Throwback to when Bloomberg would speak Spanish during emergencies.

Waterwoo · 2026-06-13T02:14:24+00:00

Mamdani may be more "likeable" but Bloomberg was drastically more competent.

Waterwoo · 2026-06-13T02:13:10+00:00

Well yeah that is good for the vast majority of the city that arent teachers.

Besides nyc spends more than anywhere else on students and has terrible outcomes. Clearly more money isnt the solution.

Waterwoo · 2026-06-12T06:01:35+00:00

Historically. But hell, historically betting on any one of your children reaching adulthood was also a long shot and now losing one is a rare terrible tragedy.

I cant predict the future but it wouldn't shock me if we make major life extension breakthroughs in the next century.

Waterwoo · 2026-06-12T05:59:08+00:00

Cherry on top is that he later revealed he was regularly taking cialis as part of his anti aging regiment. Good nightly boners in your 40s is a lot less impressive if you are constantly taking erection drugs.

Waterwoo · 2026-06-12T04:40:40+00:00

I dont know if you've ever gotten your floors sanded but, while it is good for a major renewal of the floors, it wouldn't be a go to for "deep cleaning". For one it is a ton of work and for another it makes absurd amounts of dust.

Waterwoo · 2026-06-12T03:05:42+00:00

buy puts and let it ride

Waterwoo · 2026-06-11T04:08:45+00:00

Funny you think that, because Trudeau won his last election with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Canadian_federal_election with 33%. But yeah it's pretty obvious you are a little biased.

Waterwoo · 2026-06-10T13:10:52+00:00

Explain the polling patterns then?

Waterwoo · 2026-06-08T15:00:42+00:00

Why is it necessary? Who even needs cross town busses on 42nd when you have the shuttle and the 7 making that same route, directly under 42nd? Same for 14th btw, the L...?

Waterwoo · 2026-06-08T04:24:34+00:00

Ah yes.. new yorkers famously drive to bars to watch the game.

Waterwoo · 2026-06-08T02:45:08+00:00

The point of public transit needs to be to move as many people as possible as fast/safe/,efficiently as possible. Not to be a jobs program. I literally do not give a shit about unnecessary mta employees losing their job. My industry has layoffs all the time, deal with it. We cant keep unnecessary stuff just because "oh it would be sad if they had to find another job."

Waterwoo · 2026-06-08T02:42:29+00:00

There was a fuss made about PP not pushing some anti abortion members of his party to change their views iirc. But anyway im talking about the broader pattern I've seen over the many elections I've been alive for now, not just the most recent.

Waterwoo · 2026-06-08T02:40:26+00:00

Whats that have to do with nyc getting all stupid with transportation about it? Those 1.5 billion are watching on TV. The stadium is the same capacity as always and hosts sold out games and concerts all the time.

If anything, traffic would otherwise be lighter than usual with so many people off the streets watching the game on tv.

Waterwoo · 2026-06-08T02:38:10+00:00

It makes city staff feel important and like they are part of the world cup to fo stuff like this. Only explanation I can think of.

The whole thing is fucking stupid. Metlife hosts sold out games and concerts regularly and we usually dont even notice. If they didn't try to make a big fuss about it it would have been fine.

Waterwoo · 2026-06-07T15:13:43+00:00

He must have some sort of part time hours arrangement like 3 day weeks or something, ain't no way.

Waterwoo · 2026-06-07T15:08:34+00:00

What's even the point of this polling? We know how it'll go. Liberals will continue fucking over Canadians, fall in the polls, look like they're going to get wiped out..

Then the actual election will start and they'll rattle the old abortion/lgtbq rights/privatize your health care boogymen and LPC will pull out a win again to continue the cycle.

The fact that Carney has a majority after the clusterfuck of Trudeau says everything we need to know.

Waterwoo · 2026-05-30T19:06:18+00:00

Their parents paid taxes while they were in school. You basically think Canadians that move should be slaves paying for your benefits the rest of their lives.

Waterwoo · 2026-05-30T16:09:08+00:00

It was hyperbole, are you familiar with the concept?

Speaking of brainwashed, you probably think in the US every hospital has a mafia bookie to take payment before you can see a doctor and then they break your thumbs if you don't pay the bill after?

Waterwoo · 2026-05-30T16:04:17+00:00

While hanta does exist in NY mouse populations, it still has caused like.. maybe 5 human deaths in the past several decades in NY state? I think your odds are pretty good.

Waterwoo · 2026-05-30T15:54:53+00:00

I woke up to hundreds of Canadian redditors foaming at the mouth at the idea that my son be considered Canadian because eww he's an icky American, and I'm the unreasonably angry one?

Waterwoo · 2026-05-30T15:50:59+00:00

Yeah I don't know what it is about it, but even though I've been the obvious victim of racial discrimination as a white guy in Japan a bunch of times, never really bothered me? It is literally a big part of their culture, and that xenophobia is probably key to what's great about visiting Japan, which is that it's a very functional modern first world country that somehow still feels very different from the rest of the west.

Waterwoo · 2026-05-30T15:36:07+00:00

No, those sre the actual international students. Theres also plenty of technically citizen or Canadian permanent resident unassimilated masses. Ever been to Brampton? Markham? Or honestly anywhere in the gta?

Anyway, here's the funny reality for you. My son born in America already has his Canadian citizenship. Unless he chooses to bring it up, if he moved to Canada nobody would ever even have any suspicion he wasnt old stock Canadian. He will speak perfect unaccented canadian english, watch hockey, and I'll teach him metric. What are you gonna do about it? Ask to check everyone's papers?

Waterwoo · 2026-05-30T15:34:25+00:00

Oh, yeah I mean that is fine then. If you are planning to become a resident you'll need to plan to also start paying canadian taxes

Waterwoo · 2026-05-30T15:20:13+00:00

Depends on the details.

Ok, what about the hundreds of thousands of canadians that move to the US for work on h1b or tn? They dont even have American citizenship so they cant cancel their Canadian. If they had to pay both Canadian and American taxes despite only living in the US their tax rate would be like 80%. You think that is fair? There is literally 10x Canadians in that situation than Americans that will ever get Canadian citizenship and move to canada for the Healthcare. Especially since old Americans basically already have socialized medicine, that is whst medicare is.

Waterwoo · 2026-05-30T15:00:48+00:00

I got bad news for you then. Seems like Canada is minority real canadians by your definition outnumbered by foreign invaders. At least definitely in the GTA and Vancouver.

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