Thanks..I just get a little touchy sometimes - I've always been aware that ageism is one of the generally acceptable prejudices, and hated it even when I was in my 20s. ✌️

Not free, of course. At the same time, everyone deserves a safe, decent and clean place to live, and government should ensure that the right to housing is guaranteed.

If that means that the city pays for housing for the poor and indigent, so be it. In fact, the city saves approximately $1000 per person per month by moving people out of shelters and into apartments. Unless you want to abolish the shelter system, everybody wins by putting the formerly homeless into rental units.

Caveat emptor: I am a former homeless person whose rent is paid for by the city. I would like to work, but ageism prevents me from getting a job which pays decently and utilizes my experience and education. By paying for my apartment, I have dignity and privacy, and the city saves $12,000 annually.

I agree with you and the person you're responding to, even if I am an old coot! ✌️ Just because I'm in my 60s doesn't mean I've lost my commitment to others'wellbeing; quite the opposite, actually. I face enough ageism and stereotyping - please remember that not all of us are gray haired greedheads. 🙂

I agree - I was baiting (as opposed to trolling - my intent wasn't to irritate but to point out the emotionalized logical fallacy).

I also resent the pollution and ownership of private cars vs the fact that the US chose cars and oil over what was probably the best train system in the world.

We had effective and reasonably priced mass transit and gave it up so that the Rockefellers and the Fords could make insane profits (and later for Congress to get a cut for decades of preferential legislation).

A personal perspective: I lived outside of Bangkok when they constructed extensive elevated trains and roadways (early 2000s). If you want to see a model of failed projects, take a look at them: unbelievably expensive and corrupt, and not cost-effective either. The problems the projects were meant to address were worsened, and most of the money went down the drain. The only people helped were grifters.

I think you're right, but I have one question - why is it irrational to hate cars? (Whenever I see words like 'irrational' used in the same sentence as 'because' I wonder if something worth discussing is being avoided or denied.)

Perhaps I misunderstood, considering your handle.

My dad was an administrator at Montefiore back in the old, old days, long before administrators got the mega salaries they get nowadays. He was an old-school socialist - started a bunch of free clinics across the Bronx and organized the first hospital at Rikers. He was instrumental in helping 1199 start at Montefiore (late 1950s).

He ended up getting fired because the board wanted to move to the sort of semi for-profit/HMO model in vogue the past few decades.

He would be happy to see this. Indeed, he'd probably have let them use his office to organize on the down low.

I'm a chip off the old block, so --> ❤️

There are. Ehrlich's Reagent works if you can't inspect the mushrooms themselves.

https://www.protestkit.eu/how-to-test-psilocybin-magic-mushrooms/

You may qualify for a highly reduced price. If you receive SNAP or NYCHA, your citibike fee is $5/month.

https://citibikenyc.com/community-programs/reducedfare

Patients are best served by nurses who are not stressed out and overworked. If hospital administrators create conditions which result in exhausted and burnt out nurses, who's really to blame?

The data for reported hate crimes can be found at NYC Open Data.

When you have crunched the numbers, I'm sure we'd all be interested in your findings, and whether they support your claims and innuendoes.

Fingers crossed. It'd be great to see an unscrupulous developer get taken down a peg for once.

Not my experience, but you're probably right.

I only lived in Arlington (ugh) for 18 months. I did have some nice tortas, though. It was ages ago, so unfortunately I don't remember where.

You can expect to be bored. You can expect to be a target for proselytizing. You can expect to spend a lot of time in your car. You can expect the weather to be nasty more or less all year round. You can expect some good Mexican and tex-mex food. You can expect to be surrounded by conservatives. Expect to feel like you're living in a massive strip mall.

If you're working in Dallas, live in Dallas. If you're working in Fort Worth, count your blessings (relatively speaking. Avoid Arlington at any cost.

I don't own a car. Or a bike. You'd have to settle for punching my lights out, I guess. You ok with that? You can even tie me to chair first, if that helps.

:)

Pay my ticket and I'm gone.

I usually buy paper plates at my local supermarket.

The horror stories are either urban legends or signs that somebody was dumb enough to screw with their neighborhood gangsters or the neighborhood boys in blue -- usually the same people. As far as I'm concerned, anybody that dumb has no business living in New York, and would do better to move back to small-town Minnesota.

Because corporate cannabis. Because capital investment. Because capitalism.