Do yourself a favor and look him up. Cinema pioneer. Seems cheesy now, groundbreaking at the time.

Swift makes me think acceleration, and/or short-term speed. I wouldn’t call a marathon record-breaker “swift”.

First laugh all day, teared up a bit. Jesus!

My wife is always, “Your skin is so soft, like a girl!”

Thanks?

And I would be thrilled to fucking death to see more ads just like it. Touch my brain lovingly, don’t just fuck it.

The percentage of people among the general population who know the difference is about 2.5356%. I’ll allow it.

For the shooters out there, I’m all about accuracy. Sometimes precision for fun, but I just want in the general area for most cases.

Poe wrote a thing called The Pit and the Pendulum, which you may enjoy.

At this point Putin has no choice but to keep the war going. His economy is sliding, and has been, and all that’s propping it up is the switch to a wartime economy. Take that away and the whole house of cards collapses. So I don’t give two shits what he says about anything regarding all this. He’s stuck with no moves left.

Oh, and his population has been crashing for years. And now Russia is losing a solid chunk of healthy young men. Remember Putin creating a national holiday years ago? Everyone was to stay home and fuck. I’m not making this up. Haven’t heard about it for a long time. Anyone?

Got me thinking on this meme.

At that point I thought it was an Onion article.

“Chinese people like pork, right?! And they like coffee! See where I’m going with this?!!!”

All true! But the profits still get siphoned off elsewhere. My Lowe’s employs us locals, but the hardware store downtown doesn’t exist to provide shareholder value.

Again, you’re right. Non all non-local sellers are evil capitalists, hell bent on making us poor.

Maybe I don’t notice because I’m in the deepest South. Trees don’t dump all at once, it’s a gradual thing from fall through spring. All I ever see is landscapers doing a quick blow down after mowing.

Also, we’re not so much into appearances down here, not like other places I’ve lived. Your yard doesn’t have to be perfect.

So, again, what sort of space do you live in where this is annoyance? I’m only aware of leaf blowers when I’m driving and a lawn service is blowing.

Who’s complaining is my question. People in nice hoods with the neighbors going nuts? Apartment complexes? Is this an autumn thing where leaves fall everywhere?

I’m always taken aback by the hate. Where and how do you guys live that this is an issue?! Let alone a major annoyance?! I can scarcely imagine noticing leaf blower noise. It’s no worse than gas mowers and those are everywhere (or used to be), and go for far longer. Is this just a circle-jerk complaint kinda thing?

I know everyone around here thinks they’re an ADHD, autistic, OCD mess, but can no one tune out background noise? (No, you’re not special, more likely an normal adult human with modern life issues.) If anything it should be old people bitching as hearing discretion gets more difficult in middle-age+.

The homeless guy that lives behind our Lowe’s probably gets annoyed at the 9PM blowing, but that’s a 20-30 minute thing, and not too late. (Always felt a bit bad when I closed.) I pick every tiny bit of plastic out though. Not in my waterways!

A bit snarky, I know, but those were serious questions.

And BTW, organic refuse gets blown in the street because passing vehicles reduce it to dust very quickly. All organic, no harm no foul in my book. Also, it’s hellacious to corral that stuff for sweeping, no point.

EDIT: This post reminded me I need a new battery blower. And if you think 5-minutes of noise while I blow out my truck bed and driveway is too much, I don’t know what to tell you.

I’m actually that kinda guy. It would never occur to me that chainsawing the head of a whale corpse I found on the beach would be a no-no. It’s already dead! Not like I killed it. I’m also dumb enough to keep bird feathers I find. Yeah. That could be a problem given the wrong cop.

“SWEET! Giant skull! I’m hanging that shit at camp! (After the ants do their thing.)”

I really do hang skulls I find on the shed door. Got a deer, a small mammal with pointy canines, a box turtle and pieces of something the raptors left (rabbit?). One time the local dogs dropped a deer skull on my tent. Coughed loudly and scared hell out of 'em.

So did Martin Shkreli. (LOL, I Googled “guy who raised drug prices”. First hit from Gemini. Maybe AI ain’t so dumb?)

Shkreli not only bragged about it but had the nerve to be an insufferable little bitch while he was at it. With a punchable face. At least Holmes is cute.

Steal from the poor all ya like, never the rich. Reverse Robin Hood: A-OK.

the “worst” disaster in the USA

The 3-Mile Island incident hit two weeks after The China Syndrome hit theaters. (A movie about a runaway nuclear meltdown.)

Otherwise the story would have been, "A tiny poof of radioactive steam got loose, everything was handled quickly and perfectly, no big deal, and back to you Tom (Brokaw).

Hits hard! But the people that need to digest it wouldn’t get the reference.

I think, perhaps, there is room in between those bullet points. Perhaps a few more nuanced options?

The survey did not go into details on the criteria used

I’m out. This “news” is utter trash. Shame on anyone who upvoted this out of “feels”. Some of you are no better than MAGA, popularizing garbage because it fits your view. Fucking be better.

Figured I’d get a bunch of, “yeah, money, Botox, rich, yadda yadda yadda…” Of course that’s a thing, but still, my mom was balls out hot until she hit 60 or so, straight downhill, while still trying to look younger. Reba got some genes to fit those jeans.