Cripple. History Major. Irritable and in constant pain. Vaguely Left-Wing.
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PugJesus@lemmy.worldto Lemmy Be Wholesome@lemmy.world•I'm not crying, you're cryingEnglish4·18 days agoMy old manimal’s last meal was a burger from McDonalds. He ate it, then ate the napkins.
Miss the old fella.
PugJesus@lemmy.worldMto HistoryPorn@lemmy.world•A family of Germans that took their own lives in Advance of the Soviet Red Army in April 1945, Colorised (TW: Suicide, Death)English12·1 month agoA drab fate, to be sure, but probably better than death.
PugJesus@lemmy.worldto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What is the cutest thing your dog did?English7·1 month agoMy dog tried a grapefruit once. It’s hard to describe just how cute and hilarious it was when he’d take a little lick, shiver from the bitterness and shy away, and then go in for another lick.
We also brought home a mineral ball once, a big one, and he found it something eminently attackable. He’d move to grab it with his mouth, realize it was too large or too hard to bite or carry, stop, paw at it, and repeat, like he was attacking a giant bug. (He also used to body slam stinkbugs into the carpet - less cute)
Oh, when he was young, my grandmother encouraged him to be a lapdog. Unfortunately, he was a bit too big for that. So as he grew up, he was big enough that he’d sit on my grandmother’s lap, but slowly slip off, and then jump back up to try again.
Oh, he’d also carry his food in his mouth out to the living room and drop it on the floor so he could eat ‘with’ us.
My grandparents’ dog used to sleep sandwiched between the pillows. If you walked by in the middle of the night, you’d see her little head poking out, eyes glistening and watching you as you made your way through the hallway. Never seemed to bother my grandmother’s sleep at all, having a little Pomeranian beneath her head all night.
She would also hop up on the back of the couch to get high enough to perch on my grandfather’s bald head. And he would let her.
PugJesus@lemmy.worldMto HistoryPorn@lemmy.world•A family of Germans that took their own lives in Advance of the Soviet Red Army in April 1945, Colorised (TW: Suicide, Death)English281·1 month agoOn one hand, I understand the decision. The Soviets were anything but restrained, and the Nazis beat that drum as loudly as they could.
On the other hand, with the benefit of hindsight and not being immersed in Nazi propaganda, your chances of getting through the Red Army’s advance and occupation were much higher than, say, with a state policy of industrialized genocide poised against you.
PugJesus@lemmy.worldOPMto HistoryPorn@lemmy.world•British commandos leaving a power plant they destroyed, Italy, WW2, 1945English2·1 month agohttps://collection.nam.ac.uk/detail.php?acc=1985-11-36-173
Afraid I don’t have much more information, maybe someone with more patience can dig some up.
PugJesus@lemmy.worldOPMto HistoryPorn@lemmy.world•Soviet female snipers, WW2, 1943?English1·1 month agoStatistically speaking, they would have been unlikely to kill any men - only fascists.
PugJesus@lemmy.worldto Music@lemmy.world•What are the Metal classics I should be listening to?English41·1 month agoIron Maiden, Saxon, Motorhead, and Black Sabbath.
PugJesus@lemmy.worldMto HistoryPorn@lemmy.world•Oregon Agricultural College professors at the end of a bicycle trip from San Francisco to Corvallis in 1896.English5·1 month agoLook at that dashing rake posing at the bottom!
- Cast a vote for Obama. Knew it didn’t mean much, living in a safe state, but I considered it my civic duty to participate.
Almost seems quaint, that Romney was seen as radical by many of us. I remember my objection at the time, that I felt Romney would damage democracy at home and abroad with his policies and strengthen the oligarchic class.
I mean, he would have. But that we weren’t immediately staring down a double barrel of fuckwadded fascism seems strange after having a decade of Trumpification of the GOP.
PugJesus@lemmy.worldOPMto HistoryPorn@lemmy.world•Antarctic explorer leaning into a 100 mph wind as he carves up ice, between 1911-1914English52·1 month agoReverse image search will get you the results you’re looking for.
PugJesus@lemmy.worldto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•Why can't California and New York make their own medicare for all?English1311·1 month agoI also think he could have closed Guantanamo.
Apparently you don’t remember how that went either.
And I even think he could have bailed out the people that lost their houses and not the people that owned the houses.
Oh, sure, just pass an executive order for it, right?
I still think he should have nationalized the banks that failed and renamed them to “Bank A” and “Bank B.”
Jesus Christ man.
Crazy huh.
In desire, no; in perceptions of what the president has the power to do, yes.
PugJesus@lemmy.worldto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•Why can't California and New York make their own medicare for all?English1811·1 month agoIf Obama had wanted it, he could have done it.
Lord.
PugJesus@lemmy.worldto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•Why can't California and New York make their own medicare for all?English446·1 month agoCalifornia and New York have GDP’s above most other countries in the world.
But Cali and New York do not reap the tax revenue of a country with the GDP of their size; they can only reap part of it, both because Federal taxes remove a portion of that taxable income, and because states are necessarily more limited in their options for taxation than national governments.
It’s possible, don’t get me wrong, but significantly more difficult.
Tell me why I shouldn’t blame the democrats for:
Doing Obama care half assed, when something like 80% people wanted a public option.
Bruh, do you not remember how Obamacare was passed?
I oppose breakfast foods for a different reason. Pancakes for dinner, and damn the haters!
PugJesus@lemmy.worldto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•Are there any "text caches" that we still are not sure what's inside?English21·1 month agoonly in Africa (see the answer in AskHistorians)
While my answer was related to Africa, as that’s where I’m most familiar with a paucity of study and an excess of material, I’d bet even money that there are plenty of other non-European (and outside of the Americas) collections that have yet to be fully catalogued, especially in the Islamic World and India. I just couldn’t swear to it or name any regions in particular to look into.
Not much more than small arms fire, probably. Bit of an ad-hoc solution to Boer raiders and sharpshooters.