No golden parachute for you!

From the article you linked:

Shareholders appeared to reject the rich pay package in a significant rebuke, though as an advisory vote it is non-binding, meaning that the company does not have to make any adjustments if it does not want to.

A caveat follows:

Companies will, however, often voluntarily adjust pay packages after shareholders reject them.

I’m not holding my breath either way.

sips quietly from a yard

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Imagine the opening to Lord of War, but the assembly line passes through a portal into 1859… I could watch that movie.

They should totally do this, but sell the naming rights like a sports arena to the highest bidder.

The SoFi Holy Roman Empire, presented by Palantir

Doctor Who and Star Trek would be fun.

You can experience this in comic form, at least.

It’s not a pyramid! It’s a triangle!

The Parker Jotter is a great pen, and Parker-style refills are very common, so finding new ink for it is quite easy.

Could’ve just went for Cesar salad too

Julius Caesar -> Title of Caesar -> Title of Kaiser -> An Italian guy named Cesare -> A salad made in Mexico

“Move the dumpster a few more inches, that doesn’t look like six feet.”

German who grew up in the 21st century here. The myth that eating lots of carrots will improve your eyesight/nightvision significantly is still more or less alive and well here.

As a millennial American, I was taught it as a child, and I’d estimate most people I know believe it to be true.

“Quick and painless, or slow and horrible?”

Should be fun to see this land on the Wyoming Supreme Court’s docket.

so we’re talking about 6 G€ here, or six gigaeuros.

I’m so behind this concept.

doesn’t this mean that the new guy has to resign from the senate?

Yes, Mullin will have to give up his seat to take a position in the executive branch.

There are several non-nuclear fixed-wing carriers in service worldwide. France has three other carriers that are not nuclear, though they’re helicopter-only and therefore not considered by some to be in the same category.

Busted how? Does anyone expect consequences?

No, they were BUSTED. All caps. That means it’s serious.

“Louis, time to stop playing and come to dinner!”

Did I miss the “read more” button? Is that really just 2 paragraphs long?

It appears to be paywalled. Firefox’s Reader mode bypassed it for me.

That painting should be old enough to be in the public domain.

It wouldn’t be Getty’s first time stealing an image.