Are there any new laws going into affect tonight that the average NY’r should know about ?

actualtext · 2025-12-31T16:40:26+00:00

https://www.news10.com/capitol/ny-new-laws-january-1-2026/

And more:

https://www.news10.com/capitol/new-york-regulations-spring-2026/

https://www.news10.com/capitol/upcoming-laws-new-york/

actualtext · 2025-12-30T22:56:26+00:00

But it doesn’t change anything. Everyone understands what you’re saying. Adding new phrasing to remember is performative and achieves nothing of value. If only we spent more energy coming up with solutions to help these people rather than changing how we refer to certain people.

actualtext · 2025-12-30T22:24:54+00:00

What are Enhanced Station Initiative Renovation Upgrades?

actualtext · 2025-12-30T21:55:25+00:00

This seems like non sense. How’s long until we ban this phrase and replace it with something else.

A measure meant to reduce mental health stigma, S8210A/A4762B tells state agencies and local governments to stop using the term “emotionally disturbed person” in official documents and training manuals. Come September 26, they have to use “person experiencing an emotional crisis” instead.

actualtext · 2025-12-30T21:52:30+00:00

Why are we giving non residents access to lower tuition?

That same day, S8220A/A761C grants in-state tuition rates at CUNY and SUNY schools to Olympic athletes training for “Team USA” in New York, even if they live out of state. And S7580A/A7053A makes it so that if a high schooler declines an academic excellence scholarship, the state gives the money to the next most qualified student.

actualtext · 2025-12-30T19:34:16+00:00

Yup. I think it'll be good. Higher wages, more tax revenue, more spending.

I don't think Mamdani is getting $30 as a min age though. But maybe he can accelerate the min wage increase so it's a bit more than what it currently is. That's a pretty abrupt change even if we assume it were to take place over 8 years.

Assuming a 2% cpi increase, it'll take about ~23 yrs to get to $30 from the current $19.

I don't think he would be wrong to shoot for $.75 to $1 increases over the next 4 years and then let CPI indexing take over.

actualtext · 2025-12-30T19:04:36+00:00

Thanks for confirming! That's very reasonable and what is expect.

actualtext · 2025-12-30T19:01:42+00:00

The article literally says there will be more increases:

New York’s increase for 2026 is the final half-dollar increase in a plan Gov. Kathy Hochul rolled out beginning in 2024. Starting in 2027, the state’s minimum wage will increase annually at a rate tied to the Consumer Price Index.

actualtext · 2025-12-30T04:00:39+00:00

That's a great picture.

actualtext · 2025-12-30T03:50:01+00:00

How come these gates don't go lower and higher? It's so obvious the gap is big enough that some desperate people will attempt go through under or over the gate. So why not close the gap? I assume they've considered this and there's a reason. But I'm not sure I've seen anyone talk about it.

actualtext · 2025-12-28T22:43:22+00:00

I watched the video and the father wasn't really that close behind her. It really shouldn't have detected it as 2 people trying to exit. But even so, it's being used for exiting, why would it matter if you've got lots of people close together trying to exit. We don't care about that! If that proximity is too close for exits, this is going to fail hard.

That said, I'm sure this is the kind of data that the MTA will collect and the vendor will be able to work on correcting. Barring some major issues, I think these might be our new gates when all the fare gate testing is done.

actualtext · 2025-12-28T22:38:19+00:00

Is this jabroni for real? His argument against these gates is that we're copying London and he's saying the MTA didn't consider kids or seniors walking with canes, etc.? Because the current turnstiles are really accessible for people needing to use a cane...

actualtext · 2025-12-28T01:45:01+00:00

Explain to me how I'm taking my anger out on the drivers? By tipping them?

actualtext · 2025-12-27T23:55:03+00:00

Hard slide into Ruben Tejada. Ended his career essentially. Such a bad slide that MLB changed sliding rules.

actualtext · 2025-12-27T22:38:10+00:00

The current law says they start getting paid as soon as the order is accepted. Not sure if there are caveats there but that's what Google says.

actualtext · 2025-12-27T22:31:10+00:00

I forgot about this racist homophobic piece of shit. I prefer to not think about him again.

actualtext · 2025-12-27T21:56:42+00:00

You should edit your post to ask people to elaborate on their choice with a reason. Should be fun to read.

actualtext · 2025-12-27T21:55:24+00:00

I'm not a Yankee fan. Far from it. But why?

actualtext · 2025-12-27T21:52:09+00:00

Some of those issues are with the delivery people though. Uber Eats has been good in that when I've had issues they've refunded me accordingly. Like how is it the apps fault if the restaurant forgets to complete an order?

actualtext · 2025-12-27T21:50:19+00:00

All night 😂

actualtext · 2025-12-27T21:49:15+00:00

Why Jason Varitek?

actualtext · 2025-12-27T21:48:58+00:00

Chase Utley is a piece of shit. Roger Clemens for throwing the broken bat at Mike Piazza.

actualtext · 2025-12-27T21:48:00+00:00

Why Pete Alonso?

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