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.

What happens if somebody opens up an unlicensed liquor store? (askin for a friend)

(opens popcorn stand)

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.

good

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.

Has anyone seen Curtis Sliwa lately?

Maybe all the free donuts have given you an inaccurate perspective.

And the condo board got the government to send men with guns to lock him up over it.

What's he gonna do at the border, exactly?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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."

If we let this get cancelled, the terrorists will have won.

Eric Adams lies a lot.

OK.

Dark humor is an essential coping mechanism in a dystopia.

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.

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.

https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2021/11/28/the-other-victim-in-fatal-astoria-crash-sues-reckless-driver-whom-da-katz-exonerated/

Crazy drivers get off with no charges a lot.

Ban cars though. Not everywhere, but in more places.

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.

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.

If only real cops could get arrested for this kind of thing as fast as rentacops do.