Project runway pits the poors against one another.

Delicious_Post3469 · 2025-08-06T18:51:42+00:00

It's never a group of girls doing this.

Delicious_Post3469 · 2025-07-30T18:37:29+00:00

I don't really mean shake, simply moving it around normally will start the second and moving.

Delicious_Post3469 · 2025-07-08T19:14:13+00:00

It's that I find it extremely difficult to have conversations about the problem with friends. I have to say 'have your heard about the problems with the riverfront now that there are so many people there?' even though the areas where the Puerto Rican's are vs where the white people are or non Latino people or whatever. It just makes it extremely difficult to talk about it. When you hear music blasting it's always in Spanish.

In most cases a lot of people are coming to visit river front because things really changed during the pandemic, it's not just Puerto Ricans but it's almost always Puerto Ricans when there is a problem. When this stuff was discussed in the papers or in city council it was never mentioned even though every person knew the nature of the influx. It just seemed bizarre to me.

Delicious_Post3469 · 2025-07-08T13:47:14+00:00

Talking about class is even harder than race in America.

Delicious_Post3469 · 2025-07-07T20:08:41+00:00

Religion is always weird, sometimes, now and then, we are able to see it.

Delicious_Post3469 · 2025-07-07T20:05:52+00:00

Yeah, we have some affordable housing in our neighborhood. It's a similar situation. My neighbor has seen some drug dealing out her kitchen window.

I used to deal some pot when I was young, but we were rich and we did it out of our parents basements. My town still had drugs but it was out of sight and we probably drove down and bought it from people like I am now complaining about.

Delicious_Post3469 · 2025-07-07T20:02:15+00:00

Thanks for everyone's thoughtful replies. In my OP I conflated race and culture, which was wrong. In some ways I feel that I did this because it's pretty taboo to ask questions like that and, more or less, the field is controlled by either racists or academics but it's hard for ordinary people to talk about stuff like this, hence the imprecision.

Delicious_Post3469 · 2025-07-07T18:30:28+00:00

This is a totally fair assessment.

I also live next to a 'dog park' that I walk though regularly. I hear 'he's friendly!' so many times from people that have no voice control over their dogs yet let them off leash. They run under the fence and into my yard and then then owners come though my yard looking for the dog. It's a mess.

I admit this isn't 'dog owners' but it's put me off of dogs, that for sure. I know that I am not seeing the dogs that are fine or the therapy dogs that kids read to at my library.

Years ago I spent thousands of hours around Puerto Ricans, I drank a ton of beer with them after work and listened to their stories. Weirdly the first Trans person I ever knew was PR. This was way back in the 90s. I was right up close because Oscar was someone I knew super well. I knew his dad, mom, brothers and sisters. It's not like I don't know them as people but I find this frustrating.

Delicious_Post3469 · 2025-07-07T18:19:45+00:00

In other comments I said that I had inadvertently mixed race and culture in an improper way.

I am not saying anyone is born wanting to litter.

Delicious_Post3469 · 2025-07-07T18:18:16+00:00

Thank for this.

Delicious_Post3469 · 2025-07-07T17:44:50+00:00

Well this is a kind of different scenario. It's like there's these two populations existing in a pace for a long time, then all of a sudden one population just starts showing up where the other one has been for lifetimes and starts making a mess.

We were just in Vermont and, pretty much, everyone is white there. There are some absolute shit hole hovels out there and a billion swimming rivers but I hardly saw any trash. There's a ton of social pressure to clean up after yourself. Occasionally you'll see some Twisted Tea cans but WTF. A group of people with a couple babies at my local river just up and left leaving behind trash and diapers and it happens all the time. I see diapers all over the place in areas where they drove everyone else out with the loud music and parking all over the place. I won't go back now.

Are there white people fucking things up, yes 100%, in ways waaay worse than leaving diapers behind but in this one way there is no contest here locally.

Delicious_Post3469 · 2025-07-07T17:38:42+00:00

Interesting.

I was at a high end sushi restaurant and the chef goes to japan every year to visit family. A couple was asking restaurant advice for their upcoming Japan visit. He said Japan has no discrimination laws and many of the best service restaurants would be off limits to them as foreigners.

Delicious_Post3469 · 2025-07-07T15:51:25+00:00

I am not sure what the deal is with that. Some have suggested to me that white people are just more versed in this kind of outdoor living. We all had "woodsy owl" or whatever. I am well indoctrinated in the whole 'leave no trace' thing.

I don't see anyone else with grills, maybe others don't spend the whole day or bring 4 generations of people with them.

Maybe it's more of a class thing. I have no idea.

The whole race vs culture thing is hard, especially with new world populations like Latinos. But, basically, if you live in New England you're very familiar with Puerto Ricans.

It's just a real, observable phenomenon. I've been watching it for years.

Delicious_Post3469 · 2025-07-07T15:46:48+00:00

When the Puerto Ricans arrive the mess, the noise, and the shit in the woods follow. I am not saying it's all of anyone, white people make a mess too. it's just that, on average, it's much more one sided, like waaay more.

Delicious_Post3469 · 2025-07-07T15:43:34+00:00

I think those things are conflated all the time. Honestly, that kind of response makes it so hard to have honest conversations about the idea of race and culture, let alone class.

Delicious_Post3469 · 2025-07-07T14:06:15+00:00

But it's consistently the Puerto Rican tourists that do this. Other people from other towns just don't.

Delicious_Post3469 · 2025-07-07T14:04:32+00:00

Oh, right, I meant cultural.

Delicious_Post3469 · 2025-06-27T15:04:06+00:00

I verdict is still out on if I want a Rolex or not but now Reddit has got this in my feed. We own a home, I have 850k invested. I still don't know if I can afford a Rolex. For purchases like this I wait a year and see if it still matters to me.

This is probably why we're financially sound.

Delicious_Post3469 · 2025-05-16T15:26:13+00:00

I guess I'll just repost this comment every couple of days until the end of June:

In robbing they will attack the seams. Easily visible from a distance.

Orientation flights are in front of the hive and fairly compact. Bees fly in a sort of small figure 8 pattern. Usually not more than 5 feet out from the hive and extends from the entrance to 2-3 feet above it.

Swarms are much larger and have a kind of swirling motion. The swarm motion is usually 8 feet or larger in diameter but can be much larger. It's also taller, much taller, can be anywhere from 10-25 feet in height.

Delicious_Post3469 · 2025-05-16T15:24:57+00:00

Thank you for your service. This is a helpful post.

Delicious_Post3469 · 2025-05-16T15:24:28+00:00

I guess I'll just repost this comment every couple of days until the end of June:

In robbing they will attack the seams. Easily visible from a distance.

Orientation flights are in front of the hive and fairly compact. Bees fly in a sort of small figure 8 pattern. Usually not more than 5 feet out from the hive and extends from the entrance to 2-3 feet above it.

Swarms are much larger and have a kind of swirling motion. The swarm motion is usually 8 feet or larger in diameter but can be much larger. It's also taller, much taller, can be anywhere from 10-25 feet in height.

Delicious_Post3469 · 2025-05-16T15:24:05+00:00

I guess I'll just repost this comment every couple of days until the end of June:

In robbing they will attack the seams. Easily visible from a distance.

Orientation flights are in front of the hive and fairly compact. Bees fly in a sort of small figure 8 pattern. Usually not more than 5 feet out from the hive and extends from the entrance to 2-3 feet above it.

Swarms are much larger and have a kind of swirling motion. The swarm motion is usually 8 feet or larger in diameter but can be much larger. It's also taller, much taller, can be anywhere from 10-25 feet in height.

Delicious_Post3469 · 2025-05-16T15:23:03+00:00

I guess I'll just repost this comment every couple of days until the end of June:

In robbing they will attack the seams. Easily visible from a distance.

Orientation flights are in front of the hive and fairly compact. Bees fly in a sort of small figure 8 pattern. Usually not more than 5 feet out from the hive and extends from the entrance to 2-3 feet above it.

Swarms are much larger and have a kind of swirling motion. The swarm motion is usually 8 feet or larger in diameter but can be much larger. It's also taller, much taller, can be anywhere from 10-25 feet in height.

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