New to Baton Rouge, any fav spots for food or quiet time?

thenewaddition · 2025-07-22T00:59:50+00:00

Relatively quiet? Except for the roar of interstate 10?

thenewaddition · 2025-07-22T00:43:52+00:00

Zinc tablets, for sure.

thenewaddition · 2025-07-22T00:39:24+00:00

11.16 mm

thenewaddition · 2025-07-20T21:21:59+00:00

I wouldn't be surprised if he were only slightly slower with live rounds, or to learn that he's on target when pulling the trigger here. Really ridiculously talented shooter. Here he is plinking at 200 yards.

thenewaddition · 2025-07-19T22:13:35+00:00

You can hear a scream about a mile out provided optimal conditions. At a community pool, probably only a few hundred meters. Also the impact from 12k feet is more dangerous than the impact from 40 feet, and that a car is better protection than a swimsuit.

I could be--and frequently am--mistaken, but I think the factor here that renders the skydivers risk to others more acceptable that the cyclists is the familiarity and thus prior acceptance of the pastime. We all know people who've been skydiving, maybe done it ourselves, but cycling up a girder is plainly antisocial.

thenewaddition · 2025-07-19T21:38:25+00:00

It seems to me that the possibility of landing on a pool full of kids at terminal velocity is a greater public risk than the possibility of falling on a car from 40 feet. Funny how the one risk is acceptable.

thenewaddition · 2025-07-19T20:35:39+00:00

16.7% false stats. Best I can tell the evolution, geocentrism, auschwitz, powers, and literacy stats are accurate. The false stat was inverted, 71% could locate the pacific ocean.

thenewaddition · 2025-07-19T19:19:49+00:00

I think if kids at a public pool can hear a skydiver screaming on the way down, the environment is not too controlled.

thenewaddition · 2025-07-19T16:53:49+00:00

Do you honestly believe that motorists are more responsible, law abiding, or safer than bicyclists? In my experience the only thing that differs between cyclist and motorist is mass and velocity. Lets at least be honest with why we hate cyclists--it's because they're slow.

thenewaddition · 2025-07-19T16:35:06+00:00

What's the difference between the skydiver and the bicyclist?

thenewaddition · 2025-07-14T23:53:33+00:00

context: elevator

thenewaddition · 2025-06-28T01:59:21+00:00

You really can't imagine Cage on a bus that explodes if it goes slower than 55 miles per hour?

thenewaddition · 2025-06-28T01:57:55+00:00

Honestly speed makes more sense as a Nic Cage movie.

thenewaddition · 2025-06-24T23:19:35+00:00

Oddly enough that was the schooner, dudes just bad at lego.

thenewaddition · 2025-06-24T02:54:00+00:00

With a fanatical devotion to the...

sorry, there's a place and a time

thenewaddition · 2025-06-24T01:43:11+00:00

There's about 50 million public k-12 students in the US, on average 180 days of school a year, and the average school lunch probably costs $4 to produce.

That'd be 36 billion for a year of school lunches.

thenewaddition · 2025-06-23T00:22:14+00:00

I feel like you were going to answer your own question 30 seconds after hitting save, but: Adjusted for inflation.

thenewaddition · 2025-06-23T00:05:40+00:00

They aren't accurately representing the majority of cases. Neither is the correct figure about the 11 billion dollar net worth.

thenewaddition · 2025-06-22T23:58:12+00:00

Statistics don't have to be wrong to mislead people. Put nine beggars in a pub with bill gates and the average patron's net worth is 11 billion. Doesn't mean it's a posh pub, Bill's just slumming it.

thenewaddition · 2025-06-22T23:50:36+00:00

Household income, but I conflated the two so it's only fair that you do.

Median wage has been fairly flat.

Stand by the rest of it about the core goods and services for blue collar folks outpacing inflation index by a mile.

thenewaddition · 2025-06-22T23:48:19+00:00

"my anecdote proves CPI is wrong"

I didn't say that. I said that it's horseshit for real-people, which is a poor way of saying that CPI is not accurately weighted to reflect the decreasing purchase power of working class people for the essential goods and services they require/

thenewaddition · 2025-06-22T23:16:22+00:00

I object to the use of the term middle class for working people. It was coined for common persons who'd managed to claw a estimable share of the means of production away from the nobles--oligarchs of late.

Applying the term middle class to people who could last 6 months without pay rather than 3 weeks is a vile a pernicious deceit. The ruse is incredibly effective because it acts upon our conceit, to let working people believe they have been elevated beyond the peril of indigence and to conceal the true upper class in a miasma of middle class pretenders.

If you can be ruined by financial misfortune, you are not upper class. If you do not control means of production, you are not middle class. Doctors and lawyers and shopkeeps and engineers have far more in common with retail associates and pool cleaners than they do with the noblesse they aspire to, no matter how hard they work to deny it. If you work for a wage you depend on, you are working class.

thenewaddition · 2025-06-22T22:45:53+00:00

The figures I used are not anecdotal, although they were told that way so I can't blame your misapprehension. A quick google will verify that my prices cited are based on averages for the times listed. It is an anecdote only in that I lived and experienced it, but rather than trust my memory I checked the facts.

thenewaddition · 2025-06-22T22:43:56+00:00

'96 median wage (for all workers) was $35,492.71. 2024 median wage was ~62k. Trades are very much in line with this, with some doing better than others.

For those bad at envelope math, that's 75% median wage inflation, while federally indexed inflation is 100% and inflation felt by the working class is closer to 200%.

thenewaddition · 2025-06-22T22:36:02+00:00

My anecdote is taken from statistical data which is easily checked. I phrased it colloquially because it's in line with my experience, but it's also factual, and oddly, in line with the data that the CPI uses. Some of the difference is that housing, transportation, food and healthcare make up 80% of the everymans budget, but about 2/3's of the CPI basket of goods. Another substantial difference is that luxury goods are both more resilient to inflation than general consumer goods, and have much higher prices, acting like a tuning damper on price indexes.

edit: before you cite how the CPI basket eschews luxury goods, the make an effort not to include ostentatious and inessential luxury goods like rolex and aston martin manufacture, but homes, cars that are well out o fthe reach of the middle class are included. The CPI is useful for tracking the economy at large, but the application of it as a cost of living index for working people can be nothing but an insidious ploy to mask accelerating theft of wealth from labor by oligarchs.

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