If anyone is in the NYC area there's a huge store called Bingers Bargain Bins that stocks returns and overstocked items from Amazon and other retailers. They have a cool model: on Fridays inventory gets restocked and all items are $7, and the price goes down by $1 each day until everything is $1 on Tuesdays (store is closed Wed & Thu).
They did a show on this place on the Travel Channel I think.
It was pretty cool because the people who run it are pretty smart. Every day they change the locations of items so people can't monopolize certain items and it forces people to actually dig to find stuff.
I've also seen several online places who will sell you Amazon returns by the pallet. You can choose a broad, general category like "electronics" and most of the time you have no idea what you're getting since they wrap all the stuff up.
There's Youtube channels of people who buy this stuff, bring it to their warehouse, then unpack it and sort it and then they sell most of it on CL, Ebay or other marketplaces.
The secondary market for a lot of this stuff is still very active.
Those TikTok videos are usually produced or at least approved by the marketing and recruiting arms of those companies, and don't usually match employees' real day to day experience
This was a popular thing to do in ye olde commodore 64 days, because you could cycle the background color easily in basic, and nobody thought yet that a video game could trigger epilepsy
(honestly, I'm a bit skeptical about this theory even today, but will defer to the typical opinion on this matter, not being an epilepsy expert)
That’s real. I once wrote a quick & dirty bookmarklet to disable all GIF animation on a page because even fairly unremarkable-to-most-of-us GIFs are uncomfortable for an epileptic friend. It is still on https://alanhogan.com/bookmarklets
I wonder if it's better for people with epilepsy to have a simple and more robust solution by getting a monitor that has low refresh rate or limited colors than to try to police all the internet and applications from ever showing flashing colors.
They may and if I had epilepsy then I'd look to do the same, but that won't absolve us of the need to take care so that people without special equipment don't need to worry.
Where I live near downtown Atlanta I'm also seeing 3-4x the normal bike traffic. We don't have very good bike lanes here so most cyclists are just riding in traffic or on sidewalks.
It feels like Atlanta wants to bike so badly; we just don't have the built infrastructure yet.
I hope this will happen soon. NYC passed a green roof law in Nov. 2019 that requires all new or extensively renovated buildings to install gardens, urban agriculture, or solar on their roofs.
https://www.insider.com/new-york-city-store-sells-overstock-...