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Someone should do this for tech meetups with free pizza and beer. I practically lived on those my first year in the bay area. If you're smart you can eat for fr

Someone should do this for tech meetups with free pizza and beer. I practically lived on those my first year in the bay area. If you're smart you can eat for free every night of the week in exchange for listening to a few boring lightning talks and recruiter pitches.

dfeojm-zlib 7y ago
Terrible nutrition though, most def not how to run your body optimally. Freeganing can save you bank. Hit up the nicer grocery stores: Whole Foods, Trader Joes, Lunardi's, Nob Hill. Find out their schedules for throwing away perfectly good food because the arbitrary/conservative date on it "expired." One of my friends frequently scores expensive cuts of filet mignon steaks that they just toss (I'm vegetarian when it would increase demand for animal ag). You don't need to waste time pretending to be interested in Meetups. Also, if you go in the back of Starbucks and other chains that serve food, maybe an hour before closing time, you can score healthy vittles. (The give my friend all the black bean burritos and chicken salads he can carry.) Personally, I'd be worried about eating fruit from trees in dense urban areas or near highways due to pollution and also pollution from landscape management (i.e., pesticides).
- pergadad 7y ago
  Many farms are near polluted places - especially airports and big streets where people wouldn't want to live. So you won't really escape the pollution - but maybe the chance of eating car exhausts is better than the guarantee of eating them. Then again, you don't know what else happened with processed/supermarket food before it reaches you.
  - gruez 7y ago
    I think you have it backwards. The more accurate statement is that farms are everywhere, including near airports and big roads. It's not like farms cluster around major highways or airports. I would even go as far to say that your average farm plant sees less road pollution than a similar plant in a suburban environment.
- qwsxyh 7y ago
  If Hacker News is anything to go buy, running "optimally" is a scam.
enz 7y ago
But, you have to pay the taxi/train/Uber to go to every event across the city, right?
- marble-drink 7y ago
  I use a bicycle but I'd only do this if I enjoy it anyway, otherwise you're just paying with your time instead of money which is actually a worse deal.
- systemtest 7y ago
  Not OP, but as a student I had a free public transport card which made it feasible. Now that I have to pay €18 for a return ticket to Amsterdam plus the hour wasted on travel it wouldn't make sense to go for free pizza.

dfeojm-zlib 7y ago

Terrible nutrition though, most def not how to run your body optimally. Freeganing can save you bank. Hit up the nicer grocery stores: Whole Foods, Trader Joes, Lunardi's, Nob Hill. Find out their schedules for throwing away perfectly good food because the arbitrary/conservative date on it "expired." One of my friends frequently scores expensive cuts of filet mignon steaks that they just toss (I'm vegetarian when it would increase demand for animal ag). You don't need to waste time pretending to be interested in Meetups. Also, if you go in the back of Starbucks and other chains that serve food, maybe an hour before closing time, you can score healthy vittles. (The give my friend all the black bean burritos and chicken salads he can carry.) Personally, I'd be worried about eating fruit from trees in dense urban areas or near highways due to pollution and also pollution from landscape management (i.e., pesticides).

pergadad 7y ago
Many farms are near polluted places - especially airports and big streets where people wouldn't want to live. So you won't really escape the pollution - but maybe the chance of eating car exhausts is better than the guarantee of eating them. Then again, you don't know what else happened with processed/supermarket food before it reaches you.
- gruez 7y ago
  I think you have it backwards. The more accurate statement is that farms are everywhere, including near airports and big roads. It's not like farms cluster around major highways or airports. I would even go as far to say that your average farm plant sees less road pollution than a similar plant in a suburban environment.
qwsxyh 7y ago
If Hacker News is anything to go buy, running "optimally" is a scam.

enz 7y ago

But, you have to pay the taxi/train/Uber to go to every event across the city, right?

marble-drink 7y ago
I use a bicycle but I'd only do this if I enjoy it anyway, otherwise you're just paying with your time instead of money which is actually a worse deal.
systemtest 7y ago
Not OP, but as a student I had a free public transport card which made it feasible. Now that I have to pay €18 for a return ticket to Amsterdam plus the hour wasted on travel it wouldn't make sense to go for free pizza.