I love Sorkin at his best. He has an iffy batting average, but hits home runs when he connects.
Very very good list. I’m confused why they reversed the ordering? (BoB is clearly #1, not 10)
I’m on the younger end of X, and definitely agree about witnessing (most) of the evolution of personal computing.
To put a finer point on it, it specifically the younger Gen Xers and older Millennials. That’s the “one” generation this post describes.
I’m with you that you shouldn’t have to, but putting your media directory one level up in a randomly generated directory name isn’t too bad. ~/[random uuid]/media/… may not be a terrible idea in any case.
If you need just 8 bags worth, I’d rather get 8 bags and not deal with the hassle of loose soil. Not going to judge them for that. But to be impressed by it is silly; I’ve fit this into my sedan no problem.
Coming with receipts! I’m appreciative of that. I genuinely had no idea the number of Kubelwagens produced. I’ll certainly concede that production of vehicles during the war was significant. I’m trying to paint grey what this post paints in black and white, and perhaps it isn’t quite as grey as I make it out to be.
I’m certainly wrong in my assessment here, and thank you for the correction.
I do think it’s still worth pointing out that the very nature of its birth under the third reich, the fall of the third reich, and its rebirth under British military control, Volkswagen exists somehow different than the established automakers in Germany. I think it’s worth pointing out that while Volkswagen wears the nazi label more publicly than Merc or BMW, it’s likely the heads of those automakers were more actively complicit in the war than anyone at VW in the late 40s.
I’m partial to the joke in this episode:
[Plunging the ship deep into the ocean]
“How many atmospheres of pressure can the ship take?”
“Well it’s a space ship, so somewhere between zero and one.”
I’m not sure I understand your point. I don’t think there’s anything in my comment that requires clarification.
A cursory reading of Wikipedia doesn’t really do the history of Volkswagen quite right. As a component of the government in the 1930s and early 1940s, they made some prototype vehicles that would eventually be the beetle, and yes, a few vehicles for the military. But it wasn’t until post war reconstruction where Major Hirsh and the British military took over and started the company we know today.
I’ll grant you that lowercase v volks wagen and the Nazis overlapped, and that is cause for some discussion and some joking. But it’s also true that uppercase V Volkswagen isn’t quite as guilty as Mercedes-Benz et. al. in the build for the Nazis department.
It’s a funny joke, I’ll grant you that. But to be serious, Volkswagen, the company, did not exist until after World War II. Mercedes, BMW, on the other hand…
I have definitely looked into Asahi awhile ago, and knew that was the big one. It wouldn’t surprise me to learn that’s the only one, but didn’t know if maybe there were more.
They make a short cameo in Back to the Future II.
History is written by the teenagers? Hardly.
Your metric of “does anybody care?” being what teenagers know is really not relevant. Teenagers know jack all about anything.
If not for portraits on money, would we all easily remember what Washington, Lincoln, et. al. looked like?
I’m sure part or maybe most of the reason the titans of industry ‘s portraits don’t live in most of our memories is because there were much fewer photographs of them taken. I’m sure I have an order of magnitude more photographs of my child on my phone, then existed any photographs of Rockefeller.
We remember Rockefeller and Carnegie because of the public works they funded. If Bezos and Musk and Zuckerberg want to be remembered, build some libraries.