Osean Kitty

I'm still pissed at Britt for accusing me of supporting LO because I had, and still very much do, of her going after me for taking issue with Courtney's "Child-sized coffins" comment about her niece and nephew.

I will not be rebuilding any bridges with Britt at all, that is done.

Honestly I'm considering writing down my feelings about Britt and what lead up to me "burning down the bridge" with her. Make it clear why I don't like her anymore and why hearing that she and Courtney had a falling out doesn't really affect my views and additude towards her.

If anything I find irony in it because broadly she did the same thing to me what Courtney did to her, Instead of trying to be civil about it, she just went ballistic and tried to defame me by accusing me of supporting Lily Orchard. Never mind the fact I started to talk about how awful Lily Orchard was and still is in 2016, when I was in the fleeting days of me being a fan of Lily and finding out about Stockholm, Tara Callie, Britt/Blake from looking around outside of her point of perspectives.

Cause honestly Britt if you're even reading this, congratulations you're going on about how you've always tried to be diplomatic and people keep treating you like a doormat, and yet you treated me like a doormate when I "stepped out of line." I genuinely wanted to be a friend but you threw that out the window the second I said something that I you didn't like and tried to gaslit me. If you still have the DM'S between me and you, it should be fucking obvious that I wanted to be friends with you.

You know I don't support predators, you know I don't support Lily or P&Z. You know I help directly to get an artist to blacklist Poppy. You would know all of that clear as fucking day if you didn't treat me and toss me away like the way you accuse others of treating you.

I now wonder if I'm the anomaly or if there are others.

F-5N

I think this is why they call them jumping worms

The might of American logistics in one picture:

A KC-130 Hercules tactical tanker refuels a CH-53K King Stallion heavy lift helicopter carrying an F-35C Lighting II 5th generation VTOL stealth fighter jet.

British infantrymen take part in a street fighting exercise amidst the ruins of a British street after an air raid - Lymington, Hampshire, England, 1941

A US Medical Unit wades ashore through the shallows at Utah Beach - Normandy, 6th June 1944

Continue Reading.

Grumman F7F-3P Tigercat in US Marine livery.

Date: July 10, 2005

Photographed by Kogo: link

This does not even begin to cover the weirdness of cathode ray televisions.

They are literally particle accelerators that you point at your face.

And for eighty years, Americans' favorite thing to do was turn them on and stare at them for hours.

If you overcharge them, they emit gamma radiation.

Servicing them is like disarming a bomb -- their capacitors are enormous and are usually charged to hundreds or thousands of volts, and most of them have no bleed system that drains that charge, meaning that they can still be dangerous months or years after the last time they were powered up. A discharge can not only electrocute you, it can cause tools to melt or explode.

A black-and-white cathode ray TV driven by an unmodulated analog signal is theoretically capable of resolution that would require a microscope to perceive.

Old school CRT monitors had the same issues.

Back when, I worked at a small whitebox pc manufacturer. One day, a service tech brought back an older, gigantic (30 inch or so) AutoCAD monitor from a service call. The customer said "Made me feel nauseous"

So, we put it on the bench and fired it up. You immediately felt the hair on your body stand up, and my co worker put his hand up close to turn the power off, and his hand and forearm started spasming - I yanked the power cord from the wall as the tingle I was feeling began to feel hot.

No idea what was wrong with the thing, but it was kicking out some serious electro magnetic radiation.

Remembering the almost imperceptible high pitched buzzing that let you know the tv was still on even when nothing was on the screen. Also putting your forearm near the screen and watching the hairs stand up

The little crackle if you touched the screen to wipe it...

Omg no one's even talking about the smell of the screen

This is both horrifying to read and nostalgic

Story time: when I was in HS, in one of my junior classes (I don't remember what exactly it was anymore) had a weird setup for the students to sit at. There were about 6 or so tables with 4 chairs each for the students to listen to the teacher and do their work. One each table was a small 5 inch CRT TV on the end of the table. We didn't use them during the class, I believe it was a mixed use classroom, but they were plugged in.

The thing about CRTs is if you placed your whole hand on the screen when it was on, you can shock someone next to you. There was a guy next to me that annoyed me for some reason, so I placed my hand on the TV and turned it on. I think touched his metal beaded necklace on the back of his neck. The static charge traveled through the necklace and shocked his entire neck.

He left me alone after that.