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From CNN Business:
New York (CNN Business)Sheldon Adelson, the chairman and CEO of Las Vegas Sands and a major donor to Republican politicians, died late Monday following complications related to his cancer treatment, his company said. He was 87.
Adelson took a leave of absence from Sands last week to resume treatment for non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, which his aides first disclosed in late February 2019.
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Comment →In the wake of the violent insurrection at the U.S. Capitol by scores of President Trump’s supporters, a lone researcher began an effort to catalogue the posts of social media users across Parler, a platform founded to provide conservative users a safe haven for uninhibited “free speech” — but which ultimately devolved into a hotbed of far-right conspiracy theories, unchecked racism, and death threats aimed at prominent politicians.
The researcher, who asked to be referred to by their Twitter handle, @donk_enby, began with the goal of archiving every post from January 6, the day of the Capitol riot; what she called a bevy of “very incriminating” evidence. According to the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab, among others, Parler is one of a number of apps used by the insurrections to coordinate their breach of the Capitol, in a plan to overturn the 2020 election results and keep Donald Trump in power.
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Comment →From Twitter Safety:
After close review of recent Tweets from the @realDonaldTrump account and the context around them we have permanently suspended the account due to the risk of further incitement of violence.https://t.co/CBpE1I6j8Y
— Twitter Safety (@TwitterSafety) January 8, 2021
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1924.
This would put the kid at around… what? 20ish? So he was born around the turn of the century.
Now, I know that people aged differently back then but those guys look to be around 60ish. Taking “aging differently” into account, they might be 50ish… let’s say “54” to make the math easy.
This has them being born around 1870.
Which has them being born and raised in the Victorian Era by people who were also born and raised in the Victorian Era (who were also likely Civil War veteran adjacent).
Edit: And since Briggs Himself was born in 1875, he’s one of the old guys in the picture.Report
And if you, like me, are wondering “huh, what did Clare look like?”, the Wikipedia has a picture.Report
I remember Dave Barry writing on Japanese culture versus American culture:
“It’s not uncommon for Japanese co-workers to refer to each other as ‘Mister Lastname’, even when they’ve been working together for years. On the other hand, Americans are on a first-name basis immediately, and by the end of the first day have generally degenerated to ‘yo butthead!’ “Report
In conjunction with the rise of the open office plan and general culture of eschewing formality, it was somewhere in the 1970s I think, when the practice of referring to co-workers and senior managers by their first name became popular.
It was usually draped in the rhetoric of egalitarianism but in the end, the basic underlying hierarchy was not to be challenged by something so trivial.
Go into any enlightened tech company where everyone wears torn jeans and tee shirts, and within 5 minutes you will be able to identify the CEO, the senior manager, the middle manager, the entry level apprentice just by the way they interact; Who speaks, who listens, who decides to speak, who decides to end speaking.
As it turns out, addressing the senior guys as “Mr. So-&So” is actually more honest and clear expression of the real power dynamics at play.Report
When I started honors calculus at the University of Nebraska I was an 18-year-old college freshman. The prof was a new hire with a shiny new PhD, so maybe 8 years older than that. From day one, in class, he was “Prof. Lewis” and we students were Mr. or Ms. whoever. I don’t know how much of that was cultural — he had grown up and done all his college time in the Deep South.
Side story: He would, part way through a proof, turn and look over the students, then ask, “Mr/Ms. X, what comes next?” I was a favorite target. Sometimes I knew, sometimes I didn’t. It happened often enough that one of the women in the class once asked me, “Mike, why does Prof. Lewis hate you?” I didn’t have an answer for that, but I did have “Mr. Cain, what comes next?” nightmares for years.Report