sfbing

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[–] sfbing@lemmy.world 14 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Quotation marks we're historically used ...

Meh. I am in my late sixties, and that was never proper usage. These people were merely always illiterate.

[–] sfbing@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

My first computer was an eight-bit system running the CP/M operating system on an Intel 8080 processor, in about 1980. The system was some $900. I bought a Whitesmiths C compiler for it for about $300, and it came with the Wordstar text editor.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitesmiths

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WordStar

[–] sfbing@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Before that even -- Joe making big bucks on WWII.

[–] sfbing@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

The answer is "convicted by the Senate" but I like your answer better.

[–] sfbing@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago (6 children)

Every poll I have seen recently shows Boomers being more progressive than the next younger groups.

[–] sfbing@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

That's reminiscent of the Prosciutto e Melone that my Italian wife has taught me to enjoy!

[–] sfbing@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

In addition to the comments here about the lyrics, IMHO it is a one-chord song and boring. Most of Burton Cummings' songs are much more interesting musically, e.g. "Undun."

[–] sfbing@lemmy.world 13 points 3 months ago

Clarence Darrow wrote: "All men have an emotion to kill; when they strongly dislike some one they involuntarily wish he was dead. I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction."

[–] sfbing@lemmy.world 7 points 4 months ago

I assume, albeit with no proof, that they are being threatened, e.g. "w e know where your kids go to school."

[–] sfbing@lemmy.world 10 points 5 months ago

I'll guess that you have never been to California. There was pumpjack one block away from my house when I was growing up.

But in fact, the biggest thing keeping us from moving away from fossil fuels is the political pressure from people who make money from it. And if California went into Canada or Cascadia, those people would come with it, kicking and screaming all the way.

[–] sfbing@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

I'll have you know that I am an official paper CNE.

[–] sfbing@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

Ronald Reagan did that first for this particular line of work.

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