Come to Charlotte. There are vacancies everywhere because management companies insist on charging $1500/month in a city where most people make about $25k a year.

The issue here isn’t the supply. It’s that a handful of new luxury complexes got built, so now every half-century old ghetto complex that tosses a $300…

They haven’t been priced out of fast food. Competent people just aren’t willing to accept less than what it cost to maintain a slave in the 1800s. The result is that we now get to wait 20 minutes for an order that’s most likely wrong.

I question this. I’m in Charlotte, grew up here, and work near the city center. The vast majority of people in this city go home for the holidays, and the city ends up looking like a college campus on Christmas morning. It’s actually the best time to be living here since you can go nearly the entire week without…

To be fair, we don’t know what panthercougar lives in. It could be a single-wide trailer on a couple of acres in the middle of nowhere, which will likely run you about what a cheap apartment will.

I have a Z Force. The phone, without mods, is really good thanks to having typical flagship specs and Motorola having one of the best feature packs. The issue with the mods, and why it will definitely fail in the end, is that they’re very overpriced for such niche products.

Is this feature the same as the one on Moto phones that’s been around for a while? On those, the screen is ‘always on’ and will periodically activate to show you the time and notifications. You can also wave your hand in front of the sensor to make it activate.

Dunkin isn’t even close to Krispy Kreme. Then again, I’m from NC...so home field bias.

On that note, it has to be the old style of Krispy Kreme with the giant cases of donuts out front in every style you can imagine. Not the Dunkin knock-off with the tiny convenience store rack sitting behind the register.

Southern cities, mostly. Charlotte is a perfect example. You have a handful of skyscrapers, a few very small traditional neighborhoods, and beyond that, it’s all suburbs built around shopping centers. To give an idea, it’s one of the largest cities in the US, yet, the city itself is only about a 1 mile radius. The…

In a small town, maybe. I live in a major city made up entirely of suburban sprawl so people can end up anywhere, and I’ve only run across the same person in two places once. One big issue is that we have a very large black population. That means high demands for service, and poor tips. Combine that with being a…

In the US. Nothing, actually. I tip 20-25% at restaurants, 30% on haircuts, dollar per drink at bars and coffee shops, etc.

That doesn’t mean people in these industries wouldn’t return the good tips in the future. It’s that service jobs have insane turnover. I almost never see someone that I’ve tipped in the past, even…

When I was 6, I had just made myself a sandwich, went outside, and my neighbor’s dog started chasing me. My method was to (literally) run around the house like a moron. It didn’t work. I threw my sandwich as a distraction. The dog ate my sandwich and kept chasing me. Turned out the dog was harmless. I still miss that…

Yet, here I am with a Z Force, and I can basically play ultimate frisbee in a parking lot.

Interestingly, acorn, butternut, and spaghetti squash are the most popular varieties. Spaghetti is the one that I sell the most by far. Granted, my clientele are mostly rich people that aren’t really used to cooking food themselves, so they’re likely ignorant of the fact that spaghetti squash sucks.

What does the HMO debacle have to do with a law that made it irrelevant?

Our current situation in NC is a direct result of NC Republicans rejecting the Medicaid expansion so they could screw over most of the population. We don’t get subsidies in NC. We get a fuck you and an exemption from the fine if you’re…

NC is mostly fucked due to state Republicans driving us into the ground. We were bad enough with the Neoliberals before doing it. With that said, this happened just this year. A bronze plan for me last year was like $150. This year, it’s $466.

You’re pretty much screwed without a decent employer plan right now.…

Got to remember that NC is mostly a Republican state, and that means they chose to screw everyone over here for no reason. Here’s the results.

My employer option, without subsidy. Including full dental, vision, $1300 deductible, life insurance, and I even get that neat phone-a-lawyer Metlife option. $240 per month, and…

Produce manager. Yes, I have control over prices. No, I’m still not going to change them. Corporate gets pissy if I do it too often without a good reason, and I really don’t have time to haggle 10 cents over a bunch of cilantro because you found a yellow leaf in it.

I live in Charlotte. Road rules mean absolutely nothing here. Imagine the shittiest drivers from New York, New Jersey, Southern California, Florida, and the worst drivers in the nation, South Carolinians, and cram them into a city with roads designed for a population a quarter of the size of what we have now.

The…

Butter isn’t going to fare much better than iceberg or leaf lettuce since the heads are so small. Romaine is a decent choice for crunch that can withstand heat for a bit longer. Go for red romaine if you want more flavor with it. I’d even consider experimenting with black kale. Red kale would be a better choice than…

Cheese usually goes on top since it melts into the burger. Lettuce should be as far from the patty as possible since it’s the most heat-sensitive and will go limp very quickly. It should never go under the patty. The only point of lettuce on a burger is for texture and you lose it with heat, which is guaranteed under…