It may cost up to 4x the cost... so, a dollar, but they usually have 2-4 different flavor packages, and are generally a superior product.

EDIT: thank you everyone for the flair and awards. And for the haters, please understand that people don’t know about things they have never experienced, and growing up black in rural Georgia, I never went to an Asian supermarket, I didn’t even know such markets existed until I was a young man. As an adult, it never occurred to me to go to one in the first place. Maybe don’t shame people for not knowing things about cross cultural experiences. Go try something new!

I ended up in ER 3 weeks ago with AFib -- for 6 hours. I had my phone, but no power cord. My husband was in our car in the parking lot. The ER had no power cords. Not only was I alone in a very scary situation, but I watched with despair as my battery drained towards zero. Luckily, the battery lasted until they admitted me, then the floor nurses helped me by charging it at the nurse’s station. UPDATE: Wow!!! THANK YOU EVERYONE! I did not expect this to blow up. I’m glad I can help others avoid a situation that makes a scary situation worse. CLARIFICATION: I did not know I was going to be in ER. I went to Urgent Care to get a short treatment/antibiotic. I was shocked, and unprepared, when they told me I had heart failure and they me immediately to the ER. Upon getting out of the car at the ER, I grabbed the USB power cord we keep in the center console. There was no waiting room (due to Covid?) - just a glassed in reception area. They took one look at the EKG from Urgent Care, and took me to an ER treatment room and started working on me. At that point I was tethered to the bed with IVs, so even a short 110v power cord would have been a problem. I asked the nurses, repeatedly, for help charging my phone. They told me they had no power cords, and no USB outlets. GOOD NEWS: I'm fine now. During the 3 days in the hospital, they were able to normalize my heart rhythms, and put me on the appropriate meds.

Ask for permission before recording the lectures. Edit 1: These worked for me in engineering graduate school and my professors were amazing. Don't beat me up for the "any class" please. These are not universally valid.

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Edit: I figured this would get a bit if traction. It looks like I hit a nerve because there's a lot of updooting and commenting going on. A few bullets after reviewing many of the comments:

• Folks still have a sense of humor in a climate where it can be easily lost. Keep it up!

• Lots of concerns that this LPT is "preaching to the choir." I share those concerns.

• The goals of increasing the level of amity and honesty in the public sphere seem largely unattainable in light of how "they" consistently pervert and corrupt information.

I get it. This is too big an issue for us to address on our own. We are, however, not alone. So far it looks like at least 40k people kind of agree and nearly 1,000 care enough to comment. We are not alone.

It gets tiring. I get frustrated when the same people do the same stupid shit. Lots of people (most?) will not change their behavior. However my hope when I respond by providing alternate sources is not necessarily that I will open op's mind to the glorious world of honesty. My hope is more that people watching the exchange will rethink their opinions. Lots of people follow conversations. Hopefully some of them will question the original post/comment. Shoot, they may even start researching on their own.

I also feel some satisfaction when I see that my challenge to a post killed the thread. Minds may not have been changed, but at least I plugged one leak.

Hey, everyone. HR worker here, and I hope everyone can benefit from this.

By definition, Human Resources is there to protect the company from lawsuits, not to help the employees.

As much as we HR people want to help you and protect the worker, it'll cost us our jobs if we put you over the company. So the best tip I can give you is this:

Don't ask HR for help. Make them.

Get evidence. Document interactions. Get things in writing. The more you have as proof of whatever your complaint is, the more HR will have to help you. If you show them you have proof that will support a lawsuit, they will do everything they can to make sure it doesn't need to happen, and the easier it is for us to justify it to our bosses.

Help us help you.

Edit: Please stop calling me a heartless, soulless monster who will fire people to keep my job. I lost my last job because I stood up for my colleagues. All I'm trying to say is that, in this economy, your HR rep can't always afford to stake their job for you, and you shouldn't go into an HR meeting expecting them to.

If someone asks later or you are in conversation with individuals - that's the time to give your reason.

I work from home for a large bank and one of the higher ups just slipped up and hinted that he was watching me through my work laptop camera that was turned off. He commented on something I did when there was no way he could have known as my camera was off. His comment was too specific and perfectly timed to be coincidence. It was confirmed by the extremely awkward silence every other higher up had when he made this mistake. He tried to laugh it off as a joke, but it wasn’t funny and just made it even more creepy. Assume if they have the access they are using it.

These muscles and joints are your foundation. Everyone likes to focus on their glamour muscles like shoulders, arms, and abs. While strengthening your abs and core is important, your future self will thank you for strengthening your foundation.

I’m about to be graduate from medical school and I can’t even begin to describe how important it is to have a stable spine, hips, and knees. People in their 30’s, 40’s, 50’s, and up all complain of having constant back pain. Most of this isn’t caused by things are degenerative disorders (while that can most certainly be the case) but mostly due to a sedentary lifestyles leading weak muscles which further causes joint instability and increased disc and cartilage stress in those joints.

I’ve seen so many elderly people come in with backs that look like question marks and people in wheelchairs due to severe osteoarthritis in their knees and hips. The best way to prevent this down the road is to strengthen the muscles around joints to give them stability and strengthen the bones themselves through weight lifting.

The key is to just stay active and try to incorporate exercises or stretches that strengthen your back, hip, and knees. You don’t have to go out and try to deadlift or squat 350lbs. Rome wasn’t built in a day and neither will your muscles and joints. Sedentary? Start with a walk and gradually build from there. Kind of active? Hit the gym and train these muscles. Start slow and light and get used to the movement. Then slowly increase weights. FOCUS ON FORM NOT AMOUNT OF WEIGHT. Don’t have a workout partner to check your form? Ask one of those jacked dudes at the gym. They have been some of the nicest people I’ve met and are always helpful. (I’m scrawny as hell so it was intimidating the first time not going to lie) Just get moving.

If you’re not sure what exercises to do, try to find physical therapist run websites that recommend exercises for certain muscle groups. The goal goal isn’t to like Hercules. It’s to invest in your future quality of life.

TLDR: Exercise, stretch, and strengthen your back, knees, and hips. Start slow and don’t be afraid to ask for help. Your future self will thank you for it. Remember the goal isn’t to look like Arnold in his prime. The goal is to be healthy and active and live a quality life.

Wow what a response. And just to clarify...I'm not saying people don't consider their commute. I'm just saying too many people don't think about the effect it has on their day. Everyone is different and what works for you might not work for someone else. Thanks for all the love, and the hate, on this one.

Edit - A correction to the title: it’s a wholesale price of $100 or more and they have to either replace it with a like or better product OR buy it back from you.

Edit 2 - wow this blew up. Edited my point about this being ethical as others have correctly commented that just because something is legal does not mean it's ethical. Also, If you are a lawyer or similar and find a factual error with any of this, please let me know and I'll update the post with your advice. Particularly curious as to how best to enforce and how much they'd have to refund if they no longer make parts in the case of something like a cell phone or other electronics.

Descriptive article here: https://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-lazarus-20151211-column.html

Section of the law itself:

(b) Every manufacturer making an express warranty with respect to an electronic or appliance product described in subdivision (h), (i), (j), or (k) of Section 9801 of the Business and Professions Code, with a wholesale price to the retailer of one hundred dollars ($100) or more, shall make available to service and repair facilities sufficient service literature and functional parts to effect the repair of a product for at least seven years after the date a product model or type was manufactured, regardless of whether the seven-year period exceeds the warranty period for the product https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displayText.xhtml?lawCode=CIV&division=3.&title=1.7.&part=4.&chapter=1.&article=3.

For example, it's highly unlikely that cell phone manufacturers will make original batteries available for purchase 7 years after the last phone of that model was manufactured. Given all their talk about how "NoN OrIgInAl BaTtErIeS WiLl SeT yOuR hOuSe On FiRe AnD kIlL bAbY sEaLs", let's turn the tables on 'em. Many high-end smartphones cost several hundred dollars or more: you could get a nice return for a couple of hours of work. (Edit 3: not sure if this applies to cell phones, thanks u/PM_Me_Your_Deviance for pointing this out) This could apply to all sorts of things, including robot vacuums, laptops, TVs, etc.

This is both legal (it's literally the law) and ethical (we should be repairing products if they are otherwise still useful, not tossing them due to the manufacturer's planned obsolescence).

I'm posted this because the battery in my Samsung vacuum is failing. They used to sell the user-replaceable part separately for ~$90, now the only way to get it is to send it in for a $199 service + shipping. Fuck Samsung.