It’s a behavioral nudge. You want to incentivize E-ZPass usage because it costs more money to print/mail/collect the bill. The cost probably isn’t $7.50 but that’s the nudge - you want to make the difference worth it enough that people will sign up. It is a better option than forcing E-ZPass usage because people like having choices.

All listings should be discoverable somewhere and paying a broker shouldn’t be required to rent an apartment. Hiring a broker should simply be an option to accelerate and simplify this process.

My landlord doesn’t list their apartments, on their own website or on their party sites (StreetEasy, etc). Instead, they give exclusive access to a broker they are friendly with, who lists and shows the apartment, and collects the applications to send to the landlord for approval. He charges a 15% fee on the annual rent, so for a $3,000/month apartment you pay a fee of $5,400. There is literally no other way to discover these apartments and no way to dodge this fee.

How is this not effectively a stupidly high application fee, in effect? Landlord does this because they don’t need to pay for listings, pay for showers to open doors, or pay to manage/collect application documents. They simply just say yes/no to full apps submitted by their buddy broker, who certainly does work but… really now, $5,400 worth of work? It used to just be one month years ago… 15% is greedy.

This is only possible because of how scarce housing is and how unbalanced the equation is. Landlord can literally stick a middleman in to scrape off a few extra thousand and people will still do it. At the very least landlords should be paying the brokers, if they need to increase rents to offset those costs, so be it, but I suspect that offset would still be less than what tenants are paying in broker fees now.

Please don’t ruin this for me

I think this sums it up nicely. “Well, we tried to tell them.” 🤷

This isn’t an untested concept. It has been shown to work elsewhere in the world. Singapore and London are prime examples.

The people that I personally know that live below 60th St wouldn’t blink at slightly higher costs. But that’s a different issue altogether.

Amazing, this is so cool. Some immediate notices:

• G line missing 21 St
• 7 missing Hunters Point Ave, 33-Rawson, 40-Lowery

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I think things can be perfect in the abstract but nothing in practice is a perfect version of what it claims to be. The US has freedom of speech but not without limitations.

This is why when presented with the paradox of tolerance I am understanding that a line must be drawn somewhere. But to your point, I agree the line should not be drawn too liberally, to the point that it is being used simply to silence people you don’t agree with. So in a sense this line is on a spectrum, and the debate is over where that line should be drawn, but the fact that there is a line at all I am comfortable with. I do not think “there should be no line” is a reasonable stance given that it already isn’t that way in reality.

I mean, hypothetically, if for some reason NBC decided to air a special that was sympathetic to neo-Nazis, wouldn’t it be within my rights to appeal to the network to change its mind, or convince others to protest by boycotting their network? It sounds like by your definition this would be cancel culture. Is all cancel culture wrong?

If you’re new to this you’re doing great.

The best any man can do (physically) is be:

• stylish
• groomed
• in shape (bonus for muscular physique)

This gets you 80% of the way there (physically). The last 20% are genetics. Height, bone structure, etc. There are plenty of “odd looking but handsome” dudes out there, like Adam Driver.

Women have the same avenues plus makeup (which is a deep hole and takes a while to get right). Women’s fashion is far more varied, women’s hair styles are constantly changing and more varied, women’s hair takes longer to care for (on average). All of these things take a ton of time, cost a lot of money and with every woman being different also involves a lot of trial and error.

Staying in shape is equal between men and women, but men trying to sculpt muscular physiques is probably comparably more difficult.

Overall though I’d say it is still harder for women to meet their standards vs men.

Trump’s base is set in stone and won’t be affected at all, but plenty of moderates and moderate conservatives have suggested they won’t vote for a felon. If this swings the vote in WI/MI/PA enough toward Biden that’s all he needs.

Which movie is pic 5 from?

Your compositions are great! Good eye.

I replayed DKC3 recently and I’m not sure what you mean by RPG mechanics?

I know this incident was in Corona, but I have seen kids on top of trains multiple times in Sunnyside. The stretch from 46 Bliss to 33 Rawson is straight, open air and has a great skyline backdrop for TikTok.

What I take away from it is that he personally wished all men to be free, but that his duty to preserve the Union overrode those concerns. Lincoln ultimately did believe in the supremacy of the white race, just not to the point that it justified the enslavement of others. He’s a mixed bag, but did help move things forward.

This really does add some important context. Why oh why would u/fart_huffer omit this part?

Only if either the card or the bike itself were not stolen. If you rule those out then yes.

Air dropping aid is “somewhat sensitive”. Kinda shitty when you’re providing the bombs to the other side hence the “somewhat” part. It’s more than zero.

Gaza will be gone by then.

The e-bike he was riding has GPS - it will track your exact position and display your precise route on the app once the ride concludes.

It should be possible, given the timestamp of the video, to search the database and see which bikes passed by that address. If you can locate the ride, you can locate the origin and destination stations. That is important because then you can check security footage all along the route to see if there’s a better image of the suspect. This is assuming the bike is stolen, if not then you just look up the account holder for that ride.

I mean, neither are great options for the Palestinians to be fair. But Biden’s administration has at least been somewhat sensitive to the human suffering and has been somewhat of a blocker for Israel completely having their way. If Israel can hold out for a Trump victory then they have a blank check to clear out the Palestinians and settle Gaza for themselves.

Well at least we’ve sussed out your level of concern for the Palestinians. I’m sure they can hold out for our revolution to happen and our new government to help them.