You can't find out yourself how many dedicated metro reporters work at NYT today vs 2016?

Should be easy enough for an NYT-informed dude like you. After all I'm just a NYP-reading moron.

Realistically this guy probably is still a murderer. You can get off on a technicality, but that doesn’t mean you’re exonerated.

You’d think such a big fan of the NYT as yourself would’ve realized their metro section has been dramatically downsized 🥴

It happened in 2017, and they literally announced it.

You awake bud? Do you want me to fill you in about COVID and Cuomo too?

Every newspaper in the country is covering Memphis this week. That doesn’t mean they aren’t local newspapers anymore.

NYT is strategically phasing out its local section and has dramatically reduced coverage in the last 5 years, to a more than 50% reduction. I’m surprised you don’t know about that? Were you unaware?

It has about half of the circulation of the NYT, while covering literally just one city. It’s far more than a tabloid, and it’s one of the leading ways that residents get informed about what’s going on in the city now that NYT ceased local coverage.

Not sure if you’re unaware but NYP is one of the few remaining large newspapers that provide local NYC news.

But why don’t more of the population from Central America migrate to NYC? Lots of good free public services, free education, and jobs for them. What’s stopping them and why aren’t we doing more to facilitate the process.

50% of the planet and the country is probably older than you and less healthy and able bodied than you. Bragging about your run time is not relevant to providing millions of people with an algorithmically calculated average walking speed.

I read the article. And I read the above quote. Neither support what you're saying. Where is the quote indicating that?

>he made some of them uncomfortable

Says who? Chu?

>Chu, who is gay, said he mentioned his husband throughout the interview, and he believes that made the board members “uncomfortable.”

What is this, a lawsuit against Santa Clause? He "believes" they had bias against him, the evidence of that -- his belief?

Yes. Imagine your lifetime salary. Multiply that by 5.

That's the tax payout from your pocket for calling this guy young.

Public health efforts are all about what’s reasonable and pragmatic for large numbers of people to do to improve their lifespan and wellness, it’s not striving for perfection.

Because those make you look like one of the evil characters in a sci-fi TV show. An n95 will only get you heckled a little bit.

But for real, there are construction workers who throw around hazardous waste that cover their mouths with handkerchiefs. I think an n95 is good enough for a short window of civilian pollution exposure, and it’s better than nothing at all.

Simple solution: wear an N95 when outdoors or in the subway. Don't wait for the city to clean up the air quality, it's not going to happen.

The printing of paper maps actually doesn’t have any bearing on whether a region’s people can fight for political independence and freedom from genocide.

Yes.

Tibet is an illegally occupied state that has faced persecution and genocide at the hands of China over the past 70 years.

China does not want US citizens thinking about this, knowing this, or seeing "Free Tibet" protests on their television screens. They certainly don't want Tibetan expatriates in the US lobbying for US support for Tibetan independence.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_in_Tibet

The abuse of Tibetans by the Chinese government is bad enough that over 100 monks and nuns in Tibet have self-immolated themselves in the last 10 years to draw attention to the suffering of their people.

https://www.voanews.com/a/monitors-say-young-tibetan-self-immolates-in-anti-china-protest/3773270.html

Occam's razor? Cut myself with this one just now:

A foreign national got caught spying on Tibetans on behalf of the Chinese consulate.

Listen, I get it, you're not a CCP shill, you're probably just trying to speak up on behalf of Chinese Americans. China and the United States wage cold war actions against each other every day - you just aren't smart enough to hear about most of it. Get over it, it has nothing to do with race, racism, or AAPI hate.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Chinese_spy_cases_in_the_United_States_of_America

Angwang is even on the list, with this detail, which was omitted from the NYT article: Angwang's father is a retired member of China's army and a member of the CCP. His mother is also a member of the party and a former government official.

There are literally thousands if not tens of thousands of Chinese spies working on behalf of the CCP in the U.S. The federal government is well aware of it and there are public intelligence briefs on the topic.

You don't need to die on the cross for this one spy, who was literally caught red-handed but didn't have to face jailtime for various diplomatic reasons.

Naïve of you to assume that the U.S. attorney’s office dropping the case indicates that there was no case. The U.S. government creates news and resolves news for diplomatic influence all the time, all year. This was a power move to show Beijing they are onto their moves, and a power move to let it go. The U.S. sends powerful diplomatic and military messages to China in everything it does, to keep China in check.

They will observe the Chinese spy known as "Baimadajie Angwang" for the rest of his days. Zero innocence was proven here. That you can't read that between the lines of the NYT article is laughable. Did you miss the 6th grade social studies class on critical thinking?

Ask yourself this: this man was a marine. Do you think the military wants him even mopping floors in a barracks after this? And do you think the Tibetan community (or any other non-Chinese community) would find his presence comfortable in any corner of the city? The man is a known foreign intelligence spy.

Try to think without the aid of the CCP on that question.

More likely, they dropped the case so they can monitor his every word for the rest of his life and avoid a diplomatic emergency with China.

Yeah bro, and COVID was just a random cold strain. There’s nothing at all of interest in an NYPD officer accused of spying for a sovereign country. Nothing to see here, go about your day citizen.

btw I too get all my own thoughts and conclusions from CNN headlines.

Sure, I’m a dirtbag, that’s why I cynically expect the same in others. /s

This is NYC. I lost a refillable MetroCard and the person who found it did $80 in trips in one day. People will take every cent from you before you can blink.

Getting your wallet back doesn’t mean the cards weren’t copied beforehand. The naïveté of not canceling your cards is hilarious to me. It can take months to fight a debit card fraud claim in the best case.

What do you think your bank will say when you told them you lost your wallet, didn’t report your card as missing, received it back, and STILL took no action.

Puerile.

Imagine if the pilot of an airplane injured 22 people, or a ship captain. They literally have teams of federal employees waiting to investigate such incidents.

Incumbents win elections, cronies of rapists or not, no news there.