What the hell would I do with a $750 atomizer? I can't even wear it on my head! What's so fuckin' great about that?

It would have been cool if Kansas City had kept their public transit system, but only a few tracks remain.

It was there when my dad was growing up - he used to talk about it all the time. Actually we have a few KC cars on the vintage care F-Market line here in SF. Also, streetcars from: St. Louis, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, Kyoto, St. Petersburg, Milan and the English coast (an open air one - very fun. Looks like a boat. Probably some place like Brighton).

What the hell would I do with a $750 atomizer? I can't even wear it on my head! What's so fuckin' great about that?

You could then stay at home and mist your own tongue while you eat brownies. Think of the money you'd save!

I can't even wear it on my head! What's so fuckin' great about that?

Fair point, if you can't wear it on your head it can't be so fuckin' great now can it?

Also, streetcars from: St. Louis, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, Kyoto, St. Petersburg, Milan and the English coast

I like the one from Nagasaki. It's from the 1920s, right? Or is that the one from Milan?

I love the F-Market line. It just (re)started running while I was living in SF. Some of the streetcars are really art deco-ish....

It's fetishizing (word?) food, at great expense, when food is something everyone needs. I have a cut off in my tolerance of the-good-life sort of stuff, I think. I don't think I'd make a very good rich person.

Sounds like you'd be a really good rich person.

It was there when my dad was growing up - he used to talk about it all the time.

People keep trying to start up light rail here but it's really hard to come up with a practical plan. The city is so spread out that every plan combines high cost with small coverage.

It's a publicity stunt-- no more than a dozen people will order that seriously, unless there are more crazy drunks in AC than I thought. And it's not about the decadence of the wealthy-- it's about the sheer tackiness of Atlantic City. A waiter who mists things in your mouth? Who does that?!

So apparently, believing that a ghost is watching you makes you less likely to cheat.

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The study that determined this is actually kind of clever. They set up some difficult test, with a financial incentive to do well. They also make it possible to "cheat" on the test. (The software for the test was supposedly defective, and would sometimes show you the answer before the question. Test subjects were asked to press the space bar to clear the answer when this happened.) And some of the test subjects were told that some people claimed to have seen the ghost of a dead graduate student in the room.

Perhaps because they were scared of a dead graduate student's ghost hanging around, participants in the ghost story condition performed worse than those in the other two conditions on the mental rotation problems. More importantly, participants in the ghost story condition pressed the space bar faster than those in the other two conditions (though the difference between their times and those of the participants in the in memoriam condition only approached significance) when the answers were "mistakenly" shown prior to the problems. It appears, then, that thinking about the presence of a ghost in the room made the participants less likely to cheat by looking at the answers before getting the problems.

Tigers choose primates as playmates: [link]