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Bateshorn

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  1. Being a cis-het white dude born with privilage fucking rocks. You basically start every poker hand with a pair of Aces and a hefty stack.
  2. This is the most Virginia post I've ever seen "Why would you take the Metro to Tidal Basin when you can GET IN YOUR CAR!!!!!" The Dirt Bike thing is annoying as fuck. @956 Worldwide is right. Certain elements of the DC City Council (*cough* Charles Allen *cough*) have continued to advocate for lax criminal enforcement in the name of criminal justice reform long after it's become apparent to everyone involved that DC has a teen crime problem, that will require both increased enforcement in conjunction with reforming and rethinking DC's criminal code and general approach to crime.
  3. I think this has to do with possible tariffs on Swiss gold. BTW, Me, whenever I imagine Gold people:
  4. Non-zero? If Vlad shows up with a suitcase full of cash or a drive with some Bitcoin, plus a fake Rolex, Trump will sign the papers on the spot.
  5. Yeah. The high rent blight downtown is very real. the small minority thing is so spot on. The carjacking crisis was basically 20-30 teens and young adults. They would release them after an arrest and they would often car jack somebody right outside the DC jail!
  6. The thing is, the tourist areas of DC are probably the safest places in the entire country. DC itself is a relatively low crime city, but it is a city. The density of people means the crime density will appear higher, even if statistically on a per capita basis is relatively low.
  7. Yeah. the "gIvE tHeM tHiRd sPaCeS!" bullshit is exhausting and completely wrong DC has some of the best community center/public pool/parks/libraries in the entire country. If you are bored here, it's because you've actively chosen to be.
  8. The inability of MPD to get a handle on the gang war between the two crews on 5th and 7th by the convention center is a problem, but that has been going on for at least the last 15 years. Teen violence is really the cities bug-a-boo. Until trump got here, there was always decent employment opportunities for most adult's. DC doesn't have that bad of a homeless problem, relative to somewhere like California, or Austin.
  9. IT's funny, the local progressive movement has been touting Baltimore as a solution...right up until people pointed out that Baltimore deals with their teen problem using lock ups. I think DC is moving in that direction. Or was.
  10. No. We've had a couple of teen meet ups that have turned violent, particularily in the neighborhood that a lot of Trump staffers live in (Navy Yard). The criminal code is a fucking disaster (both too harsh and too lenient at the same time). In all fairness, Biden's US Attorney for DC refused to bring anything to trial for most of his presidency, leading to a car jacking crisis, but that was dealt with in 2023. Crime has been plummeting over the last 18 months. Really is just the teen issue, which is mostly just minor property crime and, for the lack of a better word, malicious loitering. The Big Balls thing happened at 4 AM. Nothing about it ads up at all. He was probably coming back from a local gay club, but nobody knows, but just like Dirty 6th....what the fuck were you doing out at 4 AM. Fox News has been ginning up a group altercation in Cincinnati the last week or so, which I think is really marinating in Trump's mind.
  11. The city is largely fine. We have a teen truancy problem that has been bedeviling the MPD for the summer, but using curfews, they've slowly been getting a handle on it. It tends to manifest as these huge teen events that spiraling into blocking traffic, fighting, eventually somebody fires a gun, everyone goes home. The broken DC criminal code and some unfortunate post COVID crime reform proposals mean the city has probably been a bit too lenient on property and minor crime for too long, but again, the Mayor and MPD are working through that. But it doesn't require militarizing the gotdamn city.
  12. This is fun.
  13. At this rate, my guess is Trump is talking socialized Medicine by next fall. Hell, he’ll probably call for repealing his own tax bill and a 45% tax rate just to gin up a fresh news cycle.
  14. I've been singing the Naked Gun version of the Star Spangled Banner since I was in 8th grade, and you can pry Enrico Pallazo out of my dead mouth. If we can't have a little sport at the expense of our Nation, what the fuck are we even doing? "Home of the Land, and Land of the FREE!" Also, I'll stop playing the Jimi Hendrix instrumental version on the 4th of July exactly never.
  15. This is not the first time I've used this line, but it's still correct: "I've taken Cody Rigsby Peloton rides that were less gay than that."
  16. Uh... it's not clear NASA actually owns Discovery. This will get litigated, and the fun part is John Roberts, as Chairman of the Board of the Smithsonian, would likely have to sit out the case.
  17. Smooth 40k plus one day loss in a long bogle-ish etf account. Really looking forward to how the market is going to react once it digest that BLS data is now cooked.
  18. Maybe I’m wrong, but I kinda get the impression the Canadians are no longer even trying to make a deal. They’ve just moved on and are disentangling their economy from ours.
  19. That’s because they are deeply stupid.
  20. I don’t disagree it’s spiraled out of control. They are basically building an entirely new building, inside the shell of two existing buildings. It probably should have been torn down and started from scratch. But then everyone would complain about design and historic character. FWIW, the overhaul of one of the House congressional buildings is probably going to be close to a billion once all said and done. And it didn’t require a full foundation overhaul and addition of a multi story below ground garage: Tl;dr: it’s over budget and doing historic renovations in swamp in DC is expensive as fuck.
  21. The building’s foundations are sinking into a subterranean creek under the building and it’s basically all asbestos and lead. There is no parking, so they had to put it underground, which is standard in dc since we have building height limits. Covid and inflation has made it super expensive. All the other gov buildings were built in the 60s-70s and are nearish to code, or got overhauled in the 80s-90s. The fed is over 100 years old and has never been overhauled/brought to standard. If it were anything else, it would be a tear down.
  22. I am so glad Jason Kander is taking care of this mental health, but there is a real part of me that wonders “What if?”
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