There’s zero difference between you now and back when you badly wanted an actual discussion. Apart from such brilliant observations as “police kill people and teachers don’t,” you have nothing to say.

Half the time when I make a comment like that I get the response “nowhere did I say that.” The other half the time I get a response like yours.

Is that part of the actual discussion that you value so highly?

Good point, the police should be disbanded.

Policing by definition is going to involve what you would call “harm.” It involves forcing people to do things they don’t want to do, including a lot of violent people. It involves guns and knives. This explains why NYPD shoots more people than teachers do. I can’t believe I actually needed to point that distinction out.

You were making comments about how NYPD killed people and teachers don’t. Not a substantive discussion in my book. More like dropping juvenile comments. And then I upset you.

What were we discussing?

Also, sorry, I had no idea that would upset you so much.

Feels like you never wanted an actual discussion.

Is this part of our “actual discussion”?

Maybe you’re right, maybe not. I haven’t studied it closely. But the DOE’s budget is definitely higher than it should be.

Great discussion!

Yeah, to contextualize the size of the NYPD budget, which someone else brought up. So what is it you want to discuss?

You are? About what? This is a thread about library funding.

You’re deeply concerned about their safety, I see.

I would think that would make you happy.

Wat

Of course, the DOE is an endless sprawl. That’s partly why it’s so expensive, despite the fact that fewer people use it each year.

DOE employees don’t kill people because their job isn’t public safety. Happily, NYPD almost never kills an unarmed person.

Closer to $38k per student actually.

Police aren’t even that massive a part of the city budget compared with other cities.

0.05% of the DOE’s $38 billion budget.

Stop and frisk was basically ended before de Blasio took office.

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Yeah I remember deeply hating the Zog people.

Used to absolutely hate adults dominating play areas when my kids were young.

It has downsides but there are a lot of things that are great.

But the main point is that it’s idiotic to think that office buildings in that area aren’t suitable for residential conversion because in your opinion the “neighborhood is unappealing.”

>The minimum hourly rate would apply to a worker’s total “trip time” each week, which would be calculated from the moment a worker accepts an order to when the delivery is completed.

So the longer it takes to deliver the food, the more the delivery worker gets paid?

I think that’s largely true, but there is another side unfortunately. Which is a lot of the homeless and drug scene that used to exist out there has been pushed inward, basically because police and private security won’t tolerate it happening in the new fanciness of Hudson Yards. Buses, too—last ten years, a lot of “commuter buses” that used to stop on the west side have moved in east of 8th avenue, which is insane given the congestion already in that area.