when people like Bill Gates say shit like "there won't be doctors or teachers in ten years" we should consider that as a threat. His ass is going to see a real human doctor! His grandkids will have real human teachers! He's talking about YOU!!
A self-evaluation is the wildest goddamn thing, capitalism asking people to snitch on themselves. Get the fuck out of here
I will suggest that... HYPOTHETICALLY... when one's family member's recipe calls for evaporated milk, but they wrote "condensed," and you're a twenty-something that doesn't know the difference... it's at least sub-par and shouldn't be served to your neighbors.
Topps baseball cards: 1959 Roy Campanella, 1964 Ron Santo, 1971 Bert Blyleven, and 1972 Tony Perez, and Willie McCovey
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A mid-70a McCovey, Blyleven RC, 64 Santo and 59 Campanella Symbol of Courage.
It was a good get! I was in there (and still am). Walking away with some nice cards for a few bucks now that you big spenders have left!
1988 Topps baseball cards of Cardinals right-handed pitcher Bill Dawley and left-handed pitcher Ken Dayley. They appear to be mirror images of each other.
If you were the type to order your baseball cards by team and last name, then Topps had a little visual Easter egg for you in 1988.
If there is a tour bus version of the Thunder Machine, I am IN.
Theory: the "if a man does not work, neither let him eat" Old Testament vengeful god bullshit gets twisted to be "if a man cannot eat, he must not be working." And then you have a country that rewards productivity theater and can't recognize the systemic causes of anything.
baseball cards of Hall-of-Famers: Billy Williams, Willie Stargell, Johnny Bench, Red Schoendienst, Carl Yastrzemski, Joe Morgan, Jim Palmer, and Rod Carew.
Here's a page I just got nearly full. Williams, Yaz, Morgan, and Palmer are all reasonably-priced pickups from my local shop or eBay over the last week.
Got the 1973 Bench moving to my SportLots box. Just agreed to a trade for a fair-condition 1972 Stargell while I was typing this up!
It's a work in progress! It's 2 Z-folio 9-pocket toploader albums. I had been looking for something like it, and found this at a shop on a work trip.
I'd rather have single-sided clear pages so I can see the backs, but this'll do for now.
Hahaha, yes, I remember your post now!
For some reason I still love the Clemente and basket-catch Bench (got one of those on the way, actually).
But this set is absolute trash for my HOF binder. I think I'm going with Carlton's 1973 Kellogg's instead.
1973 Topps Steve Carlton baseball card. Carlton's face is obscured by shadow, and catcher Tim McCarver stands between him and the camera.
Looking at vintage baseball cards thanks to @adarowski.bsky.social
Imagine winning the NL Triple Crown and Cy Young in one of the best seasons of pitching ever.
And then they make this your card the next year: catcher standing in front of you, and your face covered in shade.
Cold, Topps. Cold.
I was in a high school honor band that played a real-time symphonic reenactment of the firebombing of Dresden.
If you're looking for what radicalized me, that's a good place to start.
Was the author local for at least part of their life?
Perfect. The most useful thing I've printed was a replacement knob for our kitchen stand mixer.
Same phrase that the Russian state uses.
I wish!
Haha, I'm pretty sure nobody got the reference. He brought one of my John Coltrane records.
My kid was this Howard Moon for Halloween last year.
Something to remember is that the Techbro billionaire class were rarely the actual tech pioneers. They're the ones who bankrolled it, or engineered a controlling share interest.
They're just Railway Robber Barons 2.0.
It's why they're crap at actual tech. Their 'skill' was money, timing or theft.
Tech folk, just an FYI: I'm still on the hunt for Information Security-based roles. Looking at more B2C companies and nonprofits.
Now announcing Calico, the TikTok replacement for posting videos, or as we like to call them: "Cuts"
Investors like to emphasize the firm's fiduciary responsibility to them, but they're also wildly ignorant of what makes a business profitable. It's fiduciary theater, making harmful changes that investors will agree to, even if they harm the business.
It's like property owners and zoning...
Wrote about the irrationality of the boss revolt mcfunley.com/on-misery
Very much this part for me. 2004-2007 was the most "social" time in my life. Out many nights a week, seeing lots of friends. You were there!
It was only in retrospect that I realized that I was likely dealing with depression in an unhealthy way through that whole period.
But I'm glad we met.
You know, your own imagination is far more wonderful Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood
Than any computer could ever be. You know why? Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood
You’re a living human being. And a computer is just a machine. Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood
Human beings are far more wonderful than machines. Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood
Mister Rogers never misses
I would gladly buy a ticket and popcorn every night.
Finally, this was the year I tried to get into horror. Still feeling my way around, but Stephen Graham Jones helped pave the way for me with The Only Good Indians and My Hear is a Chainsaw. Looking forward to going further into the wilderness with him in 2025.
