“Well we just want a big pool of candidates in case this person doesn’t work out.”
Those companies can get a building dropped on them. Cannot tell you how many positions I’ve applied for only to be told “oh we filled that two months ago and didn’t take the listing down”.
I legit had a recruiter for Procter & Gamble tell me that “I’m not the right type of autistic” after applying and taking literally an hours-long personality/IQ test “designed” to screen for autistic candidates as part of a diversity push.
Don’t forget that criminal convictions take time. Months of time. By the time your rapist is caught, tried, and sentenced, you might have very well had their child already. Criminal convictions are not the neat and tidy SVU “oh we caught him and he’ll be tried and sentenced within two weeks” shtick.
It’s theorized this is partially why a lot of indigenous societies in the Americas simply didn’t use wheels in larger contexts. We’ve found perfectly engineered wheels in a lot of archaeological sites here in North and South America, but they’re almost always on toys. The theory is that civilizations like the Aztecs and various Native American and First Nations peoples invented wheels just fine, but since North America particularly lacks any form of native, easily-domesticated draft animal, wheels just didn’t make sense or save anyone significant enough time to really bother with in larger forms like carts or chariots.
Don’t forget cops and military protecting stores in disaster zones, full of supplies that will wind up getting paid for by insurance anyway and will go bad before the store reopens.
Honestly, Cowboy Bebop. The universe it builds feels lived-in, and the animation style is incredibl, but the music is really the star.
Be aware, however, that while there are happy moments, it is an anime about bounty hunters, and there are very few happy endings. Beautiful endings, poetic endings, satisfying endings - but never happy.
Yeerks really out here normalizing it.
Don’t forget the press secretary literally laughing as gay people die, until Reagan’s friend Rock Hudson got HIV.
Yes, just like Trump and COVID, Reagan’s some policy on HIV was “do nothing and hope people don’t care”.
They likely won’t do anything. The IRS is extremely gun shy about enforcing that doctrine ever since the Church of Scientology thing.
+1 for If Books Could Kill. They’ve kinda run out of shitty famous self help books, but they still do good rundowns on other books now.
I’ll also recommend Michael Hobbes’ other podcast, Maintenance Phase, which is largely about health grifts.
Their current nuclear policy if they believe someone is going to credibly deploy nuclear weapons against the French is to fire a nuclear-tipped air-to-ground missile at the power in question, as a warning shot.
Want to build an explosive? Here’s an equation you haven’t seen since 9th grade that determines how big an explosive you can build.
May also be a state property issue - Queen is only a title, and we learn in the second movie that Amidala has been electorally replaced as Queen.
Sorta like if a president tried to sell Air Force One.
Tosevites, anyone?
No, because that guy was absolutely meaning to shoot Jackson. He just didn’t know it was Jackson.
Pathfinder has a spell called Allfood, makes literally anything into “food” (well, it’s tasteless mush, but it is edible). Creative uses include: chewing through doors, literally eating important MacGuffins, and disarming opponents via CHOMP.
I’m unsure if there’s enough words for it to count as a full spoken language yet.
Yeah, Christensen did what he could with the lines he got. The issue was nobody was seriously criticizing Lucas’s writing - he’s a great story guy, but he needs someone saying “no we don’t need the Gungans to speak like a minstrel show George”.
Everyone had a plan for “what if a Jedi boards your ship”. Nobody had a plan for “what if a Jedi gets his semi mythical space whale friends to jack your entire fleet like they’re the repo man and you just missed a payment”.
If you had actually ASKED the Sioux of the Black Hills about this, you’d know they’ve told pretty much everyone “yeah we don’t like Mt Rushmore, we don’t like Crazy Horse’s relief carving either, but we think destroying them is more disrespectful than just leaving them to fall apart on their own.” Like, this isn’t an uncommon thought. It’s just more complex than “blow them up”.