This is exactly the questions management should be asking themselves, but won’t. As long as they can find any reason that doesn’t point the finger at them they will decide that is the reason.

You’re upset at an employee using all the sick time that he’s allowed? A whopping 14 days out of the ~250 working days in a year?  

If Germany’s labor protections are so rife for abuse, why is the average sick day usage so much lower across the country than at this one plant?

Thierig also noted that temporary workers in the same conditions only had a 2% sickness rate, suggesting that permanent workers were taking advantage of the German labor protections.

That’s what I did with my ‘17 GTI—flew to Colorado and drove it back to KS on the interstate. It remains a great road trip memory and loved that turbo acceleration shove. I think I took an extra exit ramp or two just to rev it back up again. 7 years later, still never gets old.

Dear god, the way she speaks it’s like she try to seduce and strangle you at the same time. 

I’d hate to see what Alex Garland would have said in the 1950s when the Civil Rights movement was labeled radical

There is no meaningfully powerful political left in this country, at least on a national policy level. Our major parties are a center-right party and a far-right party, by any reasonable metric, since they are both capitalist, the economic ideology of the right. So it’s not even facile; it’s basically a category…

Yeah the 1861 election is what triggered the war. An election where Lincoln wasn’t on the ballot in several southern states and an election the south said they would not honor if he won and they didn’t. For a candidate who had moderate views on slavery, his policy was not expanding slavery, not end it all. But that…

Did Aaron Sorkin ghostwrite this stupid movie or something? Imagine writing and directing a movie called “Civil War” about the most powerful country in the world tearing itself apart, and instead of interrogating any meaningful causes and consequences all you have to say is something utterly facile like “left and…

Those who sit on the fence merely get impaled.

“Garland explained that it’s about political divisiveness in general and our insistence on ‘talking and not listening.’ He said there are politicians and people in the media ‘on both sides of the divide’ who are ‘wonderful’ and that ‘left and right are ideological arguments about how to run a state’ and nothing…

I’m not sure where you’re seeing that because what I see is activists challenging the idea that a fat person de facto has these conditions and the idea that it’s thin people’s duty to inform fat people strangers about the “dangers” of their own bodies.

I often see the emphasis on thinness as an example of how beauty has been co-opted by competitive, capitalist values. It’s an effort to reframe beauty as a ’goal’, a sport, a scale of achievement with “winners” and “losers”.

There are many things about American culture that contribute to added weight, that I’ve only begun to understand since moving to a Nordic country. It’s not a morality issue (it shouldn’t be). It’s partially a public access and car culture issue.

How often you have to play with the HVAC is down to the individual car and the climate you live in. Even the best auto systems are not really that good if you are fussy, or Dog forbid you have a woman in the car who needs a radically different temperature and airflow setting than you normally do. Just go for a ride…

I keep repeating this, because I’m apparently on crazy pills, but thanks to the Electoral College, vengeful despot-wannabe Donald Trump is still only a few tens of thousands votes away in a handful of swing states from cheating his fat ass back into the White House.

I’d like to add that in addition to confusion, you are in a moving vehicle — a vehicle that bumps and jiggles, and your fingertip is connected via a long device called an arm which acts as a mass spring damper. So keeping your fingertip in a fixed place while trying to touch something that has zero tactile feedback to…

Literally anything that you need to adjust while the vehicle is in motion.

Jackman has retired from the Wolverine role. I’ve always suspected he’s closeted but I’d hate it if he turned out to be a predator. He’s talented and has always seemed like a decent human being. I had no idea that his relationship with Singer went beyond a professional friendship from working together on the franchise.