_Maxolotl
_Maxolotl t1_j7i5a3i wrote
Reply to Federal court upholds NY rent stabilization laws, setting up possible Supreme Court showdown by ER301
As much as the SCOTUS conservatives love to fuck over poor people, they also have at least some awareness of the level of shitstorm their rulings can cause, and the potential political fallout.
Nullifying rent regulation completely would be one hell of a shitstorm. One third of NYC households would instantly be put in a very precarious situation.
But how precarious? Yes, the overwhelming majority of landlords are vultures, and we could expect them to immediately raise rents.
But with a critical mass of over 1 million households, how the fuck would the NY Sheriffs managed to evict anyone? Eviction notices on that scale could very plausibley lead to at least some level of armed insurrection.
_Maxolotl t1_j7h75fe wrote
Reply to comment by Butt_Sauce in Tired of parking placard abuse? The DOT is holding a public hearing on some new rules that target parking placard abuse in loading zones on the 7th, and there aren't nearly enough comments. You can comment on the site, via email, or attend the hearing. by ThoolooExpress
So you're just a bootlicker?
How about instead of fining parking officers who let placard abuse slide, we just move parking enforcement and internal affairs to be under the control of an elected public defender's office?
_Maxolotl t1_j7h4j7s wrote
Reply to comment by Butt_Sauce in Tired of parking placard abuse? The DOT is holding a public hearing on some new rules that target parking placard abuse in loading zones on the 7th, and there aren't nearly enough comments. You can comment on the site, via email, or attend the hearing. by ThoolooExpress
Tell me you have a placard and you use it to get away with parking like a douche without telling me you have a placard and you use it to get away with parking like a douche.
_Maxolotl t1_j7ejsx5 wrote
Reply to Tired of parking placard abuse? The DOT is holding a public hearing on some new rules that target parking placard abuse in loading zones on the 7th, and there aren't nearly enough comments. You can comment on the site, via email, or attend the hearing. by ThoolooExpress
This doesn't fix the problem with placard abuse.
This just adds one more place where traffic and parking enforcement will refuse to write tickets on cars with placards, out of professional courtesy.
The only way to stop placard abuse is to punish parking enforcement officers who refuse to write tickets on placarded cars.
_Maxolotl t1_j71xqbi wrote
This is what happens when you ask an AI to draw you Samuel L Jackson guest staring on South Park in the role of a garbage bin.
_Maxolotl t1_j6xd782 wrote
Reply to comment by Speedyx in New York Pays $121 Million for Police Misconduct, the Most in 5 Years by hau5keeping
I'd love to see a law that says a cop caught wantonly falsifying evidence faces a mandatory minimum sentence equal to however much time their false evidence put an innocent person away for, with no statute of limitations.
_Maxolotl t1_j6o8t63 wrote
Reply to comment by awaythrowbosk in Mount Sinai investigating newborn’s death during NYC nurses' strike by CasinoMagic
From a philosophical standpoint point, you just wrote some spectacularly dimwitted both-sides-ism.
_Maxolotl t1_j6nkxtj wrote
Fixed headline:
Mount Sinai management is investigating ways to smear organized labor.
_Maxolotl t1_j6ncfug wrote
Reply to comment by oreosfly in Driver using a two ton vehicle as a weapon against a cyclist and dog on a cargo bike. 5th avenue near Rockefeller Center in Manhattan. by Souperplex
Interesting, but irrelevant to the crime. Driver had no way of knowing anything about him.
_Maxolotl t1_j6kjume wrote
Reply to comment by PeterTheGreat321 in An album of hidden, defaced, obstructed, and fake plates. The majority of these vehicles are owned by city employees. by NYCBikeLanes
A lot of the time the license plate readers can read them anyway. The cameras can read the letters and numbers because of their height.
_Maxolotl t1_j6kgwra wrote
Reply to comment by sutisuc in Mayor Adams plows ahead with plan to privatize health benefits for 250,000 NYC municipal retirees by mowotlarx
Call in sick.
_Maxolotl t1_j6kgsuo wrote
Reply to comment by lurrkee in Mayor Adams plows ahead with plan to privatize health benefits for 250,000 NYC municipal retirees by mowotlarx
He can't stop it now. Adams can.
_Maxolotl t1_j6ilbn9 wrote
Reply to comment by soupdumplinglover in Mayor Adams plows ahead with plan to privatize health benefits for 250,000 NYC municipal retirees by mowotlarx
Fuck Eric Adams.
If you strike I will bring you donuts on the picket line.
(Or some other healthier treat of similar value if you prefer.)
_Maxolotl t1_j696fnn wrote
Reply to comment by Carmilla31 in NYC protests of Tyre Nichols death draw more than 100; three arrested as Times Square protester smashes police car windshield by [deleted]
Not enough time between the video being released and the announced time of protests.
Also this video is awful but it doesn't have the same close up or broad daylight smirking evil of the cops who murdered George Floyd while bystanders begged them to stop.
And, yes, as others have said, it's winter. And society doesn't have the same pent up rage as it did in the summer of 2020 - but that doesn't mean we're immune to serious civil unrest. Cops will keep committing atrocities. It's only a matter of time before another video comes out midweek, in the summer.
_Maxolotl t1_j68rt2t wrote
Reply to Mayor Adams calls on Rep. George Santos to resign weeks after vowing to work with him: ‘Time for him to leave’ by newzee1
George Santos won't leave until a reporter asks him the magic question:
"Are you actually Sacha Baron Cohen in disguise?"
At which point, Cohen will say yes, and peel off his mask, Scooby Doo style.
_Maxolotl t1_j63cpty wrote
The weight allowed for opioids is too much.
Half an ounce of heroin is much more than a personal use quantity of heroin.
Decriminalizing that amount means any street level dealer who knows the details of the law could only be arrested during a controlled buy, not if they're searched for some other legitimate reason.
Lower that weight limit. Create more safe injection sites.
Otherwise this seems like generally good policy change.
This part is definitely good:
"SB2340 would also repeal two other laws in New York: one that makes it a crime to inject someone else with drugs, even with their consent; and another that makes everyone present liable for a drug possession charge if drugs are found in a car or in a room."
Absolutely insane that you can get charged for possession for being in the same room as a controlled substance, and we all know that a law like this mostly gets used as leverage against underprivileged people in plea bargaining or other forms of legal arm twisting.
_Maxolotl t1_j5ytrh5 wrote
well established court precedent: "come at me bro."
_Maxolotl t1_j5wdaci wrote
Reply to Mayor Adams launches newsletter to counteract ‘distorted’ NYC press coverage by kinetic_hermetic
Eric Adams lies a lot.
_Maxolotl t1_j5rcsei wrote
Reply to comment by The_Lone_Apple in Santos claims he was target of assassination attempt in new video by newzee1
He's a psy-op created to make Eric Adams look honest.
_Maxolotl t1_j5rcbfp wrote
It takes hard work to get yourself to a point in life where the whole world finds you less credible than Jussie Smollett when you say you got attacked.
_Maxolotl t1_j5r64et wrote
Things that can cause expensive lawsuits get fixed pretty quick. a loose great is one of those things.
_Maxolotl t1_j5okpa1 wrote
yet another headline blaming the machine that killed something instead of the person driving the machine.
_Maxolotl t1_j5jtq9n wrote
LOL. Goldman Sachs does not want to give small businesses a lift. They want to make small businesses dependent on their loans rather than loans from competing vampires, and they want to extract as much debt service cost as possible from them.
_Maxolotl t1_j5jft1k wrote
Reply to comment by foradil in How These Dog Walkers Make Over $100,000 a Year by LouisSeize
To hit 100k walking dogs at $35 per walk, you'd need to do 57 walks per week, with two weeks off.
Walking more than one dog at a time, that's actually not impossible to do as one person. I see walkers with a dozen dogs in the park all the time.
_Maxolotl t1_j7ibo7h wrote
Reply to comment by yasth in Federal court upholds NY rent stabilization laws, setting up possible Supreme Court showdown by ER301
"some tenants complaining" is a wild understatement of the scale of the likely fallout from a total ban on rent regulation.
And the ensuing chaos isn't exactly what they'd be worried about. The "republican judges evict 1 million families" headlines are what they'd think twice about.