Yeah I use it almost everyday. I've gotten to where I frequently recognize new birds. I don't talk about it much because I haven't fully come to terms with entering a bird watching phase of my life, but occasionally I'll say something like "Oh that Northern Flicker is back" and my wife will be totally confused. We live in Brooklyn near Prospect Park and have a backyard so we get a pretty wide range of birds.
A lot of people do immigrate by flying in and not leaving when their visa expires. It doesn't make for very spectacular news footage though. Not sure what the numbers are, but I used to work in restaurants with lots of people who were "undocumented" and they all came to the US via flight. The people crossing the border on foot are absolutely destitute and easy targets of animosity
There are definitely places now within Brooklyn that do it with an intent of creating a sense of neighborliness and community, as well as many that still do it just because that's what people have always done on their block.
My block and many of the surrounding ones in the neighborhood have block associations that organize events like block parties, clean ups, stoop sales, holiday events, backyard garden tours, workshops etc, as well as being able to advocate for the block's collective interest as a legal entity.
Lol exactly. I 100% cannot imagine this happening where my parents live, in a typical US suburban subdivision. On the flip side, I can absolutely see something like this taking off on my block in Brooklyn and would just be another addition to the already established community
TBH I haven't even noticed a price increase here in Brooklyn. I did notice that a lot of the "oh no eggs are running out" hysteria lined right up with some incoming winter storms, which typically drives up demand for basics like eggs, milk, and bread in the days before. Empty shelves for these items is incredibly common before snow. I don't doubt that there are places gouging, especially in Manhattan, but I just don't understand who is being impacted so much if I'm not seeing the same in one of the most HCOL and urban areas in the country
One thing I don't see mentioned often but is definitely true for me - I use Google like 90% less frequently now. I spend zero time crawling through various blogs or stack overflow questions to do things like understand an error I haven't seen before. Google is basically now a means of directing me to official docsites if I don't already know the URL
You take many long exposure photographs of the same spot in the sky, stack them together, and then edit the images to make them look nice.
There is a ton of specialized equipment and software for the hobby - star trackers, astrophotography specific cameras, optics, camera control software, stacking software, and of course Adobe lightroom and photoshop
You can start out with just a digital camera/cellphone and tripod, and go all the way up to a full blown backyard observatory
Its not just a matter of having enough room for more crap up there. The enormous and growing number of satellites have an impact on ground based astronomers and astrophotographers
This feels like a swing and a miss. Sure, expensive rent pushed artists and musicians out of those neighborhoods, but they just moved elsewhere within NYC. The genres outlined in this article were fully mainstreamed in the 90s. The concept of "Selling out" and thus becoming uncool had way more to do with killing underground music scenes that real estate cycles.
Also, the Hip Hop scene is alive and well in NYC, maybe just not so much in Manhattan anymore.
EDM, DJs etc are doing just fine despite these factors as well
He lost me immediately with the car analogy, as if the auto industry, its products, and the ways they're used by consumers are in any way reasonable.
Everyone needs a car capable of reaching 120mph right? Moms and dads need giant utility vehicles to feel safe on the streets surrounded by giant pickup trucks. How is it "efficient" to drive trucks that are 2-3x the curb weight with less cargo capacity?
The problems occur due to business decisions not engineering
Wait, you mean the data that any random company can access when I apply for a credit card or job is also available to other people with money but don't care if I agree to it first?
That's a pretty high dose if you aren't a regular user. Most of my friends who are very casual with it usually go for 10mg max. Altered visuals on cannabis are very rare, its almost entirely a psychological effect in my experience. As far as altered thoughts - did you think something was physically wrong with you? That paranoia 100% counts
There a home gym setup called Tempo that claims to do this. I have the scaled down mobile app version so idk if the full setup is more informative, but it doesn't really give a lot of feedback at all. It basically just tracks the movement of the dumbbell plates that they send you to count your reps, and if you aren't moving the weight to the correct position your rep won't count. It definitely doesn't do anything like correct your form based on your body position like "hey straighten your back" or anything
Yeah, I have a peanut allergy which isn't super severe and used to have an egg allergy. My mom is a nurse fortunately and knew how to react when I had reactions as an infant. I think my peanut allergy has gotten less severe over time, but is definitely still there, and I'm 100% fine with eggs despite them giving me welts on my skin as a baby
I recently, unintentionally, stopped eating mostly sandwiches for lunch and started eating pre-prepped meals from a company that delivers them weekly. I'm down from ~195lbs to ~180lbs in a couple of months pretty much on accident
Yeah they're gonna be real flat and lean with the 60k employees left after this 10k get laid off. I'm no operations expert but I'm pretty sure all this is going to do is free up some payroll funds
Eh, I wouldn't point to Chartreuse as a favorite of heavy drinkers, despite the ABV. Far far far more people are getting shithoused on simple, cheap things like wine