It's funny because this sub is totally behind this sort of essential infrastructure but when it comes to Con Ed...

https://www.reddit.com/r/nyc/comments/125mdb5/reminder_public_hearings_on_coneds_rate_hikes_are

everybody is just like "fuck Con Ed, I shouldn't have to pay for electricity."

Which is especially funny because a significant portion of that rate hike is going towards clean energy infrastructure. It always amuses me as someone that works in energy that people talk a good game when it comes to clean energy but don't actually want to pay for it. Do people think infrastructure is free? I don't get it.

Yes?

https://www.link.nyc/

Here's a recent example:

https://streeteasy.com/sale/1648536

$220k/yr income limit for a family of 4. Nobody is ever going to get a mortgage approved for that place within that income limit.

https://streeteasy.com/sale/1631168

1.1 million studio, 154k income limit.

No it's because they neglected to put asset limits on HDFC purchases. The HDFC market is warped by asset rich people who haven't had an income in two years and thus aren't restricted by the income limits. The income limits make it so that anybody that falls within those limits can't afford the purchase price even with a mortgage when they're competing against these asset rich/no income cash offers. And the co-op owners know that they can get more money in the sale by going after those people.

I've seen some particular egregious examples where the income limit is like $50k/yr and the unit is listed at over a million dollars. Rich people love it because they still get to take advantage of the tax abatements/low maintenance.

The city had a solution to this: replacing the current HDFC agreement with one that included asset limits. HDFC owners threw a fit because it would have tanked their property values because the HDFC market right now revolves around these all-cash offers from people who on paper don't have an income. They tried to entice the HDFCs with more tax abatements but nobody seems interested.

Pretty sure NYC does it just to spite Boston.

Not only is a rude, but it's fucking gross. It's both insulting and disgusting.

I mean you might as well tack it on even if it isn't that common. There's no downside.

Once you get good at it it should be very little effort for a lot of reward. You can grow an absolute ton of mushrooms in a couple of storage bins. Mushrooms on the east coast are stupid expensive for how easy they are to grow and the relative lack of risk (no smell, no grow lights, concealed grow containers).

>The R5 also has IBIS, and fun-fact: Canon IBIS performs better than Sony's.

Not anymore.

Only taken the train there once, but it wasn't at all obvious when I got there where I should be going. So I got in line with everybody else when they announced the track number.

The fuck is "overclocked 4g"?

And the Con Edison rate case has nothing to do with fossil fuel prices.

Infrastructure isn't free. If you want green energy now (like a majority green in the next ten years) you're talking trillions of dollars in infrastructure spending.

I want that. But I also understand that there is going to be a cost. For some reason a lot of my fellow green energy proponents live under the false assumption that you can just snap your fingers and trillions of dollars in generation and transmission projects just magically appear the next day.

I think we need inspections tbh, even if people buy good quality batteries if they're riding them around in salty slush and rain they're going to eventually corrode.