Can anyone clarify this: so the army used to shoot live pigs and goats while awake and now they're stopping this practice? Or were the animals asleep when they were shot?
And now they're stopping this but will continue to stab, burn, and beat the shit out of sleeping pigs and goats?
As far as I know, that's not how epidurals work. Nothing goes to your brain. It just numbs the nerves in your spine and stops the pain signals from reaching your brain.
You might think you know what they want and be totally wrong.
Asking never hurts. They can give you a list of options or say "whatever", but you don't have to be a baby about it.
If they say whatever, it just means they're letting you know you don't have to stress about it, but you should still make a genuine effort to get something they might want.
7 years later, after fleeing Russia for corruption charges, his friend Putin, soon to be Prime Minister, got the charges dropped and brought him back home.
Less than a year later, he died of suspected poisoning.
Did you even read the article you linked? It literally argues against your point.
The literal first sentence of the article is:
Contrary to myth, the sale of Ben & Jerry’s to corporate giant Unilever wasn’t legally required.
And further down:
This article aims to dispel the idée fixe that corporate law compelled Ben & Jerry’s directors to accept Unilever’s rich offer, overwhelming Cohen and Greenfield’s dogged efforts to maintain the company’s social mission and independence.
Yet in the end, Ben & Jerry’s directors chose to accept a generous offer, even at a cost to the social mission, rather than allow the company’s defenses to be tested. Anti-takeover protections are only as effective as the people positioned to use them.
Patrick Bateman was the satirization of a metrosexual if anything.
He was not masculine at all in the rugged manly sense of the term.
Compare Rambo to Bateman. Rambo is the stereotypical manly man, who burns his own wound with a hot knife or gunpowder.
Patrick Bateman would scream like a little girl and freak out over his body being ruined and scarred.