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

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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?

  • InevitableSwing [none/use name]
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    1 year ago

    bodega

    I lived in NYC for a while. A bodega is not a convenience store. Convenience stores by definition are chain stores. Bodegas tend to be family run and tend to be funky because of that.

    Bodega (store)

    A bodega is a small owner-operated convenience store serving hot and prepared food, often open late hours and typically with ethnic market influences. Most famously located on New York's street corners as an introduction by Puerto Ricans in New York City, they are renowned for their convivial culture and colorful character. There are an estimated 13,000 bodegas across the city.

    • PosadistInevitablity [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      'A bodega is a small owner-operated convenience store '

      :guts-rage: :guts-rage: :guts-rage:

      nothing will calm my fury. nothing

      • InevitableSwing [none/use name]
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        1 year ago

        Commoditized 7-11-like shit is not a bodega. But - yes - some people still call bodegas convenience stores because bodegas are basically non-existent in most of the US.

        • invalidusernamelol [he/him]
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          1 year ago

          All the convenience stores around me are owned by mom and pop tyrants, the only difference is that they let Shell sell gas in the parking lot.

      • came_apart_at_Kmart [he/him, comrade/them]
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        1 year ago

        in new york, things are special because new yorkers believe they are. i mean, it's not like anywhere else in north america has a completely unique, owner-operated store selling a weird variety of convenience items and egg sandwiches. such a thing can only have ever happened in new york, where the magic of civilization happens. once you leave the boroughs, it's all just chains.

    • edge [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      Convenience stores by definition are chain stores.

      Where did you get that definition from?

    • Frogmanfromlake [none/use name]
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      1 year ago

      They look like the kind of stores that operate all over my town, all family run and filled with everything. Looks like it started from Puerto Rican immigrants and that checks out.