Open Thread Wednesday

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  • CassieVonMontague

    NYS Independent Redistricting Commission released two competing maps last week, one supported by Republicans and one supported by Democrats

    The experts say you can ignore these maps because they are pure theatrics but if your interested, the Democratic map keeps our congressional district about the same but includes more of Manhattan above Houston St up to Stuyvesant Town. The Republican map eliminated Manhattan and makes our district an “East River” district from Sunset Park up to Astoria.

    My guess is that the Ds proposed a reasonable map, but when the Rs don’t agree, the Ds push through a gerrymandered map to eliminate Malliotakis and Garbarino’s districts. I think there is still a chance we will either be in the same district as Staten Island (Malliotakis’s district) or the Upper West Side (Jerry Nadler’s district).

  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7nPOzGeyaw Arch Stanton

    I think it has more to do with the English language than “American automobile culture”

    True, the consequences of a mistake potentially rise with the mass and velocity of a vehicle under ones control but not necessarily the responsibility of an accident (or crash as you say in newspeak). That depends on the circumstances.

    In My Experience:
    As a driver, I have lost count of the times a pedestrian, (often lost in their phone), has pushed a baby carriage out into a crosswalk in front of me, while I had the Green Light! Fortunately, I have always been able to brake in time. But imagine if one time the same thing happens and I am unable to stop and kill an inattentive mom and her baby. You and your anti car crowd would be howling fo my blood! no doubt, Even though it would have been 100% her fault, y’all would automatically blame the driver.
    Thats why the NYPD doesn’t automatically arrest drivers involved in automobile accidents. It often impossible to determine who is at fault.

    As a Cyclist, I accept the danger of riding a bike in traffic and know my life is solely in my hands. Anyone who thinks differently is delirious.

    As a Pedestrian, I don’t count on anything or my “right of way” I always look even if I have the light.

    It is time the Anti car crowd puts on their big boy pants and accepts some responsibility for their own fate.

  • aeshtron

    Arch, our dialogue has devolved into internet nonsense with misplaced accusations, pigeon-holing, misrepresentations and absurd points. Crash is not the language of ingsoc but rather an established English word.

    As the owner/operator of 12,000 pounds of pollution belching motor vehicles I suggest you install a dash cam. I’m done with this back and forth. Please feel free to get in the last word and enjoy your weekend.

  • TeddyNYC

    I saw a clueless driver driving the wrong way on Henry after making a right turn from Atlantic a few weeks ago. He then turned right on State, probably realizing his mistake. That was the second time I saw someone do that on Henry bet. Atlantic and State. Some drivers shouldn’t be behind the wheel.

  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7nPOzGeyaw Arch Stanton

    Ah, the ad hominem, generalized, brush off. A sure sign of a lost debate.
    Ingsoc is about eliminating words in your case “Accident” so I think the reference fits.
    And you have a doubleplusgood weekend as well!

  • travy

    yes saying car ‘accident’ is just like using the ‘n’ word. get a grip!

  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7nPOzGeyaw Arch Stanton

    Luck is a logical fallacy.

  • Cranberry Beret

    Just saw a tesla with NJ plates turn the wrong way onto Hicks from Pineapple. Oopsy. Almost hit me in the crosswalk as they tried to reverse the error.

  • Effective Presenter

    More than a few drivers should not be behind the wheel. We know a guy who drives all day through NY metro area can not speak any English or read signs posted. Not certain if he has a license? Somehow he does not have accidents?

  • Effective Presenter

    Yeah well…….New Jersey divers are that way.

  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7nPOzGeyaw Arch Stanton

    That’s a pretty bigoted point of view. I have driven cars in several countries where I did not speak the Language, yet I never had a problem. Maybe your foreign acquaintance is a lot more intelligent and capable than you think.

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  • http://selfabsorbedboomer.blogspot.com/ Claude Scales

    When I lived in Greenwich Village in the 1970s we were in the same district as Staten Island, and were represented in Congress by John Murphy, a conservative Republican.

  • Bornhere

    The piece, which only peripherally involves the Heights (and smartly didn’t use “tony” to describe Montague), is less about our neighborhood than about the complexities of “massage parlors” and their workers. It’s a curious coincidence that the young man central to the article is, with his mother, active in World Without Exploitation. It’s also quite a statement that this place has been there for more than 2 years, surviving COVID, while so many other places on Montague have closed. And whatever that is on Remsen at Clinton also seems to shine on.

  • Cranberry Beret

    Well, since they put their names in the paper, here IS something that undeniably involves the Heights. Their family owns the big hole-in-the-ground that is 27 Cranberry Street. The site has sat vacant for years, attracting vermin & mosquitoes and piling up Department of Buildings violations for an unsafe/unsecured construction site. Perhaps they could multitask, and worry about the Montague St massage parlor AND take care of their own mess on Cranberry St??

  • Effective Presenter

    Yeah well……..

  • Effective Presenter

    Horrific a word that describes the “2016 Loser”

  • naprice74

    Does anyone else find gristedes extremely unsettling? I feel like I always go in there to buy one specific thing due to most of the items being noticeably overpriced, but I swear I barely ever see anyone in there except for two cashiers and maybe 2-3 elderly people living in cadman towers/101 clark street. This is also considering they have to pay upwards of 100k in rent a month.. It’s not that it’s a bad store per say, but just walking in the store, especially towards the back/pharmacy area, gives off a very odd, almost ominous vibe, don’t even get me started on how strangely the aisles are arranged. Feels like I’m in a liminal space of some sort. Anyone else?

  • AEB

    Of course with you. The store is pure Twilight Zone (to use an ancient descriptor), spatially endless and, as you say, usually empty. One can walk for days, lose one’s sense of direction, even forget why one came or one’s name–and one is still THERE.

    Perhaps the reason it has so few customers (except when you want to pay quickly, then the cashier lines are endless) is that the prices are almost comically inflated. Containers of Haagen Daz ice cream, for example, can cost almost eight bucks per; paper towels–don’t get me started!

    What I feel most when, of necessity, shopping there is that I wear an invisible sign (except to me) that reads SUCKER!

  • Banet

    What I can’t fathom is how they can price items like ice cream $2 more pint than they’re for sale at the Peas & Pickles right next door .

  • AEB

    And sell them!

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