• RNAi [he/him]
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    4815 days ago

    You mean NYC didn’t have those yet, or west Harlem didnt have them?

    Can’t believe fucking Buenos Aires is ahead of you

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        14 days ago

        So until recently garbage collectors in NYC had to manually load the garbage bags into the truck? No mechanical arm lift for the bins/containers?

        I mean that’s sadly still the thing in my city but c’mon it’s NYC for fuck sakes

        • Alaskaball [comrade/them]
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          3414 days ago

          Yeah when I was there I saw a truck with a gaggle of collectors following behind grabbing bags and throwing them in.

          I was both intrigued at the sight of something I used to see in my childhood still being done now and surprised at how many hot young people were working as collectors and not scruffy old 50-something overweight white men with facial hair.

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            14 days ago

            You gotta keep up with the truck for hours every night

            That shit is barbaric and rolling up containers and mechanical arms is one of those ridiculously obvious and easy improvements for any municipality, like sidewalk ramps in every corner

            • Alaskaball [comrade/them]
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              2714 days ago

              Be an interesting small rabbit hole to see whether or not the NY sanitation workers union were for or against that kind of automation.

    • Robert_Kennedy_Jr [xe/xem, xey/xem]
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      I’ve never been close to NYC but I believe the standard procedure was to just throw trash bags on the curb which have a high propensity for breaking open and being easy pickings for the rats.

    • The_Walkening [none/use name]
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      3415 days ago

      They had trashcans, but they switched to plastic bags during a sanitation worker strike in 1969 b/c the chemicals industry donated them.

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        14 days ago

        Yeah but those bags have to be manually loaded into the trucks, it’s crazy for such city to still have that horrid system

    • axont [she/her, comrade/them]
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      2614 days ago

      I’m an American who has been to Buenos Aires and it’s a genuine paradise compared to literally everywhere in the USA. Or maybe I was just too tourist brained, but Buenos Aires is gorgeous

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        Eh, sure it does have a lot of very nice places, beyond the hypergentrified ones I mean, but “gorgeous” eeh idk,

        The pizza and icecreams are the best of the best tho.

        I had a better time living in Córdoba despite being probably worse in every metric imaginable, but having the sierras just one bus-hour away is unbeatable.

        In the gorgeousmeter I would place Mendoza and Salta on top. I’m not considering Bariloche, Ushuaia nor any other patagonian town cuz it’s a silly comparison, Ushuaia is ridiculous.

        Mar del Plata is nice too

        In any case, Buenos Aires should be judged as the big whole the metropolitan area it is, and then the astronomic scale makes it umcomparable to any other city I have lived in. It could be way better, just like any city/metropolitan area.