One way you might resolve this is to get everybody talking about it without the boss there. I bet nobody likes the policy. Maybe everyone would agree to not give a reason, or to give the same reason that is an obvious lie?

This is such a great story, thanks for posting it!

Fyi most filters aren’t going to do anything to calcium in the water. You’d need a special ion exchange filter.

But the calcium is not a health problem. I grew up with very calcium rich water (a well in suburban New Jersey, USA). We had to buy a new coffee maker every few years because it would just kill them, even if we washed it with vinegar regularly.

In the US, tap water is regulated to higher standards than bottled! In the rare cases where there is a problem with it, everyone gets notified, for example http://www.msdh.state.ms.us/msdhsite/_static/23,0,148.html.

NYC prides itself on having really good water, both for local food production, and just for taste. NYC did this by buying up land around its reservoirs further inland and building a large aqueduct system. The water isn’t even filtered!

That said, some locations have unpalatable water, such as towns near the ocean that get their water from nearby wells.

Good. Nobody gets to kill someone for being weird.

We all have a right to defend ourselves, but also an obligation to deescalate. It’s all contextual. Following black and white rules is not the way to operate in a complex world.

Memes like this serve to stoke anti-feminist sentiment among men. I don’t think we should post them, but it’s useful to discuss.

That schedule sounds awful. Power to the workers, they deserve better!

This is cited from https://www.worldcat.org/title/63136362. Norse people living around the north sea had really different clothing color habits.

• People from Scandinavia proper preferred blue and green
• People from Britain preferred red
• People from Ireland, Iceland, and other islands preferred purple

I pretty exclusively bike and subway! Being in NYC makes it easy to do so.

Green, but other varieties would work fine.

Today was my turn to cook for my family on vacation. I made a vaguely Thai-inspired curry with local veggies:

• Three kohlrabi, peeled and cut into slices
• Leaves from the above, deveined, chunked
• 1" young turnips cut into pieces no more than 1/4" wide
• Leaves from the above, chunked
• Ginger, garlic, shallot, chopped
• Cooked shrimp, peeled
• Coconut milk
• Curry paste

I sauteed all the veggies, then heated up the paste and coconut milk, and mixed everything all together. Served with rice. Really good!

Buzz buzz, bee nice

You say this, but I once was trying to cook a meal in my grandmother’s house and discovered that her peeler was incompatible with my body: it was left handed and I am not.