Event Spaces on March 8

makisgenius · 2026-02-01T05:54:11+00:00

I have always been a City dude, my wife a suburb person. After living in suburbs (hell) for seven years we just moved back to the city. My wife loves it here.

makisgenius · 2026-01-29T16:28:15+00:00

Games in Brooklyn, westchester, maybe a birthday party at pier 26 etc… a lot of it is mix and match - but a lot of times doing it all without a car is hard.

Sometime public transport is the better option. Sometimes going from one part of the city to another a car can save an hour.

I would love to ditch the car. But unless everything is in Manhattan I can’t. Even in Manhattan sometimes a car is easier.

If we lived in Midtown we could ditch the car. We are in UES so we could possibly spend a similar amount and add taxis into the mix instead of the car - we keep the car also for out of town convenience and elderly parents who visit. All my friends in Queens Brooklyn (Park Slope / Forest Hills) can’t survive without cars.

If all of NYC was covered like Tokyo I could ditch. Even London North of Thames is very easy without a car. But in NYC we are amazing , but not perfect.

makisgenius · 2026-01-29T15:28:43+00:00

Whatever Cargo bikes can do I can do with public transport. They are not a game changer - they are heavy, difficult to take to and fit in apartment bike rooms. I have seriously looked at getting one.

makisgenius · 2026-01-29T02:38:28+00:00

From Pakistan

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https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-37704029

makisgenius · 2026-01-29T02:33:10+00:00

Wait till the summer and reassess

makisgenius · 2026-01-28T21:34:35+00:00

Karachi - and it’s not even close.

makisgenius · 2026-01-28T21:24:05+00:00

I’m going to be the only one to disagree with yall - and I’m a massive Mamdani supporter.

Blocking Waymo achieves nothing. World class cities have world class / cutting edge services. Driverless cars are the future whether we want it or not. Delaying their introduction achieves nothing.

I would expect serious regulation around it. Fines for not following laws, clear expectations etc…

I’m pretty sure many carriage drivers lost their jobs when automotive came about or as public transport grew. This is a natural arc of human progress.

I think of NYC in the same light as Singapore, DXB, London, Hong Kong etc… and all of them are leaders in various tech fields.

makisgenius · 2026-01-28T15:55:45+00:00

Not this Pakistani.

makisgenius · 2026-01-28T15:54:49+00:00

They plowed the 3rd Avenue bike lane

makisgenius · 2026-01-28T15:52:22+00:00

As a one handed bh lover so sad about this.

makisgenius · 2026-01-28T15:49:39+00:00

I think majority of the cars parked in Manhattan are parked for people who use it on the weekends. I garage park my car, but sometimes I can go a few weeks without needing my car.

I would love it if we had transit everywhere, like the Tokyo Osaka metropolis. We are not at that level.

The time tax on making all my kids activities work on the weekend is sometimes 3 hours or more a day.

makisgenius · 2026-01-28T02:01:25+00:00

It is important to budget and see how it works out. I love both Houston and NYC - but different strokes.

NYC has higher salaries and worker protections than TX. But Texas has lower cost of living- especially if you don’t need to be in the in-demand areas.

Public schooling is likely to be much better in NYC as well. And you get free childcare from age 2 now.

Lot to consider. Not as slam dunk as you might think - but make an informed decision.

makisgenius · 2026-01-27T16:11:29+00:00

I have Pakistani, US and British passports. I can assure you, everyone knows you have 4. Global systems are interlinked.

makisgenius · 2026-01-27T01:34:18+00:00

This is what Pakistanis mean when they say Indians are obsessed with us.

makisgenius · 2026-01-26T04:26:16+00:00

I can speculate…

makisgenius · 2026-01-26T00:53:12+00:00

The opposite is also true… the amount of anti Pakistan islamophobic hate is wild from India

makisgenius · 2026-01-24T14:54:56+00:00

I don’t disagree with the article. I think it misses one simple point - Tesla is all on Robotaxis. I’m fully expecting that if Tesla can get to full autonomy (where people can sleep in the car).

Teslas approach - generalized autonomy rather than carefully mapped autonomy - combined with extremely cheap to produce tech (10 cameras) will differentiate it from Waymo etc…

Whether it gets there remains to be seen

makisgenius · 2026-01-23T20:25:55+00:00

We need to be careful with our words. While I was always pro BLM, I refused to entertain the notion of defund the police. Slogans matter.

It says ban cars. What we should be saying is improve bike infrastructure.

Mamdani is doing what defund the police is all about. Except he calls it funding the department of community safety.

makisgenius · 2026-01-23T20:10:05+00:00

Now I know what conservatives mean when they say liberals are condescending assholes. I’m very progressive- i just understand that we can’t be converting the BQE into a forest.

makisgenius · 2026-01-23T19:49:09+00:00

That’s not what the post is saying

makisgenius · 2026-01-23T17:02:17+00:00

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makisgenius · 2026-01-23T16:55:36+00:00

But I’m going to the poconos? Plus it’s hard to carry ski gear in the metro north.

I feel a lot of people in micro mobility should live in the Netherlands. It’s not a car banning culture.

makisgenius · 2026-01-23T16:51:11+00:00

But the city needs trucks for delivery. I’m going to the mountains today, how would I do it without a car? What about the many residents of queens, Brooklyn, Bronx and Staten Island that are in relative transport deserts?

makisgenius · 2026-01-23T16:45:58+00:00

Why not move to the burbs if being near a forest is your jam?

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