I’m done with this. Very suspicious that I cannot delete this account after stopping my contributions due to the .world support for meta.
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I’m done with this. Very suspicious that I cannot delete this account after stopping my contributions due to the .world support for meta.
This profile is from a federated server and may be incomplete. Browse more on the original instance.
I've been searching and finding circular logic and corporate level no-speak. Is there an official post clarifying as in YES or NO weather lemmy.world is defederating threads?
I’ve gotten so tired of the non-stop reddit/lemmy/mastodon/threads drama I pulled the plug on all recurring donations for the foreseeable future. Thanks to threads the fedverse is starting the reddit style drama cycles and I’m pretty much over trying to sort through it....
Johnathan's cell becomes very focused and will not be contained when it registers cabbage soup is availible. (lemmy.world)
Mr Sniffers likes to patrol his domain in the cab of the farm truck. (lemmy.world)
My uncle Jay Leinart in San Francisco after serving in the Pacific theater on the USS Mobile CL-63. Before being discharged he was stationed onboard the USS Sierra AD-18. (lemmy.world)
He was assigned to the USS Sierra shortly after her commissioning. 49 years later I served aboard the USS Sierra and was part of the de-commissioning crew.
[OC] Potato quality of an A-7 Corsair II from the USS America CV-66 passing USS Brumby FF-1044 Atlantic Ocean sometime in the early 80's. (lemmy.world)
Animation telling the story of the Charlie Brown and Franz Stigler incident over Bremen in 1943. Franz Stigler was a man of true honor. (www.youtube.com)
en.wikipedia.org/…/Charlie_Brown_and_Franz_Stigle…
[OC] Rocking the former feral gang sign outside of a shop on Jekyll Island GA. Realized I was in his seat and moved right after. (lemmy.world)
[OC] Prisoner rec cages behind the ADSEG unit (AKA The Hole), Brushy Mountain State Penitentiary, Petros TN. Taken before the private purchase. (lemmy.world)
Was abandoned when I took the pic but is now private property and a tourist attraction. Worth a visit if you are ever in the area.
99.9% of Americans have never tasted a Blackcurrant or Gooseberry. For nearly a century, the US government conducted a war on currants and gooseberries. The History Guy YT (www.youtube.com)
I remember my Grandmother having Gooseberry in her garden and joking that they would get her in more trouble than the still she ran on her property.
Gould Street Power Station (Matthew Christopher) (lemmy.world)
There’s an article and more pictures by Matthew Christopher here.
[OC] Old US129 to the right of US129. Normally underwater but exposed due to the draining of Chilhowee Lake for dam maintenance. (lemmy.world)
[OC] Wild Rose cabin Elkmont Great Smokey Mountains National Park. AKA my family's cabin until the Park Service terminated our lease and left it to rot for decades. See body for more info. (lemmy.world)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elkmont,_Tennessee
[OC] That grey thing in the middle is a MK1A Ford Range keeper. 100% analog mechanical ballistics computer for naval guns. The US Navy used these from the early '40's until the mid 90's. (lemmy.world)
This particular unit weighed 3150LBS, was built in Feb 1946, took 7 people to operate and all data was input by hand cranks. Photo credit OP, Gunnery Plotting Room USS Brumby FF-1044 mid 1980’s.
[OC] This guy got off the train in 1979 and stayed there. See body for back story. (lemmy.world)
I was sitting at one of my “solitude” areas in the middle of the day on a week day. I start hearing this thumping and was thinking WTF is some asshat in a tuner doing out here at this time. I realized I was hearing “Wild Eyed Southern Boys” by .38 Special blasting, then this guy pulls up. Best disruption of my personal...
[OC] Barn finds for regular people are still a thing. My 1968, 383 Roadrunner. Going to start truing wrenches on her this weekend. (lemmy.world)
[OC] How did a company that made this, decide the Gremlin was a good idea? AMC Javelin, Smokey Mountain Muscle Car Museum. (lemmy.world)
[OC] My '04 drop top Mustang in the Great Smokey Mountains National Park with Pleasantville Effect added. (lemmy.world)
[OC] P-51, Tennessee Museum of Aviation, Sevierville TN 3872 X 2592... No, that's not ["THE" Airwolf...](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airwolf_(helicopter)) (lemmy.world)
That time when RAF Wing Commander Taffey Holden accidentally took off in one of the fastest aircraft of the day. He had never flown a jet aircraft before and that was the least of his problems. (www.youtube.com)
[OC] MIG-21 Fishbed, Tennessee Museum of Aviation, Sevierville TN 3872 X 2592 (lemmy.world)
[OC] Equipment plate from the [MK1A (Mark One Able)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_I_Fire_Control_Computer) USS Brumby FF-1044 note the date of manufacture. (lemmy.world)
I operated and worked on this One Able from 1983 to 1989 and they were in use on other ships until the mid 90’s.
[USS Marblehead CL-12](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Marblehead_%28CL-12%29) went through hell to get home at the onset of Americas involvement in WWII. (www.youtube.com)
As I said many times as a MK-92 GMFCS FC.... "Birds' Affirm!..... Birds' Away! Salvo Affirm!... Salvo Away!" USS Gary FFG-51 RIM-66 SM2MR missile shoot. (www.youtube.com)
Old Discovery dramatization of US129 The Tail Of The Dragon. (www.youtube.com)
I ride the Dragon a lot. If you ride and are ever in the area I highly recommend it.
UGM-27 A-3 test, unknown SSBN, most likely one of the 41 for freedom builds. Unknown location and photo credit from my personal collection. (lemmy.world)
When I helped decommission the USS Sierra (AD-18) I was told to throw away a huge box of pictures and negatives. I decided to keep them and preserve some https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photographers_Mate#/media/File:Rating_Badge_PH.jpg hard work and in some cases sheer luck.