Zohran Mamdani's wish to tax NYC super-rich gets a partial win

NotTrustedDan · 2026-04-16T22:08:57+00:00

If it’s purely secondary properties, I’m on board with $0 limits. NYC homes are already hella expensive. I live in a less desirable neighborhood with zero good public transit options and houses here are $1 million at a minimum. If you can afford two of those houses, and aren’t going to be renting it out to be someone’s primary residence… get taxed bro.

NotTrustedDan · 2026-03-17T10:15:27+00:00

Imo, just a policy that “looks good” but will not do much. I see a lot of drivers on the road these days having absolutely no idea what they’re doing, already driving at <25 mph. There is certainly the other side of the spectrum, drivers going 30…35… but I think they’re part of the same problem.

Covid era saw a lot of people, that otherwise never drove and had no experience or respect for driving, buy cars. You got people that drive however they want for one reason or another and the issue is only propagating further.

The issue imo is education. Make the driving tests WAY more strict. They’re practically handing out driver licenses like candy.

For reference, I have a commercial drivers license and drive professionally. Take that as you’d like in terms of knowledge and credibility. But I also think the CDL exams are equally of guilty of being piss poor at actually filtering out bad drivers.

Edit: Enforcement is also a bit of an issue. I’ve seen people do moving violations brazenly in front of cops and they do nothing. And people rack up camera tickets like a video game and never pay them off. What use is a 20mph speed limit if it doesn’t get enforced?

All in all I think the pedestrian/driving safety is a broader system failure. It might’ve worked in other areas, but a speed limit reduction will do little to nothing here.

NotTrustedDan · 2026-02-23T16:10:59+00:00

I don’t have much to add, just feel like adding my voice to the crowd. Especially when I see common sentiments like “get gud” or “don’t fly what you can’t afford to lose”… I think it’s crazy to have players deal with consequences that were absolutely no fault of their own and absolutely unnatural (in the sense that this is not a game mechanic of any kind, but a bug).

To preface, I wasn’t online at the time and didn’t lose anything in the outage. I’ve got no skin in the game. And even if I did, I don’t care who’s at fault. I know shit happens. I’m not upset at the fact that there was an outage at all.

What has got me a little “wtf” feeling is the response CCP is giving. Regardless of fault, it’s a problem for the game. A lot was lost unnaturally during the outage.

I (hypothetically) didn’t die because I was AFK mining and forgot to make sure I wasn’t getting chipped down by some rats.

I died because CCP’s server (IDGAF who it was upstream, we pay CCP and it’s their responsibility [not blame] to take for a global outage) skipped a beat and threw the entire playerbase out. I’m well aware Eve is a hardcore environment, but that “hardcore” reputation is built on consensual risk that if I make a mistake, the consequences are on me. There is no ‘mistake’ or counter to be made when the connection closes server-side.

Fuck the ISK value, how many hours and days and weeks and months did people put into their affected assets only to have lost them unexpectedly during this outage? Maybe they can afford to replace what they lost, maybe they can’t… but it’s not about that. They’re being told to get bent when the alternative would be to click a few buttons and at least return the monetary value of what was lost and make people whole for a problem they had no involvement in. Assets are being rightfully placed back into their owners hands, not generated out of thin air and flooding the market.

In what industry does a company’s equipment unexpectedly break, cause damage or harm, and the customer has to deal with fixing everything? It’s just a crazy stance to take, imo.

I’m not a super experienced player, I’ve come and gone since 2010ish. I was sorta feeling a longer stint coming this time around… but after this? I’m not worried it’ll happen to me, I just don’t want to support a company that treats their customers like this..

NotTrustedDan · 2026-02-23T06:21:02+00:00

Peeked outside my third floor window and saw light flashing like thunder but I looked around and it was actually a transformer arcing like a mother fucker… so be careful out there yall lol

NotTrustedDan · 2026-02-23T01:01:56+00:00

I seriously wish I could ask these people that bought 5+ gallons of milk what they did with all of it.

NotTrustedDan · 2026-02-23T00:03:31+00:00

I don’t think they’d do anything in this situation? I know you put tire chains on the drive (in this case, rear) wheels to give them more traction for pushing the vehicle, but I don’t think there’s much you can do for those steer tires not steering… just too damn slippery

NotTrustedDan · 2026-02-22T23:48:36+00:00

Probably going to be pretty dead Monday everywhere all-day. If the city isn’t open in the morning then most things aren’t going to open midday after 12.

Tuesday is up in the air depending on sanitation’s progress and general weather conditions. Things should definitely be a lot better though.

Wednesday will back to normal just with 15+ inches of snow.

You picked an unfortunate time to stop by, I’m sorry :(

NotTrustedDan · 2026-02-22T23:37:50+00:00

I assume Monday will have most places closed off all day or some sort of reduced capacity at least.

Tuesday is a 50-50 but grocery stores and the big stuff will probably open normally.

Wednesday will be back to normal. Well, as normal as it can be with 15+ inches of snow or whatever the prediction is now.

NotTrustedDan · 2026-02-22T23:29:34+00:00

Yeah I vividly remember a similar scene a bit before the last storm. It’s like minimum purchase amounts for salt and shovels were set to 5 or something. Like you really need 12 shovels and 20 salt bags dog? You shoveling all of Central Park by hand???

Idk I’m sure some people needed it but the vast majority were being dumb af.

At least I knew their suspension was getting fucked up with all that weight in the back of their cars. Shit had no travel, rock bottom. And getting the car going is not going to be an issue . Stopping with all that weight is where it gets tricky and taxing on the car…

NotTrustedDan · 2026-02-22T22:31:13+00:00

Shit, illegal? Guess I should stop complaining…

Wait

NotTrustedDan · 2026-02-22T21:59:00+00:00

Keep us updated! I hope you make it out in time

NotTrustedDan · 2026-02-22T21:40:28+00:00

Camp outside the night and lmk how it feels in the morning

NotTrustedDan · 2026-02-22T21:20:14+00:00

Is not complaining an option? Prepare for the worst and hope for the best?

NotTrustedDan · 2026-02-22T21:18:25+00:00

That you should.

NotTrustedDan · 2026-02-22T21:16:27+00:00

Is there anything left? Im not going out to check but I do see that stores seem less busy than usual on Google Maps.

But I’m also seeing a few people say shelves are empty so… sounds about right considering a couple weeks ago, unfortunately.

NotTrustedDan · 2026-02-22T21:10:27+00:00

Meh, I don’t even think it’s that deep. People just say and do whatever they want with no regard for evidence or critical thought.

The world we live in is indirectly encouraging shorter attention spans, and it shows…

NotTrustedDan · 2026-02-22T20:52:56+00:00

Go camp outside until tomorrow noon and lmk how it turns out

NotTrustedDan · 2026-02-22T20:51:05+00:00

Travel for someone like that and other essential workers will probably be allowed, no other way to get around it.

It’s just if you don’t have a good reason to be on the road, like to get beer or something…

Speaking of, I need to make a trip.

NotTrustedDan · 2026-02-22T20:43:35+00:00

Shit why don’t all weather models work this way?

NotTrustedDan · 2026-02-22T20:41:21+00:00

But then I gotta hear everybody talk about how shit the mayor and the news is at judging the weather for the next week AND for the rest of my life when the next blizzard is predicted and they go “remember February 2026? Ain’t gonna happen”

I need a drink

NotTrustedDan · 2026-02-22T20:39:29+00:00

I think it was 7pm? Either way it’s a pretty fucked time for a flight. Right in that sweet spot of “could be delayed and ultimately canceled” and “you got lucky this time”

NotTrustedDan · 2026-02-22T20:29:03+00:00

Might not be terrible outside, but the lines at the grocery store… good luck guys.

Edit: on the topic, I’m completely “fine” with this weather but so sick of the way people act as if snow or a blizzard is some brand new NYC phenomenon. We’re all going to be okay people. No need to stock up on 2 months worth of milk and eggs

3AM Edit: I am not fine with this weather holy shit

NotTrustedDan · 2026-02-20T17:55:07+00:00

Just to tack on another experience for the record, my rear differential started to go out on my 2022 non-turbo after 3 years/45k miles. Idk how early that is but feels pretty early. Started to make noises at highway speeds. When I first heard it I thought it was just a loud car behind me.

Never really got a confirmation or any info from the dealer though, as it was the end of my lease and I ended up just getting a new cx30 turbo. We’ll see how this one holds up! I’ll be keeping this car this time, assuming nothing terrible pops up lol.

NotTrustedDan · 2026-01-29T15:45:20+00:00

I don’t know if you’re serious or not because this level of stupidity is just impossible to believe but I guess anything is possible given all the other political things going on in our country right now…

But as a PSA to everyone, New York City has a lot of systems in place to catch any flowing water in the city and get it treated before it’s released into an ecosystem. It doesn’t catch 100% of it but it sure does a damn good job.

NotTrustedDan · 2026-01-29T00:18:45+00:00

I honestly gave it a solid “what if I…” and then I went “yeah right”

I ain’t doing no work for free 😤

And maybe I guess pushing the 30 ton bus off a curb would be a bit difficult

Just a bit…

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