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Mojo_art OP t1_j9ytbf1 wrote

Thanks so much for your response. You’re one of the few who have had a kid go to each school, so your perspective is really valuable.

Did your BSA kid fall out of love because of their own growth and evolution or because of the program?

What kind of theater did your City kid do?

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sllewgh t1_j9ymqum wrote

Hard to focus on anything that's not immediately in front of you when you're trying to survive crushing poverty. No one is waking up going "boy, it's great to be an asshole with no money today." Some people are assholes, of course, but you're painting with a very broad brush.

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BJJBean t1_j9ylxhi wrote

Only problem with this thinking is that consumption has nothing to do with the cost of our water bills. The vast majority of the bill is taxes/fees/etc.

You could use no water all month and your bill would still be the same compared to your normal usage due to this. In no way does our high water cost disincentive water usage because the majority of the cost has nothing to do with the usage but rather the fees to upkeep the large, wildly mismanaged/neglected, water system we have in the city.

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rockybalBOHa t1_j9yjwab wrote

It's all about the bread.

Magerk's uses Amoroso, which is good, but not as good as Liscio's or Sarcone's. Those two bakeries provide 90%+ of the cheesesteak bread in Philly. I don't understand why a restaurant can't have that same bread delivered here. Often thought a Philly cheesesteak carryout would be a great business opportunity in Baltimore, assuming the bread could be obtained.

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SerjoHlaaluDramBero t1_j9yjqw6 wrote

>The 90s are now the bad old days?

In terms of sex abuse in the Catholic Church, the peak was in the 1980s, but the rate didn't plummet to near-zero until after the 2002 Dallas Charter reforms. Everything before that more-or-less was the "bad old days" of sex abuse in the Church, and this report serves to confirm that.

Now the struggle is in trying to bring such reforms to public schools, youth athletics, scouting programs, etc. so that those institutions can experience the same sudden dramatic drop in abuse rates. But teachers unions spend a fortune lobbying to prevent that.

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gmp012 t1_j9yiok0 wrote

Okay. Start with voting out the current sess poll of "representatives" that run this city.

You know it, I know it, We all know it. That the city government needs a huge reset button.

What comes next, I'm not sure...

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