Hey, aren't you supposed to be focusing on your classes?!? I hope that means they're going well.
I'm glad all that info I put in the sticky was helpful. I'm thinking of taking a break from doing so much social media. The last couple weeks have been rough. Anyway, other people are posting here so I'm glad to see this community will thrive.
Sure, but... is "too much discussion" really a problem that Lemmy has? This is kind of a threatening time for some of us, especially if we don't have a lot of friends irl.
FWIW most clowns are hard-working, skilled individuals who bring joy to people's lives.
You're right that it varies by state. For example, in Pennsylvania, the ballots have to be received by 8pm on Nov 5. Source: https://www.pa.gov/en/agencies/vote/voter-support/mail-in-and-absentee-ballot.html
Yeah, I know... it's easy to be cynical and do nothing... I have to fight against that feeling every day, I'm dealing with it now even...
A lot of thought went into that haircut, friend-o.
[The haircut] is wedgy, greasy, somehow old womany, and that, combined with Bardem's machismo, makes it unsettling. The actor himself is supposed to have reacted, "Oh no, now I won't get laid for the next two months," when he saw it.
Now the man behind the cut has emerged. He is a Canadian hairdresser from New Brunswick called Paul LeBlanc who has previously styled hair on movies such as Star Wars and Casino, and who shared an Oscar with make-up artist Dick Smith for his work on Amadeus.
Le Blanc says that his inspiration was from the crusades, "when knights and Muslims were murdering each other, and this was a typical haircut. It was a dangerous time and we wanted to make Javier timeless and dangerous at first sight."
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2008/feb/28/fashion.oscars2008
- My fellow Americans, the election day "ground game" is crucial
- If you're in the US, look here: https://events.democrats.org/ to get involved. It's not too late!
The election day ground game is crucial! Don't waste your time just worrying. If you're in the US, look here: https://events.democrats.org/ It's not too late!
It was kind of funny to watch Hanzawa Naoki, and they'd be like: "As punishment, we're transferring you to this city outside of Tokyo!" And they'd be like: omgz a fate worse than death. And I'd look up the city and it'd be a place with great public transportation, a famous temple, and amazing local cuisine.
We totally need more movies to be set in this era.
FWIW the cartoonist Condo lived in Ohio (Toledo, Cleveland, and Findlay) from 1882 to some time after 1910:
"You don’t get better on the days when you feel like going. You get better on the days when you don’t want to go, but you go anyway. If you can overcome the negative energy coming from your tired body or unmotivated mind, you will grow and become better. It won’t be the best workout you have, you won’t accomplish as much as what you usually do when you actually feel good, but that doesn’t matter. Growth is a long term game, and the crappy days are more important." -Georges St-Pierre, mixed martial artist
OMG.... I wouldn't have got the joke if you hadn't said that!
Operation Paperclip was a secret United States intelligence program in which more than 1,600 German scientists, engineers, and technicians were taken from former Nazi Germany to the U.S. for government employment after the end of World War II in Europe, between 1945 and 1959; some were former members of the Nazi Party.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Paperclip
p.s. also see Ministry of Space, an alternate history comic book in which the British grab all the scientists instead.
Dunno, I'm not a natural at this, so I'm still "decompressing". I kept thinking of that picture with the kid holding a sign saying "It's so bad, even the introverts are here!"
Hey, I was working solo through a 42-door canvass list when I saw your post, it was encouraging!
Ah, good point. What I specificaly had in mind was conservative husbands worried their wives might be voting for Kamala this cycle. There's a danger that such husbands might be violent against their wives, and I think it's worth discussing. But because of that, "the joke" of the cartoon is more problematic.
Is Everett True an intelligent voter? (November 3, 1920)
Printed 104 years ago today in The West Virginian. Image slightly cleaned up, see the original.
Found on the Library of Congress site. Feel free to post something yourself!
Everett True is a political student (November 2, 1920)
Printed 104 years ago today in The West Virginian. Image cleaned up, see the original.
Found on the Library of Congress site. Feel free to pick one yourself and post it!
Everett True meets a political saboteur (November 1, 1917)
Printed 107 years ago today in the Grand Forks Herald. Image cleaned up, see the original.
Found the the Library of Congress site. Feel free to pick a comic from there and post it yourself!
Early voting has started in most states!
See here for more info: https://www.vote.org/early-voting-calendar/
btw this is an edit of a cartoon that came out in October 1913, e.g. see this example in The Day Book of Chicago. I love the fact that he's saying "Punk!" in the original. See !truecomics@midwest.social for more about this character.
US Voters: Everett True would have approved this message!
Several of E.T.'s comics are about the importance of voting. Early voting wasn't a thing back then, but it is now, and it has started in most states. See here: https://www.vote.org/early-voting-calendar/
btw this is an edit of a cartoon that came out in October 1913, e.g. see this example in The Day Book of Chicago. I love the fact that he's saying "Punk!" in the original.
Everett True meets Old Nobody (October 31, 1912)
Printed 112 years ago today in The Seattle Star. Image cleaned up, especially on the letters, see the original.
Found on the Library of Congress site. Feel free to pick something from there and post it yourself!
You can't trick Everett True (October 30, 1915)
Printed 109 years ago today in The Tacoma Times. Image cleaned up, see the original. (Lamentably, that page also has a racist caricature on it.)
Found on the Library of Congress site. Feel free to pick a cartoon and post it yourself!
Everett True tracks down a drunken galoot (October 29, 1915)
Printed 109 years ago today in The Seattle Star. Image cleaned up, see the original.
Found on the Library of Congress site.
Everett True knows his place (October 28, 1915)
Printed 109 years ago today in The Detroit Times. Image cleaned up, see the original.
Found on the Library of Congress site; feel free to look there for something to post yourself!
Everett True doesn't take life too seriously (October 27, 1920)
Printed 104 years ago today in The West Virginian. Image cleaned up, see the original.
Found on the Library of Congress site. Feel free to pick a cartoon from there and post!
Everett True and Selection Bias (Links to 20 cartoons!)
People sometimes ask why these old comics are still relatable, and part of the answer is: selection bias! Namely, those of us who post them tend to select those that we find relatable. To highlight that, here are all the Everett True comics on the Library of Congress site that came out on October 26 (of various years). These are not cleaned up or even cropped from their newspaper:
- Everett True doesn't give up his seat! 1905. Inconsistent with how he acts in future years
- Everett True complains to Mrs True 1906. A candidate for selection
- Everett True berates an employee 1908. Not very good behavior.
- Everett True discusses tariffs. 1910. Kind of relevant to current US politics. But the joke isn't that great.
- Everett True objects to a preacher's language. 1910. Probably more relevant back in the day.
- Everett True pushes past a guy. 1914. Kind of funny, but not really all that exciting
- Everett True wants to get waited on. 1914. Maybe kind of relateable... not really though.
- Everett True objects to a card game. 1914. I don't really get it, but I don't play cards...
- Everett True doesn't do chores. 1916. Only slightly relateable
- Everett True objects to a dating couple. 1916. wtf?
- Everett True beats up a drunk who doesn't buy a Liberty Loan. 1917. Kind of dated.
- Everett True beats up another guy who didn't buy a Liberty Bond. 1917. Also kind of dated. Note that the quality of this image is very poor.
- Everett True beats up a guy who wakes him up. 1918. Dated, kind of...
- Everett True objects to tipping. 1918. Very relevant, though they seemed to tip differently back then. A candidate for selection.
- Everett True freaks out on the phone. 1921. I don't really get this one, I think he was listening to "hold music"?
- Everett True gets called to bail out a friend who was speeding. 1921. A candidate for selection.
- Everett True can't get a word in. 1921. A candidate for selection.
- Everett True irritates Mrs True. 1921. Would be a candidate for selection but I'm not crazy about Mrs True referring to his "brutality" - it sounds like he's abusive (which he isn't shown to be).
- Everett True has gout. 1922. Wat is gout? I thought only Kings of England got it. Seems dated.
- Everett True hates jazz. 1922. seems weird. I think jazz back then was like rock n roll was later on?
SO TO SUMMARIZE, out of 20 candidates, only 4 of these are candidates for selection. I'd probably pick the one related to the dangers of speeding, because it might appeal to the !fuckcars@lemmy.world crowd (of which I am one!) Or maybe the one about tipping, since the image is a lot cleaner. But many of the other ones are dated, some don't make sense, and some even present Everett in a very unflattering light.
Another thing to think about is that this may not be a complete selection of the comics that could be available. Some might only be in newspapers that are not in the Library of Congress' archives. Some might not have been selected for publication by the editors of the papers that are (because I think a batch of comics would be sent to the newspapers periodically, and the editors would then fit one in whenever they had room). And some, like that one example from 1917, might be in such poor condition that it couldn't be cleaned up enough. I think this is a type of survivorship bias, but I'm not sure. Anyway, I hope that was interesting! And if it wasn't, then... OUTBURST.jpg.
EDIT: I should have ended this by saying: as you can see, there are plenty of comics that aren't chosen, but maybe you see some that you think are worthwhile! If so please feel free to post it! Just take a screencap and crop, look for more comics here:
- library of congress (older interface)
- library of congress (newer interface)
- collection - july 15 1905 to sept 14 1909, 494 comics
- collection, 1907, 94 pages
Everett True doesn't like glaring headlights (October 25, 1921)
Printed 103 years ago today in the East Oregonian. Image cleaned up, see the original.
Found on the Library of Congress site.
Everett True meets a sealion (October 24, 1919)
Printed 105 years ago today in The Daily Graphic (Pine Bluff, Arkansas.) Image cleaned up, see the original.
Found on the Library of Congress site.
> The League of Nations (LN or LoN; French: Société des Nations [sɔsjete de nɑsjɔ̃], SdN) was the first worldwide intergovernmental organisation whose principal mission was to maintain world peace.[1] It was founded on 10 January 1920 by the Paris Peace Conference that ended the First World War. The main organisation ceased operations on 18 April 1946 when many of its components were relocated into the new United Nations. As the template for modern global governance, the League profoundly shaped the modern world.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/League_of_Nations
> Sealioning (also sea-lioning and sea lioning) is a type of trolling or harassment that consists of pursuing people with relentless requests for evidence, often tangential or previously addressed, while maintaining a pretense of civility and sincerity ("I'm just trying to have a debate"), and feigning ignorance of the subject matter.[1][2][3][4] It may take the form of "incessant, bad-faith invitations to engage in debate",[5] and has been likened to a denial-of-service attack targeted at human beings.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sealioning
Everett True leaves his work at the office (October 23, 1915)
Printed 109 years ago today in The Day Book. Image cleaned up, see the original.
Found on the Library of Congress site.
Everett True deals with his landlord (October 22, 1918)
Printed 106 years ago today in The Pensacola Journal. Image cleaned up, see the original.
Found on the Library of Congress site.
Mrs True is taken for granted (October 21, 1907)
Printed 117 years ago today in The Seattle Star. Image cleaned up, see the original.
Found on the Library of Congress site.
Everett True demands fire safety (October 20, 1914)
Printed 110 years ago today in The Day Book. Image cleaned up, see the original.
Found on the Library of Congress site.
Respect pedestrians like Everett True! (October 19, 1914)
Printed 110 years ago today in The Day Book. Image cleaned up, see the original.
Found on the Library of Congress site.
Cover your sneeze around Everett True (October 18, 1920)
Printed 104 years ago today in The Pensacola Journal. Image cleaned up, see the original.
Found on the Library of Congress site.
Everett True teaches a kid about gun safety (October 17, 1906)
Printed 118 years ago today in the Spokane Press. Image cleaned up, see the original.
Found on the Library of Congress site.