DagwoodIII
@DagwoodIII@piefed.social
- Comment on Be a punk rocker 4 minutes ago:
In the comics, Klaw took on the Fantastic Four and the Panther.
- Comment on Be a punk rocker 5 minutes ago:
Well, now I just feel silly.
- Comment on The woke liberals are making our wars gay 7 minutes ago:
I just rewatched the pilot episode of Babylon 5. The space station has a daily newspaper.
It’s always fun to read old SF and see what they got right and what they missed.
Probably the king of misinformation is ‘The Man Who Sold The Moon.’ Gets every detail wrong, but it’s still a fun read. One of the businessman/hero’s greatest inventions is an automatic light switch you don’t have to touch to turn on lights when you enter a room. Best invention of 1954!
- Comment on The woke liberals are making our wars gay 13 hours ago:
Did you notice that it was written in 1928?
- Comment on The woke liberals are making our wars gay 14 hours ago:
[off topic?]
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/74098/74098-h/74098-h.htm
War No. 81-Q by Cordwainer Smith
The USA and Tibet go to war in the 22nd Century…
- Comment on Be a punk rocker 18 hours ago:
Second message to you, the other is re your Black Panther comment.
The funny thing is that, iirc, Bucky was deemed unsuitable to be Captain america due to the whole Soviet / Hydra assassin thing.
However, in Thunderbolts, it’s okay for him to be a member of Congress???
- Comment on Be a punk rocker 18 hours ago:
Here’s my beef with Black Panther. They used every stale trope from every other Marvel movie in the script. Hero fights his evil version [Ant Man and Iron Man] Hero fights a member of his family [every Thor movie] Hero is presumed dead [Winter Soldier]
Klaw would have been a much better baddie than Killmonger.
Just had to air that grievance
- Comment on Be a punk rocker 23 hours ago:
In the Captain America movie we learn that the current [MCU] President was near the same blast that created the first Hulk. Yadda yadda, the President becomes the Red Hulk and ends up in jail. Harrison Ford plays the President and he’s sorrowful for what happened and Captain America is also sad.
In Superman, Superman explicitly uses his powers to stop a genocidal war and the dictator gets killed. At one point Lois Lane questions if just having super powers gives Clark the right to do anything he wants, even if it’s good?
If you haven’t seen the MCU movies, see ‘Black Panther’ first. Then see ‘Captain America - The Winter Soldier.’ imho, those are the only two that would be interesting if you took out the super hero stuff.
Superman is a pretty fun movie. It was made by a fan boy, so it can be confusing if you don’t know who The Element Man or Krypto are.
- Comment on What to put on a CV when I have nothing to put there? 1 day ago:
Looks like you’re familiar with a few software packages, most of which I’ve never heard of. List those. Also, do you have a driver’s license? That fills a line of two,
- Comment on The Obama wing of the Democratic Party is declaring “war” on progressives. Why don’t they ever bring this energy against Trump? Why do they hate working class people even more? 3 days ago:
Are those the people who think Obama was the worst war criminal of all time and Stalin was misunderstood?
- Comment on The Obama wing of the Democratic Party is declaring “war” on progressives. Why don’t they ever bring this energy against Trump? Why do they hate working class people even more? 3 days ago:
First time?
- Comment on This is the chore that never ends 3 days ago:
Just do what the nice people tell you to do…
- Comment on Who’s on First? — Abbott and Costello 3 days ago:
Madre de dios!!
- Comment on This is the chore that never ends 3 days ago:
Joan Rivers.
I hate being a housewife. Make the beds, wash the dishes, cook dinner, and do the laundry. Then six months go by and you have to do it all over again.
- Comment on The Obama wing of the Democratic Party is declaring “war” on progressives. Why don’t they ever bring this energy against Trump? Why do they hate working class people even more? 3 days ago:
It was negative 8 when I made the edit, down to negative 3.
- Comment on The Obama wing of the Democratic Party is declaring “war” on progressives. Why don’t they ever bring this energy against Trump? Why do they hate working class people even more? 4 days ago:
It’s very important that we keep as many voters as possible away from the Dems.
It’s only when the GOP turns the country fully Fascist that we’ll get a true Left movement going.
It doesn’t matter if all the Left people are in camps, we’ll be united at last!
- Comment on Somethings wrong about a system where nearly half of its workers need two jobs to survive. 4 days ago:
When Ronald Reagan took office in 1981, ‘middle class’ in the US was still defined as one job supporting a family of four. In those days, $1 million was considered a vast fortune.
By the time Bush the elder left office, ‘middle class’ was two jobs to support the family, and $1 million was what a rich guy paid for a party.
- Comment on Somethings wrong about a system where nearly half of its workers need two jobs to survive. 4 days ago:
Basic reality.
It’s not a difficult search. Look up rents, and then food prices, and then average salaries.
- Comment on Who’s on First? — Abbott and Costello 4 days ago:
Updated in the 1960s.
- Comment on Hey, wait a fucking minute... 4 days ago:
There is no single ‘American’ school system.
Each state makes it’s own rules, and the local counties all have their own ‘Board of Education.’
Two high schools can be five miles apart and have totally different curriculums. One might have a $5 million computer lab and the other might have a $5 million football stadium.
- Comment on Hey, wait a fucking minute... 4 days ago:
I’ve been saying this for years.
A kid who can kick a ball or swim fast gets coaches who help guide them and make sure they are well adjusted.
A kid can get all A’s and never get a drop of guidance.
- Comment on Pikachu 5 days ago:
Buried the lede.
[and to be pedantic, it is spelled both ways]
- Comment on Pikachu 5 days ago:
1964= Civil Rights Act
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_Rights_Act_of_1964
1968=MLK assassination
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Martin_Luther_King_Jr.
- Comment on Pikachu 5 days ago:
You have any evidence?
- Comment on Pikachu 5 days ago:
That was literally what MLK and Gandhi did.
- Comment on A simpler time 1 week ago:
I’ve seen people who passed out at work because they were trying to do manual labor and fast for Ramadan. Or people who skipped their meds because of fast days.
I heard an old Rabbi’s line. “The Bible is like the daily newspaper. If the newspaper tells you that the President was in New York City last night you know that it’s absolutely true. If the newspaper tells you that it’s likely to rain tomorrow, you can accept that as very probably right. If the newspaper shows you a little boy with a talking tiger you have to accept the metaphor.”
- Comment on How do you use the "uno reverse card"? 1 week ago:
I’ve seen it played both ways.
I checked the official rules. You’re only supposed to pick up one card if you aren’t holding a match.
- Comment on A simpler time 1 week ago:
Peg Leg Bates.
Famous one legged dancer Marley would almost certainly ahve heard of.
- Comment on A simpler time 1 week ago:
I assume he had ‘reasons’ not to go to a doctor?
I used to work in the American medical system and I can speak for hours about all the abuses and stupid mistakes Western medicine can make. But I can do even more on how people hurt themselves by not going to doctors.
There was a fellow who had arm apin and went to a chiropractor. Heart attack.
- Comment on How do you use the "uno reverse card"? 1 week ago:
My particular UNO deck came with several blank Wild Cards. The family is supposed to decide what goes on them. If I’m playing with new people we usually just say that those are Plus Twos.
I’ve seen plenty of variations of the rules.
One ‘house rule’ is that if you don’t have a matching card you keep picking up cards until you do match. Other times the player just has to take one card.