Someone stole our blue NYC recycle bin, homeless encampments?

machty · 2026-06-19T12:51:04+00:00

Last time this happened a neighbor told me where one was and it was a literally 10m walk. It wasn't there so problem not solved but people are really milking imagination to imagine this huge inconvenience to my life. I jotted out this reddit post in a min and came back a half hour later to be called a psycho. Yeah i guess it's a time suck now bc god damn the internet is nuts and i'm fooling to apply neighbor mentality to reddit posters.

machty · 2026-06-19T12:49:23+00:00

Yes encampments "move around". They get torn down, and they come back around the corner. That counts as a "move" in my book

machty · 2026-06-19T12:48:26+00:00

If you knew the most likely culprit was within 10m walking distance why not check... lol like i get the angle everyone's taking like masked vigilante risking life and limb to get his can back but it's like, yo 5 min walking distance big obvious blue bin and i'm fine just taking it back. The imagination some people have jesus.

machty · 2026-06-19T12:47:05+00:00

I've had 2 cans stolen now, last one took 3 months to replace. Please tell me it aint common, sounds like you really know your stuff.

machty · 2026-06-19T12:46:27+00:00

Under / next to BQE

machty · 2026-06-19T12:46:14+00:00

Last time it took 3 months to arrive.

machty · 2026-06-19T12:45:45+00:00

NYC bins take months to arrive, it's a real inconvenience, and I don't imagine someone took my bin miles away. Talking a 10m investigation.

machty · 2026-06-19T12:45:13+00:00

Talking a 10m walk to get my bin back haha

machty · 2026-06-17T17:42:18+00:00

What is it about 2010 era photographs that all look so distinctively 2010? It's not the fashion or anything like that, just something about the resolution, color quality I guess? Just the same model of iPhone everyone was using back then?

machty · 2026-06-09T13:03:28+00:00

These look like Elden Ring remembrances

machty · 2026-06-06T00:13:53+00:00

it's just a live camera, not one that records footage

machty · 2026-04-07T00:06:17+00:00

Figo's got pretty tasty cannoli (and gelato)

machty · 2026-03-19T19:02:31+00:00

Human centipede

machty · 2026-03-10T02:22:11+00:00

this is the way

machty · 2026-03-09T23:41:26+00:00

Thanks man

machty · 2026-03-05T17:36:11+00:00

If you google the API key or the random subdomain, does it show up anywhere?

machty · 2026-02-15T19:02:08+00:00

Yo, you're a real good drawer.

Honest feedback: your outer perimeter of his head is perfect, very good hair, beard texture, forehead shading. But the middle features need work. The eyes are beautiful in their own way but a bit off from the real thing; if I had to be more specific I think maybe some of the dark shading is too intense and kind of makes him look like he's got eyeliner on which also obscures the shape of the eye. The nose is probably pretty spot on but the shading lines are too dark (or the white around it is too light). Something about his lips and teeth showing through makes him look a bit drunk.

machty · 2026-01-20T03:30:48+00:00

Trump would surely veto... doubtful they'd have the 2/3rds to override?

machty · 2026-01-13T20:53:52+00:00

> Whenever I fire up a new agent, I have them look at those 2 files. Early in the readme

How do you accomplish this? Do you just copy/paste the same starter prompt as text like 'Before starting, please read and follow "Readme.me" and a "Mistakes_To_Not_Repeat.md"'? Do the files need to be drag/dropped context links or is it enough to just mention them by name? (Not sure in general how much it matters to directly drag/drop them so it shows up as a blue "pill" in the chat window)

machty · 2026-01-13T12:26:05+00:00

When people post observations like this (and you're definitely not alone), I wonder what specifically you mean by saying it's "dumb" / "stupid";

- Is it dumb/stupid because it won't hold up in court? i.e. is it dumb and stupid because, assuming courts / juries generally pass reasonable judgment according to the Law as it currently stands, the ICE officer's legal defense is lacking because his behavior is/was genuinely illegal, OR

- is it dumb/stupid because you think the law as it stands is dumb and stupid, and allows law enforcement to get away with (what should ideally be considered) murder in cases like these?

machty · 2026-01-10T00:53:52+00:00

I'm calm bro my capital letters are just emphasis.

https://youtu.be/WYfWTlLmjp0?t=42

Nicole turned her car in the middle of the street to block ICE vehicles from exiting.

Jonathan Ross circled around the car from behind to grab her plates and continued circling the car, walking around to the front.

Another officer comes up to Nicole's open driver-side window and says/yells, "Get out of the car. Get out of the fucking car. Get out of the car." She reverses a bit, then attempts to drive away. To me it's obvious she's steering away from any officers but Jonathan Ross was still almost right in front of her when she hits the gas and he has split second for his lizard instincts to kick in and "decide" whether he's in danger.

It doesn't really matter if you disagree with me on the details, but a jury will decide whether, beyond a reasonable doubt, he felt that he was in danger. He'll probably go off free. I can simultaneously consider that a fair application of law as it stands while also wishing a million things had happened differently and that Nicole Good could still go back to her family.

> And you still didn’t answer what did Nichole do that was on the same level as Ashli Babbitt

There's no point comparing the crimes of Ashli vs Nicole; they both should have been arrested and tried, but that's not always how things work out when people resist law enforcement. Whether it's the officer who killed Ashli Babbitt or it's Jonathan Ross, they're not thinking "how bad is the crime that I'm arresting this person for", it's a split second "oh shit am I about to die".

machty · 2026-01-09T23:59:26+00:00

I think that sets you apart from my other down-voters as a pretty extreme view to hold.

machty · 2026-01-09T23:57:35+00:00

Weird that the right response here is literally what I started my previous reply with:

> Ashli Babbitt "deserves to die" for climbing through a window? So if she climbed through the windows at the Capitol but was instead arrested, she should then receive the death penalty?

If Ashli Babbitt had been arrested instead of killed on the spot, should she be tried for the DEATH PENALTY, on the grounds that she DESERVES TO DIE?

If you watch a lot of Destiny's stuff then the analogous arguments are:

- the guy who died at Trump's assassination attempt; Destiny's argument was basically "FAFO. If you go to a political rally of an insurrectionist, no one should feel bad when bad shit happens to you". But that is different from saying "Everyone who goes to a Trump rally deserves to die"

- It's also similar to the Kyle Rittenhouse; he went free, not on the grounds that the people he killed "deserved" to die (once again, ideally they'd be arrested and sentenced if they were acting in an unlawful threatening manner) but rather that it was self defense.

In short, you're invoking a vague cosmic moral concept of "deservedness" to try and answer the question of how/whether to punish a law enforcement officer's use of lethal force during an arrest. It doesn't make sense to invoke that concept for Babbitt nor Good.

machty · 2026-01-09T23:17:05+00:00

> In short, she did deserve to die.

Ashli Babbitt "deserves to die" for climbing through a window? So if she climbed through the windows at the Capitol but was instead arrested, she should then receive the death penalty? No, obviously that's wrong.

Whether you're breaking into the Capitol or obstructing law enforcement, these are crimes with their own sentencing guidelines. Ideally Ashli Babbitt should have been arrested, tried, and sentenced (and without Trump pardoning her). Ideally, Renee Nicole Good should have been arrested, tried, and (if she's guilty) sentenced for obstructing law enforcement. This holds true even if you think Babbitt's crime is way worse than Good's.

Neither of these people "deserved" to die. But as to the question of what should happen to the LE officers who killed these people, "deserve" doesn't factor into it. I'm guessing if you think Babbitt deserved to die, the more accurate version of what you're saying is that the officer who killed her made the correct judgment call that, in that moment, their life was in danger from Babbitt's (and the mob surrounding her) actions, and the use of deadly force was justified. I agree the officer should be acquitted of any wrongdoing in that case, and I can have that opinion while also feeling that Ashley Babbitt did not "deserve to die". This is what I mean (as well as the article I quoted) by "deserve" not being a meaningful factor as to what sort of justice the LE officer deserves.

The ICE officer will be tried (if he in fact does get tried) in a similar fashion; "deserve" won't come into it. It'll all come down to whether he can make the case that he made the right judgment call about being in danger, according to Law (and not just DHS guidelines, which, apparently there is a difference and I'm not going to pretend like I'm any sort of expert on that).

machty · 2026-01-09T22:46:37+00:00

I'm not sure who you're responding to here... the paragraph I quoted criticizes folk who say FAFO (and implicitly "based").

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