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The sewer is the answer.

https://youtu.be/4hPShoKFWic

Documentary evidence!

The show was created before the internet became popular.

They could fudge on details with impunity.

Complete and utter impunity!!

“By choice, not by chance.”

I’ve been waiting since 3rd Grade to use that one.

The real bosses would never want to sit down with a guy like Don. He’s a loudmouth who would blab about his big connections to anyone who’d listen. Don’s not smart enough to realize that he’s been basing his act on a bunch of second level goons.

It’s worth watching, if only for the historical value

It was a simpler, more innocent time.

So the Boomers were right and you’re supposed to throw babies into the sewer to build up the immune system?

Trump is fixated on being a tough guy Mafioso. Ruining an established business to soak up quick profits is a classic mob move.

The billionaire giveth, and the billionaire taketh away.

Bloomie’s daughter was in charge of an update of the City’s payroll. It ended up costing the taxpayers about a billion and people were indicted.

Haven’t seen the movie and didn’t know it was a book.

Thanks for the information.

Also, look up “Network” Not about tech, but when it came out it was a cutting edge satire

“…you can get away with it if you’re famous.”

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https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-ax-donald-e-westlake/2e2a83364fed3de5?ean=9780892965878&next=t

After a middle aged middle manager loses his job, he realizes that he’s going to have to take extreme measures to save his lifestyle…

So you were watching TV in 1997?

Burn the old person, burn him I say!!!

I watched “Her” and “Simone” go from being science fiction to docudramas in real time.

Writer thinks “What could I do with technology if I had no morals and just wanted to make a lot of money fast?”

Business people think “What can I do with technology?”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Yoshihiro_Hattori

Yoshihiro Hattori (服部 剛丈, Hattori Yoshihiro; November 22, 1975 – October 17, 1992, often referred to as Yoshi Hattori[4]) was a Japanese student on an exchange program to the United States who was shot to death in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The shooting happened when Hattori, on his way to a Halloween party, went to the wrong house by mistake. Property owner Rodney Peairs

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New Yorker here.

Billionaire Mike Bloomberg cut down on traffic in Manhattan by closing off streets and he supported congestion pricing, which became a thing under ex-cop Mayor Adams.

De Blasio supported free buses.

The most popular Mayor in New York City history ran on a Fusion Ticket where he was supported by the Communist Party, the socialists, and the Republicans.

And my favorite NYC political quote, from Ed Koch.

“If you agree with me 51% of the time, vote for me. If you agree with me 100% of the time, seek a psychiatrist.”

Similarly, I expect that a lot of airline CEOs are calling their pet Senators after Trump announced plans to scale back air traffic controllers.

“For Value Received”, by Andrew J. Offutt

A new father receives a bill for the birth of his daughter. He asks what will happen if he refuses to pay, and is told that the patient will not be allowed to go home until he pays up.

The mother and father go home and leave the baby.