Maybe The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas, by Ursala McGuin?

He doesn’t just test them, he tests them exhaustively and (in shade tree fashion) scientifically.

Community colleges often hire teachers solely based on applicable experience. For K-12, teaching without a degree may be possible depending on the demand and where you live.

Totally agree. For-profit platforms won’t exist if they can’t generate revenue, either from ads or subscriptions. If I use a commercial offering I expect to pay for it.

If you use the platform and sidestep paying, you’re just foisting the expense off on paying customers.

I like Jabra.

Precise time came to humanity with the railroad. Until then no one cared very much about whether it was 11:35 PM or “around midnight” or “way past bedtime.” Train timetables were the first thing that made minutes matter to the general public.

Mariners cared about time and preferred to be as precise as possible, but did pretty well telling local time by the stars. Finding longitude was a problem until good clocks came aling though.

We do, it’s called Universal Coordinated Time. The time is now 00:37 UTC, or 16:37 Pacific Daylight Savings Time.

My mother has been dead for many years, so now I can safely say that she was an awful cook. I still can barely eat vegetables.

It’s not on a browser as such. I use the Google News app on my phone. I can’t believe it would block anything at all.

The ad blocker fight is getting really strange. I don’t use a blocker, but this morning I couldn’t read an article on google news without disabling my ad blocker which I don’t have.

Maybe overpopulation is a factor?

Rheostats are two wire devices, think of them as current controlling. Potentiometers are three wire devices, typically used as voltage dividers. They are not the same.

I’m going to be a challenge. Please be patient with me, and with each other.

What’s wicked about her? Sounds like a pretty good offer, either way.

I got a complete set of dishes, settin for six, from grocery rewards as recently as the early 2000’s. It was from Safeway I think. Not long after that they did cookware, and I got a few pieces before they stopped the program.

I eventually gave away the dishes, but still have the cookware. It’s pretty good stuff.

An Egyptian scarab.

You say it’s priced at 85K, repairs 15K. Would you buy it if it was in perfect condition for 100K? If so, buy it. If not, walk.

I don’t know what your local market is like, but in most places a seller won’t entertain that much price reduction.

Worm food.

When I take my dog outside and he shuffles around looking for the perfect spot to crap, I tell him to “get with the program.” He seems to understand that I’m becoming impatient.

Something like that happened to me how once. I was at an art gallery and asked if photography was ok. The guard said sure, and flash was ok as well, so I flashed him and he threw me out.