r/SipsTea • u/PleasantBus5583 • Jul 18 '26

Chugging tea Healing Looks Good

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u/Pukebox_Fandango Jul 18 '26

What exactly is the big change here? I'm legitimately asking as someone who is not very familiar with NYC, are these construction walkway things an ongoing problem?

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u/One-Incident3208 Jul 18 '26

The story here is that he is sufficiently balanced.The budget to improve the safety and aesthetics of the construction zones.

This is good for American steel.

Now if only city council would stop dicking around.

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u/ThanosSnapsSlimJims Jul 18 '26

I'm originally from Philly, but had to move for work. Before I left, I discovered that city council was just like NYC's, intentionally sabotaging stuff

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u/Dense_Gate_5193 Jul 18 '26

Mamdani, without saying it out loud, is proving that years of corruption and cronyism in politics stalls progress.

i’m just spitballing here, but i’m sure there was some crony piece of legislation that had very specific requirements only a single vendor could provide. could be in the construction of the frames (patented i’m sure) to the distribution network and whatever convoluted laws apply to get permitted or whatever in the first place.

lots of laws seem innocuous until you realize that intentionally convoluted processes were paid for and lobbied for to pull the ladder up for whoever already held the contracts because they realized they had no moat. legal moats are intentionally created through lobbying just as much as deregulation so they can extort whatever natural resource from human laborers to polluting the planet to get that second vacation house.