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  • TIL that every year, drivers in New York City spend, on average, 107 hours — or more than four days — looking for parking spaces.

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  • Critics argue that those pushing for reforms “hate people who own cars,” in the words of Vickie Paladino, a City Council member who represents a district in Queens that is home to many car owners.

    I don't hate people who own cars but I do hate cars. They pollute. They take up valuable space. They're bad for the economy. They kill people.

    In 1996, Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani moved the city’s traffic enforcement agents, the unarmed civilians who write tickets for parking and other traffic violations, from the Transportation Department to the Police Department.

    Fuck Giuliani

    The other day I saw a car double parked in Brooklyn. The owner was sitting at a sidewalk table drinking coffee from the coffee shop that's there. A cop walked up and started to write a ticket, and the lady ran up to try to get out of it.

    On the one hand, fuck the police. On the other, fuck that lady for double parking so she could just chill out for a while. One of the most walkable neighborhoods, and there's a stupid amount of free, available, parking around there.

  • TIL that every year, drivers in New York City spend, on average, 107 hours — or more than four days — looking for parking spaces.

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  • I would rather use that space for homes for people than cars.

  • Imagine being such a loser that you AI yourself clapping for a billionaire while he dances

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  • He’ll die, alone.

    Maybe he'll die with a bunch of other billionaires in like a plane crash or something. Gotta stay optimistic

  • Every time...

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  • Your first (only?) job is to service the emotional needs of the employer

    This is mostly true even after you get hired. Most people are just large children with poorly managed emotions. It doesn't matter if you're right. It matters if your boss feels good.

  • Every time...

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  • A lot of HR people are incompetent. Recruiters, too. And when you give incompetent people AI tools it's a big multiplier of their incompetence.

    I don't understand why so many places still have non-technical people reading technical resumes.

  • Protected bike lanes, not painted lanes, lift NYC bikeshare ridership, analysis shows

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  • Middle of the road? I bet that pun can be upgraded.

    But yeah, smarter people who like driving recognize that making other modes of transit makes driving better for those who do so.

  • Hawaii Just Found a Way to Keep Corporations Out of Politics

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  • Moore’s argument compels these courts to grapple with the very substantial body of law that defines corporations and their powers as creations of the states. The Alitos and Thomases will doubtless find a way, however implausible, to wriggle around that, but even if the usual suspects on the federal bench proceed in customary pro-business lockstep, actions like Hawaii’s will fuel in many ways the growing populist and popular revolt against oligarchy and corporatocracy.

    We know that we have these scumbag "justices" and yet they persist

  • Toyota Veteran Reveals His Worst Fear: 'Everybody Is Shifting To EVs' - Akio Toyoda says he feels "very alone" in defending combustion engines

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  • That's bad for the environment.

  • Epstein file says Trump "knew and funded underage sex parties" at his golf course

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  • Are you going to allow states to issue currency?

  • When you know you're not getting your security deposit back, it becomes more of a budget. [Feral Mills]

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  • Thought the last frame was going to be pouring the hot oil on the landlord. I guess this is fine, too.

  • With just days left, the U.S. opening match at the World Cup is still not sold out

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  • That's like several months of food. Or years worth of video games. That's so expensive. Even if I was a big fan of the sport, I wouldn't be able to justify spending that.

  • More time debating if EBT can be used on cooked food than Epstein papers

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  • There's some broken nonsense in conservative world views.

    Perhaps chief among them (no pun intended) is the idea that hierarchy is good and natural and inevitable. Flowing from that there's the idea that different rules apply to different people. And the famous "in groups to protect, out groups to bind" thing.

    So things like welfare are abhorrent to them. That's messing with the hierarchy! Some people need to be down in the gutter. Without the underclass, then everything falls apart and all their auffering was for nothing, and their sense of self can't handle that.

  • Jail staff served toothless man chicken instead of required 'soft diet,' then watched him choke to death, ignored 'frantic pleas' from inmates to save him: Lawsuit

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  • None of those who watched this man die and did nothing to help him deserve to be just out and about enjoying life.

  • AI Written, AI Read [Tom Fishburne]

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  • "Please run the formatter so the checks pass on the PR" is a perfectly fine and polite statement. Some people act like they're being attacked.

  • You Can Now Get a Religious Exemption From Using AI at Work

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  • I've known some cool unitarians. The org can collect a lot of upper middle class white people, but it's also the first place I really learned about LGBT rights in the 90s (I'm getting old) and other social justice stuff.

  • He Profits Off Raw Milk That’s Making People Sick. The Government Isn’t Stopping Him.

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  • Someone should stop him.

  • Companies should by law have to pay you for each interview round.

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  • They should also be forced to pay a year's salary to everyone who applied to a ghost job. (That's a job that's not real and they have no intention of filling)

  • Companies should by law have to pay you for each interview round.

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  • Unemployment lasts a limited time, and this doesn't address the problems with hiring companies dragging their feet or having ghost jobs.

  • Dress codes

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  • I'm not going to gatekeep this but I will be sad when the conversation goes "cool {band} shirt! You ever listen to their live stuff?" and they go "what? It's a band?"