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by hilux 2y ago
> I suspect lack even token concern about what happens to the goods as long as they get that tax break. That may be true for some donors (apparently you?), but definitely not all. Many people don't care about the tax break. Nowadays
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by hilux 2y ago
> This in a jurisdiction that doesn't offer tax incentives for donations You're not in the US?
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by hilux 2y ago
No, you're missing the point. If, over time, a thrift store gets a reputation of never having great stuff or great deals (because the volunteers take the best for themselves), over time that store will lose customer and donor interest
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by hilux 2y ago
Giving volunteers huge deals on potentially expensive stuff (some over $1000) seems against the spirit of "volunteering" at a store whose proceeds go to the Children's Hospital. Now that I think about it, this may even be aga
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by hilux 2y ago
I know that Target sells excess inventory on secondipity. I've got a few extremely good deals there, on kitchen appliances, Gillette razor blades, other stuff. All appeared to be in brand-new condition.
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by hilux 2y ago
Slightly related - I overheard a little argument at my local (hospital charity) thrift store yesterday. Turns out some of the volunteers were marking down items - which may be within their authority to do - and then buying these marked down
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by hilux 2y ago
> We hardly associate all of Western or Christian civilization with pedophile priests, Timothy McVeigh and Mormon cults. Let's start with women. They're roughly half the population. If they are being systematically mistreated,
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by hilux 2y ago
Let me guess, probably not a lot of stories about female genital mutilation, about the criminalization (upto capital punishment) of gay people, about women being beaten to death for refusing to wear a hijab, etc.
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by hilux 2y ago
Coincidentally, I was just watching a video about how South Africa has gone downhill - and that slide was hastened by McKinsey advising the crooked "Gupta brothers" on how to most efficiently rip off the country.
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by hilux 2y ago
If you liked this, you'll really enjoy the classic tale (also about American Airlines) titled: The frequent fliers who flew too much
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by hilux 2y ago
22-May-2024 ... the day privacy (finally) died.
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by hilux 2y ago
I appreciate that the article acknowledges that most study participants were white. It's absolutely true that health risks and outcomes differ widely between ethnicities, and that (too) many studies in the West are conducted almost ent
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by hilux 2y ago
Borrowed - thanks!
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by hilux 2y ago
Indeed - last I checked, Kaavya Viswanathan was doing just fine. Even had a stint at white-shoe law firm.
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by hilux 2y ago
This is the former Westinghouse talent contest? Oh my - how far they've fallen.
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by hilux 2y ago
"To each according to his needs [and oppressions]?" I'm sure Karl Marx is dancing a polka in his grave.
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by hilux 2y ago
GOOG perhaps for 10% of my previous volume, and some of that is just muscle memory. The new Google "AI results" seem cluttered and confusing. ChatGPT is vastly more helpful, and perplexity may be even better, although I haven&#x27
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by hilux 2y ago
I'm not sure what constitutes an "original source" in your eyes. The article quotes several people by name (including the current DA), and refers to specific cases.
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by hilux 2y ago
You're focusing too much on this specific article. My point is about this type of coverage in general, even on topics that might seem "solved" or "obvious" to you. And even this article in the JPost is a useful refe
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by hilux 2y ago
Well, in the specific case of the Supreme Court and the Senate and House, I think a lot of those people enthusiastically embrace racism. But yeah, "racism is solved" is their justification, at least until Trump II when then can dr
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by hilux 2y ago
This article doesn't mention it, but Hannah Neeleman's father-in-law David Neeleman has founded several airlines, and is worth several hundred million dollars. So she can afford to enjoy whatever unusual lifestyle she wishes, in a
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by hilux 2y ago
You may know that. The Jews may know that. But every reminder and corroboration is vitally important. In my experience, a HUGE proportion of white gentiles don't believe that racism and anti-Semitism exist. Yes, if they vote Dem, they
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by hilux 2y ago
"New evidence"?! Wasn't _Born to Run_ a global best-selling book on this exact subject just a few years ago?
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by hilux 2y ago
Cotton production uses immense amounts of water. It may not contain plastic micro-beads, but it is a eco-disaster.
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by hilux 2y ago
I've never heard that linear algebra was "hard to understand" - relative to calculus or other math classes. If there's a recent trend of linear-algebra content going viral, that could be because it is (often promoted as)
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by hilux 2y ago
I went down this rabbit hole myself. It's hard because advertising drowns out authentic reviews. Many of the reviewed bags are ridiculously overpriced. That money is spent in marketing wars. A classic US-made(!) bag that doesn't h
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by hilux 2y ago
This is clickbait nonsense. You can't assume that two hi-tech items with the same name are equivalent. The quality of electronics from Temu has been so consistently horrendous that I don't even look any more. I do still buy non-el
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by hilux 2y ago
It follows that all of our other cost-plus highly distributed military contracts must also be a massively inefficient waste of taxpayer money - compared to a SpaceX approach. (We knew that, but it's an unavoidable implication from this
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by hilux 2y ago
It's like chess grandmasters - they just keep getting younger and smaller!
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by hilux 2y ago
Maybe. My guess is that next they will outlaw the word "knife" along with all its synonyms. A surgeon or chef will say ... hand me that thing, the they, that has sharpness.

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