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When I worked at a salon one of my coworkers was the sweetest, most caring girl, but honestly not the brightest. I'll call her Cassidy. She was the hairstylist stereotype, blonde, beautiful and brainless.I sound very harsh, but several times she'd come up with things that would just make us shake our heads. Clients, especially males, thought it was adorable and it boosted their egos, so she was a really good earning stylist.Anyway, on one occasion, we got a new hire who was originally from Djibouti, Africa. Well, Cassidy thought to ask if this new hire lived in a hut before coming to Canada and if she'd ever seen modern civilization before. The new hire thought she was joking and played it up saying she did in fact live in huts and mud and that she had never seen a phone before. Cassidy believed it and said she felt so bad for her, that she must be so happy to have moved, etc. The new hire was bewildered.With this new hire again, who was quite (obviously) young and had her daughter young, Cassidy asked her age. The new hire, again, joking around, said she was 47. Cassidy believed it and said something along the lines of “black don't crack is true then, wow”On Halloween one year, Cassidy and I were talking to some of the other girls in the back room and were sharing some ‘ghost experiences’ when Cassidy says, “Halloween is just so scary, especially with the full moon!” I was perplexed for a second, “it's not a full moon out tonight?” and she replied with “Mimi, don't be silly, there's always a full moon on Halloween.” the room went silent and looked at her. Then one of the other stylists explained to her that the moon has its own cycle and doesn't just arbitrarily go from being a crescent to full just because of the holiday it falls on. She did try to defend herself and say that's how it's always shown, which I can't fault her, you do always see the spooky tree silhouettes in front of a full moon depicted on decorations.There are so many more, like asking a client who was wearing a pentacle if they worship Satan, or when she visited my house once, I told her to never buy a saran top stove because I find it personally harder to clean than a regular stainless steel one and she said “I think all houses just come with those don't they?” and when I explained, she rebutted with telling me she thought I was talking about the kitchen island, which I also had to say doesn't come in every kitchen as a standard either.We also had some sad conversations, she was so obsessed with her boyfriend who was constantly cheating on her, constantly gave her UTI's and some curable STI's due to him sleeping around and never cleaning his dick cheese. She was convinced he was her soul mate despite the fact that her ultimate goal was to have a house and a family, and his being a stay 21 forever while partying every night and sleeping with anything that had female parts, as well as breaking up with her everytime she said she wanted kids. Breaking it off with him is one thing none of us could convince her to do, and that was the more important thing. She always made the high commission brackets, was a good stylist, very cute, and could've accepted an advance from one of her interested clients, but instead she's giving her hard earned money to her lay about boyfriend in an apartment in an area of the city that she hates with an inconvenient drive-length to work because sometimes you sadly just can't explain things or make someone understand.

The M26 Pershing is the most influential Second World War tank. The Pershing’s debut in combat was in the spring of 1945. Its last descendant fought in the 1990–91 Gulf War — 45 years. No other WWII tank had so many linear descendants. While it is true that the Pershing was intended to counter German tanks like the Tiger and Panther, its design owes little to those enemy AFVs. For example, the M26’s hull emphasizes cast armor with complex ballistic curves, whereas the Panzer V, VI, and VI/B all used welded armor constructed from rolled steel. Another departure is the characteristic wheeltrain of the Pershing, which shows no kinship to the interleaved wheeltrain favored by many German tank designs.Compare the hull design and fabrication of the Pershing to its main German rival. Note the difference between the wheeltrains, as well.Also, compare the height of the Panther’s deck to the deck height of the Pershing.The Panther’s hull is taller than the average soldier, whereas the Pershing’s hull is about shoulder height. This low hull silhouette would be characteristic of the M26’s descendants. Also, note the position of the drive sprocket. The Pershing has its transmission and final drive in the rear of the tank. All German tanks of WWII had those components mounted in the bow.Though classed as a heavy tank when it first entered service, it was later redesignated as a medium tank in order to vacate the heavy tank classification for other AFV projects that were themselves descendants of the Pershing. Thanks to the inadequate mobility of the Ford-powered M26, an improved version, the M26E2 was introduced in 1949. Since there were other changes besides the engine and drivetrain the M26E was redesignated as the M46 Patton.Though it is clearly derived from the Pershing (note the virtually identical hull and turret) the first-generation Patton tank had a new Continental engine with more than 60% greater horsepower than the Pershing’s powerpack, an improved drivetrain to apply that greater engine output, and an improved 90mm gun.The better gun of the M46 needed a more effective rangefinding system than could be mounted in the Pershing-derived turret, which spurred the development of the M47 Patton.This new descendant of the M26 retained the powerpack from the M46 but received a new Allison transmission, a revised hull with a more steeply sloped front glacis, and a revised turret with a long baseline stereoscopic rangefinder and a large bustle.The impracticality of a co-driver/bow gunner in modern tank warfare was demonstrated in the Korean War. Consequently, the next branch on the M26 family tree featured a new, one-piece cast hull with a distinctively curved front glacis which only a single crew position, the driver. Known as the M48 Patton, this penultimate generation of the lineage retained some features of its predecessor and replaced others. Among the retained features was a stereoscopic rangefinder virtually identical to the M47’s rangefinder, but located in a new, enlarged turret. The M48’s distinctive “soup bowl” turret was adopted to make upgrades to the aging 90mm gun possible without severely compromising interior space.The final generation, the end of the Pershing’s line, is the M60, which though retired from American service remains a formidable tank well-suited to the needs of smaller nations. Its first iteration featured a more spacious hull with a new twin-turbo diesel powerpack, all the others in the line having had gasoline-fueled engines, but the early M60 retained the older M48-style turret, but with the new British L7 105mm gun.Note the “blister” for the stereoscopic rangefinder derived originally from the M47.The old “soup bowl” was eventually replaced with a better-protected, more ballistic turret design.It was in this general configuration that the M60 lived out its lifespan with the American armed forces, and a fresh, clean-sheet-of-paper tank design finally extinguished the Pershing lineage — the gas-turbine-powered M1 Abrams.

The biggest hoax that people still believe today probably goes back to Plato. As the story goes, Plato imagined that we cannot sense reality. Instead, he held that we are only seeing a distorted reflection of it, as though we were imprisoned in a cave and could only see shadows and silhouettes of people and objects on the wall created by the firelight.By contrast, Aristotle said the opposite: Yes we can sense reality. The senses are valid.Plato said: No, for example when we look at a chair, it is only the imperfect recreation of the one perfect chair that exists in another dimension that is inaccessible to our senses.Plato’s view was picked up and perpetuated through a long line of philosophers, the most notorious one being Kant, and culminated in the view that each of us is only the imperfect reflection of the ideal man, the man that exists in some other dimension (what he called the noumenal world) that we can never actually see. The imperfect world that we do experience, he called the phenomenal world.Plato’s mistaken view (or hoax?) has never been proved, and cannot be. But it has formed the basis of all variants of collectivism (socialism, communism, Nazism) meaning that the individual living man counts for nothing. Instead, the ideal is that belief in the one mythical ideal man. Hence, the average man can be disposed of as needed because his life is meaningless. This is why you find the most horrific murders and exterminations in those cultures most heavily influenced by Plato, Kant, and the rest of that collection of mostly German philosophers. (One day I hope to find, or draw my own family tree of them, tracing the ideas from one to the next, or perhaps some better representation.)As an aside, Aristotle’s view, that your consciousness can accurately perceive reality, cannot be proved either, and this is because it is axiomatic. Meaning that consciousness is an axiom; it is that, upon which, all proof rests. Without consciousness (a faculty for grasping reality) you cannot prove anything. You must accept that your consciousness perceives reality as it really is, or you'll be forever lost in a fog, a haze of uncertainty. Probably all of us are familiar with this fog, but interestingly, only recognize it once we escape from it. It took me about five years to fully escape, and another twenty to be sure of it.I'll stop there before I write an entire philosophic treatise.