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People who understood these sort of logistics management systems knew that they were vulnerable to supply chain disruption. It's just that the bean counters decided the risk of disruption was less of a financial cost than maintaining warehouses of rapidly obsoleting parts. And for years they were right. Until they weren't.

@GeniusGTX JIT stopped working with COVID. I don't think it ever really came back.

CEO and founder of Dell, Michael Dell, says one piece of information killed Compaq. And they had it printed on every chip they shipped. He cracked open their machines and read the date codes. "If you opened up the computers, the chips had dates on them that showed the weeks they were made." Compaq carried 90 days of inventory between factory and customer. Dell carried five. Component prices fell every quarter. Compaq's 90-day shelf was a 90-day price loss. Dell's five-day shelf was a five-day discount. Same machines. Same components. Half the overhead. "It was crazy. It was like a massive advantage." Compaq's CEO called Dell a "mail-order company." A "garage operation." He never read the date codes. "One of the best things was they just didn't understand it. They misunderstood it, which was fantastic." Dell is worth over $90 billion. Compaq does not exist. The number was sitting on their own warehouse shelves the entire time. — Michael Dell (@MichaelDell) on David Senra's (@davidsenra) Founders podcast

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There are some places where it is a real concern that the parking brake mechanism can freeze into place due to environmental conditions (basically Arctic circle or close to it, or anywhere a block heater is needed), so drivers in those conditions are often taught not to use it. Instead, they're taught to rely on the parking pawl (part of the automatic gearbox once in Park), or selection of a gear in reverse of the incline the car is parked on in a manual gearbox (so Reverse if nose down, 1st if nose up), and turning the steering wheels into the curb so that any subsequent movement is stopped by the curb (which is also a good practice even if you use the park brake). It can be very disconcerting to hop into a car that has been parked like that and feel the inertia difference compared to one held in place with an actual brake application. Fundamentally, though, one is holding the vehicle in place with application of the braking system (parking brake), and the other is relying on the transmission to do it.

@KylieJaneKremer The amount of people here in the comments that trust their transmission to keep their car from rolling away is amazing to me I was taught to always use the manual parking brake when parked.

While I was asleep this morning, just before 8am, my neighbor sat outside drinking his coffee and watched my turned-off, parked Infiniti QX80 roll out of the driveway, through my fence, across the backyard, and flip upside down by the golf course while golfers stood there watching like it was the back nine at Augusta. Hope everybody’s Mother’s Day is going at least a little smoother than my family’s!

Okay, how do you define modern? Is it any time after the Renaissance? Is it post-Industrial Revolution? Is it post-Napoleonic wars? Is it post-US Civil War? Or, do you take the more classic position of post-Medieval? A lot of people making the same argument you do start counting at 1900. Let's take the classical viewpoint, then, and dismiss my prior references. I'll go to antiquity: Epizelus. The Middle Ages: Geoffri de Charny (and others, but he is probably the most accessible and documented), and the concept of Knights (in particular) retiring to religious orders (specifically non-militaristic). Back to antiquity again and the Iliad, with Ajax's entire arc, with Achilles and his response to the death of Patroclus, and with the general description of the breakdown of warriors over time. I've seen your spurious argument repeated many times before, often by people who stuff themselves inside ivory towers and declare themselves the moral arbiters of all things truth. Just because fellow ivory tower residents clap like seals at such inane drivel doesn't make it true. In the rush to ride their moral high horse, they tend to forget that people have been people for centuries. Millenia, even. And we are less removed from the first of our sedentary ancestors than we think. While the past might have lacked the nuanced words to describe what they were experiencing, it doesn't discredit their experiences. Just because they didn't have a DSM to refer to, doesn't mean they didn't suffer the same conditions. I often think of how folk tales, fairy tales, and the like were created and whether there was more to them than just a cool story. When most of the woods still has bears and wolves in them, it behoves people to stay out of them when they can. Or the Kappa monster of Japanese folklore (based on the Giant Salamander) is meant to keep children away from rivers before they can swim. Or the idea of Changelings represents an attempt to describe non-verbal autism or similar disease. And so, the stories of returned warriors (when they share them) have merit to understanding how they are trying to process what they experienced.

@UntalentedAm @arctotherium42 No, I made an argument that PTSD is a result of modern society, and you made a counterargument that PTSD exists in modern society, and you were proud of that point, too, because you're a fucking moron. Look up what "modern" actually means and stop telling me about the 1900's.

Funnily enough, the Germans and Soviets, who did not listen to psychologists and so did not give medical discharges for PTSD, did not have this problem.

Diary of a Hangman is MODERN. Look into the life (and death) of Ellis. I gave you two very clear and famous documented examples that counter your claim. Look into the lives (and deaths) of the last few hangmen in England and you're going to find things that don't match your claim. The reason I pick those examples is that they have a lot of contemporary documentation about what they went through and how it affected their lives.

@UntalentedAm @arctotherium42 I think it supports my argument that the only example you gave that's actually FROM the pre-modern era (i.e. from when fatal family feuds and public executions were still common) is a diary from someone who killed over three hundred fucking people.

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@RndmObjcts @arctotherium42 @gcochran99 Cough... Epizelus... Cough...

@arctotherium42 IIRC, @gcochran99 has made the point that nobody ever mentioned anything like PTSD until ww1. So men who marched into cannon fire or hacked people to bits with swords were less affected by mental trauma than US soldiers occasionally getting sniped at.

A Hangman’s Diary: The Journal of Master Franz Schmidt, and Diary of a Hangman by Ellis are clear counter examples, where it would be impossible to claim that the executioner maintained a healthy psychological state. Even better, go and look at the separation rates for medical staff / care staff in aged care or palliative environments. It is extraordinarily rare that there is a provider who can survive a full career in those environments without some form of catastrophic mental issues. And those don't tend to be violent.

@arctotherium42 My favorite theory on the topic is that PTSD is caused by low rates of interpersonal violence. When rapes, beatings, murders, and public executions were all normal, war was discomforting. Now that you can live your whole life without seeing any of that, war is unfathomable.

Peasant. Most likely farm labourer. Like the generations before me, and the generations that came after. Fortunately from a country where feudal serfdom wasn't really a thing. Would spend my entire life within 5-10 miles of the local church. Like the many generations before and after. And I'd have a 50/50 choice from one of two names based on family patronyms.

What job would you guys have if you lived in the middle ages?? I think I would be deputy manger of vertical integration for a small cathedral in the west of Flanders

@VxW0lf @0bungler Introducing the nation to the concept of both flushes in the case of toilet tragedies.

@0bungler My dad would love if bargearse became a thing again

Wake up babe, American zoomers have discovered Tony Martin and Mick Molloy

@VxW0lf @0bungler Dreaming of a truck load of chocolate covered donuts falling off a truck, before crashing into a polywaffle!

@Tigerwhite1977 @0bungler @Amul82 Or realise in the credits whenever Charlie the Wonderdog was on that they claim no harm to animals, but that they clipped a few of the kids around the ears...

@0bungler @Amul82 God help them when they come across ‘The Olden Days’. They’ll think Bonanza is being mocked. Bloody Americans with their complete lack of of a sense of humour.

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