Um.... yeah, it's totally legal in a lot of states to terminate someone's emploment "just because." It's called "right to work," and H.R. 785 is trying to make it nation-wide. They still have to show cause if they want to deny you unemployment benefits, but that doesn't mean you didn't just get terminated.
It's common practice in U.S. call center culture to terminate someone's employment when they get to the top 20% of the pay scale.

TL;DR, according to Catholic dogma, the Pope is the "Vicar of Christ," i.e. the representative of Jesus' word on Earth, supposedly an office passed down in a (mostly) unbroken line from Peter the apostle, of whom Christ said "on this Rock (pun on the Greek name "Peter") I will build my church."

It's *supposed* to be more complicated than this little cartoon, but I've worked for a couple small companies before, and I've seen them do a *perfect* analogue of this process. Granted, they're usually *engineering* the collapse specifically so that they can "justify" outsourcing the function in question.

You mean condemn?

Oof. The paint's not the problem in that scenario, the labor is. It's expensive enough just to get window washers up there.

I was shocked to find that I fit into something from Wal-Mart that isn't beige. I mean.... it's gray, but gray is progress. Esp. since the shops like Lane Bryant just keep getting less and less reliable to fit.

I didn't want to speak for you, but I assumed...

"Did YOU carry a baby in you for NINE MONTHS with a man who LITERALLY THOUGHT YOU WERE SMUGGLING CINNAMON BUNS UNDER YOUR SHIRT?!" (DBZA)

Guys guys guys I did the thing: I married because we're both tremendous geeks and he treats me like a person not an accessory *AND HE GOT BETTER LOOKING.* Turns out that's possible.

To be fair, I'm not sure whether I'm talking about humans or the Argentinian ant.

He's helpfully curated most of the earth's weirdest natural things into a single blog. I mean, you can NEVER get a proper catalog of weird things because there's always something newly weird, but dammit, he tried... I love our universe. I mean, where else can you start from first principles of competition and end up with a species that dominates a planet almost solely through a type of cooperation?

The largest single organism on earth is a mushroom. Though it appears as separate growths above ground, it's interconnected at the roots and measures over 2 miles across by best estimates. If I remember right, it lives in the US Northwest. There's also a tree in - I believe it's South America - that rivals its size.
Seriously, though, http://bogleech.com/articles.html

It really weirds me out when people don't understand cross-gender friendships. I start thinking the person's creepy, like, what, just because you *could* be sexually attracted to someone you eliminate them from all nonsexual relationships?

Yay!

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Also, I read at a rate about 60-100 novel-sized pages an hour, and I like to read, like, a LOT.

It gets worse if we talk about the actual mating in question.