Americans "want" big SUVs because they're cheaper than mid-sized sedans. Unfortunately, they pollute more and they're less safe.
The SUV protectionism of import tariffs, safety exclusions, and pollution carve-outs must end because they're killing us on the roads, killing our health through more pollution, and killing the planet.
Meanwhile, in Florida: the beef protection racket bans it. Recall what happened to Oprah in 1996 when she dared to express an opinion about beef during the global mad cow scare.[0] And, also the existence of beef libel laws in multiple states.
The cultured meat industry needs better lobbyists or the beef industry is going to squish them.
I have no time nor will to make this a part-time job. Burnout is a real thing, hence I don't want to turn all of my hobbies into money-making machines.
FC and Slashdot. There was a lot less traffic in the Bay Area in 2002 than 2000, and it was easier to find parking in downtown Palo Alto, but the eBay parking lot on Hamilton Place in San Jose still looked like a supercar showroom of the PayPal mafia. (Probably because eBay was used to liquidate the detritus of speculative economy like :CueCats and Webvan promotional materials.) Silicon Valley (San Jose - Santa Clara - Sunnyvale) commercial real estate vacancy rates hit around 25%. I opted to return to finish my EE/CS undergrad and do security research and IT consulting in .edu to pay for university.
When precision composite or aluminum parts don't fit, just jump up-and-down on them until they do. Record on paperwork as "everything fit perfectly". A little lost durability or strength sells more repair parts! /s
You need to get the sugar cubes and use way too many for maximum authenticity :-) I myself am partial to Çaykur's Hemşin tea, by the way.
Mehmet Efendi is good if you're walking by the shop (smells amazing) but the dirty secret is that in a post specialty coffee world, you're probably better off asking your local coffee shop to grind fresh beans for you on the "Turkish" setting or absent that, the finest possible setting they have - more than espresso. And you get to have an interesting conversation with the baristas because they're always super psyched about it for some reason. Arabica beans, dark roast, low acidity from Ethiopia, Yemen etc is traditional but you shouldn't feel limited to that.
It's all well-and-good to know about local cuisine, but sourcing them affordably and easily in other areas of the world is the key gotcha.
Middle America has greatly improved over the past 20 years in international ingredient availability. It used to be impossible to find organic vegetables or tahini (fresh or canned) in middle America, but this is no longer the case. One notable regression is with Whole Foods that doesn't carry any SKUs of pita bread in their flagship headquarters location, while H-E-B contains far more variety of SKUs (not everything WH carries), exceptional customer service, and lower prices.
Balsamic vinegar (TBV, TBVM, TBVRE), olive oil, maple syrup, wasabi, and more are all ripe (pun intended) for counterfeiting and deceptive marketing of inferior products. This is why PDOs & appellations for agricultural products exist. Caveat emptor.
The SUV protectionism of import tariffs, safety exclusions, and pollution carve-outs must end because they're killing us on the roads, killing our health through more pollution, and killing the planet.