Well Thanksgiving is only a few days away. Depending on the weight I'd get that in the fridge. One day for each 4 - 5 pounds of weight.

She prefers to drive not run.

Also holiday shopping and people not wanting to pay mall parking fees. Lots of stores started early Black Friday sales the past few weeks.

Mall is reduced taxes so in a time of inflation, reduced taxes, sales and avoiding the parking lot become a draw. Savings add up quickly.

Residential buildings are the bigger offenders.

There's also a cookbook:https://www.xianfoods.com/book

Never made the sauces (I should really order that book), but I have tried making hand-pulled noodles before. A little learning curve, but it's actually not to bad.

The traffic/walk lights malfunction on lights rail crossings on the regular. I’ve lost count the number of times I’ve seen it say you can go with a train in the middle of the street or not when nothing in sight.

At this point I think they’ve just given up.

Agreed. Having a full time job and city council feels more like double dipping than a $8k thing on the side for the county.

Grifters always are one step ahead.

They know. They've put a lot effort into trying to keep it away from happening near the wealthy.

There’s a lot of science behind this.

You’re basically taking your brain under manual control and forcing it to focus on specific things vs you’re defective automatic behavior where certain things get excessive focus.

It also can calm down kids when they hyper focus in a tantrum or even when hurt. Asking them to “help” you by identifying 5 things they can see, smell, etc will surprisingly work.

I wouldn’t call it a fight. It’s just trying to avoid one.

An Apple Store deal has been tried multiple times apparently, but failed ( I think the last attempt would have been where Zara's is, where they extended into the empty comon space).

NY has always considered NJ's "urban economic zone" to be questionable legally when setup right on it's border. NJ's not going to take a chance on letting NY test that in court. You could save a lot by going from the 14th Street or WTC Apple store to Newport to save on taxes for a family's iphone upgrade.

Apple doesn't want to be a court case, and they've got several stores within minutes by train, and just slightly further by car. So not much temptation to get involved in that mess.

Everyone in NYC already knows there are several Apple Authorized dealers who intentionally don't have a presence in NY so they don't have to collect sales tax. So ordering online is always an option too. Nobody self-reports items they didn't pay sales tax on.

It’s not great quality, but for trendy looking clothing it’s pretty cheap compared to their “competition”.

Quality on clothing in general has dropped like a rock in the past decade, on all but the very high end, so a dropping tide lowers all ships… or something like that. They’re all trying to compete with fast fashion.

That’s because not all jobs pay purely in salary. Many jobs are also stock, which is excluded as the law only covers wages not compensation.

There’s a lot of people working for $1 because they want all stock, and need to accept $1 by law.

There are also executives who don’t take jobs that are stock based compensation because they value diversity in their investments. Having your job and money invested in your job means if something happens to your employer not only do you lose your job, your investments are shot too.

People in either bucket thing the other is an idiot.

And it’s not always executives. Lots of startups pay little bit pay in equity.

They also don’t have to disclose things like 401(k) specifics (you and your coworkers might not be getting the same matching), health plans etc.

A better version of this law would just be to open up tax returns and make them searchable.

You’re right. Let’s just ignore the whole segregation in 2022 thing because it makes you look like an asshole.

It also substantially contributes to the lack of housing.

So now you look like an asshole 2X over for doubling down on your shitty take.

Because it’s intentionally created inequality that some areas can only be inhabited by people with cars, and others only with people who mass transit.

Then people like you fake outrage to disguise disgust when these two populations interact in any way.

Same outrage when someone uses a car to leave the city for the weekend vs sticking to transit accessible locations.

No need to mask what’s really going on here. Segregation exists, and anytime someone crosses those norms, some on this subreddit go nuts.

“Universally” = still over 50% of the city land mass is a hell of a long walk from any station while the city focus on 2nd Ave so rich people have choices on which line.

It's not just new buildings. It's all buildings.

Plumbing is under a lot of pressure 24x7x365. Just the tiniest of faults over time will cause eventual failure. It's basically a bathtub curve of risk.

All plumbing will one day fail. Just a question of when. Some roman plumbing is still in use, so it's possible under ideal conditions to last thousands of years. But most domestic plumbing will fail well before that.

So I agree, it's a question on how the building handles it, both in terms of managing repairs, and preventative maintenance. Things like regularly cleaning sewage vents can at least prevent sewage backups. That won't prevent when the water supply leaks. But at least cuts down one risk factor of water damage.

That’s pretty reasonable, but that wouldn’t be disruptive enough for drivers, so mass transit advocates will be against it, and it’s too efficient so drivers will be against it.

Nobody in politics like things that are clear wins. Gotta make sure the other side feels their loss.

Just a reality of modern day politics.

The real answer.

Prices are increased before Black Friday so they can create sales by bringing the prices back down. Some also create custom version of products for Black Friday like big box stores will have special TV’s with reduced feature at sale prices. People not realizing it’s a different product than they’ve seen at higher prices.

Jan/Feb can sometimes be decent as stores want to clear out old merch to make room for CES announced products and get rid of winter clothing to make room for next season.

Quite possible. I might have been too conservative.

Yea. Same by Shop Rite. Feels like every 2-3 years it happens.

Reddit gets flooded with politically funded accounts trying to push agendas days before any election.

But 99% of the time, they don’t properly disclose that they’re part of a social media campaign.

You’re entire comment history is just republicans talking points.

Let’s not distract from what it is: campaigning for elections.

Without the legally required disclosures.

Technically correct.

And every time the social media push is huge to pretend this isn’t some rich person trying to get some favors for tax season.

This is an organized campaign the last two weeks on this subreddit, and if you look at their profiles. 99% of their comments are on the same topic, and are unused outside of election season.

There is a sizable population that eats out 3 meals a day. In my experience they live in 100% denial on its costs. Delivery apps likely charge more on fees than the average home cook spends in groceries on a meal.