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THE YANKS HAVE DISCOVERED WHEELIE BINS. This is not a drill x.com/NYCMayor/sta...
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Now my late night binposting is doing Bluesky numbers, I'd like to say (a) sorry for conflating New York City with the whole of the United States (b) regardless of where you live, Wednesday is the worst bin day. If your bin day is Wednesday, just bag yourself and put yourself out on Tuesday night
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Summer's here, time to hit the pool!
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Do you're telling me there's gonna be some new waste management contracts?
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I feel like Mark L. Lester needs to remake Commando now that current bin technology allows him to fully realise the film's opening scene the way he intended.
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I have had wheelie bins everywhere I have lived. It's been at least 20 years since I've had a non wheeled bin. As an American, I like calling it a wheelie bin as opposed to a garbage can.
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Dead pleased for them x
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I am genuinely delighted, they're going to love bin day discourse (Yes Americans I know you already have bin day just let me have this)
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Bin day is special because whether they realise it or not everyone considers wheelies sentient little helpful garbage guys
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(Tony Soprano voice) Remember when the bin man was hard?
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Everywhere here does. NYC doesn't use them for big buildings because the number of them it will take is gonna make this interesting.
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I figured there was surely no way the technology had just been discovered! This makes way more sense
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We pile our trash on the sidewalk. Sometimes in bags!
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You have to take up the space of 1 parking spot with a dumpster, which is unacceptable to cops
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I’m picturing the classic scene of NY streets full of yellow taxis but instead of taxis it’s wheelie bins
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I mean if you look at the stacks of garbage bags a big apartment building will put out for a week I am not sure how this is gonna be feasible, but I look forward to the pictures.
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Oh, we have them. That’s why we’re all so amazed by this too.
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A friend is currently trying to walk me thru the way NYC does trash via texts. It isn’t going well
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I am tempted to offer money to see this explanation.
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Lolol. I’ve only ever dealt with either apartments that had dumpsters or houses that had to have their own trash removal accounts. Add the fact that I was fairly baked to the issue and poor Erica 😄 I just couldn’t get over “but who’s paying for it? How do the trash people know it’s been paid?”
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Where will Top Cat live?
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We have them. They are provided by the town, but are generally called trash or recycling bins.
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The fact that New York has a "rat czar" is starting to make sense
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I'm disappointed; I would have thought rats would be more drawn towards forming a federal democracy.
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New York copying Chicago once again
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LA suburbs have had these for probably decades.
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The bit here is that wheelie bins are bad for the kind of density NYC has. Imagine a 75 unit building using wheelie bins: that's what they're proposing.
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I wonder why. It can't be cheaper if it's so impractical?
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It's not. Eric Adams is stupid.
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These are just going to fill up the streets, if implemented.
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That's what I imagine. I just can't imagine what would make someone think that's a good idea.
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Yeah nah it's not a drill, it's a bin Don't start, you'll only confuse them
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For decades, but new York’s mayor is a special strain of stupid.
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We've had them for ages, they're just not a good fit for most of New York City.