NYC subway platforms are hot in summer because the train AC is blasting heat onto the tracks. The cooler the train gets, the hotter the station becomes. If we turn the car AC up a few degrees (75°F instead of deep freeze) the platforms can be a lil cooler. Should we try it?
02.03.2026 02:48 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Why not Amazon lockers in the NYC subway? Pair them with a coffee kiosk. The barista keeps an eye on the lockers (security solved). The commuter grabs a package and a coffee on the way home. Singapore and Taipei do this. Locker rent plus a cut of coffee sales = new MTA revenue.
02.03.2026 01:52 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
NYC today:
01.03.2026 20:14 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0#skytok #cars
01.03.2026 05:03 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Mini dozer from central Pennsylvania came out to NYC Wed, made short work of the big snowfall. #skytok
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Investment paid off today: Jared Kushner defends his equity firm getting $2 billion from Saudis after he left White House
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Currently hosting a 2-3lb wetware rig capable of peak AGI and the world's most sophisticated LLM, yet your "User" keeps u stuck in an infinite loop of mindless screen-swiping 🧠
28.02.2026 22:28 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I think we’re soft launching weekend wars, then yeeting TF outta there. Gets good press coverage, let someone else clean up the mess. You could call it a blitzkrieg
28.02.2026 19:52 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0I think we’re soft launching weekend wars, then yeeting TF outta there. Gets good press coverage, let someone else clean up the mess. You could call it a blitzkrieg
28.02.2026 19:52 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0NYC gotta remove the homeless & mentally ill from mass transit, and remove the wealthy suburban college graduates from rent stabilized homes. One caused the other
28.02.2026 16:58 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0NYC is great. People move in. Rents rise. Instead of building more homes, neighbors fight new homes, thinking they cause high rents. Shortage gets worse. Rents climb again. Then we cap rents, which scares off financing. Fewer homes get built. And around we go. 🌀
28.02.2026 16:50 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0NYC is stuck in a brutal fiscal trap. Costs for mandated services are exploding just as our real estate engine is hitting the brakes. AI white collar unemployment. Unless we fix how we build & stop the "emergency" spending spree, this $127B budget is a preview of a fiscal crisis
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Gonna start a kickstarter this weekend to buy this and build a 100 story residential building here. How hard could it be
27.02.2026 19:24 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0The poorest Americans pay a hidden “car tax” just to survive. The bottom 20-25% spend about 30%+ of before-tax income on transportation, and likely over 40% of take-home pay on cars and commuting, just to reach jobs and groceries. Car dependency created American poverty today
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AOC blocked homes at this sunnyside queens location in 2019. The homes would be occupied today by families of it was built.
https://reason.com/2019/12/03/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-is-right-to-oppose-this-nyc-mega-development/
AOC blocked homes at this sunnyside queens location in 2019. The homes would be occupied today by families of it was built.
https://reason.com/2019/12/03/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-is-right-to-oppose-this-nyc-mega-development/
Can retail work in mass transit stations?
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What would you do with all the empty retail at Fulton Center? 🚇
This prime transit hub in Manhattan has too many vacant stores. How would you activate it to bring in jobs and generate more revenue for the system?
A lot of progressive politics in America is shaped by the top 20 percent of earners. They vote for fairness. They fund campaigns about justice. And then they block the exact policies that would make things more equal.
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#unicycle #skytok
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If NYC cut its income tax by 1%, the first-order effects are boring but powerful: higher after-tax wages, lower unemployment, more jobs, and more people choosing to work in the city rather than around it. Labor supply responds. Firms respond. The tax base broadens.
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Demand doesn’t vanish. It competes.
New homes are a pressure valve. Without it, prices don’t freeze, they explode.
NYC rents feel brutal.
Now run this thought experiment:
If we hadn’t built a single new home since 2000, would millions of people have politely stayed away?
Or would they have moved here anyway, fighting over the same pre-war apartments, bidding rents even higher than today?
Snowing once, snowing twice, GONE #skytok
25.02.2026 18:29 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0NYC sanitation making quick work of the blizzard #skytok
25.02.2026 18:27 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Professors + textbooks + lectures = knowledge transmission.
If AGI can explain anything, simulate anything, test you on anything, and adapt to your weaknesses in real time, then our college scarcity disappears.
horses versus cars. OR
horses versus teleportation.
(JOhn Henry the steel driving man)
Take a walk in snowy Brooklyn #skytok #snow
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Issue politics #skytok
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#skytok #snow
25.02.2026 04:00 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
This is exaggerated.“I ended eight wars.”
This is exaggerated.“We are deporting illegal alien criminals from our country at record numbers and we’re getting them the hell out of here fast!”
False.“We will always protect Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid.”
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