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  • If it works, absolutely do not get rid of it. If you can afford to keep it and get a second vehicle or pass it on to someone you know. Because the moment you get a new vehicle it will have 1/100th the reliability and you’ll sorely miss it. Not that im saying “they were built better back then,” but something thats worked this long probably will keep working for a while (bathtub curve of failure)





  • No.

    Black lives matter isnt saying “black lives matter more

    Its saying “stop treating us as subhuman”

    “All lives matter” is white americans trying to suppress that by misconstruing the original statement as wanting more than what others get in terms of civil rights and treatment by police and others.

    It is also dismissing the complaints or the black community. While as an objective view it may be true that most americans agree with the denotation od the phrase “all lives matter,” it pretends that we have already achieved equality (absolutely not the case) and that blm is getting “uppity” and wanting privileges white americans don’t (which white Americans hate more than anything)

    ETA: there is also sometimes the assumption of an implicit “only” at the start of that phrase (“only black lives matter”) when in reality its an implicit “too” at the end (“Black lives matter too”)


  • A coworker told me:

    That he was stupid for throwing his life away and that there were other ways of making change

    That you couldnt just do that to someone. How would you feel if someone spent years plotting your murder. That they should give him the death penalty.

    His reason for doing it was stupid because life isnt fair. That he (my coworker) had to pay 50k+ for the birth of their child and so on and so forth, so other people shouldnt complain

    That people shouldnt expect the insurance to pay out so much because its unfair to them

    Well he can do what he wants with his life. Also 99% of people cant and wont be able to make change on the scale that he has for public sentiment. It is also the only way to bargain with companies because of regulatory capture.

    I dont have to worry about people trying to murder me because i dont screw people over and kill their loved ones by the thousands. Also murder isnt allowed because you cant just kill people so you kill him??? You arent even playing by your own rules. Also same dude who was in the military (discharged due to injury and never saw combat) and says hed shoot children in Afghanistan if he was ordered to when the topic came up about following orders

    Immigrants like my parents act like everyone else should calm down and stop rocking the boat because theyre afraid of losing what they deem the “american dream” and stability they perceive being present here. Maybe they’re content being at the bottom in america since the standard of living is higher here than in their home country, but they always end up in some circular reasoning where theyre like “thats just the way it is.”

    Besides, if the theory that he got screwed over by insurance with his spinal injury is true, all the more reason for him to go after the dude. Thats literally what insurance is for. The large number of healthy people paying into the insurance pools money that then goes to helping pay for other peoples bills in the event of some issue, even if the payout is larger than that individuals contributions






  • Candidates for the 2025 mayoral election include:

    • Zellnor Myrie

    Before law school, Myrie worked for the New York City Council as a legislative director where he helped draft the Tenant Bill of Rights. After law school, he joined Davis Polk & Wardwell. As an associate at the firm, Myrie worked more than 600 pro bono hours in one year. His pro bono work included cases brought by victims of police brutality, special education students seeking services from the Department of Education, domestic violence victims, and asylum seekers

    On May 30, 2020, Myrie was pepper-sprayed and handcuffed while taking part in protests following the murder of George Floyd.[19][20] On October 29, 2021, six New York City firefighters were suspended for threatening the staff of Myrie in regards to his support of firing certain city employees who were unwilling to be vaccinated against COVID-19

    Myrie supports financial institutions having the right to deny lending capital to ammunition and gun industries. Myrie has advocated for requiring food regulators to target corporations that advertise unhealthy foods. In 2021, Myrie was one of two members of the New York State Senate to vote against a bill designating baseball as the official state sport of New York.

    In 2021, Myrie authored the Community Violence Intervention Act, which declared gun violence a public health crisis and which provides millions of dollars to local hospital- and community-based violence intervention programs. Myrie also authored a first-in-the-nation law that classifies illegal gun sales as a nuisance, which could open gun manufacturers to liability.

    • Brad Lander

    From 1993 to 2003, Lander was the executive director of the Fifth Avenue Committee (FAC), a Park Slope not-for-profit organization that develops and manages affordable housing.

    From 2003 to 2009, Lander was a director of the university-based Pratt Center for Community Development. In that position, he was a critic of the Bloomberg administration’s development policies.[8][15][16][17] He has also been a critic of the Atlantic Yards project.[18] Lander’s work in 2003–2005 on Greenpoint-Williamsburg rezoning led to the first New York City inclusionary housing program to create affordable housing in new development outside Manhattan.[19] Lander served on a mayoral taskforce that recommended reforms to the 421-a tax exemption for luxury housing and required that new development in certain areas of the city set aside affordable housing units.[20][21] He co-led the completion of the One City One Future platform, a progressive vision for economic development in New York City.[22][23] He stepped down as head of the organization in 2009 to seek a seat on the New York City Council.[24] Lander teaches as an adjunct professor at Brooklyn Law School.

    In 2013, Lander played a key role in a campaign to pass paid sick leave over Mayor Bloomberg’s veto, telling the Brooklyn Reporter the legislation would “make our city a fairer, more compassionate place to live and work.”[32][33] Lander passed the Independent Expenditure Disclosure Act, giving NYC the most aggressive SuperPAC disclosure requirements in the country.[34] In 2015, Lander passed legislation to ban discriminatory employment credit checks, ending the practice of companies discriminating against people because of their credit history.[35] In March 2015, Lander was arrested for blocking traffic in Park Slope to show support for eight striking car washers, outside a car wash that was closed at the time; it was his fourth arrest.[36][37] The Wall Street Journal covered his arrest with an article entitled: “Please Don’t Arrest Me—Until the Cameras Are Here”.[38] In November 2016 he announced his intention to get arrested, saying it was: “part of a long tradition of civil disobedience, and it takes a little courage.”[39] In December 2017 he was arrested inside the Capitol Building in Washington DC as he was protesting a tax bill and refusing the request of police to move the protest from public spaces; he tweeted “Being arrested … in the halls of Congress while … fighting for a country where we provide health care for those who need it … is something I’ll remember for the rest of my life”.[40] In June 2018 he was arrested for blocking traffic, disorderly conduct, and failing to disperse at a protest outside the office of State Senator Martin Golden.[41]

    Source: wikipedia

    Please let those around you know about this if theyre from NY