u/Ambitious-Employ-242

All the city's politicians/appointed heads of whatever/entrenched interests didn't evaporate when Mamdani took office, and there a lot of rich people in NYC, who didn't suddenly become unselfish either.

How has he been able to do so much? Even after Adams blew up the place on the way out. What can we learn and apply elsewhere to get positive change for regular people?

Did you routinely ride in a car without a seatbelt, let alone a booster seat?

In the early 70s my parents had a 2-seater Triumph soft top (TR6, I think) and my sister and I sat in the luggage space behind the seats. I remember being happy and cozy back there. But how big could that space have been?

One of the moms in the 4th grade carpool would not start the car until everyone had their seatbelt on. What a weird thing to be such a hardass about, I thought - maybe it was because she was from Germany.

And of course kids just rolling around in the bed of a pickup truck. But getting yelled at if we climbed up on the side.

Speaking of gnarly injuries. How many children in our generation freaking died from these shenanigans? By the time I had kids, all this was unthinkable. Or maybe this total lack of car safety was not as common as I remember? (In any case - welcome to my lawn, seat-belters. My parents were insane.)

Sometime in the misty past, maybe 2-3 years ago, I applied for a JetBlue credit card. Just recently, to my surprise, I was approved and they sent the card to me in the mail.

There's no annual fee, and a $22k credit limit, but the interest rate is way higher than my Chase card (which has a higher credit limit too) - 30%! I used to take JetBlue flights often, but since I moved, I never do - Alaska is the one that goes everywhere from the airport by my house. So I don't see myself ever using the JetBlue card, unless I do it on purpose because its somehow beneficial to me.

I honestly don't worry about being tempted to run up a balance just because I can. I have many weaknesses, but not that one.

Tl;dr Is it in any way good for me to have an extra credit card I don't need, and use it now and then to keep the account open? Or, in fact, what do you think I should I do with it, if I keep it?

Edited: typo

What is Mary saying here? Esquire after his name? So Sir Thomas Bertram, Esq. but if Edmund succeeded to the baronetcy, being an ex-clergyman would change how he was styled? Or maybe you essentially can't quit the church? What then?

Now Austen and contemporaries have too much delicacy to give instructions on how to secretly sleep with someone not your spouse; they only call out people who do it wrong. But maybe historical fiction (like Bridgerton? Idk) gives plausible scenarios?

I don't understand how a person could pull off an affair without some servant being aware of it. If it's in your house, the housemaids who come in and open the curtains in the morning to wake you up, and make the beds will know who slept where at a minimum. If you set up a separate household for your paramour, your coachman will know where he took you, and may learn more from the servants at that house. Even if you look with admiration at a guy or banter with him over dinner, the servants standing behind the chairs in the dining room have leisure to see everything that passes, more so even than the people dining with you. And anybody's servants can talk to anybody else's servants, and no doubt would.

In Tom Jones we hear of a lady who intrigues with any man she likes, but is visited by all the world, and that "everybody knows her to be what nobody calls her." That's only a partial victory.

How could a married woman actually carry out an assignation with a man without anyone, no servant, knowing - or knowing enough - to "put you in their power"?

Some people are intolerant of the sugar most found in milk, lactose, and some people are allergic to milk protein. Casein is the most abundant protein in milk. Cow's milk has two variants of the casein protein naturally - a1, which some people are allergic to, and a2 which nobody is allergic to (supposedly). They bred cows to only make the a2 variant, and sell their milk (for $$$) = a2 milk. It says that other than being non-allergenic, it's same-same as regular milk.

Have you tried making ice cream with this kind of milk? Is it exactly the same, or do you need to adjust the recipe in some way?

I tried making strawberry ice cream a new way today - I wanted to not cook the strawberries at all. It came out very bright and fresh-tasting, and (here's the big deal) smooth and not icy. I think compensating for the watery strawberry puree by making a very thick custard worked well.

I don't see a similar recipe online, so here you go. Love to hear what you think!

Montavilla strawberry chocolate chip ice cream

1 qt package fresh strawberries

2 c heavy cream

1 c reduced fat milk

6 egg yolks

1/2 to 2/3 c sugar

1/2 tsp vanilla extract

Optional:

1/4 c Ghirardelli semi-sweet (gold package) chocolate chips

1.5 tsp vegetable oil

1. Wash and hull only the ripe, all-red strawberries from the package. Hopefully that's at least 2/3 of the berries or so, maybe more, maybe less.
2. Puree them in a blender
3. Strain the puree through a fine mesh strainer, pushing on it and stirring it around until you have only a pretty dense paste of seeds left in the strainer. You want about 1-1.5 c of strained puree.
4. Put the puree in the fridge in a lidded tupperware.
5. Make the custard: Put the egg yolks and sugar in the blender, and blend until thick and paler yellow, 2-3 min. Meanwhile, bring the milk and cream to scalding (about 175F or just barely simmering). With the blender going, add a scoop of the hot milk mixture to the egg mixture in the blender and blend for a few seconds, then transfer the contents of the blender to the pot and stir until the custard thickens a little (you can draw a line with your finger down the back of the spoon).
6. Pour the custard through a fine mesh strainer into a tupperware container set in an ice bath, add the vanilla, and stir until it's cooled off enough to go in the fridge.
7. Chill until both are very cold, a few hours or overnight.
8. Stir the strained puree and custard together and put them in the ice cream machine.
9. (Optional) For the chocolate stracciatella, microwave the oil and the chocolate chips together 30 sec and stir, repeat 2-3 times until all melted and smooth. In the last few minutes of churning, drizzle the chocolate mixture slowly into the ice cream. If you get a big hunk, break it up with a spoon while the machine is going.
10. When it's done, scoop the ice cream into a chilled tupperware and freeze for 3-4 hours.

Ta da!

Not a problem most people have, I'm sure, but maybe someone knows?

Jane Austen tells me that a stately home might have been entailed such that the current owner could not sell it or demolish it, as it must go (along with an aristocratic title, if any) to the next heir. Let's say the next heir would be determined by male-line primogeniture, not chosen by the current owner. If there were no possible male-line heirs, then the crown would get it.

I'm thinking that in 2026, people aren't stuck with stately homes they don't want. But how did people get the right to sell them - putting the would-be next heir out on the tiles? At some point in the last 200 years, was there a change in the law that ended perpetual entails? If so, what was that law called and when did it happen?

Or maybe some people are stuck? The current Duke of Wellington supposedly still lives in Apsley House. Is his eldest son going oh shit oh shit dad please don't die?