I mean, even in NYC tourists suck. Foreign AND domestic, although I’d say domestic is worse. I used to work at Grand Central and I can’t count how many times I had to yell at tourists to stop blocking the door to my office building because they were so mesmerized by the Chrysler Building across the street that they…

South America too - all those rich kids with private security might want something different from the Escalades and Land Rovers they’re used to.

I hate those NYC bikers - I used to live in Astoria, on the second-floor of a building on an Avenue (i.e. more road traffic than a St/Rd but not as much as a Blvd) and can’t count the number of times I was awakened at like 2am by some assholes revving their bikes on their way to the park. I hope Vision Zero (lmao) come…

Right? “Mama bear” is a very common phrase among humans for a reason. I was truly expecting this to end with “and the mom grabbed the gun straight out of his hand and shot him with it.”

The buy-side research division of pretty much all banks is drastically separate from the consumer banking division, you know that right?

Agreed completely. The only instance in which law enforcement should be able to bypass owner cooperation is if the owner is MIA (out of the country, etc), incapacitated (e.g. they were stabbed during the hijacking and are in surgery), or dead. Or if someone was kidnapped or otherwise in immediate danger as part of the…

My first thought was tech and other fields where women and minorities face so many barriers (harassment, lowball pay, etc) - they would also benefit greatly from unions. Same goes for the WGA, which is almost certainly what the person you replied to was referencing. It’s bizarre to create this imaginary divide between…

The recent panel Linda Y did was just painful.

I was just thinking, this is a nice gesture but I wouldn’t want to be the guy who gets caught by his wife using his meager strike pay on lap dances. But I suppose not all union members are on strike, but all union members get the benefit, so that’s fair enough.

While I agree that eating and shopping at an airport is miserable and far too expensive, I think the exception is luxury goods. I’ve only flown international out of JFK a couple times but the shopping there is excellent if you have designer-brand money (I don’t).

I’ve seen solar panels on mobile charging units that can fold up via remote control in case of bad weather, and I’ve seen smaller solar panels on truck roofs that have some sort of protective layer or coating. I don’t know how easily something like one of those solutions could be implemented for the huge rooftop or…

And yet I’m hearing from a few folks in my former stomping grounds in Queens that their bosses are messaging them to remind them they’re expected to arrive at work on time today. Capitalism!

Reporters on the ground at struck facilities are reporting that the union workers have broad bipartisan support. And the WGA achieving a favorable contract earlier this week indicates, to me, that public support is playing a much bigger role this year than it ever has before.

Exactly right. The storyline auto execs are trying to feed us is “the union’s demands will make cars unaffordable,” when the reality is that they could easily decide to take the short-term hit with investors by cutting into their fat profit margins and make life sustainable for the people actually making the vehicles.

But are you reading national news? I wouldn’t expect the Arizona papers to cover this in depth when, as a state, y’all are much more focused on aerospace and commercial vehicles.

What if they have quiet rooms with good Wifi and comfy couches? I could see a cottage industry popping up with different stations offering different amenities - the Chevron will have the quiet rooms or a small pod hotel, Speedway installs 24-7 mini diners with greasy food, BP develops mini-museums/cheesy tourist traps…

I recently saw a story about building solar panels over rivers in drought-prone areas to help with evaporation. There are so many good ideas for solar but we seem to lack the collective will to get these projects moving.

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Oh so you’re one of those SPECIAL brown people. How nice for you.

The tragedy happened more than twenty years ago. Has every president since Pearl Harbor visited that site? From what I can find, FDR visited, and then not a single one until George HW Bush. I’m also fairly sure Biden has ceremonially visited Ground Zero at least once since 2001, just not as POTUS.