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Tim Walz has a restored Scout, because of course he does.  I wrote about my experience with a Scout as a kid a few years ago.

Here he is explaining how to use an 8-track from the driver’s seat of his Scout:

The seats look original to me, as does the spare tire cover. I can’t imagine it’s an original engine because they were shit, but maybe someone babied this thing.

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  4. 4.

    artem1s

    You know he has a functioning VCR, overhead projector, slide projector, and probably a mimeograph from his teaching and coaching days squirreled away in his garage too.

  6. 6.

    Phylllis

    A college boyfriend had a Scout. I loved driving it. I think he and I realized at about the same time that I was more into the vehicle than him. Also, 8 tracks and Gov Walz totally rock.

  8. 8.

    KatKapCC

    I love this man. And I find it hilarious that the right is really trying to paint him as some scary flaming leftie boogeyman. Please proceed, dumdums.

  10. 10.

    HumboldtBlue

    For Kaylee Caudle, 19, the vibes around the election were off.

    This Nov. 5 is the first time Caudle will be old enough to cast a ballot in a presidential election. She won’t vote for former President Donald Trump; his rhetoric and conservative policies don’t line up with her values, she said, especially on issues like reproductive rights and the environment. So for a lack of better options she expected to vote for President Joe Biden, even though she thought he was a little too old to run again.

    “It was hard to get excited when everyone seemed so depressed about the election,” said Caudle, a sophomore at Rice University. “The vibe wasn’t there.”

    Then came the memes.

    In July, Caudle’s social media feeds were flooded with clips of Vice President Kamala Harris’ speeches overlaid with synth-pop beats and viral dance sequences. Pop star Charlie XCX declared “kamala is BRAT,” a key endorsement that rang out across her Generation Z fandom. In a nod to a now-viral speech where Harris quoted her mother saying “You think you just fell out of a coconut tree,” coconut emojis rained across TikTok. All of a sudden, the election was fun.

  11. 11.

    M31

    @TBone: lol I’m showing my age here but the word ‘mimeograph’ brings up a vivid memory of the smell

    made of concord grape skins, I was told

  12. 12.

    TBone

    @artem1s: my mom loved her paper-cutter.  That thing was dangerous!  And yet, we were given free reign in the 70s when she’d bring it home.

  15. 15.

    Old School

    Barack Obama’s Summer Playlist:

    With summer winding down, I wanted to share some songs that I’ve been listening to lately – and it wouldn’t be my playlist if it didn’t include an eclectic mix. I hope you find something new to listen to! pic.twitter.com/aL400Ctpde— Barack Obama (@BarackObama) August 12, 2024

  18. 18.

    RevRick

    Nate Cohn, the CNN numbers geek, noted that Favorability ratings are an excellent indicator. Trump is at -7, Vance is at -11, while Harris is at +2, and Walz is at +11.

  21. 21.

    HumboldtBlue

    @artem1s: ​ 

    You know he has a functioning VCR, overhead projector, slide projector, and probably a mimeograph from his teaching and coaching days squirreled away in his garage too.

    Yup.

  23. 23.

    Yutsano

    @HumboldtBlue: ​ I don’t give a flippin’ flamingo* what gets the kids to vote in this election. We just need them to do it. And keep building the habit. Then maybe we can get that sweet health care they have in other countries.

    *I swear Tony Jay better get that reference…

  25. 25.

    Scout211

    So the EU warned Musk on hate speech ahead of his “interview” with Trump on X today.

    The European Union’s digital enforcer wrote an open letter to tech mogul Elon Musk on Monday ahead of a planned interview with former United States President Donald Trump to remind him of the EU’s rules on promoting hate speech.

    . . .

    Breton added that “any negative effect of illegal content” could lead the EU to take further action against X, using “our full toolbox, including by adopting interim measures, should it be warranted to protect EU citizens from harm.”
    . . .
    Responding to Breton, Musk tweeted out a meme containing the words: “Take a big step back and literally, fuck your own face!”

    I don’t think anyone can make a credible case for “both sides” anymore.

  26. 26.

    BR

    @HumboldtBlue:

    What really pains me in these pieces is the one really true statement which is that young men (GenZ) are more conservative than millennials. I don’t know how we failed to counter Bannon’s project that started with GamerGate and really corrupted a whole generation.

  30. 30.

    RevRick

    @BR: The better plan that Trump says he has will look a lot like an Escher drawing, because the GOP economic agenda doesn’t allow a better way of making one.

  31. 31.

    Phylllis

    @TBone: There’s a whole generation of kids who have no idea why everyone in Mr. Hand’s class in Fast Times at Ridgemont High sniffs their test paper.

  34. 34.

    catclub

    @BR: so apparently most of the media DID fall out of a coconut tree last night.  They still fall for Trump’s

    “I will give a press conference on that shortly”

    It has only been 9 years.

  35. 35.

    Uncle Cholmondeley

    Someone at the Autopian speculated this is how Harris’s interview with Walz went:

    Kamala Harris: So, I’ve almost made my choice – one more question. Do you have International experience?
    Tim Walz: Absolutely.
    Kamala Harris: You’ve got the job sir!

    This slays me every time I think about it.

  36. 36.

    TBone

    @trollhattan: what?  Is that some kind of fancy electrical contraption?  In my day, we fell all over ourselves trying to get teacher to OOO OOO PICK ME to clap the erasers together in huge clouds of chalk dust 😆

  37. 37.

    Phylllis

    @TBone: We unearthed one when moving from a 60+ year old elementary school to a new building about fifteen years ago. I was all for taking it back to the district office to use, because there were enough of us olds who remembered how to work it. Unfortunately, the necessary supplies to run the thing were not obtainable so it went in the trash. I think we played Taps as it went in the dumpster.

  43. 43.

    The Kropenhagen Interpretation

    @Phylllis: Millennials also came out around the same time. Earliest school memories formed later in the 80s into the 90s.

    Since then you have Gen Z and a burgeoning Gen Alpha.

    ETA: The definitions I see place them at about 15 years apart.

    Millennials: 81 to 96

    Z: 97 to 2010

    Alpha: onward

  46. 46.

    rikyrah

    @BR:

    What really pains me in these pieces is the one really true statement which is that young men (GenZ) are more conservative than millennials. I don’t know how we failed to counter Bannon’s project that started with GamerGate and really corrupted a whole generation.

    While the young women are being taught by their elders all around social media and real life, to not settle for nonsense, and just go live your life, and make a life for yourself.

  49. 49.

    Old Dan and Little Ann

    @TBone: I hardly ever use my school’s paper cutter because it freaks me out.  What I do though, is put the handle down and latch it because 99% of the time the last user left it up in the staff room. Drives me nucking futs.

  50. 50.

    BR

    @Matt McIrvin:
    Ah, interesting. Maybe different surveys are showing different things, or people are being imprecise in articles.​ In any case, I’m hopeful that they benefit from someone like Walz on the public stage.

  54. 54.

    Elizabelle

    There seems to be a market for Eau de Mimeograph.

    Loved the smell of those things.  And the very slightly damp paper.

  55. 55.

    Matt McIrvin

    @BR: What seems to be true is that the gap between men and women is larger than for Millennials–but smaller than for still older generations. To some extent that’s from women going way to the left.

  56. 56.

    Elizabelle

    @rikyrah:  If they don’t go the incel route, maybe these conservative young men can be clawed back to reality by their romantic partners and women friends and loved ones.

    Toxic masculinity is a dead-end trap, young dudes.  Learn up.

  57. 57.

    p.a.

    8 track?!?!  That’s it: I’m hardcore cassette.  Is Jill Stein on the RI ballot?//s (if I really need to add that.)

    Also too, I still have a slide rule (cheapo plastic tbh) and a not-cartridge fountain pen (also cheapo plastic base piece)

    No typewriters.  Multiple film cameras (THEY ARE BACK IN VOGUE)

  58. 58.

    BR

    @Elizabelle: ​

    I said the other day that a shallow but real effect I bet is happening right now with the Harris campaign — young women are going to rallies and volunteering and such, and young men who aren’t fully in the far right world may want to tag along because it’s where the young women are going, and that exposes them to a whole positive community of people and values that they might not have been exposed to.

  63. 63.

    Nettoyeur

    @TBone: In Australia and Germany, paper cutters are highly regulated. Guards etc are required. The French word for paper cutter is “guillotine.”

  65. 65.

    p.a.

    Mimeograph machines, also known as spirit duplicators, used a clear solvent called duplicating fluid to reproduce printed material. The fluid was typically made up of a mixture of methanol or ethanol, isopropanol, ethylene glycol, water, and dyes. Methanol was the main chemical responsible for the machine’s odor. 

     

     

    Asways suspected BJ was a refuge for huffers

  70. 70.

    BellyCat

    Awesome…. Grew up with a ‘78 IH Scout (pale yellow)! Wheeled that thing all over and stalled it in many a river. LOL

  71. 71.

    scav

    Mom just made the “test” chex mix batch in preparation for her hotdish party on Wednesday.  She got within minutes opt-in to her invite plus an unprompted offer to bring a jello salad.  This in the far upper left, so there were never going to be different voting patterns — it’s the joyous adoption of foods that is of note.  (homemade mole, tamales or Provencal are their more usual go-tos)

  72. 72.

    Nettoyeur

    I drove a 1970 Scout from 1973 to about 1985. The floor rusted out so I replaced it with riveted sheet metal. Sold it in 20 minutes when the time came.

  77. 77.

    Scout211

    @TBone: didn’t anymore invent a safer model yet?  With safety features?  Hmmm, even circular saws won’t cut you these days.

    Yes, they do have paper cutters with safety features now. But the old ones still work so many districts still have them. My daughter, a teacher, injured herself using one at her school. It cut off a piece of her fingertip but it really wasn’t that bad (I’ve done that chopping up vegetables). But the district went into on-the-job injury mode.  She was seen multiple times in a clinic and there was lots of paperwork involved.  And now her school site has paper cutters with the safety features.

    I guess they figured once a klutz . .  .

    By the way, if you do cut off a piece of your fingertip, it grows back. Who knew?

  79. 79.

    The Kropenhagen Interpretation

    @rikyrah: MeidasTouch (@MeidasTouch) posted at 4:03 PM on Mon, Aug 12, 2024:
    BREAKING: The Miami Herald confirms that Donald Trump has in fact been using Jeffrey Epstein’s plane to campaign since his plane experienced troubles.

    Too good to fly Jet Blue, huh?

  81. 81.

    Sister Golden Bear

    @Elizabelle:

    If they don’t go the incel route, maybe these conservative young men can be clawed back to reality by their romantic partners and women friends and loved ones.

    Worth pointing out that women would give their left ovary to sleep with Walz while if they were stuck with Tate and Co. they’d chew off their own arm to escape.

    Really my good dudes, to be attractive to women you just need to be safer than bears and more affectionate than cats (and remember, bro, most social media posts about cats are about what furry little assholes they are). The bar ain’t high.

  82. 82.

    OId Man Shadow

    @BR:

    Good news: Your health care will be completely free.

    Bad news: It will be administered by faith healers.

  84. 84.

    Leto

    @Repatriated: Dodge Ramcharger was also a standard military vehicle through the 80s, into the early 90s. There were still a few around when I first came in, in ‘97. Came in either OD Green, or AF Blue.

  87. 87.

    trollhattan

    @TBone:

    Right? ANYTHING to get out of the classroom, even a chore, was worth competing for.

    Classes in the sad portables clapped erasers together outside and the lucky duckies in the main building took them to the basement where the cleaner lived. Kind of an inverted Kirby vacuum gizmo. Don’t envy the janitor who had to empty the collection bag. What did his lungs look like?

  88. 88.

    MisterForkbeard

    @Scout211: I mean, this is basically correct.

    Government: Hello, please follow the law.
    Elon/Conservatives: WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH is not FAIR

  91. 91.

    bluefoot

    Who amongst us hasn’t had an 8-track player?  My cassette player finally gave out, which makes me sad since I have some cool bootlegs on tape.  And a couple of cassettes of my dad, who passed away a few years ago.  I’ve been casually looking for a new cassette player but haven’t pulled the trigger on anything.

  95. 95.

    OId Man Shadow

    @bluefoot: Never owned one. But my father’s car had one when I was small.

    Then he got the Toyota Corolla hatchback and it had a cassette player.

    Still had vinyl seats and no air conditioning which made summer vacations through the deserts of the Southwest really fun.

  96. 96.

    TBone

    @trollhattan: our elementary school janitor was named, no shit,

    Mr. Lackey

    He was really cool.  He spent tonic masculinity time with my brother before our stepdad came into the picture.

  97. 97.

    The Kropenhagen Interpretation

    @trollhattan: Not to say it’s the plane’s fault, but it isn’t a good look for a Presidential candidate or anyone else to primarily be traveling on a vehicle best known for human trafficking.

    That’s before you even get to what relationships he is maintaining where this was his best option.

  99. 99.

    dm

    Slide rule?  He’s not old enough.  When he was in high school TI calculators were the thing (HP if you were a snob*).

    He may actually be young enough for the first generation of personal computers, though probably not in rural Nebraska.

    * – actually, there were pretty good reasons to prefer HP, if you could afford it.

  100. 100.

    Kent

    @rikyrah: As a HS teacher in a fairly diverse blue collar school (close to majority minority) I can tell you it is shocking how much more motivated the girls tend to be on average then the boys.  At the very top there are the super bright and super motivated boys.  But in the broad middle the girls are really a lot more serious about everything and also more optimistic about their futures.   While the boys are focused on skateboarding or gaming or whatever.

  101. 101.

    TBone

    @bluefoot: I have a stack of cassettes of my stepdad interviewing grandparents (who also helped raise me) with a cassette player he left to me.  I’m still in too much grief to use them, but hopefully one day will hear my elders from the beyond when I most need to listen.

    Plus I have a double tape deck on my old school badass stereo system.

  102. 102.

    japa21

    8-Track, yep had that
    Cassette – yep had that
    Prize possession An Ampex Reel to Reel tape recorder and player. Still have that beauty stored away.

  103. 103.

    Captain C

    @The Kropenhagen Interpretation:

    Not to say it’s the plane’s fault, but it isn’t a good look for a Presidential candidate or anyone else to primarily be traveling on a vehicle best known for human trafficking.

    Especially when there’s video of him partying with said human trafficker.

  106. 106.

    Kent

    @dm: Yep.   I’m the exact same age as Walz.  Slide rules were obsolete by the time I got to HS.  We had the first generation of TI calculators.  My dad was a science teacher back then and he had a collection of slide rules including a giant 6’ long version used for class demos.  But I never learned to use then.  Overhead projectors were definitely a thing.  They were the 1970s and early 80s version of PowerPoint.  All the textbook manufacturers would include stacks of transparencies with their teacher editions.

    Pee-Chees were what everyone used. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pee-Chee_folder But I’ve recently found out that maybe those were a western US thing and not so popular in the east coast.

  107. 107.

    Kelly

    @Scout211: By the way, if you do cut off a piece of your fingertip, it grows back. Who knew?

    My dear departed Dad, lifetime heavy equipment operator and logger cut the tip off a finger trimming rafter tails. Didn’t even get off the roof until he finished the last couple rafters. Wrapped it up in his handkerchief and kept going. My brother and I, teenagers, argued a bit to no avail. Missed the bone healed up fine.

  108. 108.

    BellyCat

    @The Kropenhagen Interpretation: As a card carrying millennial…

    Ahhhh… That tracks.

    Apologies that I failed to appropriately decipher your alleged “second chance to leave the pie safe” a few nights ago.

    My Mother always stabbed her pies with a fork first to see if it was safe to remove them from the oven, so I get it. 

  113. 113.

    Leto

    @Kent: I still had overhead projectors when I graduated in ‘94. I didn’t see my first SmartBoard until I started teaching in ‘03. I was blown away by it!

  116. 116.

    The Kropenhagen Interpretation

    @Kay: Explaining is famously a sign that people find you convincing and implicitly trust you…

  118. 118.

    Phylllis

    @dm: He’s two years younger than me. We were still using slide rules in high school. Seems like they did transition to the calculators for the younger kids when I was a senior. Bet he learned to type on an IBM Selectric. Probably started using computers and writing COBOL programs in college.

  119. 119.

    gene108

    @Elizabelle:

    Toxic masculinity is a dead-end trap, young dudes. Learn up.

    The younger generation is extremely online. There’s a lot of negatives associated with masculinity on line and there is a lack of what good masculinity is.

    The people filing this content void for positive masculinity are the Andrew Tate’s, Jordan Petersen’s, etc. out there.

    Probably has some effect on the political leanings of younger generations. How much? I don’t know.

  121. 121.

    Kay

    So Epstein then charter company then Trump (just chartered). He must be furious though. They set him up!

    The plane is currently operated by Threshold Aviation Group, a California-based charter company. The Trump campaign has stated it was unaware of the plane’s history when it was chartered through a vendor they frequently use.

  122. 122.

    Dangerman

    I saw Tom Cruise was at the Olympics last night. He once famously jumped on a couch.

    JD Vance once …. (I’ll let you fill it in, which, come to think of it … )

  123. 123.

    Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)

    @Leto:

    @Kent:

    To add to this:

    I recall overhead projectors when I was in elementary school during the early to mid 2000s. There were still some used in middle school and HS during the late 2000s-early 2010s, but I remember my first smart boards in middle school in like 2007-2008

  125. 125.

    TBone

    @Leto: after “Stand back, and stand by,” my rumpy neighbor (a school teacher/football coach) dressed his 8 y.o. up as a little Proud Boi for school.  🤬

  127. 127.

    Yutsano

    @Another Scott: I don’t know this blog anymore I swear. The fact that it took 40 comments to mention his goodest boy is terrible. I shall e-mail management and request a refund of my fees forthwith!

  129. 129.

    Bill Arnold

    @trollhattan:
    Yeah, not the Lolita Express. Even so, fiction is struggling in its competition with reality:
    Why Trump flew to campaign events on Jeffrey Epstein’s plane last weekend (Julie K. Brown and Ben Wieder, August 12, 2024, Miami Herald)

    Former President Donald Trump’s campaign flew in a blue Gulfstream jet formerly owned by sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, using it to travel to several campaign fundraisers over the weekend, the Miami Herald has confirmed.
    …
    It is not the plane nicknamed the “Lolita Express” which Epstein replaced around 2017. The Lolita plane has since been destroyed.

  131. 131.

    BellyCat

    @Kent: While the boys are focused on skateboarding or gaming or whatever and the girls.

    FTFY.  Also, too, extrinsic motivation versus intrinsic motivation plays a strong role in differing gender performance.

    This is one of the reasons that many men are terrified of women in the workforce—they know from direct experience all their academic life that talented women have a MUCH stronger work ethic.

  133. 133.

    dm

    @Phylllis: Gosh, I miss the Selectric keyboard. That and the Decwriter III has a wonderful feel that I haven’t been able to find, even with high-end mechanical keyboards….

  135. 135.

    Kay

    @Elizabelle:

    It’s the same Miami Herald reporter who broke the Epstein story. She wakes up in the morning and says “let’s review some tail numbers, shall we?”

    Apparently Epstein had a fleet, one of which was the Lolita Express, but not this one.

  136. 136.

    The Kropenhagen Interpretation

    @BellyCat: Sure. Tbh you were kinda swept up with someone else that day. You aren’t the libelous son of a gun who said what they said.

  139. 139.

    wjca

    @Scout211: By the way, if you do cut off a piece of your fingertip, it grows back. Who knew?

    My instant response was Like hell!!!  Having lost the end of my right index finger back in the day.

    But then, i suppose it depends on just how much you lose.  Having microsurgery available these days, to reconnect the capillaries, probably helps, too.

  140. 140.

    Elizabelle

    @Kay:  The marvelous Julie Brown.

    Reviewing aircraft serial numbers now goes on the campaign advance checklist.

  141. 141.

    moonbat

    @bluefoot: My next oldest sister and I had a Dynamite 8 eight track tape player on which we listened to Alice Cooper scream “Dead Babies” and felt we were at the height of rebellion. lol

  142. 142.

    Elizabelle

    @Kay: Also:  I still want to know how Epstein assembled his fortune.  There will be some stories there.

  143. 143.

    The Kropenhagen Interpretation

    @TBone: “Boi,” to me, always refers to twinks. Impresses upon me the image of 18ish skinny young men in camo crop tops and cargo style booty shorts.

  144. 144.

    Yutsano

    @NotMax: Star Walz: A New Hope.

    …

    Again: that took too long. Unless you had been sitting on that one.

    EDIT: am also upset that the obvious didn’t hit me.

  146. 146.

    Phylllis

    @TBone: I can remember that muscle memory kicking in and whacking the side of the Selectric looking for the carriage return. May have waved at the monitor a few times for the same reason.

  147. 147.

    OzarkHillbilly

    I had an International Scout. It blew out the rear end somewhere between Rapid City and Murdo. (limped into a Murdo truck stop. asked what my chances were of finding a rear end for a ’72 SI. Was told, “Well you kin try Rapid, you kin try Pierre, but you ain’t gonna find one around hear!”) Blew out the front end somewhere south of Sioux Falls. Almost got arrested a half block from home in South STL because the rear end was so rusted out it was cutting off all the electric to the tail lights.

    So no. Not a fan.

  150. 150.

    MCA1

    @Kent: As a former teenaged boy, I’ll put at least some of that down to difference in average prefrontal cortex development.  ‘Twas always thus to some degree.  :^)

    That’s not the whole story, of course.  I do think there’s a sad side effect of the extreme rightward drift of the Republican Party over the last 15 years, in that the sort of toxic masculinity pushback to the continuing empowerment of women in society from the Andrew Tates of the world has been normalized.  And teenaged boys, already teeming with inferiority complexities and insecurities even without those outside agitators, seem to be gravitating to that sort of garbage.  It offers easy scapegoating and excuses.

    On the other hand, I harken back to my own high school days and note that even then, some of the most misogynistic garbage was considered only slightly out of bounds even in mixed company (Andrew Dice Clay, for instance).  You could identify the guys who would never be capable of truly successful relationships with women in 1990, and I’d assume you could in 1960, too.  Maybe nothing’s changed other than social media being an accelerant for every fire, and a virtual community to normalize every pathology – the people who band together as incels now didn’t have much chance to meet one another back then.

  151. 151.

    CaseyL

    @Phylllis: @TBone:  @dm:  @Mr. Bemused Senior:

    I had a correcting Selectric II my first “real job” out of college, and I frankly adored it.  It was such fun popping the different font bobbins in and out.

    Still miss it, tbh – and, yes, no keyboard has ever been so satisfying to use.

  152. 152.

    Scout211

    @wjca: Sorry about your finger.  But yes, it definitely depends on how much tissue is cut off. I am talking about a piece of the fingertip, not a piece of the finger.

  156. 156.

    John Cole

    I missed your initial post on this so I want to chime in and say that my 2013 honda Cr-V with 135k miles on it is, by a wide margin, the cheapest car I have ever owned in my entire life. It costs NOTHING to operate. Change the oil, take it to a dealer every 50k miles, and that is it. I had to repair the AC, but other than that, just the cheapest car to operate ever.

    Although I did drive an 83 Chevy Celebrity until 2006 because it had that pontiac or buick engine that simply would not die.

  159. 159.

    TheronWare

    I will always pay attention to dog people. Show me a pic of your dog and I’m already interested.

  161. 161.

    KatKapCC

    Get him!

    We the family of @isaachayes Isaac Hayes Enterprises, represented by Walker & Associates, are suing @realDonaldTrump and his campaign for 134 counts copyright infringement for the unauthorized use of the song “Hold On I’m Coming” at campaign rallies from 2022-2024.
    We demand… pic.twitter.com/GOBLz7ejYL

    — Isaac Hayes III (@IsaacHayes3) August 11, 2024

    Full text:

    We the family of @isaachayes Isaac Hayes Enterprises, represented by Walker & Associates, are suing @realDonaldTrump and his campaign for 134 counts copyright infringement for the unauthorized use of the song “Hold On I’m Coming” at campaign rallies from 2022-2024.

    We demand the cessation of use, removal of all related videos, a public disclaimer, and payment of $3 million in licensing fees by August 16, 2024. Failure to comply will result in further legal action.

    – The Hayes Family

    Includes pics of the letter to Trump’s campaign.

  164. 164.

    OzarkHillbilly

    @John Cole: I had a Ford F100 with the old straight 6 engine. Blew the head gasket and drove that MF’er for several weeks more (and into the junk yard) before I found a replacement truck. It just would not give up.

  165. 165.

    TBone

    @Elizabelle: I read an in depth article on that.  He had connections but I can’t find the same article now.

    I’ll have to read further on this one:

    Initially starting out as a maths professor (after lying about his qualifications), Epstein was fired for “poor performance” and then offered a role at Bear Stearns, an investment firm. He worked there as a trader, then partner, for many years, until it emerged he’d breached security violations and subsequently lost his job.

    https://www.cosmopolitan.com/uk/reports/a32824007/jeffrey-epstein-wealth/

    This one tells a bit

    https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/08/politics/jeffrey-epstein-bio/index.html

  166. 166.

    KatKapCC

    @KatKapCC: ROFL, and then some loser replies with:

    Sooo, your Dad makes all the money and you don’t do anything but mooch of it instead of having your own career and want to start suing people? 😂😂😂

    And Isaac Hayes III responds:

    🤣🤣🤣 It’s called Legacy. Make one.

    SNAP.

  167. 167.

    trollhattan

    @TBone: Mr. Lackey. Good lord, talk about life-forming.

    I took HS health ed (nudge-nudge) from the golf coach, Mr. Caddy.

    You can’t make this stuff up. Or at least shouldn’t.

  169. 169.

    Central Planning

    I never had a slide ruler in school, and I don’t remember having a scientific calculator. I took and passed AP calc my senior year (Class of ‘88 REPRESENT!), so I’m not sure how I would have passed without a calculator. Strange what the mind remembers.

    And Tim Walz can explain off sides.

  170. 170.

    lamh47

    Hey fellow BJ twitter users, some folks are going to do a #TwitterBlackout during the hour when Chump and Musky doing their Chump campaign advertisement, a so called “interview”.

    So join, us.  I’m logging out of twitter round 7:55pm and staying off the entire lenght of Chump’s interview.

    Candice Marie Benbow

    @CandiceBenbow

    I hope everyone participates in #LogOffTrump #LogOffTwitter!! We can be away from this space for an evening and, like @KiaSpeaks said, do something that feeds our souls.
    https://x.com/CandiceBenbow/status/1823121074004910487

    @DogginTrump

    Tonight at 8PM Eastern many of us are calling for a Twitter Blackout That means we all log off when Musk interviews that orange felon on this platform I encourage you all to do the same If you’re in, comment with: #twitterblackout 
    https://x.com/DogginTrump/status/1823086504031526922

  171. 171.

    Matt McIrvin

    @MCA1: I will say point blank that I do not believe the boys of today could possibly be more misogynistic than the boys of my teens and 20s.

  172. 172.

    Elizabelle

    @TBone:  I always thought he ripped off Leslie Wexner for mucho bucks.  And probably others.  Will give your links a look; thank you.

  173. 173.

    Scout211

    The young-uns here on balloon-juice must be wondering where all these “back in my day” comments are coming from.

    @Goku (aka Amerikan Baka): but I remember my first smart boards in middle school in like 2007-2008

    What Goku, you say “smart boards?” WTF is that?

    Why, back in my day the blackboards were black and the chalk was white.  We had it all back then.

  175. 175.

    Eunicecycle

    @Scout211: when I was in the EU this spring I would check Twitter (X) occasionally just to check up on the news. On the screen where you can follow, mute, block etc there was an extra choice, something like “report violation of EU regulation”. I wondered what that was about.

  179. 179.

    Leto

    @Scout211: so SmartBoards replaced the chalk board. You hooked it to a computer and projector, and you would project the lessons up on the board.

    For me specifically, when I taught my job (Ground Radio Maintenance), I would project sections of the electronic schematics, then use the SmartBoard markers to draw the specific electrical paths. The Airmen had the same schematics, in paper, in front of them and they’d copy it. I came through the schoolhouse when it was still projectors, and it was a 1000% better in conveying information.

    I’d also turn off the lesson, and I could just draw/write as if it was a regular white board. I’d do that as well, but I had two whiteboards, one on each side, to help with additional information.

  181. 181.

    Dmbeaster

    Grew up with an International Harvester that my dad basically converted into an SUV circa 1960s.

  182. 182.

    ljdramone

    @Kent: I’m four years older.  When I took high school chemistry in 1976, they still had one of the giant slide rules over the classroom blackboard. About 2/3 of the class had calculators, but my dad thought it was a waste of money to buy me one and handed me his 50’s vintage mahogany Keuffel & Esser log-log decitrig slide rule instead.

    Oh, and we had a 1973 International Harvester Travelall, with the second gas tank in front (filler cap in the right front fender.) It was the beater my dad let high school me drive, guess he figured I couldn’t get into too much trouble with a vehicle that ugly.

  184. 184.

    comrade scotts agenda of rage

    @moonbat:

    My next oldest sister and I had a Dynamite 8 eight track tape player on which we listened to Alice Cooper scream “Dead Babies” and felt we were at the height of rebellion. lol

    I still have my copy of “Welcome to my Nightmare” on 8-track with a working player.

    That being said, the DVD-A 5.1 surround version of it is much better. ;)

  185. 185.

    lamh47

    @lamh47: Ok…front pagers…make sure we got an open thread in time for the twitter blackout, please.

    Cause I sure aint’ watching that mess or giving Musky the satisfaction of interactions

  186. 186.

    MisterForkbeard

    @BellyCat:

    they know from direct experience all their academic life that talented women have a MUCH stronger work ethic.

    This remains true in professional life. I’m successful, mid-range management. I recently promoted a female employee from an individual to a manager to take over for a specific responsibility for me and her work ethic puts mine to shame. I’m genuinely super proud of her – it’s incredibly impressive.

  187. 187.

    suzanne

    i was touched to learn that Walz has a pet mmmmm dog named Scout. My dearly departed cat was named Scout. I miss her a lot. And Luna.

  188. 188.

    Scout211

    @Dmbeaster: Grew up with an International Harvester that my dad basically converted into an SUV circa 1960s.

    My dad bought a (very) used International Harvester truck when I was a teen and I drove that truck when I turned 16.  It was a 1959 and looked like this one with the white trim. But it was red, not blue.  And it was already beat up and rusted in parts, so not shiny like the image.  It leaked oil and sometimes I could barely shift it into gear but I loved that truck and I loved piling my friends into the bed of the truck in the summers for fun times.  So many fun times.

  189. 189.

    lamh47

    @DavidCornDC

    THIS JUST IN: A NY State judge just ruled RFK Jr. falsely declared his residence in New York & kicked him off the ballot there. He’ll likely appeal. But this could lead to challenges in other states. Read my piece for the background to this big decision.
    https://x.com/DavidCornDC/status/1823127237433983356

    @DavidCornDC

    Wow. The judge’s ruling is a slam-dunk on RFK Jr. and essentially accuses him of lying.
    https://x.com/DavidCornDC/status/1823130332901880310

  190. 190.

    Citizen Alan

    @TBone: My music theory professor back at Ole Miss circa 1988 made it a habit of very deliberately hold a chalkboard eraser away from his body and letting it drop to the ground. When asked why, he explained that decades earlier he’d asked a custodian to clean his erasers which were caked with chalk dust. The custodian responded “I only sweep the floors and empty the trash.” So the professor began a lifelong habit of cleaning his erasers by “accidentally” dropping them on the floor.

  193. 193.

    Phein64

    @comrade scotts agenda of rage: I had a portable 8-track player in 1976, picked it up at AAFES during basic training.  Little square thing with a handle/selector on top.  Carried it around with me on guard duty in jump school later that year.  Had Killer, Aqualung, the Yes album, Every Picture Tells a Story, Houses of the Holy, and an early release of Hotel California.  Took the tapes with me to Ft. Rich, wonder whatever happened to the player.

  195. 195.

    NotMax

    @OzarkHillbilly

    Trivia:

    World’s first V-6 introduced way, way back by a Dutch manufacturer.

    Four-cylinder models were introduced in 1903, along with the six-cylinder Spyker 60 HP, a racer which was the world’s first ever four-wheel drive car with a single engine and four-wheel brakes. It was the first ever car built with front-engine, four-wheel-drive layout, and its engine with six cylinders was also a world’s first. Source

  196. 196.

    Rusty

    The Scout is perfect.  Similar vintage Broncos and Blazers are all getting  resto-mod treatments, modern engines and selling for 6 figures.  The Scouts were made by a tractor company by God.  (I have an International Farmall tractor, so I think that is very cool).  Its not a muscle car, which often attracts a certain personality, so it just fits in so many ways.  I wish I knew what engine it has.  Probably the V8, but Scouts came with a straight six and a slant 4 that was half a V8.

  197. 197.

    cain

    @rikyrah: I have never had an 8 track, I’m too young for that era at 55 years  old :D I just assumed that’s what truckers used. :D

  198. 198.

    Fair Economist

    @BellyCat: A friend of mine teaches accounting in a community college and remarks on the difference in motivation between the women and the men. He says the women are mostly go-getters and the men mostly just want to play video games.

  201. 201.

    Steve in the ATL

    Billboard just seen in Milwaukee, down the road from Penzey’s HQ:

    TRUMP Champion for Equal Rights

    not sure how it didn’t burst into flame immediately

  202. 202.

    Maxim

    @Scout211: My dad had a beater truck that looked a lot like that. Yellow finish that he patched with pink. He used it to haul firewood. It had no power steering, so driving it was an experience.

  203. 203.

    wjca

    @John Cole: my 2013 honda Cr-V with 135k miles on it is, by a wide margin, the cheapest car I have ever owned in my entire life.

    Cr-V.  Definitely the way to go.  Just waiting for the next generation of batteries to arrive before buying my next one.  Should be even cheaper to operate: no oil change required. :-)

  206. 206.

    S Cerevisiae

    @Phein64: was it white? I had one like that and some of the same 8-tracks but I was 8th grade or so. It would eat batteries like crazy but if I remember correctly I could plug it in, my cassette player that replaced it would.

  208. 208.

    Another Scott

    @wjca: My grandpa lost his index finger to the first knuckle (the one with the nail) to a radial arm saw.

    He was cutting something and pushed the saw back and noticed a chunk of something caught in the teeth.  He thought he could knock it out with his fingertip…

    :-/

    The doc wrapped his fingerprint up and over the cut, so he would have had a tough life as a burgler.

    “Yeah, it’s clearly that stubby fingered guy again!  Bring him in, Danno.”

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  210. 210.

    Old Dan and Little Ann

    I get a Smartboard for this upcoming school year after 4 years of NOT having one.  They are fun and interactive.  Kids love them.

  212. 212.

    karen marie

    @artem1s:   I chipped one of my front teeth using a  big paper cutter.  The blade handle is weighted, and this one came up fast and caught me.  I loved the noise they make.

    When I was a HS sophomore, someone in my class got the mimeograph sheets for the algebra final two days before the test.  I still flunked.  But the teacher felt sorry for me and passed me anyway.  Ah, memories of standing in the school secretary’s office and the smell of mimeograph!

  213. 213.

    anitamargarita

    @BR: I think that only a few people took gamergate seriously, and they were mostly young women, who nobody took seriously.

  216. 216.

    Jay

    @Rusty:

    Used Scouts were popular here, if you wanted to get into 4WD. Blazers, Bronco’s and Ramcharger’s were expensive even used, Nobody ever sold their Toyota Landcruisers or 4Runners,

    but Canada Post had bought a bunch of 4 banger Scouts for last mile and rural deliveries, and a bunch of Rural areas had bought fleets as well.

    Rather than “deal” with ongoing service costs they were often auctioned off when they hit 100,000 miles, and were quite cheap. The 4 bangers were torquey enough, gutless in acceleration or top speed, cheap to run, easy to fix, and west of Ontario, rust was not a problem.

  217. 217.

    Jager

    A Cape Cod pal of ours had an incredibly frugal Yankee father-in-law. Rather than replace the rusted-out gas tank on his mid-70s Scout, he hooked up a 5 gallon tank from a 10-horse Mercury outboard fishing motor.

  219. 219.

    Wave Function Collapse

    I want Tim Walz to show us how to make the 8-track tape an actual good, reliable mechanical design.

    If he can do that, it should be child’s play for him to cut taxes while balancing the budget, solve climate change, and end all wars.

    /curmudgeon-engineer

  220. 220.

    divF

    @rikyrah:

    @TBone:

    One of the things I miss about living in California is no masonry / stone buildings, b/c of seismic issues. Looking at the house and the kids makes me feel chill, in all senses of the term.

  224. 224.

    Ken

    @TBone: I also loved to sharpen pencils manually in the old school grinders because that smelled good!

    They used to make them out of endangered Philippine cedar. You can’t get that any more, the last tree was cut down for pencils in 1997.

  230. 230.

    comrade scotts agenda of rage

    @Phein64:

    I had that same player, Panasonic.  Mine was yellow.  My two Tull 8-tracks from then were Aqualung and Warchild.

  231. 231.

    Ken

    @John Cole:  It costs NOTHING to operate.

    This sounds like the setup for a Cybertruck joke. “Hasn’t moved for over six months, but I’m finally on the wait-list for a repair.”

  233. 233.

    NutmegAgain

    @Nettoyeur: Yes! I had a ’61 VW bug, kind of handed down in the family. When the floor rotted out, someone I knew who restored Lincoln Continentals welded the roof from a parts car on the floor. Worked a treat. I kept driving that thing until you couldn’t even order parts from Mexico. It went 250K miles.

  234. 234.

    Another Scott

    @wjca: Easy peasy.

    “No Special Rights!  No Quotas!  No ‘Affirmative Action’ Discrimination!  Color-Blind Society!  No Punishing Success!  No Jamming Woke Down Our Throats!”

    It’s in code for the racists – they know what TCFFG’s campaign is saying.  And it sounds like something that is desirable in an ideal world (which doesn’t and never has existed), so too many people who aren’t paying attention will get hoodwinked by it.

    Grr…,
    Scott.

  235. 235.

    suzanne

    @divF: If it makes you feel any better, masonry and stone buildings are in the wane everywhere due to enhanced code requirements for continuous insulation (no thermal bridging) in exterior wall assemblies. The wall sections get much more complicated with that requirement, so everything’s going to insulated metal composite panels, precast panel systems, etc.

  236. 236.

    moonbat

    @comrade scotts agenda of rage: Wow. Good show!  And I was feeling proud to have held onto my LPs and CDs!

    Now all I need is a solar cell to power my all in one stereo and the party will be at my place when the zombie apocalypse commences.

  241. 241.

    Villago Delenda Est

    @Scout211: I don’t think anyone can make a credible case for “both sides” anymore.

    Won’t stop nepopublisher’s Vichy Times from trying.

  244. 244.

    Ironcity

    @Phylllis:   You called it carriage return, late boomer.   Now it  is called “Return” or “Enter”.  And a well made keyboard is a thing of beauty.  As a 1971 HS grad we used slide rules in physics and chemistry.  Learned to program in BASIC on a timeshare computer system linked to a mainframe somewhere using teletypes though telephones with acoustic couplers for the MODEMs.   After I graduated  they replaced the timeshare, or added, a real PDP-8 computer.   The first PC I saw was a North Star about 1978 or 9.

  245. 245.

    GrandadBTK

    How has nobody commented on the fact that the 8-track is a Cars album?  Walz’s musical tastes are just excellent.

  246. 246.

    NotMax

    Those above waxing nostalgic about the smell of mimeos must be thinking of the fluid for craanking out copes on ditto machines,

    Mimeos did not have a patricular smell, but as they used an ink rather than a duplicating fluid they could smear if you looked at them funny.

  247. 247.

    Death Panel Truck

    I can’t imagine it’s an original engine because they were shit

    Having grown up on a 9,000 acre dry land wheat ranch in eastern Washington with four International 3-ton farm vehicles, I can say authoritatively that the engines were their strong point. The 345 V8s could withstand all kinds of abuse while hauling grain from the fields to the elevator every summer during wheat harvest. My dad took excellent care of his machinery, so they were very well-maintained, and lasted for many years. He only switched to GMCs because he had to after the local IH dealer closed.

    Many of the V8s that went into 1970s-era Scouts were sourced from American Motors, so that could be the problem with them. 

  249. 249.

    StringOnAStick

    @Kent: Have you seen the display at Timberline lodge that shows that the female skier  illustration on a Pee-Chee folder is from a photo taken at Timberline ski area?

  250. 250.

    Matt McIrvin

    @Ironcity: My dad was a system programmer for GE’s timesharing service in the 1970s. They’d sold off their computer division to Honeywell but they were still selling what today we’d call “cloud computing” or “software as a service” out of banks of Honeywell mainframes. Dialing in from home on his portable acoustic-modem terminal was my first experience using a computer.

    Around 1977, we had an “enrichment week” of special classes at school and I took one on BASIC programming–we didn’t actually have a computer to work with, so it was all sort of theoretical, taught entirely with overhead transparencies. On the last day of class, they wheeled in a Commodore PET 2001 on a cart and we all lined up and got our once chance to type in a little program. I typed in mine and got a syntax error, and that was the end of my turn. I came home frustrated and Dad let me run it on the mainframes at work. That was my first program.

  251. 251.

    Paul in KY

    @Leto: When I did base housing inspections (for bad lawns and the best ones) we usually got a 4 wheel drive 6 pack ramcharger pickup to drive. What a beast! Had a 90 foot turning radius.

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