committing to. You’re worth appreciating. You’re worth loving.

@awanoumi2 That is epic! If you decide to make more, you won't be able to keep up with demand. I'd buy one!

#3Dプリンターに一切頼らず完成した作品 FRPの削り出しで作ってる だって本業だからね (´Д｀)

I'm actually to the point that I dont even want legal immigration right now. I want ongoing mass deportations. Once that's under control, then we can start thinking about immigration again. My two cents. Not that anybody asked.

Yeah

If you’re not ashamed of Jesus Christ, let the world know today. AMEN 🙏

I’m up in the middle of the night and am about to go back to sleep. But seeing the news of this pilot being rescued after one of the most daring rescue operations in history has me motivated beyond belief. To the media and the haters who’ve been obsessed with palace intrigue stories. Trying to sow division and calling for the heads of our leaders. I hope this news hurts. I hope it hurts a lot. I have my finger on the pulse of the information machine these days. And what I’ve seen over the past 48 hours is the weaponization of said machine. Bots, grifters, and partisan hacks all working in unison literally rooting for our failure. Rabid. Drooling. Damn near praying to satan for our own pilot to be killed or captured. Hyenas, the lot of them. All cheering against America. While they’ve all been groaning like demons for the heads of our leaders and warriors, people like @PeteHegseth, @SeanParnellASW and others have just been busily…. doing the job to get our guy back. Nothing I type here will matter at 0300. But when the world wakes up in a few hours, it’ll see the fruits of merit based leadership at echelon. All the way down the chain. An Airman safely home after evading capture for over a day. An epic rescue that will be remembered for generations. Millions inspired by the shear power and conviction of the United States military. And millions more disappointed by it, because they were praying for our national embarrassment. I’m not sorry you’re witnessing a competent war machine in action. I’m not sorry that our leadership will never leave anyone behind. I’m not sorry for any hurt feelings caused by this. Because you were never on our team anyway. God Bless America.🇺🇸

@BuzzPatterson I got to see them do this up close and personal back when I was a weather observer at Heidelberg AAF back in the early 90's. It was impressive to say the least!

The C-17 is an amazing aircraft. Watch the short landing distance and the reverse.

For everyone crying about the troops allowed to be armed on a military installation, consider this: During the GWOT, every single one of us was armed on the FOB / COP / MSS / JSS (installation) 24/7 with a rifle or a pistol and a magazine for force protection. Here I am talking to my gunner and medic (outside the frame) with a fucking 9mm pistol right there. Let the NCO's do their job and stop crying about shit that doesn't affect you. We have been asking for this since 9/11.

The inch is the width of my thumb. The foot is the length of my foot. The yard is the reach of my stride. The mile is 1000 left/right/left strides of me and my mates. The cup is a handful of something good. The pint is a satisfying drink, no more no less. The marathon is a distance a man can run. The pound is a loaf of bread that cooks just right. The world is what it is as defined by man. Not what it is as defined by base ten math. We measure the height of a horse with our hands, the proportions of a room according to what is pleasing to our eyes. It shocks and surprises me that the same people who invented the tatami no heya could ever become slaves to the metric system. Reclaim your souls Japanese Bros. Go ahead, use metric to measure your car parts. But stand tall that the distance from the mound to home plate is 60 feet 6 inches because anything shorter is too close and anything farther is too far away.

Just once I want an Attorney General that everyone in DC hates. Just once.