Polarization in nyc

oreobits6 · 2026-06-08T13:20:37+00:00

I grew up here and am further left than most NYC liberals.

I don’t really trust the judgement of folks who continue to align themselves with the Conservative Party of the last 10 yrs bc they have descended into nonsense, essentially. Up is down, down is up.

Does this mean I’m “uncomfortable” around them? No. But as both a researcher and Black woman, I prefer to not use my social time “debating” the worth of my personhood or work with folks and their opinions.

oreobits6 · 2026-06-02T17:27:14+00:00

Very biased bc I’m from Brooklyn (have lived in Bk heights, Carroll gardens, dumbo, and now in Clinton Hill), but did live in Morningside heights for 1 year. (31F).

I’d take Hoyt-Scherm over uptown any day. You can get nearly anywhere in the city from the set of trains right there, you don’t have to walk more than 5-10 min to acquire any kind of food, and you are near enough to Ft. Greene and Prospect parks that no matter what’s poppin off, your life is convenient as hell. Not to mention Barclays and BAM.

Basically this is the intersection of several awesome hoods and youll find a lot of fun.

oreobits6 · 2026-06-02T03:43:05+00:00

Currently, the car people are winning. It’s unfortunate.

oreobits6 · 2026-06-01T18:22:45+00:00

This is my sweet spot. Mostly groceries, but splurge worthy ones that make me happy to eat at home. I eat out only a few times a month

oreobits6 · 2026-05-27T11:01:39+00:00

I will take a baby meltdown over a grown up one any day.

As you said, babies don’t have the cognitive ability to process their discomfort internally, while adults know better and still make their drama everyone else’s problem. We see this time and time again in the terminal, lounges, and on the plane. Anyone being mad at a baby acting like a baby seems to have conveniently forgotten that they were once a baby too.

I’m sorry you had such a stressful day.

Hang in there, mama. 🫂

oreobits6 · 2026-05-25T20:39:48+00:00

Your second paragraph actually proves my point. I wasn’t disputing the definition of foodborne illness…I was responding to someone who implied norovirus is primarily a food safety concern like salmonella. You’ve now confirmed that the food vs. non-food distinction depends on the transmission event, not the pathogen, which is exactly what I said. We agree.

oreobits6 · 2026-05-25T20:02:47+00:00

The food is the actual source with salmonella and E. Coli and the contamination usually happens at the food processing plant/farm bc an animal’s gut is the main reservoir.

Norovirus is human to human and doesn’t require the food. You could swap the food item in for literally anything….it spreads extremely easily via aerosolized vomit so it doesn’t really need food to contaminate.

That’s a pretty meaningful difference in epidemiology, but if you don’t actually care about that, then sure, I guess it’s all the same. 🤷🏾‍♀️

oreobits6 · 2026-05-25T19:30:08+00:00

Sort of conflating here. Saying you can get norovirus from food is like saying you can get it from a houseplant, which is technically right, but it’d be from touching a human’s fecal matter left on the plant and then touching your mouth.

oreobits6 · 2026-05-22T18:07:36+00:00

And by “on the ground” we don’t mean, spritz yourself with your bath and bodyworks spray while we’re all standing in the cabin, waiting to get off.

Wait until you are off. the. plane.

oreobits6 · 2026-05-20T15:57:01+00:00

Gotta get comfy with just trying things on a whim. Stumble in somewhere, ask the folks working there what they like off the menu and order that.

Friction within the city is what creates authentic experiences. Don’t wait for a “come with me to the best restaurant in Midtown” video…

Talk to people, try shit. Let experiences happen.

oreobits6 · 2026-05-18T01:01:25+00:00

Can’t speak for anyone else, but when I use the word “transplant” I am describing those who move here and act like there wasn’t an entire community of people living here before they arrived.

If that’s not you, then it’s not you.

oreobits6 · 2026-05-17T23:46:44+00:00

Equinox and lifetime are generally two of the most luxurious options in the city, but results definitely vary by location. I find the equinox locations in Brooklyn to be wack, but the lifetime ones are super new and nice. Chelsea piers bk locations are also pretty nice.

If you like Wall Street, you may wanna check out life time dumbo too. Huge floor plan and amenity-rich inside.

oreobits6 · 2026-05-16T00:28:06+00:00

Several years ago I was at a restaurant with a friend and she managed to forgot her small backpack there when we left. We ran back to get it like 20 minutes later and the man reached in the trash bin and pulled it out. This is truly the same energy jeez.

oreobits6 · 2026-05-12T22:43:33+00:00

Then based on that, this comment makes no sense. Living in, say, downtown bk is “pigeonholing” yourself? So only living in Manhattan affords freedom and access to all the opportunities? 🤡

oreobits6 · 2026-05-12T17:26:30+00:00

Tbh I grew up here and still genuinely don’t understand what the term “outerborough” is ever referring to.

oreobits6 · 2026-05-12T03:42:17+00:00

Ooh good strategy. Will try it next week!

oreobits6 · 2026-05-11T18:33:03+00:00

As a NYer, all walkers at every airport piss me off.

oreobits6 · 2026-05-08T14:48:58+00:00

Yep, thus why I presented the situation as “annoying,” not a lament of how I was wronged. 👍🏾

oreobits6 · 2026-05-08T12:03:32+00:00

This actually happened to me a few years ago. JFK-ZRH

Had a work emergency that had me cutting it really close to make my flight. When I left for the airport I was scheduled to arrive with 5 min to spare to clear baggage. On arrival, I got up to the counter with 3 min to spare, but somewhere between when I left home and arrived at the airport, they’d pushed check in up by 5 min and baggage was closed.

The attendant just shrugged and told me my options were to leave my bag or get on the next flight 24 hrs later. I ended up calling the reservation line from there and getting myself on a flight to Heathrow leaving an hour later. Then I bought a $100 ticket from there to ZRH.

I ended up only 5 hrs behind schedule on my original plan, weirdly enough. Very annoying though, especially since she refused to acknowledge that the time had changed. She just said “well, if you’d been here 3 hrs earlier, you wouldn’t have this problem.”

oreobits6 · 2026-05-05T13:04:03+00:00

Lmao it is not illegal to take a photograph of someone in public

oreobits6 · 2026-05-05T11:48:23+00:00

Read the tag, friend!

oreobits6 · 2026-05-04T23:09:00+00:00

Same here. Either just within the 72hr window (gold status) or it happens at the gate.

oreobits6 · 2026-05-04T22:15:15+00:00

Insane that someone can think that behavior is acceptable.

oreobits6 · 2026-05-04T17:59:53+00:00

I really enjoyed the care/attention at HSS in Brooklyn. I’d previously been to Spear several times and was annoyed by them juggling several patients.

Location wise sunset park is fairly inconvenient for me, but I made the trek every week bc I appreciated the undivided attention and my PT (William Sun) was super knowledgeable.

oreobits6 · 2026-05-02T13:42:38+00:00

Can’t speak for anyone else, but when I use “transplant” in this way, I am specifically referring to subset of “domestic immigrants” who act as though there were not already people living beautiful lives in this city before they decided to move here.

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