π¨ NYC TRASH NEWS π¨
π¨ NYC TRASH NEWS π¨
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Ah, access-only trash removal! This will certainly help improve the overall trash situation.
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Oh, now I get it. The bins aren't there to be useful or sanitary. They're to stop homeless people from going through trash.
America has weaponized basic public services
- In bad country you are not allowed to throw out your own garbage
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Plus, a bunch of electronics and moving parts that will, at some point, go wrong, right in the middle of a trade war that might make it prohibitively expensive to import electronic components, while City revenues and budget keeps getting cut (except for the NYPD).
I'm sure this won't lead to the bins being permanently closed, later becoming white elephants and trash going back on the streets. What's so hard about adding a lever or a handle to open the bin, like any other civilized city in the world?
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wifi outage will render the entire city unable to access trash cans lmaooooo
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If they're hooking it up to wifi that's even worse. More likely it's just simple NFC, i.e. not reliant on a network.
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Are....are you serious?
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NYC just invented trash cans. This is groundbreaking
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it's not real innovation unless you unlock them with a QR code from an app
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That you can only access with a monthly subscription
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it's amazing how even here, in the heart of darkness, we can just ... not use the other building's trash can? unless it's a very small item. but then, we have quite a lot of public trash cans.
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Don't be ridiculous, they're using key cards! (not a joke)
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I want to welcome NYC to the 20th century!
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greatest city in da world baybee
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The one time I was in NYC the sidewalks were just filled with giant piles of trash. I couldn't figure out why I thought maybe there was a garbage strike or something but no everyone said that's how it always is.
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Greatest city in da world baby! Big Apple #1!
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Yeah I went there like 15 years ago during a heat wave and the main thing I remember is just how incredibly disgusting the whole city smelled
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I did get to see the jihad pit though so i guess it was ok
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If you don't like the smell of piss, shit, and trash, then stay the fukoutta NYC BAYBEE
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It is our culture and I ask you kindly not to judge us for it
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there are certain streets that are more trash riddled than others and you can tell by the entire families of rats that scurry around at night
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What's going on here? You mean NYC didn't have trash cans before this? Where did people throw all their garbage? Someone please explain
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Just tossed the garbage bags onto the sidewalks. How else do you think New York rats managed to get so big?
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The blocks of buildings in 1800's Manhattan were designed with the idea that a shared courtyard or laneway between two buildings would serve as everyone's outhouse and garbage burning space. As space became a premium these spaces shrunk but nobody developed a solution for the garbage the way they did outhouses so they just started piling it on the sidewalks and expecting someone else to deal with it
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Amazing. An entire city dedicated to dumping shit on the ground and wondering why they have rats
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hahaha ...
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The city's first trash containerization pilot
Yeah that's bins mate.
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Why the fuck couldn't regular trash cans and dumpsters work
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because then anyone could put garbage in the receptacle.
that's nowhere near as efficient as just tossing it in the street.
NYC has been paying to have it's garbage hauled as far away as Virginia to go into landfills.
personally, I think NYC should have all garbage services halted for a year so they can understand exactly what it is they "create", culturallyand materially speaking.
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because then anyone could put garbage in the receptacle.
This is when you're so capitalism brained that you're willing to shoot yourself in the foot. So much unnecessary complexity, so many ways for things to break, all just to keep a random pedestrian from throwing a sandwich wrapper in a random bin. So concerned about someone getting a service they 'don't deserve' for free that they would rather live in filth than just eat the minor cost and live in a sanitary city.
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NYC has been paying to have it's garbage hauled as far away as Virginia to go into landfills.
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These are iDumpsters with built in AI functionality and cameras with facial recognition.
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You joke but we noticed a while ago that the dumpsters at my work have cameras in them now. When I asked why the fuck they needed that, I was told it got the garbage collection company a discount on insurance.
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But Empire Bins have what trash craves! It's got javascript!
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Regular bins and dumpsters are not efficient for handling the amount of garbage in such a densely populated area. With larger underground dumpsters like these, the bin men won't have to roll a load bins and dumpsters to the dump truck and empty them, instead they can either empty the single dumpster with a giant vacuum hose or with a crane that lifts up the entire dumpster.
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You mean NYC didn't have those yet, or west Harlem didnt have them?
Can't believe fucking Buenos Aires is ahead of you
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Yeah NYC just rolled out garbage bins like a year ago and pretended like it's some new invention.
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I've never been close to NYC but I believe the standard procedure was to just throw trash bags on the curb which have a high propensity for breaking open and being easy pickings for the rats.
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They had trashcans, but they switched to plastic bags during a sanitation worker strike in 1969 b/c the chemicals industry donated them.
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Yeah but those bags have to be manually loaded into the trucks, it's crazy for such city to still have that horrid system
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I'm an American who has been to Buenos Aires and it's a genuine paradise compared to literally everywhere in the USA. Or maybe I was just too tourist brained, but Buenos Aires is gorgeous
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I also went to Buenos Aires. I had my face rebuilt there!
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They don't call it Malos Aires.
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Eh, sure it does have a lot of very nice places, beyond the hypergentrified ones I mean, but "gorgeous" eeh idk,
The pizza and icecreams are the best of the best tho.
I had a better time living in CΓ³rdoba despite being probably worse in every metric imaginable, but having the sierras just one bus-hour away is unbeatable.
In the gorgeousmeter I would place Mendoza and Salta on top. I'm not considering Bariloche, Ushuaia nor any other patagonian town cuz it's a silly comparison, Ushuaia is ridiculous.
Mar del Plata is nice too
In any case, Buenos Aires should be judged as the big whole the metropolitan area it is, and then the astronomic scale makes it umcomparable to any other city I have lived in. It could be way better, just like any city/metropolitan area.
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- CyberTrucks?
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naw, those look better than cybertrucks
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UPDATE ON THE WAR ON RATS
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They're plastic dumpsters...
Wonder whose kid got the contract.
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Vincent Price's son, Fisher.
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cybertrucks looked too much like dumpsters so we changed the dumpsters
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New York City is the greatest city in the world. It's the only place that has empire bins and bodegas!
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Empire bins and
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Too busy cornering the market in bodega technology to have a proper trash can
- We must start a limited scale pilot program using a public-private partnership to determine ze effectiveness of ze trash can
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We're gonna need a bigger empire bin.
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"Empire Bins"
are we the baddies?
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