Diners use cheaper ingredients, and don't throw any coffee out, while paying their staff much less than minimum wage.

Diners make their money on turnover; more customers across more of the day.

Car dealerships use the same cheaper ingredients as the diners, but yeah, the coffee is subsidized entirely as a perk, not a for-sale-item.

I bought a cheap one from Target; Casa Luna?

It's good enough I went back and bought another.

It is not BIFL, but it's better than the $100 (!!!) pillows it replaced.

I mean, most of the Swiss companies brutally overcharge for what they're doing. If you're charging $5k+ for a watch, it'd be inexcusable for it *not* to last decades.

The Japanese seem to value honest pricing, and make excellent watches that hold up. You need to filter out the ones that aren't going to age well, as they're willing to take cosmetic changes the Swiss would be appalled by, but my Citizen Promaster Diver I'd put head to head with an Omega Seamaster at 1/10th the cost.

Their title also really does need an Oxford comma or something.

Part of it is that our corner stores aren't allowed to sell beer, which is how most (legit) bodegas make a *lot* of their money.

Dish Osteria is a damn gem. Some of the best Italian food in any city, excellent drinks, and dim-and-cozy but not dark-or-crowded type of ambiance. Get a reservation.

Bar Marco, Di'anoias, and Leo Greta are the other wow Italian places, but Dish is walkable *and* for what you want, that's the pick of those four.

Have enough loot set aside for housing emergencies, like a roof leak or sewer line problems, and Greenfield is damn well wonderful.

I put in a home water filter that's rated to take lead out, which should be good enough.

What do they mean by "Pittsburgh"?

Like, in the city? There's barely any chain restaurants. The vast majority of neighborhoods have zero.

In the suburbs? That's where the chains are here. But that's also not the city, so this may depend on both of ya defining "Pittsburgh" very differently.

We have more pizza joints per person than any other place on earth, it feels like.

You either gotta be cheap or be real good, or it's gonna hurt. It's hard to start a new spot.

I tend to look at it as a split; if the shop has extra space left, and tables, having half the tables full convinces walk-by traffic it's a good spot, and they do *more* business. If you see an empty service industry business, it's sketch, but one that's regularly healthily full? Game *on*.

If every last table is always full with people working, it's a disaster, because even regular customers will just walk by without buying anything. I've stopped going to one or two spots to drink coffee because I can't get a seat, and everyone's on a fucking laptop using it as a personal office.

If the shop's full don't camp there. If the shop is not full, it's an everyone-wins setup.

Moving an airplane sized thing that's already in orbit, any push makes it go faster.

Moving it from the ground, you don't just need shielding from the blast, but also shielding from the *air* in front of you.

https://nuclearweaponarchive.org/Usa/Tests/Brownlee.html

This is a manhole cover going 75 kilometers a second; it went too fast to burn. But human beings and most cargo can't possibly survive going from 0 to escape velocity instantly; the speed you'd have to fly would, well, have the time to burn through most things.

If it's summer, I swap "lotion for face" with "lotion for face with SPF". If I'm going skiing or like hiking in the snow, same deal.

Otherwise, yes, I skip SPF from November from March, religiously. It's extra chemicals for pretty much no reason.

Every six to ten years, aircraft go in for a "D check", where they disassemble the whole thing, replace anything corroded or worn out, and put it all back together again.

The lighter weight "C check" is more often, but is 4000+ hours of time to do.

If you're doing the once-a-decade style service, it feels time to replace the plugs from 25+ years back. ;-)

If the police would do anything, that'd fix your problem.

I'm pretty sure that most of the video you send, it goes into the dumpster. I would love to be proven wrong on that.

Should probably also include Schmidt for Google, who has another 1%.

We know it's a huge job; they just seem to do bad project management.

Example: they just redid one side of the Highland Park Bridge. Why not do both sides at once for paving?

Example: they just redid the section north of the bridge, northbound. But they've taken several week-long pauses, while traffic pays the cost every day they're not done.

Do less at one time and do it well, which is a scheduling problem, but they have no accountability for that in their process.

Do your parents work during the week, or just watch your brother?

"I know these weekends mean a lot to them"

Your weekends mean a lot to *you*, too. Or, on your current pace, you cannot sustain it, and will fail at some point. You almost certainly need sustainable balance, not "I exist to serve others until I die".

I really damn well love my Carhartt long underwear, which wasn't dirt cheap, but has lasted a few years with almost no wear. *Not* the cotton one.

That means that I can wear fall and spring clothes in the winter and be fine, which means I don't need tons of winter-only stuff to not be cold. If I got to pick one thing, it'd just be the long underwear pants, which the heavyweight was like $40, because I can always wear a second t-shirt already.

Pretty much no polos and very few tees are going to be BIFL.

Especially as it's a part-time position, I'm not sure why we wouldn't allow them to campaign while serving their terms.

I'm also not sure how the hell you can do the job well *and* be part time, which might be how Clairton continues to pollute the shit outta our city for less money in jobs than it costs us in healthcare.