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  • The fact that it’s a laser printer certainly redeems you! I’m dumb and bought a decent Canon printer several years ago (do they still make them?), and have used it a few times since then. I haven’t checked recently, but am 100% certain all the cartridges are dried up. If I ever wanted to use it again, I’d have to blow out all the dust from it, clean the nozzles, buy more of all the colors (even if I’m printing b&w), and align the printing again. So much better to just go to a print shop the few rare times I’ll need it. I don’t want to make assumptions, but I bet that’s the case for most people…




  • Empricorn@feddit.nltomemes@lemmy.worldThat would be quality
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    Thank you, I did read the whole article! You said “It was all a scam setup by his manager.” That’s an exaggeration, if not misinformation. His manager Parker essentially only scammed Elvis, by making it seem he would be able to avoid service.

    I also don’t see where it said his manager “convinced the selective service to immediately draft Elvis before his number came up, lying to them that Elvis would be a performer for the army”, but I don’t have access to The Colonel, the source in the article.

    Those nitpicks aside, I think they both probably decided it was a shrewd business decision for Elvis to give 2 years of service as a soldier, rather than a performer, especially since Elvis declined Special Services a second time after he was already drafted.


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    “Scam” is an exaggeration. Your own Wikipedia link shows he declined a cushy entertainment position in Special Services. Twice. He completed the training, which he hated, and broke down in tears on multiple phone calls, describing his homesickness. As the most popular entertainer in the world at the time, he was of course given special privileges, but he was still a soldier. Soldiers have many duties and not all of them engage in direct combat. “Never winding up anywhere remotely near a battle” would have happened with anyone that famous (for political and strategic reasons), and certainly did for other rich, well-connected people…