I once watched a seagull eat a pigeon in San Francisco. It just snapped it up out of nowhere.

The tax ban is on internet service itself from your ISP, not services you can purchase over the internet. The person I was replying to implied they were being highly taxed by their ISP for their internet service.

Taxes on home internet service are illegal under federal law, FYI.

Don’t forget the corporate parent of the MTR has massive real estate holdings in HK which they use to fund operations and expansions. A bit hyperbolic but it would be like if the state gave the MTA Hudson Yards before it was built and told them profits from building there must go towards the subway.

IMO the entire purpose of these stores was as a stop to impress your parents when they visit from the suburbs.

You can’t be serious. The sanitation department loves fining buildings for absolutely everything.

Care to expand? I haven’t been up there in years.

Lay off the propaganda my friend.

Also, China does make cars… They have for decades….

As a former Philly resident I’d recognize that Wawa price display tag anywhere.

I spend a lot of time in LA and SF as well and I don’t get how they haven’t elected an Eric Adams type candidate running on a campaign of getting rid of all the tent encampments. Whole city blocks just completely blocked by mountains of garbage and tents. It’s nuts people there just treat it as completely normal.

I don’t know man. I spend a lot of time in the Valley and a lot of people really do love living there. I mean the weather really is incredible year round if you’re not someone that cares about really warm weather.

It’s absolutely not, but ok.

I’ll never understand grown adults that watch WWE wrestling.

I think even just a compromise like we have on the UES. High rises on avenues only, nothing over 7 stories on the cross streets. It allows for plenty of tall building while preventing the neighborhood from ending up feeling like you’re living in Midtown.

The windshield perspective coming from this guy is absolutely bonkers.

Come back and post an opinion when you live here.

You live in Dallas. How would you know about how the NYPD is doing?

The person asked for things cyclists would have to pay for. Examples of things.

You didn’t answer the question.

> When a single city councilman/woman could stop development in its tracks, NIMBYism is still alive and well.

> We need to pass laws at the state level which may override the ability for local lawmakers to have a defacto veto on any new projects in their district. It’s absolutely absurd and should not be possible.

No law is needed. The council member veto over projects in their district is a gentleman’s agreement, not something based in law. It’s how the city council overrode the veto for the new blood center on the UES.

Which building codes and regulations do you want to do away with?

There’s a guy near me on the UES that regularly walks 14 dogs at a time. Even at a really conservative rate of just $20/hour that’s $280 an hour.

That wasn’t really my point. A person at some point had to create this. Has who that person is been lost to the wheel of time? If someone really wanted to know who it is, is it even possible to find out?

I have no idea why this thought popped into my head but I wonder if it would be possible, 40+ years later, to track down whatever artist GE commissioned to create this generic art for the side of this toaster? Like, do those records still exist somewhere deep inside GE?