return2ozmaZohran Mamdani Gets 8,000 Potholes Filled in a Single Day
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Boomer Humor DoomergodBusiness owners whose vehicles now need less repair and maintenance: “This is unacceptable“
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VicksVaporBBQrub“Garmin GPS announces next update to bring back missing potholes by playing bang.mp3 without any user input destination needed…”
AzuranAuroraBut it was the sound of that specific pothole! How else am I gonna know which pothole is which? Please send help, I’ve been lost in traffic for 4 hours!
Suspension and tire shops across NYC are sobbing
There’s a corner gas episode where the small town gets upset after a pothole is filled because it helps reduce the speed of traffic and a speed bump is too fancy
fallaciousBasisThe movie blew my fucking mind…
They were a couple a whole time? 🤣🤣
Cops need loving, too.
it’s been over a decade since I’ve seen any of that show and I can picture a whole bunch of scenes from that episode in my head
not because I actually remember them, just because the characters and plot are that identifiable
good show
if this about cars, only the most libertarian would question, if we’re talking about trains tho…
NotSteve_Car infrastructure doesn’t need to make a profit don’t you know? Its just public transport that needs be a net gain for the city
Ah, you must be one of those people that needs posts to end in “/s” to get the joke.
Haha I think you might be the person who needs the /s. I was just continuing the sarcasm but making an adjacent sarcastic point
Zachariah
BananaI know you’re joking, but it is so depressing that this is EXACTLY how so many government officials think and how so many constituents have been brainwashed to think.
and, equally if not more depressingly, governments can make waaay more money by TAXING THE FUCKING RICH!
The typical conservative response to that is “but then they’ll take their businesses elsewhere and now you get nothing.”
The typical conservative response also fails to even consider just how difficult, expensive, and risky it is to move a large business to an entirely new region. Real estate has to be purchased and sold, employees have to be relocated or replaced, logistics have to be established in the new region, valuable business connections and contracts will have to be severed, and for brick and mortar businesses, the competitive landscape will be different.
New campaign slogan:
Zohran, he’ll fill all your holes.
Yeah, agreed on all counts 😕
Well, just off the top of my head, from very old memories, there’s tons of sexual assault. Also lots of making fun of fat people and people with different bodies in general. I’m sure there’s a lot more.
I wonder what will be considered horrible in 5-10 years from now? What awful thing we are doing now that we are unaware of?
SuperApplesThere’s also the fact that half the ‘jokes’ were just a scene going on longer than you’d expect.
I think a lot of the body shaming jokes don’t land not because we are uptight PC wokies, but because when you don’t stigmatise something, it loses its social power. Oh that person has a mole? So what? The boomer humour was ‘oh, it’s bad to have a mole, but you should never say anything about it!’ when you don’t believe either of those statements there is no joke, and the scene goes on for like 5 minutes…
The mole was a pun on the ‘mole’ meaning an embedded spy.
Sexual assault like this?
Someone else mentioned that it’s actually pretty consensual. I assumed it wasn’t, but I guess I must be wrong. Again, it’s been a very long time since I’ve seen them. I know that consent wasn’t the big talking point then that it is now, so I just thought they’d have fucked it up. It’s good to see they didn’t totally.
Yeah, it’s pretty nice for 1997.
I find the first one aged better than the rest. I still laughed out loud after watching it recently. The later movies, not so much.
Bahnd RollardAgree, the first one has aged like fine milk (opinions differ of if its spoiled or turned to cheese) and the opening bit of the second film where they had a real budget for a split second.
The part there thats aged well is of all the actors cast in the parody opening, Danny Devito is the only one who isnt problamatic.
Zohran the Hole Destroyer.
What a wonderful metric to measure how a mayor or prime minister is working. If the streets are full of potholes, you have a bad government. If the streets are paved with smooth asphalt without a single hole for your precious car burning expensive gasoline to fall in, then they’re doing some very good work. The economy and potholes. That’s the most important things.
Bikes and buses use streets, too.
CatoblepasWheelchairs, scooters… lots of things that aren’t cars have wheels and may need to cross the road at some point!
What’s Johney-5 up to these days?
JensSpahnpastaIt kind of shows the priorities? Your infrastructure will be fine for a few years if you do no maintenance. After that, it’s downhill. If you are investing in maintaining it, you show that you have the longterm interests of the population in mind instead of some shortterm things that might help you during your short term
The point is that Mamdami is actually doing what his constituents have been asking. If you want to put a negative spin on it, at least make it about how low the bar is instead of this insufferable interpretation of the situation
Kier Starmer would never fill a pothole! The same was said about the previous progressive mayor of my city. She and the party pushed very hard for bike paths everywhere. And we got them. But conservatives and people not from the city were whining because somehow, there were still potholes in the city.
I maintain it’s a stupid metric.
Cars are objectively bad for the environment, for planning, for space, for human community and sociability. There’s a lot to criticize about cars
You’re right, it is a wonderful metric! The metric boils down to “public servant uses public money to improve the lives of the public.” The same can be said for all public services: parks, playgrounds, healthcare, inspection and maintenance, just to name a few.
Contrary to what seems to be a widely held opinion in the US the government should not be a for-profit enterprise, rather an entity entrusted with spending public money (i.e. taxes) for the good of the public, and on things no private company would bother with as there is no expected return on investment other than “making people healthier and happier”. Healthy, happy people are more likely to contribute and be more productive, which in turn raises more taxes and so the cycle continues. So yes, fixing potholes is a great start, well spotted.
They’re not even really using it as a metric. They’re just staying a fact and you’re getting all worked up over nothing. The article even mentioned an electric scooter rider who died after they got launched off their vehicle after they hit a pothole: this could have easily happened to a cyclist.
Someone’s disappointed about their unfilled holes.
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