I've gotten so tired of the non-stop reddit/lemmy/mastodon/threads drama I pulled the plug on all recurring donations for the foreseeable future. Thanks to threads the fedverse is starting the reddit style drama cycles and I'm pretty much over trying to sort through it.

I know I can block content, my concern is my refusal to donate to an outfit that supports meta or similar properties.

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

I remember my Grandmother having Gooseberry in her garden and joking that they would get her in more trouble than the still she ran on her property.

This particular unit weighed 3150LBS, was built in Feb 1946, took 7 people to operate and all data was input by hand cranks. Photo credit OP, Gunnery Plotting Room USS Brumby FF-1044 mid 1980's.

I was sitting at one of my "solitude" areas in the middle of the day on a week day. I start hearing this thumping and was thinking WTF is some asshat in a tuner doing out here at this time. I realized I was hearing "Wild Eyed Southern Boys" by .38 Special blasting, then this guy pulls up. Best disruption of my personal peace ever. Leaving out he was blasting Urgent by Foreigner, only thing missing was he didn't have an 8-Track player in it.

She was really proud to find it, but it kicked me square in the age..... It is more, the job was cool than I was cool.