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[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago

It's from the streamed clams they're having.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] -3 points 6 days ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago

You can't see steam. It's not visible to the naked eye.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago

No it is Moist. Air.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

You know how when rockets take off in Florida there's lots of smoke?

Yeah there's a tunnel that goes from Florida to New York that the smoke goes through to help heat up the New York streets. So anytime you see smoke in New York it's cause a rocket was recently shot up in Florida. ~~Technology~~ Infrastructure is incredible!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago

Ah yes, the classic New York fog machine. Turns out it’s not for dramatic effect—just the city’s 19th-century steam system still doing its thing. Who needs modern infrastructure when you’ve got built-in Gotham vibes?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 days ago

Hundred plus year old infrastructure.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago

They use a lot of steam for heating still

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 days ago

Volcano under the city

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

yo mama's farts

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

That’s where they cook the Nuts4Nuts

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

That's the breath of millions of poops.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

They might be smoke testing the system, looking for leaks! Smoke is pumped into water pipe infrastructure and leaks out of potential cracks or undisclosed/illegal sources (such as a company dumping into the sewer system without disclosing it to the city). They do this so they can locate and fix these sources so the water remains uncontaminated by groundwater seepage.

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