Did the city make building hotels illegal?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1c2OfAzDTI

I mean I would not be surprised to see the name Ethel be revived.

You said Edward and Robert are "rarely used" which is far from correct.

Edward and Robert are hardly extinct names. Edmund and Ethel are less common but these names are still in use. Edward is actually an excellent name—I named my son Edward.

It was so, so fun. I’ll never forget we memorized the dance and dressed up in weird clothes and put on a show for the parents. I was 8.

I’m watching the NBC feed but ffs would they please just show the damn floats and balloons and bands? I caught a glimpse of my friend’s band behind a lame celeb cameo and that’s it so far.

Obviously gay lives don't matter. /s

There is a pattern. The victims are prescreened. Watching for pickups where the antagonists ask prying questions to determine who has assets they can steal, and then tries to get the victim to go with them to a different location, should be effective. We know of two druggings and robberies that went bad. How many others have there been?

Send in a series of undercover cops until one gets marked by this team of murdering thieves.

Seems like a sting operation would be rather easy to do. Does the NYPD not care about nabbing these monsters?

This isn’t good. Older states, and those with higher populations, have seem more births. Not a meaningful statistic.

Do per-capita births for the duration of statehood, or percentage of current residents who were born in the state. Those tell us something.

I am being it. I had a bunch of other things I had to do along the way, but now I am being it.

I think they're closing all the mini-IKEAs. I don't think the Midtown one ever reopened from COVID--it sort of made sense only as a one-room kitchen design showroom, except that they don't really have order fulfillment and delivery down, so you could design your kitchen there but you still have to make several trips to Brooklyn and wait for things to come back in stock to buy the various parts.

My apartment was renovated by layering drywall over the old plaster and lath walls. You can hang a picture or something small, but drilling for anchors is a chore: 5/8 drywall, a gap of 1/4-1/2, then the plaster, which may be intact or not.

The baking pans do seem to help. Adding a proper humidifier helps much more. I bought one with an automatic setting--you set the humidity level you want to maintain and it runs and shuts off as needed. And yeah, it's running nearly all the time just to keep it to 40% in winter. It's a Vornado, I forget which model.

In winter I also have to pay attention to using more moisturizer and lotion (all over my arms and legs) and a good lip balm, as well as drinking my usual level of water. I'm not as thirsty because I'm not hot, so I have to remind myself.

Winter is a dry time of year, that's all there is to it.

Ok, thermodynamics expert.

My apartment gets so stuffy with the windows closed. If you open them from the top you get a little flow of fresh air and it vents the excess heat naturally.

I don’t mind refilling my humidifier every day. I also put baking pans full of water on top of the radiators. Helps as well.

Get a humidifier.

You shouldn’t close it because edits a building-wide system designed to work as a unit. If radiators are closed, the system is not working as designed. Open your windows.