Alto

Alto, 21 hours ago

All the square head breeds tend to be such goobers, I love them. My sisters in town, she's got a pittie mix. Damn dog broke into my room the other night and woke me up. Took her a second to realize I was awake, and she was definitely purposefully waking me up.

She's both such a little shit and a sweetheart lmao

Alto, 21 hours ago

Wild that being able to change titles to be more accurate is a feature instead of the default right?

Alto, 20 hours ago

I'm definitely oversimplifing, but this sort of thing relies 80% on whether or not the SMM can be fucked to make an account on the site

Alto, 20 hours ago

noted fascist is a fascist, more at 5

Guys I'm starting to think that this Trump fellow might not like democracy

Alto, 2 days ago

Yup, it's better for when it's gonna be sitting

Source: I've eaten an ungodly amount of PBJs in my life

Alto, 2 days ago

I know it's kinda cheating to bring them up in this context, but the Swiss manage to run trains to very small towns just fine

Alto, 3 days ago

He's exactly who the MAGA fuckheads want roaming the streets leading up to this election.

Alto, 3 days ago

Emulation when I was younger (and to a lesser extent now. I own the vast majority of old consoles/games I have any interest in playing these days). These days it's near exclusively TV/Movies and pretty much entirely because of convenience. Between myself and the others in my household, we have near every streaming service, I just can't be fucked to figure out which one what I want to watch is on.

I really need to get around to turning my old pc into a media server.

Alto, 5 days ago

Guys Im starting to think the guy who's only rich because daddy used apartheid slave labor may not have the best views on race

Alto, 5 days ago

In a pretty short span of time no less.

I've definitely had 16 drinks in a day before, just spread out over, yknow, most that day.

Alto, 5 days ago

I think survivorship bias plays into it as well. Yeah, most the stuff on the radio today is kinda meh. Most the stuff on the radio in those days was kinda meh too. All the meh songs got forgotten, and you only remember the bangers. You've already seen it happen to 00s music and we're watching it happen with the 10s.

But yeah, it's wild how many people look at how accessible different types of music are now and just... don't go looking.

Alto, 5 days ago

I'm relatively certain that JFK did similar during one of his earlier elections, but that's going off memory of something I read a while ago.

Alto, 5 days ago

...why would you put that image im my head

Alto, 6 days ago (edited 6 days ago)

I have absolutely zero expertise in the field, but every time you see something like that in history, I always wonder if it was primarily spurred on by a change in writing medium. E.g. paper vs tablet.

Alto, 7 days ago

Car bad, train good

I fucking hate stroads

Alto, 8 days ago

I didn't get a ton, but I'm so glad I got to see what I did. I've been waiting to see the aurora my entire life. Hopefully before too much longer I can finally take that trip to Reykjavik I've been dreaming of for so long.

Alto, 8 days ago (edited 8 days ago)

Not at all an answer to your question, but a very semi-related tangent.

The last receipt of a US Civil War pension passed away relatively recently. She was a young woman who would regularly help out a local older man, a civil war vet with no kids or family otherwise. Towards the end of his days, he married her so she'd get the benefits of his pension, as things were really really tough.

Some of the detail might be off, going off of memory, but that's the general gist.

EDIT:
So I went to double check, and I got a fair bit of it wrong.

Irene Triplett
She was actually the daughter of the woman I thought I was talking about. Her mother married her father at ages 29 and 78 respectively, and she was born one of five children in 1930, living until the age of 90 before passing in 2020.

Alto, 8 days ago

So I went to double check, and I got a fair bit of it wrong.

Irene Triplett
She was actually the daughter of the woman I thought I was talking about. Her mother married her father at ages 29 and 78 respectively, and she was born one of five children in 1930, living until the age of 90 before passing in 2020.

Alto, 8 days ago

Ah yep, you're right that's the one I was thinking of. Both are pretty interesting, forget how young this country is sometimes.

Alto, 8 days ago

Ding ding ding. Authoritarian governments never disarm the right. The police have shown that they won't protect you, if they're not actively joining in on it.

We protect us.

Alto, 9 days ago

People that didn't grow up in environments where you're surrounded by shitty, bigoted opinions don't understand just how fucking hard it is and how long it takes to deprogram yourself from that shit. Took me longer than 18.

Once he starts personally getting on stage and being a bigoted shitbag, I'm more than fine with putting him on blast. Til then, I'm willing to give the kid at least some of the benefit of the doubt.

Alto, 9 days ago (edited 9 days ago)

I really, really don't like this growing trend of refusing to believe that people can change. I was caught on the young, dumb teenage libertarian > far right pipeline fucking hard. If I hadn't had friends that recognized that and (figuratively) knocked some sense into me, I'm not entirely certain I would've changed.

Edit: apparently hit send mid thought, fixed that

Alto, 9 days ago

While true, the general cultural preference for larger vehicles will inherently carryover to when people are deciding what EV to buy.

Alto, 9 days ago

Russia could've, y'know, just not done an illegal invasion of Ukraine.

Alto, 8 days ago

If we're going old school, go old school. Oldest kid rides in the bed.