Not sure but my city refuses to tear some down old buildings for "historical prosperity. These aren’t even nice buildings, they’re all condemed generic concrete blocks.

I’d just play it safe, avoid anything that could remotely be considered “suspicious”.

If you can bring your own media, bring a few offline shows and movies, books or what ever else you like.

Otherwise stick to nonral websites.

Ramsey has some views that don’t align with everyone. The important thing to keep in mind is that America is so diverse, your neighbor could be a different religion and most of us (despite what media will lead you to belive) don’t give a fuck.

If I were to re-work the advice to be less extreme, I’d say don’t put your self in a finacial struggle trying to help your parents.

I will second this, please buy a thermometer or two. I like the ones that tell you the min/max temp its recorded. (Random example, never bought this particular one, check reviews etc.

I looked at multiple sources to double check the correct temperature, many agree that the freezer should be at 0°F (-18°C)). Water freezes (and by extention most everything else) at 32°F (0°C), siginficatly higher than the recommended 0. Here’s the sceinific Wikipedia article about why, TLDR: not every food freezes at 0°C, so set freezer low enough everything will freeze.

I found this article that goes over all kinds of food storage info (fridge and how the produce drawers work, freezer temp, pantry etc.)

https://www.energy.gov/energysaver/refrigerator-freezer-use-and-temperature-tips

While you wait for your thermometer, ensure nothing is blocking the freezer vents (you said you did that) and turn that thing up.

The non-scientific, not recommended check; Your icecream should roughly be something in between a rock and butter. If its a rock, its too cold, and its its butter/soup its too warm.

Take a jet in jeans to get your beans!

I dont know anymore, been here too long.

Thanks, I forgot about those. My brain was still in the early days when it was basically a kindle, a nook or questionable knock offs.

Is there a way to get hoopla on an e-reader? Assuming no… edit, forgot about the android ereaders. I would go for that + hoopla.

If you’re reading on a tablet or android e-ink, I’d probably go with Hoopla. If I had a Kindle, I’d have to go K Unlimited*. As for content, Kindle probably has more [citation needed], but hoopla has alot.

E-ink beats all for reading text, personally I can’t read books on a LCD screen. Tablet is great for picture books and comics.

Hoopla can be gotten free via library card, so that immediately gives then a +1 over Amazon.

Amazon has so many negatives, I hate to give them more money.

This next part is not really related to the question, so here’s the TLDR: personal anecdote about reading free public domain ebooks…

* I actually do have a kindle, but don’t do Unlimited.

Personally, I have found some great sources of public domain e-books. Reading classics for the sake of enjoyment and not a class has been great. I’ve found Most English books in the 1850-1920 era are easy to read. Sometimes I have to look up an odd word, but that not any different than new books.

I do buy a few modern ebooks I want, but probably 70% of my reading these days is free public domain stuff.

The ones I know of include;

Project Gutenberg - very large collection, formatting may vary. Some books are just walls of text with 0 line breaks or paragraph indents.

Standardebooks.org - takes public domain books from places such as Gutenberg and turns them into well formated ebooks.

Bookwise.io - more public domain books, but a web-reader formated specifically for mobile devices.

Lastly, if you or anyone reading this does decide to go the free-ebook route or buys them regularly - Calibe is the iTunes of eBook management. (But FOSS) https://calibre-ebook.com/

that or if they have the company card

(and are allowed to use it for meals every now and them)

No problem

If they insist of covering their tip; you can sleep knowing you tried, and they can sleep knowing they can pay for their own food.

That is an intretresting view.

I understand, and respect the sentiment. However, in a co-worker dynamic, it makes sense everyone pays for what they order. I think they would feel guilty if you were buying them lunch. If my co-worker payed for my lunch, I’d want to buy for them next time. Putting a bunch of colleagues in an “I owe you” situation (intentional or not) probably isn’t the best idea.

I think you could offer to cover tip for the table and be within reason.

If they were making more money than yourself, would you expect them to cover part of your bill? I think most men would say no, you pay for what you eat.

For a birthday or something, go ahead and push it a little more, but don’t refuse when they return the favor (assuming they are decent people).

The fact they want to split the check is a big step from the steryotype of women expecting the man to cover the bill. You’re not their wallet, and if they treat you like it, run.

No, this is Patrick!

Yup and the all negative reviews are inexplicably removed.

If any physical store got a dangerous product, was made undeniably aware of the danger and continued to sell the product - they’d be in a lot of trouble.

I’d recommend looking on YouTube, “Life After Layoff” has some good interview advice. There’s many more, but that’s the one I remember right now.

Generally, the response should be related to you’re “professional life”, not your private one. They don’t care that you have 6 brothers and sisters and like to hike - your looking for a job, not a date. If your job happened to be for a national park baby sitting children, then your personal life just became much more relevant.

This question can be used to naturally lead into the “where do you see your self in 5 years” question, by talking about some of your career goals (if relevenat). Let’s say your goal is to be a park ranger, and the job your appling is to go around the park cleaning up - that’s a reasonable jump. If your planning to leave the job after a bit, don’t tell them anything to make it obvious.

If you can bring relevant past expirances of things you did (not just job title) into the conversation that’s good. Maybe you used to work at the local park keeping it clean from the local teens, advocated for trashbins to be installed and you want to continue taking care of nature on a larger scale.

Obviously those examples are completely made up, but including expirances to your responces can make a huge difference.