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- nottheonion@lemmy.world
Murdoch tabloid leads charge as big freeze persists – could the mayor please do something about the weather?
It snowed two weeks ago in New York. Since then, the temperature has barely risen above freezing – a temperature science naturally dictates is necessary to melt snow and ice.
But science isn’t enough for some US political critics, however, who have instead blamed Zohran Mamdani, New York’s new socialist mayor, for the snow not having melted and still clogging up some of the city’s streets.
The New York Post, the rightwing tabloid and a frequent Mamdani critic, has led the charge. This week the newspaper claimed that “slushy streets” were “ruining travel for everyone”.
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Canadian here. “Barely risen above freezing” means it’s above freezing. That means it’s warm. Are right wing pundits just a bunch of wussies?
They’re narrative opportunists. They seek out ways to dilute the information sphere, because that weakens the effectiveness of any productive conversation overall.
- Did cigarettes give you cancer, or could it have been asbestos from an old house?
- Did greenhouse gases cause global warming, or is it cold outside right now and that means everyone except you is an idiot?
- Are we setting up a surveillance state, or do we just want infrastructure to help you find your lost dog one day?
- …
Truth becomes arbitrary, opinionated, prone to interpretation… how can society continue to operate when they can’t agree on anything? When the ball isn’t in the court of institutional knowledge, it’s free of the taking by whoever wants to construct narrative in their favor.
Check out what percent of psychology studies these days can actually be reproduced via peer review.
Does the pope shit in the woods?
Does a gorilla train in the alps?
Ashton Kutchner hates freedom, and is integral to bringing the trojan horse of ai threat detection in to survel everything everyone does or says online.
Family Guy had a good take on Ashton, a better tv show for him…
So many pieces of shit on that show, like Kutchner and rapey Masterson
Yeah. Kutchner is an ongoing thing though, Europe hates him, they are using kids getting abused to try and break all encryption and run everything said and done through their half baked ai threat detection. As if it would end with child abuse. Israel, the environmental protesters against big projects, climate protesters will all immediately be on the chopping block and we all know it. Then everyone else.
So called chatcontrol, the umpteenth iteration proposed and defeated in europe as Kutchner’s group, backed by Big Tech Money, but also with their own software they want to sell to sift through formerly private messages, and their networks of fake child safety organizations tool the well intentioned people that trust them, and propose bringing the trojan horse redesign behind the walls all the time, for decades now, and they’ve gotten close.
Same with age checks, they are being used to lock down the internet further and put everything done or said in a dossier on each person with ai making threat assessments on them, and that information filtered down, without attibution, to everything from banks, to cops and courts, to your search engine, to the digital price tags hooked up to ai and face recognition giving “personalized prices” on the spot. 1984 style but with tech those bastards couldn’t dream of.
Someone should really give Seth the seed money to start his rival Tv Show, Tomahocked. It’s a short pilot episode here it is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNlY9ZqwmBI
Oh yeah, trust me I know. That fucking “Chat Control” bullshit just refuses to die, even though AI detection has been scrapped for now. I’m 100% convinced our “leaders” will push it on us after this current marginally watered down version is in use.
Ditto with age checks. The Finnish far-right government just managed to push that through, zero chance it won’t mutate into something worse eventually
I can’t really speak for NYC, because I don’t live there anymore. I’m in Albany, NY, 150 mi north, and it’s been hovering around -15 to -20 centigrade. (Water freezes at 0 centigrade.) A quick weather search shows it’s been hovering at/below freezing down there. Snow doesn’t melt when it’s this cold out. I don’t know where the fuck the post thinks the snow is going to go.
They don’t care about the snow. They care about getting people mad at their enemy. The post, and conservatives more generally, are bad,. dishonest, people.
They know what they’re saying is stupid. They are trying to build anger and when there is nothing material to twist, they have to invent something. Eventually they will build an entire alternate universe mythology around Mamdani, just as they do with all their enemies.
Aren’t these the same people who believe in a rodent to tell them how long winter is?
or an almanac that is basically 50/50 guesses?
Lol, they copied the groundhog day from Pennsylvania in Wiarton, Ontario, an area farther north. So the whole “if he sees his shadow, it means six more weeks of winter, otherwise spring comes at a normal time” is actually worse than our normal spring time (though many years in the past few decades have been exceptions to this). Like if it warmed up by mid-March, that would be an early spring.
Worst part is that I noticed this on my own. Like I’m probably not the first, but it’s not like the usual BS where people might repeat it but are also quick to say it’s inaccurate, my experience is that the groundhog gets brought up, I’ll mention that even the “bad case” sounds way better than reality, then people stop and think before agreeing that yes, it is that way. I’m hoping it’s because they weren’t taking it seriously in the first place.
… Yes. The rodent they typically expect to dictate the weather mostly uses a sharpie, but it was only a matter of time before they recognized all rodents.
Thanks Mamdani…
This is great! Obama is finally off the hook.
Bruh, even in the South there are still huge piles of snow and it’s been like 70/80 degrees for the past four days
Hey southern people/non-phsyics-readers?
Snow is the best insulator to keep snow from melting
Cause he’s preventing climate change?
… wut
They need some of that hell fire the RepubliKKKlans bring with them to melt it asap
Well damn Jackie I can’t control the weather!
When you blame the mayor for the weather.
The man solves global warming in three months and suddenly he’s the bad guy.
Is it possible, being as how snow removal is the city’s responsibility, they’re actually complaining about that? If snow removal isn’t done in a timely manner, slush does indeed form and just moves around, not melting much.
Quickly reading the article suggests that’s the actual complaint.
I like the Guardian and Mamdani but come on here. Let’s focus on whether or not that complaint is accurate, and whether he’s had any chance to impact the city’s snow removal plans, which are generally done well in advance by someone other than the mayor.
Former NYC resident here. Growing up, NYC rarely got snow like the storm we just had the last week of January. Like maybe it happens Once every 2-5 years. On top of that, the city tends to warm up quickly because of the jet stream and being on the coast, so the snow tends to melt faster. (Specific heat of water keeps the temps there above freezing.) It’s been freakishly cold in the city, well below the freezing point of water, for an extended period of time, so it’s not melting as fast. It just gets pushed around. Also, the mayor took office 1 month ago. Like give the guy a break.
Thank you! Same thing happened in the South after the freak storm in January, we had snow/ice for like 10 days which is hugely abnormal, no snow removal was done, streets became sheets of ice. Mail delivery stopped for a week. Everything did. Schools shut down over a week. I worked from home for a week. Number of people blaming the mayor? 0
The south tends to budget far less for snow removal than norther states. So when a big storm hits, it shuts things down way way longer because it takes them even longer just to clear it. The actual Post article, uses three photos as reference images, and I am sure those were the worst they could find. However, you can see from those images that streets are mostly clear. The sidewalks are a different story, businesses are responsible for clearing the snow from the sidewalks in front of their stores. With respect to parking, parking in NYC has always been ass no matter what. If people still choose to drive in the city in this weather, and they aren’t planning accordingly to leave themselves more time to find parking, that’s on them. NYC has extensive public transportation, and it isn’t super expensive. I usually cycle to work up here in Albany, but with the cold and snow I am taking the bus. The public transit up here in Albany can’t hold a candle to what NYC has, and I have no problem making it to work on time or getting shopping done. (I’m 5 miles from work, and 3-10 miles from my preferred grocery stores.)
Must be the water.
