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Absurd Alhazred posted:The loving audacity of this fucker. aw c'mon, the other guys get to write pointless books to sell in bulk at conventions, why can't iiiii
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Reminder that in 2014, Cuomo was paid 750k to write a memoir from a publisher that was clearly rolling the dice on him starting a presidential campaign. Rather than promote the release of said book, however, Cuomo simply had his campaign buy like... 2500 copies to give out to donors or whatever, from a print run of 200k copies, and otherwise he refused to tour or do media to promote it because he was campaigning for re-election. To date, the book has still sold fewer than 5000 copies total. So ~195,000 copies of his terrible memoir have been shredded, most of the copies were bought by his campaign, and most of the rest probably by journalists covering Cuomo. As a result, he has earned somewhere around 200 dollars per copy of his book that was sold.
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CaptainPsyko posted:Reminder that in 2014, Cuomo was paid 750k to write a memoir from a publisher that was clearly rolling the dice on him starting a presidential campaign. Rather than promote the release of said book, however, Cuomo simply had his campaign buy like... 2500 copies to give out to donors or whatever, from a print run of 200k copies, and otherwise he refused to tour or do media to promote it because he was campaigning for re-election. Any idea who ghost-wrote it?
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Mechafunkzilla posted:So what's the deal with getting a mail-in ballot in New York? Do we still have to just lie and apply for an absentee ballot if we don't want to go to the polls or is there any movement by the powers that be to push something through to make it easier? state senate passed a bill to let the general election work like the primary where anybody and everybody can vote by mail, but its been sitting on cuomo's desk since August 10th without being signed https://www.nysenate.gov//legislation/bills/2019/S8015 so whenever this is finalized you should be able to request a mail-in ballot online pretty painlessly, like the primaries.
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In Training posted:state senate passed a bill to let the general election work like the primary where anybody and everybody can vote by mail, but its been sitting on cuomo's desk since August 10th without being signed https://www.nysenate.gov//legislation/bills/2019/S8015 so whenever this is finalized you should be able to request a mail-in ballot online pretty painlessly, like the primaries. This is up now on https://nycabsentee.com/.
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lessthankyle posted:This is up now on https://nycabsentee.com/. The board of elections using .com domains is so sketchy
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I voted absentee last time but this time I’m definitely going to risk getting sick I want my worthless vote to get counted 
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Mechafunkzilla posted:The board of elections using .com domains is so sketchy It's probably way less red tape than getting a new top-level .gov domain
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haveblue posted:It's probably way less red tape than getting a new top-level .gov domain "NYC Absentee dot com - It's Dot Gov!"
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Snowy posted:I voted absentee last time but this time I’m definitely going to risk getting sick 
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In the primary i requested my ballot in the beginning of May and didn't get it until the day after the election. I'm not going to bother this time. My early voting place is a bit of a walk, but it was pretty empty last time and a walk will be good for me. Just sigh at the BOE.
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haveblue posted:It's probably way less red tape than getting a new top-level .gov domain It should be absentee.nyc at the very least
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opposable thumbs.db posted:It should be absentee.nyc at the very least pfff if you think a landlord doesn’t already own that
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Absurd Alhazred posted:"NYC Absentee dot com - It's Dot Gov!" Lol
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opposable thumbs.db posted:It should be absentee.nyc at the very least I actually looked into this a bunch during the primary because the absentee list you get from the BOE didn't include anyone we could find who used that site. When we made requests around the beginning of May (the site went up some time in April), the only absentee requests were from traditional methods. We didn't see any website absentees show up until early June, at which point the number of requests in the lists jumped from 4,000 (at the end of May, we requested new lists every week and a half or so) to 23,000. A week later is was 40,000 and growing. The site itself is just some third-party consultant who collected all the entries and sent them to the BOE in big dumps in late May. The BOE run the site, it was registered by some GoDaddy service that's different than the vote.nyc domain. The site's stylesheet was also badly copied and didn't have the same headers, and it's privacy policy is a template from privacypolicytemplate.net. Since we couldn't find the names of people who used it, and the site looked sketchy as hell, we got really worried. When we called the BOE, most front-line staffers didn't even know the site existed, or that there was an absentee-related EO from Cuomo. Tried to get some reporters interested, but they didn't think it was worth a story. Cut to mid-June when it came out that tons of people weren't going to get ballots in time.
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Tulip posted:http://secondavenuesagas.com/2020/08/26/doomsday-budget-mta-threatens-40-service-cuts-to-buses-subways-if-federal-aid-fails-to-arrive/ And by doling out 9000+ permanent job losses, I'm sure the actual impact on delays and maintenance issues will be way worse than any public-facing forecast would probably admit. This is going to be loving devastating.
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Tulip posted:http://secondavenuesagas.com/2020/08/26/doomsday-budget-mta-threatens-40-service-cuts-to-buses-subways-if-federal-aid-fails-to-arrive/ This is torpedoing my mood. I generally roll my eyes at all the "NYC is dead and never coming back" COVID doomsaying but the city really does die without functional transit.
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Mechafunkzilla posted:This is torpedoing my mood. I generally roll my eyes at all the "NYC is dead and never coming back" COVID doomsaying but the city really does die without functional transit. If they are really going to decrease train/bus frequency it's not going to help the covid situation anyways because things will get crowded AF really fast.
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butros posted:If they are really going to decrease train/bus frequency it's not going to help the covid situation anyways because things will get crowded AF really fast. Exactly. Before covid trains would already get full during rush hour coming at 3-5 minute intervals. Even if you doubled the wait times the system would become unusable, to say nothing of dangerous crowding. 12+ minute wait times is unfathomable.
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lol this happening in my beloved home city that is, at the best of times, a bit of a nightmare to live and move around in
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I was joking with my friend how I'm going to spend a few years here and only 8 months of it actually "living" the NYC life.
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Uft has a meeting tuesday to finalize plans for demanding remote learning via some osha enforcement mechanism as plan A and strike as plan B if A is blocked Rank and file members are being polled tonight to estimate support for these actions
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Real hurthling! posted:Uft has a meeting tuesday to finalize plans for demanding remote learning via some osha enforcement mechanism as plan A and strike as plan B if A is blocked what's your guess on support / oppose? every teacher friend I have is absolutely furious and at least de facto work to rule striking anyway
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idk anybody that wants to be front lines on daily indoor gatherings but i dont know everybody
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Absurd Alhazred posted:Kind of weird focus for a Congressional campaign. yyyyyeah this is weird. I know the guy who ran his primary campaign, and that guy would say something like this... ironically / onlineishly, but understand the historical comparisons and not allow this specific set of hyperbolic words near the congressman's screen time. Max is a strange guy. good at being handled, comes off as pretty genuine otherwise, but leaning into this seems unusual eta: he's troopdem as hell and his politics suck but that's the raging socialist in me Gunshow Poophole has issued a correction as of 22:30 on Sep 9, 2020 |
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Absurd Alhazred posted:Kind of weird focus for a Congressional campaign. Is...BdB running for a seat in Staten Island?
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Tulip posted:Is...BdB running for a seat in Staten Island? it doesn’t even matter, he’s just throwing out some poo poo that all his potential voters agree with, right? he probably could have just said “y’now what? gently caress Hilary Clinton”
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hizzoner da mayor deserves some respect gotta respect da office
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I loving hate Max Rose, Blue Dog Troop motherfucker. All goods signs are green with a white star, cause he was in the Army. He's been running ads to the Right of Maliotokas and now he's claiming she's to unacceptable cause of the pandemic when this fucker is against M4A. I loving hate Staten Island and the dipshit reactionaries on it. loving bad enough my neighbor is some PMC dipshit whose got a Biden bumper sticker on his car, just put up a Max Rose sign on his door and he's a loving Free Mason.
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KomradeX posted:I loving hate Max Rose, Blue Dog Troop motherfucker. All goods signs are green with a white star, cause he was in the Army. He's been running ads to the Right of Maliotokas and now he's claiming she's to unacceptable cause of the pandemic when this fucker is against M4A. Yea, I heard Max on Brian Lehrer the other day and he sucks bad. Went out of his way to praise the NYPD and say that left political thought is unrealistic and unhelpful.
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So this is not entirely Pol related, I am a 30 year plus NYCr, and just went upstate for a week near New Paltz. Indoor, maskless dining. Encouraged. People beckoning you to be rubbing shoulders.
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Gaj posted:So this is not entirely Pol related, I am a 30 year plus NYCr, and just went upstate for a week near New Paltz. I was hiding out most of this time near New Paltz and it was pretty good overall. It’s been open for indoor dining for a while but I only went out for one dinner- the tables were spread far apart, and even the few bar stools were well spaced. You needed to wear a mask until you got to your table but obviously not while you’re sitting to eat. In general I’d say people were just as good as in the city but it’s also easier because there’s plenty of restaurants with large outdoor spaces and those were great, I didn’t even want to eat 6’ away from anyone.
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I say around New Paltz because I love the Groovy Blueberry, but the towns I was in have all encouraged maskless-casual.
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Gaj posted:I say around New Paltz because I love the Groovy Blueberry, but the towns I was in have all encouraged maskless-casual. like nobody wearing masks at all? I haven’t seen that once in the last five months but 🤷🏽♂️ there’s a lot of restaurants.
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New York City's Finest, folks! https://twitter.com/NYPD60Pct/status/1313270260339019783  The replies are gold. Probably dug up from Jamaica Bay. Like that loving revolver.
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