Lunch time in Singapore: most people eat at 'hawker centres', not restaurants. Hawker centres are open air public spaces where, long ago, street food vendors were brought in from the streets. They ply their trade with better ventilation and sanitation.
Here's a peek into the hawker centre I grew up in. I ate half of my meals here (the other half at home). Hundreds of dishes at US$1-5 each, I miss eating like this.
"🙏🏿Lord please grant me the confidence to deny a brilliant woman professor and researcher tenure track, demote her, push her out of my school, to be the adversity that she had to overcome in life... and when she overcomes me and wins the Nobel prize, to roll in like I did something. Amen!"
U Penn is bold! Real talk, I couldn't do that. I couldn't even fake that till I make that. Levels.
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@skinnylatte @[email protected] Demand leads to better infrastructure in Asia, I think. In Singapore and Taipei, turnover is huge at any given stall. The market is bigger so there is less downtime between customers than there would be in the US, where customers are fewer. This allows for micro economies of scale in Asia.
I mostly eat at hawker centers in Singapore, and the crowds there would flood your average US food truck. Same for the hawkers around the Taipei train station.
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Notice, too, this spin, still in the main coverage in the NYT:
"The indictment...is the first time a former president has faced federal charges. It puts the nation in an extraordinary position..."
The focus should not be on what the DOJ has done, but on what Trump has done.
It should read:
"The alleged crimes would represent the first time that a President has committed felonies in handling of sensitive military documents, and puts the nation in an extraordinary position..."
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