Why would a staff member NOT expect their employer to ask them to work more efficiently?  You have a piece work job....your employer is asking you to do it.  As long as the vast majority of staff are hitting their goals, the goals must be obtainable...if you’re not hitting them perhaps this job/skill isn’t for you.

Major in English Linguistics.

Thank goodness this naming controversy doesn’t look like it will derail the new gaming console I’m marketing, the PlaeyStation 4.

It seems pretty clear that we are a gene altering disease.

Come on. Spare me the old wise man prophetic speak... We know the god damn moon is a fucking rock that is made up of bits of what earth was. Are they expecting to find lakes and vegetation? Some new mineral we haven’t found yet? Come on.. this is a waste. Give me some more snowman shaped bodies amongst the edge of the…

Why do that when we can simply politicize the movie to validate our ideologies instead? I love Fury Road, but people never cared about Mad Max until it came out, and act like it’s some sort of new thing, when in fact the majority of themes in FR were also touched upon in Road Warrior and Thunderdome. So not all of us…

Mediocre 

io9 has gone in the shitter since CJA and Annalee left.

“Smallville Victims Unit”

If we’re going to be talking about dropping Facebook, we have to go further than that. FB isn’t the only form of destructive social media. Twitter is another.

Not sure what’s more concerning:

Fat/sugar free? Eat double.

duuuuuuuude

He should have that mole removed

“Incredibly accurate reconstructions like this [...]”

Yeah, my immediate reaction was, considering the size of the entities involved in the transaction, those are totally reasonable prices. If anything, after reading your post, they seem to be underpaying.

As a High School teacher - I call bullshit on that. Yeah, they know a lot about history - if they have their phone and google handy. Take that away, they don't know much beyond what happened last week.