Upon consulting my History buff family member, the conclusion we’ve come to is that the lower left is a WWII era Dress Whites uniform for Chiefs. And that the lower right is old school Working Whites that’s been soaked in coffee (rumor has it that Sailors that went to fight on land would do that to better blend in with the jungles of the Pacific Theater in WWII).

Ah, so the correct answer is to just hate everyone?

/s

Hmmm, I don’t think I’ve ever tried DrugsOS. Can you link to their site?

Is lower left a whited out version of Navy dress blues?

And wtf is lower right?

Props to the article for listing some of the extensions.

Sure do wish they’d list all that they investigated and publish as a “sells data / doesn’t sell data”

Yeah, I don’t know where this notion that he was an egg. I think it was Shrek or some similar thing that brought it to my attention that everyone thought he was supposed to be an egg.

I always thought he was just a dumb dude. Just pictured him court jester for most of my youth.

Well I mean, why stop at just alcohol ads? I say we ban them all.

^^ Only kinda joking there. I do hate ads, esp those that interrupt whatever content I was involved in (TV, streaming, pop-up). Ones that just kinda set on the side are mostly okay (billboards, banner ads, those pamphlets at hotels, etc).

Yeah, I could never fly an economy flight without a drink or three to lighten the spirits.

Yup, and I think that’s a symptom of how isolating modern society is (as opposed to the disease society suffers from).

I def do not advocate for drinking alone in any quantity, but I would also never advocate to remove alcohol from society. It feels reasonable to conclude that since every society that’s ever had success at some level has had some form of mind altering substance (usually alcohol) that was consumed recreationally and regularly.

Yeah, in terms of individual health, I have no doubt that avoiding alcohol all together the best bet.

Personally, I subscribe to a flavor of “social lubricant” take on alcohol. That is, being a human and managing all the required social interactions and minor slights, stressors, stigmas, etc is a lot. And alcohol works to turn off some of the parts of the brain most active in social situations. That is to say that alcohol (and/or other mood altering drugs) are bad for the individual, but good for society.

Do need to caveat that take with: there’s a left and a right to what’s acceptable levels of intoxication. I don’t think the world would be better with everyone getting outright shit faced every night, and even a glass every night might be excessive; its easy to fall prey to addiction and that’s undesirable. But also, I don’t think we’d be better off without alcohol all together. I think a couple glasses per week - and not drinking those glasses alone - makes for a healthy enough middle ground.

Bit of a shot in the dark, but seems like cigarette companies have lied in front of congress / courts saying cigarettes are healthy / not bad for you and have been caught red handed in their lies.

Big alcohol hasn’t ever done anything that egregious. Everyone knows its not exactly healthy to drink, and Big Alcohol doesn’t seem to have ever argued that. I know there’s the occasional “a glass of red wine is good for your heart” stuff, but they’re also not making any attempt to deny a gallon of wine per day will probably cause cirrhosis, ya know?

Both, but probably mostly just the killers.

Reviewing the lyrics, yeah, def not a fan of the song and (what I see as) the under lying message. And messages like that in songs are fairly important to me enjoying them.

Ooooo, I hadn’t heard about this.

Can you link to more info?

Edit: Nevermind, my lousy google-fu proved adequate.to find this one. Link for the lazy

Damn, I feel like this is a real hot take. Can I ask what it is about the song that annoys you?

Mr. Brightside by The Killers.

Really, anything by the Killers, but this one is so incredibly over played and it makes my brain hurt why anyone ever liked that song in the first place.

Maintaining healthy trees with urine covering with federal employee benefits and a government pension sounds like a dream job.

No doubt they’d find a way to make it a bureaucratic nightmare of a job. But I’m down.

Well I mean people just keeping telling stories about them; the they just drag on and on

Edit: ignore me. @arrow74@lemmy.zip has a better comment that brings the receipts.

Not sound like a Devil’s Advocate, but IIRC from High School history, Lincoln had the authority to mobilize the US Army for 90 days to fight the Confederates. Seems like that was a major part of the delay in declaring the Civil War a war (that is, the Union thought the Confederates would be easily pushed over w/i the 3 months that Lincoln could just do whatever he wanted with the Army).

As good as Lincoln was, I understand he played a bit fast and loose with war time powers of the president and most contemporary criticism of him was relayed to to that.

But anyway, I assumed that power hadn’t been significantly changed over the century and a half since.

Yeah, I still feel the same, but car was scratching at 20 years old and maintenance was becoming more than I have time for these days. So swapped to an (almost) new hybrid.

I regret it almost every day (not that the hybrid is bad; its just not the same feel. Plus all these newfangled sensors are a bitch).

different units for different magnitudes

I’m not sure I get what you mean? Are you saying how we use ounces for tiny weights, pounds for “human”-ish weights, and tons for huge weights?