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Right?!
Why Not All of Them at Once?
Just When I Think I Can’t Possibly Miss SF More Than I Already Do…
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America Has Two Possible Futures
As If You Need Another Reason to Vote For Harris-Walz
He’s Dead, Jim
I knew what I was getting into when I bought it. Seller noted it as non-functional with a “no disc” error, but it was cheap and I thought why not give repairing it a shot? I’ve seen enough YouTube videos to know that the fix for the “no disc” error was simple – just some basic cleaning and a bit of tweaking of the laser’s potentiometer. Hell, one video I watched even had this exact model and the numbers on the multimeter I needed to match to get it working.
Unfortunately, even after attaching a meter and mirroring what was shown in the video (and afterward a whole lot of playing around with other values), it still stubbornly refuses to read discs. The laser and the transport mechanism is verified as working (it moves normally and attempts to focus), but so far I’ve had no luck resuscitating it.
I did note that someone else had already been into it. The screws that hold the top plate of the bottom half of the unit in place all but fell out when I went to remove them, so who knows what’s been fucked around with? (Says the guy who’s fucking around with it.)
I’m half-tempted to seek out a working unit and just throw this one in the donate pile. I do rather like the styling of this lil’ nugget.
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???? ???? ????
Right?!
There Are Some Advantages to Growing Older
Oopsie!
“Dollar Store Thor” ????
As If We Needed More Reasons To Vote For Her
Take All The Time You Need, MAGA. I’ll Wait.
Can We Deport This Asshole?
Vomiting It All Up
Right?!
Judge Chutkan Follows the Malicious Compliance Example
And the Orange Shitweasel is losing what remains of his syphilis-ridden brain.
I wonder how many Republican representatives/Senators are also soiling their panties tonight?
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VOTE!
“The Only Patriotic Choice for President”
Aren’t We All?
Think About It
None of his MAGA supporters can afford to spend $100K on a piece of Chinese garbage, so I think the real reason for this has been uncovered.
FUCK TRUMP. VOTE HARRIS-WALZ 2024!
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#truth
I know I’ve written about this before, but one of the things I remember most about my life in San Francisco was the end of Daylight Savings Time. One day I’m walking home in the last rays of light of the day, and the next, I’m walking home in darkness. It was delicious.
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Right?!
The More You Know ????
Actually, October was the eighth month in the Roman calendar. And the surrounding months are named for their number in the order – SEPTember (7th), OCTober (8th), NOVember (9th), DECember (10th).
Roman Calendars are absolutely bonkers.
Months 7, 8, 9, and 10 are named for their number, but month 1 is named for the god Janus, who was associated with time and doorways. March is named for Mars etc.
HOWEVER, this is just the start of the crazy. Roman January had no fixed length. It was just “January” until it was springtime. THEN it was March.
However, the Roman’s had some festivals that took place in January and this is where Febuary originates. It wasn’t it’s own month, it was a “sub-month” of January incorporating some important religious festivals.
So in the republican period of Rome, it would be January, then February for a bit, then freaking January again then March.
This was part of why Augustus was able to convince people it was fine to take days from February so August would have 31 days. Romans already thought of February as not really a thing.
Now, December was the last month and month 10, and yes the republican Calendar had 10 months. However, a calendar for the earth with 10 months is basically crap. A Lunar/Solar calendar will have 13 months, and solar calendars will have 12 months, and even the ancients could do solar calendars well enough to get the length of a year to ~360 days.
However, the fact that the length of the year is 365 and change pissed the Romans off. So they stuck with their calendar that was 9 months of 30 days and then January was “the rest of winter till spring”.
However, even by cheating with January, the Romans experienced some of the worst seasonal drift of all ancient peoples. Although some if this was political as the plebeian tribunes and the the priests of Janus got to decide when the new year began (oh yeah, Roman need year was March 1). So if you were a consul or a bunch of senators and you needed somebodies term to be up, and you could find some flowers sticking up through the snow, well then it must be March now. Time to strip last years consul of his power and appoint a new one!
Anyway, the calendar situation was so abysmal that when new calendars were proposed to fix some of this stuff people cheered! Actually, the sources say that lots of people faught prevent any change arguing that the calendar came from the gods. However, the administrators loved it and adoption was rapid.
However the Julian calendar still has seasonal drift. Hence the Gregorian reforms.
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Stolen Memes
Disturbing
I saw The Living End once, shortly after it premiered. I don’t remember much about it other than I found it profoundly disturbing, coming out at a time when so many of my friends and loved ones were succumbing to AIDS and it seemed like I was going to a funeral every other week.
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