fatherfatpants

It seems like you enjoy working on a show that airs on PBS. What are the challenges of making such an amazing show given the funding challenges that can come along? Is there something that we (the general public) can do beyond donating to our favorite station?

Wait... Nordstrom retail employees make commission?

This is pretty common (although to a lesser extreme). It wasn’t until college that I learned about the internment of Japanese (both native born and immigrants) here in the US. Even then it was phrased in such a way as it was for their own protection.

It’s blatantly obvious now that it was a racial fear/terror thing but that isn’t what we thought.

Germany has done it right if I am to understand it. They teach about the atrocities of the Nazi party as a lesson on what not to do and to push people to be humble about it.

I can’t speak to why the Japanese are insisting on not teaching it but, at some point, they need to face the reality of their history.

I’ll bite:

1. Who reads fine print anyways?
2. What asshole salesman knowing what they needed this for allowed them to purchase something they clearly misunderstood?

You are right. I’ve worked in IT and in call centers and I get it. Some customers can be absolute shits when it comes to these kind of things. In situations like this I can firmly place blame on the “big print” documentation (either ads or top of document) being really misleading.

There was also the question somewhere about how this relates to net neutrality. It’s tangential but it’s there. Lax regulation of the internet by the FCC has allowed for these business practices. Killing net neutrality effectively continues the lax regulation. By bundling two very public events (wrong or not) they are raising public awareness of other problems the FCC should be handling.