Yeah, kinda funny how it's OK when there's a bunch of neoliberal gangsters like larry summers behind it, right?
Well, except scumbags like eric adams, NYC's bought-owned-and-operated-by-real-estate-interests mayor.
"I paid for this traffic light, therefore I want to use all three bulbs at once"
"Today nothing happened, and everything is fine. (Fear it, fear it)"
Yes, Eugene Debs, please.
- who was basically jailed on political pretexts but still..
Respect and discipline AND infrastructure is the answer.
NYC's cyclists (of whom I know many) need to follow traffic laws.
Those laws are there because people need to act predictably on the street. When a red light becomes a mere suggestion for cyclists, motorists eventually start treating them as such as well. Monkey see, monkey do.
...and getting t-boned by some douchecanoe driving a car when you have the light is commonly fatal for a cyclist.
There was an uptick in utterly shitty driving from 2019 onwards in NYC, and the police stopped all enforcement actions even in egregious cases... then the roads became, and largely remain, a free-for-all. I've seen some attempts recently to start clearing the mess up, but too often NYPD are ignoring these dangerous road users... or hiding their license plates and being offenders themselves.
...and this is before you're fighting for space in a the bikelane with some drunk+stoned asshole on a moped.
I'm fully in favor of delivery professionals being required to have a license and display it at all times when on the clock. They should also be required to have specific insurance, and a highly visible personal identifier when working. They should also get automatic Union representation and a living wage.
Anything more powerful than a class-C e-bike should have a license plate, and if not it gets taken and destroyed, or auctioned to a more responsible owner. Sales of these vehicles without a registration needs to be illegal. Anything more powerful than a class-C e-bike found in a bike lane should be impounded on the spot. Running a stop sign or a red light should get you a ticket, regardless of what wheels you're on. Going the wrong way down a one way street should get you a ticket.
It doesn't help that NYC doesn't have the space and largely practices "maximum-conflict" street design... but that's just the slow, shitty entropic action of self-serving interests pushing communities around, and they react very slowly. It takes (usually multiple) fatalities for anyone to wake up and actually do anything about it.
Also wear a damned helmet.
I mean.. yeah layoff a whole bunch of people and start treating your employees like replaceable commodities.. then go ahead and arrogantly deploy technology you don't understand and :surprisepikachu: everything breaks.
But management get to do things without personal consequence, as they'll just lay off more workers to cover their absolute incompetence and things will continue to get worse.
Perhaps we should be replacing C-suite dipshits with AI's instead.
Keep predators away (and there are a lot of those), make sure they have food and water, and beyond that they do a very good job of looking after themselves.
They live 4-10 years depending on various factors.
Pigeons do secrete a kind of milk from their crops when nursing young. I don't think Chickens do the same, but I could be wrong.
I want you to continue to post updates to this. It sounds like it might be an excellent basis for a modern detective noir film.
Remember when one of the OWS agent provocateurs got outed by riding his motorcycle like a dick a few months afterwards?
The DNC has literally argued, successfully, in court, that is has every right to rig its own primaries.
Voting in primaries is pointless unless that changes.
That has little to do with whatever political machinations are occurring and more to do with housing and necessities inflation driving labor pressure as a lagging inflation indicator.
Think of it as a tectonic/landscape thing rather than the stupid games people happen to be playing on the landscape.
Of course if any of them had their heads out of their own asses, or the asses of their owners, they might recognize this and start adapting...
They didn't have to swallow and blindly vote for the propaganda they were immersed in, and at any time they could have collectively decided it was the wrong direction to be going.
Instead, they willfully and gladly kept voting for the same conservative policies and didn't make the connection as to why their lives and their kids' lives were getting worse. That was a choice.
Billionaires should pay 100% tax over $999,999.99 of personal wealth.
Some people still get to be wealthy. Problem solved.