Nusm

joined 11 months ago
[–] [email protected] 121 points 8 months ago (5 children)

I don’t remember the comedian, but I remember the joke:

“If they can dye it green for St. Patrick’s Day, why can’t they dye it blue the other days of the year?”

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

Ice is back with a brand new invention?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

If you’re a fan of gritty police dramas, I continuously beat the drum for The Shield. It’s one of most tightly written series I’ve ever seen, with events from the very first episode affecting everything that comes after. Plots wind through multiple episodes and sometimes seasons.

All 7 seasons are currently on Hulu.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 8 months ago

I’m not saying he’s right, but I’m saying I understand.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I find higher meaningful engagement and much less toxic culture here.

It takes time to cultivate your community list here, just like it took time to build my followed subreddits back when I first started with Reddit, but I get posts that I care about and am interested in in my “Subscribed” list. I’ll admit that not every one of my interests are represented, but I’m still happy here.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago (1 children)

And for point one, I use Voyager, which was heavily inspired by Apollo for Reddit, so Voyager makes this place feel more like home.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Good mornin’ ma’am, and isn’t it a loooovely mornin’?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

“It was a million to one shot, doc!”

[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I read that book cover to cover when it came out (still have my copy somewhere), and I must say that the author makes a pretty compelling case.

The main theory is that someone (maybe Oswald, maybe someone else) was shooting from the book depository, but they only got off two shots. The 3rd shot was from the rifle of a Secret Service agent in the convertible directly behind Kennedy, which went off accidentally as he turned to return fire to the book depository.

The author shows how the bullet that blew off the top of Kennedy’s head was a soft metal jacket like the Secret Service used, while the first two shots were hard metal jackets, which was what was found in the depository. (He goes into great detail on the ballistics.) Because of the shape and acoustics of Dealy Plaza, a gunshot coming from the car behind Kennedy could sound like it came from the grassy knoll. Lastly, it would explain why people in the plaza claimed they smelled gunpowder, which wouldn’t be possible if the only shots came from the book depository.

The author posits that the two shots that got Kennedy from the book depository might have killed him anyway, but the 3rd and fatal headshot was an accident from the Secret Service agent who was sitting on the back of the convertible in front of Kennedy with his feet in the back seat. He stumbled as he tried to stand in the seat to turn and return fire to whoever was shooting from the book depository behind him, and the rifle accidentally discharged, thus the title of the book Mortal Error.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

If only there were some clients for Android. If only….

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Whatever do you mean? Certainly they made those mean ol’ insurance companies stay, didn’t they?!?

(Just so no one misunderstands - /s)

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago (2 children)

They’ll just pass another law saying that ISPs can’t leave. Problem solved! ¯_(ツ)_/¯

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