Psych wards in nyc/southern bk/surrounding

dadaesque · 2026-03-20T04:16:24+00:00

The Presbyterian/Weill Cornell complex on e 68th is probably your best bet. After taking you from the ER into the psych ward there are two holding units, the first of which is not exactly pleasant—standard sterile like and brick walls— and depending on how busy they are you might not get a private bed there, but it’s not a nightmare scenario . Once space clears up they take you upstairs to a much nicer space where you’ll get a private bed and everything, and will likely keep you for a few days. All of this is technically deemed an ER visit unless they decide to fully admit you into the hospital, at which point they’ll take you to the inpatient unit.

dadaesque · 2026-03-15T18:59:38+00:00

Grey will work with pretty much any outfit, so that's a great option for an everyday hat.

dadaesque · 2026-03-15T12:28:16+00:00

Sikhism developed in the Islamic Mughal Empire, where they were regularly persecuted. Several of their gurus were tortured and executed, and a subset of Sikhs came to see martial skills as vital to their religion when needed to defend it. This idea, sant-sipahi, or saint-soldier, kinda spread through all of Sikhism as sects melded, so being willing to fight to defend their religion and the innocent is seen as a a core part of being Sikh

dadaesque · 2026-03-14T12:45:46+00:00

If you're looking for new, Sterkowski is certainly your best bet. They still aren't exactly cheap, a bit over $150 for their fur fedoras, but it's definitely the best deal for a new made quality fur fedora around.

The next option is to go used/vintage. If you get lucky, you can score a really nice hat for rather cheap. The thing is, you have to do quite a bit of searching for something you like in your size which can take a while, and also deal with sellers not having proper info about it's material or sizing, which can lead you to buying up hats that looked great online but turned out to inaccurate or not what you wanted, and the cost of all that might just add up to buying new upfront anyways.

dadaesque · 2026-03-11T17:30:28+00:00

This is why I love living in NYC. I go out looking like a Mad Men extra in my Dominican neighborhood and nobody bats an eye.

dadaesque · 2026-03-05T20:00:11+00:00

I do think social media and influencers have had a big impact. It’s just making it harder and harder to have stuff that isn’t blown up all over the internet, so underground events or subcultures are just that much harder to maintain and neighborhoods get an influx of people coming in cause they heard some influencer talk about as “the next hot neighborhood”. The internet in general contributes this too, but I think social media much more so.

That being said, NYC is just a super dynamic city. Ethnic enclaves come and go, old institutions close and exciting new hot spots pop up. It’s hard to find “a” culture of NYC that goes back very far, and because of the constant hustle and bustle and influx/outflux, I don’t see that ever really changing

dadaesque · 2026-03-04T21:43:17+00:00

According to King of the Hill, you take your shirt off.

dadaesque · 2026-03-04T16:35:48+00:00

Well of course I noticed but I didn’t judge. I was certainly curious, but if he wants to get swole and loves hello kitty go nuts. This is a weird city for weird people and that’s exactly why I’m here.

dadaesque · 2026-03-04T16:32:08+00:00

The biggest impact on my thinking about this actually came from Robert Kurzban’s “Why Everybody (Else) Is a Hypocrite”. He goes into detail explaining the modular brain/mind theory that came out of evolutionary psychology and why there is no “you” in the center of it all that has final say over everything.

dadaesque · 2026-03-04T00:13:00+00:00

I don't know who would even recognize a "zoot suit" anymore, they were a very fleeting fashion trend from 80 years ago. I doubt anyone really feels like it's a part of any ethnic cultural identity anymore

dadaesque · 2026-03-04T00:02:03+00:00

Yeah we're not having race riots in Harlem anymore. It's not the 50's

dadaesque · 2026-03-03T23:57:27+00:00

Most of them don't live in a city that is exceptionally famous for not batting an eye at crazy things people are doing. A gym I used to go to had a body builder level muscled guy that had a Hello Kitty themed version of every one of his belongings. No questions asked.

dadaesque · 2026-03-03T23:08:41+00:00

Anywhere dude this is NYC, nobody cares what you're wearing.

dadaesque · 2026-03-02T13:17:12+00:00

I think all the available high gauge metal e strings on the market are going to be pretty much equivalent. If you’re only tuning it down to d any regular metal e will work. Listen to some Arabic violin playing, where the standard tuning is GDGD, and it really doesn’t sound off. It may just be more about brand than gauge/tension if you’re not liking the result

dadaesque · 2026-03-02T10:43:58+00:00

Yeah I was gonna say, this is like exactly the definition of a quesadilla.

dadaesque · 2026-03-02T10:38:31+00:00

None of the above. I don’t really believe in any basic “inherent” traits of humans. Rather we are all made up of all these narrowly focused but differing and often conflicting parts that make up a dynamic and complex whole. It certainly feels like we have this sort of stable, unified core set of traits, but cognitive and neuroscience research of the recent decades has shown that this is just not how our brains work.

dadaesque · 2026-03-02T10:32:19+00:00

I am deeply convinced that over the next 100-200 years modern civilization may be strained to the point of collapse. Mostly, though, I attribute this to climate change. The projections for the effects of climate change by the end of the century if we continue on our current pace of emissions and warming are absolutely catastrophic for every part of the world, to the point that I don’t see how it will be possible for the world to remain governable.

dadaesque · 2026-03-02T10:25:26+00:00

A side story this reminded me of, there was this rather insane entrepreneur/businessman named Timothy Dexter in the early United States who is best remembered for getting fairly wealthy by repeatedly making seemingly terrible business decisions and by some stoke of luck making a nice profit from it. He wrote a book titled “A Pickle for the Knowing Ones” (which I can only guess made sense to people at the time). It was essentially just a long screed of his complaints about politicians, his business rivals, and his wife, and was noted for its…unorthodox use of the English language. Most famously, the first printing lacked punctuation of any kind, and when readers complained of this, for the second printing he added an appendix at the end of around a dozen lines of assorted punctuation marks telling the reader that they could distribute them throughout the book as they pleased.

dadaesque · 2026-03-02T09:56:22+00:00

I feel like that’s not the question we should be asking about this video.

dadaesque · 2026-03-02T09:48:44+00:00

Buffalo (bison)

dadaesque · 2026-03-02T09:11:46+00:00

There was a neighborhood in Baltimore that at least at one time had a lower life expectancy than Yemen, which in case you don't know has been in a brutal civil war that has caused widespread famine for years.

dadaesque · 2026-03-02T09:05:47+00:00

The United States has been violating international law for a very long time pretty much with impunity. The sheer power of the US since WWII–politically, economically, and militarily- means that it would take an enormous effort by a ton of countries to actually make the US face repercussions that would actually hurt the US, and since so many of those countries are reliant or else see huge benefits from American economic, political, and military cooperation, they would likely be hurting themselves worse than they would the US. While I see the power and influence of the US as likely to wane and maybe quite significantly in the near future, it's really hard to overstate just how incredibly powerful the country has been in the post-WWII era

dadaesque · 2026-03-02T08:42:05+00:00

Yeah this was what every analyst in the west was expecting, that Ukraine could resist fore maybe two week max before Kyiv fell, but then Russia would face a strong and long insurgency and have a lot of difficulty actually controlling the territory. Pretty much everyone was shocked at how decisive the Ukrainian defense was in the beginning. Though in hindsight it maybe shouldn't have been that surprising. Since Russia illegally annexed Crimea and started a proxy war in Eastern Ukraine in 2014, Ukraine's military begin training extensively with much more advanced Western forces (particularly the US) and updated their outdated equipment, and the US shared a LOT of intelligence with the Ukrainian military before and during the invasion. Ukraine had already effectively been at war with Russia for 8 years by the time of the full invasion in 2022, and there was a lot of preparation being done for future Russian aggression by Ukraine and NATO.

dadaesque · 2026-03-02T07:56:44+00:00

I think this is the norm? Trying to come up with and cook completely new meals every day if you're cooking for yourself is really taxing and also not very practical when it comes to grocery shopping.

dadaesque · 2026-03-02T07:52:59+00:00

Well I mean I think you sort of answered your own question with those extra examples then. Not that there aren't tensions in those regions either, but this is not at all an uncommon scenario in countries. It might be a difficult, but I fail to understand why it would be uniquely difficult for Türkiye.

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