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Unable-Ad3852 t1_j9aa8id wrote

Didn't they make it almost impossible to recycle eWaste properly in the city? The nearest "station" from me that takes batteries is a best buy in Sunnyside and I'm in Ridgewood. Good luck convincing people to take a 2 hour bus ride just to get rid of their batteries. Why not do a similar program like the cans and bottles? Have collection machines and pay some small change for people to recycle. We're paying the recycling taxes anyways for these.

> Fire Commissioner Laura Kavanagh last Friday wrote to the federal Consumer Product Safety Commission, asking it to regulate lithium-ion batteries, including stopping uncertified batteries from entering the country and calling on manufacturers to make sure e-mobility devices only work with approved batteries.

This message brought to you by Apple. Vendor lock in is a piss on the right to repair bill that we just recently passed.

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Unable-Ad3852 t1_j1taju2 wrote

This is one of those ideas where some cousin of some member of the administration has a solution in search of a problem. Like how there's only one company in NY that can produce the city legal sprinkler pipes which makes everything building wise exorbitantly more expensive. I imagine we either end up with one approved vendor for AI services to tackle hiring and it will suck like hell or some useless consulting firm that rubber stamps projects.

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Unable-Ad3852 t1_ix213ct wrote

It's on the driver side encased in the bottom side of the windshield to make it hard to cover. Meter maids press a button and scan the thing when they prefill the tickets. At a minimum it pulls car info like temp registration (dealer license) & insurance. If neither cone up, car shouldn't be in the streets by law.

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Unable-Ad3852 t1_it8lhxf wrote

> If I read this right, it just means income alone is not used to determine need..

Either way this is wrong and that's the problem. I don't have millions to retire and wouldn't be this but hurt if i did. The way in which this is phrased is like any other handout NY does. We have enough to serve 10000 people and we go by income in ascending order. By changing the rules someone with more income can jump in line to someone with less if they declare LGBTQ+. It doesn't specify what rules they apply now nor how much more income is the cutoff. They just let you know that because some poor people are LGBTQ+ they will discriminate against anyone who isn't and we should be ok with it because of equity.

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