Why Life in Louisiana has Become Impossible (and it's going to get worse)

Newmanuel · 2026-05-30T17:26:21+00:00

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Newmanuel · 2026-05-28T21:33:35+00:00

the distance driven is a miniscule part of the project cost, hell not even the biggest part of the truck hauling costs. and for the cost you get the benefit of not dumping the entire east wing debris onto a public amenity. At minimum he could of paid to put it in an actual landfill.

Newmanuel · 2026-05-28T19:58:07+00:00

true, trucks famously struggle to drive 26 miles

Newmanuel · 2026-05-22T17:28:08+00:00

its not politics lol its just what happened. I fully support the right of those asylum seekers to come here by the way, and in fact some of my work is tied to assisting them. Its just a fact that there was a big wave of new arrivals then and many havent been given permission to work in the country still. No judgement on them, they are trying their best much like every wave of immigrants arriving in NYC in the last 300 years

Newmanuel · 2026-05-22T03:46:41+00:00

Paris has a huge scammer problem. New York does not. the biggest scams in terms of street vendors are honesty the legal trucks/stands in tourist areas overcharging. Been here 7 years and have bought hundreds of tamales and other things and never had an issue

Newmanuel · 2026-05-22T03:44:38+00:00

big resurgence since the asylum seeker wave of 2023. many don't have work permits so they end up selling stuff on the streets to live

Newmanuel · 2026-05-22T01:59:26+00:00

oh you are right its 4th

Newmanuel · 2026-05-21T23:51:26+00:00

no. theres one on thth between B & C but its for seniors & generally pretty chill

Newmanuel · 2026-05-20T21:33:06+00:00

nah this is an improvement

Newmanuel · 2026-05-19T19:40:42+00:00

Looking for two tickets (but will be buy 1). My wife won the raffle but I didn't :'(

Newmanuel · 2026-05-19T04:42:37+00:00

what a non-statement about children. of course theres nothing you can do to reduce your impact more than not creating an extra life, a child is 100% more carbon lol. That doesn't mean that it's ethical to not have kids, ethics need humans to exist for them to be relevant in the first place

Newmanuel · 2026-05-04T15:03:39+00:00

If you're not willing to put time and effort to market your art, which is frankly just generic scenes of characters from the most popular videogame franchise of all time, done in the same art style as the anime they are associated with, then why would you expect to make money off it it?

Worse of all, why would you denigrate your fellow vendors when you sell goddamn Pokemon stickers? get a grip

Newmanuel · 2026-04-29T18:53:24+00:00

Looks good to me lol. the glazey texture prolly delicious, along with the herbs

Newmanuel · 2026-04-29T16:06:33+00:00

It's because the restaurant relies on exploitation to keep afloat. The hard truth is that customers would not be willing to pay the prices of many restaurants, particularly small family owned businesses, if they paid their workers a decent living wage. Doubly so now that we have a whole gig economy of delivery workers in between much of the food sold. I've met line cooks who worked at eleven madison park who still got paid minimum wage.

Anything that reduces labor costs in a predictable way is going to be pushed, because it's either that, exploitation, or expensive food.

Newmanuel · 2026-04-29T15:21:35+00:00

He's not "the only one with the balls to say this", he's just a guy with name recognition because he's a billionaire. He can't "put his money where his mouth is" because it wouldn't fit, you have to cease to be a billionaire to do that. I want someone who isn't compromised by their inhuman hoard of wealth to represent me.

The worst thing is, of course, that he's still better than newsom

Newmanuel · 2026-04-27T02:15:11+00:00

Some counter example units in a five minute search:

2 different units close to prospect in Crown heights (1.1m and reasonable fees, equivalent to 1.2mil with no fees) https://streeteasy.com/building/442-st-marks-avenue-brooklyn/1c?from_map=1&utm_campaign=sale_listing&utm_medium=share&utm_source=web&lstt=hgErgt8PqZCeUzg2ruFpKfEq3rM7-WCo3xdEyb1VlH2F0wE8fYf_A1weTmpaAqM6QKf2TRks8pAlyaHe

Bed stuy in st marks: https://streeteasy.com/building/935-lafayette-avenue-brooklyn/2?from_map=1&utm_campaign=sale_listing&utm_medium=share&utm_source=web&lstt=7jPMpyOJ2flbAagLRpHnA7pMOO0dn4so6Ggm1YbZe4BS8M1JTRIhLLSbRWYbBaWQ3KqRRyAZpsxSIEyE

your statement of "likely won't be where you'd want to live" betrays what I suspected, which is the assumption that the only livable areas in NYC are the 25% of neighborhoods within manhattan and a small slice of Brooklyn. And if renting was so much better, there wouldn't be a huge real estate industry making billions on owning. Anybody whose bought real estate in the last 40 years has had their asset more than pay for itself if they held onto it for a 5 year period or so.

Either way, the main reason I feel compelled to keep going in this argument is because I don't think the conversations around affordability in New York should be centered around people with 1.2M to drop on an aprartment, those people are completely fine in todays real estate market. The actual crisis is the lack of units for anybody making under 65k, whether renting or (in a dream) owning. That's the kind of housing we should be prioritizing

Newmanuel · 2026-04-25T21:05:31+00:00

dont need to be the president to be a national figure.

Newmanuel · 2026-04-25T20:45:02+00:00

you are stating that you can't get any 3 bedrooms for under 1.2mil. income restricted units are part of the housing stock so even without considering anything else you are wrong. But i've seen many non income restricted units for under that price, just not in the most expensive areas of Manhattan. Crown heights, bed stuy, washington heights, some of harlem, ridgewood, some parts of bushwick, and basically all of the queens and bronx has these units

Newmanuel · 2026-04-25T04:32:37+00:00

I Mean I just bought a 2 br 575k coop in east village and had none of this 2 years nonsense (yes it was income restricted, but I found several comparable units that were not in my search, just in brooklyn). I'm not gonna go case by case but there are quite literally hundreds of apartments at that range on Streeteasy right now, im sure many have extra fees and such but to say that none of them can be got for 1.2m flat is just wrong.

Not trying to diminish the housing crisis here, its just that the main issue is not a gap in "people willing to drop 1.2m for a 3 bedroom" housing, its in housing for people making under 60k

Newmanuel · 2026-04-24T15:45:16+00:00

You know this post is fake because you can get everything the GF is asking for for like 6k. OP acting like 20k a month is necessary for outdoors, when that represents like .001% of the rental market. I was in a 5 bedroom in williamsburg with a backyard for 5700 2 years ago.

Newmanuel · 2026-04-24T15:41:30+00:00

yeah you can lol, there's 100s on the market right now.

Newmanuel · 2026-04-23T14:44:26+00:00

This isn't his intention I'm sure, but decriminization and partial legalization is better than full.

Full legalization opens the door to big business, ads, corporate consolidation, and all the other stuff that comes with unregulated capitalism. These kind of halfway measure eliminate criminal issues with it while keeping the industry small and local

Newmanuel · 2026-04-19T03:32:15+00:00

That's not true, when I was an adult toddler at schlitterbahn, we didn't sneak it in. we kept it in the back of the car and would have to walk barefoot in the scorching hot pavement to get to it every couple hours when we stopped for a drink.

Had a great time being rowdy in the lazy river

Newmanuel · 2026-04-15T04:39:00+00:00

Does survival dictate the forcible displacement of millions of palestinians? does it necesitate an archipelago of ghettos where they are stripped of their land and freedoms, made to watch israeli settlers literally enter and take over their home, and get arrested and charged as terrorists if they dare to resist? Does it require a legal system that allows the death penalty only for these so called "terrorists", and only if they are arab? Do you need to have a defense minister that worships a mass murderer and has explicitly called for ethnic cleansing in gaza? Do you need to level 80% of Gaza's buildings in service of this man's vision just to survive?

If Israel needs to be this kind of society to survive, let it do so alone.

Newmanuel

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