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_Maxolotl t1_j53g2ar wrote
(opens popcorn stand)
_Maxolotl t1_j52qvtb wrote
Reply to comment by russyc in Parents still need vax proof in schools by King-of-New-York
I dunno, they seem like a terrible parent and terrible parents are at least a part of how Elon ended up being such a petulant man-baby.
_Maxolotl t1_j52ql4x wrote
good
_Maxolotl t1_j527o2i wrote
Reply to Police need to crack down on people in Brooklyn not stopping at red lights by malefootlover1
more red light cameras.
I'm so fucking tired of watching semitrucks run all the reds near my local elementary school except the one that they know has a camera. put cameras on all of them.
_Maxolotl t1_j525xph wrote
Has anyone seen Curtis Sliwa lately?
_Maxolotl t1_j4i3a5e wrote
Reply to comment by Grass8989 in NYC budget cuts could worsen food crisis for hungry families by DrogDrill
Maybe all the free donuts have given you an inaccurate perspective.
_Maxolotl t1_j4e94pu wrote
Reply to comment by Longjumping_Vast_797 in He Spent 181 Days at Rikers Over NYC Condo Addition — and May Go Back If It Isn't Torn Down by Shreddersaurusrex
And the condo board got the government to send men with guns to lock him up over it.
_Maxolotl t1_j49ccbr wrote
What's he gonna do at the border, exactly?
_Maxolotl t1_j48prgg wrote
Reply to comment by Scroticus- in He Spent 181 Days at Rikers Over NYC Condo Addition — and May Go Back If It Isn't Torn Down by Shreddersaurusrex
We don't even know, based on the article, if there's any building safety code violation here. The work was unpermitted, which is a violation, but we don't know if the work was up to code.
It might be a zoning violation. All we know is that his condo board didn't like it, he disagreed with them, and as a result the government sent men with guns to lock him up.
_Maxolotl t1_j48p6n4 wrote
Reply to He Spent 181 Days at Rikers Over NYC Condo Addition — and May Go Back If It Isn't Torn Down by Shreddersaurusrex
I've always said NIMBYism is authoritarianism, and this proves the point very well.
Build something we don't like? Even if it's up to code? Refuse to tear it down?
The state will send men with guns to lock you up.
This was about an addition. But the same laws apply to situations like a historic district. Put a modern door and windows on your old house, refuse to undo that change long enough, and the state will send men with guns to lock you up.
Prudes suck. Authoritarians suck. NIMBYs are both.
_Maxolotl t1_j40vgz7 wrote
Reply to comment by Imhappy_hopeurhappy2 in NYC Weather: Here’s Why We Haven’t Seen Snow This Winterwfall Yet? by FrankBeamer_
Oh I don't deny climate change at all, broadly, regionally, locally. Winters in the 90s were colder, I remember it quite clearly. And we have data that shows it too.
I just hesitate to blame it for a single anomalous situation that is (so far) within the bounds of normal variation.
_Maxolotl t1_j3z8mky wrote
January and February in NYC are the peak snowfall months, not December, and we're not even halfway through January yet.
On the ten year average, January is a little snowier. On the 20 year average, February is a little snowier. So regardless of climate change and La Niña, just random chance could mean we don't get much snow by mid January.
_Maxolotl t1_j3z66lc wrote
Lindsey Graham: "I'm not gay!"
Matt Gaetz: "I have not committed statutory rape!"
Katie Hill: "What orgies?"
Mark Foley: "I resign... (cue incredibly creepy music) Speaker Hastert."
_Maxolotl t1_j3z3bto wrote
If we let this get cancelled, the terrorists will have won.
_Maxolotl t1_j30kmsg wrote
Eric Adams lies a lot.
_Maxolotl t1_j2yw3ya wrote
_Maxolotl t1_j2uobvd wrote
Reply to comment by Kaekru in 22 people hurt, including 3 young girls, after SUV slams into Manhattan restaurant: police by 12stTales
Dark humor is an essential coping mechanism in a dystopia.
_Maxolotl t1_j2unuof wrote
Reply to comment by I_AM_TARA in 22 people hurt, including 3 young girls, after SUV slams into Manhattan restaurant: police by 12stTales
In civilized countries, head-in diagonal parking is rarer and bollards or guardrails protecting sidewalks are more common.
NYC knows how to block cars when the DOT really cares about it effectively. For example, the Manhattan Bridge bike path, or the Hudson Greenway, or Ground Zero.
But in Paris and Tokyo, for example, there are guardrails or bollards along many, many sidewalks, not just on huge boulevards or in tourist areas.
What this should tell us is that the DOT doesn't care as much as it should about protecting pedestrians. We have the most pedestrians per square mile in this hemisphere, and the city is barely even trying.
_Maxolotl t1_j2un9i0 wrote
Reply to comment by toastedclown in 22 people hurt, including 3 young girls, after SUV slams into Manhattan restaurant: police by 12stTales
Queens DA let a lady walk last year, sure seemed like she road raged and killed a dude on a scooter while hitting a sidewalk shed full of people eating dinner.
Crazy drivers get off with no charges a lot.
_Maxolotl t1_j2umm9z wrote
Reply to comment by iv2892 in 22 people hurt, including 3 young girls, after SUV slams into Manhattan restaurant: police by 12stTales
Ban cars though. Not everywhere, but in more places.
_Maxolotl t1_j2owj0l wrote
I had to block payment on my card to the Y during lockdown because they just wouldn't respond to any online or phone attempt to cancel my membership.
I wonder how many other gyms didn't let people cancel. I also wonder how much of it was malice and how much was just negligence due to panic.
_Maxolotl t1_j29a63e wrote
They tell us the list keeps growing but they don't give us the whole list.
I want the whole list so I can talk about the total of their salaries.
_Maxolotl t1_j29342i wrote
If only real cops could get arrested for this kind of thing as fast as rentacops do.
_Maxolotl t1_j22cbji wrote
Eric Adams lies a lot.
_Maxolotl t1_j53gimx wrote
Reply to New York City has more than 1,200 unlicensed weed stores, and one legal one by Character_Mall_1966
What happens if somebody opens up an unlicensed liquor store? (askin for a friend)