Crazy what not settling for less when it comes to public office will do for you for once.
Now do Blackburn, Lancashire.
Turns out you can improve both public transit and driving! It was sort of being implied by haters that driving was going to get way worse under him IIRC.
Should’ve used rats to fill them in. .
Boom, two birds, one stone.
I should be mayor. Amateurs.
You wanna get 2 birds stoned at once?
You talkin bout Pigeons?
Now they know how many holes it takes to fill the Albert Hall . . .
By himself? That’s quite a work ethic.
Immigrant took my jerb which I would never do.
He’s used to filling holes since college days
What matters is what’s meaningful, not what’s expedient.
This isn’t impressive. NYC roads are in rough shape, and patchwork fixes are routine work often dressed up for press. I don’t care about cars.
Bikes cause negligible wear. Vehicles are what degrade roads. Designing n repairing infrastructure around cars feels outdated.
Focus on what actually moves the needle: stronger schools, addressing the $25 billion deficit, supporting people in need, and investing in water infrastructure.
Those are lasting impacts.
You ever hit a pothole on a bike because it looked like a little water and you didn’t want to go further into traffic? Definitely a painful and potentially expensive experience.
Yeah, big shit needs to be accomplished but these initiatives compound and get the public behind fixing stuff and making life a little better. Would I like to see empty rentals be taxed at 2-5x the rate of occupied dwellings, fuck yes, will it happen soon, probably not.
I think potholes are way more meaningful to bicycles, scooters, and motorcycles than cars from a usability standpoint
What about the busses?
I get the sentiment, but we don’t have much in terms of hope in our government/politicians these days. Hopefully this is just a stepping stone.
Potheads in shambles
This should be in every Mayoral job-orientation handbook.
There’s a flip side. My country has roadworks everywhere right before election time lmao
The problem is, you see; hardly anyone reads books these days.
I have dozens of books (that warn exactly, with instructions) on how to avoid this exact situation.
I have like 30 books that I think “Hmm, that looks interesting”.
But then I’d feel guilty for doing nothing with that time.
Time better spent rotting your brain on the internet with the rest of us.
Reading is doing something.
The important thing about having books is the option to read them.
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Great things happen when the wealthy pay their fair share.
This is exactly why they never want us to see it happen.
They’re gonna pay one way or the other.
We don’t want cake.
We can have revolution AND cake!
Sure sure sure, but did the government make any profit from doing this?
Business owners whose vehicles now need less repair and maintenance: “This is unacceptable“
“Garmin GPS announces next update to bring back missing potholes by playing bang.mp3 without any user input destination needed…”
But it was the sound of that specific pothole! How else am I gonna know which pothole is which? Please send help, I’ve been lost in traffic for 4 hours!
There’s a corner gas episode where the small town gets upset after a pothole is filled because it helps reduce the speed of traffic and a speed bump is too fancy
An incredible pull, but hell yea I see you.
it’s been over a decade since I’ve seen any of that show and I can picture a whole bunch of scenes from that episode in my head
not because I actually remember them, just because the characters and plot are that identifiable
good show
The movie blew my fucking mind…
They were a couple a whole time? 🤣🤣
Dude spoilers!
Cops need loving, too.
Suspension and tire shops across NYC are sobbing
Fucking socialist, wasting money on things people need.
I know you’re joking, but it is so depressing that this is EXACTLY how so many government officials think and how so many constituents have been brainwashed to think.
and, equally if not more depressingly, governments can make waaay more money by TAXING THE FUCKING RICH!
The typical conservative response to that is “but then they’ll take their businesses elsewhere and now you get nothing.”
The typical conservative response also fails to even consider just how difficult, expensive, and risky it is to move a large business to an entirely new region. Real estate has to be purchased and sold, employees have to be relocated or replaced, logistics have to be established in the new region, valuable business connections and contracts will have to be severed, and for brick and mortar businesses, the competitive landscape will be different.
YUUUUP
Car infrastructure doesn’t need to make a profit don’t you know? Its just public transport that needs be a net gain for the city
Ah, you must be one of those people that needs posts to end in “/s” to get the joke.
Haha I think you might be the person who needs the /s. I was just continuing the sarcasm but making an adjacent sarcastic point
I don’t need the
/sIf this comment is implying an /s then you got me lol
no, you can see it right there at the end:
/s/s
I’m just trying to fit in.
Or also did 20 diff pockets get filled as well??
if this about cars, only the most libertarian would question, if we’re talking about trains tho…
Who’s going to pay the workers to put the pothokes back?
New campaign slogan:
Zohran, he’ll fill all your holes.
I wish those movies were still funny today. They were so great in their time.
They aged terribly
I find the first one aged better than the rest. I still laughed out loud after watching it recently. The later movies, not so much.
Good to know. Thanks for the heads up.
I’m so glad someone finally had the bravery and moral courage to take on the scourge of…Austin Powers movies. Truly this is the cause of our time.
Yeah, agreed on all counts 😕
Can you share examples?
I don’t remotely remember the one i saw.
Well, just off the top of my head, from very old memories, there’s tons of sexual assault. Also lots of making fun of fat people and people with different bodies in general. I’m sure there’s a lot more.
There’s also the fact that half the ‘jokes’ were just a scene going on longer than you’d expect.
I think a lot of the body shaming jokes don’t land not because we are uptight PC wokies, but because when you don’t stigmatise something, it loses its social power. Oh that person has a mole? So what? The boomer humour was ‘oh, it’s bad to have a mole, but you should never say anything about it!’ when you don’t believe either of those statements there is no joke, and the scene goes on for like 5 minutes…
I wonder what will be considered horrible in 5-10 years from now? What awful thing we are doing now that we are unaware of?
Zohran the Hole Destroyer.
You thought Trump’s weird enthusiasm for the guy couldn’t get weirder. Just wait.
This is good but cis people still need to push him to keep his promise on protecting trans people that he made during the campaign and stand up to Mount Sinai and Langone.
https://bsky.app/profile/erininthemorning.com/post/3mhtvnnr4222c
What the fuck is a cis people, we are you so obsessed with people’s sexuality, isn’t people good enough? Why does a certain sexuality have to do that, why can’t anyone?
You seem confused.
It’s important to remember there is no default or baseline for defining a human person. With race, if someone just says “person” without specifying race/color, does that imply “white” (or whatever other default) to you? And if I just say “people”, does that mean straight people only and not gay people?
How about gender? Are “people” just the men, or just the women? Cis/trans is the same. There is no default here, just a bunch of people with different backgrounds trying to do their best.
Also, if it just so happens you’re one of the folks who considers “cis” a slur, I’d ask if you feel the same about the most accurate terms for your gender, race/ethnicity, etc.
Cis people are people whose gender identity matches their sex assigned at birth. It’s basically anyone that isn’t transgender, nonbinary, or intersex.
It matters in this contect because while transgender people can advocate for their own rights, they don’t have the leverage needed to succeed unless cisgender (cis) people help.
“Cis” is not a sexuality. The only person going on about sexuality is youuuuuu.
You’re a cis people dumbass
Red flag!
A cis person is the oppossite of a trans person.
Of course.
Actual uplifting news and it’s something Zohran Mamdani did. Sucks that this guy isn’t eligible for the presidency.
I mean presidency eligiblity seems to be up in the air these days. Maybe it’s not impossible
Trump won’t be eligible in next election and I’m certain that won’t stop him from trying. Why can’t we do the same?
…because Zohran Mamdani isnt already the president and isnt being supported by the richest men in the world and is actively being worked against.
