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Pecuniary Maneuverability Inevitable

Yet another talent we raided from the Dodgers. Nice.

OK, so, maybe "nonchalance" isn't the operative word here after all.

I've been re-reading Colin Woodard's American Nations book, and this tweet reminds me what he wrote about those people whom he termed as Borderlanders: basically the Scottish, Northern Irish, and northern English settlers of Appalachia and their descendants: "While hostile to external restraints on their behavior, the Borderlanders could be uncompromising in enforcing their own internal cultural norms. Dissent or disagreement—whether by neighbors, wives, children, or political opponents—was unacceptable and often crushed savagely." So, see? "Cancellation for thee but not for me" didn't come out of nowhere. It has a long and rich cultural history with these people, who have been very successful exporting this way of thinking throughout a good chunk of the United States, in large part through their colonization of interior First Nations territory. I think it has also caught on with Americans who are not of that national stock because of the rugged individualism associated with them that has been romanticized as the one true American cultural ideal. IOW, people who think it makes them look cool to be rough and tough on others.

It always is.

Or I can post it in an unrelated forum and someone who works in that line of business can share that feedback with his bosses. Either or. 😉😁

Speaking as a customer, I would feel more that’s the case if they started off by asking me questions about my customer experience, rather than would I please drive some more business their way.

Oh yeah, I definitely think that’s a core principle in the Kremlin’s playbook here: employ a firehose strategy so relentless that we eventually throw our hands up and give up. Their goal is to break down our resistance so they can roll the metaphorical (I hope) tanks in without firing a shot and they can commence the overt plundering and retribution.

Remember when I said once that Bush and his administration was basically Revenge of the C+ Students? We’re now down to Revenge of the Ninth Grade Dropouts.

That’s my home county. Um … yay?

Awesome! I’m going to try that. Although by the time Christmas Eve rolls around (that’s my eight-month mark), they’ll probably have opened it up to under-65s, anyway.

Correct: anything that started in the 20th Century is not eligible. Well, at least theoretically: the list includes Curb and Gilmore Girls, both of which started in 2000, which was the last year of the 20th Century.

Sure, if there were any other deaths due to this kind of mishap, we'd know. But what we don't know is how many close calls there have been, how many times people were lucky and got away with it. Those don't make the news. Maybe there have been a lot. Maybe it practically never happens. We don't know, at least yet. We also don't know the level of chalance or nonchalance, due to cultural influences, that are attended to this kind of job, at least in America as compared to how it is handled in other countries. Or, for a more local example, versus how other potentially lethal props, such as explosives or wild animals, are handled. I think it's possible armorers might be perhaps marginally looser with guns than an explosives expert is with explosives, or a wild animal expert is with wild animals, specifically because of guns' ubiquity and our uniquely American cultural attitude towards them as being NBD. I'm not saying I firmly and incontrovertibly believe this to be the case—only that I think it's possible, and something I can't immediately dismiss out-of-hand as impossibly ridiculous simply because I myself certainly wouldn't treat it that way. In any event, it does seem to be increasingly clear that both the assistant director and the armorer on this particular movie treated the use of prop guns on the set with a certain degree of nonchalance.

My grandpa used to say that, too. I believe this aphorism was coined back in the days when literally the only way you could see anything was live, and in front of you.

Using a survey at the end of the call to provide feedback on your experience is something else again. I don't mind doing that. Emails that come a day, or days, later, and start right out with "please recommend us, and tell us why you do" ... no thanks. Do your own marketing.

Do you qualify because of Julie?

This seems like the kind of precisely worded statement somebody hoping to beat the rap on a technicality would make.

"Please share your feedback." I get these requests by email frequently after a service visit, for example, when someone comes to my home to repair something; or I go to a health provider like a doctor; or when I call a customer service line to discuss or resolve an issue. I'm only too happy to share feedback if I believe they are looking for ways to improve their product or their service, but I'm pretty sure that's not why they are sending me the survey in the first place. Here's the clue I look for: if the company in question asks you whether you would recommend them to a friend in the very first question, my takeaway is that the only reason for the survey is so they can incorporate a high number reflecting the percent of people who recommend their services into their marketing materials. They're far less interested in what you think they should do to improve. Of course, maybe I'm just too cynical about big business ... 😏

Of course I botched a couple things here and of course it's too late to edit—so I've edited it above in purple.

I remember that! I think the first presidential candidate I ever voted for was the libertarian candidate only because he wanted to legalize pot. Which is why a vote in the hands of a nineteen-year-old can be a dangerous thing. 😉

Browse into your gateway's admin page. Mine lives at 192.168.1.254. Yours probably is, too. Navigate to Home Network/Wi-Fi. (I had to click it a few times before it got there because it wasn't responsive for me. Or try this URL: http://192.168.1.254/cgi-bin/wconfig.ha) Choose Advanced Options. You will see separate settings for 2.4ghz and 5ghz. Assign them each a different SSID with different passwords. (I assign the 5G signal the same SSID and just add "5G" to it.) Click Save. See screenshot below. You'll get all the benefits of 5ghz (reliably faster speeds) along with the limitations (worse at going through floors and walls), but do this and they can't throttle you by band-steering your connection at their whim.

Libertarians are conservatives who want laws only to constrain others and not themselves.

Why can't they protest in some vacant lot during off hours? Why do I have to be late to work because they're blocking the highway with their stupid protests? 😏