As a tourist I tried to talk to one and was basically ignored

A few days later I again tried to talk to one and was essentially told they didn’t care

I gave up after that

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I tested this out awhile ago, a store ran out of food so they gave me a a double the value of gift cards instead which was random. Seems like a great app for folks that love bagels, bread, pastries and pizza.

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Thank you for updating!

It is but once you actually have to maintain or fix them its not as quick with machinery compared to asphalt, walking or driving on them in DUMBO where the upkeep is not the best is not fun.

You ruined their entertainment when you got that machine fixed.

Thanks, friend

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There were only two MetroCard machines in my station for years (before OMNY) and one of them had a busted #1 button on the number pad… the local zip code had four 1’s in it so it was effectively unusable with credit cards. This went on for like 3 years. I asked the station agent next to the machine if they were ever going to fix it and she just shrugged. I’d seen other people complain about this to the station agent too. People missed trains all the time because of the lines.

Months later I finally got tired of the lines for the one working machine and emailed the MTA district manager for my station. It got fixed in like a week!

Just seems like some of the station agents truly do nothing. Why couldn’t she have communicated this shit up the chain? She sat there and watched these lines every morning and listened to people complain… but I guess did nothing.

so now i need to hunt down a guy to talk to if i need to find a human?

At least I had a central place to go to... Minus those situations where booth workers ignored pleas for help from people (like that case where the person was attacked and they ignored it), this just feels worse?

I would totally support a sentencing enhancement for any crime that also involved social media.

Can we please just get some actual affordable apartments in every neighborhood (none of that “you have to make at least $60k a year to qualify” bull either)? In my neighborhood, they just keep making luxury $1M apartment buildings that are typically at least half empty.

quality laugh for the day, thank you

No pasture for them to graze on though. 😔

The home is gone. The park is getting a facelift. People's Beach's days are most likely numbered.

You could just call them cops. It's a lot shorter.

That's more like West Harlem though. East Harlem is still rough while also skyrocketing in price

It's one thing to argue that a particular economic system (e.g. Communism) or a particular ethical system (e.g.relativism/situationalism) is evil. It's quite another to suggest that economics itself, or that ethics itself, is evil.

And if it's "all political/arbitrary", then the seminar itself is bullshit. Thanks for making my point.

And it's still one of the more interesting neighborhoods in NYC

Thanks for the reminder. My dad used to work varied shifts and commute via our VW Bug to his job in lower Manhattan. The city was digging up these cobblestones on a Brooklyn street on his way home (don't remember which) in the 1960s and he loaded a Bug's worth of these cobblestones home each day until he had enough to do our driveway.

I read this very quickly and thought it said "Network unveils DTF product."

Thank god. Thanks for the update

>Are there seminars on the evils of economics? The evils of ethics? The evils of Business? (maybe at the risible Young Socialists Club, but nowhere else).

I mean, yeah? You basically described three 100 level philosophy classes. Do you think that the concepts of ethics, business or economics are in and of themselves unassailable or above critique?

>Setting aside that I doubt that any French speaking Canadians (including Quebecois, who are different from Acadians or Metis) identify as "Latino"...If Quebecois are in fact "Latino", there are a lot of people in Upstate New York and New England of Quebecois ancestry who should be getting "diversity points" or at least changing their census designation.

>And while we're at it...since I agree with you that "Hispanic" is an ethnolinguistic designation, why are there diversity points being added to a purely Gallego (pure European ancestry) person from Mexico, Argentina or Cuba? Turn on Univision and see- these people are not mestizo, Indio, or anything. They might be of a fairer complexion than a Greek/Latino such as yourself.

I don't understand your point here. New Yorkers of Quebecois or Acadian ancestry absolutely should self-identify as Latino if they want. I don't know if you're aware of this, but most government forms and other information based on them like college applications these days ask you your "race" and then "ethnicity", so it's a two part question. So you can tick something like "White, black, Asian, Native american, Pacific Islander" and then the next question is "Are ethnically Hispanic yes/no"? So that way you can have a white guy like Charlie Sheen or Cameron Diaz count as Hispanic, there's no problem with that and we've been doing it that way for decades.

> Why make a designation of "Latino" at all?

The designation of "Latino" was not made in the Americas nor by Americans. During the French Empire's conquest of Mexico, they created the concept of "Latinoamerica" as an attempt to gain allies among the former colonies of Spain and Portugal, a piece of propaganda that the colonial descendants of France, Spain and Portugal had a shared cultural heritage stretching back to ancient Rome to contrast them against the Anglo-Americans of Canada and the United States. It's all political, and it's all arbitrary, as referenced above.

Whew!