The cool neighborhood in my area officially died when the funky bar/restaurant that had been there forever, had fantastic breakfasts in the morning and live music in the evenings was torn down and replaced with an Apple store.

My mom lives in a neighborhood that has a train track right across the street and has heard of people buying houses on the block and then complaining about the trains. (there are only 2 a day) You literally look out your front door and see the tracks, what did you think they were FFS? (my mom loves the trains btw.)

I’m re-reading The Death and Life of Great American Cities right now, and I can’t help but think of people like her driving all the neighbors away from the sidewalks and stoops with her noise complains, then wondering why the neighborhood is so empty and dangerous seeming.

I’d be throwing down a spike strip and boarding that bastard with a cutlass and an eyepatch.

There’s been a bunch of previous drama between the chief and the mayor, so this is not terribly unexpected to locals who follow politics. Harteau tried to fill an open command slot at the 4th precinct with an officer who was the former head of the police union. Said officer had obviously racked up a bunch of bad karma…

There’s a great deal of historical context around the matter that makes a lot of people very wary of any situation where a person could at all be seen as having been coerced into accepting sterilization.

Just like the cop who shot Akai Gurley in NYC. Asian, less than 2 years on the force partnered with a white guy with about the same amount of time in uniform. Thrown to the wolves as a sacrifice without a second thought. If it had been a member of the Good Old Boys Club, they would have closed ranks, come up with a…

I liked that movie until I found out that some people came away thinking that the main character was the good guy.

Fox news headline: “Immigration linked to Florida shooting spree!”

Anyone who unironically dubs himself a “Social media influencer” deserves to be punched in the nuts until his hair bleeds.

Florida Man wants you the fuck off his lawn.

I remember playing combat flight simulators in the 90s and taking an F14 up. Half the missions it was a matter of “Get a lock on from way the fuck away, fire, wait a bit until the missiles hit, return to base without ever actually seeing the aircraft I just killed.”

They were all getting ready to go to IA with their testimony about having seen this bad apple in action, any second now...

She was Australian so they they had to shoot her before she got close enough to use her venomous spurs on them.

I don’t know that website ownership is something they check on, plus he could have bought them after he became a cop.

“At one point a bullet exited the barrel of a police firearm and entered the body of a woman, resulting in death.”

Or to put it another way, if you’re capable of seeing one portion of the population as disposable based on their skin color, then there’s nothing keeping you from seeing anybody as disposable based on any arbitrary trait you decide.

Higher passenger capacity. Around here they use them for the express/commuter routes that run during rush hour, and then only on routes where they have enough people wanting to commute to work at the same time to justify it.

Sure, let me know when a mentally ill black man takes someone’s life in questionable circumstances while acting as an agent of the state and is subsequently protected from all repercussions for his actions, and we’ll get right on that protesting thang.

I refer to it as “The great and powerful God Mar-Ket.” Give of yourself to Mar-Ket and if you are found worthy them Mar-Ket may see fit to bless you with wealth. If you are poor it is because you have failed to worship Mar-Ket with sufficient fervor.