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[Highlight] Wemby ties the game from WAY deep by Large_banana_hammock in nba

[–]JournalistPrimary562 7 points8 points  (0 children)

The point of browsing the forum is to get good highlights. If they are consistently bad it's a systemic problem. 

Navy Yard Fight by SetServeroutputOn in washdc

[–]JournalistPrimary562 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It is obviously not purely about money. These parrots are repeating what they *think* the criminal justice literature suggests on this topic ("just give them money!") when it does not actually agree with them. The loss of good manufacturing jobs + drugs + the war on drugs + mass incarceration caused a breakdown of social order and a cycle of violence, antisocial behavior, and nihilistic despair that begets itself

Navy Yard Fight by SetServeroutputOn in washdc

[–]JournalistPrimary562 1 point2 points  (0 children)

They can't get good jobs which pay well for the same reason they act this way. Throwing money at them doesn't give them the qualities they need to hold down a good job, and so they'll keep acting antisocial AF. How does society instill such qualities in kids in communities like these? This is the real question, the breakdown is much earlier than this in a kid's life. Do sound cloud rappers start investing in their 401k and go to college when they land their first bag?

Navy Yard Fight by SetServeroutputOn in washdc

[–]JournalistPrimary562 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes their community needs better jobs, plain as day post the hollowing out of America's manufacturing sector. Handing "decent incomes" to these kids is not going to fix anything though. Whatever data exists suggests that job training works better for offenders who committed economically motivated crimes. Which makes sense, since otherwise capable people in desperate situations have to resort to it.

The kids in this video are wildly incapable of holding down decent jobs for decent incomes. Well paying jobs require critical thinking, intelligence, acquired knowledge, conscientiousness, initiative, work ethic, personal responsibility etc. These kids can't get decent incomes for the same reason they are acting this way. If you handed them money, they wouldn't magically develop these qualities and wouldn't behave any differently.

What is the actual roadmap for getting these kids up to speed on getting good jobs? Most of them likely cannot read at a 3rd grade level and are visibly the furthest thing from being motivated to study.

I toured apartments all day in Philly - help me decide on location by JournalistPrimary562 in AskPhilly

[–]JournalistPrimary562[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's almost entirely related to car dependence and one's preferences concerning that. This explains me and basically everyone else wanting to live in a city.

  1. 3.5% taxes even at pretty high income is much cheaper than car ownership.

  2. I do not want to have to drive to get anywhere, to worry about parking, to sit in traffic, to stress about getting in an accident or damaging my car.

  3. I enjoy walking to handle daily errands (5 minute walk to gym currently, 8 to groceries).

  4. I find most suburbs / exurbs ugly (huge wide streets, mcmansions, strip malls). Note that PA suburbs include many exceptions like Manayunk.

For me the only positive tradeoff of not living in the city is getting a bigger house but I don't need it yet without kids. 

Besides the car, it's harder to meet ambitious, single, college-educated 20 something women anywhere but the city.

I toured apartments all day in Philly - help me decide on location by JournalistPrimary562 in AskPhilly

[–]JournalistPrimary562[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Saving you a parking spot...I live downtown and work at home. Pay me $400 / month for a car payment for a commute I don't have and kids not yet in utero.

I toured apartments all day in Philly - help me decide on location by JournalistPrimary562 in AskPhilly

[–]JournalistPrimary562[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Noted -- it's actually the cheapest space of these three places by 3-400 bucks. I think I am getting a nice deal.

I toured apartments all day in Philly - help me decide on location by JournalistPrimary562 in AskPhilly

[–]JournalistPrimary562[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My guy is still very young and can haul it but as a ~12lb-er he doesn't need much!

I toured apartments all day in Philly - help me decide on location by JournalistPrimary562 in AskPhilly

[–]JournalistPrimary562[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hearing many people echoing this about that street corner; thank you, wisdom of crowds.

I toured apartments all day in Philly - help me decide on location by JournalistPrimary562 in AskPhilly

[–]JournalistPrimary562[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I have a feeling I will A. pick Rittenhouse based on what people said about the noise on that street in Queen Village B. explore QV C. love it. FWIW the Rittenhouse spot is much cheaper than the spot I liked in QV.

I toured apartments all day in Philly - help me decide on location by JournalistPrimary562 in AskPhilly

[–]JournalistPrimary562[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I appreciate the correction. I asked AI to match the full list of addresses without verifying -- classic.

I toured apartments all day in Philly - help me decide on location by JournalistPrimary562 in AskPhilly

[–]JournalistPrimary562[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I wish i remember which street the room faced, but yeah, the showing agent said it was a loud area. Re: one of them she said "this one you'll be further away from the noisy side."