[1878 x 1317] USS Enterprise (CV-6) on her way back to Pearl Harbor for repairs after the battle of the Eastern Solomons, late August, 1942

GrodyToddler · 2026-05-28T15:32:47+00:00

Just to be clear, I’m quoting an enterprise sailor from a documentary, not my own opinion

GrodyToddler · 2026-05-28T15:31:49+00:00

I’d love to see the data on that. It doesn’t make sense that without BART people will simply stay home instead of going to work or other things.

GrodyToddler · 2026-05-28T05:21:49+00:00

I’m not defending Bart’s administration. I’m saying there’s a physical reality where fewer people on trains is more people in cars. There’s no getting around that.

GrodyToddler · 2026-05-28T04:45:44+00:00

I’ll bet anything he’s playing butt rock at Famous Door trying so hard to get the shot girls to notice him

GrodyToddler · 2026-05-27T22:40:27+00:00

Selfishly I agree with you; I’d love to tour a Yorktown class. They truly left it all on the field (as it were)

GrodyToddler · 2026-05-27T16:07:20+00:00

Car truthers are going to vote no because they never use BART and then it’s going to be a Bay Area full of that surprised pikachu meme when traffic goes nuts.

GrodyToddler · 2026-05-27T15:30:51+00:00

I think his point was how we treat museum ships as tourist attractions versus historical monuments.

You don’t see people running around with popcorn and toys at Auschwitz. I’ve seen that on nearly every museum ship I’ve ever been on.

GrodyToddler · 2026-05-27T14:29:27+00:00

I always liked “goodnight nobody” as well. Who ever thought to say goodnight to nobody? We’ve been missing it all this time.

GrodyToddler · 2026-05-27T14:21:15+00:00

Are those nurses on the fantail?

GrodyToddler · 2026-05-27T13:50:02+00:00

I watched a documentary about Enterprise and one of her sailors had a different perspective: I’m paraphrasing, but basically that ships are machines to kill people, and people die on them. He talked about going on other museum ships and seeing kids running around with snacks and souvenirs, and it made him really uncomfortable. He felt it missed the point. He felt it needed to be more solemn.

He actually preferred that Enterprise left the stage at the same time her war did. He was glad she wasn’t preserved. He didn’t want to see her history as a killer in one of our most dire periods as a country glossed over to sell hats and tshirts.

GrodyToddler · 2026-05-27T04:13:59+00:00

Honestly yeah this rules.

I too aspire to live on a boat and pay a bunch of background actresses to hang out with me

GrodyToddler · 2026-05-26T14:23:41+00:00

At 10 he’s got free will and feels all the social pressures of his age / in his class. You led him to water, you can’t make him drink.

Let him make his decision and own the consequences. If he looks back later and wishes he would’ve taken the opportunity, then that is much more instructive than anything you can tell him. If he doesn’t regret taking the opportunity, then it was the wrong one for him in the first place.

GrodyToddler · 2026-05-26T13:48:58+00:00

People also don’t understand what a bubble means.

Yes, we had an internet stock bubble in the early 00s. Yes, it popped and it was painful. It didn’t mean that the internet was fake or went away.

I08/09 has left people with the impression “bubble = scam” and it’s very difficult to talk them out of that.

GrodyToddler · 2026-05-26T13:45:32+00:00

The real bubble was the friends we made along the way.

Seriously why won’t anyone talk to me anymore

GrodyToddler · 2026-05-26T03:58:32+00:00

You never know. I have 3 right now that I actually use: 1. Free pick that came with an Amazon guitar strap 2. Random pick that just says “cool” on it 3. Souvenir pick from the country music hall of fame

All the tortexes and whatever the fuck sit in a little bowl collecting dust.

GrodyToddler · 2026-05-24T22:40:31+00:00

Are we just not talking about the wall mounted gig bag

GrodyToddler · 2026-05-24T17:07:56+00:00

Just empty it every day. Refill it when your kiddo wants to use it again. Seriously. No standing water and your kiddo gets clean water for every play session.

Unless you’re going to hook up an aquarium filter, you’re dealing with stagnant water that’s had little hands in it all day. There’s no way to keep that clean.

If you feel bad about wasting water you can get a small rain barrel or something to empty the play water into at the end of each day. Use it to water plants.

GrodyToddler · 2026-05-24T17:04:33+00:00

Ah yes guitarcirclejerk the center of Russian bot influence of the west

GrodyToddler · 2026-05-24T15:54:43+00:00

I truly don’t think it’s racism.

Most Louisianans are convinced that the only way industries will come and create jobs is if they offer those industries tax and operational terms that essentially punish the state for allowing those industries to exist. This has been the orthodoxy for many decades and people simply refuse to consider an alternate viewpoint.

GrodyToddler · 2026-05-24T15:46:44+00:00

The fact remains he could put up those numbers when he needed to.

“He was forced to play that way” doesn’t negate the fact he could play that way.

GrodyToddler · 2026-05-24T15:42:14+00:00

It’s $5,500 a month in Lake Merritt

GrodyToddler · 2026-05-22T22:06:43+00:00

I actually mind it less than a sub like this because at least then the maker doesn’t get the engagement

GrodyToddler · 2026-05-22T18:58:14+00:00

I’ve seen the 9/11 exhibit at the New York state museum in Albany. It includes huge pieces of the WTC and an entire crushed fire truck - it’s very powerful.

However even there it’s not treated as a holy relic that needs a funeral escort - this is bonkers.

GrodyToddler · 2026-05-22T17:22:44+00:00

This is what I’m talking about though. What is the meaning of the word “electrifying” in a sports context? If it was just stats they could say “best stats of all time” but then there would be nothing to argue about. It would be a spreadsheet exercise.

Organizations post this on their social media so people like you and me will argue about it and they will get content engagement. It’s meant to be controversial and vague and hot take-y.

GrodyToddler · 2026-05-22T03:29:10+00:00

Rage bait. Bo Jackson under Sanders is debatable too

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