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Catholic. US Marine Infantryman. Structural Engineer.
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Went back to 1 more lot. We pretended to be newlyweds just for fun. See if someone would offer a deal.
I don't think either one of us realized that would be our first date. A used car lot in Queens.
A few months later, we weren't pretending to be newlyweds. 15 years ago today.
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A grey January Friday. I stood up from my desk, flipped off the light, put my coat on, and started to leave the office.
The girl in the cubicle next to me asked if had any big plans for the weekend. Typical office chit-chat.
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Just a reminder that per the FDA, the birds on the left are festering cesspools that harbor disease and those on the right are perfectly sanitary and fit for human consumption.
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Nothing really. Going to watch some football. And I want to go look at some used cars.
I had just moved to NYC a few months ago, and a car would be useful.
"Oh, my family's never had a car." She was from the Bronx. City girl.
"I've always been curious to learn about them."
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You can come along if you want...
I walked up the stairs from the subway and entered the street. There were a bunch of used car lots on this stretch of Northern Boulevard in Queens.
She was waiting there.
We looked at a few cars. Nothing good. Grabbed a sandwich at a deli.
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The craziest thing about the Tucker interview is how people are blown away by Putin eloquently discussed Russian history for half an hour.
This should be normal behavior.
A head of state should be able to give an impromptu college level lecture on his nation's history.
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@laurastoobusy
Yes. She had a license (she needed one for work) she had just never owned a car.
When I met her I don't think she had ever driven other than lessons and her road test.
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Reviewing a historic structure. To properly understand it, I am studying the 1937 steel code. It is 20 pages long.
Our current steel code is over 2000 pages long.
They built the Empire State Building with the 20 pager. It's still standing.
There's a lesson in there somewhere.
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@WMCHerrington
No!
I did go to a different dealer a week or so later and got a good deal on a used Malibu from a used car salesman who looked like Archie Bunker though.
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My HS had a dress code. One of the arguments was you behave the way you are dressed.
I agree with that premise.
When I was a kid, cops wore slacks and dress shirts w/ a duty belt.
Today, cops are tacticool.
I wonder if that affects their behavior?
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I have a form on my business website where you can contact me for help with a project.
Got an email last night.
It was a kid.
He asked his teacher when am I ever going to use trig? Teacher told him call an engineer & write a report.
Gave him some info; hope he gets an A 🤣
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Finished up my taxes this morning.
First full year being self-employed.
I keep telling myself it's the same thing...had I worked for someone, they'd have deducted the money every week. I never would have seen it.
It sure doesn't feel that way when you write one check though.
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So, gentlemen....
Let's say you decide to tweet a picture your wife is in.
And let's, for the sake of argument, say that tweet ends up getting a half million views.
MAKE SURE YOUR WIFE LIKES THE PICTURE!
(I've only been married 15 years...still getting the hang of this...)
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I've been fortunate to have traveled a lot. Mostly with the military.
Most places "felt foreign."
But in places where a large fraction of my DNA is from (per 23 & Me) I felt "at home."
Sounds hokey, but I wonder if there is a "genetic memory" for geography?
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Salsa jars should be shaped like this so you can scoop salsa out of the bottom with a broken chip (which are all that are left when you get to the bottom of the jar) without your fingers getting dirty touching the rim of the jar.
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@littlebillie
If you listen to the right, it's the greatest thing for freedom since the Declaration of Independence.
If you listen to the left, it means corporations are going to start putting plutonium in your dog food.
Imo, it will make very little difference to us but lawyers will get $.
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You can go anywhere you want if you have a Hi-Viz vest on.
No one will say anything to you.
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My wife has had bad luck of late buying clothes on line. Nothing fits so she sends it back.
She says the sizing charts have proven unreliable.
So she just came to me and said, "Am I thinner or fatter than the model in the picture."
🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩
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What is it that gives tomato vines that wonderful smell?
Not the fruit, the vines.
Pruning tomato plants this time of year on a hot day is such an enjoyable task because of that smell.
Must be an essential oil or something.
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My political views in 2016 vs. now
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I got out of the Marines 25 years ago today.
A lifetime ago and yesterday. Time flies.
That's me in front of my squad, training in Korea.
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Once asked an old electrician what was the biggest change he'd seen in 40 yrs in the trade.
He didn't think about it longer than 1/2 a second, but his answer surprised me.
"Cordless drills."
Really?
"Production SKYROCKETED once you didn't have to turn every screw by hand."
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The right hates Big Pharma, but loves Big Ag.
The left loves Big Pharma, but hates Big Ag.
Neither realizes that Bayer and Monsanto are literally the same thing.
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Does anybody actually read the 5 pages of stories before the recipe??
People who write recipe blogs, take note!
We want: list of ingredients. Instructions.
That's it.
The smell of your Aunt Sally's bread stuffing on Thanksgiving morn can be written about someplace else.
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Did anything ever happen with that bridge collapse in Baltimore?
I feel like if I were president, I'd be showcasing progress made daily, with the goal of a temporary reopening in Oct.
If I were running against the president: daily press conferences highlighting lack of progress
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If it wasn't for Twitter, I never would have known there's a whole subculture out there that thinks shorts are unbecoming for a man.
Literally every man I've ever known, except old men and a few who were super self-concious of their chicken legs, wears shorts in the summertime.
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Midwestern boys will be unimpressed, but I'm pretty happy with my row of corn and little chicken coop on a 1/4 acre in whats effectively a suburb of NYC.
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Would people be angry if some guy advised young men to focus on their family more than their career?
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Leaning over the fence talking to my 96 yo neighbor the other day.
He says he doesn't understand why "kids these days" are always running around the neighborhood exercising? Why don't they just do some work?
(I had just gotten back from a run)
BASED
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@malialalaplasty
@Brandon93Smith
That sounds more believable to me.
She knows she has a sweet no-show job, but she's pranking dad to get his candid reaction to "I have a passion for structural steel" for the lols on TikTok.
If not, hoo boy, are we in more trouble than I thought!
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One thing I've noticed in all this IQ discussion:
People with high verbal ability tend to underestimate the intelligence of those with high math ability.
People with high math ability tend to underestimate the intelligence of those with high verbal ability.
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@SpiritofPines
I would rather clean barns than work with those people.
And it's not even close...
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I see so many people tweeting a picture of a gorgeous structure w/ the caption "Architects/ engineers, what's stopping you from building this?"
Every single client I have ever had ever has 2 instructions. Make it:
Fast
Cheap
No one wants to build it. That's what's stopping us
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Today's haul.
Not going to feed the world, but not bad considering I live on a small plot, within a city, and I can walk to a train that will have me in Manhattan in a little over an hour.
I'll take it.
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People say that the food is causing a lot of health problems these days.
I'm am 80's kid.
I grew up on a steady diet of Cap'n Crunch, Hostess Cupcakes, FlaVor Ice & Kraft Macaroni & Cheese washed down with Hi-C Ecto Cooler.
It ain't just the food. There's more to the story...
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@FarLeftWatch
@JackPosobiec
Yes, a towering memorial day we can carve that one name in very large letters.
May it never be forgotten
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If you ever advocated for the ostracism of the unvaccinated, please stop pretending you would have acted heroically in 1930's Germany.
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Is there anyone who was watching the past 4 years who is waking up this morning and JUST NOW thinking, "Biden isn't all there."?
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@longstoryfarms
Sure does.
(If I took her used car shopping while courting, think of how romantic the places I take her after 15 years of marriage must be...)
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Can someone explain what's so good about Dunkin?
Your typical gas station has better coffee/ equal donuts.
Also it's from Mass, so -1000 right out of the gate.
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We don't have central a/c.
(Very few did 30 yrs ago.)
It's routinely above 85 and very humid in this area.
Fans & a portable window unit in a bedroom if it's real bad.
But if we have people over, wife & I always have the talk, what are we going to do? No one will accept this.
The current expectation of full central HVAC and A/C as a basic need is a hard to deny example of recent rises in living standards.
1985, many northern houses had zero A/C. Many in Southeast only had a window unit, or "swamp cooler" in the Southwest.
Unthinkable now.
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@thompsontll4020
@ariesisking
I was just about to say anyone who feels the need to defend themselves or their actions by saying "I'm not a bad person" is probably a bad person...
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My 96 yo neighbor is watching the eclipse from his yard....with binoculars.
Exactly zero F's given.
Gotta admire that.
If I make it to 96, I hope I'm running negative in the F's department, tbh.
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@PatrickHeizer
@jeremykauffman
A very large fraction of this is fraud.
The remainder is people like me who realized they could efficiently WFH & decided to work for ourselves at reduced overhead and not corporations. I received no govt $.
Unmotivated people did not get govt cash & start a new business.
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At some level, if you dress like you're at war....
Even in major urban areas this was the case. Basic uniform.
The cop at my local farmers market in my little town just now had 3 mags and body armor on.
You can't tell me the Bronx is more dangerous now than it was in the 80s.
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So, the real question on everybody's mind:
If Civil War breaks out in Texas, will I still need to file my income taxes by April 15th, or can I get an extension?
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Is it too early to take the turkey out of the freezer?
We're not eating until 2.
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My wife and I have the same conversation every year.
Make sure we have a salad.
No one is coming to a BBQ for salad.
People will want the option.
Anyone who is interested in that option has been waiting all year for this day when they can splurge on ribs and not eat salad.
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@maggie_mae_mour
I am extremely confused by replies here and on the OP's TL.
What difference does the political views of our military who gave all make?
I saw photos of male and female Marines holding Afghan children. Both filled me with pride. Do some feel different?
Semper Fi & God bless
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Always call people by their names if you can remember them.
Not talking about acquaintances.
I'm talking about the clerk at the grocery store who checks you out twice a week, the mailman, etc.
They appreciate it.
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How absolutely miserable of a person do you need to be that you were looking so forward to getting pizza at Costco, and this experience was completely ruined for you by a crying child?
You literally can’t control whether your infant cries or not and it is so stinking stressful because you KNOW there are women exactly like this in the store hating you for simply existing in public and having to perform an errand (that you likely already don’t want to be doing),
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I am very grateful that the little girl who lives down the block from me convinced her father to put this sign up.
Had I been out for a walk this morning and seen the snake, and not been forewarned, I very well may have gotten scared.
Well done, young lass.
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I'm convinced one of the best things we could do for the economy would be to abolish insurance.
(Even if it doesn't work, I'm willing to try the experiment for a few years.)
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Can we agree on 3 basic things?
1. The world needs both plumbers & lawyers.
2. You should do what you're good at/ interested in.
3. Median income for a profession is just that. Your results may wildly vary.
4. We will no longer tweet of this.
(OK, 4 basic things...)
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And I like that picture...she's laughing and I like when she laughs.
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Perhaps the "No one goes to trade school anymore." and the "How did that ship lose power at the worst possible time?" conversations are related.
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@JackPosobiec
@HawleyMO
At some point, the obvious stalling tactic "Thank you Senator..." gets old.
Take a deep breath.
Collect your thoughts. Count to 3 if you have to.
Then answer the question. Plainly.
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The fact that people find this shocking says more about us than him.
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@fxxfy
Some dude in Florida just watched this and said, "You think thats cool? Hold my beer Earl..."
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@Empty_America
If I've said this once, I've said this a gazillion times:
If you want to pay for load-bearing stone masonry, then I will design it and find someone to build it.
I have yet to get past the first clause of the conditional statement....
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I'm willing to send this several month long "Where is the Midwest?" debate into a pure chaos by offering up Buffalo as part of the Midwest.
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What a terrible tragedy in Baltimore.
Pray for the victims, what horrible way to due.
I'm sure the engineers never in their wildest dreams designed for that load. Bridge piers are typically designed for impact, but something that massive would have seemed like over design.
1/
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Pastor gave me the green light to get a youth group started in the parish.
The average age of Mass attendees in this area looks to be about 75 by my estimate. So we need some youth.
There's much work to be done. Prayers appreciated.
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Went to lock up the chickens before this storm hits.
They won't come out from under the trees. Not even for mealworms.
This NEVER happens. I try chasing them to the coop. No luck.
Stop
Listen - No birdsong.
Look - Squirrels hiding in crook of a branch.
There's a hawk around
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If I had a billion dollars, I'd do X.
If I was president, I'd do Y.
No, you wouldn't.
What makes you think you wouldn't succumb to the same temptations that the rich and powerful face?
The wise know this and don't seek power.
Do good where you are with what you have.
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I will never cease to be amazed by people who hire the low bid contractor..and then are subsequently shocked - Shocked!! - to find that they've hired the low bid contractor.
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@derekporter_
That particular article was London, but similar one for NYC in NYT.
tldr: Lack of conveniences they had grown used to in big city.
Winters are long, dark, and cold.
Unrealistic expectations.
See clip from NYT piece
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Pie is an acceptable breakfast between Thanksgiving and New Years.
Only a few more days to take advantage of this relaxation of the rules...
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This is the most horrifying video I've ever seen...
"What do you plan to do once you retire?"
Me:
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This is an absolute steal at $6.5m.
What's wrong with it?
If I was the type of person that had $6.5m lying around, I'd be instructing my people to contact their people, post-haste.
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So I just sent in the February payment and I am 25% of the way through my mortgage.
This does not fill me with a sense of accomplishment.
Looking at an amortization table fills me with a sense of rage.
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Some ladies were walking past my yard with their young kids. The kids saw my chickens & thought they were cool.
I brought one to the fence so they could pet it from the sidewalk. I explained where eggs came from. They were amazed.
I'm no homesteader, but that made it worth it.
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Dumb question:
Went for a run this morning. Weighed myself before & after. Lost 2 lbs.
I understand I burned calories (conservation of energy.) But there's also conservation of mass.
Where did the 2 lbs go? Its 27°, I can't believe I sweat a quart. T-shirt was just damp.
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Am I allowed to say that the song was kinda OKish, nothing great but I didn't hate it?
Or do I have to pick a side and let it determine my politics for the next 4 years?
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There's always that one day in April where you walk out and just say, "Wow....it got *green*."
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Funny being a structural engineer, looking up from my desk in my home office, seeing the tell tale sign of a framing problem starting to develop, following the load path, and finding there is in fact a problem in the basement.
Know what I'm doing the next several weekends...
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Was pretty sure this fig tree was dead.
Have been affectionately referring to it as the White Tree of Gondor all summer.
Never got around to pulling it.
We've had an interesting late season development in the past few days....
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Wife made 4 batches of ice cream today for BBQs later this week.
Quart of vanilla.
Pint each of strawberry, butter pecan, and rhubarb (My dad LOVES rhubarb. Saw some at Farmers Market today. It's pretty good actually. Recommend.)
Didn't even dent the egg stockpile. 🤣
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As head of the household, it is my solemn duty to sample several pieces of the Easter ham while carving it, to ensure it is well cooked and poses no threat to other family members.
I take this role, and the similar role with the Thanksgiving turkey, very seriously.
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If I saw this in a movie, I would have guffawed.
"Puh, Hollywood magic...lets see you do that in real life..."
One of the most iconic escapes from a flood
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I think hugelkultur is the German word for:
"I don't have time to actually repair my raised beds, and the rotting wood is still sort of holding back the soil, so I'm just going to leave it there and plant stuff on top of this pile of dirt."
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Nature's smarter than us.
Work with it. Not against it.
When the hawk left, right in the run they went.
And they got mealworms!
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Seriously, my favorite tweet is the "I built/ baked/ drew/ made this." poast.
I must have the most talented group of mutuals out there.
Just getting things done.
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All this DO/ "homestead" drama is so silly.
Almost makes me want to just leave everything behind, move to the woods and start a small farm.
Who's with me?
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In my former life as a corporate middle manager, it always amazed me that no one under the age of ~40 understood phones could be used for purposes other than posting TikTok vids.
Many a crisis was averted by me asking, "Did you call the guy?"
5 mins later:
We got it worked out
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@littlebillie
Have you not heard of coffee?
(Not recommending this, I quit smoking 20+ years ago....but the cup of coffee to perk you up followed by the cigarette to give you laser like focus was an incredible combination...got me through engineering school.)
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Just got a tax bill from the city. Yes, an additional bill because I guess what I pay into escrow every month isn't enough.
Honestly, my first thought was some stuff needs to be thrown in a harbor.
My 2nd was I should run for mayor.
My 3rd was I should just move to Tennessee.
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Note that there are no packaged, refined carbohydrates here.
Others who have done this little experiment post almost exclusively packaged carbs. That's why they have so little.
This is nutrient dense food for 1 man for a week.
Can be bought w/ 7 hrs @ min wage, pre-tax, in NY.
This is what $100 worth of groceries looks like in the year 2023.
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I'm an hour and 45 minutes into this zoning board meeting and a lady just shared her screen.
PowerPoint.
Slide 1 of 92.
I wish I was kidding.
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I got fooled by this last year.
It seemed like a lot of train wrecks. Turns out there were always train wrecks. You just never heard about it & for some reason the news cycle started picking them up.
Is there a name for this phenomenon?
If not, I dub it, "Train Wreck Syndrome"
Have bolts always not been tightened on airplanes, or is this a new fad?
Is this like the train derailment thing awhile back? Where it seemed like there were a stupid number of derailments, but turned out the average has actually always been one like every 8 hours or so?
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Can we find the dude from the bagel shop and give him a medal or something?
Hero of New York or something?
Well done. Way to represent.
new york needs to start turning californians away at the border what the fuck is this shit
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@Empty_America
Worked with homeless for awhile in NYC.
Not a monolithic block.
Some might be helped by mental health or addiction care.
A few down on their luck.
For a plurality, possibly majority (my unofficial count) it's a lifestyle.
They wouldn't take housing if you gave it to them.
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