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(I stand by my lack of promises that I'll remember to include this every day)
1/13: Friday TOONs - Selective Focus
1/14: Weekend TOONs - Additional Truckload Of Oranges Not Shown
1/16: Monday TOONs - Mountain/Molehill. Any Questions?
1/17: Tuesday TOONs - The Whitewash Scandal
1/18: Wednesday TOONs - Committees For The "Should Be Committed"
1/19: Thursday TOONs - It's About Control
TexLaProgressive
(12,159 posts)For those who never saw the film.
Slim Pickens as B-52 Bomber pilot Air Force Maj. T. J. "King" Kong, in the 1964 movie "Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb,"
KS Toronado
(17,355 posts)TexLaProgressive
(12,159 posts)dalton99a
(81,635 posts)Hermit-The-Prog
(33,467 posts)Thanks for the toons JHB!
niyad
(113,597 posts)Hermit-The-Prog
(33,467 posts)niyad
(113,597 posts)And to think I once went off on toys r us for something called an uzi commando kit.
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,467 posts)Gun manufacturers are following the same path as the tobacco companies. Once the primary adult market is saturated, you then start marketing to teens, or even younger.
niyad
(113,597 posts)the sacred free market.
ShazzieB
(16,543 posts)They're still selling the gun, still marketing it for kids, but they decided to get rid of the skulls!
https://www.vice.com/en/article/v7vakd/the-jr-15-rifle-for-kids-is-back-without-baby-skulls-in-marketing-this-time
No more guns with skulls for kids...just guns for kids! Nice, huh?
Ray Bruns
(4,115 posts)Number 3 upside down supposed to be?
Wild blueberry
(6,665 posts)Kid Berwyn
(14,980 posts)A pleasingly disorienting foray into the fundamental perplexity of life.
BY MARIA POPOVA
You look at a tree. That tree is reality part of some external reality, and partial to some internal reality of its own. But the tree you see is entirely your minds rendition of reality. Consciousness is both the projector and the screen, rendering something you comprehend as a tree. In an absolute sense, then, you can never be sure that the tree exists outside your mind there can be no evidence of it, for you are both the evidence-gatherer and the evidence.
That is what a thought experiment known as the Boltzmann Brain Paradox explores, inspired by the work of the brilliant and tragic Austrian physicist and philosopher Ludwig Boltzmann (February 20, 1844September 5, 1906).
Continues w/links to details
https://www.themarginalian.org/2022/12/05/boltzmann-brain-paradox/
niyad
(113,597 posts)planetc
(7,841 posts)Wounded Bear
(58,726 posts)IronLionZion
(45,547 posts)the virus spread through their population quickly and ran out of new people to infect.
Sounds like China is getting it now.
GOP would probably put Putin on Defense and Intelligence committees.
2naSalit
(86,822 posts)jimmy the one
(2,708 posts)The Big Mouth of the Houth needs a colostomy bag to stick under his chin to catch what spits out of his big mouth on a daily basis.
mountain grammy
(26,656 posts)LetMyPeopleVote
(145,631 posts)Wild blueberry
(6,665 posts)CaliforniaPeggy
(149,726 posts)Hekate
(90,848 posts)ShazzieB
(16,543 posts)A circle? The letter "O"? Why?
JHB
(37,163 posts)McCarthy ridiculously put him on the House Science, Space and Technology Committee.
ShazzieB
(16,543 posts)Yeah, I think that's what it is all right.