A perfect 8/13 (Spoilers for The Good Place)
- 4 Posts
- 1.1K Comments
spongebue@lemmy.worldto
Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.world•New Yorkers to World Cup Fans: Please Don’t Walk to Metlife StadiumEnglish
1·3 days agotax revenue. People spend money, that money has sales tax, room tax, etc. Obviously the city does not own the hotels, restaurants, clothes and souvenir stores people will end up in, etc.
You figured it out! You win math! 😀
spongebue@lemmy.worldto
Technology@lemmy.world•Berkshire Has a Website From the ’90s and Buffett Fans Say Don’t Mess With ItEnglish
21·4 days agohttps://berkshirehathaway.com/
For clickability
spongebue@lemmy.worldto
Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.world•New Yorkers to World Cup Fans: Please Don’t Walk to Metlife StadiumEnglish
2·4 days agoWhich means more ridership (ticket revenue) and more tax revenue going into the area through other means, like hotels.
Surely whatever logistics they use for NFL games can also be used here? How much more of a crowd could they be expecting?
spongebue@lemmy.worldto
Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.world•New Yorkers to World Cup Fans: Please Don’t Walk to Metlife StadiumEnglish
9·4 days agoIsn’t that, like, all transit though? If the RV show is in town I wouldn’t expect them to pay for transit either.
spongebue@lemmy.worldto
Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.world•New Yorkers to World Cup Fans: Please Don’t Walk to Metlife StadiumEnglish
6·4 days agoBut in other events they can figure out how to run it charging 90% less, or if you use Trump math 1000% less?
spongebue@lemmy.worldto
Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.world•New Yorkers to World Cup Fans: Please Don’t Walk to Metlife StadiumEnglish
67·4 days agoNJ Transit said this month that train tickets to MetLife Stadium for the World Cup would cost $150 — more than 10 times the normal price
That’s the infuriating part. WTF are they doing?
spongebue@lemmy.worldto
Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.world•New York officials want speed-limiting devices installed in the cars of drivers who get more than 16 speeding tickets in a yearEnglish
4·4 days agoLet’s not build the torment nexus
Those are definitely words
spongebue@lemmy.worldto
Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.world•New York officials want speed-limiting devices installed in the cars of drivers who get more than 16 speeding tickets in a yearEnglish
8·4 days agoThose are two very different things, and more than one ticket per month over the course of a year (and those are just the times you get caught) is more than generous.
spongebue@lemmy.worldto
You Should Know@lemmy.world•YSK 36 US states require voters to present identification to vote at the polls on Election Day
3·4 days agoAnd when are they using this vague identity theft materialized into voter fraud?
spongebue@lemmy.worldto
You Should Know@lemmy.world•YSK 36 US states require voters to present identification to vote at the polls on Election Day
3·4 days agoGenerally, the things you bring up are privileges, not rights.
spongebue@lemmy.worldto
You Should Know@lemmy.world•YSK about PBS Passport streaming service for as low as $5 a month.
10·6 days agoOf all the hobbies one could have, that’s certainly one of them
spongebue@lemmy.worldto
politics @lemmy.world•Florida GOP legislature sends new House map, netting party up to 4 seats, to DeSantis for signature
2·7 days agoFeels good to see someone else bringing this up before I have a chance to! Hopefully it feels even better to see it in about 6 months
spongebue@lemmy.worldto
Today I Learned@lemmy.world•TIL the largest national park in the European Union is in South AmericaEnglish
6·6 days agoFrance shares its longest land border with Brazil
spongebue@lemmy.worldto
Lemmy Be Wholesome@lemmy.world•Buffalo fans finish 'O Canada' after mic fails before Game 5 of Sabres-Bruins series
13·7 days agoBuffalo is the only NHL team to play both national anthems before home games, regardless of opponent, a tradition tied to its proximity — about eight kilometres — to the border and a strong Canadian fan base.
That’s actually really cool!
Honestly, people love to shit on the PT Cruiser but at least it tried to be a little different - arguably in a cool retro way!
spongebue@lemmy.worldto
World News@lemmy.world•‘The cost of compute is far beyond the costs of the employees’: Nvidia exec says right now AI is more expensive than paying human workersEnglish
8·7 days agoMay this be the beginning of the end, or at least the end of the beginning. Quite possibly with a bubble burst so we can move on from the era of slop (am I being too optimistic?)
spongebue@lemmy.worldto
Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•What's a scam that's so normalized that we don't even realize it's a scam anymore?
7·8 days agoBut how should a singer who produces an album, or an author who writes a book, or whatever be compensated? Its popularity isn’t really known until after it’s published, it’s not really fair for a damn good writer to get paid the same as someone who produces slop.




That gif could have been easier on all of us if it were just a damn list. Kind of like those reddit posts where a line graph gets turned into a minute-long video with unnecessarily dramatic music when the last frame tells the story just as easily.