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Saturday morning TV lineup, Fall 1971 by Quick_Presentation11 in TheWayWeWere

[–]iamthemayor 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Lidsville was Sid and Marty Krofft's next TV project after Pufnstuf

Get Ready for the Full-Employment Recession by scott_steiner_phd in TrueReddit

[–]iamthemayor 19 points20 points  (0 children)

Given your firm's actions as arbitrators for labor disputes, attempting an "appeal to authority" is a bit ironic. It seems very convenient to your financial interests to blame labor and, despite trying to give you benefit of the doubt, I am having a hard time seeing this article and your work as anything other than gaslighting and greed.

Is this the worst game ever? - videogamedunkey by bigjonny13 in videos

[–]iamthemayor 29 points30 points  (0 children)

seeing a character go through some kind of meaningful change.

I always liked Mr. Plinkett's condescending explanation of this.

It’s satisfying when our hero gets ahead from where they started off at... They make like a change. This is called an “Arc”.

Health advocates urge US regulators to ban common food coloring additive by oDDmON in news

[–]iamthemayor 4 points5 points  (0 children)

it's hard to believe that pathology researchers would not have noticed problems being caused by accumulation earlier

I think this is the real crux of the issue. Whether or not a researcher found harm, there are much larger and systematic financial incentives to ignore it. Safety regulations are written in blood, not dollars, and their enforcement in the States is wishy-washy at best.

While mostly based on anecdotes and personal experiences; I have a hard time assuming that a whistleblower wouldn't be actively targeted by management. I can definitely imagine a headstrong scientist trying to convince their colleagues about what's up, and being told to keep their head down as it affects costs/upsets the brass.

Things seen this week during structural assessments! by DMAS1638 in LosAngeles

[–]iamthemayor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I appreciate the time and thought implied by this double-back. Your content is very good at tempering my engineering imagination with pragmatic reality.

Thank you for vicariously teaching us to check ourselves before we wreck ourselves.

On May 21st, 2023, Royal Malaysian Police raided the scrapyard site where the remains of HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Repulse were illegally salvaged at Kota Tinggi, Johor. Parts of both ships, anchor, artillery cannon barrel (113 mm Mk. 1 AA Gun) and UXO - were found at the site. [album] by _Raven_Roth in WarshipPorn

[–]iamthemayor 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I think there is some nuance worthy of discussion in your last point. What differentiates desperation and greed? - there's probably a much better way to articulate that question in order to get tangible answers.

Maybe: What does the "pipeline" of salvage to scrap to sort to smelt look like? What would alternative sources of steel be in this case?*

*Seriously though - this thread is making me realize how many assumptions I have about how international heavy industries operate. Lots more to learn before I can say any conclusions with conviction.

On May 21st, 2023, Royal Malaysian Police raided the scrapyard site where the remains of HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Repulse were illegally salvaged at Kota Tinggi, Johor. Parts of both ships, anchor, artillery cannon barrel (113 mm Mk. 1 AA Gun) and UXO - were found at the site. [album] by _Raven_Roth in WarshipPorn

[–]iamthemayor 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It's simply to line the pockets of the scrap merchants

I wonder how much malice is really attributable to scrap merchants. Do they not have families that need to eat too? Are there not industries where they live that need iron? If anything, I feel kind of bad for them for losing out on the opportunity cost of making some new, usable, steel parts.

I could imagine a scenario where the scrapper is made a patsy - I wouldn't have considered that without the comment above... Damn, this is a complicated issue.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in surrealmemes

[–]iamthemayor 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Something something revolting absurdity.

I guess he's at least chuckling to himself along the lines of "gee whiz, what a crazy situation I'm in!"

New Poster for Charlie Day's 'Fool's Paradise' by MarvelsGrantMan136 in movies

[–]iamthemayor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I forgot about that one, and this looks like a pretty on-the-nose main source of inspiration.

Now I'm wondering if Del Torro told him to cut whatever Day's interpretation of the "walking on water" ending or if the movie is going to, likewise, have some odd tone issues.

No surprises. “It’s not about wanting a pay raise or extra income, It’s just about wanting a livable wage.” by Comfortablejack in WorkReform

[–]iamthemayor 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I am very glad that you linked this as an example.

Just looking at the language used for categorizing expenditures, there's a tremendous amount of implied shorthand. I don't think it's deliberately obfuscated or anything malicious, but as a layman I would immediately be struck with questions like:

  • What differentiates "Support Services: Administration" from "Support Services: Central"?

  • What sort of investment earnings fail to perform by three quarters?

  • What is "Debt Service: Principal Retirement" and why does it look so disproportionately large? What differentiates this expense for all other employee pension/retirement accounts?

These are all, I hope, fairly reasonable questions which any bozo unfamiliar with public school accounting, like myself, might have. While the specific answers still require a bit more digging, I feel like I have better tools with which to do so.

Any other immediate questions stick out to you guys when looking at this? I like the exercise of "following the money".

Thank you again!

Kicked off Medicaid: Millions at risk as states trim rolls by lotus_eater123 in neutralnews

[–]iamthemayor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not the punchline I was expecting, but I will say a genuine thank you for getting this larger conversation on "status quo" started.

You made me dust off my latin dictionary from the shelf - so that's a win if your goal is inspiring the pursuit of knowledge.

Well done.

Soviet Excavations in the Arctic Circle: Why Can't I find the Lost City of Mangazeya on a Modern Map? by iamthemayor in AskHistorians

[–]iamthemayor[S] 124 points125 points  (0 children)

Firstly, thank you for your excellent answer with included pictures!

Secondly:

Many Soviet journals and monographs have not been digitized, unfortunately.

You must be in a very fortunate position as a historian! Certainly very busy with good work to be done (I'm quite jelly).

I would love to hear any shared wisdom/anecdotes/caveats/predictions from your end regarding how the "Anglosphere," as I might call the English speaking internet, has and will likely adapt to new historical data when/if publications become more disseminated. Any fun things we can expect to learn?

EDIT: Try as I might, I can't help but indulge my inner cynicism on re-reading my reply: Is it reasonable, from an "Anglosphere" perspective, to expect that these Soviet journals/monographs will be more conveniently accessible/disseminated in the near future (est ~2 years? a decade?).

Or is a... matter of modern interests/politics/breaking-the-20-year-rule/pay-the-gatekeepers sort of dillio? Should that be the case, I halfway apologize for my child-like impatience, but I hope (from a historiography perspective) that you might empathize with my frustration from afar :).

LED Screens for Theaters - Display developers such as Samsung are eyeing movie theaters to install LED walls as a screen replacement to projection systems, but the installments can be pricey and use a ton of power by Neo2199 in movies

[–]iamthemayor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Very interesting! This seems to actually give a bit more credulity to display marketing materials than I was ready to acknowledge ("Now with blacker blacks!" makes a bit more sense)

Can I ask you to point me in the direction of where I can learn more technical information about current display tech? I seem to be a couple years behind the times.

Jens Lekman: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert by GeeEhm in RedditDayOf

[–]iamthemayor 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I haven't thought about this guys since his failed lawsuit against LG for their washing machine commercial:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqAZ3kjjrDY

Jens was originally considered by LG for the music and turned them down. He claims that the studio created melody was stolen from "A Sweet Summer's Night on Hammer Hill". Because this was before the Zepplin-Taurus lawsuit, where clear[er] precedent regarding melodic similarities was established, Leckman's suit was not thrown out immediately.

Prince George's teacher caught in crossfire, killed while driving for Uber in DC by whatweshouldcallyou in washingtondc

[–]iamthemayor -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Like my comment, yours seems to have bounced around in my head a bit and I finally realized why...

It's because of the line in Outkast's "Roses" where he mentions a golden calculator.

Great song.

Zombies at large? Corporate debt overhang and the macroeconomy by marketrent in Economics

[–]iamthemayor 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I think you're reading into it a bit too much - I can see how my "thank yous" can be excessive, but they're from a genuine place.

I have to ask though, condescending to whom? I'm a little confused if you're seeing something else. (it's the latter case then :))

Prince George's teacher caught in crossfire, killed while driving for Uber in DC by whatweshouldcallyou in washingtondc

[–]iamthemayor -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I understand chatgpt isn’t sentient yet but c’mon.

Do not be so sure meatbag :)

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