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If you're walking to the store because you live in a walkable neighborhood, it's zero. If you're going to the mall and buying a dozen things from a dozen stores, the carbon footprint per purchase is probably lower than if you're buying a dozen things in a half dozen separate transactions online. Not to mention all the boxes and the energy and/or trees needed to produce/recycle them.

Target's website is awful to the point of painful, unfortunately.

That also depends on the location. In a residential neighborhood, that might be too much retail, but in Times Square it might be appropriate. There are walkable low-rise neighborhoods in Queens where the main drag is all 1-3 story buildings with retail in the ground (and sometimes second) floor and sometimes apartments above the retail. Meanwhile, around the corner are entire all-residential blocks. This works and is still walkable because getting from all-residential to retail is just a quick walk around the corner.

The occupant landlords I've known have been very picky about their renters, conducting extensive interviews; whereas management companies literally only do a background check and a financials check.

And they've been orders of magnitude more responsive about problems with utilities, plumbing, appliances, etc. They care. And they form human relationships with their tenants. It's not just about "having an eye on you".

Yup. I've been a renter my entire adult life, and have lived in both owner-occupied and corporate-managed buildings. (Here we don't have granny flats, just the other rooms or floors of a townhouse that's been divided into apartments.)

The former care a lot about keeping their properties in good condition (after all, they live there, and typically the home is part of their nest egg). I've never known an occupant landlord to ignore a leak. Keeping the building pest-free is as important to them as to you. They want to maintain friendly relationships with the people they share walls and floors and ceilings with, and put time and effort into selecting tenants (your neighbors) who will be considerate.

I've ended up becoming good friends with most of those landlords as well as with the other tenants in those buildings. One elder landlord has become like an uncle to me. I've always been reluctant to move from those apartments until forced to by unrelated circumstances

The latter care about upkeep and maintenance only to the degree that it will keep the apartment rentable. Between tenants, they'll patch over any visible issues. When selecting tenants, they care only about the likelihood they'll pay rent on time, won't smash the walls with sledgehammers, and won't cause frequent law enforcement visits. You'll get neighbors who are loud or rude or steal your packages from the mail room. They pay lip service to pest control, and if you're lucky they'll cover the cost of sending an exterminator out once a month (better hope you're home to let them in). I've never wanted to stay in such an apartment once my lease was up.

Pretty sure that the purpose of a husband goes beyond bum flattery.

In mice and fruit flies.

Nintendo: play video games like the ones you love from the arcade, as much as you like - without having to pump in quarters, stand in line, or even leave the comfort of your own home!

In some states, at least, employers are legally required to give employees a "reasonable" amount of time off to vote.

A lot of this stuff varies state by state.

Make it a half day instead?

Many states will issue an absentee ballot only if you will be out of state on election day or have physical disabilities that will prevent visiting a polling place. Submitting an absentee ballot without meeting those conditions is voter fraud, which is a felony.

I for one loathe talking on the phone. I wouldn't even pick up.

Yeah! That said, Overdrive has its pain points and could do with some savvy competition. I imagine that licensing and marketing would be the biggest hurdles.

No idea, never used it, but it seems like an obvious choice to use with Office. An employer that won't buy you the software you need to do your job seems ridiculous though.

This already sort of exists. Check out Overdrive.

Visio?

And how many of its drivers bought a car just to drive for Uber/Lyft?

Or you get in a car and sit in traffic until you run out of gas and then you're stranded on a highway in the middle of nowhere during a hurricane, as happened to so many people in Houston this past fall.

Few of our cities are actually evacuable in an emergency.

Actually, they get done by 50 men watching 3 men and a giant machine, because of unions afraid of automation causing unemployment.

And I say that as someone who is generally pro-union.

> A manager should be optimistic. A team's moral compass is highly influenced by their lead. I am skeptical and pessimistic by nature, I find it to be somewhat of a struggle to keep a positive outlook. In this particular point, I failed.

I find this challenging too. Any suggestions from other pessimists/skeptics for presenting a more positive outlook?

Is that sarcasm?

What makes you so sure fixes are trivial? Do you know what their code looks like? How big their team is? What resources they have available to devote to this? What their runway looks like? What pressures they're under from investors?

In a legacy codebase, even the smallest change can introduce all sorts of problems; and a small change to output or business logic can require disproportionately large changes to code. They may simply have determined that finishing the feature changes they think they need for their business to survive is more important than protecting against exploits that they consider either unlikely or low-value.

And how acceptable this is may depend in large part on what the service in question is and how broadly it's used. The lack of concern you describe would be totally unacceptable from a bank or even Twitter, but perhaps excusable (at this stage) from an early stage company trying to build the next Twitter.

Several years working freelance. Gave me the freedom to arrange my schedule to allow time for thought and introspection.

They began to evolve separately as soon as the Mayflower arrived. And American accents have been influenced not only by a broad variety of English immigrants over time by also by immigrants from other parts of the world.

For instance, the "standard" (TV broadcaster) accent originated in areas settled largely by German and Scandinavian immigrants. The "New York" and "New Jersey" accents have elements of Irish and Italian and Yiddish accents, and New York accents were influential due to being common among entertainers through the middle of the 20th century.

And accents can evolve quickly. The New York accent you'll hear in films from the 1950s is very different from the one you'll hear today if you go deep enough into Queens to find strong accents.

That said, IMO moderate Scottish accents sound extremely similar to the "standard" American accent. I think it's actually that the cadences are very similar, which for me at least is what makes other strong British accents (other than RP) often difficult to understand.

Yeah, there's a very big difference between friendly debate and bullying. Having been exposed to both from my parents I can assert that one gave me life skills and the other gave me trauma and problems with interpersonal relationships that I'm still recovering from.

45-ish hours/week. Trying to get back down to 40. I'm salaried, so no, hours worked don't affect income. (Though if I wanted to work 20 hrs/wk that would probably be different.)

We also, as a society, put a lot of conscious and subconscious pressure on women in particular to have and to want children.

Girls are exposed from a young age to overt and covert suggestions that their value is in their reproductive appeal and reproductive potential. Women who don't have children are constantly questioned about it; treated as "less than"; and perceived as having something wrong with them. Women who don't want children are perceived as subversive. (We put some of these same pressures on men, but it's perceived as "normal" for men not to want children.)

And then the burden of childbearing and childrearing falls more heavily on women than on men.

So it's unsurprising that a lot of women have children and then regret it. What's infuriating is that the same pressures and stupid norms that push women into having children for the wrong reasons are the same ones that prevent them from speaking up about it and warning others once they realize they have.

B2B or B2C? Makes a huge difference!

Yes, that's a good point. Even if the intentions were defensible, they seem to have overstepped with their methods.

I would pay to never again have to have anything to do with a social network.