And we laugh at the ancient Romans for flavoring their wine with lead or using lead products and slowly poisoning themselves.

When this happens in a developing country we laugh at their politics.

When it happens in America, no one bats an eye

Seeing Jake as a fast talking cool cat with a pencil moustache and slick hair in the 1950s was one of many highlights

Or being able to hide an alien in plain sight and calling it a Chicken Lady

TIL Kids In The Hall doesn't take place on earth in Toronto, Ontario, Canada .... it takes place on an alien planet that is part of the Federation. This explains so much.

And painted the whole room with a pretty green colored lead paint.

Loved Dangerfield .... in my mind's eye, his character is like a marker in time for me now ... are we dating ourselves?

That slight tilt does seem to throw things out of balance ...

It feels shitty and I was doing the same thing all day. I had to resurrect my lemmy.world account just to get back online. It's made me realize that I should maintain both accounts for shut downs like this. And now I'm also having to do more in maintaining my Mastodon account too.

Always loved that easy way to identify DS9/Terok Nor and Empok Nor

Weird to think what happens when you lose a site you visit on a regular basis. I can understand the whole instance going down but us users just get lost when things get turned off. There's no way to know what happened, why or when or if anything will return.

I had to resurrect my old lemmy.world account to figure out what happened. I guess we have to hang on to two or more unique instance accounts in case our main instance goes down.

Stay well guys and I totally appreciate the admins of lemmy.ca and all the work they do. I'll patiently wait and look forward to seeing it online again.