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You can't really blame the woman, something so old doesn't shout "Hey I'm worth hundreds of thousands!" to most people. But I am glad people at the depot recognized its value and didn't actually recycle it.
You can blame her. I can't count the reports of such cases, where they throw away valuable things, just because they're not all chrome and shiny.
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On what do you base that assertion?
http://cleanbayarea.com/portfolio/e-waste-recycling/ "Our electronic waste pick-up service is free for all residents of Northern California, CA." OP is likely assuming they operate like my local dump/recycling center where they record my drivers license info every time I visit and drop something off (electronic or otherwise). Believe it or not they used to physically write down the data, now they swipe. Locally they…
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Please do not equivocate PTSD with offence. That is not what "triggered" means.
"Triggered" has become something of an Internet meme these days (via tumblr). That's what he is referring to. He was using quotes to highlight the irony.
Yes, mocking trauma and abuse suffers has become an Internet meme. That doesn't make it considerate behaviour.
> That's what he is referring to.
I know.
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"Triggered" has become something of an Internet meme these days (via tumblr). That's what he is referring to. He was using quotes to highlight the irony.
> "Triggered" has become something of an Internet meme these days (via tumblr). Yes, mocking trauma and abuse suffers has become an Internet meme. That doesn't make it considerate behaviour. > That's what he is referring to. I know.
I did go to a garage sale in the Bay Area where an older couple there had the manuals for an Altair 8800 which they kept because they thought they might have some historical value to someone but threw out the hardware because it wasn't really useful to anyone. But over the years it is very hard to know what will and what won't become collectible in the future.
Back before Jobs turned Apple around you would be lucky to get $500 for an old Apple I, after all who wants the first computer of a failed computer company? :-)
Maybe ten years from now, old cellphones that had removable batteries will be in high demand, because a sun flare blew out all the modern ones. shrug
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You can blame her. I can't count the reports of such cases, where they throw away valuable things, just because they're not all chrome and shiny.
What? 99% of electronics from the 80s and 90s are utterly worthless. As far as the odds go, she was entirely correct to throw the thing out.
This isn't exactly a mystery. They know where the woman lives.
From the article:
"In the future, he said, he'll be more insistent about getting donors' contact information."
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> "Triggered" has become something of an Internet meme these days (via tumblr). Yes, mocking trauma and abuse suffers has become an Internet meme. That doesn't make it considerate behaviour. > That's what he is referring to. I know.
You have the causal chain incorrect. It isn't mocking trauma and abuse sufferers, it's mocking people who equate minor inconveniences with trauma and abuse.
Mocking a concept genuinely helpful for sufferers of trauma simply because of its perceived misuse hurts trauma sufferers and helps nobody.