lundi 1 février 2021

What to Do When Someone Mispronounces Your Name

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For most of my life, my name has been mispronounced or misspelled by seemingly everyone unfamiliar with its cultural relevance. Often they’ll replace it with something more common (Alicia) or something spelled similarly (Asia) without realizing their mistake. But constant mispronunciations (or the assignment of a…

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'Secret Shop' a Job Before Your Interview

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Perhaps the most frightening thing about starting a new job is not knowing whether you made the right decision. You could, for example, be baited and switched by an employer who lured you into a position with false promises, or suddenly feel pangs of buyer’s remorse once you realize that your old job offered a…

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The Out-of-Touch Adults' Guide To Kid Culture: Warning Signs

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This week, the internet is all about the possibility of great harm. Maybe it’s a hangover from the “just do whatever, who even cares anymore?” vibe of the past four years, but for whatever reason, all I see are blinking red danger signs, from financial Goliaths being owned by internet Davids, to bad game night guests,…

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See Earth's 'Mini-Moon' for the Last Time This Afternoon

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With everything else going on in 2020, you might have missed the story about the mysterious flying object that dropped into the Earth’s orbit in September 2020. Unsure of exactly what it was, it was referred to as “SO 2020" and considered a “mini-moon”—a term used to describe temporary satellites.

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Replace Twitter Ads With Your To-Do List

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macOS: I go to great lengths to avoid advertising around the web unless I really want to support the site or service I’m using. Besides, all of the big companies are probably profiting off my data anyway; do they really need my tiny little impression?

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