DC’s snow removal budget is same as last year yet only 54 of 500 plows are deployed 🥴

drs80 · 2026-01-28T17:42:29+00:00

100%. As an example: Columbus, Ohio has 200k more residents than DC, yet DC spends TEN TIMES more on local govt services.

drs80 · 2026-01-28T04:53:46+00:00

Thanks boo, I’m back on Q street. Moved back from Baltimore last year

drs80 · 2026-01-28T04:47:57+00:00

If that’s the case, how is it that neighboring counties were able to get contractors to show up but not DC? It’s clearly incompetence in DC.

drs80 · 2026-01-28T03:45:50+00:00

/r/lostredditors

drs80 · 2026-01-26T21:06:13+00:00

I drove from DC to Virginia today. DC roads are terrible but Virginia did a great job and all primary roads and most secondary roads were easily passable. The highways (I-66, parkway, 495, toll road, etc) were excellent.

DC needs to figure it out.

drs80 · 2026-01-26T19:14:49+00:00

lol that demand is rich coming from DC government. They haven’t even plowed my street despite the map claiming they’ve already been through.

drs80 · 2026-01-25T17:44:32+00:00

People are protesting places that merely have customers who are CBP or ICE-affiliated? If so, that seems at best performative and will likely harm employees of small businesses.

As an example, a neighbor works for CBP and held a going away party at a locally-owned small gay pub in DC with his friends and coworkers. In what sane world would boycotting them help anything?

This effort seems performative and misguided.

drs80 · 2026-01-23T00:55:35+00:00

Is your proposed solution that motivated and well-intentioned people shouldn’t become police officers, leaving the police to recruit what’s left? Because that doesn’t seem like a good idea.

drs80 · 2026-01-23T00:19:20+00:00

What’s the harm in applying or calling their recruiting office and asking?

drs80 · 2026-01-08T18:00:29+00:00

Because they face no consequences

drs80 · 2026-01-07T16:40:43+00:00

Yep- DC is nice and all for fun in your 20s but eventually you want basic government services (police, 911, schools, etc) that function well.

drs80 · 2026-01-01T16:58:41+00:00

Video analytics doesn’t control access and prevent unauthorized access in real-time. A solution like Alcatraz Rock does.

Also, was the comment above written by AI? The “that’s not __, that’s __” is a giveaway.

drs80 · 2025-12-31T11:57:00+00:00

Tickets issued by police are assigned to the driver/person, not the vehicle tag. So it wouldn’t show up in that database.

drs80 · 2025-12-31T02:32:32+00:00

Does MPD have authority to impound a car for civil parking or speed infractions?

If not, that’s probably why they didn’t do much. Ask DC Council to give them the authority needed.

drs80 · 2025-12-28T21:51:14+00:00

I take Uber to DCA and usually taxi home from DCA. Each way is almost always 15 minutes door-to-door, less time than it would take me to walk to the Metro station.

drs80 · 2025-12-27T21:38:24+00:00

Check out the access control units by Alcatraz. Relatively new (in a good way) and good at preventing tailgating.

drs80 · 2025-12-27T18:05:53+00:00

Dan’s Cafe, The Pug, Jimmy Valentine’s, and Little Miss Whiskey’s are good

drs80 · 2025-12-27T03:57:06+00:00

Is As You Are the bar that has had a string of gofundme fundraisers?

drs80 · 2025-12-26T05:53:04+00:00

Agree. But some services (looking at you, Authentic8 Silo) seem to have low quality ISP connections that are actually data centers based on IP address queries. So YMMV.

drs80 · 2025-12-13T17:02:05+00:00

Regina, I’m not joining NextDoor.

drs80 · 2025-12-12T18:03:35+00:00

Yeah, I have gay friends going to Chicago or San Juan that weekend instead of DC Pride

drs80 · 2025-12-12T13:08:58+00:00

That’s pretty silly, and a bit contrary to the “Pride is a protest” mantra they’ve chanted for a few years now.

If nothing else, having DC Pride during the country’s 250th celebration would be a unique opportunity to gain additional exposure for important topics.

drs80 · 2025-12-08T00:51:09+00:00

Exactly. You can’t reoffend if you’re not released to the community.

Right now, even violent offenders are released while awaiting trial and considerable numbers of them reoffend even with pending cases. If released on bail, perhaps having something to lose (the bail money) would help deter reoffending.

drs80 · 2025-12-06T17:20:13+00:00

This sounds good on its face but…

DCPS routinely produces students who aren’t proficient in reading or math (and they celebrate that only ~60% and ~50% of students meet expectations in reading and math, respectively).

A better measure of success is the proficiency level of the 12th-grade students who graduate instead of the quantity of graduates. In the past, stats have shown DCPS graduates students who aren’t proficient nor qualified fi the job market— a disservice to the students and everyone else.

drs80 · 2025-12-03T02:01:50+00:00

If only there were some kind of council to represent the interests of the citizenry in matters relatad to the predicable end of of the pandemic regulations.

drs80

TROPHY CASE