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Varun
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@markfrancisio @jasonc_nc It appears they think anyone who owns a business is filthy reach and abuses their customers. Maybe too many Marxist classes in college? 🤔
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Yes, after each coffee shop reaches its one year anniversary we all gather and help the owner pick out their yacht.
Nothing like that first store yacht, the fifth one just doesn’t hit the same.
Jason, Coffee Shop Oligarch@jasonc_nc
I just can’t sometimes.
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@_manuvers @3lfares He said that after this war Ukraine should be as armed as Israel was to prevent the next Russian invasion. People heard “Ukraine should be like Israel” and stopped thinking
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Stay ahead of the lanternfly hatching.
They are about to burst this year, from now through the next few weeks.
If you are in NYC, check a local Tree of Heaven, although these pests can live anywhere.
NYC has trees in the city tagged.
Instead of doing Pokemon Go and hunting mythical beasts, how about using city, state, and federal data sources to track and identify the lanternfly problem right now?
You can make a data science project out of this. Any takers?
These egg masses can be destroyed by simply using rubbing alcohol and scraping them off the trees.
Make a game out of it. Use the NYC tree map to learn more about the types of trees in NYC. Tag and remove lanternfly pests.
tree-map.nycgovparks.org/tree-map/speci…
Ryan Hall, Y’all@ryanhallyall
The nicest weather in the USA today will occur around New York, NY.
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@KitchenRecipes_ That’s for someone who doesn’t pay the water or sewer bill 🤦🏾♂️
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In Sarajevo, Serbian snipers killed about 225 people over four years in "Sniper Alley."
Fascist Russia's "Human Safari" in Kherson has achieved a similar number of targeted civilian deaths (200+) in roughly half the time.
And drones are not limited by line-of-sight: they can "hunt" around corners and into courtyards, so the danger zone is the entire city, not just a single boulevard.
There's not been much outcry from the civilized world, however. Follow @ZarinaZabrisky and @CaolanReports for first-hand reporting of this ongoing atrocity.
UNITED24 Media@United24media
🔴 Russian forces are targeting civilians in Ukraine's Nikopol with FPV drones.
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@jaysburningroom Isn’t heightened contradictions their whole thing? They might cream their pants seeing this
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@YIMBYLAND If you liked it with a flour tortilla, try getting Roti/chapatti instead of naan next time
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Pet Owners: It’s time that we make pet food a little bit cheaper.
This week, I introduced new legislation to get rid of the sales tax every time you buy pet food.
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@thegauguy The Ukrainians are asking for twitter users to donate used pickup trucks. I think the M113 may be more survivable than an old Nissan 🤷🏾♂️
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Can someone tell the Ukrainians that armoured combat vehicles are a thing from the past as we have drones? Yes? No?
SPARTANAT@spartan_at
In der Ukraine hat sich der M113 so bewährt, dass die Ukraine mit der Entwicklung eines eigenen, moderneren Modells begonnen hat. spartanat.com/de/the-ukraini…
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@Bates_MotelMT @gben78 Nah they’ll be fine unless the international teams come to play against the @PhilaUnion
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“Meanwhile in Philly” as they say
$2.90 total round trip during World Cup games.
swamp hag ✨☕️🌸🍓🍰@potatoslav
i am sick of hearing from europeans about the world cup THIS IS MY FINAL WARNING
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Track Ukraine by @DylanBurns1776 tracks politicians who support, take money, or legitimize in any way Russia, Russian war of agression, or genocide against Ukrainians, spreading awareness of horrendous enemies of human rights amongst both Right and Left, while in the samy way underlining and supporting those honest and principled.
Track Ukraine@TrackUkraine
Who we are🌻
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@Slimavyu @KennyBurgosNY If the former tenant had thrown it out, sure. As a landlord renovating it, it probably becomes “construction waste” that cannot be dumped into the regular trash system without incurring penalties if I had to guess
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@KennyBurgosNY It’s trash, all of it goes to the garbage, why would that be more than a days job. The plumbing/electrical upgrades varies, it doesn’t have to be a new panel or new drain pipes.
Show me the bill for 400k on a single unit because literally to build a brand new condo is 320k avg.
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These are so frustrating to receive.
A building owner sent me this video of a 2BR Upper West Side apartment he just got back, but after he empties it out it will stay vacant going forward.
The tenant lived here since 1985 and the current legal rent is $940.01
Because of the 2019 HSTPA law, a building owner is expected to fully renovate this unit to current building code (that’s a good thing), but also expected to lose money in perpetuity at the same time.
This 2BD would need well over $100,000 to clean out the debris, comply with lead laws, upgrade major systems, remove the Sheetrock + much more just to make this into an apartment a tenant would actually want to live in with dignity.
But the law says the $940 rent would still end up below the estimated $1300/mo it costs to operate the apt which covers insurance, property taxes, labor, fuel, and capital expenditures for the building.
So if the new rent falls below the operating cost, the owner would still lose money every month and never see $1 back from the $100k+ renovation.
Why would the state expect anyone to lose money like this? What bank would ever provide a loan with no path to repayment? Why do we acknowledge the cost to build housing but ignore what it takes to preserve older housing?
Why do we accept this policy when thousands of New Yorkers are searching for housing in the midst of the worst supply crunch we’ve ever seen?
So frustrating.
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Ken Griffin donated $400 million to Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. His name is on this building. Mamdani should be buttering these guys up to give more.
Jamie Weinstein@Jamie_Weinstein
How does Ken Griffin owning a $238 million condo in NYC he only visits occasionally harm New Yorkers exactly? He pays an extraordinary high property tax to the city for services he barely uses. Why ridicule him for this? x.com/NYCMayor/statu…
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@Thrivin096 Bodegas in nyc. Corner stores or papi stores in philly.
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What Philadelphian is his speech writer. 👀
Aaron Rupar@atrupar
Trump: "Millions of American small businesses, including corner stores. What is a corner store? I've never heard that term. I know what a corner store is but I've never heard it described-- a corner store. Who the hell wrote that?"
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❗️Russian "Shaheds" are equipped with American components, which almost immediately after leaving the assembly line in the US end up in Russian factories, - said the Commissioner for Sanctions Policy Vladislav Vlasyuk during a visit to the United States.
Vlasyuk provided the Americans with evidence that the path of Western components to the Russian Federation has been shortened as much as possible.
It is obvious that without these components, the production of drones in Russia would be impossible.
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@JohnMatter9 @Maks_NAFO_FELLA Need to give them the tools to destroy Alabuga entirely.
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@Maks_NAFO_FELLA That's ca problem, we need to give UA 3 times that
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❗️ Russia plans to produce over 7 million FPV drones in 2026 — that’s 3 million drones more than last year, — Ministry of Defense of Ukraine.
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@OPlz @VitalistInt Setbacks- the shop should be within a few feet of the sidewalk, and the parking should be around back.
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@VitalistInt Make what illegal? A shopping center? Who would want to live above those shops? America is spread out, we have land to build real housing on without having to build it on top of noisy commercial properties.
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they need to make THIS illegal
Mark R. Brown, AICP, CNU@CompletedStreet
Still illegal in 98% of U.S. residential neighborhoods.
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@Jeff21461 @Crypto_Stash This is a mistake imo. Still takes way too many drones to kill a Russian turtle tank for example.
Ukraine should be developing low-cost alternatives to the SMART/BONUS/Krasnopol and utilizing tube artillery in conjunction with observation UAS
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@Crypto_Stash That is definitely why Ukraine has stopped producing them and stopped asking the West for ammunition.
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🇬🇧🇺🇦 The UK will also provide Ukraine with several hundred thousand artillery shells this year.
Jeff2146🇧🇪@Jeff21461
🇬🇧🇺🇦 The UK has pledged to transfer 120.000 Drones to Ukraine by the end of the year. These will include thousands of long-range strike drones, intelligence and reconnaissance drones, logistics drones and maritime capabilities. gov.uk/government/new…
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Dallas is the only city in the world that would tear down something built I. M. Pei, the same guy that built **checks notes**, the fucking Louvre pyramid. The Mavs can pick any empty parking lot around Downtown or Uptown to build their stadium
The Architect's Newspaper@archpaper
The Dallas Mavericks are expected to submit a proposal soon that entails demolishing Dallas City Hall, designed by I. M. Pei, and in its place building a new 50-acre entertainment district, anchored by a new NBA arena. ow.ly/lFGm50YJ3YI
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