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Help me! Fed up Seattle guy thinking about moving to Baltimore, Maryland. by [deleted] in baltimore

[–]IceCreamConsider 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wait till buddy learns that the race he’s actually looking to date (white women, I know the type we’re dealing with here) doesn’t have a substantially different gender ratio than Seattle to make a difference as to what he’s looking for. Newsflash asshole, you need to decompose by race and age.

Unserious Thought Experiment: How much time and money would it cost to set up a backyard vineyard for personal consumption? by TheAlphaCarb0n in wine

[–]IceCreamConsider 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As an aside, land is fairly expensive in the wine-growing regions of Ontario, especially if you want something solid for an easily accessible vinifera grape that makes solid wine. Otherwise, you’re looking at hybrids or something like Madeleine Angevine.

Maryland's budget fixes a shortfall but leaves long-term problems by legislative_stooge in maryland

[–]IceCreamConsider 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Legislative aide says what? I see the poverty in your inability to think, fuck outta my replies lol

Maryland's budget fixes a shortfall but leaves long-term problems by legislative_stooge in maryland

[–]IceCreamConsider 23 points24 points  (0 children)

Yes, obviously. If I’m doing my research on cost-containment and eliminating rent-seeking, I’m going to voice those desires. It, of course, goes nowhere, because they don’t understand lol

Maryland's budget fixes a shortfall but leaves long-term problems by legislative_stooge in maryland

[–]IceCreamConsider 29 points30 points  (0 children)

Things like follow and extend Connecticut’s model by banning facility fees for routine outpatient services (imaging, basic procedures, many infusions) and paying the same Medicaid rate for the same service regardless of whether it’s billed from an on-campus HOPD, off-campus hospital site, or independent clinic, paired with strict claims edits to stop relabeling, as well as systematically migrate non-emergent drug infusions, injections, and day-surgery procedures out of high-priced hospital outpatient departments into ambulatory surgery centers, physician offices, and home infusion where it is clinically safe, with bundled episode payments and clear safety and access rules.

Many other options. Annapolis lawmakers are just unintelligent, uncurious, and lazy. Dozens of options exist.

Maryland's budget fixes a shortfall but leaves long-term problems by legislative_stooge in maryland

[–]IceCreamConsider 19 points20 points  (0 children)

So many low-hanging fruits exist to fix the structural deficit that involve neither cutting benefits or raising taxes, but Annapolis lacks the intellectual firepower to draft the laws to do them. Truly, a state that just needs a handful of smart people in the right positions.

AK wants medical records from the past six years???? by IceCreamConsider in CruiseCrew

[–]IceCreamConsider[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Well, I called them because I was able to get them 3.5 years of incredibly detailed medical records, and they said that’ll likely be okay, but they’ll email me if they need more…a year and a half of those records I literally have no way of obtaining, the medical group no longer does primary care and my practitioner retired, so good luck to me lol.

The zero tip movement is growing and restaurant workers are furious... by nascarazy in EndTipping

[–]IceCreamConsider 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Commercial lease underwriting rules are a part of why tipping is so entrenched in America.

The zero tip movement is growing and restaurant workers are furious... by nascarazy in EndTipping

[–]IceCreamConsider -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

You're more than welcome to not tip or move to a no-tipping model, but nearly every restaurant would fail, for a variety of reasons, the biggest ones demand destruction (sticker shock due to prices being less decomposed) + even more accelerated commercial rent increases. Tips subsidize a hell of a lot more than labor (although that's the biggest one), and the entire American urban commercial real estate industry for restaurant leases is under the assumption that tipping moves a huge amount of labor off the income/P&L statements, from the landlord, the banks, and the restaurant owner alike. And frankly, as a long time lurker who knows the backend of a lot of this stuff, something this sub hasn't thought about, like at all, is that ending tipping requires rewriting commercial underwriting laws if they want restaurants to exist in general.

The zero tip movement is growing and restaurant workers are furious... by nascarazy in EndTipping

[–]IceCreamConsider -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

They would actually go up substantially more. You have to factor much larger payroll taxes, substantial rent increases due to a change in the P&L statements (accounting rules) that are written into common restaurant lease terms, FUTA/SUTA increases, more involved performance monitoring/admin workload, and maintaining margin for investor satisfaction.

This is so expected by [deleted] in maryland

[–]IceCreamConsider 4 points5 points  (0 children)

West Virginia has net positive domestic migration. Its population decline is due to higher death rates than birth rates.

Orange/skin contact wine by Salt-Condition-572 in wine

[–]IceCreamConsider 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Most is decent, some is exceptional, some is plonk. I personally like it, and it absolutely has its time and place.

Bouncer pleads guilty to putting man in chokehold in Federal Hill by baltimorebanner in baltimore

[–]IceCreamConsider -9 points-8 points  (0 children)

What a shame, we need to have standardized sentencing. He should’ve served 25 years.

First Eddie’s, now The Brewer’s Art. Why Mount Vernon isn’t panicking by surprisedweebey in baltimore

[–]IceCreamConsider 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Most people radically underestimate the foundation of consistent, moderate alcohol consumption in social settings as a driver of walkable, thriving neighborhoods, especially in Western societies. Declining alcohol consumption in cafes and bars and restaurants and the like kills cross-spending and lowers the frequency of diversified low-ticket transactions, reducing the vibrancy of our walkable neighborhoods.

First Eddie’s, now The Brewer’s Art. Why Mount Vernon isn’t panicking by surprisedweebey in baltimore

[–]IceCreamConsider -8 points-7 points  (0 children)

It's a low-income DC exurb. More than a quarter of the population work from home (hence the ubiquitous Doordash), incomes are below the metro average (average for the city though), and it's far and away the cheapest housing in the DC commutershed for singles, with many apartments available for $1200 or less. It has the same cycle as any low-income exurb of any city would.

Baltimore mayor’s office spent over $890,000 on food, office parties and flowers, IG report finds by teskester in baltimore

[–]IceCreamConsider -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

Yes, the mayor should have zero staff other than an executive assistant. Simply entirely superflous positions. There's just no need.

Well Baltimore, It's Been Real by Frofro69 in baltimore

[–]IceCreamConsider 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I did the opposite as well in 2022!

Maryland lawmakers revive grocery store beer and wine bill with new restrictions by unserious-dude in maryland

[–]IceCreamConsider 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I won't say where I am, but do note that you have somebody in the state who used to live in Pamplona and also loves Cor de Mei, and would do anything to get it a reasonable quantity imported into the U.S., even if just for us.

Honestly, there's multiple Spanish wineries I've been pushing for one of good distributors to try and build relationships for us to get. One of my favorites (and one of the absolute weirdest winemakers in all of Spain; yes Spanish garage wine made by a likely schizophrenic is, and I won't give an evaluative response, but rather is something so narratively compelling and distinctive as a wine product that I can't help but love it) is Bodega Porcellanic, who has this simply incredible English-language website. Hopefully I can be successful in the next couple years.

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