This exactly. Along with going on day trips more often, I would never spend $80+ to make a run to Costco or to get a $50 nightstand at IKEA. You also need to factor in the time savings of not having to go to and from the rental agency every time.

Is this the comment your username was hatched for?

I filled up a couple weeks ago in NYC and the cash price was $0.50/gallon less.

*replied to the wrong post*

97-01, so slight overlap.

*** Nevermind, someone else already made my point ***

From a marketing/business perspective, simply because the number of vegan/vegetarians in this country is much smaller than the total number of meat eaters. A fraction of the number of omnivores is much larger than all of the vegetarians. Of course Impossible and Beyond will be glad to have them as customers too.

Unless Emily is a guy, she posited that well-off white people complain more about rats. And yes, her statement is technically correct. But it’s also a loaded statement; there’s a different feeling between “Gentrifying people (who happen to be mostly white) complain more” and “White people (who happen to be gentrifying…

Yes, that was why I said I wouldn’t be surprised if white people still complain about rats more often after controlling for income. But my question was whether there is data that supports that, rather than just the anecdotal evidence most of us probably have.

What’s your point? If the people complaining are more likely to be white because the people doing the gentrifying are more likely to be white, it doesn’t tell us anything about relative numbers of complaints from different groups of the same economic means. Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

Where there are well-off white people, there are complaints about rats.

Whole Foods of all places had (has?) them for $5 for an 8 oz package this week, but their regular price is only $6. I virtually never buy ground beef to cook myself but I thought it’s $3-4 at most regular (non-WF, not-in-NYC) grocery stores.

A steak should be a steak, but I’d feel terrible if a cow died just to get turned into something like Wendy’s chili or my Grande Stuft Flamin’ Hot Fritos Burrito. Why even bother pretending to put real meat in there?

If he can throw as well as he can catch while keeping his wits about him I can think of least one major league club that could use a guy like him.

One time I had to shit into a bedpan, and I imagined nurses and techs taking my stool sample to a lab for extensive study, making sure it was still consistent with the indigenous peoples of Chiapas. Oh wow, it’s an exact match! This guy … this guy is GOOD.

Well, if everyone in building is holding their breath (presumably after inhaling) during the last possession, the density of air around the court might decrease for a couple seconds before air from outside moved in to fill the slight vacuum. So air resistance would go down, of course, letting the magnets and momentum…

and it has a much lower smoke point, making it easier to cook your flapjacks to the point of golden brown, rather than just brown brown.

And at that point it’s also discouraging that the money they spent on it wasn’t just donated to charity (or at least put some towards your tip) instead, if they’re already throwing it away in a sense.

Also an alum and wouldn’t be surprised at all to learn he was too.

The best tortillas I can remember eating came from a shop in Pilsen, and that includes the ones we ate in Mexico City. Unfortunately I have not been able to find anything like them here in NYC.