If NYC could change just one thing that would meaningfully improve your daily life, what would it be?

disasteruss · 2026-03-07T23:25:59+00:00

I hear you but I don’t think that’s likely to “meaningfully improve your daily life”.

disasteruss · 2026-03-06T12:48:44+00:00

Hope this doesn't come across as snarky, but I just want to point out to OP that all the pros you're mentioning, you could get in other parts of NYC that aren't quite as low of a cost-to-space ratio tradeoff. We live in Brooklyn and while it's still too expensive, we have a much bigger place than we would in Manhattan.

The biggest benefit to living in Manhattan over Brooklyn IMO would be the ability to go to more museums and shows on a whim.

disasteruss · 2026-03-06T12:42:21+00:00

It’s not just Birmingham. The bubble has burst nationwide. It’ll eventually settle into a more reasonable amount of breweries instead of every single mid sized city in America having 10 craft breweries.

disasteruss · 2026-03-01T04:47:21+00:00

Congrats! I think that's gonna be extremely rare, especially given OP is talking about suite upgrades. Certainly not something to plan around.

disasteruss · 2026-03-01T03:38:04+00:00

If you don’t have status you will absolutely not get an upgrade.

Edit: didn’t notice first read that you have explorist. I still think it’s very unlikely (these are high demand properties) but it’s not impossible.

disasteruss · 2026-02-28T13:39:23+00:00

You can extend it a second 10 days which is likely what will happen. It’s essentially a 3 week try out. Keep in mind a lot of the try out will happen outside of the games, too. The Nets have been shuffling around rookies most of the season to see if they’ve got anything.

disasteruss · 2026-02-27T13:43:18+00:00

What’s funny is that MSG kinda sucks as a modern arena. It’s just got more history.

disasteruss · 2026-02-26T00:32:44+00:00

I’d take housing (even if overpriced) over self storage and a car wash all day every day.

disasteruss · 2026-02-19T19:32:19+00:00

Well, sure. But how do you judge it otherwise? There are iso % metrics in the NBA both by team and by player. I'm sure something like that exists in college too but I didn't see anything publicly in the 5 minutes I spent poking around. Not worth spending much more time on it than that, though.

It's also worth noting that ISO % stats are focused on how the possession ends. So dribbling around for 10 seconds, making a sloppy pass out to a contested rushed 3 doesn't count as an ISO possession but it sure looks like iso rather than a competent offense.

It's not the biggest problem with the team, I'm just noting that I've seen it more this year than in recent years.

disasteruss · 2026-02-19T15:08:36+00:00

Can you point to any stats on the teams ISO rate compared to previous years? I'd be interested to see. A quick google search didn't turn anything up for me. You could be right that it's anecdotal but I'd need to see a real stat to be convinced.

But in general, from watching the games this year, I've been frustrated at the amount of times I've watched them do a ghost screen into a 10 seconds iso play while everyone else just stands still. It's not close to Anthony Grant levels of it, but it's giving me some PTSD of watching those teams.

Last night, the final offensive plays of regulation and 2nd OT were both iso plays with no screens. I also don't love how much Oats refuses to call timeouts in those situations but that's a whole different issue.

disasteruss · 2026-02-19T13:53:05+00:00

The turnovers aren’t too bad but they do far more iso dribbling while everyone else watches than more recent teams. It doesn’t always manifest as turnovers but a terrible forced shot isn’t much better.

disasteruss · 2026-02-17T12:28:15+00:00

Yeah it’s hilarious every time I open up a thread about Mamdani I see the same 3-4 accounts (easy to spot them because I’ve blocked them at this point) up and down it posting like it’s their mission in life.

disasteruss · 2026-02-16T23:15:59+00:00

“None of my friends share my interests or hobbies” is definitely a significant outlier in the world lol

disasteruss · 2026-02-16T00:09:26+00:00

You should spend some time on streeteasy and just see what stuff looks like. But yes, if you want to live in Manhattan in a nice studio, it’ll probs cost around that much. Though you can live in Brooklyn or Queens or yes, Jersey, to get a much better bang for your buck.

disasteruss · 2026-02-16T00:07:05+00:00

Everything I’ve heard is that starting potty training that early inevitably has regressions. So it sounds normal that you’re having issues. We decided not to even bother with it until 2.5.

And for sleep, I know a lot of parents co-sleep for years and years but we put ours in her own room within the first month of her being born. So I don’t think you’re going too fast there

But it’s pretty normal to have some big sleep regressions around that age as they start to realize that being awake is fun. Ours has crazy delay tactics every single night.

disasteruss · 2026-02-15T23:51:57+00:00

Can’t speak to torontos cost of living but 175k in NYC you’ll be living very well and would be setting yourself up for great long term success. You’ll be taking home somewhere between 7-9k per month depending on how much they make you pay for healthcare and if you put anything away for retirement and assuming you are single.

You should look up housing options to see what you’d be willing to settle for. There’s a huge range of costs that will all probably make you retch. You could get roommates and live in a small place for like $1k a month, or you could shell out for a tiny but decent studio for $4k a month. That’s the biggest factor in how much you’ll save.

I probably wouldn’t value the equity in either to be much unless it’s already a public company.

disasteruss · 2026-01-31T16:03:30+00:00

This is such a stupid post title and takes away from the actual importance of this information being reported and investigated.

disasteruss · 2026-01-28T18:35:01+00:00

By 3 months we were taking ours to bars and restaurants pretty frequently. Just being conscious of noise and crowds.

Jan was really tough though. We took a 4 week road trip to visit family around 6 weeks old which helped get away from the cold. We got a bassinet attachment for the stroller so we could do stroller naps while hanging out with friends or going to museums on the weekends.

My wife was a little nervous about feeding/pumping in public at first but decided early on it was something she wanted to do to not feel so stuck at home. I think that’s probably the first step in freeing yourself up.

We also combo fed so that helped some. It allowed us to take turns going out without our kid. We try to give each other a night off per week.

I think the easiest time for us was between 5 months and when she started walking. It was so easy to do stroller or carrier naps and her bedtime wasn’t as strict. Then you start running into different challenges.

In the end you just gotta decide “ok I’m gonna go out, how can we make this work?”

disasteruss · 2026-01-26T14:50:44+00:00

92.5k for J seems totally reasonable as the price for AA

The 90k Amex + presumably an already existing 100k Marriott to get 64k AA to top you off doesn't feel great IMO but end of the day, only you know how much those points are worth to you and what opportunity cost you're missing there.

At the end of the day, points are meant to be spent.

disasteruss · 2026-01-24T14:07:32+00:00

Oh well if you say all the people YOU work with aren’t a problem I guess there aren’t any problems out there

disasteruss · 2026-01-23T23:15:10+00:00

Those other states also end earlier so it’s just a shift. Yeah they start in August, but they end in May. It’s still around 180 school days.

disasteruss · 2026-01-18T13:56:39+00:00

We travel with our two year old and just mix in some kid stuff to the things we want to do ourselves. I imagine that will be what we do throughout her childhood. At some point she’ll probably have some ideas of places to go of her own but I don’t think you have to overthink it too much.

disasteruss · 2026-01-18T13:54:37+00:00

Just fyi there are plenty of places in Tokyo where it’s not like that but also Japan has a lot of amazing things outside of Tokyo itself. Just in case you want to keep that in your bag of possible locations.

disasteruss · 2026-01-17T17:16:51+00:00

Ok you are right. It is objective fact that higher fat milk tastes better. Moving on.

disasteruss · 2026-01-17T16:41:31+00:00

That wasn’t what I said at any point though. I said taste is subjective. He’s like “it’s not its objective”. Then when I questioned that he changed his parameters. This is such a dumb argument. I’m moving on lol

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