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The title says it all. Please stop bringing your shoes to bars. Last night my spouse and I are trying to enjoy a nice evening together at our favorite spot, Socks All The Way Down, when the entire vibe is ruined by a clomping, plodding person traipsing through the bar. A bar is not a place for footwear anyways. That is not the only bar this happens at in the neighborhood and it’s becoming a common occurrence. Please leave them with a cobbler or just don’t go out.

ETA: I really don’t care what argument is presented, this was not a common issue until about a year or two ago when the footwear of the neighborhood really changed.

Heya! If any of the 1Password team are here (or possibly just as a warning): the 1Password add-on for Firefox seriously slows down GMail on MacOS (M1 Max, running Sequoia 15.5). I don't see this problem on my Linux laptop.

If anyone has experience dealing with the DOB, I'd love opinions/thoughts on my situation.

In short:

• I purchased a property that had an open, un-signed-off job on it.
• I couldn't get in contact with the architect who opened the job.
• I hired an architect to supersede the job and close it out after getting hit with a stop work order for work that wasn't going on.
• This has apparently proven to be a nightmare. Among other things, the first architect apparently had a boiler in the building plans that doesn't exist.
• My architect is claiming that the new job he filed has effectively superseded the old one, that closing the old one will require an audit from the DOB, and that it will not

In light of the conclusions of the New York City case study by the Transit Costs Project, whose phone/email/postbox do we blow up to address these changes? I know that the MTA is a quasi-independent agency, but the legislature and governor still hold the purse strings, and the governor appoints the CEO. Is Kathy Hochul's office the right place to demand that changes be made?