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It's the most basic lesson from Rollercoaster Tycoon. More trash cans = less litter = happier people.
Out of the way, Boomers. It's the Millennials' time to shine. We've been preparing for this our whole lives, and it's past time for us to take the reins.
Sorry Gen X, we're doing what you should've done decades ago...
Sorry Gen X, we're doing what you should've done decades ago...
We literally did not have the chance. The greedy Boomers held onto the power & money until well past their own expiration date (see the average age of the past couple presidents, for example).
This is the case in politics and in business as well. Boomers refuse to retire, forcing Gen X to take lower paying jobs with little chance of promotion.
Look it up. “Baby Boomers held onto leadership roles longer than past generations, which delayed Gen X from taking power.”
I think eventually we sort of just gave up. Boomers were handed the country on a silver platter from their parents, and then they ran it into the ground (by doing shit like electing Reagan), and simply refused to pass it on when their time was supposed to be up.
Hence GenX’s slogan; “oh well, whatever, never mind.”
I know, I know. I was being tongue-in-cheek.
You guys got the shaft, it's okay. We Millennials only got half-shafted because we'll still have time to scramble to do something after the last boomers die, while you Gen Xers are all old and decrepit. Maybe Gen Z will have a chance, if humanity doesn't cause its own extinction first.
Lay your weary head to rest, we've got it from here. No more pain, only dreams. Shhhhhhh...
Such a polite burn. I’ll go and rest my weary head now. ☺️
In my experience Gen Xers have allowed Boomers to stay longer. Obviously this isn’t Gen Xers’ fault entirely and I’m not trying to paint with a wide brush here, but from what I have seen growing up Gen Xers have been useful to Boomers in that there are token Xers who have been allowed power as long as they enact the policies that allow Boomers to stay longer.
I am taking about the Hakeem Jeffries of the world, or people like the HR administrator I know who worked to allow retirement to accrue longer so that people wouldn’t feel forced to retire as soon and now finds herself in her 50s without having made it passed HR administration.
I’m not even sure that things could’ve turned out differently if Gen X had tried something, I’m just saying that in my experience “oh well, whatever, never mind” isn’t exactly the whole story.
Billionaires don't want happy people. They want most people dead and only a small servant class for themselves. Hence why no effort was ever made to make anything better for people. In fact, they've worked to the contrary.
Oh God, not RCT. Don't complain too much or the government will drop you in a lake.
You joke but I still remember Mamdani, 11, being quoted asking for Sim City 3000 in a magazine. He most certainly has tried Rollercoaster Tycoon, lol.
Not to rain on everyone's parade, but this is not Mamdani's initiative, though of course he is making the correct choice in continuing it.
Don't misunderstand me, I hate that corrupt piece of shit Adams, but the truth is important anyway.
The last one was spending the majority of his time taking bribes and doing crimes. Funny how no one really talks about how Eric Adams is now legally a citizen of Albania.
Still can't believe he's gotten away scott free, but I guess he did warn that "All my haters become my waiters when I sit down at the table of success"
"All my haters become my waiters when I sit down at the table of success"
I hope they fart in his drinks.
I hope they fart in his drinks.
He's willing to suffer the consequence of success.
"If you’re going to hang out with the boys at night, you’ve got to get up with the men in the morning"
"All my losses are lessons"
Does he ever say anything that doesn't sound like he plagiarized it from a self-stylized "life coach" on instagram?
Probably what all other politicians usually do: Fill their pockets with money and power
Best not ask what Ghouliani was doing, bad for your mental health
“I served you as mayor” Eric Adams tells Israel
Lol, still scheming to acquire that vineyard in the golan heights. There has never been a mayor that has worked so hard for himself as the mayor of New York. I know he's been trying to get citizenship in Israel and Turkey for a while, he just got citizenship in Albania. Seems he took the "mayor of the world" but literally.
Some of my favorite Eric Adams quotes.
"You know the first stop is always Istanbul."
"...when I wake up, it scares me that I'm not scared."
“I don’t care what anyone says, there are ghosts in there, man.”
“Lay hands on our media. Heal them. Put honesty in their hearts.”
“We can talk about erectile dysfunction but not clitoral stimulation – something’s wrong. Something is just wrong.”
"I am the pilot, and you are all passengers. Pray for me to land the plane, cause there’s no parachutes on this plane, we’re all going down together.”
"Imagine how many love affairs would have been great if we did not live within the boundaries of our own intellectual capacities."
"All my haters become my waiters when I sit down at the table of success"
Adams too, it's like a madness rune.
All these threads are hilarious.
Dude gets elected to the job of running the city and actually RUNS the city and everyone's shocked.
Like take a step back and realize that if actually having potholes fixed and garbage collected is 'new' maybe you all need to stop re-electing the same loser assholes year after year.
It's because he's Muslim.
That's it. He's talked about so much because he's a brown person doing good things and that goes against the white American collective hive mind.
It’s because he puts the needs of the workers over the needs of those with so much wealth their entire lineage will never have to work again.
They’ll use him being a Muslim to turn us against him and against each other, but that’s not why he’s opposed by the billionaires who own the media or the billionaires who fund the GOP and establishment Democrats, all of whom teamed up to try to keep him out of power.
When it was Bernie, they tried to divide us by gender and generation. When it’s a Muslim, they try to divide us by religion. When it’s a young white Christian man, they try to divide us by lying about him being a fucking vegan sexist racist.
There’s no war but class war.
One of the other mayors was doing exactly this. Large municipal projects take time. This project, which includes large on-street municipal garbage bins, and new residential garbage cans, was started under Mamdani's predecessor. This is an Eric Adams project that is only reaching the point of installations during Mamdani's tenure.
Mamdani is great and all, but he's not the one solely responsible for every good thing that happens in NY.
This is true and is an example of an inconvenient truth.
But it's also important to note that Mamdani didnt cancel the project because it was the predecessor. That's often all too common in political leadership positions and is why it can be so bloody impossible to get long term benefits/plans to be executed.
Spite, ego, politicking all makes for terrible leadership but it's often what seems to be celebrated. Good on Mamdani for seeing something worth having and not needing to be the author of it just for optics
What were the other mayors even doing?
Taking kickbacks and speed running corruption.
The level of corruption in the Adams administration was laughable. One of them is now indicted because she wanted a cameo on the Hulu series “Godfather of Harlem” in exchange for canceling plans to install bike lanes. Another tried to bribe a reporter in a chip bag filled with cash.
Nothing quite as socialistic as public trash bins
socialism is when the goberment does stuff and the more stuff it does the more socialister it is
What were previous NYC mayors doing?
Making money serving the Epstein class.
Has NYC finally quit it with their stupid idea of just letting trash bags sit on the street? This is something that basically every other city in the world has figured out.
I love how the only arguments people have against them is "they're ugly" and "they'll take away parking spots" as if piles of trash bags look better, and NYC doesn't already have an expansive public transit network with plans to increase bus service.
This has had actually been in the works for a while, it’s not like he just materialized this out of nowhere.
But, it has been constantly getting delayed and put through “trials”. So, it actually getting implemented is good.
The best part is seeing idiots who want any excuse to attack a DSA politician trying to argue that loose trash bags are better than dumpsters. Like, trying to make the concept of dumpsters a culture war issue is hilarious.
Socialist Communist Mamdani is genociding the Rat majority population of New York by wiping out their food supply /s
Embezzlement, mostly
Giving money to billionaires is exchange of almost no benefit to the people of the city
https://www.thecanary.co/global/world-analysis/2025/10/24/mamdani-cuomo-debate/
What were the other mayors even doing?
What 98% of government officials do. Figuratively and/or physically rape us.
Hum... Just to point out but there's nothing socialist about this.
What doesn't mean it's not good. But words have meaning, and this one doesn't mean that.
socialism is when the government does stuff
if the government does a A WHOLE LOT of stuff:
it's communism
Also receptables for useless ex-mayors.
I don't want to fall into the trap of hero worship but yeah, this seems like what mayors should always be doing.
Not a NYC dweller here, but what in the world constitutes a "modern" trash bin? Isn't a bin a bin? Do the bins drive around picking up trash autonomously? Did NYC just not have them at all or something?
Oh, yah, no, they’ve just been putting trash bags on sidewalks instead of dumpsters or trash bins.
not about NY, but in melbourne we have a bunch of solar powered bins that compact the waste when it gets close to full so they can fit about 3x more in it before it needs collection
the city also has a city-wide LoRA network that they use for various sensors, so they could also easily (and cheaply) signal that they need collection
I think i know who these are for
They got rich.
Combine a good, honest socialist mayor with probably the richest city in the US by tax revenue and this is what's happening. Constant improvements and actual policies that are good.
If public anything is socialist, then every nation on Earth has always been and is socialist.
I think that's a little too broad of a definition, but I'm not a political scientist.
p.s. NYC always stank like garbage and urine in summer, nice to see some progress. Maybe weld a urinal onto the new garbage bins?
Unless I'm missing something, this has been in the works since at least 2024. I'm pretty sure I heard about this on a podcast a few months ago, but I'm struggling to dig it up.