I'm tired of the propaganda from a city that only discovered trash cans in 2025
this post was submitted on 29 Jan 2026
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Look bucko, New York has stores on corners you can buy food in, special bins for placing trash into, and a system for removing snow from streets. It's the only place in the world with those! The greatest city on Earth!
And bodega cats. 😺
Tax credits for bodegas with cats. Slowly turn NYC into the far superior Istanbul.
Too busy going for the cultural victory
For that you'll need to bring back Adams.
Civ mod that just has Eric Adams converting everyone's cities into NYC to achieve total cultural victory
Eric Adams would turn every city into Istanbul or whichever other European city he's visited last
Civ mod that just has Eric Adams converting everyone's cities into ~~NYC~~ Istanbul to achieve total cultural victory
I feel like if you live in any other American ‘city’ you don’t get to complain about NYC
Are these melters approved for use on all forms of ice?
I think Sanitation has wood chippers for other types of ICE
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Teen season Simpsons sure had some interesting stylistic choices.
It was a weird little musical dream sequence thing, but yeah
If you bring the heat ICE will melt
the best US city is whichever one starts killing ICE agents
Won't melting the snow just make more ice?
in typical NYC fashion, they flush it down the toilet where it disappears forever and doesn't exist anymore (aka isn't in NYC).
Worked on Cuomo
Draining into the sewer
I would assume they're dumping it down in the drainage where it won't bother anybody (important.)
Should just dump it in the Hudson to combat global warming.
Funny enough, this would be a violation of the clean water act. Letting the snow melt naturally and flow through the storm drains into the hudson would not be a violation however. But this melted snow must be treated at a wastewater plant.
I figure snow that gets pushed around and salted and all sorts of stuff is probably much worse to let run into freshwater than regular snow, so that does make sense.
Yeah it's basically illegal to intentionally dump anything, even drinking water, into a storm drain or river.
When water distribution operators need to flush out pipes or hydrants, the water must pass through a dechlorinating device because dumping any chlorine residual intentionally would be illegal. However, you as a private citizen using chlorinated water on your lawn that runs into a storm drain isn't illegal.
NYC storm drains don't go into the waste water plant?
Actually, I looked it up and most of NYC has a combined system where storm drains do go to the sewage plant. This is common for older cities, most cities have them separated. So the melted snow would indeed get treated by the sewage plant however it melts, but dumping it into the river would probably be illegal
we’re talking about new york not new new york
What if we take all of our trash and it into space (New Jersey)?
Is NJ the trash or the space here?
What about york new city 
We’re already on greed island and it’s not a fun card battler
Le sigh
This is cooler tho, how do we get this?
I actually really don't get the point of wasting all this time and all that energy, instead of just pushing it into the water that is right there.
This seems like the new hotness going around in cities and I am jealous of the person making so much money off of this added deficiency
It's probably full of a lot of trash and impurities, melting it lets it be filtered through waste water systems.
It's probably full of a lot of trash and impurities
I'm sorry are we talking about the Hudson or the snow?
But sure, I to don't want to keep using rivers as a toilet. I'm just not sure the energy costs are better since that is also a pollutant and this injects another machine as a thing that needs parts, grease, salt and a lot of generated heat, as well as a bottleneck on processing speed.
This feels more like a good salesman was involved than a practical decision.
Wow, that seems like a huge waste of energy.
probably but it might be less wasteful than other methods
These machines are powered by Low Sulfur Diesel, hugeeeee energy usage. Especially given the river is typically right there.
Why do this when salt gritting is perfectly adequate?
Ooo, we have this outside my work!