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Highly suggest Barbara Tuchman's A Distant Mirror for all of you who like this stuff. All her work is great.

If it benefits the company to lie about impending layoffs, then management will lie. It's baffling how many people have difficulty with this concept.

Yeah, but employee rating scales are often tied to a lot of other office politicking that makes them largely irrelevant to actual performance, in my experience.

You're buying shaped chicken nuggets. You've already surrendered your dignity. There are no "Heroes of Civil Rights" chicken nuggets...

Down voters haven't seen the movie...

If anyone here is interested in exploring this concept further I highly suggest Horsey Game.

I would like to politely suggest that placing a parenthetical three times longer than the sentence it's nested in makes that sentence quite difficult to get through.

And yet they are cheering for ICE to arrest them all. No matter the status or paperwork. If they're arrested then they are guilty. That's how it works down here.

Mine corrects it to Khalifa. What part of it being a common name is so difficult to understand?

You think laws shouldn't be rationalized just because they're old?

I loved playing this soundtrack on big speakers. The drums were great.

I had a professor who spent many years in the thick of battle in the Vietnam war. He said this was one of the hardest things to deal with mentally. One person would survive after getting shot all over and the next person would get the smallest bit of shrapnel in the wrong spot and "just turn off."