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The man who spent forty-two years at the Beverly Hills Hotel pool (1993)

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Post by jl6 »

blakesterz wrote: post #4

I don't know why I found this so interesting to read. After the first few paragraphs I wondered why this was in The New Yorker, afterall, this is about a place in CA. The answer did appear, eventually... “My story begins on the Lower East Side of New York,” he said...

> I don't know why I found this so interesting to read.

It’s a well-written piece by a professional journalist, published in a magazine that people were willing to pay money for. It stands out against the kind of ad-supported click-optimized dreck that passes for journalism today.

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Post by forgetfreeman »

cratermoon wrote: post #237
kamaal wrote: post #205

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>>You will spend non-trivial amount of your time, energy and money just to keep it up To up keep your home! You also pretty much up keep your rented home too. And at the end you spend to maintain other people's home. >>Is that really how you want to spend some part of your me-time? Most of the times its not that bad, you talk like you are on-call 24x7 throughout the year. >>You are also locking yourself down at very…

There's a reason the phrase "money pit" is used to describe owning a house.

Typically by people that don't own their own home and never have. Most everyone else uses the term to describe renovation projects the owners lack the skills to complete (contractors are expensive) or boats. Seriously, how often do y'all think a house needs major repairs or renovation work in the course of 20 years?

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Post by forgetfreeman »

eru wrote: post #127
kamaal wrote: post #117

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Owning a home is always good no matter what the finance influencers tell you. In fact, earlier the better. Its not even the buying vs renting thing, renting is bad, you don't get to own anything at the end of the journey, and often the kind of things you have to put up with to save rent, or avoid getting homeless in case of of a job loss or other life crisis is just worth your mental health. Most of your life is spen…

Have you ever heard of opportunity costs?

How does that even apply here? Assuming you aren't living with family it's fair to assume you have to spend money on housing. So the question is, do you want to keep some of that money in the form of equity or give all of it to your landlord?

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Post by Cthulhu_ »

ekianjo wrote: post #229
morsch wrote: post #163

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Egg consumption was considered to lead to high cholesterol levels and thus linked to cardiovascular disease. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4632449/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/wellness/19... https://australianfoodtimeline.com.au/egg-consumption/

The idea that granola would be healthier is rather strange

One of the best examples of a food industry (grains) being able to influence eating habits to their benefit.

Anyway, the phrase "healhty" in relation to food is a bit of a trigger phrase to me nowadays, healthy how? It's completely lacking in nuance. Apples are healthy, except when you eat 200 seeds at which point the cyanide gets to a lethal dose. Granola is healthy, unless you eat it three times a day and little else. You get the idea. The problem there is "x is healthy" makes people overconsume it and ignore anything that isn't marked "healthy".

"healthy" eating takes work, study, and moderation.

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Post by Cthulhu_ »

NathanKP wrote: post #7

If, like me, you were curious about the visuals to go with this piece, it appears that this is the pool today: https://www.dorchestercollection.com/los-angeles/the-beverly...

I mean it's nice but spending all of my adult life there?

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Post by bmelton »

ekianjo wrote: post #229
morsch wrote: post #163

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Egg consumption was considered to lead to high cholesterol levels and thus linked to cardiovascular disease. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4632449/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/wellness/19... https://australianfoodtimeline.com.au/egg-consumption/

The idea that granola would be healthier is rather strange

People can be persuaded to silly things on silly logic.

There was a time after prohibition when the prevailing theory was that vodka was healthier than whiskey because it was clear and whiskey wasn't.

Our educational institutions marched an entire populace right into obesity because the government insisted the food pyramid was scientific, and not the result of lobbying.

Honestly it's a bit wild to me that we ever think we know anything for certain.

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Post by mikepurvis »

Cthulhu_ wrote: post #244
ekianjo wrote: post #229

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The idea that granola would be healthier is rather strange

One of the best examples of a food industry (grains) being able to influence eating habits to their benefit. Anyway, the phrase "healhty" in relation to food is a bit of a trigger phrase to me nowadays, healthy how? It's completely lacking in nuance. Apples are healthy, except when you eat 200 seeds at which point the cyanide gets to a lethal dose. Granola is healthy, unless you eat it three times a day and little el…

At the same time, there is also a faction that appears to argue against overly studying or obsessing about nutrition science, saying that if you really just prioritize variety, moderation, and made-at-home, then you're already 90% of the way there.

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Post by LudwigNagasena »

Cthulhu_ wrote: post #245
NathanKP wrote: post #7

If, like me, you were curious about the visuals to go with this piece, it appears that this is the pool today: https://www.dorchestercollection.com/los-angeles/the-beverly...

I mean it's nice but spending all of my adult life there?

Sounds better than spending whole life in an office.

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Post by eloisant »

kamaal wrote: post #117
kristianp wrote: post #108

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Of course when they bought their house it would have cost mere 10s of thousands. You can see why there's an attraction to owning your own house.

Owning a home is always good no matter what the finance influencers tell you. In fact, earlier the better. Its not even the buying vs renting thing, renting is bad, you don't get to own anything at the end of the journey, and often the kind of things you have to put up with to save rent, or avoid getting homeless in case of of a job loss or other life crisis is just worth your mental health. Most of your life is spen…

No, it depends how long you stay in the house.

If you stay long enough, buying is cheaper. But if you move after just a few years, you'll have mostly paid interests on your mortgage, you had closing tax, your house may even have lost value... So there are many cases it would have been cheaper to rent.

How long you need to stay to make your purchase worthwhile depends where you live.

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Post by mock-possum »

morsch wrote: post #163
b800h wrote: post #162

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I was immediately struck by this remark too. Were eggs particularly unfashionable in the early 1990s in the USA? Apparently so.

Egg consumption was considered to lead to high cholesterol levels and thus linked to cardiovascular disease. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4632449/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/wellness/19... https://australianfoodtimeline.com.au/egg-consumption/

My parents (in their 60s) still think this way - they mostly use that ‘egg substitute’ that comes in a carton (I think it’s some sort of processed egg white) as the bulk of their eggs, e.g. scrambled eggs using a 4:1 ratio of substitute to real eggs. They used to almost exclusively use margarine instead of butter too.

I like eggs a lot better now that I’ve learned to make them myself.

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