Capital punishment will always be more of a tool to control behavior than a tool to regulate public justice.

A death penalty serves the ultimate purpose of demonstrating that the state can use its power (executive, legislative, and judicial) to order a citizen killed.

The power of the state to kill someone can be wielded arbitrarily based upon laws enacted (legislative), sentences ordered (judicial), and pardons withheld (executive).

Expect more laws and more capital sentences to curb more behaviors that the state wishes to curtail. When they run out of behaviors, expect capital punishment for crimes of belief, thought, and group affiliation for that is the natural progression of authoritarianism, despotism, and tyranny.

That article mentions “nuclear” once.

I believe when facing NATO, Russia would not hesitate to use tactical nuclear weapons on the battlefield.

NATO vs Russia is a completely different conflict without the US in NATO.

YEAST LORDS!

Body Horror.

Things going wrong with the human body are viscerally frightening.

See: David Cronenberg

Don’t forget to pay the tariff!

No Jumaane Williams in that poll, huh?

Awful suspect.

Brett Druck! Underrated comic. Saw him with Steve Hofstetter back in the day. Glad he’s still at it.

Baby-birded from Magic Johnson.

Ozempic is on the list.

As much as Eric Adams is a POS, the MTA is a state “agency” so most of the corruption occurs at the state level.

But hard agree with you. The funds will never actually help the people who need the help.

MTA buses are exempt but they are raising fares anyway.

There are a LOT of private commuter buses though (Academy Bus Lines come to mind) - also NJ Transit or the private lines from north and east of the city. I don’t know if they are exempt.

Just a slight correction to your post - it isn’t NYC leadership per se. The final call is made by the NY State governor as the MTA is regulated on the state level.

I don’t do it a lot but there are times when I just cannot take public transit - like when I need to bring packages to my relatives. Or like this week when I need to bring my cat to the animal hospital in Manhattan. It’s very difficult to bring my cat to her appointment by public transit or Uber/Lyft/Taxi.

My rare driving into the zone is negligible but every car on the road contributes to the traffic.

Agreed. The next phases should keep expanding the zone until there is an equilibrium across all the travel routes.

Definitely agree. It’s just something that will always push traffic to the adjacent area. Eventually it could be all NYC then Westchester county will become the traffic inheritor.

You bring up a valid point though. Many trucks will just chalk it up to an additional expense and keep driving through Manhattan.

Definitely not faster. But cheaper. It adds another $21.60 per truck right now.

There are a few community organizations that are bringing attention to it. Everyone is waiting to see if the reality matches the predictions. It just went into effect today.