hard scrabble, yet privileged, NJ flotsam. “pedantic plonker”. GenX hegemonist constans@constans.bsky.social if you need to find me elsewhere
New York, NY
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I love this because unlike all the futuristic stuff posted on social media, this shows what the actual aesthetics of day to day life of Chongqing are
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Do not rewrite legacy code
I cannot stress to you how much you do not want to rewrite legacy code
Only a 25 year old would think this was a good idea
Social Security systems contain tens of millions of lines of code written in COBOL, an archaic programming language. Safely rewriting that code would take years—DOGE wants it done in months. wired.com/story/doge-rebuild…
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At least Justin Trudeau looked like he was having a good time. These people are so joyless
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I cannot stress enough how your children are depending on you to not be weird.
Seriously, you are a dad. Every morning you should be looking yourself in the mirror and saying to yourself: “I need to not be weird, for my children”
My seven year old is about to turn eight.
He asked me yesterday why he still has to have a car seat booster.
I said it is because he lives in a society run by women and weak men who themselves are dominated by women.
That women are predisposed toward safety and that their nature is to manage children.
But because they are in rebellion to the Created order and to the God that created them, they rebel against managing children and try to manage everything else.
But even in rebellion they cannot escape their nature, and thus they manage everyone everywhere as if they are children who need the utmost safety.
Anyway, long story short, it's never too early to radicalize your children against this present evil age.
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It’s not just that people have become weirdly anti-social, it’s that they insist that they are in the right for being anti-social and everyone else is committing a social crime
my roommates and I are having a party tomorrow night so we baked brown butter cookies from scratch for all our neighbors along with a note that tells them what time the party is and our numbers in case it gets too loud. NOBODY ANSWERED 😭 two said go away through the door
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It’s amazing how consistently that trads mistake movies and advertisements for real life. Media standards of the day considered sharing beds too suggestive. No one ACTUALLY lived like that
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Right wingers still haven’t realized that normal people are turned off by Nazi weirdos
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Wow, I can’t imagine why *DRESDEN, GERMANY* got rid of its beautiful traditional architecture…
I can’t think of a bigger downgrade:
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This was due to the firebombing of Dresden in which the majority of the buildings pictured were destroyed. What you see was constructed in a poor, postwar economy, and elsewhere great efforts were made to restore buildings such as the Frauenkirche and Zwinger Palace.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_o
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This is the kind of mistake that, if a 22 year old analyst at Goldman did, would result in a semi-violent meltdown by the managing director.
The DOGE kids are simply sloppy and don’t understand their own job
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Biggest pension scam I've seen: a guy worked in govt for 42 years and retired with a job that paid about 90k. For all those years, he gets a 80%-90% pension. But his last year he cashed in 100s of thousands of $$ of "unused leave", making THAT his salary to base the pension on
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I love that this man was the single greatest force for delivering on republican priorities this century and he will die being hated by his own party and the Republican president
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A couple years ago, someone I had met in college was arrested on very serious charges. It was all over the local news.
Then… I heard nothing. I looked up the court case, and it turned out the charges were dropped. But the local media had no follow up and didn’t explain whyo
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a) this is NYC now under Eric Adams
b) this is a picture of free private enterprise engaging in mutual unregulated commercial activity between free buyers and sellers. The danger of Mamdani is too much free enterprise?
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I am telling you right now, any college students who are listening— if you become a doctor or nurse, no one you interview with will ask you if you have any surgical or anaesthesiological passion projects you’re doing at home to prove if you really want the job.
met a young guy who just graduated with a cs degree & can't find a job at all & I asked if he did any side passion projects or leetcode or had a strong opinion on rust or python or javascript & it was a no to all & dude if you can't even fool me, maybe it's not this job market
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People have discovered that the data scientists at the dating apps calculated that their customers finding relationships was bad for business
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Anyone who got married and otherwise in a committed relationship a few years ago got the last chopper out of ‘Nam
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Legalized gambling. Not that I was a big advocate of it but I thought it was fine and we should be allowed to play online poker
But it needs to be illegal. No one should be able to open an app and start gambling
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I read about how Dalmatians have a genetic defect of high uric acid which causes blockages. 50 years ago, a guy crossed a pointer with a Dalmatian to eliminate that defect and bred Dalmatians to carry this gene. The breeders went BANANAS about how this was illegitimate
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“Who was president in 2008 and 2020?” remain the two big conundrums of the modern age.
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Ozempic has essentially revealed this to be false.
Most of the fat people I know are living off 1200-1500 kcal a day and doing their absolute best—at least 80% of them. Little do they know it’s all for nothing, because being fat is a metabolic issue, not a matter of weak will or laziness. They’re fat because they’re sick, not the other way around. They don’t realise that you can’t out-starve or out-exercise a low metabolism. The mainstream information available will never help them. I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: fat shaming will not be tolerated on this page.
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Studies have even shown that on average people underreported food intake by 47% and over report activity by 51%.
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/1454084/
Metabolic issues can't outweigh thermodynamics.
Those friends just don't track their food and training.
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Honestly, kind of funny that if you become interested in knitting, baking, sewing, and gardening because you’re “trad,” then all your friends end up liberal. There’s a lesson there to be considered
All of my hobbies lead to liberal friends.
I’m okay with not having the same opinions, why can’t they?
Or like maybe we just collect the mushrooms & not talk about it.
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The goal of Taylorism and Scientific management is to use as little labor as possible. The goal of a union is to advocate for the amount of labor they believe they need
Why we assume the management side has the right number is beyond me
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Trump is an extremely weird guy who is almost sociopathic, but EVERY SO OFTEN he has these glimmers of humanity that leak through, like here where he berates his son for trophy hunting or when he mused philosophically about how he’d have an issue with his kids playing football
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There are two levels of CIA employment
- One is the guy who, when you ask what he does, says he works at the CIA
- the other, when you ask what he does, says he works for some miscellaneous energy consulting company and his job is sort of unclear
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Mamdani is the furthest left most pro-Palestine candidate that could possibly exist as a viable politician in NYC and it makes these pro-Palestine activists just hate him even more
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Trump is going to be like the confederacy— something that lasted for 4 years that its supporters were never able to get over over for generations afterwards.
UPDATED: House GOP bills about Trump
-Orders US Mint print $500 bills w/ Trump portrait
-Rename Dulles Airport for Trump
-Rename US coastal waters for Trump
-Expunge his impeachments
-Formally declare he didn't engage in insurrection
-Declare Trump was polticially persecuted
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A leftist posted an astute tweet that being a revolutionary means you need to cultivate athleticism to be prepared for community aid and defense. Half leftist twitter is decrying this as ableism and the other is arguing that discipline and mastery over your body is fascism
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It's really weird how pedigree dog breeders are essentially superstitious. So it becomes impossible to fix genetic problems in a breed because they don't really believe in genetics.
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The “real men” are losing so badly to the TikTok army that here is an international protest movement to beg the TikTok army to stop beating them up
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It’s irresponsible because if he’s innocent, then the only thing you see when googling his name is this news story. If he’s guilty, the public has no idea that he’s free.
“News” is more than what just appears on the police blotter
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Casablanca is like this. You’re sitting there watching a bunch of cliches you’ve heard 1000 times before being exchanged between characters, and then at the end you realize you’ve just watched the best movie ever made.
Paintings that it's cringe and cliché to like but which are also actually legitimate bangers
ALT Wanderer Above a Sea of Fog
ALT The Wave
ALT Nighthawks
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The best thing the U.S. does, which specifically benefits you and the rest of the world on a daily basis, is have a huge navy that protects shipping lanes so that cargo can travel safely
So weird. I am not seeing how the US is bordered by the Red Sea. 🤔
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The United States Navy is one of several that is responsible for Maritime Security and protecting international shipping from Piracy and other illegal attacks.
usni.org/magazines/proc
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When DC mandated that grocery stores charge $0.05 per plastic bag, plastic bag use fell by 90%.
I'm a pretty market-based solutions person but I am just flabbergasted how few cars are on the road for charging a few bucks this is like the surface of mars. What were all these other people lollygagging around in a car doing before
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I normally don’t have much sympathy for people who don’t understand how rent works, but one thing I think neoliberals fail to understand is that not everyone is in an “upward mobility” track. Some people will stay at the same job making roughly their same salary… forever.
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This is interesting! Families who owned motels saw a fall in revenue during the 70s oil crisis which meant fewer people were traveling. Kids of owners didn’t want to run motels. They sold to Indian families willing to live in the motels they worked at & do the cleaning themselves
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London Muslims: we must defeat the kuffar and purge our society of this haram western music and behavior. We must take up arms and purge this degenerate society of shirk
Texas Muslims:
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Barcelona has 1.6 million people and attracts 32 million tourists per year, 20 times their population. NYC has 8.5 million people and attract 65 million tourists per year, 7.5 times their population. The scale is vastly different. Imagine if NYC had 170 million tourists per year
I think I would hate tourism if I lived in Barcelona or something but it doesn't really phase me in NYC. You can't really tell who's a tourist.
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Honestly, I wish democrats had realized “you can just do things.” You can extort American corporations if you want! CEOs will buckle and cry at your feet if you threaten them! CEOs are weak!
BREAKING: NVIDIA and AMD reportedly agree to give US government 15% of their revenues from chip sales in China, according to Financial Times report.
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My guess is that Zelenskyy understood the humiliation dynamic Trump wanted— Zelenskyy would come begging and Trump would demand one last final humiliation out of him, so he realized there was no point. Instead he had to show Europe that the USA was outright hostile to Ukraine
Vance comes across terribly, even worse than Trump. Pointing his finger at Zelenskyy, belligerently demanding that he grovel on his knees. While Zelenskyy, keeping his voice low, displays admirable fortitude and self control.
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University of Chicago has suffered badly from this. It used to be it was a school for people who would do stuff like stay up for 3 days straight reading Heidegger without showering, & now it’s just another place for people with high grades and SAT scores who didn’t get into Yale
Re: NYU every elite college is the same now. Competition so high that all the kids apply to 20 schools and just go to the one they get into. So every student body is just mostly just randomly distributed upper middle class kids. There’s no ‘school character’ anymore
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The state needs to simply override stuff like this
Homeowners in Menlo Park are so opposed to building affordable housing on a downtown surface parking lot that they have raised $150k and filed a petition requiring a citywide vote anytime a parking lot is to be developed. The city hasn't approved an apartment in 32 months.
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Republican made the (at the time, reasonable) bet that Republican states would continue being able to gerrymander and blue states would stick to non-partisan redistricting. I don’t think they predicted the shear hatred Gavin Newsom has for republicans or that Hochul has agency
just a reminder that in 2021 every single Democrat in Congress voted for HR1 to ban gerrymandering, but republicans unanimously opposed HR1 and filibustered the bill.
the parties are not the same
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So a guy who has a 90k/yr job has a $400k/yr pension. This is in California, which gives an idea of why the state has such high expenses.
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To be clear I don’t know why the charges were dropped or if this guy did those bad things or not— maybe i could find out if I made a special request for the case proceedings. But the media should be the ones doing this for what was supposedly a big story when he was arrested
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Airbus is staffed by Europeans for whom being an engineer at airbus is one of the best jobs you can get. Boeing is staffed by Americans for whom working at Boeing is something you do because you can’t get a better paying job with a tech company.
Absolutely brutal Boeing story
@nytimes.
"What used to be a duopoly has become two-thirds Airbus, one-third Boeing. A lot of people are looking at Airbus and seeing a company run by competent people. The contrast with Boeing is fairly profound.”
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The big issue here in government with something like social security is that there is probably not a lot of added value. You could spend a lot of money “rewriting the code”, but then what would be the benefit? Would it run faster? Would it make SS need fewer employees? What?
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Yeah, I keep seeing fewer “liberal tears” tweets and a helluva lot of “liberals are mean for not wanting to speak to us”tweets
Even conservatives hate being stuck being around other conservatives. The conservative craves liberal approval
Kinda thought there would be a lot more drinking liberal tears and a lot less pitifully begging friends not to leave.
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Having immigrant parents means you hear about your parents’ struggles over disputes of ownership over a family home in the old country and you get there and it’s this:
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So recently I learned that my tailor got into an argument with menswearguy on the fashion forums many years ago and are not on speaking terms.
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Voters want to believe themselves as being “good people” and they also want to see themselves as “reasonable” and “centrist,” which is considered virtuous in American political culture
So they vote for things and then claim they didn’t REALLY vote for those things
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I get why they exist— you want consistent attributes for a dog to serve specific purposes. But they believe more in “purity” than genetics. the power is in the hands of people who believe in phrenology. You’d never see this attitude in agriculture.
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Housewives used to have total control of all home issues and was the one who coordinated all the help and managed the bills and shopping.
People who claim to believe in “separate spheres” for men and women don’t know what that means. It means the woman controls the “home sphere”
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The fact that there was a massive drop off in Dem support and an increase in Trump support in NYC kind of exposes the DSA as a huge failure as an organization.
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- demand Biden be defeated
- get angry that Biden’s initiatives are being wound down and canceled because he is leaving the presidency after Trump wins
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Trump’s vision is for the U.S. to became a regional power whose main concern is managing the affairs of Latin America while it focuses on mining and 20th century manufacturing
The dedication to destroying America is genuinely incredible. If you were actively trying to dismantle American scientific supremacy, what would you be doing differently?
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A small diamond means you got married young when just starting out, and I think that’s beautiful
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Why are there Hezbollah supporters in the USA?
I don’t even mean this as a “why haven’t they been deported yet?” thing. Like literally why would you come to the ISA and live here if you are a Hezbollah loyalist? It’s a totally separate belief system from living in the U.S.
NYC: A mob has flooded the streets of NYC, waving Hezbollah and Hamxs flags.
A new generation has been born.
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If Trump wins it means that ground game doesn’t matter and policy doesn’t matter and candidates and presidents need to completely rethink how to appeal to voters
We’re watching, closely, for signs of the GOP’s ground game. The signals are sparse. It certainly *looks* like there’s no serious statewide coordinated campaign on the Republican side.
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Yes, I 100% that Nancy Mace got a permanent vaccine injury in 2021 but didn't talk about it until now. She's very reticent and media shy so it makes sense that she'd be quiet about it until the end of 2024.
No, I thought I was doing my civil duty, however, was vaccine injured after the second shot... Never again.
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We got rid of affirmative action and they’re still complaining. I thought that ruling meant these poasters would shut up, finally.
Maybe they’re just temperamentally unhappy in life and will always complain
There’s no legal solution to a spiritual problem
Stanley Zhong had a 4.42 GPA, a 1590 SAT, and ranked in the top 1% of the USA Computing Olympiad (Platinum). He built a free e-signing platform, reached the semifinals of Google Code Jam, and placed 2nd in MIT’s Battlecode.
Still, 15 of 18 colleges rejected him — including Stanford, MIT, Carnegie Mellon, and even Cal Poly.
But numbers aside, what’s most striking is hearing from Stanley himself. In the clip below, you’ll see a thoughtful, humble young man who even admits he didn’t expect to get into every top school — but still thought the state schools were within reach.
He’s not alone. Stories like this are surfacing everywhere. Students are asking: When did merit stop mattering?
It’s time we start rewarding it.
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Kristi Noem essentially does not understand that the “pro-rural voter” is “guy who lives in an exurb with 1/2 acre lots, drives a pickup, & works as an account manager for a corporation that supplies products occasionally used by ag companies,” not “farmers who shoot dogs”
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Honestly, your kids and grandchildren don’t need to inherit your trauma of a lost war. Have your child become a dentist, make sure he makes a good living, and then buy a nice big home on lots of land. Stop pining for your grandparents’ olive farm.
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The excuse making here is obscene.
If you are bringing people back for a 7th time (ie, 7 interviews in a day, which is fine), and you’re rejecting someone, your hiring process has essentially failed everyone… the team and the candidate, and wasted everyone’s time.
Very sincere question for the crowd. If you're called in for Interview #7, do you think that's just a formality and you already have the job in the bag?
I'm sort of confused as to why anyone would be completely shocked of this outcome.
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So many conservative tweets are essentially, “I support Trump but he just needs to be a person who isn’t Trump and a person who will do things that Trump will not do”
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Columbia is definitely running a mass business selling dozens of random master’s degrees at exorbitant prices using their relatively small undergraduate program for branding purposes to market those income-generating degrees
Rashid Khalidi is retiring from @Columbia
“I have been both disgusted and horrified by the way higher education has developed into a cash register… a money-making, MBA, lawyer-run, hedge fund-cum-real estate operation, with a minor sideline in education”
theguardian.com/world/ng-int…
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The rental car situation is so annoying. I might reserve a sedan like a Camry and maybe hope that I get an upgrade to some kind of nicer car. Then I get there and the guy will be like, “sir, good news! I’m giving you a free upgrade to an entry level SUV!”
That is not an upgrade
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I love how the arbitrator can decide that he should be reinstated based on the acceptable level of joke quality
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The funny thing is that Trump DID do this, and cars are still much more expensive. Because cars are expensive for actual reasons outside of “it’s the government’s fault”
Trump could get to a 70% approval rating by cutting back useless Obama era car regulations and getting a $12k base level Sedan and $15k base level pick up truck to the market
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PJ O’Rourke, in Parliament of Whores, talked about government waste and how our “idea” of waste is things like the strategic helium reserve which cost a few million per year, but are actually things like agriculture subsidies which cost billions and no one will touch 1/
There's something funny about how libertarians confronted with the 500 million things that the US government does very rarely reach out to dismantle the recently-added laws that do billions of dollars in damage, and always go for 250 year old load-bearing structures of society.
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A lot of people are unable to understand that the explanation for the actions of Sliwa, Hochul, and Lander is that people really, really hate Andrew Cuomo
Ok, I’ll just say it: Word on the street is that @CurtisSliwa isn’t getting out because he made a deal with @ZohranKMamdani.
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So many dumb lefty ideas are “what if we turned this public resource designed to serve everyday people into the first point of entry for serving the homeless?”
Zohran Mamdani wants to use empty subway retail to help homeless New Yorkers
gothamist.com/news/zohran-ma…
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Yes. In the social class that can afford a $60k wedding, the median cash gift should’ve been about $50-$100 with a couple whales in the $500-$1000 range.
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Every problem with NYC can be traced to the fact that it was the most advanced city in the world in 1930 and then pretty much stayed at that point.
My one issue with New York (and some of the communities here) is that it feels distinctly like a 20th century city.
I was walking down Amsterdam Avenue and started (mis-)humming ‘20th Century Girl’ —
We gotta do something about this!
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I have ACTUALLY turned my whites pink due to not separating my clothes as a teen
THE RULES ARE WRITTEN IN RUNNY DYE
You have been lied to. You do not have to separate white clothes from colored clothes. This is not the 1900s.
Who else realized this a long time ago?
Community note
It is well known that clothing with dyes can bleed in the wash and dye whites in the same laundry load. classiccleaners.com/how-to-keep-yo
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