Anti black slurs in upper Manhattan? I'm wondering if it was a bunch of Dominican kids picking on a Haitian or something, usually I don't see a lot of anti-black racism there of all places.

We pay for the NYPD with our taxes, if the ebikes are unsafe it's the NYPD's job to enforce traffic laws. Don't be mad at Uber, be mad at the cops

Because that would be an "employee perk" and these guys are explicitly not employees.

TBH if they threw a rock (or shot a low-velocity projectile like a beanbag round) through a window and waited a second or two for it to vent it would probably be oky.

I said "religious movement and/or cult." Considering it's properly referred to as the "Hassidic Movement" I assumed that'd be relatively uncontroversial. It's literally a spiritual revival movement, from which both cults and non-cults have originated.

Do you believe the NYT is objective in its reporting of any other religious movements and/or cults?

Again, we agree that there is child abuse in Hassidic run Yeshivas, correct? It's happening and the NYT is not fabricating that.

Is the NYT required to, say, publish an article about how Jim Jones was a crusader for civil rights and equality among African Americans? Do we have to have a puff piece on Tom Cruise for every article about Scientology's forced labor?

Ok, but... shouldn't someone be receiving negative attention for abusing children?

Why is it the NYT's job to promote anyone's livestyle? What do you believe the purpose of journalism is in a civil society?

So, your argument is "We should let Jews abuse children, because the extant, physical harm being inflicted upon children is less important than potential antisemitism"?

Have you ever read "The Ones who Walk Away from Omelas" by chance?

Did anyone intimate that there's something intrinsic about Jewishness that requires Yeshivas to abuse the children under their care?

If the Yeshivas are indeed ill, why shouldn't they be reported on? Your assertion isn't that the NYT is making up malfeasance, simply reporting on actual malfeasance that happens, correct?

If so, why is it a bad thing to shine a light on child abuse?

Do you believe that no programming job can be worth 300k?

> All jobs should provide security for an adult if they wish to do it long-term.

All jobs, yes, but all companies within a sector? There are ways to make a career out of driving, like getting a truck diver's license, but Uber itself is explicitly not for people to be doing long term.

> Hell, most adults have seen images of crippled lungs after years of smoking, but people still smoke.

Is that a really good argument when the rate of Americans who smoke has dropped so precipitously in living memory? I don't have the numbers on hand but I wouldn't be surprised if the same applies to crack cocaine. Or just any kind of cocaine, really; that's not a drug I think most kids are trying nor would be able to afford.

>‘Just kill off the dumb kids, am I right?’

Who said I (or we) are doing any killing? Let the kids kill themselves.

> Problem is that all kids are dumb.

How many people do you know that were so dumb they got pancaked by a subway train of their own volition? Kids may be impulsive, but it takes a special level of ignorance to do something like that and assume you'll come out fine.

I mean, I haven't touched a stove since then.

Smart kids who know cause and effect won't surf on a subway car. Dumb ones who don't understand that do us a favor and absolve society of the burden of taking care of them and fixing their stupid decisions by decapitating themselves before they do more harm. Seems like a win win.

If anything we should put this up in times square so kids can watch it and know exactly what they get when they subway surf.

I used to want to touch the burners of my stove as a child until my dad let me. I got a burn on my finger, and after that I didn't touch the goddamn stove.

A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyse a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly.

Specialization is for insects.

Literally yes. If you're an adult and you don't have a skill that you can sell for more than 7 bucks an hour, that's literally a skill issue and that's on you.

Every Uber driver is a business owner, with their car as an asset. If they feel they are losing money because of that asset's depreciation they can always stop driving it for work.

You reap the benefits of technological advancement, you are responsible for your waste. If you don't wanna recycle your batteries, don't buy machines with batteries.

A 30 minute walk or fifteen minute ride is easy dude. Stop being lazy and get your steps in.

Motherfuckers always trying to ice skate up hill.

Central Park is itself not a natural development: every rock and blade of grass was placed there as opposed to being a piece of primordial Manhattan forest. And it's filled with invasive species like pigeons and rats already. As long as flaco stays in central park there's nothing for him to fuck up, really.

> they don't want to be dependent on Europe for anything (see: US spending trillions of dollars on chips manufacturing when they could just buy from Europe instead)

Things like food and microchips are vital to the persistence of the American state. Every country should strive for self-sufficiency in those areas and some other significant industrial capacities. God forbid more wars break out in Europe and we were dependent on them for our chip manufacture; well we just have wait until that war is over (or end it ourselves) if we want chips... or we can see that problem coming and build our own chip factories. The same thing goes with food and that would logically extend to the farming equipment used to create the high yields to feed a country that takes up most of a continent.

It's not unreasonable to want all of this done domestically.

There is nothing wrong with lobbying. Writing to your congresscritter to say "tell the cops to stop shooting unarmed black teenagers", congratulations, makes you a lobbyist. There's literally no way to stop lobbying without also trampling on the first amendment.