https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/11/health/james-harrison-blood-donor-retires-trnd/index.html

I’ve heard him referred to as one of the people who has personally and directly saved the lives of the most people.

It’s the blood that gives it that healthy pink glow.

1. He was not really an “everyman”, he’s a New York police detective.

2. The earliest I can think of an “everyman” being put into an action movie is Cary Grant in North By Northwest, but there are probably earlier examples.

The worst part is you can be a top performer and still be low-ranked because you have a poor manager or because they want to target a specific metric that doesn't apply to you.

The whole thing is almost always used to perform shadow layoffs: Basically a way to target a group you want to layoff, but then fire them "for cause" of low performance based on measures that may have little to do with their job. I had this happen to me at Yahoo after Melissa Meyer took over (another toxic billionaire that shouldn't run a company). I was a senior software developer, and was always a "top performer" in yearly reviews and raises, which meant after a few years I was very expensive. They introduced stack ranking and, while I knew what it was, I wasn't particularly worried as I was always ranking at the top. Then, a month before the reviews and ranking, two of us that were both "expensive" and over 40 were suddenly re-organized under a manager who managed a QA team, and we were then stack ranked against QA engineers based on QA metrics, which are very different from those used for software developers. Even though our reviews were also fantastic, we both fell in the bottom of the QA rankings because we weren't assigned to do QA work. Within a month we were both let go "for cause". As I still knew people there, I found out they repeated started doing ranking every quarter and repeated this process with a few different people each time, always using the same manager (fuck you Brad, you enablist PoS).

That's a classic example of how to use stack ranking to target older and more expensive employees and to get away with not having to do expensive layoffs and severance packages. Incidentally, it isn't always entirely legal: https://www.shrm.org/resourcesandtools/legal-and-compliance/employment-law/pages/yahoo-forced-ranking.aspx

It’s all just colorful names for a Vitality Curve. It helped destroy GE, and now you too can use it to destroy your corporation!

Salt fluoridation: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24308394/

The water thing is a couple of things that I think I was confusing. Iodine is a normal part of drinking water treatment (almost all municipal drinking water is iodized to some extent), but iodizing enough for supplementary reasons is mostly used in areas where iodizing other things is impractical or more difficult. Incidentally, iodized flour is also a thing sometimes used. https://awwa.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/j.1551-8833.1927.tb12646.x and https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0278691515000939

Not sure who you were responding too…

Interestingly, most countries iodize their drinking water and flouridate their salt, where the U.S. does the opposite. The end result seems the same.

Kosher salt and most “gourmet” salts are NOT iodized. You can get some decent iodized sea salts or course grind salts, but you have to look for them. They will always say iodized on the label.