alexgalt.com
Working on putting the "Green" in Green Bay. Middle-aged family man. Film photography, bicycles (mostly old ones), and woodworking. (Skeets are my views alone).
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Seems sensible to see if there's a fire
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Smoke
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It's funny that there are 30+ more years of American history for my kids than there were for me, 60+ more years than for their grandma, and yet they're trying to shove it all into the same time span. US History should be a two year class.
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There's a lot to cover in a year and I suspect that it's easier for teachers to talk about the Civil Rights movement than, say, Bush and the Neocon's march to war. Those things aren't safely in the past yet.
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Reads a thing, makes a post, doom scrolls a little, realizes many have already made the same post.
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These things don’t get picked up in history textbooks either, not that 21st century history gets taught in schools. My kids didn’t study anything more recent than the Civil Rights Era in high school history.
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Ditto. I still have the pins.
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New acquisition to the vintage flood photo collection. 1967 trailer park, not sure where. #foundphotography
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All my most paranoid friends are being validated this year; like the guy who told me in '95 that tattoos make it easy for the fascists to identify you.
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Hope you do.
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Don’t tell The Atlantic…
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Frida requests an audio recording.
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I still think of Demon Days as “the new one.”
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People under a certain age know virtually nothing about apartheid, the anti-apartheid movement, the fact that many mainstream Republicans supported it, etc.
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Wonderful
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Bear in mind that each 3 episode block has a different director. It gets better.
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No gas cap
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It’s funny to me that most of the people who complain about the cost of the 17 have no sense of what new film cameras cost back in the day.
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Not to make this murkier, but I like the one without the zoom bit. It emphasizes the tininess. I don't think the zoom box adds anything meaningful.
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What precisely do these assholes intend to conserve?
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Why do they keep sending this guy out to speak? He's got to be one of the worst communicators I've ever seen.
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After several white-knuckle, harrowing, longer trips in winter in my Bolt, it seemed the prudent choice.
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We bought a plug-in hybrid as the family car, because: 1. the lack of L3 chargers where we live & 2. EV range in winter. If you go North, you're f'ed. In the US, the NEVI plan was going to address this, but you know... Trump. Most days Linda uses no gas, the Kia has a 25 mile range.
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It's amusing how they never seem to acknowledge the existence of the other.
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You seem a bit Schwarz-pilled ;)
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Should be in the queue!
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Whoa, that is f’ed five times to Sunday
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True, I've only really been to Portland to visit friends.
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More in Oregon than in Wisconsin, that surprised me.
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Holy crap, that’s just such a dick move! Really wish I could quit Amazon more than once.
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Looks delicious!
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Yeah, the rice cooker is indispensable. They work very well as steamers too. In fact, they are deceptively versatile.
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If they want to do something, they should pay the cost of delivery. Not sure what it's like now, but each of our two kids cost us between $6,000 and 8,000 dollars pre-ACA. And we HAD insurance.
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Authors & publishers will sell collections of ebooks at a discounted price for a good cause. I've picked up a couple over the years. Right now, the gardening one looks tempting: www.humblebundle.com/books This would be impossible without ebooks.
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Haven't done that, but I have gone back and forth between paper and audio, mostly when I can find the audio on Libby. I'd do it more, but it can be expensive.. especially now that I'm not giving $ to Amazon. Ebooks are incredible for travel. Oh, have you come across 'humble bundles?' 1/2
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Guess I'm a hybrid reader, I enjoy both. They each have their strengths. I'm reading a 700 page paperback right now and it's such an awkward object! I wish it were an ebook. Some paper books are better than others.
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Mesmerizing