It wasn’t as much that Grandpa Krittr (GK) didn’t understand her as he didn’t understand women in general. GK was the youngest of 8 kids born to a Volga German wheat farming family in Eastern Washington. He was the only one born in the US after 1/
This will be my writing project for the day - hold on...
Fair warning: the Krittr family saga is not The Crown. Not even close. OTOH, it's not the Kartrashians either.
It wasn’t as much that Grandpa Krittr (GK) didn’t understand her as he didn’t understand women in general. GK was the youngest of 8 kids born to a Volga German wheat farming family in Eastern Washington. He was the only one born in the US after 1/
[Side note: how the Volga Germans got to the US is an interesting story by itself. Short version is that they were all
Great grandpa Krittr (GGK) died long before I was born, but supposedly he was a good farmer, terrible to his wife and children,
So, the formative incident in GK’s life: as an elementary school boy, he had a mad crush on the somewhat older girl who lived on the farm next door. She was in high school, so it was always going to be hopeless for him.
GK was devastated. Never set foot in a church
He and several brothers volunteered for WWI. One brother was wounded in the face & had an interesting but kind of dashing scar.
“Join the Navy and see the world” posters spent 10 years in the Navy traveling literally all over the world. South Pacific, Australia, South America, Yangtze river boat, Europe, everywhere.
He came back in 1927.
Ma Krittr (MK) came right before the Depression, fortunately GK was talented mechanically and was never unemployed
[Hold on, forgot to include obligatory photo of GK during Navy days.]
GK didn’t understand women, especially girls, didn’t have time for MK as he was by the mid 1930s becoming very involved in the Seattle trade unionist movement. Very involved. Very very involved. So, yeah, she never got the attention
[Years after GK retired, I ended up working for a couple years as a laborer for the company he worked for while I attended college at night. There were still a few people there who remembered him - to a man,
MK ended up marrying someone (Fucked Up Birth Father - FUBF) that GK couldn’t have hated any more than he did.
Anyway, I came along when FUBF was finishing his residency. My earliest memories are that I hated him. Stone cold psychopath. Physically abusive. Threw a knife at my
We moved into a tiny
[Swear to god this is almost done.]
MK eventually remarried, this time
Finally, to get to the point, yeah, MK always had an issue that I’d become close to GK - I
[Are you sorry you asked?]
[Grandpa Krittr and mini-me.]
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1. The death of Silicon Valley, a thread
How did Silicon Valley die? It was killed by the internet. I will explain.
Yesterday, my friend IRL asked me "Where are good old days when techies were
2. In the "good old days" Silicon Valley was about understanding technology. Silicon, to be precise. These were people who had to understand quantum mechanics, who had to build the near-miraculous devices that we now take for granted, and they had to work
3. Now, I love libertarians, and I share much of their political philosophy. But you have to be socially naive to believe that it has a chance in a real society. In those days, Silicon Valley was not a real society. It was populated by people who understood quantum mechanics
4. Then came the microcomputer revolution. It was created by people who understood how to build computers. One borderline case was Steve Jobs. People claimed that Jobs was surrounded by a "reality distortion field" - that's how good he was at understanding people, not things
5. Still, the heroes of Silicon Valley were the engineers. The people who knew how to build things. Steve Jobs, for all his understanding of people, also had quite a good understanding of technology. He had a libertarian vibe, and so did Silicon Valley
How did Silicon Valley die? It was killed by the internet. I will explain.
Yesterday, my friend IRL asked me "Where are good old days when techies were
Where are good old days when techies were libertarians.
— Cranky (@rushingdima) January 9, 2021
2. In the "good old days" Silicon Valley was about understanding technology. Silicon, to be precise. These were people who had to understand quantum mechanics, who had to build the near-miraculous devices that we now take for granted, and they had to work
3. Now, I love libertarians, and I share much of their political philosophy. But you have to be socially naive to believe that it has a chance in a real society. In those days, Silicon Valley was not a real society. It was populated by people who understood quantum mechanics
4. Then came the microcomputer revolution. It was created by people who understood how to build computers. One borderline case was Steve Jobs. People claimed that Jobs was surrounded by a "reality distortion field" - that's how good he was at understanding people, not things
5. Still, the heroes of Silicon Valley were the engineers. The people who knew how to build things. Steve Jobs, for all his understanding of people, also had quite a good understanding of technology. He had a libertarian vibe, and so did Silicon Valley
I’ve asked Byers to clarify, but as I read this tweet, it seems that Bret Stephens included an unredacted use of the n-word in his column this week to make a point, and the column got spiked—maybe as a result?
Four times. The column used the n-word (in the context of a quote) four times. https://t.co/14vPhQZktB
For context: In 2019, a Times reporter was reprimanded for several incidents of racial insensitivity on a trip with high school students, including one in which he used the n-word in a discussion of racial slurs.
That incident became public late last month, and late last week, after 150 Times employees complained about how it had been handled, the reporter in question resigned.
In the course of all that, the Times' executive editor said that the paper does not "tolerate racist language regardless of intent.” This was the quote that Bret Stephens was pushing back against in his column. (Which, again, was deep-sixed by the paper.)
Stephens goes on in his column (which never saw light of day) to cite famous Lee Atwater quote that uses racial slur, and which NYT has cited \u201cat least seven times.\u201d
— Dylan Byers (@DylanByers) February 11, 2021
"Is this now supposed to be a scandal?\u201d he asks.
...
Four times. The column used the n-word (in the context of a quote) four times. https://t.co/14vPhQZktB
That is correct. In his draft he quotes Atwater using the word (4 times) and he does not redact it.
— Dylan Byers (@DylanByers) February 11, 2021
For context: In 2019, a Times reporter was reprimanded for several incidents of racial insensitivity on a trip with high school students, including one in which he used the n-word in a discussion of racial slurs.
That incident became public late last month, and late last week, after 150 Times employees complained about how it had been handled, the reporter in question resigned.
In the course of all that, the Times' executive editor said that the paper does not "tolerate racist language regardless of intent.” This was the quote that Bret Stephens was pushing back against in his column. (Which, again, was deep-sixed by the paper.)
