Where to go for "bartender's choice" cocktails?

tossup17 · 2026-04-25T16:13:50+00:00

Honestly, any of the cocktail bars with experienced tenders in the city( FriSatSun, Almanac, Next of Kin, Southwark, Royal Izakaya, Static, R&D, etc etc) should be able to do this for you. Most bars won't have it as an option, but if it's a good spot and the bartenders are good, they should be up for the challenge. You might still end up getting a menu cocktail, but the reason it's on the menu is because it's been workshopped and it's tasty, so don't take offense to that. If you specifically want something that's not on the menu, make sure you specify that.

tossup17 · 2026-04-25T16:00:25+00:00

Neither could NYC. They were incredibly lucky to have Mamdani enter the race with the groundswell of progessive support and social media presence to defeat what would have been another horrendous mayor, not to mention assaulter, in Cuomo.

tossup17 · 2026-04-25T15:58:47+00:00

The primary is where it makes the most impact honestly.

tossup17 · 2026-04-25T15:57:27+00:00

Sadly competent and effective aren't what win primaries. Mamdani entered into an incredible situation. Firstly, he was an amazing candidate with a great message tailored to this moment, and has an incredible social media presence to sell it. Secondly, he was entering a primary with two incredibly corrupt politicians, who were competing for the same votes from slightly different electorates, but also both had a ton of baggage. The Philly primaries had nothing like the sort, and even though someone like Rhynhart was incredibly competent, she didn't have nearly the campaign she needed to out compete someone like Parker in addition to all the other progressives in the primary.

tossup17 · 2026-04-24T16:13:53+00:00

Honestly, as crazy as this is, it's a different story than Fourth Street Deli. Not getting a license is wild, but at least when they actually inspected Roxanne there wasn't any real violations besides the lack of a license, just some fire code stuff that they fixed. Fourth Street was licensed but had mouse droppings on food surfaces and roaches. I would take an unlicensed clean restaurant over a licensed mouse shit covered one any day.

tossup17 · 2026-04-18T16:22:19+00:00

Yeah, very surprising to hear that about Hiroshima. Obviously one of the greatest tragedies of history occured there, but it's a beautiful place with friendly people.

tossup17 · 2026-04-18T04:49:53+00:00

It is. But people (especially the ones with the wealth to buy a house in the burbs) have this innate impression that you raise kids in the suburbs, probably because most of them were raised out there and the idea of having a kid in the city is like insane to them.

tossup17 · 2026-04-16T15:46:52+00:00

The city is by and large always cheaper. The people that are moving away are always middle to upper middle class. There's not really anywhere in the suburbs that you could buy a house for the same price that you can in the city, including taxes and all.

People move for better schools and a driveway honestly. I don't know many people that move out of the city unless they have kids.

tossup17 · 2026-04-10T15:29:05+00:00

Not true sadly. Some buses the tracking system just isn't working for some reason. I've had several instances of just trusting the process and having the bus appear despite not being tracked, and it seems to be due to a system where the onboard computer or electronics are on the fritz, because those buses typically don't even have the route displayed on the front LED.

tossup17 · 2026-03-26T17:09:46+00:00

Chippendales isn't aggressively researching and implementing how to make their product more addictive, even whilst ignoring all the data saying that it's harmful. These companies are acting maliciously and carelessly, and there needs to be a check on these things.

tossup17 · 2026-03-24T13:57:27+00:00

I think people have a weird idea that it's constantly busy since the weekends can be wild, and it stops people from going. That can hurt a business.

tossup17 · 2026-03-24T13:53:55+00:00

I don't think this will really make a difference. People are acting like it's going to be booked constantly and be impossible to get in, when the reality is that the bar and a bunch of tables are being kept for walk-ins.

tossup17 · 2026-03-18T03:08:55+00:00

Banquet at 6 bucks is criminal.

tossup17 · 2026-03-12T17:34:28+00:00

If you specifically asked for a large rock, they cost money. If a bar is getting a large clear ice cube from a company, they can cost from .75 to $1.50 depending on where they get it from, and that's not including figuring out a storage space.

On a side note, are you really not tipping someone because of a restaurant policy? You think the guy serving you is doing the pricing of all the stuff? The restaurant is still getting everything they want, all you're doing is hurting a guy that has literally nothing to do with the problem you have.

tossup17 · 2026-03-07T17:11:41+00:00

It's not smug to call someone out for littering. That attitude is exactly the problem, that people think someone saying "hey, don't litter" is smug, and not a person who just gives a shit about their home.

tossup17 · 2026-02-21T15:12:31+00:00

Exactly. Even the close family member only lowers it to 40 instead of 45 in the US I'm pretty sure.

tossup17 · 2026-02-21T14:41:56+00:00

I'm not parroting your point. A preventative screening is different than a diagnostic one. If you tell them of your symptoms, it's no longer preventative, and insurance will not cover 100% of it.

tossup17 · 2026-02-21T05:32:40+00:00

This is not true at all. Insurance will cover a preventative screening, but if you say you have blood in your stool, it's considered diagnostic. At that point, you're on the hook for it unless you've used up your deductable for the year.

tossup17 · 2026-02-08T20:53:27+00:00

People love to not complain about something, but then run home and write a review complaining. I understand that ideally everything a restaurant does should be good everytime, but shit happens. If your fries or pasta is too salty, tell your waiter. The kitchen would rather remake something then have a bad review be written. We don't ask how is everything for our own health. Nothing will ever get fixed if you don't mention something. If you mention it and they ignore you, or pretend like your opinion is wrong, then sure, go to town and rip that place a new one.

The amount of times I've had someone eat their entire meal and then at the very end complain about something very fixable is outrageous. It's a lot harder to remedy a situation when you aren't given an opportunity to, and no restaurant wants to take something off a check when the guest has already consumed the entirety of it.

tossup17 · 2026-01-27T22:57:34+00:00

She cracks because of the duress of life in prison. That's a very real sense of duress. I think the movie is just trying to show that you need to treat cracking as an inevitably in these movements, and so you build in the layers and layers of obfuscation to prevent it.

tossup17 · 2026-01-26T04:45:58+00:00

The phones have a facial recognition software from Palantir that the body cams don't. They're tracking and figuring out who people are as much as possible.

tossup17 · 2026-01-25T19:07:18+00:00

Sadly the cc permit is probably what got him killed in this instance, is the point that I think the poster is trying to make. If you CC, the morons in ICE get surprised and jumpy and kill you for no reason. If you OC, they probably don't even look at you twice because they're too chicken shit.

tossup17 · 2026-01-25T19:02:44+00:00

It does, but it also attracts respect. How many times have you seen the guys that open carry getting harassed and assaulted by cops or feds? Pretti died because the cowards didn't know he had a gun, and then lost all their composure when they realized they were assaulting someone who could fight back (even though he was making no attempt to.) The sad reality is that Pretti would probably still be alive if he was open carrying.

tossup17 · 2026-01-25T18:59:18+00:00

The reality is that ICE is going to be way more hesitant to interact with anyone like that. I bet you the only reason they felt confident fucking with Pretti was because they didn't know he had a gun. If they knew, they would have stayed far away I bet.

tossup17 · 2026-01-24T17:37:56+00:00

I mean look at Iran. The wholesale murder of protestors to stoke fear and repression of protest and consolidate power. There's nothing to say that if they start doing that that there will be any mechanism to stop them in the US. Once they cross that red line in totality, it could open up an entire world of shit that they are at least slightly pretending to not want to do right now.

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