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  • foodandart@lemmy.ziptopolitics @lemmy.world•Trump administration is scrapping $1.8B fund meant to compensate president's allies, Blanche says
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    3 days ago

    Apparently that whole deal is a non starter, as it’s null since Trump waited until he was president again - 6 years after the Trump family tax documents were released, (and the contractor that did it served his jail time) as the statute of limitations to bring a complaint against the IRS on such matters is two years.

    Since he ALSO is head of the Executive Branch - which includes the Treasury and the IRS, there is a massive conflict of interest regarding the suit and a valid inability to show harm from the tax documents being released (since ofc, he’s the POTUS and not some schmoe living on the streets) so any punitive amount is rightly to be viewed as a policital shakedown at best, and outright theft of taxpayer money at worst.

    Given that he’s facing bigger problems now that Iran closed the Straight of Hormuz again, (Israel is doing whatever the hell it wants, to no one’s surprise) and what it’s likely to do to fuel and food costs come the fall… He’s fucked no matter what.

    Which… is delicious.

  • foodandart@lemmy.ziptoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•People born in the 1900s, what was life like back then?
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    5 days ago

    Oh man… antenna rotors were the best!

    After my dad divorced wife #2 and traded up to wife #3, he moved into her place for a few years in the mid-80’s… They were on a high ridge halfway between Concord, N.H, and the seacoast. House had a 40 foot aerial with a rotor and one of those huge channelmaster antennas. It was absolute gold for TV reception.

    Get this:

    WGBH - 2 out of Boston WCAX - 3 out of Burlington, Vt. or point the antenna southwest and get WFSB - 3 out of Hartford, Ct. WBZ - 4 and WCVB - 5 out of Boston, WCSH - 6 out of Portland, Maine, WHDH - 7 out of Boston, WMTW - 8 out of Portland, WMUR - 9 out of Manchester, N.H, WCBB - 10 out of Portland Maine, or WJAR - 10 out of Providence, R.I. (that was early mornings mostly) WENH - 11 out of Durham NH, WPRI - 12 out of Providence, R.I. (also only early mornings) WGME - 13 out of Portland Maine WNHT - 21 out of Concrd, NH (it didn’t last long…) WXNE - 25 out of Boston (Now it’s a Fox channel, WFXT) WMEA - 26 out of Portland, Maine WHLL - 27 out of Worchester, Mass, that went adult after hours… If you had an analogue pulse cross generator you could watch the naughty films… otherwise it was scrambled - I remember my younger brother madly trying to watch the fuck films while the picture danced and shook! LOL! WSBK - 38 out of Boston… Red Sox games anyone? WGBX - 44 off of Cape Cod (mornings mostly) WNDS - 50 out of Manchester, NH. (had Al Kaprelian, a local meterologist, who was actually the ONLY weatherman to call out that “perfect storm” in 1992 (the one that a movie was made about) and warn people about it… Short dude who was kinda goofy but absolutely knew his shit…) WLVI - 56 - had the Creature Double Feature monster movies on Saturady afternoons in the 70’s… WVJV - 66 - aka “v66” which tried to be an MTV clone but lasted 4 or 5 years and is now a spanish network channel… WQTV - 68 out of Boston…

    More TV channels on that spot than anywhere I’d lived, including the Bay Area in California.

  • foodandart@lemmy.ziptoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•People born in the 1900s, what was life like back then?
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    5 days ago

    Ha!

    I lived at my dad’s farm in N.H. through the last three years of high school, and he also had a party line. One long ring was for our place… also, the town we lived in was on a mechanical lata code switcher, so if we wanted to call our friends, as long as they were in the same 942- range, we only needed the last 4 digits. IIRC, talking to my step-mom about it, she told me the phone company actualy didn’t change out that mechanical switch until 1988… and by then I was long gone.

  • foodandart@lemmy.ziptoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•People born in the 1900s, what was life like back then?
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    6 days ago

    Model 1964 human here… Life in the past was a lot more free if you were a kid.

    After school we’d be out the door with rocket boosters on and not come back inside until it got dark. Parents didn’t know where we were, and usually didn’t care as long as we did not get into trouble.

    Rode bikes everywhere and played at the parks or would go to friends houses that had color TVs and watch afternoon cartoons. The closest we’d got to electronics would be a small AM/FM transistor radio. (If you got one of those, you were super lucky! I had this model.)

    If you got 50 cents from the parents you were set for the day. Could get a can of Coke and a candy bar.

    For the grownups, politics could be just as harrowing, Vietnam was a super hot topic and as kids, yeah you’d see lots of fucked up vets…

    It’s easy to look back and say “Ah, the good old days…” esp. if you were a kid - since mom and dad were doing the heavy lifting, but things were slower and the speed of stuff today seems to be down to the fact that people do not understand that they CAN slow down.

    When we got internet in 1999, we bailed on the cable TV - having both was too costly. In the 27 years we’re not had a TV (attached to cable service - I do game on a 50-inch 4k WalMart special (not-so) smart TV…) it’s been a real show, watching friends and family get sucked up and into the maw of the mainstream media. Shit’s poison.

    You really want to slow down and touch grass, kick as much of the commercial-driven media as you can, to the curb.

  • foodandart@lemmy.ziptoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•People born in the 1900s, what was life like back then?
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    6 days ago

    There is nothing stopping you from putting your phone on… say, a kitchen counter, and leaving it there and only talking on it while in that room and don’t take it with you, when you go out.

    I had a rotary phone until 2017 (and needed to stay in touch with my grandfather after my grandmother died) so I ported my landline number to a cellphone.

    Now that most of my family is gone, I routinely leave the phone at home. I can let it go to voicemail just like I used to let the answering machine take the calls when I was out.

    It’s only a digital leash if you let it be.

  • foodandart@lemmy.ziptoFunny@sh.itjust.works•Your bee guide for the summer
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    7 days ago

    Hey!!! Now, waitaminit!

    Those “pieces of shit” do a bang up job of keeping the caterpilars and other pest creepy-crawlies off the fruiting trees.

    NGL, have a friend whose house has 2-inch eaves (not soffits) that are lined each summer with wasps nests.

    They do nothing but ferry all the caterpillars off the peach trees to their nests all summer long.

    Also, as there are always people outside on the porch, the wasps are totally chill with everyone and no one has ever been stung or swooped at.

    (Friend shares the bounty… we get lots of peaches for their diligent work… peach pies, peach cobbler, peach schnapps, peach jam, peaches with ice cream… you get the idea…)

    It’s about being a part of the territory, not an interloper.

    I like the wasps… now the white faced hornets… that’s another story. Utter cunts, those ones are.