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blaggle42

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  • ICE agent shooter’s own cellphone video undercuts Trump administration's account of Minneapolis killing

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  • "Big" mistakes. Hmm.. One is saying "put on your big boy britches and get some lunch" and the other was "shooting an unarmed 37 year old mother three times in the face."

  • ICE Shoots Minneapolis Observer in the head

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  • When will it happen? When are the Nazi's going to be killed? Is it going to happen in drips or all at once?

  • Is it completely impossible to do age verification without compromising privacy?

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  • I mean "no, look up zero knowledge proofs"

  • Is it completely impossible to do age verification without compromising privacy?

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  • Yes. Look up "zero knowledge proofs"

  • YSK tricks for one of the cheapest meals: beans and rice

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  • I just want to add:

    If you are in NYC - check out the Chinese and Mexican grocery stores!!! Usually a ton of foot traffic keeps the vegetables fresh. I do most of my vegetable shopping at one particular Chinese store which I find to be the best - [except for the onions (why are the onions so bad - do chinese people not eat yellow onions?)] - and it's fun to try new vegetables!

    Also, strange, and I'm not sure what to make of it - fish in the Chinese grocery stores costs 1/2 of what it at white-people ones.

  • Megathread: Charlie Kirk Shot at Utah Valley University Event

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  • I need this on a T-shirt

  • It's been downhill since 2020

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  • I remember this. This was a turning point. That and the bailouts.

    Bailouts said, "I'm for the rich." Flint said, "fuck the poor."

  • It used to be fun

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  • I would

  • In New York City, Drivers Who Run Red Lights Get Tickets. E-Bike Riders Get Criminal Court Summonses

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  • LOL. Yeah, that pretty much sums it up.

  • In New York City, Drivers Who Run Red Lights Get Tickets. E-Bike Riders Get Criminal Court Summonses

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  • I will assume you live in the midwest. Maybe some suburbia.

    NYC is entirely different than suburbia and actually is also entirely different from SF, DC and Tokyo. I don't know about other cities.

    Within 30 seconds of biking from my apartment, I will already have seen.

    1. A car go through a red light.
    2. A car parked on the sidewalk.
    3. A delivery truck parked in the bike lane, and part of the street.
    4. Multiple people crossing the street randomly, not at crosswalks.
    5. I will have passed maybe 3 other bikers.

    Within a minute:

    1. Massive construction on the street.
    2. Cars parked in the road.
    3. Dodged deep pot holes.

    Within 5 minutes

    1. Multiple cars going through red lights, I would maybe guess 5.
    2. Multiple cars doing u-turns that are not allowed.
    3. Maybe 30 people walking across the street in random places.
    4. Some drugged up guy standing somewhere in the street.
    5. Hit an area where the streets are purposely laid out so, if you want to go the "right way" you have to ground around multiple blocks. It's a peculiar place.

    This is the base line.

    All of this works together because there are basically no laws. A car goes through a red light, as long as it doesn't hit someone it's ignored. Same for u-turns, same for illegal temporary parking. You want to gun your car, make the wheels squeal and accelerate as fast as you can until the next red light? Nobody will care if you don't hit someone.

    It's a zoo. The normal thinking of laws doesn't really apply. If you get upset about every car that runs a red light, you'll be upset all the time. If you get upset at people doing stupid shit, you'll be upset all the time.

  • In New York City, Drivers Who Run Red Lights Get Tickets. E-Bike Riders Get Criminal Court Summonses

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  • I've been biking here for the last 20 years. (Before the bike lanes!) For me, basically 95% of bikers are fine. 5% suck. Just like cars.

    I also hate the 5% of bikers that suck.

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    For me the 5% that suck aren't because they go through red lights, or down the wrong way. I do this all of the time, and I'm never close to pedestrians. Pedestrians don't even know I exist.

    I don't go on sidewalks, but I'm guessing that 95% of bikers on sidewalks are about to stop for a delivery and are going pretty slow.

    The 5% that suck, for me, are the ones which do the "fly by" the commenter is talking about. Some biker going 25mph on their electric bike that gets within 6 inches of you.

    This also happens with cars, and let me tell you, with a car, it makes my hair stand on end. It seems like the driver is saying, "let me show you how much I hate you."

    Years ago when a car would do this to me (when the bike lanes just started coming out, there were a lot of people who were super mad), it would trigger a fight response, and I would catch up and prevent them from moving - just make them sit there - they would go batshit crazy. In retrospect, that was probably pretty dumb to do.

    I think the answer to the biker problem, is not threats against bikers, but basically, make some thoroughfares biker only. Like all of Broadway, and maybe 1st or 8th ave. Mamdani should follow through on his campaign to hold Uber eats and etc, accountable. And then some sort of marketing, "Don't be an asshole - don't buzz people - this means you, delivery drivers and Bros on city bikes!"

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    There are also some other undercurrents in play here. I wouldn't assume leftreddit is in this camp, but a certain percentage of NYC is.

    There is a segment of NYC's population that "secretly" hates the immigrants and/or black people. Most of the delivery bikers are immigrants. And they are mostly black. It used to be most of the delivery bikers were Hispanic, but I think that has shifted. I don't know real numbers though..

    So, not only is this guy zooming past fast for a delivery, but he's also an immigrant and he's also black. Really triggers some people.

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    Anyhow...

    I hope that NYC doesn't go back to the anti biker stance. But I do hope they put weight and speed restrictions on bikes.

  • In New York City, Drivers Who Run Red Lights Get Tickets. E-Bike Riders Get Criminal Court Summonses

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  • <-- A tourist.

  • Andrew Cuomo concedes New York Democratic mayoral primary to Zohran Mamdani

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  • I'm suspicious that sociopaths are a parasitic subspecies. Like there are these alien creatures that look entirely human walking around among us. They look like us, talk like us, but think that the general human species is inferior to their own.

    What if they could identify other sociopaths, and were working in concert. Hmm, this is ridiculous.

    Anyway, yeah. I don't think Clinton is capable of that level of introspection.

  • Andrew Cuomo concedes New York Democratic mayoral primary to Zohran Mamdani

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  • The fact that Clinton endorsed Cuomo is the cherry on top.

  • Trump says ‘I could’ get Abrego Garcia back from El Salvador

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  • That interviewer is such a push over. Jeeze, who are these people! If you know the image is photo shopped, you say, "No, you are wrong, the image was photo shopped," not, "well it is contested, we'll look into that."

    Such a disappointment.

  • Slate Truck is a $20,000 American-made electric pickup with no paint, no stereo, and no touchscreen

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  • I second that. How about we tax Bezos and Musk et al. into "just" millionaire status and then fucking have parties without these Bezo-trucks.

  • Dem Senator Says Party Needs to Stop Attacking ‘Oligarchy’ and Focus on Losing ‘Woke’ Reputation

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  • Somehow this made it worse. “goddamn Alpha energy” - who are these people. All I want is for the dems to not be rich people faking concern for the poor.

  • Why can't California and New York make their own medicare for all?

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  • Maybe that could be a plus. Make a large death tax. People die off in your state, and fund the next set of people coming and and more?

  • Why can't California and New York make their own medicare for all?

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  • Yeah! Something like this. But with other states involved to reduce risk, normalize costs.