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I forgot how difficult it was to adjust my eating habits. After not being good for weeks my body wants to eat all the time and doesn't like not eating -- nm - Dano May 26, 09:34 2
- I can not imagine being stuck at home. Three day weekend caused me to drift a bit. -- nm - Spawn May 26, 09:35 1
  - I was so good for about 2-3 weeks then I started drifting. Doesn't help that one of the few places I can go is the grocery store. -- nm - Dano May 26, 09:40
Many people follow "Twitter Celebs." Daily Beast finally publishes what was blatently obvious: Shaun King is a con/grifter extraordinaire. -- (link) - MDH May 26, 09:32 2
- Yeah. -- nm - Dark Callisto May 26, 09:45
- He should turn his attention to wedding photography. -- nm - Mop May 26, 09:38
That average rent of $4210 in Manhattan is skewed by posh, uber rich people rentals. - ty97 May 26, 09:26 7
- Do they report median rent? -- nm - Dano May 26, 09:35 3
  - Best I could find is from last year and the median for a 1bd in Manhattan was $2,980. 2bd was $3,300. -- (link) - Krusty May 26, 09:41 2
    - How much square footage is there in a two-bedroom? - David May 26, 09:46 1
      - Probably ~60% or so of that from earlier listings they've posted. -- nm - spamlet May 26, 10:29
- Yup. Manhattan is still crazy expensive for the size of the place you get but you can get a nice place for well under that. - Krusty May 26, 09:30 2
  - UES? ew. He should move to the Upper Best Side -- nm - ty97 May 26, 09:31 1
    - Agreed. It seems more his style and speed. - Krusty May 26, 09:33
Doc Strange Director Scott Derrickson to direct Labyrinth sequel for Sony -- (link) - budice May 26, 09:24 1
- That reminds me of something... No, must not say it.... - Open Baron May 26, 09:28
The governor of Maryland has a 82% approval rating among Democrats. He’s a Republican. (71% of Republicans approve.) -- (link) - Tim May 26, 09:21 3
- Giving hope to the last dying breath of bipartisanship. -- nm - David May 26, 09:45
- he's been pretty darned good -- nm - prayformojo May 26, 09:34
- Hogan is great. -- nm - Will Hunting May 26, 09:28
There are a bunch of SNK games free with Twitch Prime right now. -- (link) - Shaun May 26, 09:12
People moved here after 9/11 and they'll move here after this too. -- nm - Krusty May 26, 09:01 16
- I expect it to take longer. This is a long term situation. -- nm - loosilu May 26, 09:05 1
  - It will but we'll bounce back. I'm sure of it. -- nm - Krusty May 26, 09:06
- Much like the SanFran story from late last week, WFH has made it so people can have a job and live anywhere. - Mop May 26, 09:03 13
  - I mean, Kim technically works in Florida now. If they want her in the office, she'll have to get on a plane. - David May 26, 09:45
  - NYC is about way more than the job you can get living here. -- nm - Krusty May 26, 09:06 4
    - Like the article Zeit posted, there's certainly benefits to living in the big city. But people are still leaving. - Mop May 26, 09:12 [Backboard] 3
      - People are always leaving. And people are always moving in. -- nm* - ty97 May 26, 09:23 1
        
        That's what makes it New York. -- nm - Beryllium May 26, 09:24
      - And I'm sure there will be many people waiting to take their place. Omaha is cheap but it's still Omaha. -- nm - Krusty May 26, 09:15
  - What about industries like restaurants and theater? Those are staples of the NY economy. And forgot to mention tourism. -- nm* - loosilu May 26, 09:05 6
    - If only I had said "... a lot of the tech sector jobs ..." - Mop May 26, 09:11 5
      - They commute from the boroughs more than anywhere else, not NJ. A lot of NJ commuters work on Wall St., in finance, law and other white collar jobs. - Krusty May 26, 09:19 1
        
        You do have some service industry commuters from Jersey City and Newark but it's expensive take the PATH train back and forth daily. - Krusty May 26, 09:25
      - If Wall Street street goes remote, then it would be an interesting conversation. -- nm - Beryllium May 26, 09:13 1
        
        It's mostly remote now and has been for years. No one is on the floor like in the past. -- nm - Krusty May 26, 09:17
      - That's not NY's biggest industry, unlike SF. -- nm - loosilu May 26, 09:13
Re: the Joe Scarborough thing, I think they know or don't care that it's made up - Reagen May 26, 09:00 1
- I love how he has been asked to remove the tweets. - Spawn May 26, 09:02
TV PSA: America's Got Talent, Deadliest Catch, Stargirl, Chopped, Legends of Tomorrow, Below Deck Med, Grant, NASA SpaceX, Bryant Gumbel, Last OG, -- nm - Beaker May 26, 08:43 1
- Genetic Detective, Supermarket Stakeout, World of Dance, Hannah Gadsby: Douglas (Netflix), Star Trek: Voyager 25th anniversary reunion, other stuff -- nm - Beaker May 26, 08:44
So I *definitely* don't have natural gas to my home. My water heater is electric. I guess my AC unit is also a heat pump? -- nm - Mop May 26, 08:33 13
- Pumping heat does not sound much like AC, to me! -- nm - Spawn May 26, 08:35 12
  - Heat pumps are a big thing in the Maritimes of Canada. - Walt_Disney May 26, 09:06 7
    - Biggest for heat. Efficiency is a huge upgrade over electric radiators. The AC aspect is a side benefit (becoming bigger). -- nm - Beaker May 26, 09:08 6
      - We had one installed last year. It seems to work well for heating when temps between -5 and +10C as the radiators came on less. - Walt_Disney May 26, 09:12 5
        
        We love the heating aspect, but I think the Dry setting on ours is the best. Takes all the humidity out of the air. We rarely have ours on Cool. -- nm - Shaun May 26, 09:13 4
        
        You just use the giant snow drifts to keep things cool, right? -- nm - decline May 26, 09:21 1
        
        BAsically. -- nm - Shaun May 26, 09:22
        
        ::watches your Funkos turn to dust and get sucked away:: -- nm - Spawn May 26, 09:15 1
        
        Pfft. My Funkos are at the office. Joke's on you. -- nm - Shaun May 26, 09:17
  - Silly Spawn, they create a bunch of heat and pump it outside so that you think it's cooler inside! -- nm* - Open Baron May 26, 08:49 3
    - It's essentially a big refrigerator pump. -- nm - Reagen May 26, 09:07
    - I can joke because yes, I shut down the AC system at the office when I left on Friday to save some $. So OF COURSE hot weather finally got here and I - Spawn May 26, 08:57
    - I mean, you’re half right. -- nm - mafic May 26, 08:57
I'm watching a webinar where the NFL talks about how they handled the video technology for the draft. Quite an endeavor. -- nm - Mop May 26, 08:32
Today is my day to try and laugh at things (like an HOA deciding to open a pool 2 weeks earlier and forget to tell me). We have properties on a street - Spawn May 26, 08:27
Marvel did a hero bracket on twitter. It's the finals. Vote if you like. -- (link) - Shaun May 26, 08:26 4
- Squirrel Girl could take both of them. -- nm - Open Baron May 26, 09:06 1
  - Well you can't put Squirrel Girl in or there'll be no point in the bracket. -- nm - Reagen May 26, 09:06
- ... mistakes were made. -- nm - Spawn May 26, 08:28
- First we should set the mood with taika singing the marvel theme -- (link) - Beryllium May 26, 08:27
I hate to give Donnie credit, but I keep wondering if he destroyed his home town on purpose. Or if someone ... guided him. -- (link*) - loosilu May 26, 08:25 51
- Yes he created a virus that specifically targeted NYC. - spamlet May 26, 08:47 14
  - He allowed virus to come through NYC airports, unrestricted, for six weeks. -- nm - loosilu May 26, 08:53 10
    - And every other airport. -- nm - spamlet May 26, 09:08 9
      - Which airport gets the most European travelers? -- nm - loosilu May 26, 09:09 8
        
        He was annoyed at even acknowledging that it was a problem. Attributing malice to it is an enormous stretch. - Reagen May 26, 09:10 3
        
        He’s a moron *and* an evil genius! -- nm - spamlet May 26, 09:13 1
        
        He has people who manipulate him. NO, I am not saying there is a conspiracy behind that. Please don't put words in my mouth. -- nm* - loosilu May 26, 09:14
        
        Oh, there was malice. It was pulling teeth to get him to send anything to NY. -- nm - loosilu May 26, 09:12
        
        I'll answer for you, it's JFK and Newark. -- nm - loosilu May 26, 09:10 3
        
        Stop marching down the Conspiracy Highway. -- nm - Reagen May 26, 09:11 2
        
        I'm not, I promise. I never want to give him credit for malice when incompetence explains it. -- nm - loosilu May 26, 09:14
        
        Well they shouldn't have put it in such a convenient place then! -- nm - Beryllium May 26, 09:12
  - Could have been worse. -- (pic) - Spawn May 26, 08:52 [Attachment] 2
    - heh -- nm - mud May 26, 09:14 1
      - That effin' dashboard goes through my head way more often than it should. -- nm - Spawn May 26, 09:16
- "destroyed", lol. -- nm - znufrii, silly old man May 26, 08:45 2
  - Look, I can use hyperbole! -- nm - loosilu May 26, 08:53
  - Never to recover. -- nm - Spawn May 26, 08:46
- Article - David May 26, 08:40 2
  - Secretstalker was posting about laundry issues on fb. None in his building and all of the local ones had been closer for over 2 months. -- nm - jnine May 26, 11:14
  - It has to be tough right now, but it's not as if fashion jobs are going to move to "an unincorporated mountain town in Nevada". -- nm - Reagen May 26, 08:59
- Those $10 million penthouses will be selling for $1 million in no time! -- nm - Mop May 26, 08:36
- There are always people getting fed up and leaving the city for myriad reasons. This is just another wave of the same. - ty97 May 26, 08:32 17
  - Yeah, a few of these people just had a baby or are pregnant. They were 90% odds to be leaving regardless. - ty97 May 26, 08:43 3
    - Hey, my parents didn't leave NY when I was .... oh. -- nm - loosilu May 26, 08:55 2
      - Growing up here was awesome and my parents didn't have to drive to me to every single thing I wanted to do which I'm sure was nice for them. -- nm - Krusty May 26, 09:02 1
        
        I would have loved it, but my mother didn't. -- nm - loosilu May 26, 09:08
  - Yup. There are many waiting to come and replace them. It'll be quicker than expected if real estate prices drop. -- nm - Krusty May 26, 08:35 9
    - Well sort of. What I expect is that it will hasten not lessen income inequality. The big corps will be able to scoop up the spaces cheap, pushing out - JackDawson May 26, 08:44 8
      - This I, unfortunately, agree with -- nm - ty97 May 26, 09:25
      - That may all be right but I don't know. I do know that people will still want to move here whether they're wealthy, college kids or somewhere - Krusty May 26, 08:49 6
        
        I'd love to give it a shot at living there but that avg rent of $4210 in Manhattan....I'd need a sugar mama or something -- nm - JD May 26, 08:53 5
        
        That's higher than what most people I know pay. If you want to live in a doorman building with amenities and other extras then you'll pay that. - Krusty May 26, 08:56 3
        
        I'd be looking for something like half of that half ;-) - JD May 26, 09:16 1
        
        Haha! :-) -- nm - Krusty May 26, 09:43
        
        Isn't the last part of your IM an oxy-moron? - Spawn May 26, 08:58
        
        YOu would typically be paid more for the same kind of job you have now. -- nm - loosilu May 26, 08:54
  - I mean "I struggle to afford my rent and don't have laundry in my fourth floor walk-up" has *nothing* to do with COVID -- nm - ty97 May 26, 08:35
  - Or, to put it differently, these folks were likely already contemplating it, and would have done it eventually, and this is the trigger point. - ty97 May 26, 08:34
  - oh, I have no doubt about that. I'm curious what will happen to rent and real estate prices. -- nm - loosilu May 26, 08:33
- I can’t read the article but anecdotally I know a couple of people not coming back -- nm - JackDawson May 26, 08:28 10
  - That's fine. There will be others to replace them. It may take some time but we'll bounce back. -- nm - Krusty May 26, 08:33 1
    - That’s my gut too -- nm - JackDawson May 26, 08:37
  - Also, hmmm, I thought they had made their COVID coverage free to the public. Maybe that only applies to news stories. -- nm - loosilu May 26, 08:33 6
    - They limited it more about a week or two ago. Now it's just the daily update that's free -- nm - Krusty May 26, 08:34 5
      - Oh wait, that's the NY Times. The Washington Post never had free coverage. -- nm - Krusty May 26, 08:34 4
        
        We subscribe to both now. If anyone needs anything lasted, just tell me. -- nm - David May 26, 09:20
        
        Yes, they are. -- (link) - loosilu May 26, 08:38 1
        
        I see now. I didn't notice them before from their home page. -- nm - Krusty May 26, 08:52
        
        They must have. They always do when there's a major disaster. -- nm - loosilu May 26, 08:37
  - It's a half dozen similar anecdotes. -- nm - loosilu May 26, 08:32
Games with Gold for June. -- (link) - Shaun May 26, 08:01 9
- June Game Pass is getting No Man's Sky -- (link) - oblique May 26, 08:33 1
  - Yep, saw that earlier. -- nm - Shaun May 26, 08:34
- There's always July. -- nm - Mop May 26, 08:31
- I don’t think I’ve cared about any Games with Gold in a long time. Game Pass is clearly where they want us to focus. -- nm - Qale May 26, 08:19
- Wasn't that Shantae game just the other month? Or was that a different version? -- nm - JaxSean May 26, 08:16
- Just after I give them credit for giving us good games on Game Pass they give us this trash for Games with Gold. :-/ -- nm* - Krusty May 26, 08:09 2
  - A day after it was released that PS+ people are already going to get CoD:WW2 for 'June' as well. -- nm - Shaun May 26, 08:12 1
    - Speaking of this, it's live now to add to your PS+ library. -- (link) - Shaun May 26, 08:17
- Maybe we're all stuck in the Destroy All Humans game. -- nm - jnine May 26, 08:03
LOL. Bank system rejected (next day) my mobile app deposit of our stimulus check. I knew it was either: 1) because I had marked Trump's name out or B) - Spawn May 26, 07:58 7
- Twilight Zone Day. Call from phone company (smallish company): "I was getting back on the voicemail you left about {x}." - Spawn May 26, 08:10
- I was going to black out his name as well but was worried it might somehow screw up the deposit. -- nm - Krusty May 26, 08:08 1
  - I had to. If that was why, I was ready to go into the bank and Un. Load. -- nm - Spawn May 26, 08:13
- On the list! -- nm - Trumpty Dumpty May 26, 08:02 2
  - Sir, that’s a McDonald’s receipt. -- nm - Qale May 26, 08:23 1
    - Now YOU just made the list! -- nm - T.D. May 26, 08:24
- Quarantine: Having an issue of any kind is more of a pain. All support lines are swamped with people having issues. Either waiting for days or not hear back -- nm* - budice May 26, 08:01
Carpet from Aladdin is very powerful -- (link) - Beaker May 26, 07:53 2
- Aw, I thought this was Sorcerer's Arena post. -- nm - Open Baron May 26, 08:51
- This was funnier when I thought the guy was approaching to kick his ass. -- nm - Spawn May 26, 08:48
Your entry for the Nike SB Dunk Low Pro was not selected 8( -- nm - JD May 26, 07:43 5
- Andie won twice. -- nm - Open Baron May 26, 08:51 1
  - Of course. - Krusty May 26, 08:54
- Same for me as well. Thank you all for entering and giving this a try for me. I really appreciate it! :-) - Krusty May 26, 08:07
- Same here -- nm - spamlet May 26, 07:50
- Mine either. Sorry, Krusty. -- nm - jnine May 26, 07:44
Will, I dont know if he's a sociopath so much as a chicken-shit -- nm - mud May 26, 07:40 1
- Why not both? -- nm - znufrii, silly old man May 26, 07:51
Video Of Fatal Arrest Shows MPD Officer Kneeling On Man’s Neck For At Least 7 Minutes -- (link) - ty97 May 26, 07:29 4
- this is insane. that's just murder. -- nm - colin May 26, 07:48
- Cool, the 2 cops get a paid vacation for their troubles. -- nm - Shaun May 26, 07:40
- Is the man black? - Mop May 26, 07:38
- I heard about this on the radio this morning. Just awful and sad. :-( -- nm - Krusty May 26, 07:33
My twitter feed is lighting up with a bunch of screenshots of the home screen for The Last of Us Part II. Review copies are definitely in hands. -- nm - Shaun May 26, 07:28 4
- First announced in 2016. Good to see it finally here -- nm - budice May 26, 07:30 3
  - Review embargo lifts on the 12th. -- nm - Shaun May 26, 07:45 2
    - Cant Wait: "Oh gawd its terrible, shouldve waited another two years" -- nm - budice May 26, 07:48 1
      - Ha. -- nm - Shaun May 26, 07:51

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