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Graphic. Guy shoots neighbors pit which looked like it was going to attack.
NYT just had a great article on them
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New Orleans Food and Drink Thread
If it’s nice outside I like Cafe Degas. Looking forward to trying out the Mister Mao Sunday brunch in a few weeks. Of course if you’re there on Friday morning Galatoire’s’ Friday lunch is an epic experience.
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The Napa / Sonoma Wine thread
Healdsburg is our go-to wine country town to stay in. It’s just a cool town to walk around. Probably our favorite Dry Creek spot is Unti, since it’s an easy drive and near Dry Creek General Store. We’ll usually grab a bottle and enjoy the view on the patio. Preston Farm and Reeve are fantastic too but more of a drive. Ridge is obviously widely distributed, but they are iconic and there Lytton property has fantastic views. For Pinot, we enjoy Ryme and Joseph Swan down in Forestville. Copain is widely distributed but they have a great property. In town, our favorites are Cartograph, which focuses on Burgundian-styled Pinots, and Idlewild. Natural wine label Jolie-Laide just opened a tasting room in Idlewild’s space. Marine Layer just opened a really cool new tasting room. For restaurants, SingleThread is of course the big one, and Valette and Dry Creek Kitchen are great as well for higher end. We usually go more casual and hit up Campo Fina, Healdsburg Bar & Grill and Bravas Bar de Tapas (which has great cocktails if you are tired of wine). I have never been to Barn Diva because of the ridiculous name, but they just got a Michelin star so we’ll need to check them out soon. Also, in the very odd chance you want to get some physical activity in, I just hiked the Taylor Mountain Park outside Santa Rosa and highly recommend it. Very leisurely 1,400 foot climb for 360 degree views of Sonoma County. Stuck out in my mind as one of the best Bay Area hikes in recent memory, and it’s just a few minutes from a Pliny at Russian River after.
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What's going on with Austin murders?
Lol pre-K NOPD was an active player in the drug trade.
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Attorneys going in-house
I think issuer’s side associates would gladly tell UW counsel that 🙂
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Attorneys going in-house
Expect? No, but broadly speaking the purging of associates in the recession, the decline in law school attendance, and the nonstop dealmaking over the past decade have led to high demand for legal advice (especially the past two years). I was generally 2400-2600 over seven years, but it wasn’t the hours that were the true difference about going in house. It was getting agency over my life again. I’ve pulled more than a few all nighters in house, but I don’t get that existential dread when my phone buzzes on a Friday night and it’s probably a new deal coming in. @Gale Snoats, I’ve certainly seen litigators as GCs, but in my experience they are generally out of their element at acquisitive companies, especially public ones, and effective ones understand how to delegate and trust others with the experience.
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Things not going well in Burkina Faso
Well that’s just fucked up.
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New Orleans Food and Drink Thread
It’s solid. Think it suffered some fire damage a while back, glad they are back. Markey’s, one of the best neighborhood bars in the city, is around the corner.
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Attorneys going in-house
What’s the nature of your practice now, and what would your title/role be? Public or private? How big is the legal department? Feel free to PM.
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CR: COVID-19 --Political Talk
I thought NY had a pretty good vaccine passport app? CA’s has a QR code you can scan to verify, and overall it’s worked pretty well - my booster was uploaded into the system in a few hours. My understanding is France has an even better app that allows for contact tracing. I have no idea why folks are in a position where they have to carry their CDC cards (well I do but you know what I mean).
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CR: COVID-19 --Political Talk
That’s fair, but I was arguing that the zero-covid/prohibitionist wings had his ear (and I took his quote from a month ago as dithering on any firm direction forward). In particular, I’d point out Dr. Tomas Aragon, head of CA Public Health, who led SF through a prohibitionist approach, easily the strictest in the nation, and was often at odds with Monica Gandhi. I can’t speak for NYC/DC/etc, but while the idea of approaching COVID as endemic gains traction among public officials in CA, I have a hard time seeing that actually play out without difficulty.
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Have you contracted Covid-19 (Jan'22 Omicron Edition)
“I took the shitty vaccine and still had mild disease, so I don’t see any point in the vaccines - especially the stronger ones.”
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CR: COVID-19 --Political Talk
Yeah I saw Monica Gandhi retweet that article earlier. Monica Gandhi is head of UCSF’s AIDS research center and since May 2020 has been publicly pushing for a harm reduction approach to live with the pandemic rather than zero COVID because, well, one disease that should not take a back seat to COVID is AIDS (especially is SF). She’s pushed for a very pragmatic approach but in California is basically Greg Abbott. Anyways, she recently published a 2022 COVID plan in TIME for the Biden administration which sent a prominent progressive UCSF faculty member and others apoplectic. To your point, there’s an influential chunk of the progressive wing that has dug its heels in on zero COVID because they argue that the end of this thing is not vaccines but solving structural inequality in healthcare . That’s obviously laudable but a quixotic near-term goal. This isn’t a fringe school of thought. In CA, progressives were able to push through a health equity metric for reopening that arguably unnecessarily delayed the process, and Gavin Newsom continues to speak in terms of zero COVID. There definitely needs to be a reorientation in the thinking of many public health authorities but I think it will be a uphill battle with the progressive wing.
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Joe Biden 2022: Enter Dark Brandon
Seriously? Remember those MoveOn.org bumper stickers that read, “If you aren’t appalled, you haven’t been paying attention”? We need to revive them: “If you aren’t appalled, you’re a fucking moron.”
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Salt: Morton's vs. Diamond Crystal
Diamond is basically half as “salty” as Morton’s so there’s more room for error. That’s really it. They’re the same price so might as well go for the one that makes it harder to screw up a recipe.
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Salt: Morton's vs. Diamond Crystal
More than you ever wanted to know about kosher salt. I’ve converted to team Diamond since discovering how much more forgiving it is.
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Tonga tsunami
- Tonga tsunami
Was about to hike to Alamere Falls in Point Reyes when I got the advisory. Sheesh, that was close.- Murder in the Big Freezy: NOLA hippie murders woman, dismembers body, stashes in icebox on party bus / GoFundMe Project
This is the most New Orleans thing ever.- COVID-19 2nd wave - Texas only - Stats and such
Seriously? We had an outdoor mask mandate until May 2021. I don’t know how you got around that but all the more power to you. I ended up spending $30 on a spiffy Under Armour mask to go running and hiking.- COVID-19 2nd wave - Texas only - Stats and such
I’m not. But my friends who have been pregnant or have had kids over the past two years sure have been, particularly in states that decided COVID was over in summer 2020, and I’m not one to tell them otherwise. To be clear, California’s prohibitionist policies have been disastrous on young people, particularly minorities, which is a huge reason for why I was originally railing against the state’s and local authorities’ inability to embrace harm reductionist policies to prepare for the long term. But having lived most of my life in Texas, I’ve never seen its governance at the state level as much of a model for anything, and certainly not this pandemic.- COVID-19 2nd wave - Texas only - Stats and such
On the whole I’d take a state government that supports public health measures to combat the pandemic, even if I generally disagree with its approach, rather than one that at the very best is lukewarm and at worst actively opposes them. I’ve been back to Texas six times during the pandemic and observed quite a striking contrast. It’s been hard for my family and friends, especially those with young kids, to navigate things, and I feel for them.- COVID-19 2nd wave - Texas only - Stats and such
I meant having to fend for yourself in a caliphate that ceased to take any action against the greatest public health crisis of our time, emboldened the ignorant and actively stymied local authorities. Not a great choice, but I’d take the CA experience over TX any day.- COVID-19 2nd wave - Texas only - Stats and such
This. The nine Bay Area county health authorities are still stuck in April 2020. I had a mini-breakdown reading this story today as I waited to get into the office (where we are tested daily, 100% vaxxed and now have an indoor mask mandate at all times). Obviously y’all back in Texas have had it much harder on the other end up the spectrum, but I am infuriated by CA’s inability to move from zero COVID to a long-term harm mitigation approach. Sonoma County just issued a voluntary shelter-in-place order.- New Orleans Food and Drink Thread
Like, overall or distinctly New Orleanian cooking? For the former: Saint Germain is easily the best and most ambitious restaurant in the city right now, Mister Mao is the hottest among the foodie circuit, and Bywater American Bistro continues to be one of the most consistently excellent places in the city. For the latter, Peche, Brigsten’s and Clancy’s are still going strong. Personally I like Gabrielle. Haven’t had a chance to check out Miss River or Chemin a La Mer yet, but both look incredible and are getting a lot of buzz. Edit: Forgot to mention, but Saffron was the best dining experience I’ve had in NO in the past decade. - Tonga tsunami
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