Ongoing developments
Remember how a few weeks ago I mentioned no one seemed to be talking about the higher-ed bubble the way they did about the mortgage crisis? Consider that oversight corrected.
The other day I made a donation to our local food bank. When I went to their website I saw they had a program with Amazon where you could order foodstuffs on their Wish List to be shipped directly to them. I figured this made more sense as not only would my donation be spent directly on food but it would save time by sending the foodstuffs directly to them and Amazon would be paying the credit card processing fee (as well as the shipping).
The downside was that I saw what was on their Wish List. There was some understandable stuff like cereal and tuna and peanut butter but also a LOT of small, prepackaged items like mac and cheese, Chef Boyardee, and Dinty Moore. There's probably a reason they want so much single-serve stuff but I couldn't help thinking of the enormous waste of that as opposed to family size containers of, well, healthier food. Granted, I'm not going to be able to buy bundles of produce online, and perhaps that's also not desirable since the distribution of said foods needs to be planned out due to a short shelf life. But it just seems kind of a downside all around that people who need cheap good food are getting expensive, crappy food instead that creates pounds of waste.
Holograms are developing rapidly. It's telling to see where the earliest applications are being used, rather like how the telephone was originally conceived as a business product.
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The other day I made a donation to our local food bank. When I went to their website I saw they had a program with Amazon where you could order foodstuffs on their Wish List to be shipped directly to them. I figured this made more sense as not only would my donation be spent directly on food but it would save time by sending the foodstuffs directly to them and Amazon would be paying the credit card processing fee (as well as the shipping).
The downside was that I saw what was on their Wish List. There was some understandable stuff like cereal and tuna and peanut butter but also a LOT of small, prepackaged items like mac and cheese, Chef Boyardee, and Dinty Moore. There's probably a reason they want so much single-serve stuff but I couldn't help thinking of the enormous waste of that as opposed to family size containers of, well, healthier food. Granted, I'm not going to be able to buy bundles of produce online, and perhaps that's also not desirable since the distribution of said foods needs to be planned out due to a short shelf life. But it just seems kind of a downside all around that people who need cheap good food are getting expensive, crappy food instead that creates pounds of waste.
Holograms are developing rapidly. It's telling to see where the earliest applications are being used, rather like how the telephone was originally conceived as a business product.
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