https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altria
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RJR_Nabisco

There was a time in the 1990s and 2000s when the major cigarette companies owned Kraft and Nabisco. We found the whole thing so disgusting that we avoided those brands for over 10 years.

Meanwhile in Berlin, thousands of morons lubing theirselves up and bending over for Putin.

Imagine being the poor guy who has to go out there every year with the tape measure to figure this out.

NATO:

*frenetic typing, takes wild guess at the password, it's 'ayatollah1'*

"OK, I'm in."

It's an incredible change. They used to be one of the most seclusive communist countries. Very much like North Korea -- they were even aligned with China, which made them even more secluded with respect to the rest of Eastern Europe.

Then the mom came outside: "What are you boys doing out there? Why does it smell like smoke?"

Twist: the patron was a skeleton.

> desyringe

wtf is that word? I put it in Google and after forcing it to search for it as spelled I get dozens of examples but no explanation of what it means. I wonder if this is bad OCR or something.

The story is horseshit, unfortunately. The pilots don't talk to anyone above FL600, and it's moving so fast it would be in one ARTCC sector and out the other in minutes. ATC centers are also not in the business of measuring speeds unless it's on the transponder data tag, and an SR-71 would not be broadcasting that stuff due to OPSEC. The pilots are also too busy for fun and games... the SR-71 is known specifically for being a high workload airplane. For a more accurate take, Col. Richard Graham's books are worth reading.

Interesting spike there during the first 5 years of Reagan's presidency. Of course that's US, but that definitely affected Cold War relations.

Looking at that image I guess that would have been a really bad time to be living on Doggerland.

This is the inevitable result of news media parroting everything they get from corporate sources and posting it as credible "news".

Man I hate people who name their kids "Schmoid".

I wonder how many people remember how people did it before. Jiffy Pop was very popular. It came in an aluminum pie pan container with popcorn and you'd put it on the stove. I remember it always tasted like shit, half the kernels were scorched, the rest tasted like smoke. It was hard not to burn that stuff, and if you went easy half of it wouldn't pop. It just didn't compare to the movie theater.

Microwave popcorn definitely leveled things up, especially when brands like Orville Redenbacher showed up. It was around this time VHS rental and HBO on cable were getting to be popular, so with that and good quality microwave popcorn, the 1980s were really a great time for watching movies at home.

I remember there was a time in in the 2000s where you could get group health insurance if you had an ancestor of a certain tribe (usually a grandparent or great grandparent). A lot of people used that to get coverage. IEEE and USAA were another way to get coverage but they all ditched their health insurance around 2010.

I wonder if there's any good longform dashcam footage of those twisty mountain drives. Most of the stuff on Youtube is garbage: heavily edited or Gopro footage with unnecessary music.

Geez, Vancouver to Prince George, to Fort St John, to Fort Nelson, to Watson Lake, then to Whitehorse. That's a long-ass flight if you're just trying to get to Whitehorse.

Let me guess, the victim was the police chief's nephew.

I know OP was being hyperbolic but I had to figure the size of the cemetery.

100,000 plots 10x10' in size = needs a cemetery about 3200 x 3200 ft or 1 x 1 km. Maybe double that for the roads, paths, and trees you would need.

Someone could probably do a rendering of this imaginary cemetery in Blender or something to drive home the waste of life this is, all for some guy's ego. Then of course another cemetery across the way almost the same size for the other side that was dragged into this war.

Surprised we're 12 hours in and there's not a single video link to this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWD0Lmsx42E&t=10s

In the mid-1980s we had PET computers, the forerunner of the C64. I ended up writing an interactive program that simulated a fake login into the school district mainframe where it simulated allowing you to change your grades, just like in War Games. A few laughs were had with several groups of gullible kids. A few people freaked out over it. Fun times.

Ever since VICE (a C64 emulator) was released about 20-25 years ago, I ended up abandoning all my hardware. Gave it all away. The emulators are just fantastic, and I have all my disk images saved as .d64 files, so I'm not missing out on anything.

I still have my VIC-20 around somewhere, and I feel nostalgic every time I see it. The first week I owned it was an amazing time... couldn't wait to get home from school and play around on it.

GEOS was when I went from printing out the terrible line-by-line documents on a $200 Okidata dot matrix printer to printing out whatever fonts could be displayed on the screen. GEOS rendered the entire document (fonts, etc) like a graphics image and spooled it out to the printer. This was the cutting edge of things until the mid-1990s when laser and inkjet printers became affordable.

It sucks there's no good examples on the Internet of what GEOS was capable of, all I see is screenshots, but it was definitely revolutionary for its time.

Interestingly The Newsroom provided some of the same document capabilities a year before GEOS, but I guess they didn't see the broader potential for document design. The Newsroom just did newsletters, but it was a fantastic program and made great use of a large clip art stock.

Imagine Bob at the time of that accident: "FUCK! Fuck! Goddammit! Fucking piece of shit saw!" (kicks it across the job site)