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Dish Network Customer Service

Or not.

I have been on hold for 37 minutes. At 24 minutes the repeating music was interrupted to tell me that “We are experiencing an extremely high call volume.”

What this means is that Dish has chosen to provide poor service by understaffing their customer service.

As if my time, other customers time, is worth nothing. bo

Happy that we are already using Fubo for the Women’s World Cup because Dish does not carry our local Fox Channel. Dish is on their last legs in this household.

NB: It is now 48 minutes.

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Mount Pisgah Lichen Project

The Mount Pisgah Arboretum in Lane County, Oregon, USA, recently completed a lichen survey.

“The Mount Pisgah Lichen Inventory Project contributed significant data, offering one of the most thorough biogeographical accounts of lichen species at a single site in the Willamette Valley.”

Read the full report here: bit.ly/3HbPlOd (PDF)

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Link Post 2021-03-24

How To Talk About Anti-Asian Racism With Kids And Family – Code Switch : NPR

The Free Software Foundation: it’s time for a new beginning – Dries Buytaert

The Near-Magical Mystery of Quasiparticles – Quanta magazine

The American Obsession with Lawns – Krystal D’Costa  This post originally appeared on Scientific American and was published May 3, 2017. This article is republished on Pocket with permission.

Mississippi River Rescue Plan Called Too Big to Fail – Daniel Cusick: Scientific American

NFTs are a dangerous trap Seth Godin

Offshore Core – James Hankins: Law & Liberty Includes some discussion of the Columbia Core Curriculum

The Little Saildrone Survives and A Weak Tornado Hits Our Coast – Cliff Maas

Willful Blindness, Societal Rift & Death of the Dollar – Michael Leibowitz: RIA

Super Hostile Takeovers – Robin Hansen: Overcoming Bias

In the gut microbiome, at least, it’s nurture, not nature