Not sure why you were downvoted. It’s pretty obvious they cut corners throughout the construction. The front is indeed clearly much higher cost than the “rear” simply so photos of the skyline from the river look better.

https://www.universalhub.com/2022/plywood-windows-never-good-look-boston-skyscraper

So this looks worse than it is because it’s winter, grass is dormant and weeds that fill it out are dead above the surface.

Even with no care it will look quite a bit fuller by late spring.

These are legit great for a job like this.

They aren’t super durable but they’ll handle a job like this 10-20 times on average. Cost per job makes it a reasonable disposable purchase.

That’s half the story.

The other half is post pandemic conditions making teachers quit. Especially young ones. So the only option is increasing pay until enough people think it’s worth it.

Or get some court to agree to the insane idea that people with teacher’s certification can be legally compelled to serve. I don’t see that happening in NJ.

This is the next crisis. Way too many teachers left right now in the state are a couple years from retirement and that’s what’s keeping them. Many of the younger ones are revolving door teachers because some scholarships made it worth it, but even that’s been less and less.

Get one of those prank air “fresheners” that smell like ass and spray it outside their door every time.

Classical/operant conditioning is proven to work. It’s science.

US can just say “human rights” which for Brazil’s legal system is a realistic complaint.

0 chance he’d get extradited. Odds are low even for an ordinary citizen unless there’s a high value arrest we want in exchange. For a politician in office? 0.

Or defer his sentence until the end of his term.

Sentences to get deferred for various reasons. Judges have that discretion.

That’s historically very conditional and political.

Many countries reject all American requests simply because the death penalty isn’t banned. Or because our appeals process is too complex/expensive.

No chance someone in office is extradited. That’s an easy one to deny.

Even if it were 0% efficiency 60W is 60W of heat. That’s negligible. A fresh cup of coffee on your desk is heating the room up more.

Yup. Though those run for pretty short periods in many households (I guess depends on occupants and habits of course).

But complaining about lights goes back to the 1940’s when lights and refrigerator was 90% of the power bill. That’s just not the case anymore.

Unless you’ve extensive light usage lighting is a rounding error on most home electric bills.

Even a few 60W incandescents are dwarfed by a simple 1500W space heater running at the same time. AC and electric heat dwarf even them.

I totally recommend LED’s, but let’s not oversell it. Unless your lighting Times Square, odds are you’re saving < $10 a month if you do the math. The bigger savings is actually the longevity and not replacing them as often.

NJ is pretty sensible for the most part.

NJ’s objection to congestion pricing is largely that it’s a tax on NJ while we still have to donate billions to the MTA via federal tax dollars. On top of that NY has been absolutely obstructionist in mass transit between states. They torpedoed the ARC project for new tunnels by capping what they’d contribute to the project and spent decades fighting replacing port authority bus terminal. Even with a new terminal proposed it’s still not as big as NJ wants so it can have more buses. Which is presumably so it doesn’t eat away at congestion pricing revenue, because they’d have to make up the losses via other taxes or program cuts.

NYC pretends to be much more pro transit than it really is. It’s mostly a tax grift.

Could have had new tunnels for NJ Transit and a massively expanded bus system. But NYC shot that down. Don’t forget that.

It’s not just urban areas with this problem. There’s dozens of towns that are “shortcuts” between two highways or ways to avoid some tolls.

A fair number of mayors supported Leonia because they have a similar issue.

You can't block them, but you can make life hell for them.

For example, you can ticket everyone who doesn't clear the intersection each time the light changes. Yes, even if you're blocked for a whole light, you can get 2 tickets for not making it out. NYC used to do this aggressively during the "don't block the box" campaign. Get 2 tickets in under 5 minutes and news travels fast.

Really Fulop screwed over JC. We could have changed NJ's laws to prevent through traffic on local streets, something many states prohibit in exchange for the extra lane on 78, which at the end of the day does nothing to JC given it's existing right of way. It's the local traffic that's actually a problem. Force traffic to stay on the highway and there's really no issue. That would have easily worked itself out in Trenton. There's a lot of towns with similar issues.

But now we'll all get a good shot at 4-8 years of Fulop for governor. Which is what people really want around here. The traffic is a sacrifice many are ok with.

Exactly this.

For a healthy person it’s normally not quick. Your body will try to deal with it quietly, most food poisoning is dismissed as gas, mild cramps etc.

Food poisoning isn’t a reaction to what you ate, that’s an allergy, it’s a reaction to toxins released by pathogens. Those guys take a while to get down to it.

This is why it’s so hard for the CDC to pinpoint outbreaks. Finding a common source for a last meal isn’t so bad. Tracking down 72hrs worth of food, where it came from for many people is crazy hard. I can’t imagine the complexity to trace shit down to some lettuce field in California.

That’s a good take. Go for the unique stuff.

Same thing when traveling. I don’t want stuff I can find at home, even if it’s good for the most part. I want what I can’t get at home.

I'm sure it's common, however I'm skeptical NYC is actually number 2. Bed bugs have a strong correlation with poverty/density ratios and NYC isn't close to the top there. Bed bugs can travel from unit to unit, people forget that. NYC has poverty/density. But not nearly as much as some other cities have.

NYC however does have a lot of landlord/tenant disputes, and a fun way to fuck with your landlord is to claim you have bedbugs and make the landlord pay for extermination just to make your occupancy more of a financial burden (and sometimes to just get your landlord more willing to let you break lease with no financial repercussions). It's a thing people do in NYC. And Orkin has contracts with lots of management companies so it makes sense that would result in this list.

NYC is likely more towards the middle of the pack.

They want OP to do if willingly so it’s not constructive dismissal.

Otherwise OP could apply for unemployment. Which would ultimately cost them money.

It’s fair game, virtually every company will ask someone to quit before laying them off. Even if only 1% fall for it, that’s free savings.

The Catholic Church has a long history of using Bingo, lotteries, sweepstakes, card games etc as ways to raise money. They also target elderly.

It’s all gambling, it’s just ok when religious groups keep the money. When it’s private enterprise it’s immoral.

People forget decentralization is also very inefficient in many respects. So centralization gets added to make things more efficient.

Efficient doesn’t just mean speed, it also means cost.

Doing things distributed fast requires coordination. The easiest way to coordinate cheaply is to have something centralized to coordinate.

I’ve said this before.

Snow accumulation before the new year is atypical for NYC. Like a handful of times my entire life and most of those were a dusting.

We’re 12 days into the new year. Declaring the year snow free is like declaring the game over bottom of the first inning. There’s a lot of pitches to be thrown still.

We could still have a long miserable winter of 20 snow storms. I’d guess not given weather patterns. It’s been relatively dry. But it’s hardly over.

People are insane when they think NYC normally has snow around thanksgiving. That would be exceptional.

Even then. There’s no law that actually requires his removal. As long as he’s able to vote they’ll keep him. With expensive lawyers you could delay any trial for years.

Look at Trump. They could outrun the clock for a term if needed. Republicans will have some legal costs, but they’d pay it if that’s what they have to.

You contact your insurance and explain what happened. They’ll ask for the address and see who insured that property and see who’s libel.

I would have guessed incorporating traffic it would guide OP basically this way.

I think it would be quite a bit faster and easier. Especially during rush hour.