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  • NYC is one of the greenest cities on earth. Its entire public transit system is electric. traffic in Manhattan is limited and regulated. It’s almost entirely livery traffic now, primarily electric.

    Whales and dolphins are regularly spotted in the Hudson River now.

    The air quality index in New York right now is 32 (midday, it jumps into the 40s at night), which is the same as it is today in Denver.

    London has an AQI of 2

    Moscow? They just stopped measuring it, thanks to the Ukraine drone attacks.




  • No, it’s not, and I’ll tell you why (I was thinking about this last night when I was drunk and posted that comment):

    “Attorneys” can be separated from “Attorneys General” without changing their nature, but “Spider” cannot be separated from “Spider-Man” without fundamentally changing its nature. So, the pluralization of “Spider-Man” must be “Spider-Mans”, as awkward as that must sound. “Attorneys-General” is just a plurality of attorneys appointed to a specific position. It’s all quite abstract, really.

    Attorneys are attorneys whether they are attorneys general, plural, or singular, General or otherwise. Being an attorney, general, or being plural attorneys, none of this changes whether or not they are fundamentally attorneys. The term “attorney“ is the key factor here. If we were discussing the term or title “Attorney-Cat”, we’d be back to the Spider-Man concept, especially if there were more than one of them, “Attorney-Cats”, if you will. “Attorneys-Cat”, I think you’ll agree, just isn’t right, because the fundamental nature of them being cats supersedes the happenstance of them also being attorneys.

    In English, when pluralizing something, the pluralization follows the totality of what is being pluralized, not the term itself. English is a fucked up and messy language, cobbled together from at least 10 or 12 other languages (likely more), so, I don’t make the rules. I just do my best to interpret them.


  • I saw a recent video of an interview with the Trump voter that said they regretted voting for Donald Trump because “ICE wasn’t hurting the right people“

    These people who voted for Trump are fucking sociopaths, just like Trump. they have nothing but hate in their hearts, and they voted for Trump because they wanted to hurt others. they voted for Trump because they believed he would be the agent of pain and destruction for fellow Americans that they did not like. people like you and me.

    It’s like that video of the old man crying on the news weeping because his Haitian wife got dragged off to the concentration camps, with him crying “but I’m a business owner! I voted for Trump three times! Why did he come after my wife?“ Why did you think you were special, asshole?

    THAT’S HOW FASCISM WORKS!!!





  • Yeah, well, let me know when the Canadians are gonna come over the seventh hill…

    (((MUCH DOUBT)))

    Screaming “I’m sorry“ and gifting us all giant jugs of maple syrup

    Oh, unless I forget, please burn down the atrocity that Trump has made of the White House. Seriously, you’ll be doing this all the fucking favor.

    No, the Canadians are gonna keep to themselves with their resources and universal healthcare. Then they’re gonna watch us collapse from afar.

    We had our chance to revolt, but we decided to watch Netflix and Hulu instead. The greatest explosion of potential that collapsed into the depths of everyone’s disappointment. No, I realized than by ourselves. Of course, that’s why heroin is now very legal here and freely distributed by the government.

    Hey Siri, what a shame that we collectively decided that we were “above” that. We could’ve fun and gotten our country back but no no no we were “above” all of the precise level of violence who was required to reclaim our freedom. No, no no, we’re too good for that now. Better off to be slaves than to engage in a violence!.





  • You dumb Cunt

    And to think, I helped get this guy elected to the Senate for his first term. I campaigned for this asshole. I canvassed. I had a lanyard. I had a clipboard. I knocked on doors. I convinced others to vote for him.

    I met him and shook his hand. and this motherfucker lied right to my goddamn face.

    I feel fucking dirty, and I feel disgusting for spreading that filth to others

    Edit: the Hakeem Jeffries wasn’t in front of the Javiz Center at the BLM protest… But I was and I can bring that fight to the next election… And the next. Didn’t bet on that did you, Hakeem? Well, fuck you. And fuck that horse of entitlement you rode in on.

    You know what else survived the NYPD crackdown at the Javits center? This watch (cracks courtesy of the NYPD):

    And this watch says your time has run out.





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    One of my favorite scenes in Spider-Man No Way home was the three Spider-Mans (the correct pluralization because ‘Spider-Man’ is a title, not an object) talking about how Tobey Maguire’s Spider-Man’s web-goo shoots out of him, while Andrew Garfield and Tom Holland are totally grossed out by that while trying to be like, “oh, no man… that’s totally cool we’re just ‘interested’” trying to be supportive in a heartfelt way.

    And how Andrew Garfield was kind of interested in a creepy way, and Tom Holland was more depressed because he has to hustle himself out to a rich techno daddy to afford to keep making his.

    Edit: I was really thinking about this, because Tom Holland’s aunt May was probably in a rent stabilized apartment, I bet they were on SNAP, and I was wondering if his SNAP benefits would pay for his webgoo materials. That kid had serious financial issues.

    (Edit 2: And, no, I’m not hating on people who are on public benefits. A gigantic amount of people in NYC are. I certainly was almost the entire 25 years I lived there. Public benefits IN NYC are amazing! You can hardly afford to live there if you don’t receive them. Rental assistance, food assistance, free healthcare! Public assistance benefits in NYC are AWESOME!)

    but, still… NYC can be a very weird and very rough place… still, there’s nowhere on earth I’d rather live