LillyPip

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[–] LillyPip 2 points 1 year ago (19 children)

Kinda makes you rethink how we typically define ‘society’.

Like it’s far more fundamental than we think, and we very narrowly define it by too complex criteria. And we’re too invested in making sure that definition stays narrow enough that we can justify harming others.

(Sorry, I’d normally put that in a slightly more cheerful way, but I’m just so tired.)

[–] LillyPip 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
[–] LillyPip 2 points 1 year ago

It’s all good, lol.

I’ve been here for 20 years. If this place was gonna immolate me, it’s had plenty of chances.

Thanks for the info about what to look for, though!

[–] LillyPip 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

It's dangerous as hell, but it's something people used to do on knob and tube wiring in old houses.

Christ on a bike, don’t say shit like that to me – my house was built in 1886. O.o

Codes changed after any number of fires…

Just keeps getting worse from there. Some outlets in this place have seen all the world wars.

There are more efficient ways to give me a heart attack, you know.

BTW, I think your detractor is probably too scared to take me on

I think you’re right. I was sticking around for the next volley of meme-facts, but it looks like the match has been called. :)

[–] LillyPip 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

or what happens when you lie on the floor with your head between two speakers listening to Pink Floyd.

I’d forgotten how much I should miss this.

e: also

Ad-free, and local access

This is what made Bob Ross a thing in the early 80s.

[–] LillyPip 5 points 1 year ago

Thank you, that helps.

or it's some stupid power play thing where they think you're trying to challenge their status.

Although if it’s that, I’ll never figure it out. I can’t even begin to relate to that enough to identify it.

[–] LillyPip 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (7 children)

almost the size of a couch, so I have no idea what was on the back of it because I could never have moved it.

Oh yeah! Exactly! Mine was very similar to this, but a bit narrower. It was a behemoth, plus the cord was very short.

Thus the shimmying ass-upwards to hold the torch. There was scant space back there, and making more was work.

it was probably masonite or some kind of hard board on the back of the tv

I think you’re right. It was a dark, dense, and very thick board, but not actual wood. I had a radio or clock or something with the same backing, now you mention it. I hadn’t paid much attention except it was thicker than the ikea shit, lol.

And plugging a bad fuse with a penny,

Wait, what? I completely missed that growing up.

Brb.

[–] LillyPip 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (9 children)

. As an aside, I have to ask: Did you ever get sent up to the roof by your parents after a storm to reset the antenna? Or be the unpaid holder of the rabbit ears by the TV, moving this way and that so your old man could watch his game with the least amount of snow and rolling horizontal lines? I did.

I was a weird nerd, and some of my fondest memories are helping my dad do engine work on our wood-sided station wagon (I was such a cliché) and going with him to the tv shop to pick up vacuum tubes for the tv after a loud pop and faint waft of smoke, then shimmying ass-upwards on the wall like spider man to hold the flashlight at the correct angle whilst my dad pulled the particle-board (I think, maybe cardboard) back off the television and taught me what every single part inside did.

Best time of my young life, hands down.

e: I’ve never been afraid of technology or learning things in my adult life. Thanks, dad.
(And if you’re raising your child like this, thank you. You’re helping to make good people that way.)

[–] LillyPip 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It’s worth trying, even if you think you’ll end up cancelling anyhow. The last time I had to deal with them, they dropped my monthly bill from $150 to $80 for their highest speed broadband, and now I get roughly 1gb download speed for $80/mo. (eta in case it’s not clear: that wasn’t based on hypothetical sale prices; I’d been paying $150/mo out of pocket for half the speed; I now pay $80/mo for double the speed I had been getting.)

Your results will probably vary – I have 25 years of uninterrupted customer loyalty to leverage. (eta: not like I have a choice where I live, it’s them or dial-up, but their international agents don’t know that lol).

🤞

e: also if you follow this blueprint, let us know if it works. I didn’t come up with this pattern, but it did work for me.

[–] LillyPip 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (12 children)

Why are you so bent about this?

Again, how old are you? Do you actually remember this time? I gave one anecdote, but ask literally anyone my age and they’ll say the same. You certainly know people my age, don’t take my word for it, ask them what sleepovers were like before and after cable tv became a thing. Everyone my age remembers a massive shift, especially with Showtime.

With/without cable wasn’t an easy change. Lots of people didn’t accept it easily because it seemed technically complex. That’s part of why my family was an early adopter: my dad was an aerospace engineer, so it was a no-brainier.

The televisions sold in the late 70s were not set up for cable, so you needed a cable box and to configure your tv a certain way – typically by setting one of your two dials to channel 2, 4, or I think UHF 12 (?it’s been a while, but it depended on your tv, and you’d have an auxiliary dongle, too), you had to plug a cable box into your tv (which was nowhere near as simple as now), and then maybe sacrifice a goat. I joke, but the wiring out of the back of those things wasn’t easy. It wasn’t clear ports with matching inputs, but more like in the back of old school audio speakers, but more of them.

That doesn’t sound hard, but for most people the tv was a magic box that pictures came out of. These were your grandparents, they weren’t good at technology.

The majority of channels had ads because, again, they were just the same channels as without cable.

In the late 80s, yeah. That’s after what I’m talking about. It sounds like you’re talking about the era of Nickelodeon and the height of Showtime/Cinemax porn. I’m talking about more than a decade before that.

Yes, by that point, cable had settled into the subscription + ad model I’m saying was the down slide. I’m talking about way before that, when it hadn’t yet devolved.

Again, I’m not making this up, and I kinda wonder what you think my motivation would be to do so, but I’m very curious how old you are and if you’re just going on things you’ve read or if you were alive for this.

e: clarification

[–] LillyPip 11 points 1 year ago (15 children)

How old are you?

I don’t need links to tell me what this was like when I vividly remember.

Yea, cable television first became available in 1948. Regular middle class families did not have cable television for a long time after that.

Mobile phone service was available in 1959. Guess how many people had it? A good friend of my family had a car phone in the mid 70s. Guess how common that was?

You can’t go by invention dates on stuff like this. You’ll be amazed at how long some things take to gain market acceptance.

[–] LillyPip 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (21 children)

I mean, I’m not going off a belief, I actually lived this.

Yes, the clear reception vs bunny ears was awesome, but that was also limited on televisions like this, and I’m talking specifically about the content.

My family were always early adopters of technology (I started gaming in ‘79 with both the Intellivision and Atari – Intellivision was far superior). We had HBO, Cinemax, and Showtime as soon as they were available.

I’m talking about the late 70s and early 80s when they were commercially available to the masses and the cable wars began.

The late 70s were absolutely the early days of commercial cable tv.

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What President Biden Has Done - Year One

  • Restores daily press briefings^1^

  • Cancel Keystone Pipeline

  • Reverse Trump's Muslim ban

  • Require masks on federal property

  • Rejoins the Paris Climate agreement

  • Extend Student Loan payment freeze

  • Extend eviction freeze

  • Historic stimulus bill passed: - Click to see who was helped - Created nearly 8 million jobs, 200 million Americans fully vaccinated, and unemployment claims are the lowest on average since 1969. It also re-opened 99% of schools and sparked the fastest economic growth in decades

  • Ends funding for Border wall

  • Orders agencies to reunite families separated at border by Trump

  • Orders strengthening of DACA

  • Rejoins The World Health Organization

  • Requires non-citizens to be included in the Census

  • Creates the position of Covid-19 Response Coordinator

  • Rescinds Trump's 1776 Commission and directs agencies to review actions to ensure racial equity

  • Prohibits administration members from lobbying or registering as foreign agents for two years after leaving

  • Invokes Defense Production Act to produce masks, PPE and vaccines

  • Provide funding to local and state officials to create vaccination sites

  • Ends transgender military ban

  • Ends Federal Contracts With Private Prisons

  • Restores Aid To Palestinians

  • Suspends new leases for oil & natural gas development on federal land

  • Restores access to healthcare.gov

  • Extends fair housing protections to include LGBTQ Americans

  • Ends support for Saudi Arabia led campaign in Yemen

  • Withdraws UN sanctions on Iran

  • Daily Covid deaths reduced in half after one month

  • Secured enough vaccinations for the entire US population

  • Historic stimulus bill passed: - Click to see who was helped (*this link is broken and I don't know how to fix it because it was hosted on a private GDrive)

  • 1/3 of Americans vaccinated in his first 60 days

  • 1/2 million added to Obamacare healthcare rolls in 6 weeks

  • Extends universal free school lunch through 2022

  • Commits to cutting U.S. emissions in half by 2030 as part of Paris climate pact

  • Reverses Trump's Anti-Trans Shelter Rule

  • Officially recognizes massacre of Armenians in World War I as genocide

  • Raises Minimum Wage for Federal Contractors and Federal Employees to $15

  • Cancels all border wall contracts using funds intended for military missions

  • Creates new operation to crack down on human smuggling

END OF FIRST 100 DAYS


  • Reverses Trump effort to loosen Arctic drilling restrictions

  • Restores Transgender Health Protections

  • Lifts Secrecy of Visitor Logs Cloaked by Trump

  • Suspends oil and gas leases in Arctic National Wildlife Refuge

  • Restores $1 billion in federal funding for California high speed rail Trump had cut

  • Grows US Economy 6.4% in 1st quarter - 2021

  • In first six months regained job numbers lost under Trump administration. (3 million)

  • Prohibits payday lenders from charging interest rates above that of what individual states allow

  • Reinstalls rules removed by Trump limiting methane emissions from leaks and flares in oil and gas wells

  • Enacts massive EO that provides 76 distinct actions to increase competition, reduce monopolies, and eliminate laws that unfairly treat workers. Including:

    • Eliminating non-compete clauses
    • Stop businesses from collaborating to reduce wages/benefits
    • Stop big tech companies purchasing competitors to unfairly compete with small businesses
    • Importation of prescription drugs from Canada and increase support for generics
    • Hearing aids to be sold over-the-counter
    • Requiring airlines to refund consumer fees when bags are late or Wi-Fi doesn't work
    • Crack down on railroads and ocean shipping to reduce costs of transporting goods
    • Other anti-monopoly legislation with agriculture, banking and internet
  • 2nd quarter 2021 economy grows 6.5% - Economy surpasses pre-pandemic levels.

  • Achieves historic 45% reduction of poverty levels in first six months

  • Achieves historic 61% reduction of child poverty in first six months

  • Reaches goal of vaccinating 70% of adult Americans

  • Cut Obamacare premiums by 40%

  • Bans the pesticide chlorpyrifos, linked to neurological damage in young children

  • PAWS Act, allowing VA to pay for service dogs for veterans

Student Loan Forgiveness:

  • Round One: Cancels $1 Billion in Student Loan Debt

  • Round Two: Cancels another $1.3 billion in student loan debt

  • Round Three: Cancels another $500 Million In Student Loan Debt (6/16/21)

  • Round Four: Erases student debt for students with disabilities - ($5.8 Billion)

  • Round Five: $1.1 billion in student debt for 115,000 ITT students

    (Three more rounds have occurred in 2022)

  • Forms new Indo-Pacific alliance with UK, Australia allowing for greater sharing of defense capabilities

  • Adds measles to list of quarantinable diseases

  • LGBTQ veterans discharged dishonorably for sexual orientation get full benefits

  • Lifts abortion referral ban on family planning clinics

  • Ended the 20 Year War in Afghanistan - The longest war in American History

  • Global leadership bounce back from record lows

  • Secures agreement of G20 to block corporations from moving jobs or profits overseas in order to avoid paying taxes by establishing a world minimum tax for corporations of 15%

  • Passes largest infrastructure improvement bill in history

  • $11 billion in transportation safety programs

  • $7.5 billion for electric vehicles and EV charging

  • $2.5 billion in zero-emission buses

  • $2.5 billion in low-emission buses and $2.5 billion for ferries

  • $21 billion in environmental remediation

  • $47 billion for flooding & coastal resiliency and "climate resiliency," including protections against fires

  • $39 billion to modernize transit, largest federal investment in public transit in history

  • $25 billion for airports

  • $17 billion in port infrastructure

  • $11 billion in transportation safety programs

  • $11O billion for roads, bridges, and other much-needed infrastructure

  • $40 billion for bridge repair, replacement, and rehabilitation

  • $17.5 billion is for other major projects

  • $73 billion for electric grid and power structures

  • $66 billion for rail services;

  • $65 billion for broadband

  • $1.47B in loans for forgiveness through PSLF program updates, and $2.82B with employer verification

  • 52 year low in unemployment after one year as president

  • Returns land to Texas family seized for Trump's border wall

  • Imposes Sanctions on Foreign Persons Involved in Global Illicit Drug Trade

  • Aside from one Afghanistan strike early on, Biden has ended drone strikes

  • 2.7% average across-the-board pay raise for federal employees

  • Ban goods made by Uyghur slave labor

  • Accelerated Access to Critical Therapies for ALS

  • Distributes $1.5 Billion to Strengthen School Meal Program

  • Formally ends combat mission in Iraq

  • Requiring autos to get 55 MPG by 2026 - Reversing Trump rollbacks - up from 37 MPG we now have

  • Job growth in Biden's first year tops 6.4 million - Sharpest one-year drop in US history

  • Requires insurance companies to cover cost of at-home covid tests

  • $14 billion for over 500 projects for 2022 to strengthen supply chain and waterways

  • Order to fight malicious cyber activity, from both nation-state actors and cyber criminals

  • Small Business Applications Are 30 Percent Above Pre-Pandemic Levels

  • Farmers flourish under Biden, see recovery from Trump-era trade wars


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RECORD FIRSTS IN PRESIDENT BIDEN'S FIRST YEAR

President Biden and Vice President Harris delivered results for the American people in their first year in office. The President and Vice President made history growing our economy, addressing the climate crisis, and building a judiciary and government that represents America. Despite unprecedented challenges, 2021 was a year of record progress for working families.

  • Jobs: President Biden’s first year was the greatest year of job creation in American history, with more than 8 million jobs created.
  • Unemployment Rate: The unemployment rate dropped from 6.2% when Biden took office to 3.9%, the biggest single-year drop in American history.
  • Unemployment Claims: The average number of Americans filing for unemployment has been near its lowest level since 1969. When the President took office, over 18 million were receiving unemployment benefits, today only 2 million are—also the biggest single-year drop in history.
  • Economic Legislation Passed: Most significant by economic impact of any first-year president.
  • Economy growth is faster than China's for first time in 20 years - Strongest economic growth since 1984
  • Child Poverty: Experts estimate the lowest child poverty rate ever in 2021.
  • Expanded Access to Health Care: Nearly 5 million Americans have newly gained health insurance coverage.
  • Reduced Hunger: The number of households reporting that they sometimes or often did not have enough food to eat dropped by 32%.
  • Judges Confirmed: More judges confirmed to lower federal courts than any president since President Kennedy.
  • Judges That Reflect Our Nation: More Black women appointed to the U.S. Court of Appeals than any president – even over 8 years – in history.
  • Cabinet: First majority non-white Cabinet in history, with most women in the Cabinet, including first woman Treasury Secretary, first LGBTQ+ and Native American Cabinet officials, and first woman Director of National Intelligence.
  • Climate Investments: Largest investments ever in the power grid, electric vehicle chargers, and climate resilience.
  • Clean Water: Largest investment and national, bipartisan plan to get safe and clean drinking water to all Americans.
  • Cleaner Cars: Strongest vehicle emissions standards ever to save drivers money at the pump and reduce pollution.
  • Wind: First-ever approvals of large-scale offshore wind projects.
  • Personnel: Most diverse Administration in history – most women, people of color, disability, LGBTQ+, first-generation American, and first-generation college graduates
  • Drone airstrikes fell 54% compared to Trump
  • Worker's Rights: 70% of first-year executive orders protect worker's rights
  • Bankruptcy Filings: Plunged to Lowest Number Since 1985
  • Agricultural Exports Shattered Records in 2021
  • Global approval of US up 15 points during Biden's first year
  • 5.4 million new small business applications: 20 percent higher than any previous year on record
  • Tripled installation of offshore wind turbines

ORIGINAL POST
Credit: /u/backpackwayne on Reddit


Link to Year Two
Link to Year Three

Edits:
^1^ Original ABC News link broke; replaced with equivalent article from The Guardian.

 

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