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70sEraVet

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March 1, 2022

I vote we send the U.S. trucker convoy to Ukraine to face off the Russian convoy heading to Kyev

Those truckers are so eager to fight 'Tyranny'!

February 22, 2022

"Utah US man told four-year-old to fire at officers over McDonald's dispute - police"

"Investigators believe a man told his four-year-old child to fire a gun at officers following a dispute over his order at a McDonald’s drive-thru in suburban Salt Lake City on Monday, police said.

An officer was able to swipe at the gun as it was fired, directing the bullet away."

"The officer who swiped the gun to the side as it was fired also yelled “kid” to other officers after seeing how young the shooter was, Cutler said."


https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/feb/22/utah-man-mcdonalds-drive-thru-child-shoot-officers

This asshole could have got his two kids, ages 4 and 3, killed in a hail of bullets, all because McDonalds got his order wrong.

February 10, 2022

I wish it was clearer how the discovery and returns of these Presidential documents came about.

In this post, the language is "...after Mr. Trump returned 15 boxes of documents to the government last month".
I've seen other reports, that word it more like "National Archives had to retrieve Trump White House records from Mar-a-Lago". (https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/02/07/trump-records-mar-a-lago/)
How, exactly, was it discovered that Trump had taken these documents to Maralago as momentos?.
And what exactly transpired to get him to release them from his p-ssy gr-bbing clutches?

February 7, 2022

So, this whole debate about Spotify would mean nothing to me, if it weren't for Neil Young.

I didn't know ANYTHING about Spotify, barely heard of Joe Rogan. But I regard Neil as a hero; he has NEVER 'sold out'. So, now I'm mad at Spotify. Still don't really know anything about it.
But it occurred to me, that one way we hurt any kind of broadcast is to go after their ADVERTISERS. And sure enough, Spotify has advertisers (I looked it up)!

"You either pay for Spotify with a premium plan, or you don’t.
If there are so many users who stream on Spotify without paying, how does Spotify, and the artists who are on the platform, make money?
Spotify has two main streams of income: ad revenue and subscriptions."
https://www.makeuseof.com/music-streaming-services-explained-how-does-spotify-make-money/

So, why aren't we gathering lists of advertisers? Why aren't we threatening to boycott? Why are we just waiting for the musicians to do something?

February 6, 2022

"How Comic Genius Charlie Chaplin Survived His Hungry Childhood"

Good story describing a recently rediscovered interview with a woman whose aunt helped raise the Chaplin boys, Charlie and Sydney, after their mother entered an insane asylum.

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2022/feb/06/charlie-chaplin-comic-genius-survived-ragged-london-childhood

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