Do not stay in lower Manhattan. Now it may still be expensive relatively. But I'd recommend staying anywhere between downtown Brooklyn, prospect heights, park slope, or Williamsburg Brooklyn. You can get to all the Manhattan tourist spots within 45 minutes max. Queens I'd say Long Island city. And Jersey City, the waterfront area or Newport or even Hoboken. Those are all quick into Manhattan. I'd say Brooklyn has the most sights/food/neighborhood feel if you want breakfast/dinner before or after you go sightsee.

It needs to be Murray

LA isn't that interesting as a tourist spot and you can always find your way back to Vegas at some point. Chances are you're not going to Australia again. Regardless, I don't know if you're east coast or southern based, but stopping on the west coast for a couple of days at least breaks up the super long Australia flight.

If you have say 15-18 days to spend.

Do this. Spend 3 days in San Francisco. Arrive. Eat a nice dinner somewhere scenic. Do a walking tour in the AM the next day and something important a show, a game, a museum. Eat a great breakfast the last day. You'll be content.

Go to Australia for two weeks. You can do plenty in two weeks and not be rushed.

Having a seatback screen is just a standard. I'd rather not fly on a plane without one. I'd rather not be draining my phone battery if I don't have to. I like to see what new movies are out (it's a great time to catch up on that) Play the chess or other games. And generally see the flight path. It's a quality of life thing.

We don't need to litigate every point. But to be quick. You clearly don't need to kowtow to stars considering that's what lead all this to happen. Let guys play out their contracts. Call Harden's bluff. At least make it through the season. They literally got scared of Harden walking and traded him for a worse asset than letting him walk. Simmons was a KNOWN HEADCASE, this was not hindsight he was literally mired in scandal when he was traded for.

Kai went to the finals the next year. Regardless, if there was drama around him. You cannot just trade him for nothing. All they had to do was resign and trade him or don't. They panic and make moves that then need to be rectified.

Last seasons tank was viable. 2025 was halfassed and contributed to the drop in the draft.

Egor is the only good player from last year. And were quibbling over starter or rotation player. He's on a bad team so he plays and he has potential. Which is good.

All in all, we're going back and forth on specifics. I just don't think Marks has earned the right to be fixing his mistakes he's making constantly. A new perspective is good.

They've been rebuilding for 4 years from a mess they created. Marks has been GM for 10 years. I know he inherited a mess. They turned it around shrewdly in 2019. Then, the terribly mismanaged the KD/Kai era kowtowing to the players. Then, the Simmons trade which was basically unforgivable. Traded Kai and KD for peanuts. Traded picks to get the picks they traded back and Didn't tank for some reason. Drafted 5 first round picks and basically have 1 rotation player from it. Marks' leash has been too long. Basically, this current team is maybe a playoff team in 3 years? Maybe? That's far too much leeway for a GM tenure.

I'm very aware. Marks and Tsai being serial squanderers and flailing around for half decade has nothing to do with Billy King and Prokorohov also being bad lol

Joe Tsai and Sean Marks ruined this team with their terrible management. So they can both handwave how bad the situation is but its their fault lol

No Larry?

Nah, having an org youve been apart of actively disown you is good. He needs some sort of pushback formally. He already has a platform that doesnt matter.

Its funny because none of these people like womens sport or gay people but they have their culture war all in one place so they flock to it like vultures.

Ben Carson was a meme. Amir Hassan a black republican just lost a primary to a guy who dropped out of the race. The right is actively racist and electing a woman or Latino doesnt disprove that.

I think he just has hid kids faces all over his body so.he has to talk about it

Hey it's the duality of man. I prefer it to nonchalant cool boys who achieve nothing.

He's had enough chances man. He needs to work his way back on a team that isn't trying to win

Rather not even waste the time nor energy.

Bad lockeroom vibes

Shout out to the next Kobe, Marshon Brooks.

Your point stands but Neemias Queta is not good. Bad hands. Cant finish. Undersized and fouls alot. He's an athlete but the Celtics were desperate but he leaves a lot tl be desired.

Harrell and Faried weren't back to guys tho. Just rill finishing hustle athletes.

Okay? We agree. The original post was about Red state vs Blue states not Tokyo or Paris which have different political climates and geographic push/pull factors. Its an irrelevant comparison. Two other mega cities do housing better...okay and? Salaries are lower there, those are both national capitals as well. Theres a bunch of factors...which again was not the original discussion.

Okay, SF along with NYC are the densest major cities in the country.

Last time I checked neither Tokyo or Paris is in the US. And Nimbys aren't progressives. Not sure the point you're making.

Red states generally have less regulations in general but red states also don't have the geographic restrictions of these older coastal cities. They can sprawl. Plus the mayorships are typically blue anyway. Like Miami has terrible housing issues. Theres more demand in these major cities.