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  • How is this not easy? Secret service protection is afforded only by virtue of law. At one point, GWB only was going to have protection for 4 years after his term, but congress reverted the law to lifetime protection.

    You can easily change the law to not apply to those who are imprisoned in the federal system.

    He's not some sort of god emperor that gets protection via birthright.

  • Right. And then I'm like ... Okay but I didn't select a person's head. There is no motorcycle in this square.

    Then the system tells me I'm wrong, and I get all "I'm the fucking human, asshole"

  • But they also state they do not understand the black line, which I would argue understanding it is the entire point of the graph.

    Yeah, fewer infants are dying but access to the improvements is not equal. That's a pretty important point to reflect on.

    (Obviously without any ability to determine the causation of the problem... Just that one exists and should be investigated)

  • Well, the black squiggly line in the opposite direction shows an increasing relative gap between races, which you don't care about.

    It shows that while infant mortality has gone down for all, and even though it's significant, that black children are dying at an increasing proportion to their white peers. But you don't care that it fundamentally shows that they're not getting the same access to the same improvements (either medical care, education of the mother on prenatal care, etc).

  • Yeah it's a shitty parsing of it, because my mind went there too.

    But if the restaurant was using 1 entire cow to make 1 single 1/2lb burger, that's on the restaurant to do better.

    There's a lot of that happening that corporations need to focus on.

  • Adding that certain markets won't accept bottles, you must use a blister.

    Why is it one per card, bit of a head scratcher, but given the logistics and distribution costs of shipping this format, agree they wouldn't do this for fun.

  • The way this whole thing went down is absurd.

    That said, I had an underperforming colleague who never picked up that feedback was negative. They only latched onto the positive statements. This is either a failing of the receiver to hear the negative when also getting positives or a failing of the feedback giver to be direct.

    It's impossible to say in this situation, though it caught my attention that she mentioned she was close to closing a deal and lost it last second. If we take the CEOs statement at face value, perhaps she didn't actually meet their metrics.

    I can't say if this is justified or not, but what is abundantly obvious to me is 1) their feedback system likely sucks 2) the hit squad was under prepared with the justification for a termination for lack of performance, 3) she called them on their shit justifiably.

    I also agree that it should be expected they give a reasonable severance if this is their hiring model... If you by rule whack people.after three months, they should compensate for another three as people were not looking for new work.