Wow. Just.. WOW

So much for code breakers.

A related funny story about the U.S. Army and its quest to stamp out homosexuality - they came up with a test for it involving eye patterns when looking at images. Somehow the rabidly homophobic people running the tests kept scoring very high on it. It was quietly shelved after that.

Dorothy kind of was a real person. Judy Garland was a friend to the gay community at a time where they didn't have many friends.

What a waste of tax dollars...

Why Dorothy?

Not too bright now were they?

The greatest codemasters that come to mind are the Navajo Nation & Alan Turing... I'm confident Alan would have had maybe a couple excellent reasons not to help the military identify homosexual service members...

“I’m friends of Dorthy.” “lmao same.”

US in 80's: Let us all forget about the serial killers and look for Dorothy. She is the real danger to our civilians and servicemen

Bea Arthur?

The bigotry in the old days.

I was in the army before that and I knew three gay men and never said a thing.

"Military intelligence", two words combined that can't make sense.

Just so funny.

And they never thought about asking their own men, what they meant by being 'friends of Dorothy'?

Roflmao

oh dayum.

Cute

sad but true. My self and my fellow people need to change a lot. I did not expect what would happen in the replies.Enter at ur own risk. I was stupid when I first posted this comment, and have grown. we all grow, in the end. good luck in your growth.

Those 2 square miles are highly suspicious!

He's lucky he wasn't disemboweled. Beware the evil Ostrich foot! ostrich-de...2d33cf.jpg

Yet there are more stars than grains of sand. Astronomy stops making sense after you reach scales like these

Interesting....

It's called aphantasia. Another, related, issue is that many people have no inner monologue.

There's no such thing as a fish

What did she think of it?

And yet, there's a housing shortage. Make it make sense.

That's horrifying.

Whose mouth hurts after eating pineapple?! Is this a thing?!

How is that ableism??

In 60 or so years, this will be "There was only 66 years between the invention of Twitter and the apocalypse."

I sense a disturbance in the force....nope that's gary's blood.

Not exactly though. The first device that we would recognize as a "fax" came in 1880 with Shelford Bidwell's 'scanning phototelegraph'. It was able to scan a 2D original document, rather than previous machines which required an operator to manually trace over the original with a stylus

Is this good or bad, though?

It's the nightly fireworks show.

JESUS CHRIST

What is a "zodiac" in this context?

Solves calling one by the wrong name.

Painting with mummies - sounds like a reality TV show from the 90s

All on the same flight, or four separate occasions?

Ooh, election interference!

Beckett lived in the same village, and had a truck. If he passed the village kids walking to school, he would stop and let them hop into the flatbed of his truck and he would drive them to or from school. But it wasn’t singular to Andre, it was any kid in the village.

In the 1970s. It refers to how ideas are passed on in the same way genes pass on DNA information.

That's because there has technically only been one Democratic senator from Vermont, Patrick Leahy (Bernie Sanders is an Independent). He's been a senator since 1974.

Is anyone surprised?