Sure sure sure, but did the government make any profit from doing this?
Business owners whose vehicles now need less repair and maintenance: “This is unacceptable“
“Garmin GPS announces next update to bring back missing potholes by playing bang.mp3 without any user input destination needed…”
But it was the sound of that specific pothole! How else am I gonna know which pothole is which? Please send help, I’ve been lost in traffic for 4 hours!
Suspension and tire shops across NYC are sobbing
There’s a corner gas episode where the small town gets upset after a pothole is filled because it helps reduce the speed of traffic and a speed bump is too fancy
An incredible pull, but hell yea I see you.
it’s been over a decade since I’ve seen any of that show and I can picture a whole bunch of scenes from that episode in my head
not because I actually remember them, just because the characters and plot are that identifiable
good show
The movie blew my fucking mind…
They were a couple a whole time? 🤣🤣
Dude spoilers!
Cops need loving, too.
Fucking socialist, wasting money on things people need.
I know you’re joking, but it is so depressing that this is EXACTLY how so many government officials think and how so many constituents have been brainwashed to think.
and, equally if not more depressingly, governments can make waaay more money by TAXING THE FUCKING RICH!
The typical conservative response to that is “but then they’ll take their businesses elsewhere and now you get nothing.”
The typical conservative response also fails to even consider just how difficult, expensive, and risky it is to move a large business to an entirely new region. Real estate has to be purchased and sold, employees have to be relocated or replaced, logistics have to be established in the new region, valuable business connections and contracts will have to be severed, and for brick and mortar businesses, the competitive landscape will be different.
YUUUUP
Car infrastructure doesn’t need to make a profit don’t you know? Its just public transport that needs be a net gain for the city
Ah, you must be one of those people that needs posts to end in “/s” to get the joke.
Haha I think you might be the person who needs the /s. I was just continuing the sarcasm but making an adjacent sarcastic point
I don’t need the
/sIf this comment is implying an /s then you got me lol
no, you can see it right there at the end:
/s/s
I’m just trying to fit in.
if this about cars, only the most libertarian would question, if we’re talking about trains tho…
Or also did 20 diff pockets get filled as well??
Who’s going to pay the workers to put the pothokes back?
New campaign slogan:
Zohran, he’ll fill all your holes.
I wish those movies were still funny today. They were so great in their time.
They aged terribly
Yeah, agreed on all counts 😕
I’m so glad someone finally had the bravery and moral courage to take on the scourge of…Austin Powers movies. Truly this is the cause of our time.
Can you share examples?
I don’t remotely remember the one i saw.
Well, just off the top of my head, from very old memories, there’s tons of sexual assault. Also lots of making fun of fat people and people with different bodies in general. I’m sure there’s a lot more.
There’s also the fact that half the ‘jokes’ were just a scene going on longer than you’d expect.
I think a lot of the body shaming jokes don’t land not because we are uptight PC wokies, but because when you don’t stigmatise something, it loses its social power. Oh that person has a mole? So what? The boomer humour was ‘oh, it’s bad to have a mole, but you should never say anything about it!’ when you don’t believe either of those statements there is no joke, and the scene goes on for like 5 minutes…
I wonder what will be considered horrible in 5-10 years from now? What awful thing we are doing now that we are unaware of?
I find the first one aged better than the rest. I still laughed out loud after watching it recently. The later movies, not so much.
Good to know. Thanks for the heads up.
Zohran the Hole Destroyer.
You thought Trump’s weird enthusiasm for the guy couldn’t get weirder. Just wait.
Can my city borrow Mamdani for a couple months?
This guy seems like he’s off to a great start.
And who would have thought paying people to provide services would work? I’m shocked!
He’s young enough that, once he’s done in NYC, he could go off and be mayor of several other cities afterward.
I think that’s called a governor
The pot hole that Governor Kathy Hochul filled once she
was elected totook office was finally issuing cannabis stores and farms licenses to grow and sell two years after weed was legalized in New York State, after Cuomo refused to, that corrupt, ass-grabbing jerk.And thank you very much for providing me the incredibly rare opportunity to use that pun. I’ve been sitting on that for so very long.
I had to read this like 4 times before I got it lmao that’s pretty good
I mean, I do legitimately wonder how he did this when other administrations didn’t or couldn’t. Would like an insider perspective. Like, did he just pay tons and tons of OT? Did he order the potholes filled quickly, even if they didn’t meet the normal standard for quality? Did he crack the whip and say “fuck your union rules!” Or were past administrations just this corrupt/lazy/incompetent?
I’m sure his fanboys will say “obviously it’s the last one - he’s not a corrupt capitalist pig”, or something. And I’m open to that explaination. But I’d like, yaknow, some actual statements from people who were actually involved.
EDIT 2: See Aatube’s comment below for the NYT article link. It’s real.
I mean, I do legitimately wonder how he did this when other administrations didn’t or couldn’t.
I suspect the article is overselling it (the comparison, not the raw pothole number), and they don’t source basically anything they’re saying, so it’s hard to definitively call them on that. NYC had a winter that created an abnormal number of potholes, and this article (using an uncited figure) says: “the same number that would usually take New York’s Department of Transport (DOT) a week.” But is that for filling potholes directly after winter? Is it for the rate of potholes per week averaged across the year (which would be a completely invalid comparison)? I guess I could try digging it up, but Novara Media clearly didn’t give enough of a shit when they said it.
I think it’s cool regardless.
Donate one hour’s wage per month—or whatever you can afford—today.
Dunno, Novara; maybe when you decide to learn how hyperlinks work.
EDIT: I tried to follow one breadcrumb to the NYT using this quote from the article: “According to the New York Times, the incident signaled early on that Mamdani was raring to take on “long ignored street improvements – the kind of meat-and-potatoes issue that some previous mayors have struggled to deliver on”.”.
I can’t find that quote, even trying several different verbatim excerpts from the quote (but the full quote should be findable anyway). Thaaaaaaaat’s really fucking questionable. I could be missing something. @return2ozma@lemmy.world, your thoughts?
Since Mayor Mamdani took office, NYC DOT has fixed more than 50,000 potholes, with an average response time of around two days. Additional pothole blitzes are planned for later this spring. NYC DOT will resurface 1,150 miles of roadway this year, ensuring our streets remain safe for all New Yorkers.
Daaaaaamn. That is some actual work being done. And all it took was electing a socialist. Let that be the lesson.
Here’s a press release from the piece of shit who was in office previously, Eric Adams, celebrating the 500,000th filled pothole of his tenure. Mamdani assumed office January 1, so at 82 days, he’s advertising ~610 potholes fixed per day in a winter that’s produced an abnormally high amount of potholes.
Adams’ press released was published January 29, 2025, and he assumed office January 1, 2022, or 1124 days. This means Adams was advertising ~445 potholes filled per day, which is 73% the amount Mamdani advertises here. Once you account for the fact that Adams’ average was across three years rather than just “from the middle of winter to spring” – meaning that on average there were fewer potholes available to fix per day than Mamdani’s timespan – the difference, while not exactly clear, is negligible. Even accounting for the fact that Mamdani just assumed office and may have some inertia, these aren’t even close to earth-shaking numbers.
You can also see that this kind of pothole dick-measuring contest is extremely typical for NYC mayors – and god, fuck Eric Adams. If I wouldn’t slobber Adams for basically these same numbers, I’m not going to slobber Mamdani either.
Edit: Something else I totally forgot to address is response time; per the Adams press release (I’m taking it uncritically, but I’m also taking the Mamdani PR uncritically; sue me):
New pothole complaints to 311 are closed in an average of approximately 1.8 days — more than a full day faster than the de Blasio administration’s average of 3.4 days and more than twice as fast as Bloomberg administration’s average of 4.4 days.
Meanwhile, Mamdani’s press release states:
NYC DOT has fixed more than 50,000 potholes, with an average response time of around two days. [I’ll assume this is response to a 311 complaint.]
And just like before, the difference in the nature of their tenure means I can’t in good faith give Adams the point based on the raw number; obviously the average response time across three years with four seasons each could have fewer hurdles on average than “middle of winter to spring”, where everything’s cold as fuck and frozen and snowing.
I appreciate you sitting through all of this for our benefit :)
I wanna see mamdani be successful but I’m wary of putting politicians up on a pedestal as our saviors and hope, as I’m learning from my elder leftists that thats gone wrong a lot of times before 😅
Still rooting for him though :)
EDIT: See Aatube’s comment below for the NYT article link. It’s real.
Okay, makes sense; from the press release:
“NYC DOT crews stepped up yesterday to fill almost a week’s worth of potholes in a single day,” said NYC DOT Commissioner Flynn. “Now that the streets have thawed from a historic winter, we’ve ramped up our pothole-filling efforts and are beginning to fully repave streets across the five boroughs. This year, we’ll repave more than 1,100 lane miles of streets — the best way to help ensure our streets are safe and smooth for all New Yorkers.”
Left with no other data (I’m not thrilled Novara treated this press release totally uncritically), I’m forced to assume they mean “average potholes per week per year”, which is a completely bullshit metric to compare against that you’d only use as an empty boast. A day with just under 7x the efficiency of an average day of the year isn’t all that exceptional when the day is a spring thaw right after a winter that made an exceptional amount of potholes. Pothole filling is not and will never be even close to evenly distributed.
It’s still very good to be taking care of potholes, but Novara seemingly took a standard press release about fixing potholes and turned it into how Mamdani is revolutionizing NYC.
All that aside: what are your thoughts on the article seemingly fabricating a quote from The New York Times?
It’s right here.
When you’re trying to find a quote, try wrapping the literal quoted text in quotation marks and searching to get exact matches: https://www.google.com/search?q=“long+ignored+street+improvements+–+the+kind+of+meat-and-potatoes+issue+that+some+previous+mayors+have+struggled+to+deliver+on”
Oh, thanks! I did search it in quotes. It just didn’t show up for some reason. I guess Bing just doesn’t like this one for some reason (an example substring I chose):
Super my bad. Amended my comments. Very heavily appreciated. I should’ve tried another search engine to be safe.
I appreciate your thoroughness!
Oh, this is not thorough. But I appreciate your appreciation.
The question is, how many potholes do they usually fill in a day? For all we know they fill 8000 potholes every spring, but just don’t advertise it. That being said, letting the people know what you do for them is important.
1/5 that or so, based on the article
He’s got John Henry on the payroll.
But I’d like, yaknow, some actual statements from people who were actually involved.
He said, asking on Lemmy, where none of those people are likely to exist.
Sure. But a future article or other news source or maybe a former mayor’s aide’s twitter account might have more info, and maybe someone here knows about that
Im just gonna leave this here
Of course.
Actual uplifting news and it’s something Zohran Mamdani did. Sucks that this guy isn’t eligible for the presidency.
Trump won’t be eligible in next election and I’m certain that won’t stop him from trying. Why can’t we do the same?
…because Zohran Mamdani isnt already the president and isnt being supported by the richest men in the world and is actively being worked against.
I mean presidency eligiblity seems to be up in the air these days. Maybe it’s not impossible
Great things happen when the wealthy pay their fair share.
This is exactly why they never want us to see it happen.
They’re gonna pay one way or the other.
We don’t want cake.
We can have revolution AND cake!
By himself? That’s quite a work ethic.
He’s used to filling holes since college days
Immigrant took my jerb which I would never do.
I mean I know he’s a ladies man, but seriously, 8000 in a day? Hats off, Mamdani. Don’t forget the electrolyte drinks.
All it took was one single governor not being a sociopath.
Mind blowing!
This should be in every Mayoral job-orientation handbook.
The problem is, you see; hardly anyone reads books these days.
I have dozens of books (that warn exactly, with instructions) on how to avoid this exact situation.
I have like 30 books that I think “Hmm, that looks interesting”.
But then I’d feel guilty for doing nothing with that time.
Reading is doing something.
Time better spent rotting your brain on the internet with the rest of us.
The important thing about having books is the option to read them.
deleted by creator
There’s a flip side. My country has roadworks everywhere right before election time lmao
deleted by creator
Makes you wonder what Eric Adams was doing all day
No it doesn’t. He was lining his fucking pockets.
Fraud. At a break-neck pace.
A day should be enough to travel from NYC to Washington DC, via Istanbul.
Crazy what not settling for less when it comes to public office will do for you for once.
This is good but cis people still need to push him to keep his promise on protecting trans people that he made during the campaign and stand up to Mount Sinai and Langone.
https://bsky.app/profile/erininthemorning.com/post/3mhtvnnr4222c
What the fuck is a cis people, we are you so obsessed with people’s sexuality, isn’t people good enough? Why does a certain sexuality have to do that, why can’t anyone?
“Cis” is not a sexuality. The only person going on about sexuality is youuuuuu.
Cis people are people whose gender identity matches their sex assigned at birth. It’s basically anyone that isn’t transgender, nonbinary, or intersex.
It matters in this contect because while transgender people can advocate for their own rights, they don’t have the leverage needed to succeed unless cisgender (cis) people help.
You’re a cis people dumbass
Red flag!
You seem confused.
A cis person is the oppossite of a trans person.
It’s important to remember there is no default or baseline for defining a human person. With race, if someone just says “person” without specifying race/color, does that imply “white” (or whatever other default) to you? And if I just say “people”, does that mean straight people only and not gay people?
How about gender? Are “people” just the men, or just the women? Cis/trans is the same. There is no default here, just a bunch of people with different backgrounds trying to do their best.
Also, if it just so happens you’re one of the folks who considers “cis” a slur, I’d ask if you feel the same about the most accurate terms for your gender, race/ethnicity, etc.
Turns out you can improve both public transit and driving! It was sort of being implied by haters that driving was going to get way worse under him IIRC.
Can he please fill the pot hole in my heart next?
