Phil Landmeier @shuttersparks@qoto.org

@TruthSandwich Yeah, I thought I broked it. I hit Toot! and splat. Haha. Perhaps we'll learn what blew up.

@SrRochardBunson Hitler didn't expect the U.S. to go to war, and if they did he expected the U.S. to join Germany. After all, he got his ideas on racial-cleansing, eugenics, euthanasia, from the U.S. These things were a big deal in the U.S. from the late 1800s into the 1930s.

@ai6yr Bahahaha. Well characterized.

@jstevenyork @mastodonmigration @davidaugust Exactly.

@antonioserrata@masto.ai Exactly, with the unspoken implication that they're justified because liberals are oppressing them. They paint themselves as the wronged party and God is on their side so whatever awful things they do is justified.

@Deglassco @blackmastodon@a.gup.pe @BlackMastodon@chirp.social Yes, and the Republicans want to overturn it.

@kittywifclaws Can't not.

@ai6yr What worries me is this could stall the Gulf Stream current.

Birdwatchers Unite!

Do you participate in Cornell University's ornithology programs? Do you use the eBird database? Do you use the eBird or Merlin apps? If so I want to follow you and build a list of fellow eBirders so we can share knowledge, experiences, photos, etc.

#eBird #Merlin #ornithology #birding #BirdWatching #BirdInventory #Cornell

@dj3ei @N0ZB@mastodon.radio @k8ket @megahertz I'm sorry to hear that. I spend all my time on CW these days and, outside of contests and DX pileups, haven't yet encountered a "jerk".

@jstevenyork @mastodonmigration @davidaugust I wouldn't be mortified but I would be willing to explain the context and mindset I was in when I wrote it, right or wrong by today's standards and in light of education I've picked up since then.

I mean, back in the 70s I was a libertarian, oblivious to all the factors that make libertarianism a useful academic concept but disastrously unworkable when applied to real human beings. I'm not embarrassed about that. I was young, ignorant, full of hubris, with just enough knowledge to be dangerous. Haha. We're not born with experience and deep knowledge of sociology.

@SpockResists Indeed. One of my email siggies is:

You cannot claim to love liberty while insisting that others live the way you want them to. -- says I

@IanDSmith Yikes. Seems this could be stabilized and corrected with internal tensioning rods.

@SrRochardBunson @stevesilberman I don't see The Doors as a 70s band. They formed a few blocks north of where I lived in Venice, CA when I was in junior high. I was in a band then and we won a Battle of the Bands in 1967 with our rendition of Light my Fire. Not 70s.

Beach Boys were an LA band, of course. Creedence also originated in Los Angeles. Most bands were/are LA bands, like Three Dog Night, Chicago, Steely Dan, you name it. The record business lived in Los Angeles at that time. That's where the best musicians and best studios were, were so it makes sense that bands would form there constantly. This was great for me, being a musician and growing up in a Hollywood connected family. Haha.

So I'm not sure what LA Band means.

@SrRochardBunson Well, it's difficult with such a short list. You have CSN, CCR, Allman Brothers, Doors, all of which are popular overseas too. But I think on U.S. soil, the Beach Boys were, at the time, the most resistant to the British Invasion. They were the one band the Beatles couldn't beat.

@SrRochardBunson Beach Boys