Phil Landmeier @shuttersparks@social.cleverlibre.org

@aliide Yes, I know little of the big-picture stuff. I've always meant to study it but haven't had time.

@aliide This documentary was at least 30 years ago. I think it was made by PBS in the U.S. I have very few details. By 1910 she was in Germany and married.

@aliide She didn't pursue a specific field. It was a girls school in St. Petersburg for aristocrats. So the curriculum was heavy on history, political science, how to take power, hold power, control populations, etc. As a girl, she was also required to learn girl-stuff like sewing. Haha.

She told me that physical education is important in all Russian schools. She told me how all the girls had to run laps and do other exercises first thing in the morning, in their underwear, regardless of weather, regardless of your social position. Mandatory. Cold and snow made no difference.

I thought she was exaggerating until I saw a documentary on television about 30 years ago that showed the schools of St Peterburg doing exactly what she described. O.O

@aliide I'm 70. My grandmother from Estonia was born in 1886.

@pinsk Exactly. I drove an '89 Ford Ranger to 320,000 miles. I had it for a reason. I used it to carry cargo, sheets of plywood, sacks of concrete.

People I know today who have late model pickups have forgotten or never knew what a pickup is for. They don't haul anything because "It might get the bed dirty." They haul the wife and kids around in the crew cab and the bed is never used.

But I know what it is. It's an SUV, driven by guys who don't want to be seen driving an SUV. They want an SUV but it has to be a Dodge RAM.

The EV companies are probably just catering to the market. So they make an SUV with a 1500 pound thingus on the back so it looks like a pickup.

@peterrelph2 I think they want better pay.

Here in the U.S., beef prices soared a while ago and then came back down to "normal". Now they're soaring again. What that all about?

@_L1vY_ @ianlivingston @ai6yr Interesting. I must have missed the memo. Never heard of control over the timeline.

Until Elmo came along, I'd been an avid Twitter user from the beginning, when we tweeted via SMS from a flip-phone. In other words, back when Twitter was really interesting, useful, and exciting.

@_L1vY_ @ianlivingston @ai6yr This was one of my big beefs about Twitter, even before Elmo took over. Tweets from some of my favorite people would show up 10 to 20 hours late in my timeline, if they showed up at all. What good is that? And why call it a timeline? It was a randomline.

@nathans Well, but it's yours to play with it seems. ;-)