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This is 1940's tech. A Willy's Jeep from WWII could be unpacked from a create and reassembled in around 4 minutes.

MolotovCocktail says

DeportLibtards says

The year is 1972. The RAND corporation proposes building a cross-country networks of maglev trains in vacuum sealed tunnels to carry passengers and freight at 14,000 mph kilometers beneath the surface of the Earth.

We used to dream.

Reputedly, these were not only built, but extended (albeit without the vacuum), just not for the surface peasants, for military and secret bases and labs (and trafficking, DUMBs).

There was a vid about a guy whose NDA ran out who said he staffed an underground Starbucks that gave complimentary coffee to the users of a vast underground freeway system that exists UNDER LA for celebrities, politicians and importantes. Only the 'little people' get bogged down in traffic.

MolotovCocktail says

That was college kids reacting to the OJ trial, right?

MolotovCocktail says

BetaMax

stereotomy says

MolotovCocktail says

My wife found a smaller red version of this at one of the thrift places. I'll use that when I hang with by boomer buddies.

My parents still have it!

Started with nothing! Then ON TV and VHS. My parents transfered the super 8 reels to digital about 15 years ago. Maybe I’ll link one of the YouTube videos I uploaded to once I’m retired and no longer care if I get doxxed.

MolotovCocktail says

MolotovCocktail says

Dumbass Millennials don't remember, but GenX America does:

MolotovCocktail says

MolotovCocktail says

Dumbass Millennials don't remember, but GenX America does:

Then you also know which dumbass country fomented a coup before and reinstalled the shah to make these atrocities possible

mell says

Then you also know which dumbass country fomented a coup before and reinstalled the shah to make these atrocities possible

Who cares?

Been awhile, since I even logged in here is my little contribution.

everything says

Been awhile, since I even logged in here is my little contribution.

Not to mention that they killed DVD Audio and Sony went full Nazi content "protection" with DSD, effectively killing multichannel sound for two decades. Now it's Blu-ray audio, but I'd rather have something simpler and easier to buff if it gets scratched. There's no way to polish scratched Blu-rays - they have a "scratch-proof coating" on the underside that gets ruined.

mell says

Then you also know which dumbass country fomented a coup before and reinstalled the shah to make these atrocities possible

Much more to that story.

Today I learned that Massadegh was a Qajar, the rival dynasty of the Pahlavis. There was a lot more going on than the story I previously heard, some Game of Thrones shit.

Patrick should recognize this one I believe. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fM5K5jK840

Al_Sharpton_for_President says

Right before the Walt Disney Show, right? MoO sponsored it, in fact.

"Mutual of Omaha is people you can count on when the going's rough."

Al_Sharpton_for_President says

God I wasted so much time with those back in the day. Eventually I figured out you can only get so much air pressure before breaking the dinky nipple on the pump.

Al_Sharpton_for_President says

Lots of these had to be retrieved from roofs.

HeadSet says

Al_Sharpton_for_President says

Lots of these had to be retrieved from roofs.

Same for these:

MolotovCocktail says

Those were great for sticking in door hinges. Loud pop when someone closed the door.

HeadSet says

Those were great for sticking in door hinges. Loud pop when someone closed the door.

Or to walk fearless through neighborhoods with loose dogs.

ElYorsh says

Or to walk fearless through neighborhoods with loose dogs.

I used to flick them from the 2nd floor of the mall down to the 1st. I had security running in circles down there trying to figure out where they were coming from.

"0ne, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight!

Schlemiel! Schlimazel! Hasenpfeffer Incorporated!"

(As a kid I growing up in California could never understand that. Just like the Philly brownstones of Seseme Streat was alien, too.)

MolotovCocktail says

But they can tell if you didn't work there and what you made. Tax records.

MolotovCocktail says

But they can tell if you didn't work there and what you made. Tax records.

How would they have access to your tax records?

HeadSet says

MolotovCocktail says

But they can tell if you didn't work there and what you made. Tax records.

How would they have access to your tax records?

They wouldn't, so you're right. No sane person keeps tax records past 7 years unless you got digital copies which I would purge from my computer anyway. I don't like having that data around. Plus it would be useless.

But basically yes you could lie on an application and there's no way they could contact to verify you even worked there or the position. I'm sure people do it all the time. Everything is fake at this point in my world. I bet a lot Enron employees/managers did this to get a new job, just not the accountants.

HeadSet says

How would they have access to your tax records?

Hahahaha.

WookieMan says

They wouldn't, so you're right. No sane person keeps tax records past 7 years

Who the fuck said it would come from yourself?

I didn't.