this is why I prefer the 'no ethical consumption under capitalism' bumper sticker

You just don’t gatekeep something like that

the orphan crushing machine metaphor implies he is solving big problems though, whereas what Mamdani's correctly identified is the mayoralty is an excellent platform to combine relentless PR with solving modest problems (this is also what Trump wishes the presidency were)

or put another way, AI in the classroom is really a proxy for what your discipline considers plagiarism or not and I feel like we don't talk nearly enough about the vast differences among disciplines in this regard

Unlike AOC he doesn’t have to take tough votes

by orphan crushing machine maybe they mean “the observation deck of the municipal building was not open to the public”

I like him but he’s put out an RFP for toilets and got some homeless people off the street before a snowstorm. pretty standard mayor stuff.

I watch it while I do the dishes

Cooking for one can come close if you shop at a high end grocery store and/or are not good at planning how to use leftover ingredients. But it scales very quickly with 2+.

see also: vaccines

As the (maybe apocryphal) story about the US News rankings goes, when the man who used to run them was asked how he was sure of his methodology he said "because Harvard and Yale are at the top"