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Just because your friend wasn't aware of their roles doesn't mean that his/her lack of awareness is someone else's fault and responsibility. Maybe s/he should research a little more next time before singling out and belittling female tech workers. Isn't the rallying cry of social justice something like "it's not our job to educate you?"

I wanted a Lego Mindstorm kit so badly as a kid, but my parents never got me one. I think my life would have been a lot different if my home situation had at least afforded me that one thing.

How do you know he's a straight white male? Can you tell race, genitalia, and sexual orientation by typing style? Are you going to tell me to check my male privilege next?

I'm not a SWM and I think this stupid article has done a lot to damage the cause of equality. It is tactically, morally, and ethically stupid. I wish people would stop linking it, but sjws gonna sjw, I guess. Getting an angry response from disadvantaged people is more entertaining than doing the dull dreary or the high risk scary work of actually helping underprivileged succeed.

Ugh.

As a minority, I would not be comfortable around a sjw. I've been told way too many times by sjws what it's really like to be [minority category X], when I am very clearly minority category X and they are not.

I don't know anything about this Django contributor aside from the tweets I've just read, but the phrasing and verbiage are very similar to the sjws I've had experiences with similar to what I wrote above. It makes me wary. SJWs do not have my best interests in mind--99% of it's a show to demonstrate how pious and dedicated they are to being a morally superior person, and it seems that a lot of times that demands you ignore and steamroll over the very disadvantaged people you somehow have self-appointed yourself the designated speaker for. SJWs complain about marginalizing, othering, and silencing voices of minorities, but they're quickly becoming some of the biggest offenders.

Where do you generally want to go? Where are you seeing your ladies? Lower Manhattan, Brooklyn, etc.

It does. Popular opinion is wrong. Only feminists believe that stuff, and their propaganda is everywhere, so a lot of normal people end up believing it too because the other side completely lacks political clout.

Women are vastly more attractive applicants than men, due to sex based discrimination policies, higher college graduation rates, gender roles for men that demand they treat women better than men, and also just general curiosity garnered by an atypical applicant. Women stand out from the crowd in IT because there are so few of them. As a result, it's far easier to be noticed.

We're almost neighbors! Sort of. I live about 15 streets up.

Have you considered switching boroughs?

I wouldn't mind a general NYC one.

Yeah, Germany is doing really awful these days. /s

I HATE 1% MILK. gdsgnf,dhjghld

I also really dislike sweet things, so I'm with you 100% on the rest of the content too. I'd probably like chocolate milk if it weren't so nauseatingly sugary.

I'm American and it took me until last year to learn that yogurt isn't sweet by default. 95% of the grocery store offerings are the sugary kind, and that's all I was ever exposed to as a kid, so I never noticed it. I spent years thinking I hated yogurt only to eventually discover that the unsweetened kind is really delicious. D:

But access to college and health care isn't??

>Education goes to the lowest common denominator and becomes basically crap for everyone involved

>health services which are subpar, with waiting lines and mediocre equipment

>the middle-class and the poor are forever restrained to a diminished quality of life

Are you sure you aren't talking about present day America? All of these things have become widespread here as a result of income inequality--something you've said you support.

You...do realize Manhattan is an island, right? The boundary between Manhattan and not-Manhattan is pretty clearly delineated.

Yes, per bedroom per month. It's more like $1800-2400 for a 3br though, because those appear to be the most cost-efficient. Off the top of my head, I remember visiting one place that was a 2br for $900/person (including utilities) around 140th which I liked, as it was quite spacious, but it was a bit out of my price range. IMO, if I had $1100/month or so I could have found a place in a great 2br pretty easily though. Quality seems to vastly improve with each additional $200/month.

Oddly, Brooklyn and Queens were not cheaper.

No subsidy. Most of my non-wall street friends pay in the $600-800 range as well. Among this subset, the farthest one to the south is on 106th, and the farthest one north is on 160th. I'm 1/2 a block from the nearest A/C/E station and about 4 streets/a 5 minute walk from the 1.

I don't know that I'd call CT or NJ safer or more liveable. Especially not to the point where it would justify such a long commute.

I'm in a 3bd apartment on Manhattan that costs less than $2000/month. Articles always cherrypick luxury apartments in the most expensive areas.

Actually, it was over on...86th and Broadway? Might have been 82nd. After seeing this comment, I went and tried halal guys the other night, but I didn't like the texture of their rice quite as much, and I accidentally put too much hot sauce on. That was my own fault, of course, but I felt like it was more of a chemical burn than a spicy burn. It's not awful, and it's still a good deal for $6 or so, but.

The quest to find the mysteriously vanishing halal cart continues.

I think I can sort of relate.

I think I remember a study a while back that found that women expect their future husband(s) to make more than them, even though women make equal to men or more in my country. Naturally, this makes "good men" (according to this rather sexist definition of suitability) hard if not impossible to find.

Women have been liberated from a lot of their gender roles, but seem fine with keeping men in theirs.

I am definitely more interested in Pokemon.

Uh, I didn't "choose" to live there, considering I was a kid. That doesn't change the fact that most of the midwest is sparsely populated and has little to no food selection. The place I lived as a kid was still a city, despite your claim that "any midwest city" has better dining than the biggest city in the nation.

We have plenty of food close to the source here in nyc, too. Try union square on a saturday, or any one of the many places that makes things from local ingredients. It's actually much more common to see that here than the midwest. Plus, there are tons of different ethnic food places that aren't even available in less diverse states.

There's also this thing called "the Atlantic ocean." Good luck getting fresh sea food where you live, if being ~close to the source~ is so important to you.

Ah, there are some good places in the midwest, too. But there's many more independent restaurants here, all doing different things. I don't know what a "real" restaurant is to you, but to me, the biggest city in the united states certainly has more than a few of them.

Compare this to where I grew up: the only places to eat closeby were mcdonalds, wendy's, and burger king type places. We didn't even have (and still don't have) a starbucks, and it was a ~big deal~ when chipotle and then a panera came in.

I do miss cheap gas station slushies, though. They're hard to find here in NYC.

I've looked at the projections, and Manhattan's not nearly as screwed as Miami. Our foundation is mostly rock, I think, and a lot of this island has a relatively high elevation (as anyone who has walked up the giant hill to CCNY would happily tell you). Of course, the financial district will probably be toast, but things will just get pushed further into the bronx/inwood areas as is already happening now due to rent prices. I don't think anyone will care if we have to abandon Staten Island...

Miami, on the other hand, is mostly flat and is sitting on a porous foundation, in addition to being right next to the everglades. There was a really interesting article recently on it:

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/why-the-city-of-mi...

I'm always happy to have friends visit me here. I'm from the midwest, and most of my friends there have never been to NYC. It blows their minds, every time.

Yeah, Miami can't hold a candle to NYC food. NYC is great because it's just so DENSE. Very little time required to get somewhere awesome, and what travel time you have you can spend reading or whatever.

I think once you're hitting the level of "one of the biggest cities in the world" there's almost guaranteed going to be really awesome cuisine. I thought Paris had really great food when I was there, I'm sure Tokyo's got delicious offerings as well (I love Japanese food, mmm).

I just moved to NYC, though, and the food options here are incomparable to anywhere else in the US I've been. (Note: I haven't been to San Francisco, and while I'm sure it has good food too, NYC's excellent transit system means I have wider access to places.)

I'm continuously surprised by how CHEAP things are, too! Yesterday I paid $1.50 for a box of strawberries, $0.75 for some cherry tomatoes, and $2 for a sizeable package of freshly chopped and peeled kiwis. (In the midwest, I'd pay almost that much just for the strawberries.) To top it off, I had the best lamb and rice meal I've ever had...for $5 from a halal food cart. (I actually spent an hour today looking for the cart again, I liked it THAT much, but it was nowhere to be found. I will look again tomorrow!!)

Of course, I still haven't found anywhere that sells a gallon of milk for less than $4, but I'm going to keep searching. I kind of enjoy exploring places and mentally marking down which place has the cheapest offering of a certain thing.