new york has one of the lowest crime rates of any major us city

good, we need more housing in the city

It's an Italian American tradition, popular all over the northeast

Actually you can have an enormous amount of influence, far more than as a head of a non-profit. Particularly via his work on the judiciary committee where a lot of the anti-trust and anti-big tech stuff has some bipartisan support. And you know there are elections every two years, right?

He has not "cherry picked" a successor though, he's left the seat open in what's now looking like a very chaotic primary. A no, running a non-profit that largely gives out scholarships does not have the same impact as serving in congress where he can enact real policy. I'm sure he'll get to keep having fancy dinners with important people, but he will not have his hands on the levers of power like before. I for one and pretty disappointed in his decision.

Your root fallacy here is this: " It has to be democratized via consumerist channels thanks to the profit motive." This is not true. Capitalism does not inherently democratize its tools, quite the opposite. The entire history of the internet so far has been one of monopolization and the increased concentration of wealth and power into fewer and fewer hands. That is already happening with AI. It's all about who owns the algorithms, and guess what, given our current economic structures it's the tech giants and Wall Street who are going to own them.

this post is bullshit

"Dear sub: I'm moving to Providence from Ohio ...WHAT'S THE SAFEST NEIGHBORHOOD?"

More of the insane shit people post on facebook/whatsapp to scare people. Like the "if you see this on your car door handle, run away because someone is going to kidnap you" kind of nonsense. RI in 2023 is one of the safest places you could be living in all of human history, but the right wing in particular loves this kind of fear-mongering

seems like the point is to generate conversations exactly like this one https://twitter.com/NHTSAgov/status/1088447836948054016

We need to get away from the idea that public services are supposed to "make money." It's a public good. Make it free, more people will use it, traffic will be reduced, roads will stay in better shape - it's all wins.

The level of hate and insults thrown at the most vulnerable people in our society is incredible. Get mad at the existence of homelessness and work to fix it, don't just hate people who don't have homes. This is not the same kind of problem in other wealthy countries, we choose not to deal with it. (and btw the solution which is most effective AND the cheapest is to just give people homes to live in).

I mean, shouldn't people be protesting police committing yet another extrajudicial murder of a black man in this country? You should be more appalled if there weren't any protests.

It's "woke" and a "riot" to oppose extrajudicial murder now?

You wont see the expectation of constant tipping in societies where tipping isn't normalized by the tipped minimum wage - that is the root of it. If bosses paid workers fairly and workers were able to work with dignity, we wouldn't have such a culture of tipping spreading to other businesses.

>I'd also probably considering businessees linked to the RI Hospitality association, many of whom are business owners. They've actively fought against this.

Yup, anything with reforming tipping, the Hospitality Association and chamber of commerce fight it tooth and nail. They want customers to pay their workers wages. Don't get mad at workers for needing tips to survive, get mad at these bosses who don't want to pay fair wages.

Tipping culture stems from the tipped employee minimum wage, and general inequality in the US. If you want tip culture to change, start pressuring your legislators to get rid of the tipped minimum wage.

asian bakery is the only serious response

It's like many areas in the country-- there is a private gas company that has a monopoly and they do whatever they want with pricing. They need to be be publicly controlled or more heavily regulated.

Andrades in Bristol is the best quality for your money, and extremely nice people

Both of these areas are among the "safest" places to live any where at any time in human history

important to note also that this is rent compared with household income. our rents are high, but where other cities with high rents have higher paying jobs, our jobs have continued paying low wages.

Andrade's in Bristol is the best fish market

read through the sub

Need a ban on these posts, there's enough of a back log for everyone moving to Rhode Island for the next few years.