Good; you were wasting my time.

For people to enjoy. Just not those people.

My point was that as long as these problems are out of your field of vision, it's apparently "problem solved."

Thank you, yes, the practical solution to homelessness is to invite everyone to come live with me in my studio apartment.

Dipshit.

It was cop versus cop in that election. I believe the one that lost had a ridiculously high number of use of force complaints (like highest in the department? it’s in the news) so at least there’s that, but still…

You know what, when your substance is suggesting that we should sweep undesirables out of your field of view, maybe rage is warranted.

What isn’t warranted is the amount of time I’m wasting on this thread.

Thanks much, though, for your valuable “go set up a commune” contribution to the discourse.

The actual problem is that this whole country is full of people like you who think that something like this is fine as long as you don’t have to see it.

The most common interaction I have with 7-Eleven is someone who appears to be living on the street asking me if I will go in there and buy them some food. So, that would sort of seem to support the association between the poor/homeless and 7-Eleven, but it’s literally food.

Go fuck yourself?

Well, it looks way better now obscured by a huge fence, so mission accomplished?

There's one not that far from there (not that that slowed 7-Eleven down).

These all opened at the same time in areas where they were maybe not necessary, so I'm not sure this is much of a statement on anything.

They "cleaned up" the park by building a nice monument/water feature there, and then built a fucking ugly fence around it because it bothered them that people were hanging around there. It's embarrassing.

Maybe mind your business.

I'm not aware of a second 24-hour real store around here, so I'm definitely attached to the Walgreens on Ferry.

I mean, when they're repeating racist tropes, yeah, they should. You can't just fix that problem by putting the word "false" in front of it.

Fuckin' A.

Especially from that dude. He's literally a cop.

Give them a place to live. It apparently works. I know it sounds like I'm joking, but I'm not.

I'm pretty sure they've been open a little more than a year.

?uestion Mart. Last I knew, the signs were still up.

I liked that store, but they seemed to have trouble keeping the things you'd need in stock.

They all opened at virtually the same damn time too.

I suspect Silva would agree with you that the police should address the loitering problem, but I definitely don't. Loitering is not a real problem, and over-policing is.

Well, I suspected this guy was a dipshit, and I guess I'm glad to have it confirmed?

It's a convenience store. Like, I can understand wanting something better there, but if you're claiming that a convenience store is a cause of problems other than those problems being a symptom of something else, you may have your head up your ass.

I just walked past it, and could hardly believe it, and figured I could come here to find out on which day it happened 😅

I didn’t see it happen, but walked past there not long after it happened. A car going southbound on. Broad Street appeared to have hit both the lamp post and/or traffic light on both the north and south corners of New St. I hope there wasn’t anybody standing at the bus stop there, or waiting to cross the street, because the car clearly came across both corner curb cut outs.

No one manager or above is in a union at Rutgers. UMDNJ (and now the former UMDNJ parts of Rutgers and UH) had supervisors in CWA. Rutgers has sort of the middle in an AFT union called “Union of Rutgers Administrators.” Some AFSCME too. Professionals and Nurses on the legacy-UMDNJ side of Rutgers (and increasingly the legacy Rutgers side too) are in my union (HPAE) and the non-clerical and housekeeping, etc., jobs are Teamsters. We also have OPEIU. There are also two different AAUP unions for the two legacy schools, and one for adjunct faculty.

You at NJIT?

Yes, I know that. I am the president of a union. It’s not true that everybody who doesn’t have a reporting line is in a union. There are people all over the place who are not for some reason, and we are working on that, as that was less true at UMDNJ.

I didn’t catch that you were asking about a union name. We don’t have one called PSA though.

The power of a union is in its members. A surprisingly small percentage of people seem to think this is a big deal anymore. There are somewhat more people who don’t want to go to the office because they just don’t want to and have shown that they don’t need to. Then there are others that are psyched “to see everyone’s face again.”

It’s hard to build a movement around safety when there don’t seem to be that many people that think there’s an actual safety problem.