My dad died last week after a long battle with dementia. It's a slow and horrible disease. Dad and I didn't always see eye to eye. In fact, we were at loggerheads over a lot of important stuff. But I loved him, and he lived an amazing life that frankly, sometimes defied belief. He was in the Korean conflict (where he was flight engineer on Psiops missions and dropping spies behind North Korean lines), and later on dangerous test flights in a B-29 testing self-sealing fuel tanks over a bomb range. As a civilian he was a aircraft mechanic for military contractors, and for the rest of his working career a Field Service Rep for Bell Helicopter, traveling the world advising Bell customers in peace and war. He was imbedded with combat pilots in Vietnam, barely escaped the fall of Tehran, visited off-short oil rigs, shot at and forced down by drug lords in Columbia, rode out hurricanes in the bahamas, flew with Air America in Cambodia, shot at by troops off the coast of South America. He was immune to wealth or celebrity, but his eternal and genuine farm-boy charm allowed him to hob-nob with the rich, movie stars, captains of industry, high-ranking military, and high ranking politicians. He didn't care about any of it, and his favorite place was working in his shop fixing old vehicles or tools, and building amazing machines from scratch.
It was hard seeing this amazing guy slipping away year by year, day by day. Even as his memory faded, he retaining his humor and charm until near the end, when the disease (as if often does) strips away even that. It was sad to see him go, but the dad I knew left a long time ago. I wish we'd had more time together, but we lived far apart, and sometimes worlds apart, and the covid shutdown hit at a very bad time for both of us.
Ocomtún, with large pyramid-like buildings, stone columns, a ball field and imposing buildings and plazas, was likely an important city, according to anthropologists.
I’ve been using fediverse stuff (Mastodon and, most recently, Calckey – I’m just going to use “Mastodon” as shorthand here, purists can bite me) for over a year now, a…
As you may have already seen most of Reddit has gone dark including r/GlobalOffensive. We, the mod team of r/GlobalOffensive have created this alternative Counter-Strike community here for people who want to continue discussing Counter-Strike, bypassing Reddit's shenanigans....
I was initially introduced to Mastodon a few years ago by a close friend and picked up on it quickly given the benefits of not having to deal with advertising, or being shown what a mega-corporation thought I should have to see through algorithms. I have since found a great instance over on cupoftea.social that promotes quality...
Towards the end of the first century AD, the Emperor Domitian rebranded the month of October as ‘Domitianus’. It will have troubled him that Julius Caesar and Augustus already had their own months, and this was a neat way to affirm his godlike status. Fast forward two millennia, and the high priests of the new
An ancient Mayan empire city was found in the Mexican jungle (www.nbcnews.com)
Ocomtún, with large pyramid-like buildings, stone columns, a ball field and imposing buildings and plazas, was likely an important city, according to anthropologists.
Elder Scrolls 6: Todd Howard Admits Upcoming Sequel Could Be His Last Elder Scrolls - IGN (www.ign.com)
Bethesda's Todd Howard discusses The Elder Scrolls 6, Fallout 5 and what comes next.
People from Reddit or redditors, people from Boston are Bostonians, people from Canada are Canadian. What should the people of this site use for a demonym?
I've seen keebinetters, but that feels like trying to say Massachusettsian instead of Bay Stater....
OC Why did the #TwitterMigration fail? (blog.bloonface.com)
I’ve been using fediverse stuff (Mastodon and, most recently, Calckey – I’m just going to use “Mastodon” as shorthand here, purists can bite me) for over a year now, a…
OC Welcome to the History magazine
Hope you spread or read some interesting content
The official r/GlobalOffensive at Kbin (www.reddit.com)
As you may have already seen most of Reddit has gone dark including r/GlobalOffensive. We, the mod team of r/GlobalOffensive have created this alternative Counter-Strike community here for people who want to continue discussing Counter-Strike, bypassing Reddit's shenanigans....
Yikes! Reddit turning off mobile access to reddit.
YSK: NSFW content is hidden by default
To enable NSFW content:...
OC Difference between kbin and lemmy?
Why do you use one over the other? Also, what's the deal with Calckey?
OC How did you end up finding kbin? Did you migrate here from Reddit?
I was initially introduced to Mastodon a few years ago by a close friend and picked up on it quickly given the benefits of not having to deal with advertising, or being shown what a mega-corporation thought I should have to see through algorithms. I have since found a great instance over on cupoftea.social that promotes quality...
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Who is Pride really for? (www.spectator.co.uk)
Towards the end of the first century AD, the Emperor Domitian rebranded the month of October as ‘Domitianus’. It will have troubled him that Julius Caesar and Augustus already had their own months, and this was a neat way to affirm his godlike status. Fast forward two millennia, and the high priests of the new
Satellite images show massive flooding of Ukraine's south (kyivindependent.com)
Satellite images shared by Planet Labs show the massive extent of the damage caused by the breach of the Kakhovka dam on June 6.
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