AnacharsisIV
AnacharsisIV t1_jbk8nb8 wrote
Reply to comment by jewkidontheblock in Upper West Side votes against proposed rest stop for delivery workers at 72nd Street by mowotlarx
We pay for the NYPD with our taxes, if the ebikes are unsafe it's the NYPD's job to enforce traffic laws. Don't be mad at Uber, be mad at the cops
AnacharsisIV t1_jbk8jgt wrote
Reply to comment by Mrsrightnyc in Upper West Side votes against proposed rest stop for delivery workers at 72nd Street by mowotlarx
Because that would be an "employee perk" and these guys are explicitly not employees.
AnacharsisIV t1_jb3mgs8 wrote
Reply to comment by casicua in Woman found dead in Jeep full of noxious chemicals on Manhattan’s Sutton Place in bizarre suspected suicide by justthekoufax
TBH if they threw a rock (or shot a low-velocity projectile like a beanbag round) through a window and waited a second or two for it to vent it would probably be oky.
AnacharsisIV t1_janm14a wrote
Reply to comment by arrogant_ambassador in Ban Corporal Punishment in Private Schools, New York Lawmakers Say by _Maxolotl
I said "religious movement and/or cult." Considering it's properly referred to as the "Hassidic Movement" I assumed that'd be relatively uncontroversial. It's literally a spiritual revival movement, from which both cults and non-cults have originated.
AnacharsisIV t1_jank267 wrote
Reply to comment by arrogant_ambassador in Ban Corporal Punishment in Private Schools, New York Lawmakers Say by _Maxolotl
Do you believe the NYT is objective in its reporting of any other religious movements and/or cults?
Again, we agree that there is child abuse in Hassidic run Yeshivas, correct? It's happening and the NYT is not fabricating that.
Is the NYT required to, say, publish an article about how Jim Jones was a crusader for civil rights and equality among African Americans? Do we have to have a puff piece on Tom Cruise for every article about Scientology's forced labor?
AnacharsisIV t1_janjan7 wrote
Reply to comment by arrogant_ambassador in Ban Corporal Punishment in Private Schools, New York Lawmakers Say by _Maxolotl
Ok, but... shouldn't someone be receiving negative attention for abusing children?
Why is it the NYT's job to promote anyone's livestyle? What do you believe the purpose of journalism is in a civil society?
AnacharsisIV t1_janixme wrote
Reply to comment by arrogant_ambassador in Ban Corporal Punishment in Private Schools, New York Lawmakers Say by _Maxolotl
So, your argument is "We should let Jews abuse children, because the extant, physical harm being inflicted upon children is less important than potential antisemitism"?
Have you ever read "The Ones who Walk Away from Omelas" by chance?
AnacharsisIV t1_janhhtr wrote
Reply to comment by arrogant_ambassador in Ban Corporal Punishment in Private Schools, New York Lawmakers Say by _Maxolotl
Did anyone intimate that there's something intrinsic about Jewishness that requires Yeshivas to abuse the children under their care?
AnacharsisIV t1_janerdu wrote
Reply to comment by arrogant_ambassador in Ban Corporal Punishment in Private Schools, New York Lawmakers Say by _Maxolotl
If the Yeshivas are indeed ill, why shouldn't they be reported on? Your assertion isn't that the NYT is making up malfeasance, simply reporting on actual malfeasance that happens, correct?
If so, why is it a bad thing to shine a light on child abuse?
AnacharsisIV t1_jacx1vx wrote
Reply to comment by ripstep1 in Consultants Gone Wild by ToffeeFever
Do you believe that no programming job can be worth 300k?
AnacharsisIV t1_j9lk5t2 wrote
Reply to comment by tengentopp in Uber, Lyft drivers won’t pick up passengers at LaGuardia Airport on Sunday in pay protest strike by ThreeLittlePuigs
> All jobs should provide security for an adult if they wish to do it long-term.
All jobs, yes, but all companies within a sector? There are ways to make a career out of driving, like getting a truck diver's license, but Uber itself is explicitly not for people to be doing long term.
AnacharsisIV t1_j9l6dg5 wrote
Reply to comment by habattack00 in MTA urges social media companies to remove subway surfer videos after teen’s death by Grass8989
> Hell, most adults have seen images of crippled lungs after years of smoking, but people still smoke.
Is that a really good argument when the rate of Americans who smoke has dropped so precipitously in living memory? I don't have the numbers on hand but I wouldn't be surprised if the same applies to crack cocaine. Or just any kind of cocaine, really; that's not a drug I think most kids are trying nor would be able to afford.
AnacharsisIV t1_j9l0xpw wrote
Reply to comment by habattack00 in MTA urges social media companies to remove subway surfer videos after teen’s death by Grass8989
>‘Just kill off the dumb kids, am I right?’
Who said I (or we) are doing any killing? Let the kids kill themselves.
> Problem is that all kids are dumb.
How many people do you know that were so dumb they got pancaked by a subway train of their own volition? Kids may be impulsive, but it takes a special level of ignorance to do something like that and assume you'll come out fine.
AnacharsisIV t1_j9kwkfo wrote
Reply to comment by spicytoastaficionado in MTA urges social media companies to remove subway surfer videos after teen’s death by Grass8989
I mean, I haven't touched a stove since then.
Smart kids who know cause and effect won't surf on a subway car. Dumb ones who don't understand that do us a favor and absolve society of the burden of taking care of them and fixing their stupid decisions by decapitating themselves before they do more harm. Seems like a win win.
AnacharsisIV t1_j9k1de7 wrote
Reply to MTA urges social media companies to remove subway surfer videos after teen’s death by Grass8989
If anything we should put this up in times square so kids can watch it and know exactly what they get when they subway surf.
I used to want to touch the burners of my stove as a child until my dad let me. I got a burn on my finger, and after that I didn't touch the goddamn stove.
AnacharsisIV t1_j9dofq7 wrote
Reply to comment by TheGreatDoheeny in FYI for anyone trying to take an Uber/Lyft from LGA on Sunday by RevolutionaryAd5176
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyse a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly.
Specialization is for insects.
AnacharsisIV t1_j9chzbh wrote
Reply to comment by IloveSeaFoood in FYI for anyone trying to take an Uber/Lyft from LGA on Sunday by RevolutionaryAd5176
Literally yes. If you're an adult and you don't have a skill that you can sell for more than 7 bucks an hour, that's literally a skill issue and that's on you.
AnacharsisIV t1_j9c5570 wrote
Reply to comment by IloveSeaFoood in FYI for anyone trying to take an Uber/Lyft from LGA on Sunday by RevolutionaryAd5176
Every Uber driver is a business owner, with their car as an asset. If they feel they are losing money because of that asset's depreciation they can always stop driving it for work.
AnacharsisIV t1_j9c4uja wrote
Reply to comment by eldersveld in As Battery Fires Mount, Sanitation Department Scrambles to Deal with the Hazardous Aftermath by bikeskata
You reap the benefits of technological advancement, you are responsible for your waste. If you don't wanna recycle your batteries, don't buy machines with batteries.
AnacharsisIV t1_j9c4opd wrote
Reply to comment by eldersveld in As Battery Fires Mount, Sanitation Department Scrambles to Deal with the Hazardous Aftermath by bikeskata
A 30 minute walk or fifteen minute ride is easy dude. Stop being lazy and get your steps in.
AnacharsisIV t1_j968vk2 wrote
Reply to BLADE’S FUTURISTIC NEW ‘HELICOPTERS’ THAT WILL BRING NYC’S ELITE TO THE HAMPTONS — QUIETLY by ny_q
Motherfuckers always trying to ice skate up hill.
AnacharsisIV t1_j968jdq wrote
Reply to comment by BasedAlliance935 in Flaco, the owl who escaped from the Central Park Zoo, will be allowed his freedom - UPI.com by thonioand
Central Park is itself not a natural development: every rock and blade of grass was placed there as opposed to being a piece of primordial Manhattan forest. And it's filled with invasive species like pigeons and rats already. As long as flaco stays in central park there's nothing for him to fuck up, really.
AnacharsisIV t1_j8pguby wrote
Reply to comment by garlicroastedpotato in 11 states consider 'right to repair' for farming equipment by Ranew
> they don't want to be dependent on Europe for anything (see: US spending trillions of dollars on chips manufacturing when they could just buy from Europe instead)
Things like food and microchips are vital to the persistence of the American state. Every country should strive for self-sufficiency in those areas and some other significant industrial capacities. God forbid more wars break out in Europe and we were dependent on them for our chip manufacture; well we just have wait until that war is over (or end it ourselves) if we want chips... or we can see that problem coming and build our own chip factories. The same thing goes with food and that would logically extend to the farming equipment used to create the high yields to feed a country that takes up most of a continent.
It's not unreasonable to want all of this done domestically.
AnacharsisIV t1_j8pfsae wrote
Reply to comment by Rogueish1 in 11 states consider 'right to repair' for farming equipment by Ranew
There is nothing wrong with lobbying. Writing to your congresscritter to say "tell the cops to stop shooting unarmed black teenagers", congratulations, makes you a lobbyist. There's literally no way to stop lobbying without also trampling on the first amendment.
AnacharsisIV t1_jc4cbe8 wrote
Reply to Teen brutally attacked in NYC subway station; hate crime probed: NYPD by OpinionPoop
Anti black slurs in upper Manhattan? I'm wondering if it was a bunch of Dominican kids picking on a Haitian or something, usually I don't see a lot of anti-black racism there of all places.