That moment when New York City realized that it doesn't have to resort to clogging its curbs and sidewalks with loose bags of trash and can instead rely on sophisticated technology: Trash cans
Car brain in the comment thread...
Trash bags take up exactly as much space as a trash bag for exactly as long as it is on the sidewalk. Trash cans take up more than their maximum capacity regardless of how full they are, 24 hours a day.
And the tweeter's reply...
Despite having the best public transit system in America, New York City has 3 million on-street parking spaces, more than 95% of which are free, and your concern is… trash cans taking up too much space? Sorry, but if you love the rats so much, why don't you marry one?
Oh, my god - that's definitely going to happen. Some awful tech bro with connections to Eric Adams is going to make some useless app with a name like NYCanIt. The app will "disrupt" the system because Adams made buidlings, stores, restaurants, etc buy the fucking thing "to bring New York City's garbage collect system into the 21st century". Some idiot libs will also buy the app to "support the mayor". The app will be a rat that eats money.
Sometime later news will break that Adams has a super-sketchy connection to the tech bro and highly likely some percentage of NYCanIt revenue goes right into the mayor's pocket. Adams will respond by saying "I am a Christian and a man of God. Ungodly people do not understand what a man like myself is trying to do to make the city better." Notably he'll entirely ignore the media's mewing requests he explain what his exact connection is to the tech bro and to NYCanIt.
We have a new rentable trashcan and we think you're going to love it
Through the use of advanced AI, we have devised a trash pick-up service with optimal routes which exclude the trashiest parts of the city, meaning you get faster* service!
* Subject to eligibility. Living in a trashier area may lead to ineligibility.
Haha.