Wait, that's satire, right?
"unannounced"
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 23 June 2020 20:54 (three years ago) link
no, they're serious! Vulture's added their own layer of snark but it's factually accurate. Video here:https://abc7ny.com/society/macys-fireworks-in-nyc-will-be-a-series-of-smaller-displays/6261681/
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 23 June 2020 20:57 (three years ago) link
it is dumb as fuck!
It really is, incredible that would be their response. I did hear of some Chicago suburbs that are talking about spreading out and doing smaller displays to reduce congregating to watch but, afaik, those are all scheduled and announced.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 23 June 2020 21:00 (three years ago) link
the pure tone deafness of siccing the cops on kids in the streets but okaying a major corporation to do THE SAME SHIT
https://patch.com/new-york/bed-stuy/fireworks-complaints-not-job-cops-brooklyn-pols-say
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 23 June 2020 21:06 (three years ago) link
too easy to imagine the police in that article telling people to call a community group for support having a shit-eating grin on his face, as he says it
― Nhex, Tuesday, 23 June 2020 21:08 (three years ago) link
i mean
The explosions heard in the Bronx are just PD controlled detonation of confescated fireworks at Rodmans Neck pic.twitter.com/PwK9pAxGV0— NYCFireWire (@NYCFireWire) June 22, 2020
NYPD conducted a controlled detonation on Rodman Neck to eliminate confiscated fireworks. That caused brush fire to breake out and had to extinguished by FDNY and Nassau County marine units from the water. Video by Daniel Valls (FNTV) d✧✧✧@scootercas✧✧✧.c✧✧ to license pic.twitter.com/O2re1s90yK— @SCOOTERCASTER (FNTV) (@ScooterCasterNY) June 22, 2020
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 23 June 2020 21:19 (three years ago) link
gothamist with the A+ URLhttps://gothamist.com/news/between-illegal-fireworks-displays-every-borough-will-get-five-blissful-minutes-legal-fireworks-macys-fourth-july-celebration
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 23 June 2020 21:21 (three years ago) link
pack it up
Times Square’s glitzy, four-story McDonald’s is permanently shutting down https://t.co/YxrB5KRgrv pic.twitter.com/q6XEuGKO5w— Eater NY (@EaterNY) June 24, 2020
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 24 June 2020 18:59 (three years ago) link
it was, for a time, one of the few reliable bathrooms in times square. RIP
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 24 June 2020 19:06 (three years ago) link
I was about to say bring back the Howard Johnson’s but that place was an overpriced deadzone. I remember being hungover one time with little cash and thinking I could hit the Hojo for some cheap breakfast. Fucking hell.
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 24 June 2020 19:08 (three years ago) link
xp lol yes it was
― Nhex, Wednesday, 24 June 2020 21:12 (three years ago) link
it should be memorialized as a giant pit that anyone who can claim a new york residence can shit in
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 24 June 2020 22:07 (three years ago) link
here's a terrible ideahttps://gothamist.com/news/mta-explores-use-artificial-intelligence-measure-mask-compliance-subways
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 24 June 2020 22:27 (three years ago) link
https://comb.io/0GQX8r
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Friday, 26 June 2020 17:16 (three years ago) link
Why are we moving towards indoor dining?Is it because we want no responsibility for the massive restaurant bankruptcies to come?This gives restaurants half full seating, enough so they can fail more slowly, while risking thousands of lives? Bail them out instead.— Zephyr Teachout (@ZephyrTeachout) June 27, 2020
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 27 June 2020 19:22 (three years ago) link
zephyr otm
― ACABincalifornia (voodoo chili), Saturday, 27 June 2020 19:40 (three years ago) link
for real. I mean, yeah, it'd piss off the needledicks who can't stand the idea of not being able to go out and get a pint, but restaurant owners could relax and pay their furloughed employees without fear.
but nooooooooo, that's not what made America great! so the federal government will probably just annex each restaurant as its own sovereign territory and deport all restaurant owners to Canada.
― I hear that sometimes Satan wants to defund police (Neanderthal), Saturday, 27 June 2020 19:50 (three years ago) link
i'm really fucking glad my friend's cat cafe got an EIDL loan, but he's got such a low cost operation going, he was able to adjust and work with the landlord to stay afloat. restaurants that have to buy large volumes of food product/beverage product and have high overhead , I don't even wanna imagine.
― I hear that sometimes Satan wants to defund police (Neanderthal), Saturday, 27 June 2020 19:51 (three years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/4B9qfOB.jpg
― calstars, Monday, 29 June 2020 17:28 (three years ago) link
Anyone have any tips on where these undisclosed locations are? They have to be on the waterfront somewhere around Manhattan right ? How could they keep this a secret?
― calstars, Monday, 29 June 2020 17:29 (three years ago) link
Macy's Fireworks Are Playing at My House
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 29 June 2020 17:33 (three years ago) link
unimaginable
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Monday, 29 June 2020 17:35 (three years ago) link
last i heard nabes were gettin 'heads up' due to complaints by vets with PTSD
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Monday, 29 June 2020 17:37 (three years ago) link
https://ny.eater.com/2020/6/29/21306893/indoor-dining-delay-nyc-coronavirusthis is probably the right call
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 29 June 2020 17:43 (three years ago) link
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/07/06/a-black-market-fireworks-dealer-explains-this-years-boom
Last week, in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, a thin man in a white T-shirt and a wide-brimmed Chicago Bulls cap proudly popped the trunk of his Chevy Malibu. Inside, there were Golden Willows, Chain Reactions, Parachute Battalions, and Mini Artillery Shells—dozens of colorful boxes, one of them labelled “For Daytime Use!” This was what remained of the twelve hundred dollars’ worth of fireworks that the man, who asked not to be named, had purchased during a visit to Keystone Fireworks, in Pennsylvania, and then sold, for more than double the price, around Brooklyn. (Fireworks are illegal in New York State.) He takes calls for deliveries from regular customers, or parks on a busy street and does business, out of his car, with whoever stops by. “People have always done fireworks,” he said, “but they’re going harder than ever this year. They can’t wait to come outside.”“The money’s good,” the man in the Bulls cap said. This year, he sold in two days what would have normally taken him two weeks.His fireworks aren’t cheap; the fanciest ones in his trunk go for two hundred bucks. So most of his customers are adults—“people with money,” he said—rather than teen-agers. Nearly all of them are men. They tend to be in their late twenties or thirties, and sometimes, if they’re buying fireworks before the sun has set, they bring their kids with them. That night, the man gestured around at the neighborhood, which was coming off a four-month lockdown. “They’re celebrating,” he said of the people setting off the fireworks. “It’s definitely about freedom.”“I hope not” was all he had to say when asked if he thought police were shooting off fireworks. “We don’t need any more drama around here.”A few blocks over, a group of young men, probably in their twenties, launched a several-minutes-long blitz. They took turns darting from the sidewalk into the street to light streams of Roman candles, which they topped off with five-hundred-gram “cakes”: the largest firework that can be legally used without a federal explosives permit. People watched from their apartment buildings. One neighbor leaned out his window and begged the group to stop; the fireworks were scaring his dog. “Fuck your dog!” one of the men yelled back at him. “We will shoot these shits at your house!” Moments later, a cop car rolled up, and the group retreated.
“The money’s good,” the man in the Bulls cap said. This year, he sold in two days what would have normally taken him two weeks.
His fireworks aren’t cheap; the fanciest ones in his trunk go for two hundred bucks. So most of his customers are adults—“people with money,” he said—rather than teen-agers. Nearly all of them are men. They tend to be in their late twenties or thirties, and sometimes, if they’re buying fireworks before the sun has set, they bring their kids with them. That night, the man gestured around at the neighborhood, which was coming off a four-month lockdown. “They’re celebrating,” he said of the people setting off the fireworks. “It’s definitely about freedom.”
“I hope not” was all he had to say when asked if he thought police were shooting off fireworks. “We don’t need any more drama around here.”
A few blocks over, a group of young men, probably in their twenties, launched a several-minutes-long blitz. They took turns darting from the sidewalk into the street to light streams of Roman candles, which they topped off with five-hundred-gram “cakes”: the largest firework that can be legally used without a federal explosives permit. People watched from their apartment buildings. One neighbor leaned out his window and begged the group to stop; the fireworks were scaring his dog. “Fuck your dog!” one of the men yelled back at him. “We will shoot these shits at your house!” Moments later, a cop car rolled up, and the group retreated.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 29 June 2020 19:10 (three years ago) link
new york city . . . lives
― mookieproof, Monday, 29 June 2020 19:32 (three years ago) link
New study of Covid seroprevalence in New York by @florian_krammer and team; finds that 1:5 New Yorkers likely already had SARS-CoV-2 by late April and the infection fatality rate in New York City was about 0.7%. https://t.co/ekqxUuhGwv— Scott Gottlieb, MD (@ScottGottliebMD) June 29, 2020
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 29 June 2020 22:26 (three years ago) link
finding it hard to believe regardless
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Monday, 29 June 2020 22:33 (three years ago) link
Most of the estimates of ifr I saw that were being tossed about months ago based on Asian data were in the range of 0.5% to 1%. This fits.
― the unappreciated charisma of cows (Aimless), Monday, 29 June 2020 23:51 (three years ago) link
1 in 5 though?
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 30 June 2020 01:04 (three years ago) link
1 in 6 I think, obv far more likely
― time is running out to retweet boing.gif (sic), Tuesday, 30 June 2020 01:30 (three years ago) link
1 in 5 sounds like a lot but the important thing to note is that NYC wouldn't reach the coveted 'herd immunity' status until a bit less than 4 in 5 have had it. This finding only puts 'em a quarter of the way along. So, unless a vaccine comes along, you can take the current number of deaths in NYC and multiply by about 3 to get a rough estimate of how many more would likely die on the way to herd immunity, sans vaccine.
― the unappreciated charisma of cows (Aimless), Tuesday, 30 June 2020 01:52 (three years ago) link
can't believe it's been over 4 months since i've been in NYC! i can't imagine when I will be in there again for work or otherwise.
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Tuesday, 30 June 2020 14:59 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xPQ16Asyoo
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 30 June 2020 15:00 (three years ago) link
sorry if this is stating the obvious but there's a large difference between 1% and 20%
― like, I’m eating an elephant head (katherine), Tuesday, 30 June 2020 16:23 (three years ago) link
20% is an estimated infection rate; 1% is estimated fatality rate
― Josefa, Tuesday, 30 June 2020 16:29 (three years ago) link
got it, the post didn't specify
― like, I’m eating an elephant head (katherine), Tuesday, 30 June 2020 17:30 (three years ago) link
From the documents, here's how the city council is characterizing the supposed $1B cut to the NYPD. The tally I've seen counts $42M in increased traffic/parking enforcement revenue as a cut, toward the $1B total pic.twitter.com/aynFiT0bJi— Yoav Gonen (@yoavgonen) June 30, 2020
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 30 June 2020 22:55 (three years ago) link
hard to imagine how diblasio coulda fucked this up worse... everybody hates him now!
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 30 June 2020 22:58 (three years ago) link
oh no, our luxury Avenue is being denigrated
NYC is cutting Police $’s by ONE BILLION DOLLARS, and yet the @NYCMayor is going to paint a big, expensive, yellow Black Lives Matter sign on Fifth Avenue, denigrating this luxury Avenue. This will further antagonize New York’s Finest, who LOVE New York & vividly remember the....— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 1, 2020
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 1 July 2020 15:50 (three years ago) link
that might be the Trumpiest tweet ever
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Wednesday, 1 July 2020 16:18 (three years ago) link
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, June 30, 2020 3:58 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
yeah he's even worse than the hated milk machine
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Wednesday, 1 July 2020 16:22 (three years ago) link
suspect something Freudian with Trump's word choice
― below the mendoza (rip van wanko), Wednesday, 1 July 2020 16:25 (three years ago) link
new york's finest love new york so much they live in different counties and states.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 1 July 2020 16:26 (three years ago) link
cops LOVE this one luxury avenue
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 1 July 2020 16:29 (three years ago) link
― below the mendoza (rip van wanko), Wednesday, July 1, 2020 11:25 AM (nine minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
oh fuck just saw it
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Wednesday, 1 July 2020 16:34 (three years ago) link
"no YOURE the racist how could you think that"
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 1 July 2020 16:35 (three years ago) link
subconscious maybe or Stephen Miller's handiwork? hard to imagine him ptting that much thought into these inanities but who knows
― Yanni Xenakis (Hadrian VIII), Wednesday, 1 July 2020 16:37 (three years ago) link
Plenty to criticize NYC cops about, choosing not to live in NYC isn't one of them
― badg, Wednesday, 1 July 2020 16:37 (three years ago) link