I got a wicked flu last week. I had no idea it was national news.

Like some pork ribs at Pig Beach.

Wtf

When does Empire get shut down?

Margaret McPoyle?

Not gonna lie, I’m kind of sick of art posts.

Some butthurt people in this thread.

Nah, there’s no point. It just grows year after year. Once in a while there’s a tiny cut and people act like it’s a war crime, and then the bloat resumes its skyward trend.

How so?

There is no “solution” to crime. It’s even dumber to think that. Crime can be managed. It will never be eradicated.

Lol, you’re one of the people who thinks it’s evidence-based to say that policing is incapable of reducing crime. Seriously, you have nothing to say except zingers about how you hate cops.

https://reddit.com/r/nyc/comments/zh01ix/_/izl2m2h/?context=1

Maybe I’m wrong. I’m sure if I browse your comment history I’ll see a bunch of examples of you making interesting and nuanced points.

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.