It’s always the logs that get me…

Back when theater admission was the price of a single coin…

But don’t let that distort things, because money was a lot more valuable back then.

According to this https://www.in2013dollars.com/us/inflation/1935?amount=1

A USD$1 in 1935 was worth about $23.15 in purchasing power today.

This site says that a quarter, $0.25, was the price of a movie ticket in 1935 https://www.davemanuel.com/whatitcost.php

Let’s say Sluggo is paying a quarter/$0.25 for admission in 1935, that would be around $5.79 today, or $4.36 depending on what metric you believe.

Let’s say Sluggo is a child, and paying child admission to a matinee. That’s currently $13.78 on AMC’s website today.

God’s phone doesn’t have sleep mode?

“Stars!” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stars!

A 4X game for Win 3.11 that was set up for multi-player by email and ftp turbo.

Fantastically ergonomic use of early GUI features.

You could design your own alien race and ships, the default races were well balanced, but all played very differently.

Creepy angels created gingers, the spawn of Satan

/s

Having double poled light switches at the top and bottom of a staircase that control a light fixture that illuminates the stairs has been in building code for decades.

Although this is likely an old house built before then, it’s a cheap upgrade to hire an electrician to make this situation a lot safer.

Amazon will undercut that guy and let you exist for $63.

Cthulhu does give good service when you call, unlike my bank with the fucking phone tree.

Wow, an inkwell and nib pen.

We used fountain pens that reloaded from ink bottles in class in the 70s.

Fountain pens that used disposable ink cartridges were considered high tech stuff.

Inkwells and nibs were for really fancy calligraphers.

The groundhog’s name is Phil. No wonder they left in disgust.

HL3 hasn’t dropped yet at that point in time.

“Sorry for the disappointment son. Next weekend I’ll make it up to you. We’ll go to the Zoo Of People Who Want To Fuck Their Couches”

Replies with “Grrr” Roan (a type of horse)

Whenever they announce Dog of War 4

100 years ago we just killed them and redistributed their wealth, which is part of what fixed the Great Depression.

Wha? I thought Congress passed estate taxes starting in 1916, the robber barons didn’t live as long as today, so they died of old age and disease more-or-less like regular people.

I never heard of many of them being killed.

I’d be interested to hear more about patterns of killing.

I’m sure that will do a lot, because border crossings from Mexico were down almost 80% from December 2023 to August 2024 .

We’d all better march down to the DMV and update our genders then…

It’s required by imperial edict now.

Arming oneself is a feel-good consumer product in an increasingly uncertain political environment in the US.

Effective? No, as you have already pointed out, the State is always armed better than you.

Counter-productive? Yes, by directly funding the all right-wing arms industry, their army of government lobbyists, and putting more guns on the streets that increases the already-high risk of random gun violence.

Having a firearm in your home increases the risk of it being used against your family.

Feel good? Yes. A consumerist instant gratification to the need for security. Consumers are what Americans are trained to be.

Apparently so. I hadn’t heard about it before now.

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