Yeah, nope, that was stupid.

Wait wait wait wait...you can be an actor, an athlete, and an intelligent person? At the same time? Great. Now I'm 0/3 instead of 0/1.

I'm confused, are you talking about the framing of the action or the action itself? Because I don't know what our current justice system is for if it's not for the protection of society at large, the "future victims," of which the original victim is part. There are certainly more sympathetic ways to approach the…

It's not so much that one cannot have a rehabilitating justice system but rather that their current management of the situation is rather bad at doing that...not to mention completely inappropriate to their jurisdiction.

It is also possible, however, that she is complicit in or supportive of the bad behavior. A reasonable possibility of either is grounds enough to continue asking the question.

I mean, yes, it's subjective. You can disagree. That's fine. But have you lived in Pittsburgh? Have you eaten in Oakland? Have you seen the portions?

I feel ya, but your statement is quite subjective and the dismissal of even the existance of opposing views is part of what leads to conflict escalation. They could say nearly the same statement; how can be it objectively true for us but false for them? Not to mention that elucidating opposing views helps to sharpen…

That's cheap for New York, but a 5-minute walk gets you to Ali Baba, a restaurant (Conflict Kitchen doesn't provide seating) that serves great food with much better value. That's just one of many. As I replied elsewhere, I'm not trying to hate the place, it's a neat idea and the food is decent, but you're paying for…

Reasonable is highly dependent on location, quality, and competition. I think their quality is fine, but they are in Pittsburgh, not New York, and they have a great deal of competition. Their prices are sustainable largely because of the gimmick of their advertizing. I'm not trying to knock them, I think it's a neat…

That's what I meant by overpriced; priced too high for its value.

I disagree on some of the points here, but those disagreements are immaterial, because the only valid response to this is: death threats are terrible and those who make them should be punished.

Also, though perhaps not immediately relevant, as a guy in a city that is not NYC, I have had strangers say hello to me without prompt and I myself have said it to others. To each city its own, I guess?

It's an interesting case, no? I completely agree that this is a problem, but defining and characterizing the problem is difficult. At the moment I'm not sure we should be telling people who they are allowed to say "hello" to...but the whole issue has always been elusive to me. I recognize that a problem exists and…

That's fair, but still not exactly reason enough. Though again, the edge cases like that shouldn't be what's important...which is why I thought including them in the video was probably maybe counter-productive...they aren't needed to convince those who are already sympathetic, while they give reasonable doubt for…

Rush is terrible, as always, but that doesn't mean the editors of the video didn't push for a bit of sensationalism. I was legitimately surprised by the inclusion of the "have a good day" ones. In the context of the other harassment I can understand the frustration, but unless those were accompanied by gestures or…

Well, they definitely suffered (and continue to suffer) under repeated invasion from imperialistic nations, yes. Whether that prevented them from developing (with all attendant debate about what that even means) is less clear. Let's not forget that Western Europe was, until recently, a lovely place of brutal wars,…

Haha you're too kind. I'm sorry, I'm just an ass sometimes. My apologies.

This was a wonderful comment until you decided to respond to belittling by belittling. I get the emotion, but it's the act itself and not the accuracy of it that propagates the behavior ad infinitum.

My first reaction was actually similar, thinking from the point of view of committed relationships; there's a level of trust involved, non-verbal language, etc...

Jets are a likely scenario; unlike space travel, we don't need to bring our thrust mass with us, we can use the atmosphere. Unfortunately all our forms of energy storage are not nearly dense enough (well, all of dense, safe, and small) at the moment, whether chemical or electrical.