One interesting thing at my local one in southern California: several people were waving large state flags. Lots of American flags as well, but I thought the state flags were interesting.

During the Renaissance, there were certainly a lot of the weirdly adult baby Jesus paintings, but there were also realistic examples from the time (that one is Raphael, one of the great masters).

Well, yes to both. It’s also clearly drawn by hand - basically a cartoon.

It’s annual, so it’s just total deaths that year.

I believe it’s referring to the five people who died in 2023 in that submersible that was named “titanic.”

Yep. Bart Simpson heading that direction, too.

High school kids

Doing some looking around, looks like this is a page from Betty and Veronica #201, which was published in 1972. Also, the one posted has been colorized, it was originally black and white.

They’re attractive, but they also have a much bigger problem with gaskets getting moldy, and I personally think getting clothes in and out of a top-loading is more convenient unless they’re stacked.

Usually only on front-loading models so you can see if there’s water in it before trying to open the door.

Apparently you’re a modern horror story.

Yeah, good point. I can’t think of anything I had as a kid that would be drastically improved with modern batteries, but for sure cordless power tools are a big change. I have a cordless electric chainsaw - that wouldn’t have been feasible in the 70s.

Are batteries that much different? I was born in the early 60s, and the batteries my toys used seemed like the same AAA, AA, C, and D batteries we use mostly today. I think the key difference is that a lot of things take a lot less energy than they used to.

I feel like this just be a visual illustration of a pun out some song lyrics, but I’m not getting them.

I remember Randy Rainbow doing it in 2016 (when do many thought Trump didn’t have a chance).

He gets shit for drone strikes (which he increased but didn’t start) that had civilian casualties, but no mentions that everyone prior just used larger dumb bombs that had a lot more civilian casualties. Everyone just says “Look at how many drone strikes under Obama!” Here’s the estimated number of middle eastern civilian deaths since 2001:

From this article

What was the fallout afterwards? Did they just say “you need to stay hydrated,” or what?

No clue. Not making any claims other than that there’s no known expiration for water that’s not subject to excess heat.

God I miss them. He wasn’t a perfect president, but it seemed like he really tried to do the right thing.

Thanks, I appreciate that. I’m not really enjoying 2025 so far (I’ll just mention that I’m pretty far left leaning as well, so you can understand that country/world events are stressful).

We had planned on selling our house in CA and moving to WA. Now my wife has gone to NM to live with our son, and I’m getting ready to sell the CA house so we can each buy one. I’ve decided to stay in the same area of CA (where I grew up, where all my friends are), which means my house will be a small condo since prices here are super high. So that’s adding to the stress, but compared to the marriage ending thing it feels more minor.

I know things will settle out, but it’s been hard to take.