Biden's America

[teachercd]

28 minutes ago, knapplc said:

 

She was a Jewish immigrant whose parents were killed in the Holocaust. She was a dental assistant, heard the commotion outside her office and went to see what was going on. This random dude grabs her and kisses her. 

 

People want to believe it's this romantic celebratory photo because it fits the narrative in their head. Reality tends to hurt a lot of people in their feels when it doesn't conform to their pre-conceived notions. 

 Dang, this is kind of crazy

 

https://veteransbreakfastclub.org/who-were-the-people-in-the-times-square-kiss-on-v-j-day/#:~:text=According to the most authoritative,not a nurse) from Queens.

 

And that totally weird study by the professors, who seem to think the time is way off and that it might not even be "them", professors need more classes to teach.  

[DevoHusker]

38 minutes ago, knapplc said:

 

She was a Jewish immigrant whose parents were killed in the Holocaust. She was a dental assistant, heard the commotion outside her office and went to see what was going on. This random dude grabs her and kisses her. 

 

People want to believe it's this romantic celebratory photo because it fits the narrative in their head. Reality tends to hurt a lot of people in their feels when it doesn't conform to their pre-conceived notions. 

I have never heard that. Interesting. I just knew it is one of the iconic photos about the end of WWII.

 

Thanks to you and @teachercd who posted a link, for perspective.

[Archy1221]

12 minutes ago, DevoHusker said:

I have never heard that. Interesting. I just knew it is one of the iconic photos about the end of WWII.

 

Thanks to you and @teachercd who posted a link, for perspective.

It seems like based on some cool science and the two kissers alleged timeline, they weren’t the kissers in the picture either.  
 

settled. Just when we thought the case of the Times Square Kiss was closed, three physicists at Texas State University began to raise new questions about the photograph. Actually, they sought to answer just one question that had never been determined: what time did the Kiss occur?

The professors studied vintage maps, aerial photos, and architectural blueprints before constructing a scale model of Times Square, circa 1945. They even rigged a moving sun to pass over the model so they could match the lighting and shadows on the many photographs taken by Eisenstadt and Jorgensen that day. After four years of research, the scientists determined that the shadows in Eisenstadt’s photo could only have been cast by a sun “at azimuth 270 degrees (exactly due west) and at an altitude of +22.7 degrees.” That is, the photo was taken at exactly 5:51 p.m. 

Both George and Greta claimed the kiss was much earlier in the afternoon. Perhaps their memories were clouded. Or, perhaps the kissers are still a mystery, after all.

[Dr. Strangelove]

This is the type of government overreach that stifles business and is a flat out slippery slope to the type of Anarcho-Communist-Fascist CRT laced Socialism that leftists love.

 

Between this and offering free money to feed children in poverty, Dems have lost me. #Trump2024 #2020WasStolen

[Moiraine]

2 minutes ago, Dr. Strangelove said:

This is the type of government overreach that stifles business and is a flat out slippery slope to the type of Anarcho-Communist-Fascist CRT laced Socialism that leftists love.

 

Between this and offering free money to feed children in poverty, Dems have lost me. #Trump2024 #2020WasStolen

Which part or your post is sarcasm?

[Dr. Strangelove]

3 minutes ago, Moiraine said:

Which part or your post is sarcasm?

If you can't beat them, join them. 

[Moiraine]

Just now, Dr. Strangelove said:

If you can't beat them, join them. 

Can you explain your post?

[Dr. Strangelove]

1 minute ago, Moiraine said:

Can you explain your post?

It was heavily sarcastic using the scariest buzzwords that the political Right uses to scare their horde of voters. They come up with new nonsense weekly after focus grouping the scariest sounding nonsense imaginable, and it works because Conservative voters are easily influenced. 

 

It contained tongue-in-cheek messaging about how Democrats "stifle business" by protecting consumers, along with not so subtle hints that the recent news of Republican states rejecting federal money to feed poor children is something Conservative voters stupidly approve.

[Moiraine]

@Dr. Strangelove capping late fees at $8 is stupid AF, as is calling them "junk" fees. There is such a thing as junk fees, but this isn't one of them. People seem to think their credit limit is their money, but it's the bank's money. If they are late on paying the bank back, it's not a junk or hidden fee the bank asks for, and the average of $32 is not much. The bank has to have a way to pay for losses. If this goes in, it will be good customers who pay for it by either not getting approved or by having higher APR.

Your sarcasm was confusing here, because the article was just stating the information, without a slant to it.

[BigRedBuster]

 

[teachercd]

2 hours ago, Archy1221 said:

It seems like based on some cool science and the two kissers alleged timeline, they weren’t the kissers in the picture either.  
 

settled. Just when we thought the case of the Times Square Kiss was closed, three physicists at Texas State University began to raise new questions about the photograph. Actually, they sought to answer just one question that had never been determined: what time did the Kiss occur?

The professors studied vintage maps, aerial photos, and architectural blueprints before constructing a scale model of Times Square, circa 1945. They even rigged a moving sun to pass over the model so they could match the lighting and shadows on the many photographs taken by Eisenstadt and Jorgensen that day. After four years of research, the scientists determined that the shadows in Eisenstadt’s photo could only have been cast by a sun “at azimuth 270 degrees (exactly due west) and at an altitude of +22.7 degrees.” That is, the photo was taken at exactly 5:51 p.m. 

Both George and Greta claimed the kiss was much earlier in the afternoon. Perhaps their memories were clouded. Or, perhaps the kissers are still a mystery, after all.

So now we have people that are mad that something they wanted to happen, might not have happened and for them, the worst part is, science proved it...Haha!

 

I kid, I kid.

[teachercd]

15 minutes ago, Moiraine said:

@Dr. Strangelove capping late fees at $8 is stupid AF, as is calling them "junk" fees. There is such a thing as junk fees, but this isn't one of them. People seem to think their credit limit is their money, but it's the bank's money. If they are late on paying the bank back, it's not a junk or hidden fee the bank asks for, and the average of $32 is not much. The bank has to have a way to pay for losses. If this goes in, it will be good customers who pay for it by either not getting approved or by having higher APR.

Your sarcasm was confusing here, because the article was just stating the information, without a slant to it.

This is very well put and you are 100% spot on.

 

 

 

 

[Archy1221]

26 minutes ago, Moiraine said:

@Dr. Strangelove capping late fees at $8 is stupid AF, as is calling them "junk" fees. There is such a thing as junk fees, but this isn't one of them. People seem to think their credit limit is their money, but it's the bank's money. If they are late on paying the bank back, it's not a junk or hidden fee the bank asks for, and the average of $32 is not much. The bank has to have a way to pay for losses. If this goes in, it will be good customers who pay for it by either not getting approved or by having higher APR.

Your sarcasm was confusing here, because the article was just stating the information, without a slant to it.

I gotta agree with you here.  I think most credit card companies are predatory, but late payment fees are probably towards the bottom end of anything that would need changed.   Top end interest rates, the amount of solicited mailings, emails, and cutting the solicitation of customers just out of BK would seem more helpful.  

[teachercd]

6 minutes ago, Archy1221 said:

I gotta agree with you here.  I think most credit card companies are predatory, but late payment fees are probably towards the bottom end of anything that would need changed.   Top end interest rates, the amount of solicited mailings, emails, and cutting the solicitation of customers just out of BK would seem more helpful.  

s#!t, who can afford BK!!!  

 

I just grabbed 3 cheeseburgers a large fry and drink...20 dollars.

 

Anyway, CC companies best move...giving out that free T-shirt to college students to get them to sign up for a CC.  They nailed me with that shirt!

[Archy1221]

2 minutes ago, teachercd said:

s#!t, who can afford BK!!!  

 

I just grabbed 3 cheeseburgers a large fry and drink...20 dollars.

 

Anyway, CC companies best move...giving out that free T-shirt to college students to get them to sign up for a CC.  They nailed me with that shirt!

HA.  BK as in Bankruptcy.  I know of two people who declared bankruptcy and within two weeks of the discharge, they were getting mass mailings for pre-approved credit card offers.