HobbitFoot @ HobbitFoot @thelemmy.club

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I know Monika Lewinsky enjoyed John Oliver's supercut of Jay Leno making jokes at her expense after claiming he didn't make political jokes.

There was a change in corporate leadership after the collapse of Southwest's IT due to a snowstorm. New management built a new IT system which allows them to sell the kinds of add-ons that other airlines can sell.

I thought it was mission accomplished with what he was trying to do with them.

My current character is a somewhat generic human fighter. It's going well.

Overhead storage, usually. The earlier people get their pick of overhead storage. Later people either get a worse spot for their carry-on or the plane fills up and they have to check it.

Southwest was the only airline to do non-assigned seating and they just gave that up.

Other "funny" things were how nobody there would never, ever, ever admit not to have fully understood something or needing more clarification during an open call about the project next-steps with the rest of the team

I fucking hate it when people do that at work.

I would need to evaluate it based on its merits. I'm in an industry where people are supposed to speak up if they see work being performed incorrectly.

I don't think there is some big extermination plan for America and Australia.

There wasn't, but that doesn't mean that an extermination policy didn't exist.

The original American colonies were generally kept in a state of benign neglect with management of the colonies generally being a local affair. This generally meant that the colonists were the ones to make decisions on how to interact with the native population. Generally, this meant war between the natives and colonizers as a way to free up land for the next wave of colonizers to immigrate.

After a while, the British government tried to enact greater control over its colonies, including the Proclamation Line of 1763 which banned colonization beyond the Appalachian Mountains. This ban was routinely ignored be American colonists and was a reason cited for American independence.

As for why extermination over domination, there are two main reasons. For the northern colonies, the land did well in acting as a sink for European overpopulation. A lot of economic and political migration started at the time of American colonization and it was considered easier to move than try to create more liberal conditions at home. For the southern colonies, it was generally not seen as worth it to enslave the local population over importing slaves from Africa. It was easier to keep people in bondage in an unfamiliar land than it was to enslave the local populace.

By the time that the UK was starting to consider colonizing Australia, there were some laws on the books to protect indigenous populations. However, to expedite colonization, the colonizing government in Australia had the local aboriginals declared as non-civilized, which left the continent as terra nullus, or unclaimed territory.

It is important to note that Spanish colonization and English colonization had very different strategies. Spanish colonization tended to replace the existing power structures with their own, which typically preserved the native population even if they were demoted to being second class citizens. In contrast, English colonization was a more a form of genocide combined with a settler colonization of free and enslaved persons. There are few tribes east of the Mississippi that are federally recognized and many tribes were forcibly relocated by English and later American government forces.

And I don't know how it was in South America, but North America saw a collapse of civilization near first contact which shaped English colonization. There were several Native American civilizations with complex urban forms which collapsed by the time there was contact with English/American settlers. A few remained like the Iroquois and Cherokee, but there was seen to be an overall regression which settlers took as a sign from God that they should settle those lands instead.

Native American is seen as different from first people equivalent from Mexico who moved to the USA. Also, the native peoples in the USA on formerly Mexican territory generally have some of the strongest native rights out of the various tribes in the USA along with some of the best sourced hereditary records.

And there is a recognition of movement across the border. Guadalupe, Arizona was founded because a people from a Yaqui tribe from the Sonoran state in Mexico fled the Diaz led Mexican government to Arizona.

I get that. Also, apparently Jean Reno acted against the direction given by the director to allow for a character that wouldn't take advantage of his situation, even if he intentionally played his character as an emotionally stunted man.

Reno's acting choices made the movie better because he didn't go down that pedo hole.

Professionally, my ethics dictate that I speak up and force a change whenever I see any action that can lead to a catastrophic failure. This didn't make someone popular.

It isn't an excuse. It is pointing out the text of the film.

Utah is also a massive outlier when it comes to other Republican states.

Utah has a high percentage of its population with college education. It also has a relatively robust state welfare program compared to other Republican states. And, from what I've seen regarding comparative state politics, Utah's political leaders appear to be relatively uncorrupt and able to plan long term growth.

Wrong kind of access point...

Yeah. A big undercurrent in the movie is Leon taking on Mathilda in a father/daughter relationship, but Mathilda has aged under her abusive family relationship to where she sees Leon as a knight in shining armor instead of a father figure.

I'm a structural engineer. I might not have all the materials needed, but I could probably still design old masonry structures if needed.

I feel like Ramsay's benefit is helping people who have issues operating in the American financial system a path to solvency. His advice is horrible to people who can control their spending and debt, but it works for those with issues treating money as a number.

Yes. Politics has divided part of my family deeply.