One step removed from dropping turkeys from a helicopter.

Smallpox was basically a childhood disease in Europe by that point. Many British and French troops had natural immunity. The isolation of the Colonials meant they were much more susceptible. Disease killed far many more troops than combat. Americans owe their country in no small way to inoculation.

Smallpox was ravaging the Continentals. Inoculation was known but resisted on religious grounds and because it was frankly risky. Washington wrestled with it, ordered it done, and dropped infection among the troops from about 20% to less than 2%. One of the most important decisions of the war.

There would have been no Continental Army for the French to hand victory to at Yorktown without the jab.

Nobody over the age of say 50 should give a shit about this because life is short and every moment precious.

What if overthrowing a fascist regime to restore a heritary monarchy supported by warrior space monks and robot slavery isn't quite the progressive flex some people think it is?

In support of this, I'll just say my quiet generation father grew up with westerns, comics, serials and the pulps, but didn't make them his entire personality. And I never once heard him say, "Reagan is just like Ming the Merciless" or some embarassing stupid shit like that.

Last of the Mohicans checks some of the same boxes especially if she likes DDL

He's a gooner

On Cinema level weird-ass health problems.

100%

Eliminating libraries in prisons is a disaster, completely shortsighted. Libraries are a lifeline for incarcerated people who want to learn and grow, and have few other options.

what the fuck is even going on

Greece, a NATO member, owns something like 30% of the oil tankers in the world. So there could be a very funny chance to apply Article 5 in the near future.

Sending positive thoughts to you and your family Jaime.

He showed up, trolled his little heart out, and couldn't even get ratioed. The most pathetic figure in Canadian media.

It’s like Galadriel showed up in the middle of a hobbit céilí and dropped a banger

She’s transcendent

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It’s a kink

The Onion headline: U.S. Loses Vietnam War; Ford Urges All Americans to Salute Our Vietcong Rulers

Thinking about this right now

Anybody who decides they gotta hand it to Tucker, MTG etc gets blocked

Some sad news to report, I'm afraid... Jeff Grant, the director of legendary public information film Lonely Water, died on 13 March. He fought to include the film's horror elements, and they proved so successful that it opened the door to the shocking PIFs that we know and love. (1/2)

Yep

Pharaoh (Modern Trailer) YouTube video by DM Edit

Also Pharaoh (1966) a Polish historical epic by Jerzy Kawalerowicz set in Ancient Egypt with an incredible modernist aesthetic. Imagine Antonioni directing Land of the Pharaohs. www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYg2...

THE TALE OF TSAR SALTAN restoration trailer YouTube video by Deaf Crocodile

Recently discovered the work of Aleksandr Ptushko. Incredibly production designed fairy-tale epics produced behind the Iron Curtain in the 50s, 60s and 70s. On Tubi! (In Canada anyway) www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y83B...

Touch of Grey has played once every hour in every grocery store on earth for nearly 40 years

wouldn't it be funny if EVERYONE blocked this Attie AI account @ bsky.app/profile/atti... before they could do anything with it

goat

In 2046 I'll be thinking about another movie thank you