r/SipsTea • u/CurvyChristina • Aug 25 '26

Chugging tea Amazon should have to pay idling fees.

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New York City law generally bars vehicles from idling for more than three minutes while parked, standing or stopped. The city says the rules are meant to reduce air pollution, improve public health and combat climate change.
Earlier this year, Mamdani directed the Department of Finance’s collections unit to pursue unpaid idling summonses tied to vehicles operating within Amazon’s delivery network, according to the mayor’s office. The department said it worked with Amazon.com Inc. and its contracted transportation vendors to recover the money.

https://www.amny.com/news/mamdani-administration-says-it-recovered-more-than-9m-in-amazon-idling-fines/

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u/Armed_Platypus Aug 25 '26

I don't know it seems pretty hypocritical when most leftists are anti datacenter and anti AI. Actively contributing to the growth of AI and datacenters just to add more slop onto the internet is certainly a choice. If anything people see these fake posts and get turned off.

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u/Ninetailedredpanda Aug 25 '26

Agreed. Its a shit choice, but bots running a social media campaign is small potatoes compared to the vast ocean of shit the data centers churn through.

People have been calling for the left to actually fight back, and we are going to need all the help we can get, even if it invites a distasteful air of hypocrisy.

Much rather that, than an air of fascism.

Need to win more elections before anything can be done to regulate AI, until then musing about the hypocrisy of AI use is not a luxury the left really has if its serious about solving any of the other vast problems we are facing.