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I worked for one company that had a CEO like this except he was also a heavy cocaine user. One time we had a client visit our offices for a meeting; we had written software for this client for more than ten years at that point. In the middle of the meeting the CEO wanders in randomly and starts just talking incessantly for 45 fucking minutes straight. Finally he slaps his thighs and says "so, do you think you want to do business with us?" We damn near lost the client over this.

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  • I feed my local crows peanuts but they've never left any gifts for me. I thought that they were occasionally leaving berries and robin egg shells for me, but I eventually realized they were just puking that stuff up to make room for the peanuts.

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  • I used to work at a vitamin store and there was one cat in the neighborhood that would come flying into the place whenever the door opened, shoot across the floor, leap six feet onto the top shelf and start ripping into the bags of valerian root. He/she loved that shit -- apparently valerian root is a cat thing, just like catnip. We had a sign up on the front door with a picture of the cat and the caption "DO NOT LET THIS CAT IN", which sort of worked but not always.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 day ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (2 children)

    Without the Civil Rights Act of 1965, LBJ would have just been the guy who helped introduce oil money into national politics, literally stole his way into the senate, lucked into becoming President, and ramped up the Vietnam War. So there is a precedent.

    Edit: forgot to add that while in the Senate he led the fight against civil rights, ironically enough.

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