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This is awesome!

This also segues to my other thoughts about Fcking Etihad:
2. Is the marketing effect that Etihad gets from being on the jersey really that significant, or effective at all - are they really gaining new passengers for an airline with very limited routes that they wouldn’t have already had?

I’m not sure how we could get that data, but through some promotions they’ve offered premium STH, specifically for their business class product, it is possible they may have introduced people to Etihad. As far as the limited routes, they’re not so limited when you consider their connecting options in the Middle East and Asia.


Now, there are flights direct from Newark to Singapore and JFK to Sydney.

No JFK-Sydney yet. Those were just a few trial flights for what Qantas is calling “Project Sunrise” They’ve selected an airplane for it (A350-1000) but won’t decide whether they’ll operate the flights until March 2020, and if they do, expect to begin around 2023.
 
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1000% endorse. Best black&white cookies in the city. Would buy a dozen shirts. And some cookies.
 
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Considering our housing problem, perhaps it'd be most fitting for the Lower East Side Tenement Museum to don our shirts.
 
But what's the power ranking for lox in the city? (We're just talking about the fish here, not the bagel + lox)...
 
zaros the best black and white.
Ugh, get out of my city.

Totally kidding of course! Mostly.

But also, my first apartment back in the '70s was in the middle of the block and Ess-a-Bagel was on the corner. Still miss that.
 
I've been around the country. The widespread notion that New York has some special edge in pizza or bagels is bull.
Agreed.

But somehow it's easier to be proud about something mundane and concrete like pizzas or bagels than it is to be about something profound and abstract like our diversity and ability to draw the most ambitious and brightest people from around the world and across many different fields. Even though in some ways it's hard to be too excited about being the beneficiary of the Matthew effect.

And we have to be proud of something it seems.

All good bagels is local. Sure, there are some stand out vendors, but any decent fresh bagel source in your neighborhood is better than the "best in the city" a subway ride away.
Kind of how I feel about soccer teams
I get this both in terms of the enjoyment of the actual experience and as a political analogy. But if everybody settles for their local bagel how do bagels get better? How do people meet people they don't normally get exposure to? How do we avoid the pitfalls of tribalism?

Yes I am drawing this out to a scope that is absurd.
 
Agreed.

But somehow it's easier to be proud about something mundane and concrete like pizzas or bagels than it is to be about something profound and abstract like our diversity and ability to draw the most ambitious and brightest people from around the world and across many different fields. Even though in some ways it's hard to be too excited about being the beneficiary of the Matthew effect.

And we have to be proud of something it seems.



I get this both in terms of the enjoyment of the actual experience and as a political analogy. But if everybody settles for their local bagel how do bagels get better? How do people meet people they don't normally get exposure to? How do we avoid the pitfalls of tribalism?

Yes I am drawing this out to a scope that is absurd.
Seems the only way that that fluidity occurs right now is through empire. And the only alternative that society seems to find plausible is a return to tribalism (or nationalism) or some reduced-fluidity, wind-back-the-clock form of politics).

If any of this gibberish is interesting to anybody, there's a book called Multitude by Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri that talks about non-hierarchical networks as a model for society (the multitude). I read it maybe 8 years ago and still think about it at least once a day.
 
Agreed.

But somehow it's easier to be proud about something mundane and concrete like pizzas or bagels than it is to be about something profound and abstract like our diversity and ability to draw the most ambitious and brightest people from around the world and across many different fields. Even though in some ways it's hard to be too excited about being the beneficiary of the Matthew effect.

And we have to be proud of something it seems.



I get this both in terms of the enjoyment of the actual experience and as a political analogy. But if everybody settles for their local bagel how do bagels get better? How do people meet people they don't normally get exposure to? How do we avoid the pitfalls of tribalism?

Yes I am drawing this out to a scope that is absurd.
You are asking a question that is answered by free trade and free movement of people.