OED isn’t the only dictionary out there. Oh well.

Good luck with that, folks.

Holy cats, this guy is amazing! Thank you for the link, am going to do a dive into his music.

Think it’s the upload. Youtube strikes again.

If you go to a different Fresh upload, (I found this one) the music track is fine.

I’m in the States and know of no one else that listens to his music… UNTIL I introduce them to it.

From here in 'Murrica, yeah, he’s your country’s super musical secret.

And I love his music, it’s about exactly what you say… Human stories.

We tend to hold a mental image in our heads of someome at the point they hit their peak notoriety. The Iraq war started over 20 years ago… yeah he got old in the years since then.

(Major media tends to use earleir photos that the various news outfits may have had on file)

Here’s the Al Jazeera story with a rather recent photo. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/11/4/former-us-vice-president-dick-cheney-dies-at-84

I’m not sanguine qbout that. Young men are still required to register with Selective Service to this day

When that requirement is gone, I’ll believe that a draft isn’t a possiblility.

Hmmm.

My thoughts are that once Trump picks a fight in some backwater country and starts a war and hits these same angry young men with a draft, you’ll likely see a lot of them changing their tune.

School is one thing, but the culture of the last 30 years has been decidedly tilted towards being cautious and wary of risk.

Right now, they think it’s cool to be tough and callous about life and since most of the men that actually fought fascism are now dead, this is when generational amnesia takes over. It was inevitable we’d swing in this direction.

How far it goes before the hot young things see the actual costs of this political viewpoint - and start paying it themselves, is the question of the day…

Lots of kids in the neighborhoods across town wherre the families now live. In the part of town where I am where it is all rental units filed with childless professionals and retirement homes for affluent snowbirds, there was no trick-or-treating. My husband grew up here and in this part of town it used to be crawling with kids in the 60’s and 70’s. Then again, that was before rich people “discovered” our city and snapped up all the affordable rentals and converted them to luxury condos.

Oh man, is it. That is exactly what got me banned from Reddit after 14 years. I’m on old.lemmy.zip and starting to spread out and check other instances and am finding so much delightful stuff! All of it is drama-free and I love it.

Now that is being damned with faint praise!

That’s yet another site I’m glad I left years ago…

Oh noes! The dementia took over and he drew a pre-teen female figure with the magic sharpie and wiped out Mar-A-Lago instead…

Right now, everyone is terrified of the actual President, Stephen Miller.

Mr. Trump is just a loudmouthed figurehead with dementia that runs interference.

Oh, he’s definitely been having mini strokes, for years. That or the adderal induced lack of sleep is creating psychosis in him.

Or, and this is most likely, he’s just following his own father into the maw of dementia - and that is his personal terror, if the history about his family that I’ve read, is correct.

I wonder if the DOD brass thought that “…Taking America back to when it was great…” meant we’d be using 1950’s technology as well.

Hmmm.

Haven’t heard Furii yet. Will go see what I can find. Love Figueroa as well!

Naah, the dementia that Fred Trump had is already hitting Don.

Hence the MRI - they’re likely looking for the plaques or lesions that form in Alzheimer’s patents.

Some forms of dementia can also change the actual structure of the brain, so they could have been looking at that.

Dementia is inheritable so Don’s likely worried, and to the fact he desn’t sleep, only adds to the risk.

Delightful, no?

THIS is going on a tee shirt!

The protest signs need to say that ONLY the President has Presidential Immunity and Presidential pardons won’t protect you from State charges.

Make the fear go in their direction, because who these pricks are - will come out in time.

I don’t think he will be cogent enough to not be shitting himself by 2028. Bannon et. al, keep acting like Trump is a fit, lean, 57 years old and not the fat, addled 79 year old following his own father into the sunset of dementia.