Comments by "" (@jmitterii2) on "Weird History" channel.

Just like the US is notorious in thinking corporations have heart and know best. And have killed millions more either deliberate cover ups, entire towns had to eventually after long court battles be abandoned due to soil and water contamination, we've had our own cover ups on nuclear weapons and testing mistakes. Wasn't that long ago that unionization was illegal (until 1935) and quite literally robber barons had their own hired army thugs, coal wars. And that industry has killed hundreds of thousands directly, many more indirectly. Our court systems give the delusion, or illusion which ever way of thinking we have real protests or redress. When they're slapped on the wrist or even found harmless. Anyway, the dictatorship of the Stalin like USSR and the ever increasing return to Robber Baron west both suck an ass hole with a sunday salad full of shit bags.
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Not that many had those diseases.
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@dckaelin Crockett was a cowardly politician hoping to get war cred for his next run for office to something. He cowardly surrendered instead of fighting to the death.
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And now we have safer technologies, especially the development of LFTR or even the solid thorium reactors that don't require pressurized chambers.... which is fucking insane. LFTR reactors are 90% or more efficient compared to the 1% efficiency of current pressurized uranium reactors; this makes a marble size of thorium fuel with the energy density produce an entire years worth of energy equal to an affluent American. People don't realize the only reason the US and the rest of the atomic nations went with slow neutron pressurized uranium reactors is that it made plutonium for nuclear weapon production. Make electricity and bombs all in one! And hopefully the ITER program and especially Wendelstein 7x will produce good results on building fusion plants... these use non-radioactive heavy hydrogen and only produce very small amounts of tritium only during the reactors operation, and produce absolutely no radioactive waste...final fused products are helium 4. The amount of energy density is 1 marble size would provide all the energy of an affluent American for their entire life if they lived to be 100 years old. Oil and gas and other fossil fuel plants due to their release of radio isotopes and their soot and various other harmful compounds emitted have caused millions of deaths worldwide; for much less power return too. Wind and solar unfortunately energy density is not sufficient to make it on its own. Better nuclear power technology will ultimately pave the way for much cheaper energy and no more carbon emissions.
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The syphilis thing was a bit over blown. The fact was, wigs were available since Ancient Rome. And the use of them were too... men and women would both wear wigs... it's just they were generally more natural looking until the time of Louis the XIVth (the Sun King) the king that to keep his power intact and keep the nobility from rebellion, he developed a cult fandom of himself... built out the Palace of Versailles and created ritual customs of his everyday dressing and eating and undressing for the evening where the nobility would act like Musk fans fawning at every gesture, statement, and action the monarch performed. The king began wearing a wig, an ornate wigs at that... so did they. And so did everyone else in Europe. It was the style of wigs... then they changed from the 1600's style long wig to cropped smaller wig toward the 1700's, these wigs pulled back to ponytail, sides having one or more curls on the side, small ponytail (sometimes two ponytails) tied with a big bow and/or silk sack to place the tail. They became something similar to today's bow tie or regular long tie. Wearing one became a ritualistic practice that demonstrated importance of the occasion. Hence why judges and barristers (lawyers) in Australia and the UK still wear them in court. And during special parliamentary procedures such as when the monarch address them and the nation, various members of the lords wear a wig even today. Again, something similar to the mostly ended wearing of a top hat during the US presidential inauguration. And at other governmental special events. The wearing of the top hat at these functions faded after JFK. It's why you see cartoons often depict the mayor, governor, or other elected official often wearing a top hat. Like Abe Lincoln. Even though the common wear of a top hat had faded to a rarity by the 1910's. Reserved for extremely formal occasions: weddings, funerals, embassy/diplomatic parties, (the so called black tie events) etc.
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@eatshit2863 That's a bit much. And if it was NEGLIGENT HOMICIDE... that's the least form of murder... if it's not aggravated by drugs or alcohol, gross negligence... most don't even serve time in prison for it. What it was, a PR stunt that was pushed by politicians trying to look cute, and management that didn't wan't to disappoint and potentially lose profitable government contract or two or several.
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IF I was watching anything it was probably cartoons on Disney Channel. I was only 2 and half. My little brother would be born in April. My older brothers 10 and 11 years older than me talked about it when they came home and all gathered to watch it on the evening and then late night news.
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Oh yes, the 80's where everyone was trailer trash feathered hair with mullet, jugging new coke and deciding it sucked, and then jugging crystal pepsi and realizing it was just fucking weird... watching the terribly obvious phony drama of WWF wearing baseball hats flat bill and making sure hair poked through the rear end and on the sides... seat belts? No! And many rivers you could still light on fire.
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Well, they also had their Vietnam moment in Afghanistan... the US was busy giving Osama bin Laden weapons and money honey. Unfortunately, that didn't work out for us in the US either.
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Because we're mortal and keep dying... kind of can't help it. Duh!
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I was only a little over 2 1/2. What I was doing at the exact moment I don't remember. I might have been playing in the sand box outside, watching cartoons or other things on Disney... or playing with toys inside or outside. I only remember that day because my brothers who are 10 and 11 years older came home talking about watching the space shuttle blow up. And telling mom to check out the news. And that evening and later that night watching it on the news. I remember Reagan's speech about it... I wasn't quite 3 years old, but I remember the silly funny things I thought back then... I confused Walt Disney with Reagan... and I thought elephants due to Dumbo could literally fly. I remember thinking, Mickey Mouse will be sad.
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Because they ultimately won, terrorists became revolutionaries. But yeah, point taken. Unfortunately, history prospective is often written through the eyes of the victors.
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Your parents were about my older brothers' age. My nieces and nephews weren't thought of either... now most of them are drinking age. I changed their diapers. Time zooms by. I was only 2 1/2. I don't remember watching it live... but that afternoon my brothers came home talking all about it telling us to call grandma and turn on the news.
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Well, pollution was never dealt with through the 1800's into the mid and late 1900's... it was becoming untenable. River in Cleveland was a sludge mess in the late 70's and early 80's... literally the river caught fire more than a dozen times. A river catching fire. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/cuyahoga-river-caught-fire-least-dozen-times-no-one-cared-until-1969-180972444/
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None of this surprised me because the information is easily available on line... and for the past 20ish years google has made looking this stuff up and finding creditable sources easy to find as a google search. WTF?!
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Many times in history rich people end up eating each other in a system that collapses about them.
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He probably thought, damn... that could have been me!
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Freight train injuries?
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I was only 2 and half... I remember watching it on the tv news that night. And my older brothers who are 10 and 11 years older talk about watching it live on tv at school, that it blew up. That's probably why every time I watched a shuttle launch afterwards live on tv or even any rocket launch, I always get nervous its going to blow up and hold my breath at times until they're at least in "space".
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To rich people. They've (the oligarchs in charge of the Corporate States of America, have effectively turned their taxes into a loan program.
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I really don't think I watched it live, I was only 2 1/2... what I do remember, my brothers 10 and 11 years older came home from school telling us (my mom and I) that the shuttle blew up to turn on the news. I recall watching it in the 5 or 6pm evening news, then again at 10pm nightly news when dad was home.
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