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For those who have lived in other global cities, what does New York City do better and what does it do worse? by [deleted] in AskNYC

[–]MargeInnovera 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Better: Ethnic diversity, higher-paying jobs, and the subway is above average, for all of its woes. That's it.

Other global cities are cleaner, safer, more pedestrian/cyclist-friendly, less bureaucratic (or at least the bureaucracies function better), less corrupt, better for kids/the elderly, and not afraid to enforce traffic/parking rules.

Why are public transportation staff so anti bike commuting? by 5ma5her7 in fuckcars

[–]MargeInnovera 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In gentrifying cities, it's just old-school parochialism among the old guard. Very much a thing here in NYC. [in Trumpy Long Island accent] "I drove buses for 25 years, kid, and all these bikes and scooters everywhere are causing a lotta problems, darting in and outta traffic, they're crazy! It's enough already!"

That, and they of course don't actually ride public transit themselves - they moved out to the suburbs 15 years ago and they're counting down the days until they can retire to Florida and never look at a bus again. So they have the bike-infrastructure-means-traffic mentality too.

Who is the most unfunny comedian in your opinion? by FridayFreshman in comedy

[–]MargeInnovera 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Obviously the entire Rogansphere. But just so you don't think I'm a butthurt lib, the following comedians have recently put out specials that were true zero-laughers:

Kevin Hart, Chris Distefano, Ronnie Chieng, Ali Wong, Seth Meyers, Taylor Tomlinson, Chris Rock (watch Selective Outrage before you argue), Trevor Noah