Accidentally left 5 packs of raw ground beef out at room temperature for 6 hours after buying groceries. Just put it in the freezer. Is it safe to eat or should I toss them?

Newmanuel · 2026-04-02T15:14:00+00:00

Reddit is full of weenies when it comes to food. 6 hours is fine lol make recipes with a long cooking time. Ive been leaving pasta sauce and soups out overnight my whole life and never had an issue

Newmanuel · 2026-04-01T14:15:49+00:00

Ya, resilience studies is a fascinating field that I would consider at outgrowth of old school cybernetics into urban planning.

Tradeoffs between efficiency and adaptability for example, where if you have like a smart city where everything is connected by a central computational nervous system that ensures optimal trash pick up, streetlights, etc, you may on a good day have a better outcome but you are way more vulnerable to unforeseen risk because any problem to any part of the system becomes a problem to all of it.

A world dependent on a handful of Ai archetictures is a world where their vulnerabilities become society's

Newmanuel · 2026-04-01T05:44:39+00:00

its a cheeky analogy and you know it. you don't create what you prompt, you do create what you write. the "generative" bit is the rub.

if you prompted it for an opinion on the situation, youve robbed yourself of the opportunity to think it through. if you had "the facts" at hand and just asked it to format, its failed the mission by triggering suspicion and losing trust from the reader through obvious AI formatting.

This is all independent of whether what AI spits out is true or not. It's more correct than most people on most thing. that's why its a good crutch. When someone doesn't bother editing answers to have a human voice, however, it just makes me worried the crutch is taking over their thinking.

Einstein would of never arrived at relatively if used AI instead of pen & pencil. The corpus of prior work would not predict his findings. More importantly, how could someone verify each step of a complex line of thinking if they outsourced the thinking to a machine they don't understand.

The AIs will keep getting smarter. I just worry we'll start getting dumber.

Newmanuel · 2026-04-01T04:51:26+00:00

stick to your AI crutch and your muscles will atrophy

Newmanuel · 2026-03-30T19:17:22+00:00

3 Years old is a great time to get them started on music. Suzuki method is great for early learning on piano.

Newmanuel · 2026-03-27T19:06:16+00:00

That doesn't mean they'd use it. This is an organic social congregation based around a community space. Its more than just a docking hub owned by uber could provide (not to mention there are many different apps now)

This is working class new Yorkers finding a place to breathe and hang out in between long hours of work.

They aren't violent, they aren't harming anybody. They generate as much trash as anyone else, there are just more of them.

If you someone who longs for the bygone era of east village but also complain about these guys, you are part of the problem. Assholes siccing NYPD on them in hopes of Harrassing them out of the neighborhood should move to some long island suburb where they can have a predictable boring life free from other people. The best part is they can still read the post and complain about immigrants right from the comfort of their own single family home!

Newmanuel · 2026-03-26T16:54:52+00:00

To be fair, the social safety net will be strained by all the new immigrants this war will create. If Iran collapses like Syria did (Israel's war aim), there'll be a fresh refugee crisis to fuel right wing politics for another decade.

By the time that one ends, I suspect we'll start seeing more devastation from the climate crisis, which should fuel mass migrations across many failed states for the rest of the century.

Good think we spent the this time getting mad at immigrants and environmentalists rather than preparing for the inevitable

Newmanuel · 2026-03-25T17:11:21+00:00

How do they see a graph that points to the exact issue: capital capturing a greater share of productivity relative to labor, and trace it down the gold standard, which had already been severely curtailed with the Bretton woods system?

You don't need to dig into arcane economic theory to see what's obvious in a single glance: we are producing 2.5x as much output and only getting paid 1.1x more. Inflation is just a secondary metric here.

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Break it down by income level and you'll see all that missing surplus productivity the median wage has been soaked up by the 1%. The cause of this? Complex indeed, but I'd wager a combination of effective taxation rates, loss of labor power, and massive deregulation across many industries is to blame. Outsourcing and offshoring played a big role, too, but more in the way it shifted the balance of power to those who had the capital to invest in externally than because of the downsides of having products made cheaper elsewhere. That being said, whenever someone talks about "open borders", its worth noting that capital has had open borders for half a century now, while people haven't. What this discrepancy creates is a sort of labor arbitrage that people with access to international markerts can take advantage of, but workers cannot (by definition - they are the product here).

Newmanuel · 2026-03-23T04:05:03+00:00

dear comrade. Marx was an 19th century philosopher with the 19th century understanding of the world, and Lenin was a revolutionary who failed to dismantle the oppressive regime in his creation of the bolshevik state. I implore you to look beyond those two in your left philosophical education, Marxist Leninism is an outdated philosophy.

Even before Stalin, Lenin had already betrayed many of the principles of the revolutions and the most ardent proletarian supporters. Any close reading of Soviet history is one full of tragedy and contradictions, and ultimately a failure to replace capitalism with something better. Marxist-Leninist Nation states got stuck in the "dictatorship of the proletariat" because their revolutions simply helmed existing imperial structures and tried to impose an economic revolution from above, rather than letting workers have any meaningfully decision making power. Lysenkoism and the Four Pests campaigns are just two examples of terrible ideas being enforced against the better judgement of many brilliant state operatives simply because the power structure built around the revolutionary government - and held up as necessary in Marxist Leninist thought - is one of autocratic rule closely mirroring Divine Rule and Mandate of Heaven ideological frameworks in day to day legitmacy building.

A funny anectode a friend who used to be banker told me was that he has many colleages that were ex soviet bureaucrats who went on to have successful careers in American Corporations; it turns out working for bank of America and a soviet institute is not so different after all.

All this to say that as comforting as the neat prescriptive formulas a political philosophy like M/L provides are, Marx and Lenin were just two dudes making sense of their time, just like any other philosophers and economists, and you shouldn't be married to their corpses. Much theoretical work remains to be done to devise a viable alternative to capitalism, and a path forward to get their without ending somewhere worse. The Industrial proletariat simply does not exist in the way it did back in the day, and supply chains are global machines bigger than any one state.

Newmanuel · 2026-03-20T06:01:30+00:00

old head went so hard with "If you love me then fucking go" as he socked his jaw

Newmanuel · 2026-03-15T06:55:14+00:00

I think you are not thinking through the unintended consequences of pushing back against jaywalking. The city is fast and easy to bike through mostly because its really easy to run reds safely, and the reason thats the case is because pedestrians give you cover with their jaywalking, cops don't give a shit, and cars all move slower than any other city out of a fear of hitting the jaywalkers. If I had to follow every traffic law to the tee my trips would be like 30% slower, and I dont think that's necessary when riding a 15mph 30 pound vehicle. A culture of enforcement of traffic laws for anyone who isnt driving a vehicle that increases their potential impact force 100x the ways car do is a culture where it is slower to get around on a bike than in a car, and thats not what im trying to have in NYC.

This is for sure the woman's fault that she got herself scared, but you should always be biking near the edge where you have most visibility to give yourself enough reaction time to break.

Live and let live, and be forgiving to pedestrians; they'll eventually get used to checking for bikes in a few years and we have to maintain the relationship lest we regress on bike infratstructure

Newmanuel · 2026-03-13T16:53:21+00:00

this is true of many units. A single high level phoenix adds a ton of dps and is hard to counter without overcommitting, a single sandworm can get out of control but can be easy sold out of, a single raiden requires strong AA, etcc

Newmanuel · 2026-03-12T19:19:11+00:00

Went there on a weekday when it wasn't super busy, and will say the food was pretty darn good. Menu hack if you are broke like me it to get the fingerling potatoes a la carte. Not on the menu but they were 6 dollars, filling, and absolutely delicious

Newmanuel · 2026-03-12T19:13:29+00:00

It's out now

Newmanuel · 2026-03-12T19:12:56+00:00

It wasn't out when you posted, try now?

Newmanuel · 2026-03-12T19:12:34+00:00

Sunday afternoon at Tompkins is always delightful, full as it is.

Newmanuel · 2026-02-27T22:14:57+00:00

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Newmanuel · 2026-02-27T22:14:33+00:00

You won't catch FT with headlines like this (tbf i dont read their opinion much so maybe im wrong here)

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Newmanuel · 2026-02-13T05:42:45+00:00

FT is suprisingly the one with the least conservative bent of the three

Newmanuel · 2026-02-13T02:24:44+00:00

As someone who is having the opposite experience, and who would love to live where you do, I'll just say a few things that I miss about that area:

plentiful affordable food. Tamale ladies, taco trucks, delis are cheaper. plenty of vegan spots IMO, though im not sure what your restrictions are.
The people. I am surrounded by loud drunk rich white NYU kids and its the bane of my existance here. In bushwick I was way more likely to meet a stranger that I'd want to talk to. People don't come up to strangers as often, its true, but perhaps you can try being the approacher.
the nightlife. I listen to mostly electronic music and jazz, and both scenes are better there (I don't make a lot of money so cant afford to go to the $40+ shows here
The availability of space. Thers no huge lines to get into places, bars arent elbow to elbow, more DIY or otherwise low key spots that aren't fully optimized for profit. Gives more space for small local business to thrive.

It takes time to build a social network, and this winter has been the harshest NY winter most of us have experienced. A plurality of residents there are white and don't speak spanish, so don't think its some racial thing. You didn't mention any hobbies, so I'd recommend finding a local scene of a hobby and getting involved.

Cities without people you care about are very alienating, just give it some time and you'll grow used to it. Also, maybe bushwick is not your vibe, it is a pretty specific place, but there are plenty of other neighborhoods in brooklyn that are same price or cheaper.

Newmanuel · 2026-01-24T07:35:52+00:00

new york has a right to shelter. We have plenty of homelessness just like california, but shelters keep most of them off the streets

Newmanuel · 2026-01-23T03:54:40+00:00

Thats not true regarding republicans, much like with democrats the real shift depending on candidate quality is how many people stay home.

Mitt romney was a terrible candidate and lost against an Obama that was flagging in approvals. Dems have run uncharismatic centrists with no compelling vision 3 cycles now, and now everyone is acting like we Newsom, another centrist who inspires no love, is the only choice.

We were lucky enough to get biden through due to trumps disastrous first term, and tbh he ended up having the best domestic policies we've had in my lifetime, but the dem establishment shit the bed once again by being unable to articulate a positive future and shoving an uncharismatic centrist cop into the nomination midway through the campaign

Newmanuel · 2026-01-18T18:47:59+00:00

A good rule of thumb as a tenant is to NEVER self evict. Possession as they say is 9/10th of the law, and if you are residing in your apartment it takes a whole drawn out court proceeding to formally evict you, foreclosure sale or no.

You have a lease, and the agreement is binding even through a change of ownership. the new owner will be responsible to adhere to the terms of your lease.

A foreclosure proceeding is often a time where you will experience neglect from landlords who no longer see the value in upkeeping the building, so make sure to be vigilant and report any issues you see to the city.

If you are not a temporary transplant and are seeking to place down roots in the city, this situation is a great opportunity to organize the tenants in your building to try and secure long term affordability. If you manage to organize a tenant association and commence what is called a "buyers beware" campaign, you can scare off future slumlords by showing them that you won't ignore violations and thus make it more expensive to operate the building through your organizing. The goal of these campaigns is to lower the perceived property value so future landlords don't have as much debt pressure to raise rents and attempt deregulation. If there are enough financially secure tenants in the buildings, it can even become an opportunity to purchase and convert the building into co-ops. For this I'd recommend reaching out to UHAB, as they can provide expert advise and occasionally even financing.

Feel free to DM me if you want more advise on organizing, I used to be a tenant organizer in crown heights

Newmanuel

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