When I was in grad school and spent an inordinate amount of time and money working coffee shops, most of them (particularly the mom and pop type ones) would have a sign to the effect of “so we recognize that term papers are a bear and we appreciate that you’re here, but we have to keep our lights on and pay our staff,…

I’m genuinely curious as to how this is going to work in urban areas with large homeless populations. I live in a popular tourist area in a major city that attracts a substantial homeless presence. There used to be a Panera here that allowed you to stay all day without buying anything, and it had to shut down because…

In addition to a mandatory anti-bias training that all Starbucks employees received on May 29

None of us were were any of the mass shooters who killed themselves afterwards either but we still cast aspersions on them. She murdered her own child and killed herself. My feelings won’t hurt or help her. But if there is a hell I hope she burns in it.

Yep, it’s extremely creepy (albeit still entirely legal in France - continental Europe has some weird age of consent laws).

No no no.

Well, he did make that ode to little girls who want to fuck older men in Leon...

I have a lot of sympathy for suicide, but not for murderous mothers. That poor boy with his last few moments being sheer terror. Just tragic.

It’s easy to say “i I were in here place” But really if I were in her place I just would have shot the asshole.

Sounds like your mom needed to do better, and thankfully she did. But I don’t see single mothers jumping off buildings left and right.

Yes what a horrible world it is that expects parents to be parents even if the relationship doesn’t work out. So very put upon.

How true, and often it can happen that the threat of losing the child in a custody dispute (perhaps involving mental instability,) ends up being a factor in a murder suicide involving a child.

She literally murdered her son. That will never be okay. You can discuss how she was in a horrible position without defending her decision to murder her son.

Seeing people defend her disgusting actions is making me sick. She’s a killer. It doesn’t matter if her ex was abusive, because, in the end, she did something way worse than he ever did.

If she’s so mentally ill that she was a danger to herself and others, she shouldn’t have had any access to that innocent baby she killed.

The most severe act of abuse?

“Jumps .... With Her 7-Year-Old Son,” per your headline. “...taking her 7-year-old son with her” and “first dropped her son,” per your text.

she is garbage and I’m glad she’s dead

That poor boy.

Mental illness or a bad case of “If I can’t have him, then nobody can have him”. I have a feeling the person who throws their kid off a balcony is the real abuser rather than the victim.