Something I've noticed in maybe the past 3 months is that the crust is significantly worse to the point where there's no point to ordering papa johns (which I've preferred for literally 25+ years over pizza hut/dominoes). Was there a change at all? In general the crust is crispier and way less 'puffy' than before. Did my store change, or is this a change coming from corporate?
So - I'm a bit torn on my next vehicle. Alas, there isn't such a thingy as a hybrid or PHEV element.
Right now I'm deciding between:
* Kia Sportage
* Kia Sorrento
* Hyundai Santa Fe.
The things I value about my element are the utility first of all, it's nimbleness, and ability to load it up with tons of crap. I don't have kids so the 3-row SUVs aren't really necessary but I do want the storage space (I roll in my element with 3 seats instead of 4 permanently)
For those that have transitioned to any of those vehicles - what's been your experience? For everyone else, do you recommend something else altogether?
We see that Detective Moreland catches >!Wallace's murder!<. But we never see any follow up or investigation. I mostly assume that Wee-Bay cops to it (although it's not really clear that Wee-Bay would have ever known about it in time to admit to it), but I feel like Bunk wouldn't have accepted such a tidy story, the same way he was >!convinced by Omar to investigate Chris's murder of the delivery woman!<.
Speculate - how do you think that investigation went?
In my city, there's been a lot of new 5-over-1 buildings. I'm mostly glad to see them, but I see their bottom floor retail space struggling, and even in places with massive (like 2500+) expansions of new units, I don't see "neighborhoods" forming. I can't help but feel like there's some qualitative problem with these buildings in the way that residents use them and how their retail space operates, along with how they interface with the street.
My current half-baked theory is that these buildings are simply too disposable, and not meant to last for 150+ years like we see in the midrise neighborhoods in europe and older american cities that people seem to love so much (for eg, Park Slope Brooklyn is mostly 3-and-4 story units). The residents that are being attracted are not nearly diverse enough - they're from all over the world, but all between ages 20 and 40 working in knowledge-economy jobs, there isn't a mix of older generation, families, children, schoolteachers, shop-owners; they're using this type of housing as semi-transitory, a place to live for 3 or 4 years, and not as a place to truly put down roots; the storefronts are similarly temporary, either it's a corporate chain constantly chasing the best ROI, a pop-up, a VC backed startup with a loss-leading marketing-forward strategy baked into the business, etc.
First question - is this a "real" phenomenon, or did the turn-of-the-century neighborhoods take decades to really turn into what we're responding to today? Secondly, is my theory of why their not working already been researched and determined?