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  1. 33 minutes ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

    During the deepest depths of 2020 I was being recruited for a very big job with a very big company that would have been a giant pain in the ass but also a huge increase in income. 
    Around that same time I was deep diving on the time between the world wars and rereading contemporaneous histories of the period, ie Churchill, Shirer etc.

    The recruiting process was secret, so things went out of order. I had a very promising discussion on zoom with the external recruiter, then an NDA, followed by a nearly two hour love fest with the hiring C-suite officer, followed the next day with a discussion of process and management styles with a global HR exec. All on Zoom. 
    During the HR discussion there was a strange moment where her face and tone changed sharply and went very much from a conversation between future colleagues to an awkward and uncomfortable encounter- from that moment she could not end the call soon enough.

    Even more odd given the need for secrecy- the process ended immediately with them going dark, which is not usually the case with executive hiring discussions. I found out they made a hire when the press release dropped. I wasn’t offended, I was almost certainly the least senior person they were talking to, and honestly they made a great hire. 

    That said, I moved this book off my middle shelf to avoid any possible future confusion.

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    I have that book on my office bookshelf.  But I have removed the dust jacket for precisely that reason.

    It is a great book, though, and I cannot recommend it highly enough.  I may have to go re-read it at some point.

     

    Nah--fuck that.  I'm afraid I'm going to live it soon enough.

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  2. 13 hours ago, Chad Fuck said:


    These assholes are ruining all the cool Revolution era flags.
    See my previous post re same.

    I mean, say what you will about the Nazis, but they didn't appropriate the tricolor of the Weimar Republic or steal the flag of the German Empire.  Fuck no--they went out and created their own flag with its own design.  Which, admittedly, they lifted the Hindus.  But still . . . .

    I wish our Nazis would make up their own fucking symbol and leave the good Revolutionary flags for those of us who actually support the country the Revolution founded.

    31 minutes ago, DDD Dad said:

     

     

     

     

    IMG_1219.gif.e15718a268c3f5d3e6a3d0eb20bc02d1.gifDammit. Beat me to it. 

    I obviously feel seen.

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  3. 50 minutes ago, PenelopeWitherspoon said:

    So far, neither Lord Buckethead or Count Binface have declared for the general.  

    British democracy--and democracy worldwide, to be honest--really are on the decline, aren't they?

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  4. 11 minutes ago, PenelopeWitherspoon said:

    I will be in London that day.  Should be fun.  Maybe we can have a drinking results watch at a pub.

    If you don't go out to see the canvasing results for Uxbridge and South Ruislip to witness firsthand how Lord Buckethead performs, well . . . you're just not the Penelope Witherspoon I thought I knew and admired.

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  5. On 5/21/2024 at 8:06 AM, ztejas said:

    Anyone wanna hit an away game?

    Fuck no--the high temperature in Edmonton next week is probably still in the low 20s.

    22 hours ago, Pato del Muerto said:

    Their barn back then played fast as shit and I loved watching Mo skate there. 

    Yeah, it was.  That sheet was amazing.

    That's one thing I hate about the "modern" NHL.  The NHL I grew up watching had little idiosyncrasies about each barn.  Edmonton had its high-speed ice.  Boston and San Jose had their tiny ice surfaces.  The Igloo had a retractable roof for some reason.  I mean, fuck--the ice at Reunion would famously melt this time of year.

    Now everything's all standardized.  And I suppose that's good from a competition standpoint.  But it's just kind of boring.

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  6. 2 hours ago, tx 3 putt said:


     

    Abbott and Texas maga gqp want that brain drain, double so If you’re a non white or female with any college education. This is all by plan 

    Agree completely. They want to turn this into a resource-extraction colony of Eastern capital akin to Wyoming and West Virginia. 

    And for my part, I’m kinda already there, mentally. Mrs.LL is from New York, and that’s where we’re retiring to.  I’m a sixth-generation Texan—my family arrived here shortly after the Past Unpleasantness Between the States—but I’ve already started regarding myself as an New Yorker in waiting.

    I’m just here long enough to extract my share of the state’s wealth before getting the fuck out.

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  7. I was just at a professional conference here in Austin. Talked to a couple of people who are retiring. Talked to a few others about their retirement plans. Talked to many others about their kids and their plans.

    All of them are outside Texas.

    i don’t think people are prepared for the serious brain drain this state is going to suffer over the next decade.

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  8. On 5/14/2024 at 1:23 PM, Chopper said:

    Experienced Japan travelers - Roast this itinerary? Annoys me that there's 1 full day in Osaka but 2 in Kanazawa. Every other stop is 1 day.

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    October 1 on the Silver Nova?

    Oooooh--fancy.

    20 hours ago, alphahydro said:

    this might sound weird, but for me there are only a few places in the world that transcend the-stuff-there-is-to-do-there.  

    japan is one of those places for me. 

    i've been a handful of times, stayed in rural areas with locals who were friends of friends, been to big cities, etc. 

    my advice is: 

    1) 2 days minimum in tokyo

    2) 3 days minimum in kyoto. 

    3) it's not super easy, imo, to get a lot out of the more remote places without someone who speaks japanese

    4) most importantly, i would go to just vibe.  i overplan most of my trips, but i would love to just hang out in tokyo and kyoto and just wander and do whatever comes up.  imo, it's not a place i would go with a massive itinerary, like how you might visit paris or rome for the first time.   i would go any season, explore randomly, and do whatever comes up. 

     

    i don't mean to reply to chopper.  just saw this thread pop up and wanted to lay down my $.02  

    This . . . is really sound advice.  I hadn't really thought through the difference between Japan and, say, Rome or Paris.  But your thoughts mirror my own.

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  9. 11 hours ago, Biff Tannen said:

    Wasn't Rhode Island an outlet for this?

    Rhode Island was founded when the Massachusetts dickheads went full dickhead and expelled Roger Williams over his religious and political beliefs.  Among other unforgivables--and the Pilgrim dickheads had a long list of things that were unforgivable--he argued that the Massachusetts Bay Charter was unlawful because the Crown had not legally purchased the land from the Native Americans.

    So Williams established Rhode Island, one of the founding principles of which was toleration of religious diversity.  

    So Rhode Island was kind of a buffer zone between the Dutch of New Netherland and the Pilgrim dickheads in Massachusetts.  By pedigree, the Rhode Islanders were themselves dickheads.  But often they had been expelled because they either were too big of dickheads or too little.  And Massachusetts wanted only those who would be just the right amount of dickheadishness.  Even so, it was more closely aligned with Massachusetts than with New York in the Revolution and in subsequent interregional disputes.

     

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  10. On 5/11/2024 at 11:25 AM, Brisketexan said:


    This. It’s a big turning point in your read of American history when you realize the pilgrims weren’t persecuted because of their religion, they were loathed because they were total dicks.

    It actually adds some depth to the New York-Boston antipathy.

    The Pilgrims were dicks who got kicked out of the Netherlands because they were dicks.  So they went to Massachusetts, which was right near by New Netherland.  And the New Netherland Dutch didn't like those dicks any more than the Dutch in the old Netherlands.  Because just like old Netherlands, New Netherland was a cosmopolitan society built on commerce.  And commerce requires tolerance of things like religious diversity.

    So when the English conquered New Netherland, the Dutch were very "fuck that."  The last thing they wanted was to be under the thumb of those Pilgrim dickheads.  Because among other reasons, puritanical dickheadishness is bad for business.  So the New Netherland Dutch negotiated a pretty favorable surrender by which the Dutch retain their freedoms, including freedom of religion.

    The Massachusetts dickheads didn't support that compromise, and have always had a different culture from New York.

    That Pilgrim dickheadishness made another appearance in the late 1760s, with their general freakout over the Quebec Act after the French and Indian War.  The Quebec Act allowed for freedom of religion in Quebec, which is to say that the Catholics in Quebec got to stay Catholic.  And the dickheads didn't like that.  And the role of the Quebec Act in straining relations between Massachusetts/Boston and the Crown is understated in the lead up to the American Revolution.

    Boston's opposition to religious toleration, and New York's fear of falling under Boston's Pilgrim-dickhead tyrannical rule is a key reason why New York was pretty fucking Loyalist during the Revolution.  And you can trace that mutual antipathy down through American history clear through to today.

     

     

    And fuck the Red Sox.

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  11. 3 minutes ago, DDD Dad said:

    Well to be fair they also called Benn for interference for getting pushed into the goalie. 

    I actually didn’t have a problem with that call. It was in the crease, and Benn didn’t do much to avoid the contact.

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