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There is sort of a new wave of good places but they are pricey, and there are only a few really good slice places left scattered around, probably more in the boroughs than manhattan.

i know this is not the kind of pizz you're talking about but each time i go to nyc my friend brings me to saraggina in bed stuy and it's really good

Yeah I mean I like that kind of sit-down wood-fired pizza a lot too, I just wish good slice places were easier to find. I'm partial to Joe's but never make it there. In my neck of Queens we do have a couple decent ones though, nothing I'd hop on a subway for but good for local.

Ey, NYC, your pizza friggin SUCKS, I gotcha controversial opinion right HEAH!

Tea is better than coffee

^^^^ otm x 1000000000000000infinity

Coffee causes breafstink

oh man hurting have u been to Little Pepper szechuan in college park?

damn, no, but I love szechuan, putting it on the list

u mean college point I assume

yes lol

That's cool though, going to college point to eat is some real g queens shit. No subway.

you won't regret. also, when i went, server literally took our orders, walked into kitchen, and emerged not 1 minute later w two arms full of dishes

ok here's one

sometimes it's ok to "blame the victim" in your own head as long as that opinion doesn't affect your support for them, either personally or in terms of policy

Too many caveats tbh

You can't police thoughts. That's pretty uncontroversial, I guess.

texas will get sympathy from me when they start voting for politicians that believe climate change is real

http://www.chron.com/news/politics/houston/article/Turner-named-to-climate-leadership-post-11244979.php

I mean, I agree in principle, but Houston is working on it.

of eligible voters, in a state with voter id laws that have been shot down in court recently iirc, about 23% of texans voted for trump.

harris county - where houston is - voted for clinton

Dougie > Cooper

you won't regret. also, when i went, server literally took our orders, walked into kitchen, and emerged not 1 minute later w two arms full of dishes

― flopson, Sunday, August 27, 2017 3:16 AM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol that's usually not a good sign

tbf I was eating w vegetarians and the 1 meat dish we ordered came after a reasonable (but speedy) wait

dictators are very boring

No nation should exceed a total area size of two million km².

doctors are almost always wrong. the i ching is the best doctor.

Airbnb is good it's a good thing

known multiple people who have been illegally evicted so their landlord can airbnb so I'm def not down with calling it good

landlord down the street evicted some acquaintances (a family with two young kids!) from a duplex so he could tear it down and build a multiuse building, possibly for AirBNB purposes. he'd been illegally airbnb-ing out the other half of the duplex before he tore it down.

it's a good thing if you're a landlord trying to make as much short-term cash as possible. sucks shit for p much everybody else.

y'all know some of the people who AirBnb are just regular homeowners right

one of my friends makes a killer amount of supplemental income off of doing it

Always been landlords iirc we may even have had our own issues with them historically

Can't believe the contropinions thread now not a safe space btw obv

xxpost also, when you are going to an event and want a crash pad near the venue and don't want to pay $100+ for one night or pay $60 for a shithole, AirBnb is dope. I stayed in some nice old fashioned homes for like $25 a night in GA and NC

like the illegal eviction scenario above, like, not sure I trust that a landlord who would resort to illegal evictions wouldn't find some other way to dick his tenants over illegally if AirBnb didn't exist.

my landlord illegally murdered me with a gun purchased using airbnb profits. man, fuck airbnb.

all i'm saying is that airbnb people are evil and should be stopped. word on the street is there was an ilxor murdered by a gun bought with airbnb money, which should give pause to anyone.

landords are good

tenants are bad

sufjan was a terrible tenant btw

y'all know some of the people who AirBnb are just regular homeowners right

― Neanderthal, Wednesday, September 27, 2017 11:12 AM (twenty-nine minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i have a neighbour who does gig economy jobs and cat sits while airbnbing her apartment to make ends meet. I've stayed in airbnbs a couple of times. it's not the devil, it's not only used evilly. but it's absolutely contributing to the housing crisis which is making cities hard places to live for anyone that isn't rich.

especially because you can make soooooo much more money airbnbing than renting a place to a tenant monthly.

one of my friends makes a killer amount of supplemental income off of doing it

― Neanderthal, Wednesday, September 27, 2017 11:12 AM (thirty-one minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this post seems insensitive now. FP'd you.

certain thing's goodness = (first order term that is large and good) + (second order term that is bad and not insignificant) + (many other higher order terms to consider)

or

certain thing's badness = (first order term that is large and not bad) + (second order term that is good and not insignificant) + (many other higher order terms to consider)

or

other permutations

controversial opinion: We will pick one of the above and fixate on that second order term to justify our opinion on certain thing's goodness or badness according to our own limited experience. We will feel satisfied that we've thought deeply about the subject because we've got that one higher order talking point to display to ourselves and others.

Click Here to Watch Sufjan Grafton EVISCERATE the Gigconomy Debate

yes, i am currently paid to do just that on a part-time basis and with no benefits.

Gary Cooper was plainer than five miles of a dirt road and his "strong silent" (i.e., deer in headlights) mode gets very boring very fast.

i don't want to sleep in some stranger's home

I care way less about (mass-)shootings and the victims in the USA, than those in any other country in the world.

I hate that I feel this way, but I do. With every new mass-shooting in the USA I find myself caring less, and complete indifference is nigh. It's numbing to the point where it's just seen as a tradition. "Something Americans do". It should be at pages 23-25 in the daily news over here, not the front page. USA is as USA does. Part of gun culture, 2nd amendment bullshit etc. Put famine and starvation and torture back on the front pages, cull it from 23-25, and replace it with USA shootings. For a country that is basically going out of its way to do the exact opposite of what could even in the slightest possibly prevent these tragedies, just wants them to happen over and over again. Pushing the biggest, hungriest cat among a legion of helpless pigeons. Only to say prayers afterwards, change nothing, and hey it's an opportunity for a complete idiot of a president to look "presidential" for once... Score!

Obviously this does not come from "not caring" about it. I feel strongly for all the fine USA ilxors and the friends I have over there who have to suffer through this every bloody time. But at the end of the day because of all of this I do, truly, care less about mass-shootings in the USA than nearly everywhere else. Which is frightening. Can only imagine what it must be like to live there. Sympathies to you good people. But your country can get the fuck.

honestly I don't begrudge anybody who feels these events in their bones because lots of people are empaths - I just never have been and usually all I feel is flat. they affect me, in that these events impact the fear I feel being in public, but when it comes to overwhelming sadness, it just almost never happens. won't even use the oft-repeated excuse of 'numbness', because inconsistent detachment is just who I am, and not even as a means of coping. I can never figure out why some things make me emotional and some don't. suspect the anti-anxiety meds have a lot to do with it because prior to going on them, I tended to be a lot more emotional about things.

Pulse was different last year, I have a lot of LGBTQ friends and it was one-two miles from where I live today. part of it might be because I've given up on any real gun reform happening, and that I've given up on this country as a whole.

the spree shooting culture is completely and utterly fucked and nauseating but idk lately I just swallow it all.