Can he please fill the pot hole in my heart next?
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Actual uplifting news and it's something Zohran Mamdani did. Sucks that this guy isn't eligible for the presidency.
Trump won't be eligible in next election and I'm certain that won't stop him from trying. Why can't we do the same?
Sure sure sure, but did the government make any profit from doing this?
Or also did 20 diff pockets get filled as well??
Fucking socialist, wasting money on things people need.
Business owners whose vehicles now need less repair and maintenance: “This is unacceptable“
There's a corner gas episode where the small town gets upset after a pothole is filled because it helps reduce the speed of traffic and a speed bump is too fancy
it's been over a decade since I've seen any of that show and I can picture a whole bunch of scenes from that episode in my head
not because I actually remember them, just because the characters and plot are that identifiable
good show
An incredible pull, but hell yea I see you.
The movie blew my fucking mind...
They were a couple a whole time? 🤣🤣
"Garmin GPS announces next update to bring back missing potholes by playing bang.mp3 without any user input destination needed..."
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I know you're joking, but it is so depressing that this is EXACTLY how so many government officials think and how so many constituents have been brainwashed to think.
and, equally if not more depressingly, governments can make waaay more money by TAXING THE FUCKING RICH!
Car infrastructure doesn't need to make a profit don't you know? Its just public transport that needs be a net gain for the city
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New campaign slogan:
Zohran, he'll fill all your holes.
You thought Trump's weird enthusiasm for the guy couldn't get weirder. Just wait.
I wish those movies were still funny today. They were so great in their time.
They aged terribly
Can you share examples?
I don't remotely remember the one i saw.
Yeah, agreed on all counts 😕
Zohran the Hole Destroyer.
Can my city borrow Mamdani for a couple months?
This guy seems like he’s off to a great start.
And who would have thought paying people to provide services would work? I’m shocked!
He’s young enough that, once he’s done in NYC, he could go off and be mayor of several other cities afterward.
I think that's called a governor
The pot hole that Governor Kathy Hochul filled once she ~~was elected to~~ took office was finally issuing cannabis stores and farms licenses to grow and sell two years after weed was legalized in New York State, after Cuomo refused to, that corrupt, ass-grabbing jerk.
And thank you very much for providing me the incredibly rare opportunity to use that pun. I’ve been sitting on that for so very long.
I had to read this like 4 times before I got it lmao that’s pretty good
I mean, I do legitimately wonder how he did this when other administrations didn't or couldn't. Would like an insider perspective. Like, did he just pay tons and tons of OT? Did he order the potholes filled quickly, even if they didn't meet the normal standard for quality? Did he crack the whip and say "fuck your union rules!" Or were past administrations just this corrupt/lazy/incompetent?
I'm sure his fanboys will say "obviously it's the last one - he's not a corrupt capitalist pig", or something. And I'm open to that explaination. But I'd like, yaknow, some actual statements from people who were actually involved.
He’s got John Henry on the payroll.
I mean, I do legitimately wonder how he did this when other administrations didn't or couldn't.
I suspect the article is overselling it (the comparison, not the raw pothole number), and they don't source basically anything they're saying, so it's hard to definitively call them on that. NYC had a winter that created an abnormal number of potholes, and this article (using an uncited figure) says: "the same number that would usually take New York’s Department of Transport (DOT) a week." But is that for filling potholes directly after winter? Is it for the rate of potholes per week averaged across the year (which would be a completely invalid comparison)? I guess I could try digging it up, but Novara Media clearly didn't give enough of a shit when they said it.
I think it's cool regardless.
Donate one hour’s wage per month—or whatever you can afford—today.
Dunno, Novara; maybe when you decide to learn how hyperlinks work.
EDIT: I tried to follow one breadcrumb to the NYT using this quote from the article: "According to the New York Times, the incident signaled early on that Mamdani was raring to take on “long ignored street improvements – the kind of meat-and-potatoes issue that some previous mayors have struggled to deliver on”.".
I can't find that quote, even trying several different verbatim excerpts from the quote (but the full quote should be findable anyway). Thaaaaaaaat's really fucking questionable. I could be missing something. @return2ozma@lemmy.world, your thoughts?
Since Mayor Mamdani took office, NYC DOT has fixed more than 50,000 potholes, with an average response time of around two days. Additional pothole blitzes are planned for later this spring. NYC DOT will resurface 1,150 miles of roadway this year, ensuring our streets remain safe for all New Yorkers.
Daaaaaamn. That is some actual work being done. And all it took was electing a socialist. Let that be the lesson.
Here's a press release from the piece of shit who was in office previously, Eric Adams, celebrating the 500,000th filled pothole of his tenure. Mamdani assumed office January 1, so at 82 days, he's advertising ~610 potholes fixed per day in a winter that's produced an abnormally high amount of potholes.
Adams' press released was published January 29, 2025, and he assumed office January 1, 2022, or 1124 days. This means Adams was advertising ~445 potholes filled per day, which is 73% the amount Mamdani advertises here. Once you account for the fact that Adams' average was across three years rather than just "from the middle of winter to spring" – meaning that on average there were fewer potholes available to fix per day than Mamdani's timespan – the difference, while not exactly clear, is negligible. Even accounting for the fact that Mamdani just assumed office and may have some inertia, these aren't even close to earth-shaking numbers.
You can also see that this kind of pothole dick-measuring contest is extremely typical for NYC mayors – and god, fuck Eric Adams. If I wouldn't slobber Adams for basically these same numbers, I'm not going to slobber Mamdani either.
Edit: Something else I totally forgot to address is response time; per the Adams press release (I'm taking it uncritically, but I'm also taking the Mamdani PR uncritically; sue me):
New pothole complaints to 311 are closed in an average of approximately 1.8 days — more than a full day faster than the de Blasio administration’s average of 3.4 days and more than twice as fast as Bloomberg administration’s average of 4.4 days.
Meanwhile, Mamdani's press release states:
NYC DOT has fixed more than 50,000 potholes, with an average response time of around two days. [I'll assume this is response to a 311 complaint.]
And just like before, the difference in the nature of their tenure means I can't in good faith give Adams the point based on the raw number; obviously the average response time across three years with four seasons each could have fewer hurdles on average than "middle of winter to spring", where everything's cold as fuck and frozen and snowing.
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