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I don’t want to fall into the trap of hero worship but yeah, this seems like what mayors should always be doing.
All these threads are hilarious.
Dude gets elected to the job of running the city and actually RUNS the city and everyone’s shocked.
Like take a step back and realize that if actually having potholes fixed and garbage collected is ‘new’ maybe you all need to stop re-electing the same loser assholes year after year.
It’s because he’s Muslim.
That’s it. He’s talked about so much because he’s a brown person doing good things and that goes against the white American collective hive mind.
It’s because he puts the needs of the workers over the needs of those with so much wealth their entire lineage will never have to work again.
They’ll use him being a Muslim to turn us against him and against each other, but that’s not why he’s opposed by the billionaires who own the media or the billionaires who fund the GOP and establishment Democrats, all of whom teamed up to try to keep him out of power.
When it was Bernie, they tried to divide us by gender and generation. When it’s a Muslim, they try to divide us by religion. When it’s a young white Christian man, they try to divide us by lying about him being a fucking vegan sexist racist.
There’s no war but class war.
Yeah, people seem to still not get this part… it’s factually a race issue like most problems in this he US
Has NYC finally quit it with their stupid idea of just letting trash bags sit on the street? This is something that basically every other city in the world has figured out.
I left NYC many years ago. I was still young when i had to leave. But I remember how dirty it was. I recently went back. It still is dirty. It’s by design. Sometimes the only trash bags I’d see get picked up by the city were the ones the homeless taped together over the sewer/ subway to make vents so the hot air could reach into people’s "tents’.
It was a corruption issue. Has nothing to do with fixing issues
The entire countries of Egypt and Jordan would like to have a word with you.
Except like, the entirety of Japan.
I haven’t been to Japan, but from what I hear, it’s not the kind of place where you’re going to find piles of trash bags on the street.
I have been there. You do. If you are actually interested in learning about it, look up how there deposal system works and maybe visit e.g. Tokyo once. Tokyo can be nasty.
Then you visited a different Tokyo then me. Cleanest city I’ve ever been in, and I’m from Germany.
Well Tokyo is huge. But e.g. shibuya isn’t that niche and I walked on a sticky ground through broken glass there.
Tokyo is mostly clean. I am not saying that it is dirty.
I am saying, in Japan, seeing trash bag on the street is not usual (for collection usually) and e.g. Tokyo CAN be nasty.
Switzerland outside the massive amount of graffiti , it was the cleanest place I’ve ever been
Well that’s how trash pickup is done all across the country. Clear plastic bags (usually you have to purchase them specific to each ward and each trash type) on the footpath a few times a week. Usually gone by lunch time. Apartment buildings can end up with huge piles of them. The crows love picking apart the bags and spreading trash about.
Japan really isn’t some mythical cleanly place and I’ve no idea how they managed to get that stereotype. I’ve seen fly tipping, piss jugs, trash along the motorways, riverbanks covered in empty drink bottles. Its the same as anywhere else.
Also, Barcelona and many other Mediterranean cities
corruption. they were lining their pockets with corruption.
Just you wait. Any day now the connection between mamdani and big trash will become obvious
Well if Rudy was anything to go by, trying to bang underage girls and sweating away the last vestiges of their credibility in a landscaping company forecourt.
This has had actually been in the works for a while, it’s not like he just materialized this out of nowhere.
But, it has been constantly getting delayed and put through “trials”. So, it actually getting implemented is good.
The best part is seeing idiots who want any excuse to attack a DSA politician trying to argue that loose trash bags are better than dumpsters. Like, trying to make the concept of dumpsters a culture war issue is hilarious.
Why on earth do you need to trial putting things in a bin?
I was trying to devil’s advocate this and all I could think of is if these would fit in tighter streets while a trash truck tries to picks them up and put them back down, but that’s pretty much all that I could think of and it shouldn’t take too long, most of that time was probably corruption related
Like, trying to make the concept of dumpsters a culture war issue is hilarious.
Especially when 99% of their ‘culture war’ audience (who of course don’t live in NYC) already use trash bins and dumpsters in their everyday lives.
“why aren’t they burning the trash”
What were previous NYC mayors doing?
Making money serving the Epstein class.
Not to rain on everyone’s parade, but this is not Mamdani’s initiative, though of course he is making the correct choice in continuing it.
Don’t misunderstand me, I hate that corrupt piece of shit Adams, but the truth is important anyway.
The truth is one of the most important things. 👍
I use to believe that as well, till you realize that the truth is whatever the victors say it is.
I have a million dollars!
Edit: dang it, it didn’t work. I’m a Victor and what I said didn’t become truth. 😭
Yuk yuk yuk
Well on my list of the most important things it’s the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth.
Yet, some people can’t handle the truth.
So help you god?
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there’s a big one one the pic though
Eric Adams just did it because he has a lifelong hatred of rats
So he is self loathing.
Not a NYC dweller here, but what in the world constitutes a “modern” trash bin? Isn’t a bin a bin? Do the bins drive around picking up trash autonomously? Did NYC just not have them at all or something?
not about NY, but in melbourne we have a bunch of solar powered bins that compact the waste when it gets close to full so they can fit about 3x more in it before it needs collection
the city also has a city-wide LoRA network that they use for various sensors, so they could also easily (and cheaply) signal that they need collection
Oh that is a cool idea.
Oh, yah, no, they’ve just been putting trash bags on sidewalks instead of dumpsters or trash bins.
That sounds like a really good way to attract vermin of all sorts; bags will leak, break open or just otherwise be easily accessible by any critter that happens to roam by. If Ninja Turtles are anything to go by, I’m not sure I’d want those rats getting into my bags, 😛
NYC has a reputation for Rodents of Unusual Size, so I’m honestly not surprised.
Don’t forget about the giant turtles too!
Where I am (a small provincial town in north west France) we at least nice small bins on the street. With MASSIVE GREAT BIG BINS underground where the actual rubbish goes.
Nope, no alleys in NYC, nowhere to put dumpsters that isn’t in the way. Not sure where these are gonna go.
I guess in the same spots the giant stinky piles of trash bags have been going?
The trash bags were there one day a week for a few hours until they got picked up. These things will be taking up space all the time…
Also they weren’t stinkier than dumpsters can be, lol. Trash is trash. The NYC trash piles shock American tourists, but on a global scale it’s a pretty normal way to deal with trash. I’ve seen it in “nice” cities in both Europe and Asia.
It’s the most basic lesson from Rollercoaster Tycoon. More trash cans = less litter = happier people.
Out of the way, Boomers. It’s the Millennials’ time to shine. We’ve been preparing for this our whole lives, and it’s past time for us to take the reins.
Sorry Gen X, we’re doing what you should’ve done decades ago…
Sorry Gen X, we’re doing what you should’ve done decades ago…
We literally did not have the chance. The greedy Boomers held onto the power & money until well past their own expiration date (see the average age of the past couple presidents, for example).
This is the case in politics and in business as well. Boomers refuse to retire, forcing Gen X to take lower paying jobs with little chance of promotion.
Look it up. “Baby Boomers held onto leadership roles longer than past generations, which delayed Gen X from taking power.”
I think eventually we sort of just gave up. Boomers were handed the country on a silver platter from their parents, and then they ran it into the ground (by doing shit like electing Reagan), and simply refused to pass it on when their time was supposed to be up.
Hence GenX’s slogan; “oh well, whatever, never mind.”
I know, I know. I was being tongue-in-cheek.
You guys got the shaft, it’s okay. We Millennials only got half-shafted because we’ll still have time to scramble to do something after the last boomers die, while you Gen Xers are all old and decrepit. Maybe Gen Z will have a chance, if humanity doesn’t cause its own extinction first.
Lay your weary head to rest, we’ve got it from here. No more pain, only dreams. Shhhhhhh…
Such a polite burn. I’ll go and rest my weary head now. ☺️
Hey, I resemble that.
This isn’t a contest, but it’s worse for millennials as a whole because the line is, waaaay backed up. Gen Z has it one step worse than us, too. It’s a cascade of bullshit from these assholes.
Yes. Boomers really fucked us all. “The ‘me’ generation“ indeed. It’s why I get so irked when the younger generations lump GenX in with Boomers. We’re not them. They fucked us over too.
Gen Z even calls Millennials boomers. The word is losing meaning…
In my experience Gen Xers have allowed Boomers to stay longer. Obviously this isn’t Gen Xers’ fault entirely and I’m not trying to paint with a wide brush here, but from what I have seen growing up Gen Xers have been useful to Boomers in that there are token Xers who have been allowed power as long as they enact the policies that allow Boomers to stay longer.
I am taking about the Hakeem Jeffries of the world, or people like the HR administrator I know who worked to allow retirement to accrue longer so that people wouldn’t feel forced to retire as soon and now finds herself in her 50s without having made it passed HR administration.
I’m not even sure that things could’ve turned out differently if Gen X had tried something, I’m just saying that in my experience “oh well, whatever, never mind” isn’t exactly the whole story.
Little of both probably. Boomers heavily outnumbered GenXers too, and held all the money, so GenX were sort of left in a bind. Hakeem and that HR rep aren’t doing those things out of spite for their own generation or later generations. Boomers still run the show upstream.
Not spite for the whole generation, but it definitely speaks to something that I’ve seen in every generation. It’s the same conversation that comes up when we talk about developers who work for Google or Microsoft. There’s always somebody who’s willing to fuck over other people for money. Even if they don’t exactly see themselves as fucking over other people. And there’s always somebody who is in a desperate situation enough to hold their nose. I even commented a couple of weeks ago that currently being unemployed I don’t know if I could turn down a job from Google or Microsoft. As with everything there’s always lots of nuance.
You grew up with “children of the corn” to learn from… but you didn’t listen.
Billionaires don’t want happy people. They want most people dead and only a small servant class for themselves. Hence why no effort was ever made to make anything better for people. In fact, they’ve worked to the contrary.
I want to get off Mr Bones’ wild ride…
Feels more like we’re on Mr Bonestripper
This used to scare the shit out of me as a kid. Now billionaires instill the same fear in me.
Fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate, hate leads to seizing the means of production.
I don’t think they want people dead per se, a large peasant class for labor that they can demote people to and raise people from suits them just fine
Sorry Gen X, we’re doing what you should’ve done decades ago…
Hey man, we fucking tried. The boomers were against us. And we raised you to be better than us, instead of abandoning you to the wilds like we were, which was the whole point: to leave the world better than we found it.
e: that ‘better’ was you.
I know you tried, I only mentioned Gen X because they’re usually forgotten about entirely.
Thanks for punk rock and third-wave ska.
Thanks for anime and public defiance.
Oh God, not RCT. Don’t complain too much or the government will drop you in a lake.
Or get a roller coaster that crashes in a fiery explosion.
I mean, how long before the Trump admin decides to randomly cut funding to ride regulations??? 😂
“I want to get off Mr Trump’s Wild Ride”
You joke but I still remember Mamdani, 11, being quoted asking for Sim City 3000 in a magazine. He most certainly has tried Rollercoaster Tycoon, lol.
Knowing him, he probably didn’t even drown or explode guests for fun, either.
Are you being for real right now?
I looked it up, and yep, it’s true. He was actually 11 at the time, though. Apparently he hoped to get some books, FIFA 2003, and Sim City 3000 for the holidays.
https://screenrant.com/zohran-mamdani-simcity-3000-game-mayor-nyc-candidate/
Misremembered the age, I’ll fix my comment haha.
Aw, looks like he’s always had that golden smile
Great, so now there’s going to be younger people in charge of the machine that burns the world and makes life miserable for almost everyone. I’m sure they’ll give it a dazzling new coat of paint!
Sorry Gen X, we’re doing what you should’ve done decades ago…
We were always building rollercoasters that ended in brick walls or busy foot-paths. Did you play the Rollercoaster Tycoon?
I bet your Sims are all properly cared for too. 🏊-🪜=🪦
Yeah, actually I would build that rocket launch ride and then turn the speed up as high as it would go and watch it launch people to their dooms…
But at least I learned about the importance of sanitation in areas with high population densities!
And I never actually played Sims, but my nintendogs are probably all skin and bones, my tamagotchis are likely dead, and all my animal crossing neighbors have probably moved out of my sad, decaying town.
But I didn’t say that I personally would be saving everyone from the boomers’ neglect!
I’m assuming it takes away parking spaces. Only recently has the attitude toward cars shifted from some kind of unwritten civil right that you get to take your four ton metal box wherever you please to hmm, maybe not everyone should be allowed to park anywhere all the time if it means there isn’t literal piles garbage filled bags on the street.
I’m assuming it takes away parking spaces. Only recently has the attitude toward cars shifted from some kind of unwritten civil right that you get to take your four ton metal box wherever you please to hmm, maybe not everyone should be allowed to park anywhere all the time.
I can’t wait for that. My neighborhood is having a spasm over removing about 10 parking spots on a major road for a bus lane. The kicker is those 10 parking spots force a choke point for traffic, slowing everything down.
I’m assuming it takes away parking spaces
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Don’t even need security guards if the guests are all too happy to consider vandalism.
I love how the only arguments people have against them is “they’re ugly” and “they’ll take away parking spots” as if piles of trash bags look better, and NYC doesn’t already have an expansive public transit network with plans to increase bus service.
Giving money to billionaires is exchange of almost no benefit to the people of the city
https://www.thecanary.co/global/world-analysis/2025/10/24/mamdani-cuomo-debate/
other mayors were/are pocketing that money
What you really need are the TARDIS bins and a Moncher
These are about to pop up in Williamsburg for 1260 a month. I joke, but, there’s truth in every joke. People are prob already boosting these things to be used as housing come November
