Thanks. I tried to edit it myself, but timed out. It was also automatically making that asterisk into a link on its own (like a footnote), which is a nice enough and unexpected feature, but I was trying to get it to *not* do that.
Though most of them are either really specific - i.e. this person and their government did something bad during the Clinton, Bush Jr, or Obama admins, and now may even be dead, but we are still keeping economic pressure heirs and still living former officials.
There's also a pile for Iran, Russia, and Syria, who have repeated bad things.
There's possibly two or three that could be considered open-ended, with a not clearly defined maximum scope. e.g. the wiki itself says that the sanctions regimes used to go after specific support of the 9/11 attacks has been in practice used for all kinds of terrorism. There are cyber crime and election interference ones which have the potential to be similarly expansive, but it doesn't look like they actually have yet.
* I'm guessing the actual authoritative source for current emergencies is buried somewhere in the Federal Register, I thought there was a government site that hosted a complete list, but I can't find it. (HHS has only have the medical ones, of which Covid-19 was the last current active one)
Spent more time than I should trying to translate the German in this. It does seem like the words are 'real' German - i.e. it doesn't seem like a version of the Prisencolinensinainciusol joke. But Google translate is really no help when stringing all the worlds together to get the actual meaning of what the woman is saying.
This is also when Briggs was based out of Chicago, and an era (the very end of it) where as many as one in 3 people in the midwest had German ancestry and maybe one in six in the region still spoke German fluently and regularly.
Also pretty sure it's less 'you a saw circus' and more 'you, from a small town in Illinois saw the most famous circus in America when it was the hottest ticket in showbusiness*'?
i.e. not 'you saw the Beatles' but 'you were in the theater when the Beatles played on Ed Sullivan?'
*also not sure so much about 'hot ticket' but that the circus circuit in the 1880s was limited to where the railroads ran back then because Barnum & Bailey's innovation was using the logistics provided by trains to help create the spectacle (i.e. move the elephants)
Pretty sure it's exactly that - a 'back in my day' quip, as "Days of Real Sport" are (I believe) all notionally set when Briggs was a kid in the 1880s. (per wikipedia P.T. Barnum and James Anthony Bailey teamed up for the first time in 1881 to create "The Greatest Show on Earth")
When trying to see if that one was on the internet somewhere, came across this one which has all the contemporaries in one place
http://john-adcock.blogspot.com/2014/12/on-websters-wall-thrill-that-comes-once.html
Couldn't figure out how to get the link to work before the edit window timed out. This cartoon -
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:A_Wise_Economist_Asks_a_Question.jpg
John McCutcheon was considered “the Dean of American Cartoonists” in Briggs’ time. He won the Pulitzer Prize for this cartoon from 1931, which lol, is very timely this week.
His most famous cartoon seems to be “[Indian]* Summer” which is worth looking at - it’s on his Wikipedia page - but is definitely a ‘product of its time’ (1912) when it comes to Native Americans. (I.e. it’s definitely racist, but not mean-spirited about it, just ignorant)
just ruminating, it seems likely to me that this was the era that a dedicated hobbyists could still do just about anything with just about any car - and were still a signicant portion of those that had and used automobiles. similar how there were similar eras for radios and personal computers.
It's still true for long distance train travel - or at least, was before the pandemic, when Amtrak stopped all dining car services*
*I'm not sure if they have restarted them on any lines. What I've seen from travel youtubers is the 'cafe car' has been re-opened for a while, and some train sets have the dining car for the seating, but you don't get 'served' like you used to. It's basically just the same as cafe car meals, but if you have a berth, you don't pay a la carte for them like a commoner.
edit- this comic is definitely the closest Apalachicola has ever been to Valhalla
Well today's fast was a bit easier in that I have a bloodwork draw in the early afternoon.
I'm trying to do my usually thing of giving up sweets, and especially the afternoon coffeeshop visit with a pastry and a foo foo drink. Also no alcohol, Plus, a quasi-"Ramadan rules" for social media where I try to stay off of it during the day. (probably will still visit Mastodon, because the activity is still low and not that addictive)
Great video. I need to watch more of these. I was wondering if you would also talk about the book, and you did. (The adaptation between the book and the movie in part reminds me of what they also had to do with Bourne Identity - take out all the Cold War stuff that was a substantial part of the plot when the book was written, but of course was obsolete by the 1990s)
I remember in the late 90s early 00's being able to get a screen saver that purportedly processed radiotelescope data on your own computer in the background - SETI At Home, I believe it was called. I imagine that too is obsolete, now that processing power is at least two orders of magnitude greater (and is probably all being used for crypto, lol)
I'm not going to defend the ending, per se, but I will say that for the majority of the time, Superbowls have had a reputation for being blowouts and overall not "good games", so the fact that yesterday did go down to the final drive is indeed above average. (and now two years in a row)
I have no idea I if this article on Kelly pool from 1913 has been posted before, but there’s a ‘Days of Real Sport’ sighting, (right in the headline), but also a ‘gay life’ one in the middle of the article.
I do think either case is possible. Looking around for the data, came across this fascinating journal from a hundred plus years ago, which points out that there were large regional variations in working class wages in the US, and additionally, some substantial variation within regions with the bigger cities usually having higher pay (but which in turn was extracted out of those workers with higher rents and other prices, and usually, with diminished family and social networks).
I'm going in with the operating assumption (which seems supported by how people are dressed) that nearly all "Days of Real Sport" are nostalgia pieces set in Briggs' own youth, i.e. the mid 1880s.
Our friend Fred in St Louis shows that the average laborer's wage in the 1880s was 12 to 13 cents (nominal) per hour or about a dollar a day. (though this was the era were 10 to 12 hours a day were common, so that's probably where we see other sources provides figures close to a buck fifty a day).
So either they are way way underpaying her, even for that time, or this is (and it seems most likely to me) some part time work, a couple hours a day around mealtimes to cook prep, clean up afterwards, and help out with the kids as needed. And in that case, I could maybe see how the neighbors may perceive her as being overpaid. (i.e. putting in 8-10 hours a week gives a nominal wage of at least 20 cents a hour, which was above average, esp for a woman, of that era)
The question of 'are you going to sleep here' also maybe leads me to this conclusion, but I'm probably overinterpreting it. The perhaps is old enough to remember that the family actually had live-in help in the past, and a live-in maid may be a different thing than 'a hired girl'?
Otoh, it does seem likely 'the first hired girl' contains what is says on the tin - this is a moderately successful financially secure middle class family that has enough money to afford some domestic help, and decided to 'splurge' on the expense now that there's a fourth kid.
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On “From The White House: Bill Signed: H.J.Res. 7”
I meant no disrespect; the Honolulu Airport inter-terminal buses are indeed proud of their child and I apologize to them.
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The National Emergency Act itself does require a review every six months by Congress.
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Thanks. I tried to edit it myself, but timed out. It was also automatically making that asterisk into a link on its own (like a footnote), which is a nice enough and unexpected feature, but I was trying to get it to *not* do that.
"
According Mr wiki* here are the current effective declared national emergencies. 41 active ones, if I'm counting the rows right.
Though most of them are either really specific - i.e. this person and their government did something bad during the Clinton, Bush Jr, or Obama admins, and now may even be dead, but we are still keeping economic pressure heirs and still living former officials.
There's also a pile for Iran, Russia, and Syria, who have repeated bad things.
There's possibly two or three that could be considered open-ended, with a not clearly defined maximum scope. e.g. the wiki itself says that the sanctions regimes used to go after specific support of the 9/11 attacks has been in practice used for all kinds of terrorism. There are cyber crime and election interference ones which have the potential to be similarly expansive, but it doesn't look like they actually have yet.
* I'm guessing the actual authoritative source for current emergencies is buried somewhere in the Federal Register, I thought there was a government site that hosted a complete list, but I can't find it. (HHS has only have the medical ones, of which Covid-19 was the last current active one)
On “Ever Take a Maid Home On a Train?”
Spent more time than I should trying to translate the German in this. It does seem like the words are 'real' German - i.e. it doesn't seem like a version of the Prisencolinensinainciusol joke. But Google translate is really no help when stringing all the worlds together to get the actual meaning of what the woman is saying.
This is also when Briggs was based out of Chicago, and an era (the very end of it) where as many as one in 3 people in the midwest had German ancestry and maybe one in six in the region still spoke German fluently and regularly.
On “Circus Days”
Also pretty sure it's less 'you a saw circus' and more 'you, from a small town in Illinois saw the most famous circus in America when it was the hottest ticket in showbusiness*'?
i.e. not 'you saw the Beatles' but 'you were in the theater when the Beatles played on Ed Sullivan?'
*also not sure so much about 'hot ticket' but that the circus circuit in the 1880s was limited to where the railroads ran back then because Barnum & Bailey's innovation was using the logistics provided by trains to help create the spectacle (i.e. move the elephants)
"
Pretty sure it's exactly that - a 'back in my day' quip, as "Days of Real Sport" are (I believe) all notionally set when Briggs was a kid in the 1880s. (per wikipedia P.T. Barnum and James Anthony Bailey teamed up for the first time in 1881 to create "The Greatest Show on Earth")
On “John T McCutcheon’s Canvas”
When trying to see if that one was on the internet somewhere, came across this one which has all the contemporaries in one place
http://john-adcock.blogspot.com/2014/12/on-websters-wall-thrill-that-comes-once.html
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Couldn't figure out how to get the link to work before the edit window timed out. This cartoon -
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:A_Wise_Economist_Asks_a_Question.jpg
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John McCutcheon was considered “the Dean of American Cartoonists” in Briggs’ time. He won the Pulitzer Prize for this cartoon from 1931, which lol, is very timely this week.
His most famous cartoon seems to be “[Indian]* Summer” which is worth looking at - it’s on his Wikipedia page - but is definitely a ‘product of its time’ (1912) when it comes to Native Americans. (I.e. it’s definitely racist, but not mean-spirited about it, just ignorant)
*yeah, that other word is the actual title.
On “The Wise Guy”
this tune I know thanks to bugs bunny cartoons.
edit sorry, daffy duck not bugs.
https://youtu.be/Ap4MMn7LpzA
On “Taking The Joy Out of Car Ownership”
just ruminating, it seems likely to me that this was the era that a dedicated hobbyists could still do just about anything with just about any car - and were still a signicant portion of those that had and used automobiles. similar how there were similar eras for radios and personal computers.
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I believe this is the mid 1910’s, and a new Model T was around 500 dollars by then
https://www.fordmodelt.net/model-t-ford-prices.htm
On “Dinner Time on a Train”
It's still true for long distance train travel - or at least, was before the pandemic, when Amtrak stopped all dining car services*
*I'm not sure if they have restarted them on any lines. What I've seen from travel youtubers is the 'cafe car' has been re-opened for a while, and some train sets have the dining car for the seating, but you don't get 'served' like you used to. It's basically just the same as cafe car meals, but if you have a berth, you don't pay a la carte for them like a commoner.
edit- this comic is definitely the closest Apalachicola has ever been to Valhalla
On “Lent!”
Well today's fast was a bit easier in that I have a bloodwork draw in the early afternoon.
I'm trying to do my usually thing of giving up sweets, and especially the afternoon coffeeshop visit with a pastry and a foo foo drink. Also no alcohol, Plus, a quasi-"Ramadan rules" for social media where I try to stay off of it during the day. (probably will still visit Mastodon, because the activity is still low and not that addictive)
On “Video Thoughput: The Science of Contact”
Great video. I need to watch more of these. I was wondering if you would also talk about the book, and you did. (The adaptation between the book and the movie in part reminds me of what they also had to do with Bourne Identity - take out all the Cold War stuff that was a substantial part of the plot when the book was written, but of course was obsolete by the 1990s)
I remember in the late 90s early 00's being able to get a screen saver that purportedly processed radiotelescope data on your own computer in the background - SETI At Home, I believe it was called. I imagine that too is obsolete, now that processing power is at least two orders of magnitude greater (and is probably all being used for crypto, lol)
On “Taking The Joy Out of a Good Yarn”
"The Banshees of Inisherin" (2022)
On “The Big Game Open Thread”
I'm not going to defend the ending, per se, but I will say that for the majority of the time, Superbowls have had a reputation for being blowouts and overall not "good games", so the fact that yesterday did go down to the final drive is indeed above average. (and now two years in a row)
On “Whose Bust?”
I have no idea I if this article on Kelly pool from 1913 has been posted before, but there’s a ‘Days of Real Sport’ sighting, (right in the headline), but also a ‘gay life’ one in the middle of the article.
On “Zam’nation!”
Now that you say it, I finally get that the joke is that it's a portmanteau of both with a bowlderization.
On “TSN Open Mic for the week of 1/30/2023”
I'm not Jewish, but I'm pretty sure going 'pew pew pew' on Shabbat is against the rules.
On “The First Hired Girl”
I’m not sure at all. I had a heck of time even figuring out if the tables for wages were daily or weekly, until I found that St Louis Fred chart.
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from a collection at the University of Missouri
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I do think either case is possible. Looking around for the data, came across this fascinating journal from a hundred plus years ago, which points out that there were large regional variations in working class wages in the US, and additionally, some substantial variation within regions with the bigger cities usually having higher pay (but which in turn was extracted out of those workers with higher rents and other prices, and usually, with diminished family and social networks).
"
I'm going in with the operating assumption (which seems supported by how people are dressed) that nearly all "Days of Real Sport" are nostalgia pieces set in Briggs' own youth, i.e. the mid 1880s.
Our friend Fred in St Louis shows that the average laborer's wage in the 1880s was 12 to 13 cents (nominal) per hour or about a dollar a day. (though this was the era were 10 to 12 hours a day were common, so that's probably where we see other sources provides figures close to a buck fifty a day).
So either they are way way underpaying her, even for that time, or this is (and it seems most likely to me) some part time work, a couple hours a day around mealtimes to cook prep, clean up afterwards, and help out with the kids as needed. And in that case, I could maybe see how the neighbors may perceive her as being overpaid. (i.e. putting in 8-10 hours a week gives a nominal wage of at least 20 cents a hour, which was above average, esp for a woman, of that era)
The question of 'are you going to sleep here' also maybe leads me to this conclusion, but I'm probably overinterpreting it. The perhaps is old enough to remember that the family actually had live-in help in the past, and a live-in maid may be a different thing than 'a hired girl'?
Otoh, it does seem likely 'the first hired girl' contains what is says on the tin - this is a moderately successful financially secure middle class family that has enough money to afford some domestic help, and decided to 'splurge' on the expense now that there's a fourth kid.
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