DagwoodIII

Pay phones =/= phone booths.

You saw them in restaurants and bars, but the companies didn’t want the hassle of maintaining full on booths.

There’s an urban myth that white lighters are bad luck.

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/white-lighter-marijuana-legend-myth-folklore-superstition

You learn something new every day.

Thanks.

I never heard that. They’d have had normal sized women and it’s more likely that they’d plan around the building than to rely on little people. Remember that the US was building thousands of planes and ships and needing extra small folks would have created a massive bottleneck.

I did a quick search and nothing came up.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ovitz_family

Family of ‘dwarves’ who survived the concentration camps.

The basic flaw of you thinking is that there was ever a “reason” the US entered that war.

There wasn’t one. There was just lots of justifications for why te US had to stay in it.

Please don’t use the “US is evil” argument to justify not knowing history.

We have a six year old in charge…

The reality is worse.

The US was almost totally focused on the Soviet threat after WW2. The US wanted France as a strong ally, so the French coerced the Americans to pick up the torch in Vietnam and help the South beat the North. Eisenhower and Kennedy gave the South ‘military advisors’ but didn’t want to fully commit. Then LBJ became President.

Johnson believed that he could win the War with a massive buildup. His plan backfired, and the US went from having a small force committed to a large force stuck in a quagmire. Johnson didn’t want to raise taxes for the War, so he printed money, which lead to inflation.

Nixon got elected as a ‘peace candidate.’ He then doubled down on LBJ’s policies of a big War paid for with paper money. Nixon knew the War was unwinnable; he planned on keeping it going until 1976 when he was out of office.

The inflationary spending was starting to hurt the US economy when the OPEC Oil Embargo hit. That made everything in the US much more expensive. It was so bad under Ford that families that used to be able to do well with one job needed Mom to get a job too.

Jimmy Carter’s man, Paul Volker, won the war on inflation, but people only saw results after Carter was out. Reagan got the credit for Volker’s plan, but Reagan had his own inflationary program ready to go.

In 1964, before the War ramped up, ‘middle class’ was one Union job supporting a family of four with enough money to send the kids to college and have some luxuries. In those days, $1 million was a vast fortune. By 1993, when George Bush Sr. was done, ‘middle class’ was two incomes to keep a household going. In 1993, $1 million was what a rich guy paid for a party.

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I’ll take this opportunity to tout a favorite graphic novel.

Big Man Plans.’ A slightly off kilter officer recruits a 4-F little person to be a tunnel rat in Vietnam. Then it gets kinda weird…

https://globalcomix.com/c/big-man-plans

A place where people know the error of their ways.

Think about it.

Guess that rhymes if you’re from Baston

Who on a loo?

‘flying car’

Which begs the question; how do jets fly higher than the mountain tops?

edit = jet engines have compressors to overcome the difficulty. Car engines don’t

I should learn to search first.

I expect that by 2050 it will be common for the 0.01% to land a flying car 100 meters from the summit and then claim to have conquered the peak.

The exception that proves the rule.

But thank you, that’s pretty interesting.

I guess that’s what my question is. what is considered ‘the base?’

I suppose it varies for each mountain.

Technical question for actual climbers.

How high up can you go by vehicle and still say you ‘climbed’ the mountain?

Nobody goes on foot from sea level to the top of the mountain, so at what point does the ascent start?

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https://bookshop.org/p/books/postal-compendium-bryan-edward-hill/cf3c266991cb9b1f?ean=9781534399440&next=t

You might enjoy this graphic novel. A post man with Asperger’s serves a town whose entire population is hiding from the law.

He’s your ‘wise hermit.’

On that note.

“Black people can’t swim.”

The masters used to beat all the slaves if they saw any of the kids swimming. Going across a river was the best way to throw off the blood hounds, so it was a good idea for the owners to keep the property out of the water.

Diving With a Purpose. Black scuba divers searching sunken slave ships.

https://divingwithapurpose.org/