I know what you’re going for, but that was a bad line. In this context, that would mean that you want men to purposefully make worse music so the womenfolk will look better by comparison. I don’t think that’s what any of us wants.

Because it’s a perishable food you idiot! Meat and produce has to be physically handled constantly throughout the day by both shoppers and employees (hourly reports on temp for food safety are required) - a lock would just be a giant pain in the ass and slow things up. Those are conditions ripe to encourage a slip-up…

If the store used a loss prevention workforce capable of catching shoplifters ‘attempting’ to steal hair care products, recovering the items and logging demographic info about the theives, it wouldn’t need the glass case, now would it?

Try harder to be offended, why don’t you... All this extra security shit is at the cost of the store, not the vendor. They would never put something under so much lock & key if theft wasn’t already a constant problem. This has nothing to do with “they think black people steal bc racism!” and everything to do with…

WHEN?

If you knew half as much as you thought you did about this, you’d have the sense to know that you’re attempting to argue with people who are agreeing with you.

One thing that will forever irk me is when some deeply flawed person or character get popular among the womenfolk, and people who don’t share in the sentiment suddenly burst in with the concern-trolling. “But he’s problematic!! He’s aggressive and mean!! He won’t listen to your problems and ask about your daaayy!!!”

• People like a “problematic” character

*not literally

*I would slap my kid with a flip phone

I’m familiar with the concept, just like I’m familiar with the fact that its usually a result of the victim being too timid or conflict-averse to even try to defend themselves. Your brain doesn’t have a playbook for self-defense, and “what if I’m wrong?” thoughts creep in.

How about not having to ‘stop’ it at all? How about people who assault and rape learn not to do it in the first place? Why is it MY job to ‘get up and get the hell out of there’?

No, they really aren’t. Even if you clamp your teeth shut, it’s still going past the lips.

That’s not a troll comment. It’s a bad comment, but saying bad things doesn’t make them a troll - just a jerk.

They were the ones who made the trend in the first place. In what other universe would a bunch of spoiled twenty-somethings want to live in a working class neighborhood full of old ass houses and street crime? For the aesthetic.

I would slap my kid with a smartphone just to prevent this bullshit whining over “phone anxiety”. Yes, social anxiety about speaking on the phone is a real thing. But at some point you’re going to have to get over it, especially once you start working.

The old buildings were never the point. It was just an effective solution to a social need. What gentrification does is price low income people out of areas deemed to be ripe for business - it took a necessity (cheap housing for the working class) and turned it into a commodity (trendy housing for the upper class).

One thing my city does well (or did well) is that it likes to flip their older buildings into affordable housing and office spaces instead of demolishing them. My childhood apartment was in a converted stone mansion built in the late 1880's.

I don’t think you understand the level of consumption going on in Asia right now. Imagine New York/L.A./Miami back in the 1980's - slick high-rises, designer everything, luxury cars, etc etc.

If the housing being built are all luxury high-rises...