I love his delivery about how Hitler dying in a ditch covered in patrol and on fire is funny. Hits so perfectly within the modern context of the latest rekindling of neonazi parties
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also engaged in these horrifying industrialized holocausts within their own spheres of influence
Makes me think of Eddie Izzard's bit on this:
The reason we let them get away with it because they were killing their own people. And we're sort of fine with that. "Help yourself, we've been trying to kill you people for ages, so you start killing your own people..." But Hitler killed people next door...the stupid man. After a couple of years we won't stand for that now will we?!
So normal that this knowledge became part of the sentencing process. I knew a guy who was in prison for some drug related charges. (Basically he grew up with no money in a bad part of town, while on some kind of a drug binge he killed a guy who was also on a drug binge and trying to kill him, so from his perspective he kinda woke up one day in prison and had no clue what happened during his binge and just had to take everyone else's word for what had gone down)
Anyways he was sentenced to something like 30 years for murder back in the 90s with the expectation that he'd be out in 10-15 years, but instead he spent years 20-23 of his sentence fighting tooth and nail to get parole, and in that process actually got the original judge to write a letter of recommendation where the judge specified he sentenced to 30 with the intention and expectation of him going on parole long before that point.
His life was truly a tragedy though, he ended up passing away from an undiagnosed heart condition less than a year after going on parole, and his wife was dying of something at the same time so his estranged brother had to handle the estate and ultimately he only got to live his best life for about 6 months.
Its a dogwhistle. That's what racists do is they'll have some dogwhistle to signal to other racists that they're also in the in group. In this case it's intentionally listing out the owners full name so they can see his name initializes to K.K.K. (which i pointed out in another comment that most businesses in small towns don't specify a first name, it's just "lastname's type of business" so in this case "Kistlers Engine Repair" since you don't know if it'll be Kermit or Emmit or Kermit's grandson John Kistler serving you but you at least know it'll be a Kistler running the place)
the proprietor’s full name on the big sign out front. His name was Kermit K. Kistler.
That's a very intentional choice. Most small businesses in small towns get named "[lastname]'s [type of business]" and I can't think of any small businesses around me the specify the first name of who it is, even when its a family with lots of entrepreneurs and you see that family name on like 4 different businesses in town. Like your family name is a source of reputation in these small towns so when you're starting out it's better to use just the family name because everyone knows a [lastname] and sure the business is actually owned by their cousin but at least you know someone related to it so you know they'll do good work
Seems like something where you could ask where eating a whole jalapeno falls on their spiciness scale, because that's a very mild pepper and as someone who likes moderate spice and enjoys jalapeno based dishes, that seems like a very good anchor to start with
I'm in a similar boat. I went back to college during the pandemic trying to better position myself financially for the recession that everyone was anticipating. During college I quickly realized I needed the memorization boost that hand writing things brings, then after college I found writing lists and taking notes much better allowed me to manage my tasks in my now more senior roles.
Since then I've had multiple life events creating more chaos so I've shifted methods of tracking tasks and keeping thoughts together and honestly, nothing works as well as pen(cil) and paper.
At one job, they handed everyone legal pads and had mondat morning meetings to go over tasks, so I built a practice of writing my tasks for the week on a page of the legal pad, then crossing items off as I complete them, ultimately ripping the page off and recycling it once all items are complete. If I had tasks leftover I had the shame of needing to flip pages to access the current week's tasks until the last item was crossed off.
Currently I've shifted to two notebooks, one for work and one for my personal life. Currently I'm just tracking tasks on a day to day basis with a separate todo list for longer term tasks but that's not super good for in the long term. I might shift to a week based task tracking, maybe one side for tasks to complete during the week and the other for individual days? We'll see!
If it helps to think of it in an 18th century swashbuckling sense, this would be an example of privateering rather than piracy.
Unless of course this was an act by state actors at the direction of the state in which case it would most logically be considered a military action and therefore an act of war, even if not yet declared
Of course most privateers were also pirates and vice versa, but in the strictest and most literal sense, yes that is privateering
Around mid-2020 I worked at a callcenter. The organization I worked for had lower tiers of support via a callcenter in the Philippines and higher tiers via the stateside callcenter I worked at. When everyone went remote some of the staff at the Philipines callcenter emigrated to other countries and there was one particular member who always had some very noisy chickens in the background of their calls. It seriously reminded me how nice remote work can be for folks because this guy was chilling at home with his chickens nearby instead of in a stuffy office with a bunch of other unhappy underpaid callcenter workers. It was funny though how some customers reacted to it, sometimes it would just be one more thing for angry customers to complain about and other times it would be a wistful thing a customer commented about in a later positive review
So that's all I know about that specific instance, but this individual is a retired guy living in low income housing, and his wife left him specifically because of his political views (and he loves to complain about it) so he's clearly winning at life
So back in the earlier days of cinema, you'd go to the Cineplex to see a movie. A Cineplex would only have a single screen for viewing movies while the multiplex would have multiple screens for seeing movies on. This started with the first duplex theatre in 1915 and later the first triplex in 1966, shortly followed by theatres with 6+ screens which is around when the term "multiplex" started being used. Basically for anyone born after the 80s (therefore anyone under the age of about 40) the term is largely obsolete since most theatres have at least 4 screens and qualify as multiplexes, plus the industry has seen so much consolidation that smaller independent theatres with 1-2 screens are pretty uncommon now