Absolutely love the COOP pillow too!

I’m from the North East so our proprietary eponym for them is “munchkins”

I loved the first 3 Burnout games. I HATED Paradise. I just greatly dislike open world racing games.

Because it’s not good at a single thing and yet tries to do everything. It’s slow, cumbersome, and poorly laid out in a way that discourages a productive workflow.

Microsoft rushed the hell out of it to ride that Zoom covid wave and never bothered to go back and figure out why not a single person you’ve ever met actually doesn’t mind it (nevermind likes it).

AOC backed an idea to build homes and the ln hand over ownership to tenant cooperatives or non-profit orgs. Seemed like a decent idea on the surface.

https://gothamist.com/news/rep-aoc-unveils-new-housing-plan-to-spur-more-than-1m-affordable-homes

Mortgage rates coming down is not the answer. It’ll only drive up demand while supply stays the same. There is a major need for more supply. People will reply with the number of vacant units, but vacancy is a broad measure that ignores things like a house currently being sold and going through the closing process.

The country, as a whole, needs something like 6.5 million more housing units to meet demand at which point prices would come down.

It’s unfortunately not going to happen without government (local or federal) intervention.

This Freakonomics episode focuses more on rentals but the basic concepts are the same:

https://freakonomics.com/podcast/why-rent-control-doesnt-work/

My wife is so excited for the snack wrap to come back.

Have to be honest…

I thought you were going to fool us with the “with ending” link.

That’s also the average looking 35 year old from that time period.

This has to be fake.

🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

The whole doctor bit was great.

lol indeed. Love VLC on my AppleTV. Plays stuff the native app from my NAS won’t play.

By annual ridership, the New York City Subway is the busiest rapid transit system in both the Western Hemisphere and the Western world, as well as the eleventh-busiest rapid transit rail system in the world.[18] The subway carried 1,793,073,000 riders in 2022.[6]: 2 [note 5] On October 29, 2015, more than 6.2 million people rode the subway system, establishing the highest single-day ridership since ridership was regularly monitored in 1985.[20]

The system is also one of the world’s longest. Overall, the system contains 248 miles (399 km) of routes,[10] translating into 665 miles (1,070 km) of revenue track[10] and a total of 850 miles (1,370 km) including non-revenue trackage.[11] Of the system’s 28 routes or “services” (which usually share track or “lines” with other services), 25 pass through Manhattan, the exceptions being the G train, the Franklin Avenue Shuttle, and the Rockaway Park Shuttle.

The NYC system was built a century ago and operates at an astonishing level considering its for one city and is so relatively inexpensive.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City_Subway#:~:text=By annual ridership%2C the New,carried 1%2C793%2C073%2C000 riders in 2022.

I’ll always send a quick text. I never need a reason for a no. If they say no, I thank them for their time and move on. Some people want more hours and are glad to take the shift, some want the day off. I understand both perspectives.

The real fear is when we have to put back the zero

#ZombieKissinger

Seems like the discourse has broken down to picking sides.

Hamas is a terrorist organization and does nothing to help the Palestinian people. Israel is indiscriminately leveling a city with absolutely zero regard for innocent lives.

Maybe this situation is full of nuance and grey areas that a single tweet or article or comic can’t fully encapsulate.

Anyone who fell for the scam and was a smug moron through it all deserves the fall out.

But also, the founder should be prosecuted for perpetrating a clear scam.

I’ve never even thought about the English sounding equivalent until now.

And now I don’t think I’ll ever be able to NOT think about it. God damn it.

Governments want that tax income. They want that business to boom. They don’t care about the side effects.