NextDoor used to be bad about that, but they are now much more careful to remove it quickly if anyone does post racist crap.
Now it seems to be 50% paid ads, 30% lost/found pets, 10% unpaid ads, and 10% everything else. Worth checking to find the owner of a stray dog or cat, but not much else.
I deleted the app a few years ago because it was a drag. Glad (and honestly surprised) to hear you say they remove the racist stuff quickly, and not surprised it's mostly ads these days.
The problem is people say the same thing without saying race. “Did anyone see this suspicious character?” with a picture from a doorbell cam of a black guy.
It’s still obviously racist to everyone but it’s not reportable or treated as such.
But also be aware that non-profit does not mean non-profit-oriented. Just that any profit goes to executives [1] instead of toward community/charity services [2].
I think there’s an error in conflating “not for profit” with “charity”. You could provide all care at cost and have zero charity care. That d doesn’t imply all “profit” goes to executives, but rather to keep reimbursed or charged costs lower.
1. Thanks for the nuanced view. I agree that zero charity care doesn't necessarily mean greedy execs.
2. In my mind keeping costs lower is a form of charity. Especially with something as frequently difficult to understand as health care costs.
3. Executives do deserve to make a fair amount for their skills and effort. I'm not sure myself what salary I consider it fair pay vs taking greedy advantage of not-for-profit status.
On your last point: I think it's useful to think in multipliers and desired outcomes.
Do you want the best doctors involved in care for patients and training juniors, or do you want them to spend time jockeying for a position in the hierarchy because that's a plausible but also the only way to 2x their income?
This doesn't fully answer the question, of course, but it suggests that large pay disparities are extremely wasteful for society as a whole.
Zenni is a good choice _if you know your PD_ (pupillary distance) - the distance from nose to center of pupil. 1 mm off will turn your glasses into headache machines.
And the phone apps that purport to measure this are universally bad. Get it professionally done at a place that will give you the value. Costco will do so.
If you don't want to purchase online Costco is decent price - $180ish for the progressives lenses I just purchased vs $400+ from LensCrafters.
Downside of Costco is a limited selection of frames, but worth a look.
Also heard good things about Warby Parker but have not purchased lenses from them.
Oh, Zenni's progressive lenses have a much narrower distance vision section in the lens than Costco's. So I get progressive glasses at Costco then single reading and computer glasses (for < $40 each) at Zenni.
If it is a good course on business communication they _should_ be doing it - in class. And getting feedback and suggestions on improving with every attempt.
Internships are a wonderful thing but many people don't realize how they are coming across so don't look to improve. There is some learning by osmosis, but mostly people keep doing what they have always done because it works (as far as they can tell).
They won't be doing it, they will be doing a simulation of it. How are they going to learn business communication without doing it in the context of a real business with a real P/L line and real consequences for good and bad execution?
Newegg does at least have a 'Newegg only' checkbox so you can avoid the outside sellers.
I will still buy electronics from Newegg for that reason. No longer trust Amazon for those.
Newegg is fine as long as you never have to return anything you've purchased.
Which means it's not fine for Electronics. Their returns policy seems to be assuming that everyone attempting a return is malicious and trying to cheat them.
Yeah, I've always wondered why Newegg hasn't changed those unfriendly policies in nearly 15 years. I recall buying exactly 3-4 items from them: a digital camera in 2007, a couple of refurbished monitors in 2016, and a tablet in 2018.
The lack of free shipping seems insane given how much the products already cost, and the "Return minus 15% restocking fee" really doesn't make me want to come back.
I'm in Canada, so gadget prices are high and Amazon's price competitiveness and selection advantage is close to zero compared to Best Buy. But when I lived in the States, Amazon's no-questions asked return policy won me over.
It is possible to install the Google App Store on a Fire, and does not require rooting it, but it is a pain and most people wouldn't bother.
I agree that they really are just to lock people into the Amazon ecosystem.
I know the standard talking point is that easily available student loans is the only cause of tuition increasing so much over the years. But this ignores the massive drop of state funding that used to go to most colleges, and (IMO even more important) demand vs supply.
It used to be that college was one of several valid options after high school, but now everyone is supposed to go to college and there is a lot of societal pressure to go, without regard to what a person wants to do with their life.
This allows colleges to keep increasing tuition almost without limit, because you _have_ to get a degree so cost doesn't stop people from going.
A salaried person working 13 hours a day with no extra compensation is not breaking the law in the United States. I have never heard of a lawsuit about that that succeeded.
Good companies do realize that making people work overtime consistently without reward is a bad idea, if for no other reason than the selfish one: your good employees will leave.
I know a lot of companies that do it anyway because they either don't care or don't accept people are leaving because of the constant overtime.
I also know people who have stayed at bad companies either because they don't want to let their team down or they just got used to the constant overtime and didn't realize how bad it was until they left. Or the simple fact that many people do not like change, and prefer the overtime they know rather than jumping to the unknown new job.
Just because someone is working overtime without compensation doesn't mean they don't have dignity. There are many reasons to stay at a crap job (for a while, if you have to). Please don't insult others just because their life is worse than you have allowed your life to get.
That being said, I agree with a few other posters - if you are consistently working 13 hour days, start looking for a new job. My rule of thumb is to spend one hour job hunting for every hour of required/expected overtime.
