No, see, that’s the genius of Weird Al, he’s not just making parody songs, he’s taking the piss out of an industry that sorely needs the piss taken out of it on a regular basis. It’s a mockery of the pretensions of popular music.

What could better express cultural devolution than a parody of a band about cultural devolution?

RIP Remi

And the gigantic irony is, where do you think the consulting firms get their consultants? What kind of planners, engineers, designers in the tri-state region are going to have expert knowledge on building and maintaining large-scale subway and light rail systems? MTA employees! So many of these consulting firms are just hiring ex-MTA employees who end up doing the exact same thing they were doing last year except now it costs the MTA three times as much as it used to.

Cops see working the 68th precinct as easy street, where they can just put their feet up and not be too busy. Combine that with a general attitude of normalizing reckless driving, it’s a recipe for asshole drivers being unchecked.

TBF there’s a lot of support services involved in a homeless shelter that aren’t part of a typical rental apartment. Of course, there’s a lot of issues with waste, mismanagement, straight up graft, but comparing shelter cost per tenant to apartment rents is apples to oranges.

That’s because fares only covers operating cost. Any system expansion or capital projects come out of a different pot.

If you’re okay with it being publicly owned rental properties.

So if the City develops these unused properties, turns them into housing, but doesn’t sell them off to the highest bidder, just collects modest rents from the tenants, you’re okay with that?

I’m all for adding more housing but it needs to be done in a way that ensures truly affordable and supportive housing, not the City and State burning through tax dollars just to have it handed over to private landlords reaping inflated rents off that public investment.

Conversely, DEP is pretty good about getting leaking hydrants fixed quickly.

This is what mindless “vote X no matter who” politics get you.

OTI?

If only there was a division of the police that was charged with handling just traffic and vehicle related issues and not the whole spectrum of police responsibilities

Ex-cop doesn’t want to reform the cops? ShockedPikachuFace.png

It’s always so sad when the Seamless app has that “Would you like us to pick up something from 7-11 on the way?” message after you place an order. Very desperate of 7-11.

That’s the thing, upper management pressures the store managers to maximize profits

Maybe the greed got the better of them. Could also be thinking, “we’re a respected national chain, people won’t believe we’d have sanitary issues.” (Like you’re doing right now).

Cleaning supplies cost money, costs money to pay people to clean it, management doesn’t want to pay for that.

Americans are notorious for their distaste of roundabouts

It’s the ideal scenario for one but instead they were like “nope, gonna put a stop light every three car lengths.”

It would be so simple and efficient if they had just made it a proper roundabout but, ‘Murica

> Not all contentious projects have met this fate. The city is plowing ahead with a safety-oriented revamp of Hylan Boulevard on Staten Island

Guessing there’s not many politicos on Staten Island that Adams owes something to.

It’s more accurately described as targeted propaganda. Calling it secret police speaks more to this “watchdog’s” funding strategy than a sober assessment of the situation.