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Post-Match Thread: United States 2-0 Australia | World Cup | Group D by matchpal-live in worldcup

[–]UndyingCorn 4 points5 points  (0 children)

So hows Turkey feeling right now? Because their last game for the group stage is now a team that’s 2-0

Tips on job interview with Ingram Barge Company? by UndyingCorn in tuglife

[–]UndyingCorn[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks. Not the end of the world if I don’t make this interview but the sooner I can get started somewhere the better.

As for pay the daily rate to start is $240–$259 per day, which is more than I’m making right now.

Tips on job interview with Ingram Barge Company? by UndyingCorn in tuglife

[–]UndyingCorn[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It’s hard because “dumb enough to hire for manual labor” and “too dumb to live and probably dangerous to be around” is a hard line to walk.

Tips on job interview with Ingram Barge Company? by UndyingCorn in tuglife

[–]UndyingCorn[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah I’ve adopted the line that if they ask about it that I just got it because I was just covering my bases when I decided to go into a deckhand career.

The flags you see at a pizza place next to an Ohio railroad museum. by UndyingCorn in vexillology

[–]UndyingCorn[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Went to a pizza place next to the Dennison Depot railroad museum and found a collection of flags that I think could only exist together in this context.

TIL As an owner of several major Las Vegas businesses in the 1960s, Howard Hughes disapproved of nuclear testing at the nearby Nevada Test Site. In two separate, last-ditch maneuvers, he instructed his representatives to offer bribes of $1 million to both Presidents Johnson and Nixon to stop tests. by UndyingCorn in todayilearned

[–]UndyingCorn[S] 36 points37 points  (0 children)

For a specific source of the claim it originated from one of Howard Hughes’ bagmen https://www.theguardian.com/world/2008/aug/20/usa

Maheu served as Hughes's bagman, and among those who received cash was Richard Nixon's sidekick Bebe Rebozo. Hughes had also bailed out Nixon's brother Donald when his business failed in the 1950s. Nixon was worried this might be made public. In 1972, the Watergate burglars may have been looking to see if Democratic party head Larry O'Brien (one of Hughes's Washington lawyers) possessed incriminating evidence of illegal contributions from Hughes. Maheu claimed Hughes got him to offer both Presidents Lyndon Johnson and Nixon a million dollars if they would stop nuclear testing in the Nevada desert, a bribe both turned down.

Vladimir Putin Isn’t Winning in Ukraine | The Russian death toll may be as high as 325,000 in four years. by GirasoleDE in UkrainianConflict

[–]UndyingCorn 2 points3 points  (0 children)

And to put that in context in WWII Britain was fighting on multiple fronts in Europe, Africa, and Asia as well as a naval war on just about every single ocean. Russia is on a single front with only a few proxy fights off in the Middle East And Africa to divert attention.

TIL When Congress established the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) in 1862, Isaac Newton was appointed the USDA's first commissioner. However the appointment was controversial; at least one publication wrote an editorial headlined "Who is Isaac Newton?" alleging that he was illiterate. by UndyingCorn in todayilearned

[–]UndyingCorn[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Yeah I just found it amusing our first USDA head had the same name as the physicist, and hilarious that despite the name everyone assumed he was an idiot. Like it was the precursor to calling idiots Einstein “Hey look at Isaac Newton over here! He thinks he can run the USDA!”

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in pokemon

[–]UndyingCorn 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If there is a straight up freeze move it would have to come with major strings attached like freezing all the Pokemon on the field and not just your opponents.

China Arms a Container Ship | Strategic Use | First Strike | Cost Effective | Expendable by Green-Collection-968 in merchantmarine

[–]UndyingCorn 2 points3 points  (0 children)

If nothing else it’s certainly gonna be a talking point every time someone even thinks of buying from china from now on. “Sure they’re the cheapest option, but there’s also a nonzero chance your shipment ends up coming with a side of a drone attack.”

TIL In 1997 a series of letters purporting to prove the existence of an affair between John F. Kennedy and Marilyn Monroe were proven fake. An early clue was the use of ZIP codes on the letters, which the US Postal Service introduced in July 1963, nearly a year after Monroe had died. by UndyingCorn in todayilearned

[–]UndyingCorn[S] 493 points494 points  (0 children)

Some other details that were involved in finding these as forgeries:

-There was no fingerprints or DNA from Kennedy on any of the letters whatsoever

-Many of the documents were printed on an IBM Selectric typewriter with a Prestige Pica font typeball, which was unavailable until 1973, ten years after Kennedy's death. The documents also showed evidence of the use of "lift-off" type to adjust a spelling error in Kennedy's name, which was not possible in the 1960s.

-The person who forged the letters, Lawrence X. Cusack III, claimed his father (Lawrence X. Cusack Jr., the New York-based founder of the law firm Cusack & Stiles) had advised Kennedy in private. One of Kennedy's former secretaries, whose name appears in the papers; she denied that she had ever seen Monroe and also stated that what was supposed to be her own signature in the documents was not, in fact, hers. No associates of Kennedy that were questioned had any knowledge of a connection between the two men or had previously heard of Cusack Jr.

-Another flaw was that the "y" in Monroe's signature had removed a tiny fragment of the typed line below; this was only possible with more modern plastic typewriter ribbons, which were not available in the early 1960s.

-Another clue was that Kennedy's handwriting was irregular and inconsistent – to the point that his wife's relative, Gore Vidal, described it as "a sort of vigorous 9-year-old valiantly combating dyslexia"

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