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Basic marketing terms and jargon such as stockholders, STOW (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats), shareholding, and the marketing mix (aka the 4 Ps: product, person, price, promotion). It's a lot to take in, but they both share the same goal in satisfying the customer and raking in the profits.
 
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Trilby said:
Just look at this!
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That's actually what I watched haha.
I also saw the videos where she met Mr. Rodgers (her favorite celebrity) and Robin Williams. Lucky. :(

It's really eye opening what she can understand and communicate back to people. For example, in I think the Gorilla Foundation video, her trainer commented that she was really shocked at how much Koko could empathize and emote. Like, she apparently can feel embarrassed. I hunted around for this anecdote I clearly remember from a high school science class, thinking it was Koko, but it's actually about a female chimpanzee named Washoe (lost two children before this event, died in 2005, R.I.P) and her trainer Kat.

Taken from wikipedia;

One of Washoe's caretakers was pregnant and missed work for many weeks after she miscarried. Roger Fouts recounts the following situation:

People who should be there for her and aren't are often given the cold shoulder--her way of informing them that she's miffed at them. Washoe greeted Kat [the caretaker] in just this way when she finally returned to work with the chimps. Kat made her apologies to Washoe, then decided to tell her the truth, signing "MY BABY DIED". Washoe stared at her, then looked down. She finally peered into Kat's eyes again and carefully signed "CRY", touching her cheek and drawing her finger down the path a tear would make on a human (Chimpanzees don't shed tears). Kat later remarked that one sign told her more about Washoe and her mental capabilities than all her longer, grammatically perfect sentences.
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There's debate about how well these animals actually understand language (e.g. Koko's trainer says that Koko will demonstrate signs when someone unfamiliar with ASL asks, but that may just be her hearing a word and signing it back like she does/did in training) but there's no doubt many animals have higher cognitive function then previously thought (dogs, apes, dolphins, etc) and the line that separates "man" and "animal" might be much thinner then a lot of people would be comfortable with.


ETA: shit fam how could i have forgot about Mother Nature's own sass masters, octopi. This is taken from wired (How the Freaky Octopus Can Help Us Understand the Human Brain...didn't originally hear it from here but first google result.)

The octopus displays sophisticated (some might say even irreverent) behavior in the lab too. Just ask Jean Boal, a behavioral researcher at Millersville University. On the way to feed her octopus subjects one day, she suspected they might not like what was on offer: They preferred the very freshest of frozen squid, but the stuff she bore was a bit stale. She doled it out anyway, walking down the line of tanks, dropping a subpar serving into each one. When she finished, she walked back to the first octopus to see if it had gone for the meal. The food was nowhere to be seen, but the cephalopod was waiting for Boal—waiting and watching. This octopus locked eyes with her and moved slowly sideways to the drain in the front right corner of its tank. Pausing above the outflow, it shot the stale squid out of its arms and down the drain, continuing its stare (or was it a glare?) at Boal, who got the message.
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WOTC will recall a book for trivial surface damage, but will go to print with an MtG set that uses an identical keyword to one they already used (and it does something completely different.)
 
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Francis E. Dec Esc. said:
Trader Joe's is owned by Aldi.
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Namely it's owned by one of the ALDI brothers who operates "ALDI Nord" (North) in Germany, these aren't the stores we have in the US, as those are from the other brother who operates "ALDI Sud" (South). Fascinating history if you look into it (the company split in 1960 over the sale of tobacco).
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aldi

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The Angry German Kid grew up to be a bodybuilder and a rapper under the name "Hercules Beatz". He's also a bit of an e-celeb in Japan, whom they call the "Keyboard Crusher".
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