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BananaOnionJuice , in ‘New York learning about trash cans in 2024 is an insane flex’: Eric Adams trolled over wheelie bins ‘trash revolution’
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Only about 30 years later than Europe.

Hugh_Jeggs ,

Someone posted a pic of the underground waste bins we have in Europe -

https://lemm.ee/pictrs/image/a5fed81d-3792-4d6b-9168-3a8dc40123f1.jpeg

And the yanks were acting like it was some sort of witchcraft lol

CptEnder ,

I literally tried to describe this is how they do it in France to a friend recently. She was like “wait they bury their trash and use elevators?!” Had to just show her a pic like this. I have to admit the first time I saw it, it floored me… like “holy fuck never thought of that…”

It truly confounds the American mind.

Cryophilia ,

It just looks way too expensive for the benefit.

jonne ,

It makes sense for densely populated areas, not quite in the suburbs where I bet they just use plastic bags or wheelie bins like everyone else.

Not sure if wheelie bins will actually work in New York City, as where the fuck are you going to store them if you live in a studio?

ampersandrew ,
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I’m not sure if you live in NYC, but there will typically be a courtyard next to big apartment buildings, often home for a trash area for the entire complex, among other things.

mctoasterson ,

Unless you have the misfortune of being in Paris during a garbage strike, in which case there are just giant piles of rubbish all over vatious streets, sidewalks, and alleys.

kent_eh ,

Unless you have the misfortune of being in Paris during a garbage strike,in which case there are just giant piles of rubbish all over vatious streets, sidewalks, and alleys.

That happens in literally any city that has a garbage collector strike.

Doesn’t matter how the collection system works if nobody is doing the collecting, that trash is gonna a pile up

FlyingSquid ,
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What happens when it breaks down or gets stuck though? Seems like it risks the trash overflowing because of that.

SeekPie ,

Breaks down how? I think the garbage truck is the one lifting and if that’s broken, you just send another one?

FlyingSquid ,
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Oh I see, someone else wrote “elevators” and I thought it raised itself.

But still, don’t they get stuck sometimes?

Hugh_Jeggs ,

There’s no way for it to get stuck. The underground bin bit is completely sealed and also a bit smaller than the hole it goes into, hence the metal plate between the visible and non-visible bits

Also because our taxes go towards infrastructure rather than killing brown people, things…just work

Moneo ,

heheheh

European cities also waste less money maintaining sparsely populated suburbs.

jeffw OP ,
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And the rest of the USA tbh

fukurthumz420 , in Satanists to volunteer in Florida schools in protest at DeSantis religious bill

religion and capitalism - the banes of human existence

Zacryon ,

They are mere tools for power-hungry egomaniacs, who have no regard for the well-being of others. Tools which make it especially easy for them.

Replace religion and capitalism by something else and you get a similar picture.

Hell is other people. It’s humanity itself which is the bane of human existence.

fukurthumz420 ,

i believe it’s possible for us to be better. to accept the ‘human condition’ is a death sentence as a species. throughout history, we have brief moments of exemplary behavior. we are capable of more. don’t accept the current state of affairs.

Zacryon ,

I like to think so too. Humans have a lot of potential, for the good and the bad. It’s important to nurture the good and diminish the bad.

zloubida , (edited ) in Satanists to volunteer in Florida schools in protest at DeSantis religious bill
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It’s probably an unpopular opinion, but if public school chaplain positions are open to everyone, if they provide spiritual counsel to students who want it, without proselytizing or coercing students into religious activities, and if their work is controlled by the school to stay sure they don’t contradict scientific teachings and respect the psychological development and freedom of children, they can be a good thing. Secular France has this kind of chaplains, and it’s great; somehow I don’t believe it’s possible today in Florida.

crazyminner ,

That’s not how people who believe in imaginary sky daddies work.

zloubida ,
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Secular France has this kind of chaplains

FlyingSquid ,
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You do understand that this is super religious America and not secular France, right?

machinin ,

Maybe op edited the comment, but they did end it with this:

Secular France has this kind of chaplains, and it’s great; somehow I don’t believe it’s possible today in Florida.

FlyingSquid ,
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No, they did, they just continued arguing for it despite that.

zloubida ,
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Yes, I did, because you know, America is not the whole world. I was speaking about school chaplaincy in general.

FlyingSquid ,
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And my point is that chaplaincy in general is not really relevant to the way they want to do it in Florida. What you’re calling a chaplain is not what they are thinking of as a chaplain. It might sound similar, but they want someone to preach Christianity to children. All of them. That’s the goal there. Sunday school in regular school all day every day.

This is not about France’s idea of school chaplaincy because that’s not in any way what this is or intends to be just because it used the word “chaplain” in the job description.

zloubida ,
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I don’t know why we’re debating when I have the impression that we agree and are saying the same thing?

2484345508 ,

That’s how Lemmy works. Most of us kind of agree on things. There aren’t many hard core religious or hard core republicans here. So we end up yelling at each other in frustration, establishing the left-leaning as the far right of Lemmy.

Etterra , in New Sentinel nuclear warhead program is 81% over budget. But Pentagon says it must go forward

Well I mean it’s not like there’s hundreds of thousands of Americans with crippling food insecurity, no homes, no healthcare, inadequate wages, poisonous water, and/or gun violence; so the government is fine making sure it has the capacity it nearly exterminate the human race. Right guys?

Ensign_Crab ,

“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.” - Dwight Eisenhower

So as far as legislators are concerned, a win-win.

bufalo1973 , in Satanists to volunteer in Florida schools in protest at DeSantis religious bill
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It’d be nice if the FSM “church” did the same.

Etterra , in ‘New York learning about trash cans in 2024 is an insane flex’: Eric Adams trolled over wheelie bins ‘trash revolution’

Yeah we know, NYC is the idiot big brother of American cities whose greatest accomplishment was making QB in the highschool team.

Just like LA is the spoiled little shit brother and Chicago is the hard working one that never quite gets ahead anyway.

Cryophilia ,

San Francisco: “guys, I’m gay”

USA: “we know, dude”

Miami: bursts in “yo anyone got any coke?”

USA: “shut up, Miami”

Detroit: “…I can get you some coke”

lanolinoil ,
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Texas: What kind of Coke do you want? Mt Dew, Sprite, Big Red?

Cryophilia ,

Texas isn’t a city, nor do they have any world class cities, unlike other more civilized states.

DragonTypeWyvern ,

That’s why it only got a one-star review

massive_bereavement ,

But there are two of the largest parking lots of the world, and Austin isn't bad at all.

MagicShel ,

Are you referring to the highways? I almost looked at moving there until I looked into the traffic situation. I left DC to get away from that shit.

bitwaba ,

FYI, Houston is the 4th largest city in the US by population

Viking_Hippie ,

And probably the 400th best at most.

Cryophilia ,

Add another zero on there and you’ll be in the ballpark

Ledivin ,

Isn’t that mostly because they claim a ridiculously massive metro area? What’s the density like?

bitwaba ,

Lots of other places do too. That’s why true city size should be counted as the metropolitan population, not just the city borders. In that case, Houston is 5th, beaten by Dallas/Fort Worth at 4th, which surprisingly means Texas has 2 metropolitan areas out of in the top 5 in the country.

Ledivin ,

This simply isn’t backed by statistics. While Houston is the 4th most populous American city, it’s only ~200th in density. If “Lots of other places [did] too,” then they wouldn’t be half as far down that second list.

bitwaba ,

I don’t really understand what point you’re trying to make, but I’d be happy to argue for or against it if you could sum it up.

Moneo ,

Honestly, as a Canadian I don’t think north america has any world class cities.

Cryophilia ,

Really? NYC? Come on, you’re just doing the “murica bad” edgy teenager thing.

EatATaco ,

I’m surprised it’s universally downvoted as mindless shitting on America is a pretty sure bet for upvotes on Lemmy.

Moneo ,

It’s weird that having a differing opinion of what makes a city world class means I’m “mindlessly shitting on america”.

EatATaco ,

I can’t think a single reasonable metric that wouldn’t net at least a couple of us cities among the top 20. In fact the only metric that I can come up with is “not in America because of my irrational hate for it .”

Moneo ,

Public transportation, walkability, cycling infrastructure, and public spaces. Why are you so convinced I’m foaming at the mouth hating on america. I’m just a dude who thinks our cities suck.

Moneo ,

It’s just my opinion. A world class city imo should have excellent public transportation, cycling infrastructure, parks and public gathering spaces, and traffic calmed commercial districs. Basically a world class city should have a lot of things worth visiting and infrastructure that lets you visit those places easily and comfortably without relying on a car.

No north american city meets those standards in the way that some european cities do.

Cryophilia ,

You’ve never even HEARD of the NYC subway?

Dude, just stop having opinions, you’re clearly not informed enough.

Ledivin ,

…so do you not believe there are any world-class cities, period? I can find exceptions for every single city in the list of requirements you laid out.

lanolinoil ,
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haha this is perfect

Viking_Hippie ,

Midwesterner detected. I bet you think your lakes are great too!

Disclaimer: judging by admittedly short visits to all three, I too prefer Chicago, but I couldn’t NOT do the joke 😉

card797 ,

I’m still so pissed that Chicago dumps their sewage into the Mississippi instead of the lake where it belongs. New Orleans has enough shit thank you very much.

recklessengagement ,

Considering the lake flows into the river, it wouldnt make much of a difference

Also it’s mostly to spite St. Louis

card797 ,

No. No. They made the Chicago river reverse course and flow into the MS river. Chicago shit water belongs in Lake Michigan!

anindefinitearticle ,

Lake Michigan flows out to the St Lawrence, not the Mississippi.

bitchkat ,

Chicago is a long way from the Mississippi.

card797 ,

It was an engineering feat that dumped sewage into the Mississippi.

EatATaco ,

Don’t forget the drug addicted brother, Philadelphia!

IllIIllIllIIIIl , in NYC Black Residents Die From Heat Stress At Double The Rate Of White Residents, Report Says

It’s a multifaceted issue thats predominantly socioeconomic. Urban areas are less likely to have greenery, brick and asphalt and concrete make the areas much much hotter than an area with green coverage or even just dirt. High rates of obesity and heart disease, poorer quality food resources make it difficult for the body to adapt.

In some places, GOP policy has made it legal for business to deny water breaks, and if we’re going based solely on statistical distribution of labor per group, blacks have higher rates of outside/physical jobs, another systematic and socioeconomic issue.

The third issue is that in these areas, health care is often poorer quality/under funded, even when they do get to the hospital/ER/urgent care facility, they die at higher rates of similar diseases than other areas.

Neurotoxin , in Toddler, 2, dies after shooting himself while left alone in a Walmart parking lot as his parents shopped for fireworks

Imagine walking back to your car to get your kid and seeing the scene in Pulp Fiction…yikes

Treczoks ,

Leaving an unsecured and loaded weapon in a car with an unsupervised toddler? Sorry for the kid, but the parents fully deserve to see this.

ASeriesOfPoorChoices ,

“Holy shit! The consequences of my actions?! That’s unpossible!”

aesthelete , in ‘I’m bored, so I shoot’: The Israeli army’s approval of free-for-all violence in Gaza

The headline quote reminds me of some of the more bone chilling scenes from Schindler’s List.

Viking_Hippie , in Trump-loving gays say their MAGA support is ruining their lives

Me as any vulnerable minority supporting Trump’s fascist project:

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/9f5667f2-fd29-46f4-a988-ede751dbefd0.jpeg

Treczoks , in Trump-loving gays say their MAGA support is ruining their lives

I mean, you’ve got to be stupid to be a MAGA head. But being gay and a MAGA head you need to be terminally dumb. Amazing that such people can breathe without intellectual assistance.

MumboJumbo ,

Dumb or horribly self-loathing. Unfortunately, there are plenty parts of America that help instill that feeling.

Red_October ,

They just think he’ll surely only go after Other people, that they’ll be safe, part of the “In” group.

figjam ,

Upper middle class white folks

NatakuNox ,
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Yup, every Republican woman is deeply into self loathing. I can’t tell you how many Republican woman I’ve heard say women can’t be leaders or it takes a man to do what’s right.

Freefall ,

Just look at all the rightwingers that head anti-pedo movements that get busted for having CP or being actual groomers. (The list is LONG)

NatakuNox ,
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That’s just another tactic of projection. Republican woman are just mad that they aren’t men and need to justify their own subjugation by ensuring they get second place in the social hierarchy instead of questioning why there’s a hierarchy in the first place. Thinking for yourself is difficult, so being told what to do is easy. Even if that means being told to hate yourself. Hell Christianity’s first chronological story boils down to “women are the reason life sucks.”

Treczoks , in Toddler, 2, dies after shooting himself while left alone in a Walmart parking lot as his parents shopped for fireworks

Sorry for the kid, but 2A is more important than that. /s

ASeriesOfPoorChoices ,

Our children are the price of freedom.

Sadly, that’s one little soldier who left too early.

collapse_already , in Trump-loving gays say their MAGA support is ruining their lives

“I am one of the good gays. There is no way they are sending me to Daschau.”

Shocked pikachu

chalupapocalypse , in Trump-loving gays say their MAGA support is ruining their lives

You don’t have to be smart to be gay

TheBigBrother , in High-ranking corrupt officials in China earn eight to fourteen times their regular salary by profiting from corruption, study based on official data says

Just wait until they got catch in the move, they are going to hang them instead of forgiving them.

The Chinese doesn’t joke about political corruption.

DrunkenPirate ,

Sure, and the successor won’t become corrupt when owners, industrials and richs hand over some envelopes to make things faster. Two years and 8 envelopes later, he will take it as all his peers do as well.

FlyingSquid ,
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And yet the political corruption never seems to go away.

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