No one was talking about single serving machines. The best way to make coffee is to use a scale to measure out the exact weight of the beans, a thermometer to get the water temperature just right, and then pour over for a single cup. Second best would be a chemex, third best is french press.

The correct answer to your pop quiz is $40. It’s two $20 bills, so less of a hassle/more likely that you actually have it exactly, and it is a slight overpay to compensate the rest of the group for you getting out of having to participate in the pain in the ass splitting the check process later.

And what sort of philistine makes it in batches by the 16-oz press instead of single cup pour-over?

I wasn’t suggesting there are a bunch of empty lots sitting vacant. But SF is chock full of single family houses and two flats that could easily be replaced with rowhouses and low-rise apartments, thereby doubling or tripling the population without “destroying the city’s character” or whatever.

Baseball revenues are higher than they have ever been. Revenues have roughly doubled in the last 15 years, player contracts have only increased by about 10%.

It’s actually super realistic that a couple of educated young white women living in NYC would have virtually no friends who are non-white.

That is somewhat true for Manhattan, but not at all true for San Francisco. There is plenty of room to build in SF, but existing home-owners won’t permit it. SF doesn’t even have to start building skyscrapers like Manhattan, if SF were as densely populated as Brooklyn it would double the population.

Why not just mandate a certain minimum percentage of all league revenues go to the players (Say 60%)? If the cumulative salaries don’t hit that percentage, then the teams cut a check for the remainder that gets divided among all players.

It makes me smile to think that, at some gay bar in America this week, an impromptu singalong of the AAGPBL song may have been sung. What a lovely tribute.

The D-Backs should have at least insisted the Cads include Gorman in the deal.

I didn’t think I could love her anymore than I already do, but then I saw the list of people that she would like to hear from and now I’m swooning.

The idea that a kid (adult) who is home visiting from college would even have a curfew is wild to me.

What summer associates don’t get paid? If anything, summer associates tend to be wildly overpaid. I remember I was paid the same monthly rate as a 1st year associate to basically go to baseball games with partners and occasionally spend way too much time writing a memo on a minor point.

Lin-Manuel Miranda

And Bullets was awesome. It’s really a shame they let that bad faith pressure campaign win.

So basically what the Bulls got for Mirotic last year. Except Mirotic is good and didn’t have an onerous contract..

Also, untie her yacht.

There is zero evidence that parity is appealing to consumers. The periods when the NBA has seen the most growth, in viewership, attendance, revenue, etc., have been periods with a small core of dominant teams. The firs big jump in the 80's with Magic vs. Bird, the boom in the mid-90's around Jordan, and now the last…

Was the Nichols kid’s family or girlfriend in the crowd at the game? I’m thinking we might be able to bullshit our way into IIED?

The responses to this thread all seem to be telling on themselves. Did anyone here ever meet a black person in the 80's or since? I think one person mentioned Prince and no one mentioned Michael Jackson. How can you have any discussion of pop music in the 80's without even mentioning the most successful pop artist of…