Mesmerizing - whether you like / use pencils … or not.
How Faber Castell make pencils.
(I used to use their slide rules - but pencils - never - but that might be changing now).
Two things all cell phone users should be aware of;
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headphones are available to save broadcasting the voice of whoever you are talking to all over the locale.
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all cell phones include a microphone so you don’t have to scream into the phone to be heard by the other party.
Rate of US abortions drops to lowest level since 1973.
I don’t believe it - and The Guardian should know better.
Thanks to Rethuglicans making abortions illegal, it has all been pushed underground at best - and those terminations are not included in the analysis.
Boris Johnson ‘surprised’ by level of Irish border checks.
I KNOW Boris is not that stupid.
Dirty Secrets
A Ted Talk from Nick Hanauer - rebel VC ... if that isn't an oxymoron!
Interesting that he concludes his talk with 5 rules of thumb behind 'the new economics' that answers the question. Interesting because all 5 are some of the building bricks (tenets) of the Pillars of the People First Business Equation.
App that cancels subscriptions launches in UK.
Count me in.
Badda Bing Badda Boom
Felicity Huffman’s $15,000 is chump change — America’s biggest bribery scandal is a whole lot worse.
It seems that had Felicity bribed with more money there would have been no issue.
Your lesson kids … don’t skimp on your bribes - you might be locked up.
”Give a man a gun and he can rob a bank. Give a man a bank and he can rob the world."
Tyrell Wellick (character from Mr. Robot)
… many thanks for the research @nitinkhanna
”An agent will be with you shortly - please don’t hang up.”
”Your estimated wait time is 1 hour and 15 minutes …”
I hung up.
I am still very pissed off about this. … and still don’t know whether to call them on it.
Well - that’s a bugger isn’t it …
BOOM!
Apparently if you want to buy an iphone 11 on apple.com … you at some point get taken to .
Didn’t even know Movie Pass was still around.
The 14 Characteristics of Fascism, by Lawrence Britt, Spring 2003
Good … ( is that the right word? ) … list!
via David Frier
Whole Foods To Cut Health-Care Benefits For 1,900 Part-Time Employees Starting Next Year
… the downside of employee driven healthcare - and a stab in the back for the ‘gig’ economy.
You could have 4 jobs of 15 hours each - a 60 hour work week - and not be eligible for any of the workplace healthcare programs.
As @smokey says - this after this makes it even worse.
The LA Times has pointed out that Bezos was the first to break his pledge - less than a month later.
Me - I continue to wait for positive action of proof.
Singular Plurals…