Yes, that statement by itself is a bit extreme, however I believe the person on twitter was combining it with the other aspects.
I did find that, at least for South Koreans, they sometimes use "Okay" in a way that would be considered non-standard by Westerners (I have no experience with North Koreans). Often times they would use "okay" more as a check or confirmation that something was heard, than an agreement. So someone saying "okay" to you could mean that they acknowledge that they heard you, rather than them agreeing with your statement. Thus, it seems like the Twitter poster was pointing out that non-standard usage and correlating it with his Korean experience.
I often keep my video off, but there are a few cases where I make sure I am presentable, and have my video on:
1. Meeting someone online for the 1st time. I have a video on to create more of a human connection.
2. When asking for help. I don't want to be a faceless entity asking for help, I feel that if the other person can see me, they are more likely to provide assistance.
3. When there is a conflict. Similar to 2, I feel that it's easier to resolve disagreements when looking at even just a face on a video as compared with a faceless voice.
It might be that I am in a strategy team as opposed to engineering, so I have to collaborate and discuss items with members from other teams almost every meeting, and therefore relationships are much more important.
I haven't had success with trying to negotiate telecom contracts. When I balked at the price, the salesman would sometimes offer a contract with lower levels of services along with the price reduction. And typically, it's more costly per unit of service, so not much of a bargain.
I use Authy, which allows the app to be installed on multiple devices. It's currently on 3 devices, so I never have to redo choices because I changed phones.
I can't speak for the parent comment, but when I use such a grammatical construct, I mean that although it is suboptimal, I am putting up with it. It does not mean that I think it is ok.
> you have to pay for YouTube premium to play audio while the screen is off
There are many sleep videos which have a dark screen for this reason, you can add "dark screen" to the search terms and see the choices. Although it's not quite the same as having the screen off, it's close enough in my experience.
Along the lines of an optional thing removing freedom, I have had tremendous trouble waving down a cab sometimes because all the cabs that were coming to the area have been hailed through apps.
This is cultural, believe it or not. In Korea, bicycles are expected to be on sidewalks and not sharing the road with cars, and there are often bike paths on pedestrian sidewalks.
Going the opposite way, here's a story of an electrical engineering class I had in college. The class subject was a slightly off-the-main-path course, taught by a visiting professor from overseas. It involved deep analysis of electrical circuits with some heavy math. At the final exam, the first thing I noticed was how thin the exam packet was. It was a harrowing experience when I opened the exam -- it consisted of exactly one question. As it turned out, it required using nearly everything we learned during the course to solve that one question, which I thought was a fascinating if scary way to test students, as forgetting one of the methods taught could block progress.
I still have my Thomas Guide from the 90s in my car. Looks like Thomas Guides are limited to LA and San Diego only nowadays, but it's not going away soon: "California state legislation says that every police and fire vehicle must have a Thomas Guide on board. Fire roads often aren’t on GPS, and ambulances can’t get lost, as every second could be life-saving. They often buy laminated copies too, as they get so beat up.” (https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2021-12-07/...)
The stand was adjustable enough such that with my thin laptop, I was able to angle the stand such that I could type and view the screen comfortably even while lying down, without the laptop falling off the stand. I mostly used the touchpad on the laptop, but I also placed my trackball on the mouse stand which was also angled, although not as steeply due to there being not much of a lip on the mouse stand to keep the trackball from sliding off. It's annoying to have to move the laptop stand to the side whenever I get out of bed, but for a short term solution it worked out well.
Yes, I called anyone and everyone I could at Better, our bid was contingent on those issues being resolved. I could not get anyone with decision making power outside of 9-5 business hours (and it wasn't easy even during business hours, often it would take several hours to get a callback), and also could not get a 15 day close. I had to urgently switch to a local banker to get that kind of service. The local banker started working at 7AM, and would call and email me late into the evening. Perhaps if you have a very run-of-the-mill mortgage situation, Better could work, but I feel like for any mortgages where the conditions are not typical, Better might not be able to respond like a local banker who is familiar with the requirements of the local market.
Doesn't that just increase resistance to your walking, thus is equivalent to you converting calories to battery energy? Wind and solar would be additional energy over what you brought as stored calories or food.
I had issues with Better last year. Advisors were hard to reach, away on vacation without notice, completely unreachable before 9AM and after 5PM, and unable to adjust to the highly competitive market that was going on last year (needed 15 day close as opposed to 30). I had to switch to a local banker, who was able to provide the speed and flexibility required as they were used to the local market. The local banker also offered the same rate as Better, meaning there was no advantage to Better whatsoever.
People don't seem to be aware of this, but most of the dulling of disposable razors are due to it staying wet.
If you dry your disposable razor after use, shaking out the water then drying it on a towel, it can last much much longer. Going down to shaving 2-3 times a week due to WFH, I think I made one disposable razor last about a year. If this pattern keeps up, this pack of razors I bought from Costco is going to last until I retire.
If those are indeed loss leaders, what would be the reason for the addition push for the products recently? Nowadays there are Costco employees bringing pizzas to the checkout lines and trying to sell them. Are these overproductions due to a drop in demand?
Sample size of one, but in my younger and less careful days I have managed to injure my shoulders overdoing both push-ups and dumbbell bench press. I managed to injure my shoulders much faster doing push-ups, likely because there was no way for me to ramp up the weights slowly, since push-ups are always minimum body weight. With bench press, I injured myself when I got impatient and ramped up the weights too fast. With push-ups, I injured myself when I got greedy and did too many sets throughout the day, since it's easy to do and do twenty whenever there's a few minutes of free time.
I think the core point is addressed:
Based on the ruling, a teacher calling someone's son "Ma'am" should also be protected speech.
The ruling makes no judgement on what the student can say, as the student is not an employee of the college. I would imagine that the college is able to enact consequences to the student's speech, and not run afoul of legal issues, but I am not a lawyer.
It certainly can count as both hostility and free speech. Often the most contentious examples of free speech are highly hostile: hate speech, for example. Therefore the context is rather, is this protected speech? A private company can discipline an employee for their speech in the name of the company, and that would be okay, since that is not protected speech. And the ruling by the court appears to be that this is indeed protected speech, in which case the free speech categorization trumps the hostility categorization.
Well, we can quote statistics and cite studies, but the point is that the entrepreneur himself attributed his failed marriages and heart attack to the entrepreneurship.
I gave my tween kid a Galaxy S8 (released 2017) recently and it suites her needs fine. I'd prefer if I don't have to upgrade her phone for another 2-3 years.
I'm having trouble finding an Android Go phone released this year, the most recent I can find are from 2020, like the Nokia 1.3. Compared with the Galaxy S8, the Nokia has a lower rez camera, less RAM, lower quality build, lower quality display, lower spec SoC, no biometrics, and no fast charge. Perhaps there are higher spec'd Android Go phones, but at least a 3-year-gap is not enough to overcome the premium-vs-entry-phone tier difference.
I despair at the modern trope of dismissing something of worth due to a person's thoughts/actions in an unrelated area (in modern parlance, "cancelling" someone). It seems like an ad hominem attack to me. How will this trend evolve in the future? Will the works of people like Beethoven, da Vinci, Einstein be cancelled due to them being meat eaters? (Substitute someone of equal stature if the people listed are actually vegetarians)