The problem is sometimes there are externalized costs that are not accounted for in these sorts of analyses. For example, Walmart lowers costs for consumers, but these very same consumers are probably not saving money (or maybe worse - losing money) after accounting for the additional tax expenses required for…

I learned stick using a rental car in South America. Good thing it was a relatively rural area so I could practice. Of course, my first stall was in the middle of a railroad crossing lol.

They were beheading composers for using the Devil’s Tri-tone back in the Middle Ages. The same tri-tone used all through history by everyone from Franz Liszt to Black Sabbath.

Now that I’m a parent myself - yes, parents in general are just terrible people.

I was 11 when I first saw this movie, newly arrived in this country and still trying to learn English in a very white blue-collar community. This movie just made my head explode but resonated with me in ways I didn’t understand at the time.

I revisited Boyz in the Hood recently, and when Cuba Gooding Jr makes his first entrance in that bright yellow/orange get-up, I just remember how back then that was supposed to elicit a completely different reaction from the audience of those days.

We had a particularly nasty storm here in the PNW a few years back, and gas stations were out almost 3-4 days. None of them seem to have generators. By the 3rd day, I saw people gather around the convenient store banging on the glass windows Lord of the Flies style demanding the poor employee inside to “just do…

There are a number of Korean-Chinese places here, but I’m not familiar with their offerings until this article. Thanks!

I was driving in the Andes around the border of Bolivia and Argentina with a rental putt putt Chevy Corsa. It was just a single lane half dirt / half gravel road that wrapped around these gnarly looking cliffs where the locals basically played chicken to see which direction gets to pull over at the last minute to…

There was an economist on NPR who talked about how there was a drastic drop in the number of 3+-children families after the child seat laws were enacted.

One necessary expense of going from 2 to 3 children is needing to buy a vehicle capable of installing 3 car seats. And minivans check many of the boxes here.…

If anything, having women see you in a minivan (a car with many seats) vs a sports car (2 seats) sends a different message re: virility in some basic evolutionary viewpoint.

The trick is now to prove that she (or more likely, her financial advisor) bought Tesla calls based on some insider nonpublic information, and not because it’s been on a tear upwards for however long it’s been on a tear upwards.

We just got done with our last childcare payments right before the Rona hit. We selected a middle-of-the-road type place for both of our kids, but it was still close to $4,000/month for 2 kids. (Many people we know pay over $2500/month for just one kid). I understand that rates are even higher now.

Everyone says to…

They had Jews to blame and persecute for that back then. No need to sweep the disease under the rug.

I know this feels like a long time ago, but back in the beginning stages of lockdown (or what passes for a lockdown in the US), there were numerous articles written about how covid overwhelmingly affects POC. So the subtext was that white people don’t have to worry much about it from an infectious disease standpoint.

It…

This may or may not be anecdotal, but I’ve worked in two places where there is manufacturing happening in the same building. Both times when they instituted drug testing, the failure rates go up and yield goes down. Management backed off on the drug testing schedule a bit and after a while the numbers went back to…

Jackie Chan sucks as a human being. He is basically the Weinstein of the Hong Kong movie industry and has most likely taken part in criminal underworld trafficking activities.

At one point Michael Bay tried to direct his acting. Sean casually turned to him & said, “Why don’t you go blow up a bridge?”

I was in our high school yearbook / journalism staff at the time. As a joke, I pasted a large photo and fake quote from our town bad boy (think Kiefer Sutherland from Stand By Me), saying how the movie was great and it made him cry big tears or something. And it slipped through the editing process (oops). 

In terms of food in Canada - they excel in whatever newer immigrant group had just landed. That means sticking mostly with Chinese, Korean, Indian, and Persian. And West Indian if over in the east.