Being born of a certain skin color is not a choice.

Choosing to support a fascist is a choice, you dumb mother fucker.

The use of metropolitan statistical area leads to some very strange results here.

For the area I'm familiar with here; Trenton-Princeton are two very different worlds. You can find homes, in relatively decent shape, for 100,000USD in Trenton. Why? Because there's a murder like every two weeks around the corner. Princeton, on the other hand, won't even get you a 1/10th acre plot with no house for 100,000USD. Hell, I'd be shocked if you could find the smallest plot in the whole town for under 200k. Average home price in Princeton is like 1.2 million USD. Average price in Trenton is 165k.

I know every one of these words, but I have no fucking clue what you're trying to say.

Per Capita is the important metric here. Don't be obtuse.

I can, actually.

There is documented data that rates of bullying have actually improved over the past few decades.

https://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/display.asp?id=719

Note that 2009 (the year cited in this data being compared to this decade) was before the introduction of smartphones en messe, and long before the proliferation of social media.

Oh you work in IT, that makes you an expert on bullying.

I'm done wasting my time here. I'm not the one that opened the conversation with some name-calling. Good day rube.

Lmao you call me a liar but cry when you're treated the same way?

Don't throw rocks if you don't want them thrown back, bitch.

Whatever you tell yourself to sleep at night, sweetheart. You can ignore the fact that, in my community growing up, everyone had AIM and IRC and other forms of chatrooms that spread rumors and information like wildfire, but that doesn't make it a lie.

Not like that makes any difference; bullying is just as brutal whether the internet exists or not. When your cohort is only 100 people, and you get your shit kicked in in the hallway, the entire school knows what happened before the end of the day.

They aren't.

I've been teaching for a decade, and was a student obviously much longer before that. I experienced the same kind of bullying in middle and high school in the 90s and 2000s. I also attempted suicide. The only reason I survived is because I was privileged enough to be in a family with good access to healthcare and a good understanding of mental health issues, who got me into therapy.

My schools' administrations, both private and public schools, were just as inept and incapable of stopping the abuse.

I was lucky. Most aren't. But this is nothing new.

>or even on a sidewalk

Uh, no. The sidewalk is not a place for people to conduct business, it's a path of travel. Don't push pedestrians into the street, forcing them to risk being struck by cars because you want to cut hair on the sidewalk.

What do you mean? My eyes suck and I can read them zooming in on a phone. I think you need an optometrist

Someone else doing something wrong is not an excuse for you to endanger other drivers. Honk your horn, flip them off, tell them they should have been a blowjob, but don't drive like a shitstain just because someone else is driving like a shitstain

And this is why abortion is such a vitally important right we need to protect.

I don't need a painting to live. I don't need stocks to survive.

I need a home as a basic necessity for survival.

Honest question; do you prefer a full leather upper, or something synthetic, when you do your bootlicking?

>has not changed

The numbers tell a different story. Fatal car accidents are rising at an alarming rate. This is a pretty stark change over the last few decades.

https://www.northjersey.com/story/news/new-jersey/2022/08/20/fatal-car-accidents-by-year-nj-2022/65411415007/

What in the actual fuck does the me too movement, a societal reckoning with sexual harassment and assault, have to do with traffic?

But if I'm not constantly scrolling TikTok I'll have to sit alone with my thoughts, and that's unbearable. /s

There is a serious mental health crisis in the human population, and I'm not just referring to homeless people screaming nonsense/violent criminals/conspiracy theorists. The overwhelming majority of people have literally 0 ability to just exist with themselves in silence for even a couple of minutes at a time. They're like toddlers, requiring constant, all-consuming stimulation or they will literally mentally break down. It's so fucking frightening how incapable people are of just being. Of concentrating on a task at hand, or reflecting on their thoughts, or considering solutions to a problem, rather than being fed video stimulus.

I work with teenagers, and there is a huge swath of kids in my classroom that will literally throw a kicking and screaming temper tantrum if they can't have their phone in front of their face. These are people that are very nearly legal adults. We see the same reactions from adults who get told "no" for even the most insane, entitled demands of retail workers, restaurant staff, and government employees trying to literally help them acquire social services.

I'm genuinely frightened going out into public now; humans, by and large, seem completely incapable of behaving like adults.

You need professional, psychological help. I feel so sorry for anyone forced to be in your life. Please seek therapy you fucking whacko.

You expect cops to know the law?

There's no way this article was written by a human being.

>She had taken his phone and told them "he has a knife" but she could leave on her own as he had "boarded up" the windows and doors, according to the affidavit of probable cause.

She could leave on her own with boarded up doors and windows??? Can she walk through walls?

>but he held her capture after going to a hotel.

Apparently they haven't taught these AI algorithms subject-verb agreement yet.

>He also marked by forcing her to get tattoos on both of her arms, according to the affidavit.

I think you accidentally a word, there, dailyvoice.

And these dipshits wonder why readership of actual news sources is down. This was actually painful to read.

No, you have anger issues because you think a thread that's discussing the death of an actual human being is the appropriate forum to criticize artistic choices in their profession.

Read the room you fucking rube.

As the other person said, the federal government can exercise a lot of soft power over the states by threatening to withhold federal funding for a number of things like grants for highway upkeep, general infrastructure grants, etc...

Teacher here;

What concerns me most is how long these people operate within our school systems, and how long this behavior is known about by administrators. Union and tenure protections are not some impenetrable shield; we are easily fired for cause when the administration does their job of documenting issues with an employee. All too often, principals and vice principals are too lazy, jaded, or otherwise unwilling to document disciplinary issues with staff. I had a colleague once that took a nap during the PARCC testing (standardized test that the state used at the time; violating secure testing procedures can result in having your teaching license revoked) session in his class during the year he was up for tenure. Our vice principal walked in on this happening. She granted him tenure anyway. It would have been a slam fucking dunk getting rid of him; but that would have meant filling out paperwork, which they didn't want to do.

Why shouldn't a commute be compensated these days?

Especially now that WFH is an option, and most people are priced out of living in the communities they work in, commutes should be part of your compensation package. I commute almost 3 hours round trip for my job, and I'm a fucking high school teacher making peanuts.

>3 fucking years

Hmm, I wonder if there was something going on in the entire world that made it deadly to come into close proximity with large amounts of strangers...