Bruce Munro: ‘Waterlilies’ (2012) Location: Longwood Gardens, Pennsylvania
100 shining colorful waterlilies made of 65,000 recycled CDs float at Longwood Gardens in Kennett Square, Pennsylvania creating a light installation.
That is a scam.
They'll also have you send the devices to a tertiary location for "reformatting" and never return them.
If you applied for a job like this and gave them your personal information during the application process, your next steps are the following if you live in America;
Go to FTC.gov and file an ID theft report, because now they have your information and a picture of your ID and will not hesitate to use it.
Contact all major Credit Bureaus and lock your shit down.
Check your credit once a month for the rest of your life.
Take any calls from an unknown source with a grain of salt.
Once you fall for one scam, they'll try others on you. You will receive calls claiming to be anyone and everyone, and some of them will come through with your area code.
This is called Spoofing; when you use a third party program to hide behind someone elses number. When I was in car sales, we used this to harass people into coming onto the lot. Super easy and very difficult to do anything legally against. No, your phone company cannot stop those calls.
Side note; if you meet someone online and u vibe with them, and they tell you they're in a dangerous situation and need you to send a phone to them so they can get out of it, they're lying.
They are always lying.
Do not give a gift to someone unless you've shaken their hand, in person.
“Everywhere in these days men have, in their mockery, ceased to understand that the true security is to be found in social solidarity rather than in isolated individual effort. But this terrible individualism must inevitably have an end, and all will suddenly understand how unnaturally they are separated from one another. It will be the spirit of the time, and people will marvel that they have sat so long in darkness without seeing the light.”
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
Assortment of mixed generations of the apple ipod shuffles + nanos in clusters of like-colors.
This is a subject that really interests me because I (28 years old) had computer classes in grade school where learning how to efficiently type was a big focus. As a result I have a very high WPM (words per minute) count and am an excellent touch typer.
However, I've heard that they started phasing out computer classes in a lot of schools because it's assumed that kids/teenagers already know how to use a computer in this day and age. But smartphones are more popular than computers now, and as result a lot of Gen Z/Gen Alpha kids are able to text very quickly but their typing skills aren't as good.
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