I like this definition of Professionalism, and I try to carry myself with an attitude of such with everything I do, regardless of whether I get paid to do it. I guess it goes back to how I was raised, because my dad and grandfather definitely instilled that in me. Scouts probably helped, too. That seems to be lacking in a lot of people today.
It sounds like the person you worked with to get the antenna situation sorted was a learned person. They'd definitely been there before. It's good to learn from people like that. Lessons can come the easy way or the hard way. I prefer the easy way.
That would be a weird empire, though, right? Like your borders change minute-by-minute, right now you rule over Thailand but later tonight you rule over Rwanda.
This post sparked a memory for me. I think I was taught a couple signs in Hand Talk when I was really young, like 5 years old, for a play at school. It was almost certainly racist. We had one kid in our class who was Native American, and he mysteriously didn't come back to that school the next year.
It's the maga hat