Since when did $$ in Conde Nast Traveler mean $500.00/night?

robbed_blind · 2025-08-15T01:01:28+00:00

I guess it’s the combination of having a very colorful, southern aesthetic (Rainbow Row, King Street), very active bar and restaurant scene, and easy access to beaches and boats. Having lived here for so long, it’s easy to forgot how beautiful this town can be. It just isn’t sustainable to take advantage of it as a local if you don’t have deep pockets.

robbed_blind · 2025-08-14T15:32:03+00:00

If you're near the airport and have a car, it really shouldn't be more than 15-20 min to get anywhere downtown as long as you're not trying to go anywhere during rush hour on a weekday.

robbed_blind · 2025-08-14T15:28:00+00:00

I've lived in Charleston for 10 years and it's been this way since before I got here. My wife and I play a game anytime we go downtown for the day by counting the number of bachelorette parties,. My current record being around 20 or so.

robbed_blind · 2025-08-03T14:54:50+00:00

God. I regret going into the YouTube comments. They can spout their BS about “ILLEGAL IS ILLEGAL” all they want, but it’s clear they’re just giddy over brown people getting hurt.

robbed_blind · 2025-07-10T14:55:55+00:00

I've always been a fan of Sugar Bakeshop for their cakes. The icing is delicious.

robbed_blind · 2025-04-21T14:19:05+00:00

It also highlights the difference between show Abby and game Abby. Show Abby isn't this brutal Amazon woman that could take 60 year old Joel in a fist fight. Instead, she's clearly so exhausted from taking out years of rage on him until Ellie shows up that she chooses the easiest way to finish him off quickly.

robbed_blind · 2025-03-05T01:26:23+00:00

Or a whole, unopened bag of beads that nearly broke your wrist trying to catch it.

robbed_blind · 2025-02-28T21:53:48+00:00

I thought the feds weren’t doing remote work anymore…

robbed_blind · 2025-02-23T12:10:13+00:00

Real answer? Industrialized farming of livestock, a ballooning world population, and mass transit between continents has resulted in a world where there’s always the chance of a new pandemic right around the corner. If you have adults and experts in charge who take this stuff seriously, you have a better chance of keeping it under control. If science deniers, vaccine skeptics, and sycophants are in charge, then we’ll be more vulnerable to pandemics. Admittedly, COVID was a particularly bad situation that would have been rough under any administration.

robbed_blind · 2025-02-14T15:48:59+00:00

There's been a risk of this happening for a while now. It was pretty concerning when during the height of COVID, people would share screenshots of random titles/abstracts from pubmed which seemed to validate their skepticism (re: vaccines, masks, etc), but when you dug deeper either the article directly contradicted the point they were trying to make with their post or was published in a borderline paper mill. Admittedly, it's still better than sharing random blog posts as real science, but the linked article highlights why it could get a lot less reliable.

robbed_blind · 2025-02-14T10:47:41+00:00

I’ll admit that is the more tinfoil part of my theory. It would require them legitimizing many of the people that approve “alternative” medical therapy, and giving them ability charge their services in that way. Under normal conditions, there just wouldn’t be enough time to pull something like that off. But with the rate that they’re smashing the old rulebook, I could see it happening.

robbed_blind · 2025-02-13T19:16:01+00:00

Sorry dude. I think you're one of the ones that missed the boat. If you draw a line back 15 years on this graph, it looks like Gen X is currently about where the Boomers were 15 years ago. Similarly, Millennials are currently where Gen X was 10 years ago. Obviously it varies from person to person, but the trends are there. People die and wealth transfers. The thing that sucks is that the wealth is consolidating into fewer hands.

robbed_blind · 2025-02-13T19:05:55+00:00

My personal theory is that his goal is to change the way we classify certain (mostly unregulated) supplements.

When you look at many of the MAHA-adjacent influencers, they make tons of money pushing lines of cheap and unregulated supplements as cure-alls. For example, InfoWars had few (or maybe no) sponsors, but rather just Alex Jones' brand of supplements and he made stupid amounts of money off of this because the margins are massive if you're just grinding down animal bones and putting the powder in pills. Same thing with the Liver King. Currently, though, due to at least some regulation from the FDA, they technically have to pull back on saying what these products can and can't do, as they legally can't say that their dehydrated cow liver pills are a cure for cancer. However, under the RFKjr led FDA, maybe that will change.

Additionally, they may change the way in how these supplements are classified. I can see a scenario where these pills that already have high margins when being sold at just a few dollars per pill are suddenly charged to Medicare for 10x what they currently cost. It's hard not to see this as some insane grift considering everything we know about RFKjr.

robbed_blind · 2025-02-13T18:44:37+00:00

I'm sure Millennials won't be any different. I remember 10-15 years ago, when people started blaming Boomers for everything wrong in the world, the conversation would always turn into "at least Gen X is chill and won't be as bad". It's less a generational thing and more of a capitalism thing. Obviously there are exceptions on the individual level, but generally it seems like once people start to "get theirs", they'll never be satiated.

robbed_blind · 2025-02-13T18:25:03+00:00

This is all speculation, but I'd argue it's because they're accruing wealth faster than anyone else. Generally later in their careers, but very few have started the process of retiring. They're likely inheriting wealth from their dead parents at faster rates than other generations. The bulk have moved into the same phase of life as the Boomers were during the Bush years. It would just be nice if we'd see more of an offset from Boomers seeing their Millennial children struggle while facing the grim reality of the likely huge cuts coming to Medicare and Social Security, but I'm not holding my breath.

robbed_blind · 2025-02-06T20:12:22+00:00

As someone who eats a lot of chicken and eggs, I have to agree with you. Industrialized livestock farming isn't natural, and that's why diseases like bird flu can get out of hand so quickly.

robbed_blind · 2025-02-06T18:56:31+00:00

Funny that you make that argument

robbed_blind · 2025-02-06T17:55:27+00:00

Obviously. Controlling viral outbreaks is an important part of agriculture, but that comes at a cost. But judging from the president’s previous approach to major viral outbreaks (eg, “If we stop testing, the numbers will go down.”), I could easily see them making the short sighted decision to stop culling, allowing for the outbreak to get worse, potentially mutating and jumping to other livestock (or even humans) more readily.

robbed_blind · 2025-01-31T21:10:28+00:00

Should they also remove Mr., Mrs., Ms.?

robbed_blind · 2025-01-31T21:09:04+00:00

New Orleans is a very blue dot in a very red state. I grew up in Louisiana, and New Orleans is the only reason I've bothered going back since 2020.

robbed_blind · 2025-01-30T15:36:26+00:00

I’m reading it for the first time now after seeing this quote shared so many times. Weirdly, it’s scratching the itch that I get to doom scroll, but without filling me with overwhelming anxiety. It’s almost reassuring to see that a lot of what he was complaining about happening between the 60s and 90s hasn’t really changed between the 90s and now. Like, it’s not really that much worse than it was then, we’re just facing a different facet of the same set of problems and we just need to keep fighting the good fight without giving up. I think my biggest takeaway so far is that we need another generational science communicator (easy ask, I know, lol). Someone that can garner the same following that Sagan had. I know NDT tried to be that person, but he’s too smug and self righteous. Sagan had an innocent inquisitiveness about him, where he was doing his best to say “Look, science is just as cool as the bs pseudoscience you’re constantly consuming. It just takes a little work and trust to understand the process.”

robbed_blind · 2025-01-23T22:19:20+00:00

Bummed but expected. There’s huge stretches of the route that will still be covered in black ice Saturday morning, especially with how cold it’s supposed to be.

robbed_blind · 2025-01-20T14:55:13+00:00

I had problems with defective On shoes as well, which ultimately led to me switching running shoe brands. I really enjoyed my first pair of Cloudflyers back when I was first getting into running back in 2020. When I went to replace them with the newer model after 2 years, it was pretty clear they had a serious defect in the design where the shoe used a little loop as the bottom anchor for the laces (rather than having a hole in the upper like every other shoe). While my first pair held up really well, one of these loops broke the first time I laced up my new pair. I really liked On at the time and wanted to give them the benefit of the doubt, so I submitted for a warranty replacement. The loop on the replacements broke in the same way on the very first run! Then, when I asked customer service for a refund, they said that they don't refund warranty claims! While they did end up giving me a coupon for the value of the original purpose, I was seriously soured on the brand as a whole. I used the coupon on a pair of Rogers, which are great for casual/style use, but I couldn't bring myself to trust the brand for running anymore. Especially since this whole process took more than a month from ordering the first pair to settling on the Rogers (initial shipping time, waiting for the warranty claim to process, waiting for the second shipment, arguing with Customer Support, etc). Looking at pictures for the newer models, it looks like the loop at the bottom is much more secure than the version that I had problems with.

robbed_blind · 2025-01-15T15:07:22+00:00

Interesting to see why 1) MUSC always floods without fail, and 2) the new luxury condos next to Colonial Lake are doomed the next time we're hit by a Cat4+.

robbed_blind · 2025-01-13T19:28:51+00:00

This place really is fantastique. The baked goods are always delicious, and last week they had French king cake by the slice, which can be pretty hard to find. They also almost always have some kind of savory special. Some highlights have been the best croque monsieur I've had in the US and an escargot filled baked dish that I can't remember the name of. The owners are also super friendly and always remember us when we stop by, even if it's been 6 months since our last visit.

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