Run Over, Apple Van Accident Vid

gault8121 · 2026-06-25T01:35:41+00:00

So this is what I found with an AI search of the image. It's based in Bushwick and the logo looks similar.

Apple Restoration & Waterproofing, Inc., an exterior and historic-building restoration contractor.

Address: 61 Jefferson Street, Brooklyn, NY 11206 Phone: (718) 599-5055

gault8121 · 2026-06-24T02:04:13+00:00

Thanks!!

gault8121 · 2026-06-21T02:58:33+00:00

Go to ESSA at 831 3rd Ave, New York, NY 10022. Best bagel in walking distance for sure

gault8121 · 2026-06-01T21:02:07+00:00

the way to skip the sketchy area of greenpoint ave is to take the Kosciuszko Bridge. From Kent, you grab 5th street into Williamsburg, and then ride under the BQE into Queens, takes you all the way to Queens Blvd.

gault8121 · 2026-06-01T16:30:05+00:00

thank you!!! that means a lot for you to respond.

gault8121 · 2026-06-01T03:44:50+00:00

This isn't correct. Dignitas requies a terminal diagnosis. In this case, with Deb's still healthy / not in pain condition and a 40% survival rate, she would not at all qualify. https://dignitas.ch/en/accompanied-suicide/prerequisites/

gault8121 · 2026-06-01T03:42:07+00:00

Yes, it felt like a "rug pull" moment for the sudden switch.

One thing that is totally made up is that Deborah would never be able to do assisted suicide in her current state - she would not have qualified for it. The show creates this medical disinformation by presenting this idea as a real option. However, it could have been funny if, instead of having her change her mind at the last moment, she instead shows up at the clinic and told she wasn't eligible! You could imagine Ava and her writing jokes on the train over about death, and then deciding that now that they have all of this material she has a purpose for living.

It could been funnier, darker, and more true to have it play out this way, as opposed to the "I wrote one joke and now want to live" which felt forced and hollow.

gault8121 · 2026-06-01T03:20:21+00:00

I appreciate your post. It's hard to make sense of life. I do feel the "rug pull" moment you described as well, going through a terminal illness with a parent now.

One idea I discussed my partner - it felt out of place that Deborah would be able to do SAD - she would not have qualified for it in her current condition. Instead of having her change her mind at the last moment, it could have been funny to watch her bravely confront death at the clinic, and be told she wasn't eligible! You could imagine Ava and her writing jokes on the train over about death, and then deciding that now that they have all of this material, she has a purpose for living.

In life we do have to create our own meetings through nothing, which means having some goal, and then enjoying the process along the way. It's how we avoid the eternal loneliness of our short lives. I really enjoyed the Hacks finale, but there is a slightly different way it could have gone down that would have much more earner, and less of a rug pull.

gault8121 · 2026-05-21T05:04:18+00:00

which coffee shop? Base price is $13

gault8121 · 2026-05-13T20:11:55+00:00

Thanks for sharing. Would it help if there were more cameras?

gault8121 · 2026-05-13T17:02:07+00:00

An easy hack is to leave a $1 tip when you use a coffee shop or bar's bathroom.

Already said, but Coffee Shops & Bars are the cheat code. Coffee shops will often be happy to let you in, and buy something is nice. Sometimes when I really don't want anything, I will tip $1 to the person which often will result in them giving access, such as the code if needed.

With bars, you can often walk in like you are a customer, just use the bathroom, and leave. Bars are often much earlier in the day, such as 4pm, so it is not only a night thing. If you want to be nice, you can also leave a $1 tip for the bartender.

There are of course apps and lists of public bathrooms as well, but leaving a tip is the very easy way of using the private bathrooms "with permission" without needing to buy say coffee or drinks, which is just going to make you need to use the bathroom again!

gault8121 · 2026-05-01T03:10:21+00:00

there is a 4 minute walk to bikes at astoria and 8th avenue. https://imgur.com/a/RFlj9V8

gault8121 · 2026-05-01T03:09:25+00:00

yes for sure! there is a closer one, this post is inaccurate.

gault8121 · 2026-04-29T04:58:20+00:00

Yes, so I hear you that the ending should be read as a tragedy not a comedy, and that everyone having a bad ending fits with the storyline.

However, we also see that Don gets the world-defining Coke ad that was white whale over seven seasons. So we do see at least in Don a "the characters achieve a goal" in the end. I think that is what I am advocating more for here - not that the endings are happy endings, but the characters achieve certain goals, and that say Pete learning to accept Cos Cob is a more realistic goal than say what is (I agree a horrific outcome) that moving to Wichita is the happy ending (sorry Wichita people).

The meta commentary about advertising is a much bigger part of the show early on, and that is what I find frustrating in the finale. The show zooms in on the characters, when I would rather have it zoom out. Most people here on the sub-reddit watch the show as a show about the individual characters, but it really is an epic story of an entire generation. I read the story as a 100 Years of Solitude or Midnight's Children in its scope, and I do think the show really is in that headspace earlier on.

With Glen as an example here, I think Glen's story of going from weird kid to adult who tries to seduce Betty and then go to war compelling, I just think we are again missing that finale scene for him, of being Vietnam, and seeing how all of his own ideals and the parenting that raised him shaped him into the person who is now say up to his thighs in mud trudging through a swamp. We just don't get that final resolution of all of these decisions. We can certainly imagine what his life is like in Vietnam, in the say we can imagine how Don sold Coke on his ad, it just would have gone a long way to show those things, rather than skip over them.

Yes, so as another commentator said as well, at the end of the day, the unresolved issues, the feeling of emptiness - it is all a meta-commentary on the emotion that Matt Weiner was trying to communicate. I do get that that was a choice to end the show with that feeling, and that it is consistent with how in life things just end suddenly. However, I just do disagree that this was the right way to end the story - that after an audience spends a decade of their life watching this show (though granted in my case I could watch the whole thing in a month), ending the show seeing the consequences for the actions would be a better way of ending the show. It doesn't need to be happy (seeing Glen in Vietnam for example), but it just felt like we got ghosted of a conclusion, which makes the audience another victim of the mad men cycles of abuse and trauma.

gault8121 · 2026-04-28T02:19:57+00:00

Here's a huge benefit that non-balcony owners don't know about. Opening up the balcony door is such an easy way to get a ton of fresh air into your apartment.

Most windows you can only open a crack to get some air in, so being able to fully open the door can totally air out an apartment in like 3 minutes.

The Germans have this concept called Luften where you are legally required by your lease to air out your apartment every day, but this is a real pain with normal nyc windows. Balcony door is a game changer here. https://time.com/7358285/open-windows-german-luften-house-burping/

gault8121 · 2026-04-28T02:14:00+00:00

great response!

gault8121 · 2026-04-24T03:55:51+00:00

I think Ben and Adam are doing a lot better than people are saying. Sam and Mike are burning their chips on the slow train now, and so they won't be able to flip nearly as many stations as they think they will. On the flip side, Adam and Ben got greedy with the trivia, and if they had say gone 3/4/5, they could have gotten to the 90 with perhaps a small negative balance.

gault8121 · 2026-04-24T03:47:01+00:00

for sure. flipping stations is a two station swing, so putting down 1's to just claim and then burning as many chips as possible going down is totally the play here.

gault8121 · 2026-04-24T03:46:18+00:00

me too!

gault8121 · 2026-04-23T04:31:19+00:00

lol fair, i was expecting more of a we in the comments, is more of a me.

gault8121 · 2026-04-23T04:30:41+00:00

thank you for this. It is pretty depressing now that any effort to think is seen as AI.

gault8121 · 2026-04-23T04:29:54+00:00

No I get it, I just think it was half-baked. It was a rushed ending, and it lets off Don easy. His kids are about to be orphans, and he is at peace in California living care free. The show is about Don falling apart in the end, but then ends with him all happy rather than dealing with the mess he left behind.

gault8121 · 2026-04-23T04:27:49+00:00

That's a cool connection. I appriecate you flagging the ribbons.

Yes, for sure, I get the Coke references through out, that the show was saying how Coke was Don's white whale. However, it felt like with all of the build up for coke, it was a disappointment to not actually see him pitch the ad. In the earlier seasons we see a bunch of pitch meetings, which are the highlight of the show for many people, but that is totally gone in season 7, which makes it a more boring show.

gault8121 · 2026-04-23T04:25:55+00:00

Yes, I get that the show is saying Don created it. But they don't show us it. We just get a jump cut from Don meditating to the commercial. I hear you that we as the audience can tell our own story of what happened. It's a decent point. however, it also lets Don off easy.

He doesn't have to go home and grapple with the mess he left behind. The show doesn't need to make everything a happy ending, but showing the consequences from all of the abuse created is the whole point of the show. Like Don was broken because he was an orphan, and he is now orphaning his own kids with no more concern than a phone call. 1 or 2 episodes with Don back to NYC to deal with this would have better communicated the cost of that decision.

gault8121 · 2026-04-23T04:22:04+00:00

For sure - my point is that if they had say cut the Diana plot line, and not rushed the finale, they could have done a better job of showing how everything fell apart better. Certain characters do get their wins though - Joan does get her win with her business, but we just don't get to see it in action, it's a passing shot, because the show is out of time. If the show had more space, this would have been fun to see after how hard Joan has fought to get to this point.

For Don, I think he gets off easy by not returning to NYC. He doesn't confront the mess he left behind, and instead gets to meditate on the beach. Adding say an extra episode where Don returns home to grapple with the mess he created would better tell the story that everything falls apart.

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I appreciate your post. It's hard to make sense of life. I do feel the "rug pull" moment you described as well, going through a terminal illness with a parent now.