I only use my phone when I don't have any money on my metrocard ands am in too much of a rush to fill it up. You get a discount with the metrocard you don't get with the phone. I assume you did $40 (the max) 4 times? Will you be around enough to use it?

Not sure about the airport thing though.

jesus - really? so funny...

What would zookeepers, handlers and vets that have been working with this specific owl know about what to do? They really should be reading reddit if they want to know the right way to deal with this.

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/s (but I assume not necessary...)

I really do not think it was the zoo's idea. Some idiot vandalized the enclosure, he got out and the zoo has been trying to get him back. But they found out he can survive on his own and as the article states they will watch him and try to get him back if necessary, but I assume it it was easy he would be back. Not sure what else the zoo could do at this point.

Yea, housing works has the same quality as I get in Mass or Nevada. It is short of variety now but I expect that to change. I just wish more stores would open up I hear the farmers upstate have literal tons ready to sell...

And we all know when something is cheaper it is better quality.

It's easier now to grow it because it is legal in NY, but for the last three years it's been all imported or illegally grown delta-8 that they stocked up on. Do you think the people growing BS weed just tossed out all their plants and started over? They are just selling the bunk to bodegas. The real controlled farms have no reason to sell to bodegas they have a shitload of medicinal and now recreational customers. Personally I prefer buying from a farm that grows prescription weed than some joker growing his own shit in a basement in SI. Why bother now that the good controlled stuff is so easy to get?

Even beyond the risk of contamination (which is valid especially for vape products - you don't want to be inhaling uncontrolledly chemicals...), the weed is typically weak. They sell delta-8, which is the buds off hemp plants not the buds from plants cultivated for the THC quality (which are delta-9). Don't believe me? Look it up and check the labels, although honestly I don't trust the labels either. I see no need to take chances with my health or being ripped off when I can easily buy from housing works. Hopefully more legit dispensaries open up soon and this headache weed gets squeezed out.

Any stoner will tell you if the weed is priced cheep, it is cheep. It's like drinking night train or mad dog 20-20.

Most of the weed is delta-8, which is what they get off hemp plants. That's why it was legal, because it isn't delta-9 THC, which is cultivated for the THC. The weed is super-weak at these grey market places.

No but if you order online you just go in an pick it up. The pre-order line was like 5 minutes max. For being the only place it's surprisingly efficient but I went on a weekday.

Title should read 1200 stores selling deltaTHC-8 weed...

Or go to housing works. I went the first week to try it out happy to not have to pick it up from NJ or Mass., and I waited all of 45 minutes. It was great - chatting to the customers and passersby. It's got to be a smaller line by now.

Plus I prefer to benefit a non-profit not some scummy dude selling cut fake-ass headache weed.

Plus all that weed at rando smoke shops is TCH-8 weed from the pandemic era not the cultivated THC-9 stuff you get at legit controlled dispensaries around the country. It feels like back in middle school where all the dork kids and jocks are buying oregano from the stoners...

Of course. It takes some time in the system to understand how it works, and different universities are different, so it might vary. Teachers in general should be paid more, all the way down to Pre-K, but that's how thing are. We as a society are willing to pay 100x more to people who manipulate financial numbers for a living than teach our kids... It's unfortunate.

Well, I don't have a good reason why they would be capped at 9 hours but it might be a combination of a few things. First it would look odd to teach more than a full time person. Second, adjuncts often teach to an expertise and there might not be enough classes in that area to offer more. Third, three classes is sometimes a healthy portion of classes in one subject and students should have some variety in professors. There are probably other administrative reasons but those are the ones from the teaching side I can imagine. But I don't think allowing them to teach more will help the problem. 9 credits implies about 20 hours a week including grading and answering emails and prep. So even 18 credits per semester twice a years is $60k and one would be hard pressed to live well on that especially if one had the qualifications to be a professor. Except in some fields, you can often find a job making twice adjunct pay easily. I just do not see being an adjunct exclusively as any way to try to live in NYC, unless you have money already and do it for other reasons.

As someone in academia for 25 years, I agree completely. I believe that adjuncts should be people that have a full-time job (the younger people typically) and/or run their own business (the older people typically) and do it for enjoyment or to give back to academia. Trying to make a living as an adjunct would not be advised in my point of view. I have seen it done and the person had to teach full adjunct loads at three schools to do it. Imagine the schedule and commute!

I don't know about New School, but at CUNY the admin don't set their own salary it has a very well defined set of rules. This is all accessible to the public as we aren't a private school. Where we get hit is overtime, and since us professors don't get overtime, and most office admin don't come in on weekends or nights, it is one area that once can see very high ($250k) salaries or more... facilities. I have seen "building engineers" making more than our college president every year.

I posted a detailed breakdown above. Full time professors at CUNY are not living high on the hog believe me. We don't have coaches or a big time law or medical school, so the "professors" that make over $150k a year are few and far between. This is all publicly available if you do a search and as of this moment our absolute cap on the highest paid full professor with 20+ years at CUNY is $141,858. That does not include extra pay for being the chair of a department or distinguished professor or anything. For that add about $25,000 more. So if everyone is upset about high pay in NYC, I don't think looking at professors is where we should be looking...

Edit - by the way The New School is a private school NOT a CUNY school.

It happens but not at CUNY. Besides my time at CUNY I have taught at two other institution of ivy league caliber and that is where you find the independently wealthy adjuncts and professors.

Currently adjunct pay for a typical 3 credit class for a semester is around $5000 gross. Divide by 15 weeks and that is $300 a week. That is for 2-3 hours class time plus time for prep, grading, etc. Averaged it would probably be let's say 5 hours a week. Adjuncts are not required to perform university service not scholarship (publish or perish), only teaching. They can max at 9 credits per semester, so $30k per year. It is NOT a full time job, and any adjunct that thinks that needs to do the math. They do get benefits however after a number of semesters.

Full time faculty teach what is essentially an adjunct full load, plus are required to perform college service (office hours, student advisement, administrative tasks, committees, this kind of thing) as well as scholarship (research, lab work, grants, publish, etc). Each of those other two items take about an equal time as teaching, perhaps slightly less. Full pay has a range but typically falls within the $80k-$120k range per year. Not really high living but manageable with the benefits. Many consult on the side and CUNY allows for 8 hours per week outside work. PhD plus experience is required to be a full-time professor.

Source - CUNY professor and this is all publicly available if you look it up.

I posted above but I am a professor at a CUNY college - talk to a professor you get along with or your department chair. There are quite a significant number of services including emotional as well as financial. I know we have emergency funds for students just for this type of reason so your college likely does as well. Plus plenty of counselors. CUNY can be a big help.

Professor at CUNY here - please ask at the school they have plenty of services to help both emotionally as well as financially. Talk to a trusted professor or the chair of your department. They will help. There are a lot of services you might not realize.

Parked so he can get in a few games of candy crush.

If it wasn't trivial to protect against this we would see it every day at every jewelry store. Smash glass, grab jewels and jump in a car with fake paper plates or a dirtbike.

I worked for a facade consultant. There are various types of glass makeups that are used to prevent smash-and-grab, ballistics, and so on. If someone smashed the front window with a sledgehammer and got through it, then the store did not make an effort to prevent it. It is relatively easy, and not as expensive as one might think, to install glass that will resist a sledgehammer.

Either incompetence or intentional.