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You are probably joking, but actually yes, there is an interesting book called An Economist Walks into a Brothel
TL;DR: legalized prostitution leads to similar wages for sex workers and higher prices for customers. The higher costs go into STD testing, security, and other compliance costs, as well as standard business overhead costs, and a bit of margin for the owner.
Sex workers tend to prefer it because they aren’t meeting unknown customers in odd places. Customers tend to prefer it because prices are established up front and there is much less risk of disease and legal ramifications. And both sides enjoy a reduced chance of being attacked or robbed.
TL;DR for my TL;DR: There is a premium paid for safety and security
I mean, some things do change. We’re not drowning in horseshit anymore:
> All but forgotten today, Five Points was once renowned the world over. Its handful of streets in lower Manhattan featured America's most wretched poverty, shared by Irish, Jewish, German, Italian, Chinese, and African Americans. It was the scene of more riots, scams, saloons, brothels, and drunkenness than any other neighborhood in the new world. Yet it was also a font of creative energy, crammed full of cheap theaters and dance halls, prizefighters and machine politicians, and meeting halls for the political clubs that would come to dominate not just the city but an entire era in American politics. From Jacob Riis to Abraham Lincoln, Davy Crockett to Charles Dickens, Five Points both horrified and inspired everyone who saw it. The story that Anbinder tells is the classic tale of America's immigrant past, as successive waves of new arrivals fought for survival in a land that was as exciting as it was dangerous, as riotous as it was culturally rich.
So THIS test is racist?, you agree with her? come on dude.
there's 300 SHSAT prep books on Amazon, even used for 8 bucks get out of here.
https://www.amazon.com/SHSAT-Prep-Books-2019-2020/dp/1628456132
No.
Excelsior pass is a New York STATE thing, that connects to the electronic vax database, you won't be there
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/nyc-covid-safe/id1565213506
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=gov.nyc.doitt.covidsafe&hl=en_US&gl=US
Probably a good time to read The Road to Serfdom, or at least to flick through the brief illustrated version.
If you can watch a broadway show (off or on), it's well worth the money. If you're looking for a more family friendly one, I would recommend Lion King or Aladdin (Aladdin is cheaper and easier to get tickets to). Both are very enjoyable for any ages.
If you're looking for a more budget friendly show, I enjoyed Puffs. It's a Harry Potter's 7 years told from the view of the Hufflepuffs. It's smaller (maybe like 50-100 people in the audience?) and very affordable
AirBnB has monthly rentals that don't require a lease. Here's a search I did for NY apartments, private room or whole space, for <$2000, hopefully the link works.
Ensemble models: https://www.wunderground.com/hurricane/atlantic/2018/hurricane-florence?map=ensemble
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Thank your local voodoo priest.
I had my radiator shut off years ago. It was fucking ridiculous. On 60 degree days it would rage at full blast, and even on the coldest days of the winter it was like a sauna in my apartment. I was running the AC to offset the heat at one point because open windows weren't enough. I felt ill all the time, really fatigued and shitty. Now I have no central heating at all, I just use a De'Longhi space heater to take the edge off when it's really cold, and I put an extra layer on for the extra cold days. So much more pleasant than the old days of radiator hell.
It's really cheap. I'd recommend getting a Raspberry Pi Zero starter kit like this, it's easy to assemble. You also need a microSD card.
Then for setting it up, there are tutorials like this one: https://blog.cryptoaustralia.org.au/instructions-for-setting-up-pi-hole/, but I guess the difficulty lies in being comfortable with doing stuff on the command line and how much you know about networking. If you don't, it's relatively easy with a tutorial, but if you run into issues you'll probably have no idea where you fucked up.
I'll just add on here too - not only is AirBNB a good option for finding someplace to stay, they're also offering "experiences" now:
https://www.airbnb.com/s/experiences?refinement_paths%5B%5D=%2Fexperiences
They're like less-corporate tours, events, etc. - meant to connect travelers with each other as well as locals. Never done one myself, but some look like they would be perfect for what you describe.
https://www.brooklynpaper.com/citi-bike-sunset-park-bay-ridge-windsor/
winter 2021.
there's a community "info session" and Q&A by Lyft and NYC DOT via Zoom on Dec 10, 6pm
register: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_W_Rha7gfTz-Uw66rkHCG4A
I know this might sound crazy, but there's this thing called an "Extended weather forecast" and you can check it out even if you don't live in NYC!
The week of Christmas is predicted to be between 36° and 45°... with the possibility of some 40° rain on Sunday. It's always possible that could change, but... with a few exceptions, it seems we get most of our snow in the beginning of the year these days — completely snow-free Christmases aren't that uncommon.
> The National Climatic Data Center defines a white Christmas as a snow depth of at least one inch on Christmas. The last time that amount of remnant snow graced the city streets on Christmas morning was in 1998, and the last time that a fresh snowfall on Christmas Day met the minimum was in 2002.
That's from a 2009 article, so I'm sure it's not totally accurate now, but back then... NYC went a full decade with only 2 of the years having snow on Christmas. I feel like there's been a couple since then, but... it's been a decade since that article came out.
NYC uses it's own app for vistors I believe. NYC Covid safe
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/nyc-covid-safe/id1565213506
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=gov.nyc.doitt.covidsafe&hl=en_US&gl=US
which allows you to just take a photo of the passport and and ID.
It was a few years ago but something like this Amazon Basics Folding Shopping Cart Converts into Dolly, 36 inch Handle Height, Blue https://www.amazon.com/dp/B081Q8BFZY/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_glt_fabc_73QYM39NY4KC6CV4HRS6?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00BTKAPUU/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1
I have one of these. Seems to work well, I mostly use it for weed smoke and it really takes care of it.
Everyone should read the book by brilliant David Baddiel "Jews Don't Count" where he explains why this happens in the UK and US time and time again:
https://www.amazon.com/Jews-Dont-Count-David-Baddiel/dp/0008490759/
One part of my job is buying footwear for people who work on their feet all day, and they all love Skechers. This one is the most popular.
I think a couple decades.
The Box is a history of the development of containerization. Once the container ship was developed, Manhattan docks were not a good place for them to unload; all that shipping moved over to New Jersey/Port Elizabeth. There's also a secondary effect of containerization, in that you no longer needed to have factories next to the docks, so a lot of New York City light/medium manufacturing also relocated elsewhere, leaving the waterfront essentially desolate. This would have been in the 1960s.
This is the smallest violin I could find and I’m ordering it for them.
I believe this image is from Manahatta - which covers the natural history of Manhattan in-depth (books, web site, etc.) I know the author Eric Sanderson and he has spent decades researching the original topography, geology, nature, history, etc. via maps from the 1600's to Revolutionary War maps to today. Lower Manhattan (bottom pic) is surrounded by landfill (which is why it's so much wider than the original pic on top.)
The famousCastello Plan map (1660) illustrates lower Manhattan and the wall protecting the Dutch from Native Americans and later the British which is now what we all know as "Wall Street."
Really common around here, sadly. We found evidence of a rat, too. They will eat your wiring. We spray mint spray under the hood & around the tires. So far so good, but ooof.
Just get one of those spy pens with a hidden camera, they won’t even know you’re filming them.
When you are talking about the Bronx you are talking about a completely different thing: the mainland.
Inwood Hill Park was deforested for its previous uses and replanted in the course of turning it into a park. It is pure myth that the park is pristine forest. It's a tree museum.
I played in that park every day as a child back in the 1960s. I can tell you what kind of animals were there and what weren't back in the 1960s.
It had squirrels, pigeons, sparrows and rats. If someone ever saw a blue jay or a cardinal it was as if a Martian landed from outer space. It didn't even have a ducks in the 1960s.
Beyond squirrels the sightings of other rodents in that park were quite rare. Now Inwood and Fort Tryon Park are quite literally infested with hedgehogs.
It coincides with the pushing of suburban areas outward to the point that various animals have had to push back inward, ultimately to the concrete slab known as Manhattan.
This process of animals pushing back into human areas has been described in this book:
Nature Wars: The Incredible Story of How Wildlife Comebacks Turned Backyards into Battlegrounds
There's another reason squirrels were missing from our parks in NYC. We set about exterminating them. They were actually introduced into Central Park twice. After the first attempt the bird watchers expressed concern that squirrels would eat bird eggs and the parks department actually exterminated the squirrels and reintroduced them again later.
How to Lie With Statistics is an excellent book on this topic if you're into reading. I know that's often a leftist thing too.
https://www.amazon.com/How-Lie-Statistics-Penguin-Business/dp/0140136290
If this was truly a drone shot, I wish they could find the photographer and throw the book at him. Stupid move like this could potentially down a passenger aircraft.
EDIT: I was so angered by this I went and looked up the photo on tiny; fortunately, per Shutterstock, it's a satellite image: https://www.shutterstock.com/image-photo/high-resolution-satellite-image-central-park-1421361347?irgwc=1&utm_medium=Affiliate&utm_campaign=TinEye&utm_source=77643&utm_term=
The ACC on 110 Street. My dog Chooch has been with me for 5 years now. Second rescue from ACC. Never a problem. Both lovely mutts. https://photos.google.com/photo/AF1QipPqe-6IMFdMWt79fbJWVcGI2ssHHXFEbdCvOA5j
Yeah, always is with this crowd. Got this book recommended and it was really a interesting read The American Plague: The Untold Story of Yellow Fever, The Epidemic That Shaped Our History https://www.amazon.com/dp/0425217752/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_glt_i_N6MR1B0615FW48QEQN7C?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1
Is he plugging his book while in office already?
We didn't just elect a former cop to be mayor. We elected a healthy lifestyle salesman.
As the sea levels rose, every street became a canal. Every skyscraper an island. For the residents of one apartment building in Madison Square, however, New York in the year 2140 is far from a drowned city.
For the record (is Reddit a record?) nobody banned Dr Seuss books. The owner of the rights, his estate, ceased publication of some of them, which they get to do. If you're interested in racial caricatures though, there are plenty. I can recommend Tintin in the Congo. I think that's available... Oh yes! Here it is: https://www.amazon.com/Tintin-Congo-Herge/dp/2203096500/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=tintin+congo&qid=1638469740&sr=8-1
The case in Virginia election hinged apparently on parents horrified that their children were being assigned a Toni Morrison book. That helped the Republican win -- he said that parents should be able to ban books they don't like from schools.
If you're a bit nerdy about history, I highly recommend getting a walking tour book of your borough. I picked up a walking guide book of brooklyn neighborhoods when i first moved here a decade ago and every day, just explored a new neighborhood, by foot. All kinds of cool shit h
Also: Seattle made helmets mandatory on bike share...and the entire system failed because of it. See also: Vancouver.
>Because I can not find the app I need on the google playstore I need
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=gov.nyc.doitt.covidsafe&hl=en_US&gl=US
It's just a photo wallet. The other app (Excelsior pass) is for NY residents only as it taps into the state vaccination database.
It’s one of these
It’s simple, just a light that attracts insects and a fan underneath the light that sucks them onto sticky paper.
It works best when it’s right next to my bed but the light is a little annoying at night so I had to move it across the room haha
Would you say the death of Mars Bar (I'm gutted I never got to experience that place in all it's frightening glory) had a similar level of hand wringing as CBs by people who had also ignored it for years?
Tangentially punk, I recommend grabbing a copy of this and giving it a read
https://www.amazon.com/Slice-Harvester-Colin-Atrophy-Hagendorf/dp/1476705887/
I got these cheap $30 rain pants off Amazon because they're the only cheap pants I found with 10000m or close waterproof rating, which is what you want to look for. Those, waterproof boots & gloves, a good waterproof armor coat or heavy poncho, and I completely ignore rain up to 70mph.
Any health food store that sells bulk will have it by the pound. Whole Foods often does, as does Fairway.
Any higher-end grocery store that sells, say, Bob's Red Mill likely has it.
You can also order a 15 lb sack from Amazon.
I live in a ~basement~ garden unit in chelsea with a little patio out back and was prepared for the idea of it raining so hard that it floods and water comes in through the back door. What I wasn't prepared for was water to just start leaking in out of the wall.
My theory is that the gutters on the house next door are clogged which caused water to pool in their backyard which came in through the foundation. Not fun at all.
Anyway, so far as practical advice, I bought some of these flood barriers from home depot so that if it happens again I can contain the water and soak it up. I also got a shop vac in case things get really bad.
Quick Dam QD65-2 5' Barrier Water Flood Dam Bags, 2 Pack, Black https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0085S19D6/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_glt_fabc_NTNSAGRXZ5J5HAF7Z1HR?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1
These flood barriers don’t take up any space when they’re dry and have saved my basement multiple times.
I never seen such a collection of the worst fucking advice, you idiots are New Yorkers?
This is all you will ever need. This is the gd Terminator of roaches i haven't roaches in 10 years because of this. It's so good they sell this shit on some street corners up here like it was the hottest new drug.
Actually the most durable long lasting umbrellas I've ever owned have been anti-UV umbrellas that I've bought from Amazon, like this one (my latest, had for over a year). I buy them to use as shade in the summer, but they're so strong and long lasting that I use them year round in wet weather as well. They're a lot heavier than standard cheapo umbrellas, as they are lined with vinyl (regular umbrellas are too thin to protect against the sun) but I've never had one break on me yet. I only ever lose them.
Yeah, but interrogate your own sources and you'll see what's wrong with them.
>Sullivan's piece, rife with generalizations about a group as vastly diverse as Asian-Americans, rightfully raised hackles. Not only inaccurate, his piece spreads the idea that Asian-Americans as a group are monolithic, even though parsing data by ethnicity reveals a host of disparities; for example, Bhutanese-Americans have far higher rates of poverty than other Asian populations, like Japanese-Americans.
Yeah, and you could say the same about White Americans. Americans of French-Canadian descent have roughly the same levels of generational poverty as African-Americans, yet you and I both know no one on Planet NPR or Planet AudreysCrawlSpace would have the slightest hesitation in generalizing about a group as diverse as White Americans and would never even consider parsing data by ethnicity.
>And at the root of Sullivan's pernicious argument is the idea that black failure and Asian success cannot be explained by inequities and racism, and that they are one and the same;
There is no shortage of data to show that two-parent households result in more successful children and there is a vast shortage of data to show that "inequities and racism" are the cause of Black failure or Asian success.
>This strategy, she said, involves "1) ignoring the role that selective recruitment of highly educated Asian immigrants has played in Asian American
Immigrants of all races do quite well in this country. The reality is that hard work and a stable family actually do help people succeed in this country.
You can't just link an NPR story that just glosses over simple facts and consider your case proved.
I have been using the Sqair for a few years and recently they launched it in the US so shipping cost is lower. Its really useful and one of the best air purifiers in the market. The Smart Air team really knows what they are doing.
https://www.amazon.com/Smart-Health-Model-Purifier-Effective/dp/B08ZJTRQDM/
You can get a small transformer like this, just search around for one that has the right plugs that converts the right voltages. But like others said at least for your phone you shouldn't need it.
I just got done explaining it to another trump fan, if you scroll up in the comments.
its more tied to the social construction of "whiteness" than anything to do with skin color or ethnicity. please see this
there is some good writing on the matter by W. E. B. Du Bois, Theodore W. Allen, and a few others, on the phenomena. Noel Ignatiev actually has a pretty good book on the matter, its called "How the Irish Became White"
this is a critique over sociopolitical status, not skin color, nor ethnicity, its not a discussion about english people, or Irish people, or Italian People, or german people. nor is it based on skin color, there are Iranian(literal Aryans) with white skin, there are people living in the Caucasus(literal Caucasians), they not classified as "white".
lol, man I feel like Ive explained this like a 1000 times.
its more tied to the social construction of "whiteness" than anything to do with skin color or ethnicity. please see this
there is some good writing on the matter by W. E. B. Du Bois, Theodore W. Allen, and a few others, on the phenomena. Noel Ignatiev actually has a pretty good book on the matter, its called "How the Irish Became White"
this is a critique over sociopolitical status, not skin color, nor ethnicity, its not a discussion about english people, or Irish people, or Italian People, or german people. nor is it based on skin color, there are Iranian(literal Aryans) with white skin, there are people living in the Caucasus(literal Caucasians), they not classified as "white".
There's a great book on the rise & fall of the Ice Trade -- harvesting ice from New England ponds & shipping it all over the place including the Caribbean & India, starting in 1806.
"The Frozen Water Trade: A True Story" https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0786886404
Was it basically this?: https://www.amazon.com/Grandma-Floating-Pendant-Necklace-Birthstones/dp/B076T4GS3L/ref=sr_1_6?dchild=1&keywords=floating+locket+necklace&qid=1582148581&sr=8-6
If it was, then there are many different variations on Amazon (and surely elsewhere).