What about the other people paying $7000 that don’t want to have to interact with an animal in their own home.

Pet people are the worst.

what will it be

Also “toxic”

I don’t want to wait …

Yeah. Again, if I was your uncle or whatever I wouldn’t necessarily go to the cops if there was a cartel or something involved. But you’d get the mother of all lectures about straightening out your life and staying away from dirtbags.

This is going to sound condescending, I’m sorry I don’t know how to say it better.

Find a trusted adult and explain the situation. If you were my nephew, friend’s kid, or intern and you needed $250 or you’d get your legs broken—I’d bail you out and then give you a massive come to Jesus speech about how the hell you ended up in such a fucked up situation at 17.

The best possible investments form an efficient horizon where risk and reward directly trade off against each other. You can make worse investments than the efficient horizon but nothing better.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Efficient_frontier#/media/File%3AMarkowitz_frontier.jpg

Bottom line: if you want extraordinary return, and anything in a week qualifies, then you have to take on extraordinary risk.

I saw Hawaii on my block the other day. Come on!

A big part of the problem is not the language but the allusions. If you don’t know who made the “Great Refusal” or what a White Guelf is than you are going to need to stop reading the poem and read a long footnote. That’s guaranteed to kill your momentum and enjoyment.

NYC needs to cut labor costs, I have an idea …

And speeding / red light camera tickets

You responded to my comment with “No that’s wrong.” Which part of my comment is wrong?

Ok. Are you still insisting that every city worker makes more than their private sector counterpart or is the retreat into technicalities your way of acknowledging being wrong?

Go look up the offered pay for bolt bus and the MTA

“who were paid far less than their private sector counterparts”

Depends on the role. Doctors, lawyers, and computer programmers—all way less pay in government service. But bus drivers, teachers, and garbage men make more than their private sector counterparts plus benefits on top.

The judge doesn’t care about a parking lot or the views. Judges are human beings they sometimes have an agenda or biases, but most cases they don’t have any dog in the race.

and twenty years

Is the answer for the honest people to pay and the dishonest people not to? Let those people taking the time and effort to cheat the system put that energy into electing politicians that will put in place policies they prefer.

Yeah, good point. Parts of Williamsburg feel shady and that’s long, long since fully gentrified (or orthodox.)

Still feels shady though

“Generous contracts that allow engineers to draw quadruple pay for a standard shift, while conductors can easily score double pay just for working a Mets-game train — even if they clock no overtime;”

Did you read the linked article?

Lol, they don’t pay their employees garbage. They get quadruple overtime for showing up.

🎼The needle tears a hole, the old familiar sting.

Same words but one is about a young man’s heroin addiction and the other about an old man with a lifetime of regrets.

Depending on your life experience one or other might resonate with you more.

Geez who could have predicted that? If only there were a social science that studied this sort of thing.