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Rolando @lemmy.world
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Just cousin things (October 7, 1919)
  • 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.

  • What's the most you ever lost on a coin toss?
  • 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

  • What do now?
  • 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.

  • IRL
  • "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

  • United States intelligence after world war 2
  • 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.

  • 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!

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    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!

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    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!

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    Political Memes @lemmy.world Rolando @lemmy.world

    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 [email protected] for more about this character.

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    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.

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    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!

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    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!

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    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.

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    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!

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    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!

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    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:

    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 [email protected] 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:

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    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.

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    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

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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