If you haven’t read it, that mapping is a key element of @naomikritzer.bsky.social ‘s novella “The Year Without Sunshine”. Well worth reading as an examination of resourcefulness and human resilience.

Sanitation among the passengers is important, too. But somehow tens of thousands of people manage to cruise and enjoy themselves and not get sick on the ship. There must be a trick to it.

jmo but I think this is another not-well-thought-out city venture. Well meaning but not something they've put a lot of time into.

It was. When they cleared music for the broadcast series, they didn't always get rights for rebroadcast on other media. So it was either renegotiate the rights or use different music.

Those figures are similar to the ones used in the Villager newspaper, dated 9/28/2024. They used "about $275k" as the median home value, "about $16" for the initial cost, and "about $159" for the 10-year cost.

Don't know how old that machine was but if you really liked it, it might be worth buying used from a place like Plaza Appliance that reconditions older appliances. You could spend less money and not buy a new machine that will last maybe ten years.

Then Dire Straits sings "Maybe get a blister on your little finger/Maybe get a blister on your thumb" in Money For Nothing.

Love me some Waitresses.

Some of the worst people in politics: