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    I work in downtown DC and order online almost daily from fast casual places. It’s great because the lines are often out the door during lunch, and most have figured out either a special place to pickup orders where you don’t interact with people or at least have a sign directing you to the cash register for pickup. It…

    People are making far too much out of the fact Southwest didn’t have previous fatalities. They had holes rupture in their fuselage in 2009 and 2011. Read this article from 2008: http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/03/06/southwest.planes/index.html They got fined then for operating 46 planes without checking for fuselage…

    No deaths doesn’t equal good safety practices. How about the two holes that they got in their fuselage in both 2009 and 2011? Those could’ve been fatalities. They even knew about this problems before that— take a look at this article from 2008 http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/03/06/southwest.planes/index.html

    She’s clearly an awesome student. But there is definitely a game amongst high schools now to make students apply to an absurd number of colleges to inflate the total scholarship value that their students receive. Pretty sure I read this before it was paywalled, but I can’t find an equivalent quickly: https://www.chroni…

    Depends on the airport— sometimes they are the legacy carrier lounges. Dulles, for instance, allows you into Air France, BA, and Turkish with priority pass. In contrast, I prefer the priority pass lounges over the United ones almost universally, because they tend to have more food.

    It only showed on the post at the top of my feed. Which was a picture of a kitten. Conclusion: all cats are evil?

    I think that’s true at a lot of similar government facilities. At my last job, I went to practically every intelligence community related facility in DC, and also ate at quite a few of them. CIA cafeteria food was not the best (though there were some normal chains as alternatives to wherever I ate), NGA was terrible.…

    I think that’s true at a lot of similar government facilities. At my last job, I went to practically every intelligence community related facility in DC, and also ate at quite a few of them. CIA cafeteria food was not the best (though there were some normal chains as alternatives to wherever I ate), NGA was terrible.…

    But they don’t always use the local post office... Sunday deliveries in particular are almost never delivered on time for me, but are always marked in the system as delivered. The last one showed up 5 days late at my front door.

    But they don’t always use the local post office... Sunday deliveries in particular are almost never delivered on…

    Most commonly accepted definition of space = 100 km. Though that is enough to get above more than 99% of the Earth’s atmosphere...

    And your food selection amounts to Doritos, Milanos, Power Bars, and banana-flavored snacks that you can use the future $10 for...

    And your food selection amounts to Doritos, Milanos, Power Bars, and banana-flavored snacks that you can use the…

    This article should be titled “how to stick out even more as a foreigner”. I’ve traveled a lot, never been mugged. Part of that is blending in and looking like I know where I’m going. Almost universally I am carrying a purse with a zipper, and I make sure the zipper is in front of my body; I normally hold the strap…

    I’m pretty sure the Nepali locals are not the source of the majority of the pollution, and that her opinion as a native of the country matters a lot more than yours.

    Also, if you’re in DC for any reason, there’s an interview site at the Reagan Building (near the White House), that had exactly zero wait when I was there. I had an appointment, but about 6 hours later, and happened to be in the building for business and went to see if I could get in early.

    I will say that I’ve participated in some of one of the BDAC subgroup calls, and have found it to be surprisingly equitable. I don’t know what the process of the other subgroups is, but there was a vote by each member on each article and a mechanism for registering comments with dissent (after many months of drafting…

    Bowser is super corrupt, and I don’t know why she continues to be so popular in DC given that her policies hurt black people. It was like pulling teeth to get the NEAR Act funded, even after the city council fully approved it, because Bowser had her own plan that involved increasing police funding: https://talkpoverty.…

    Yes. I would argue that this article is poorly thought out, as this clip appears to be from the documentary about Howard Ashman, and it doesn’t even mention he was a casualty of the AIDS epidemic or the brilliance that that disease took from us.