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KFC apologises after German Kristallnacht promotion[^]
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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The insensitivity is appalling, but what is worse is that it means the horrors perpetrated by Nazi Germany are fading from collective memory.
Once forgotten, it could easily happen again.
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It looked to me like it was a result of someone trying to be efficient and really stepping in it.
The Kristallnacht memorial day is observed in Germany as an official holiday I think.
Ergo, if someone simply imported all the holidays into their app without really going through every single one to make sure it was appropriate this would happen.
It looks like an innocent, if very unfortunate error, not an attempt to terrorize people with it via a fast food company.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity? 
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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I'm just saying from what I read about it, it appeared to be a ridiculously stupid mistake, rather than a malicious actor.
That doesn't make it okay, please don't misunderstand me.
Hopefully, automating these holiday send outs will no longer be a thing that people do.
Hopefully, lessons were learned.
And yeah, I do think the onus is on KFC to apologize for it and make good on it, whatever that means. I'm not German, and I'm not Jewish, so that's as far as I'll weigh in.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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I didn't impute any nefarious motives to you. I suspect that your theory is correct, and that this is a result of abysmal stupidity, rather than malice. I doubt that anyone in Global KFC even knew about this promotion, let alone approved it.
OTOH, we Jews are especially sensitive to such things because bitter experience has shown us that persecution does not start with revocation of legal rights; it starts with small incidents like these, and grows from there.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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I completely agree with you. This kind of thing can't be left to happen.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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As if we could do so much to avoid it...
The most stupid animal in the world is the human mass
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Perhaps my research isn't that great but far as I can tell Kristallnacht is not a national holiday in Germany.
So as far as the excuse for entering it accidently one might wonder exactly what source they were using to decide the promotion days.
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Both of these have all sorts of crazy tools for manipulating text.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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LingoJam rocks! 
/ravi
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One of my favorite older comedians. He had a unique gift.
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Sad news, indeed. I grew up watching Gallagher specials on HBO. Good times.
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He was one of a kind.
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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He would be 100 years old today, and probably just note it as one of life's little coincidences, particularly as it falls on American Veteran's day (thank you for your service, folks)
I imagine Bill Woodruff could write quite a compelling obit of the man.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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Don't read books too much anymore, but I have enjoyed Vonnegut's.
Breakfast of Champions, Cat's Cradle, Siren's of Titan, God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater.
"Venus on the half shell" written by Philip Jose Farmer as sort of a Vonnegut spinoff is a must read if a Vonnegut fan.
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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Slaughterhouse Five is an epic. I've read it twice or thrice. It is one of the quite few books that [for me] redefine what a book can be,
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
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#Worldle #294 1/6 (100%)
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Nailed this because I have been there. They have a sea dominated country.
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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... is when they stop responding to the needs of their users.
I work on little IoT platforms, and I have a heavy favorite (Espressif for their ESP32 line) for a number of reasons, but as a company they seem to be on a trajectory of getting a little too big for their own good. Less responsive to changing times, less agile in the face of user feedback.
I'm far from ready to abandon them, but I'm concerned about the direction of their supporting software framework, particularly as it pertains to driving LCD screens. They seem to be corralling their users to a single graphics library solution for their entire platform line, and I'm over on their github making feature requests trying to put a stop to it.
This isn't to dish on their products, or anything. They make great gear. And like I said, I'm more at the concern phase. They could very well pull out a win and surprise me on this front. It's still early, this change in the air I sensed. We'll see how it plays out.
But I don't like thinking of even the idea of this line being one I have to abandon. I've invested a lot into it, and I've become rather attached.
Which way are you headed, Espressif? Don't be Microsoft.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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Are you maybe too much focused on displays?
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No.
For starters, the display is the central way the user will interact with a typical project. This is especially true when it's a touch screen.
It is also the single biggest code sink (where all the code takes most of the project time), and the single biggest hardware bottleneck in most cases to boot, so it's where your CPU will spend most of its time.
Such that typically, projects are literally designed around their screen, both in terms of coded to the actual hardware, and structured such that the UI interaction with the screen directly dictates the overall structure and flow of the application.
It is *the* central point of most real world IoT projects that have a screen.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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Completely agree
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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Your 'over' reaction tells me, I was something right. While I'm working for years now with visually handicapped peoples I 'see' that something different 
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