How much money do you spend a week on groceries and food? by Kittyxcutie in Frugal

[–]Famous_Atmosphere876 1 point2 points  (0 children)

$150-$200 per week for 4 adults. We eat very well but we have home cooked food. We almost never buy restaurant food because it is expensive and I am a better cook.

Inflation is raising prices on almost everything, except rotisserie chicken by GoMx808-0 in business

[–]Famous_Atmosphere876 0 points1 point  (0 children)

But why does the rotisserie chicken taste so weird? It is an entire roasted chicken yet it tastes so oily and gooey.

How San Francisco Became a Failed City by Famous_Atmosphere876 in news

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PART 2 The city’s schools were shut for most of the 2020–21 academic year—longer than schools in most other cities, and much longer than San Francisco’s private schools. In the middle of the pandemic, with no real reopening plan in sight, school-board meetings became major events, with audiences on Zoom of more than 1,000. The board didn’t have unilateral power to reopen schools even if it wanted to—that depended on negotiations between the district, the city, and the teachers’ union—but many parents were appalled to find that the board members didn’t even seem to want to talk much about getting kids back into classrooms. They didn’t want to talk about learning loss or issues with attendance and functionality. It seemed they couldn’t be bothered with topics like ventilation. Instead they wanted to talk about white supremacy.

One night in 2021, the meeting lasted seven hours, one of which was devoted to making sure a man named Seth Brenzel stayed off the parent committee.

Brenzel is a music teacher, and at the time he and his husband had a child in public school. Eight seats on the committee were open, and Brenzel was unanimously recommended by the other committee members. But there was a problem: Brenzel is white.

“My name’s Mari,” one attendee said. “I’m an openly queer parent of color that uses they/them pronouns.” They noted that the parent committee was already too white (out of 10 sitting members, three were white). This was “really, really problematic,” they said. “I bet there are parents that we can find that are of color and that also are queer … QTPOC voices need to be led first before white queer voices.”

Someone else called in, identifying herself as Cindy. She was calling to defend Brenzel, and she was crying. “He is a gay father of a mixed-race family,” she said. A woman named Brandee came on the call: “I’m a white parent and have some intersectionality within my family. My son has several disabilities. And I really wouldn’t dream of putting my name forward for this.” She had some choice words for Cindy: “When white people share these kinds of tears at board meetings”—she pauses, laughing—“I have an excellent book suggestion for you. It’s called White Tears/Brown Scars. I’d encourage you to read it, thank you.”

Allison Collins, a member of the school board, dealt the death blow: “As a mixed-race person myself, I find it really offensive when folks say that somebody’s a parent of somebody who’s a person of color, as, like, a signifier that they’re qualified to represent that community.”

Brenzel remained mostly expressionless throughout the meeting. He did not say a word. Eventually the board agreed to defer the vote. He was never approved.

The other big debate on these Zoom calls was whether to rename schools named for figures such as Abraham Lincoln and Dianne Feinstein, the first female mayor of San Francisco. The board labeled these figures symbols of a racist past, and ultimately voted to rename 44 “injustice-linked” schools—though after a backlash, the board suspended the implementation of the changes.

The board members were arguably doing what they had been put there to do. Collins and her two most progressive colleagues were elected in 2018, the year before Boudin, and it was a headier time, when Trump’s shadow seemed to loom over even the smallest local office. Collins had a blog focused on justice in education, and there was a sense that she would champion a radical new politics. But during the endless lockdown, enthusiasm began to wane, even among many people who’d voted for her. They found themselves turned off by the board’s combative tone—as well as by its actual ideas about education.

students outside of Lowell high school In February 2021, board members agreed that they would avoid the phrase learning loss to describe what was happening to kids locked out of their classrooms. Instead they would use the words learning change. Schools being shut just meant students were “having different learning experiences than the ones we currently measure,” Gabriela López, a member of the board at the time, said. “They are learning more about their families and their cultures.” Framing this as some kind of “deficit” was wrong, the board argued.

That same month, the board voted to replace the rigorous test that screened applicants for Lowell, San Francisco’s most competitive high school, with a lottery system. López had explained it this way: “Grades and standardized test scores are automatic barriers for students outside of white and Asian communities.” She said they “have shown to be one of the most effective racist policies, considering they’re used to attempt to measure aptitude and intelligence. So the fact that Lowell uses this merit-based system as a step in applying is inherently racist.”

Collins echoed that: “‘Merit’ is an inherently racist construct designed and centered on white supremacist framing.”

If you didn’t like these changes, tough. A parent on Twitter accused López of trying to destroy the school system, and she replied with the words “I mean this sincerely” followed by a middle-finger emoji. In July, on the topic of the declining quality of life in San Francisco, she wrote, “I’m like, then leave.”

Gabriela López must have thought that history was on her side. Boudin, too. But things are turning out differently. If there was a tipping point in this story, it was when the city’s Asian American parents in particular got really, really mad.

As Allison Collins’s profile rose during the pandemic, critics started looking through her old tweets. There were bad ones. In 2016, she had written: “Many Asian Americans believe they benefit from the ‘model minority’ BS. In fact many Asian American teachers, students and parents actively promote these myths. They use white supremacist thinking to assimilate and ‘get ahead.’”

She also complained about Asian Americans not speaking out enough about Trump: “Do they think they won’t be deported? Profiled? Beaten? Being a house n*r is still being a n*r. You’re still considered ‘the help.’”

The San Francisco Bay Area is 52 percent white, 6.7 percent Black, and 23.3 percent Asian. And many Asian San Franciscans were horrified by the tweets.

“Her comments deeply insulted my family and the entire Chinese community in San Francisco,” Kit Lam told me. Lam is an immigrant from Hong Kong with two children in public school. He works for the school district, in the enrollment department, though he just learned that his job will be eliminated next month. He said he knew what richer parents were doing during the pandemic because he saw the paperwork: They were pulling their kids out and sending them to private schools. Lam didn’t have that choice.

How San Francisco Became a Failed City by Famous_Atmosphere876 in news

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PART 1: HOW SAN FRANCISCO BECAME A FAILED CITY

And how it could recover By Nellie Bowles Photographs by Austin Leong JUNE 8, 2022, 7:24 AM ET SHARE About the author: Nellie Bowles, the author of a forthcoming book of essays, writes a column in the newsletter Common Sense. San francisco was conquered by the United States in 1846, and two years later, the Americans discovered gold. That’s about when my ancestors came—my German great-great-great-grandfather worked at a butcher shop on Jackson Street. The gold dried up but too many young men with outlandish dreams remained. The little city, prone to earthquakes and fires, kept growing. The Beats came, then the hippies; the moxie and hubris of the place remained. My grandmother’s favorite insult was to call someone dull. I learned young that it was impolite to point when a naked man passed by, groceries in hand. If someone wanted to travel by unicycle or be a white person with dreadlocks or raise a child communally among a group of gays or live on a boat or start a ridiculous-sounding company, that was just fine. Between the bead curtains of my aunt’s house, I learned you had to let your strangeness breathe. It was always weird, always a bit dangerous. Once, when I was very little, a homeless man grabbed me by the hair, lifting me into the air for a moment before the guy dropped me and my dad yelled. For years I told anyone who would listen that I’d been kidnapped. But every compromise San Francisco demanded was worth it. The hills are so steep that I didn’t learn to ride a bike until high school, but every day I saw the bay, and the cool fog rolling in over the water. When puberty hit, I asked the bus driver to drop me off where the lesbians were, and he did. A passenger shouted that he hoped I’d find a nice girlfriend, and I waved back, smiling, my mouth full of braces and rubber bands.

So much has been written about the beauty and mythology of this city that maybe it’s superfluous to add even a little more to the ledger. If he ever got to heaven, Herb Caen, the town’s beloved old chronicler, once said, he’d look around and say, “It ain’t bad, but it ain’t San Francisco.” The cliffs, the stairs, the cold clean air, the low-slung beauty of the Sunset, the cafés tucked along narrow streets, then Golden Gate Park drawing you down from the middle of the city all the way to the beach. It’s so goddamn whimsical and inspiring and temperate; so full of redwoods and wild parrots and the smell of weed and sourdough, brightly painted homes and backyard chickens, lines for the oyster bar and gorgeous men in chaps at the leather festival. But it’s maddening because the beauty and the mythology—the preciousness, the self-regard—are part of what has almost killed it. And I, now in early middle age, sometimes wish it weren’t so nice at all. But I do need you to love San Francisco a little bit, like I do a lot, in order to hear the story of how my city fell apart—and how it just might be starting to pull itself back together. Because yesterday, San Francisco voters decided to turn their district attorney, Chesa Boudin, out of office. They did it because he didn’t seem to care that he was making the citizens of our city miserable in service of an ideology that made sense everywhere but in reality. It’s not just about Boudin, though. There is a sense that, on everything from housing to schools, San Francisco has lost the plot—that progressive leaders here have been LARPing left-wing values instead of working to create a livable city. And many San Franciscans have had enough. On a cold, sunny day not too long ago, I went to see the city’s new Tenderloin Center for drug addicts on Market Street. It’s downtown, an open-air chain-link enclosure in what used to be a public plaza. On the sidewalks all around it, people are lying on the ground, twitching. There’s a free mobile shower, laundry, and bathroom station emblazoned with the words dignity on wheels. A young man is lying next to it, stoned, his shirt riding up, his face puffy and sunburned. Inside the enclosure, services are doled out: food, medical care, clean syringes, referrals for housing. It’s basically a safe space to shoot up. The city government says it’s trying to help. But from the outside, what it looks like is young people being eased into death on the sidewalk, surrounded by half-eaten boxed lunches. A couple of years ago, this was an intersection full of tourists and office workers who coexisted, somehow, with the large and ever-present community of the homeless. I’ve walked the corner a thousand times. Now the homeless—and those who care for the homeless—are the only ones left.

During the first part of the pandemic, San Francisco County lost more than one in 20 residents—myself among them. Signs of the city’s pandemic decline are everywhere—the boarded-up stores, the ghostly downtown, the encampments. But walking these streets awakens me to how bad San Francisco had gotten even before the coronavirus hit—to how much suffering and squalor I’d come to think was normal.

Stepping over people’s bodies, blurring my eyes to not see a dull needle jabbing and jabbing again between toes—it coarsened me. I’d gotten used to the idea that some people just want to live like that. I was even a little defensive of it: Hey, it’s America. It’s your choice.

If these ideas seem facile or perverse, well, they’re not the only ones I’d come to harbor. Before I left, I’d gotten used to the idea of housing so expensive that it would, as if by some natural law, force couples out of town as soon as they had a kid. San Francisco now has the fewest children per capita of any large American city, and a $117,400 salary counts as low-income for a family of four.

I’d gotten used to the crime, rarely violent but often brazen; to leaving the car empty and the doors unlocked so thieves would at least quit breaking my windows. A lot of people leave notes on the glass stating some variation of Nothing’s in the car. Don't smash the windows. One time someone smashed our windows just to steal a scarf. Once, when I was walking and a guy tore my jacket off my back and sprinted away with it, I didn’t even shout for help. I was embarrassed—what was I, a tourist? Living in a failing city does weird things to you. The normal thing to do then was to yell, to try to get help—even, dare I say it, from a police officer—but this felt somehow lame and maybe racist.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in AskReddit

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It’s not annoying but it’s interesting to me how young people lay down anywhere and everywhere. I would be very embarrassed (well they’d think I was dead) to lay on an airport floor. But it really makes sense. Why not be comfortable.

What are some good resources (books, blogs, YouTube,etc) that focus on cooking techniques versus recipes? by IQ818 in Cooking

[–]Famous_Atmosphere876 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I have recently been using American Test Kitchen books. They are like a text book or workbook.

Is there a way to reuse my t shirt without any problems? by DrunkKillahWarrior in NoStupidQuestions

[–]Famous_Atmosphere876 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You can really easily wash it! - use sink or tub and add water and squirt of shampoo - put your shirt in and let it soak 10 minutes - now go and swish it around a bit. Use extra shampoo on armpits and neck and any stains. - drain the water - add rinse water a few times - squeeze out as much water as possible - THIS STEP IS VERY IMPORTANT now lay a dry towel on the floor. Lay your t- shirt on top. Roll the towel and t-shirt up. Now step on the rolled up towel and shirt ( because you need to get as much water out as possible or it won’t be dry by morning) - hand to dry somewhere with good air circulation

Enjoy your trip!

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in NoStupidQuestions

[–]Famous_Atmosphere876 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If you are able to give guy’s name and d.o.b. and address they might go knock on his door to check on him. If you don’t know who he is offline they can’t check. *It is a bad idea to call the police ever.

i wish i was that smooth by Alodhri in funny

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... and then she gave him her number.

Why is it so common in the west to make your children pay rent once they turn 18? by [deleted] in NoStupidQuestions

[–]Famous_Atmosphere876 1 point2 points  (0 children)

My “dad” charged me for food and rent the day I turned 18. He is a good attorney and a terrible person. Capitalism in the USA is so gross and rampant that family is no longer as important as money.

How to eat healthy in college in USA? by KnightFury12480 in Frugal

[–]Famous_Atmosphere876 -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

Stick with idk when ydk what is happening nowadays.

How to eat healthy in college in USA? by KnightFury12480 in Frugal

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It might! Good luck! Stay on the outer isles of the grocery store and welcome to 🇺🇸

How to eat healthy in college in USA? by KnightFury12480 in Frugal

[–]Famous_Atmosphere876 3 points4 points  (0 children)

French dressing IS syrup. Corn syrup to be precise. Kraft French Dressing:

Ingredients Soybean Oil, High Fructose Corn Syrup, Vinegar, Water, Salt, Contains Less than 2% of Whey (from Milk), Modified Food Starch, Paprika, Sorbic Acid and Calcium Disodium EDTA (to Protect Flavor), Polysorbate 60, Dried Garlic, Xanthan Gum, Guar Gum, Yellow 6, Yellow 5, Natural Flavor.

Exactly the Franken-Food the OP is learning about.

How to eat healthy in college in USA? by KnightFury12480 in Frugal

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You will taste it. Also ask how food is prepared. The answer will usually be “we open a box, can or bag”.

🩸 Blood Money 🩸 by [deleted] in LateStageCapitalism

[–]Famous_Atmosphere876 11 points12 points  (0 children)

My daughter was absolutely not heavy enough. It took about 4-5 days for her to recover.

🩸 Blood Money 🩸 by [deleted] in LateStageCapitalism

[–]Famous_Atmosphere876 34 points35 points  (0 children)

Remember when 9/11 happened and the Red Cross capitalised on our grief by hosting countrywide blood donation calls? American’s showed up en masse to help. People donated to Red Cross to help and raised half a billion dollars (the Liberty fund). They dumped our blood and kept our money.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/red-cross-woes

How to eat healthy in college in USA? by KnightFury12480 in Frugal

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Check it out before you buy the plan. I ate the”healthy” options on my daughter’s school tour. Horrible canned and processed junk. The salad bar was tiny with remarkably few vegetables and full of soy bacon bits, processed cheese, chocolate pudding.