it was right there!

Life probably isn’t great for the people who got bussed to a new city in a foreign land to become wards of the state but I am sure that whatever bureaucrats are in charge of these programs have a lot of friends in hotels and food service that suddenly got a lot richer

Also doesn’t seem like that insightful of a study when it sounds like it comes down to ‘people bought what they were used to buying before even when presented with new options’. Especially when the new items are priced the same as they are in the high income areas grocery stores.

But yeah lets keep commenting on why giving poor people access to fruits and veggies is actually a BAD thing lol. Oml people will always hear about a good thing and immediately become cynical af about it and they’re the smart ones for knowing it won’t work bc this one study I found says I’m right and you’re a dumbass bleeding heart for supporting this. Like wtf lets just give the kids some fruit 😂

>Getting depressed kids off devices is half the solution, frankly.

>100% this, Instagram and other social media is contributing to the spike in teen suicide rate, humans need face to face contact.

It’s really giving ‘phone bad’

Maybe re read it

It’s possible but it’s really optimistic.

Coming from uptown you have to transfer to the R to Queens Plaza to get to the E. So you’re waiting for your downtown train, your transfer to the E, and then the E. When the trains are running its nice but delays are going to fuck you. Plus the E is admittedly very nice when its running express but at night when its local its a slog. You gotta wait like 20 minutes for a train and then you’re looking at an hour from that point to get to Penn Station. And then there’s been the problem w Jamaica station being shut down on the weekends/at night so you need to take a shuttle bus. There’s just a lot of variables that can drastically effect the time. So it can be 30 minutes and during peak times on weekdays it runs well enough (still not enough trains though lol) but speaking as someone who makes a daily commute from the Bronx to Jamaica the subway just really sucks getting you there consistently.

Okay so you see no difference between a child using an ipad access social media and a child using an ipad to have a zoom call with a therapist where they can talk through their problems with a real person??

I see nothing to connect the adverse effects of social media on teens and increased telehealth access for teens besides you needing a phone for both. What’s next? We need to make appointments in person too because phone bad?

Therapy is invaluable to those who need it. And while I agree that you do get more out of it in in-person sessions that is just not a realistic option in this case. It has been incredibly hard for me to find an in-person therapist in the city and I have insurance, am able to make time for an appointment during a weekday, and am able to pay out of pocket costs. I doubt even half of students in the city have all that. This program is going to help people, full stop.

And there’s obviously a massive difference between using a device to go to therapy and using one to doomscroll on twitter/reddit or play video games. Its just the most boomer shit ever to hear this news and immediately go to ‘phone bad make kid big sad’

Actually at worst you’re getting nothing, but at best you’re getting much better weed than whatever is at the only legal dispensary for significantly cheaper.

Smoke shops all over the city are selling real weed. Might not be ‘legal’ but it’s pretty easy to tell.

But how does this make legislators money???