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I left a review on the BBB, when I was a student, after being promised a gift card for a video interview of a product for one of the large tech companie's PMs.

I refused a free trial or some other token offer by a call center employee that the company sent as part of the BBB resolution process.

Not long after,the BBB removed my review even though I offered email evidence between the PM and I. I emailed one of their managers asking for an explanation for why they removed it. They gave me some vague boilerplate that didn't address the issue.

Because they weren't clear in their communication with me on the reasons why, I couldn't help but wonder whether they had some similar incentive in their relationships with certain companies to remove problematic reviews.

I had an eye doctor assure me that my discomfort with my new glasses was normal and that I'd just have to get used to it. After several months of nausea and discomfort, I finally went to a new eye doctor that fixed the problem immediately with a different frame and fit. It turned out that the prescription was correct, but the fit was wrong.

Before accepting daily discomfort and nausea as a new norm, you may want to try having more than one eye doctor look at it, if you haven't already, for alternate opinions for tests and on all the parameters of fit. There's alot that goes into getting your vision corrected and a few tiny adjustments off can end up causing persistent nausea and discomfort similar to what you are describing.

In my experience, no it's not worth it indoors in a relatively clean environment. I built 3 of these for myself with dust, carbon, & hepa filters, and I used them for over a year.

They are louder, use more energy, are less efficient, uglier & cost more money than several store bought alternatives which often include several carbon & hepa filter replacements which is the main expense in building these fans.

They work well in the garage though, and if you don't plan on changing the filters frequently they are the cheapest build option.

That's not a real system. It appears to be a mock ad derived from the organism you referenced which is a part of some kind of a fictional lore.

It is a thing. Why would it matter whether the word is "made up" even if this thread was its very first usage?

The expression is clear to the reader and conveys a conceptual expression of thought -- that of an idea of a new form of colonialism.

The opinion of whether or not, in what form, or to what degree it exists in the world are entirely different things from the word itself.

Herodotus isn't considered reliable at all by historians in any of his writings whether his topic is close geographically or not.

Thucydides is a far better option , being at the beginning of the record for the continuous record of reliable historical writing.

Try adopting an animal from a local shelter.

Anecdotally, for myself and others I've observed, it's a very effective way to consistently build empathy in one's self.

Prison systems in Nordic countries often combine labor with farm animal care to increase productivity and develop empathy at the same time.

Sounds like a magnet for noisemakers to route their trips through while staying just at or under the annoyance threshold -- a threshold which, with increased sensitivity, may be shifting lower.

Space Jam's website from originally 1996 is still up: https://www.spacejam.com/

Civilians, not only soldiers, were gassed by the German's munitions resulting in long term injuries and deaths. It's surprising this isn't more well known, and that Germany was not internationally censured, tried, & made to pay compensation to the victims of these disgusting actions following their conduct in the Holocaust.

Why's it so necessary for Germany to sell chemical weapons to be used in a warzone anyway? I wouldn't be surprised to see these were the same companies or individuals that acted 40 years earlier.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraqi_chemical_attacks_again...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halabja_chemical_attack

The idea that this is a free market system is patently false The cost is not $19k , it is whatever the billing department decides to surprise the patient with.

The medical care quality isn't relevant to the point, but it is dependent on how you want to measure it. If getting basic care to your citizens at an affordable cost is any important metric , then the US fails miserably.

I never goto the ER even if I need to anymore. I'm too busy paying off my $30k bill for a single EKG.

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We just wanted our donation to be a donation to patients and staff, not to the business side bottomline. Since n95 masks are practically fungible, it could have easily been credited or treated as a donation to patient bills (as we suggested) whether it be to divide among X random Covid patients or to a single person's ICU bill. The masks value was around $25,000, and who knows what multiple (3-25x ?) the hospital would charge to patients?

The fact is the hospitals gave us no path toward transferring that to patients and not their bottom line. We ended up selling most of our masks to hospitals for that reason, seeing it as the more moral option.

My company tried donating 120 boxes of 3M N95 masks to our major local hospitals at the beginning of the pandemic. We only asked that the expense would not be charged to patients directly or indirectly. None of the hospitals accepted the masks based on the no indirect billing part.

The seeds are believed to be the source of the heart shaped icon used throughout history (itself having little resemblance to the shape of our actual hearts).

Cyrene's, an ancient Greek city on the north African coast, entire economy was based on growing silphium, and the heart shaped icon of its seeds can be seen on its coins.

Silphium is often refered to as laser in Latin books such as the famous De Re Coquinara. There's a very close substitute spice originally from Persia but now more widely used in India called asafoetida named for its stench. Apparently the taste is very similar, but the intense smell isn't! Though it only reeks uncooked. By the late republic to early empire (which happens to be the primary time period we have for extant literature) Silphium had already become rare and soon died out. Though there's reports of early church monks sending each other seeds & stalks.

It's too bad Libya is a warzone in our time, and the area comprising the ruined Cyrene was recently under ISIS control. I wonder if there was any damage or looting at the site.

Actually dogs & wolves have jaws and digestive tracts consistent with omnivores which are significantly longer than that of carnivores.

"voice commands from a remote device to remotely access and control a computer". Filed in 2007.

I imagine the IBM Simon would be an example of prior art being first demonstrated in 1992.

Part of the problem of rating inflation comes with the removal of problematic listings.

My girlfriend & I discovered large patches of mushrooms growing out of the master bedroom carpet in an otherwise very unhealthy AirBnB. I wanted to write feedback on the house, but I couldn't warn others since AirBnB's policy in such cases is to remove the listing. I spotted the listing not long after with a clean slate. I'm sure they cleaned the place, but I'm also sure they didn't tear out the floors and fix the root problem. Too bad no one will know since the ratings won't be a source of info in such cases.

While that's a reasonable suspicion to have, the reporting in this case is accurate.

I'm from Charleston, where the plant is located, & I have several friends that work at Boeing in assembly and quality inspection. What you see in the video is exactly the same sentiment I've heard for years.