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sulaymanf t1_jarwvr8 wrote

Reply to comment by Double-Ad4986 in Ban Corporal Punishment in Private Schools, New York Lawmakers Say by _Maxolotl

White supremacy is not the same as religious extremism. And white supremacy is part of American history but it’s hardly mainstream American culture like you’re trying to claim for terrorism for Muslims. You’re really trying to stretch to defend a blatantly bigoted position you made earlier. Is terrorism a part of Colombian culture? No.

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soflahokie t1_jarwurh wrote

Reply to Bill to ban youth tackle football in New York state has been a decade in the making — Bronx Times by BronxTimes

I agree with banning tackle football for children, it leads to more skill development and removes the "I'm bigger therefore I'm unstoppable" nature that peewee football tends to fall into.

Hockey doesn't allow checking until age 13, with the increasing restrictions placed on physical play at higher levels it's allowed for way more skilled players. The same thing is happening with football, and it needs to as players are way bigger and faster today than they were just 20 years ago.

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jdolbeer t1_jaru3kf wrote

Reply to Bill to ban youth tackle football in New York state has been a decade in the making — Bronx Times by BronxTimes

Will be interesting to see how reception of this goes (both the bill, and my comment).

Youth tackle football is wildly dangerous for kids. The thought of letting kids slam into each other and cause various brain trauma is a bit absurd to me in 2023, with all of the data we have around the results (inc whataboutism in the form of "but it's ok for grown men to blah blah blah"). I think football as a whole either needs to change dramatically or slowly be phased out, but unsure that either will happen and we'll continue to see deaths in youth football that are incredibly tragic and wholly avoidable.

I say this as somebody who has been a fan of football for quite a long time, watched Red Zone religiously for a decade and has won and lost a heap of money playing Fantasy Football. The *game* had been enjoyable for me for a long time (hell, I even played in middle/high school). But it's impossible for me to just continue to ignore the facts of how brutal this game is for people's bodies and brains.

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notlodar t1_jaru0by wrote

Reply to comment by elprophet in SHOCKER: Mayor's private BQE meeting could divide Brooklyn politicians by psychothumbs

The 3 lanes now already spill over to residential lanes - see Columbia and Park as an example. Add in the factor that the majority of this traffic is caused by Staten Island and New Jersey commuters, will have to work on the public transit in those areas first.

Any study that to any study that touts the benefit of public transit over additional lanes of Highway needs to be scrutinized and contextualized properly in order to compare it to the complex systems we have a New York City.

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elprophet t1_jars8o3 wrote

Reply to comment by notlodar in SHOCKER: Mayor's private BQE meeting could divide Brooklyn politicians by psychothumbs

Yeah there's two conversations happening here- should the rebuilt section have three lanes or two? Three is what it had before and the rest of the BQE has three, so that's the status quo. While I personally push for lowering the entire thing to two it's entire length and replacing that with non-road alternatives, that's a massive undertaking and rebuilding of the city on the scale of the original highway system. I get that.

The other conversation in this thread is "just reopen those lanes now" and that notion is what I was responding to.

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Double-Ad4986 t1_jarrl05 wrote

Reply to comment by sulaymanf in Ban Corporal Punishment in Private Schools, New York Lawmakers Say by _Maxolotl

i would 100% argue that white supremacy has deep seeds in American culture. without a doubt, i would argue that. is it representative of all Americans? obviously not. but there's a reason we have so much white supremacy and extremism going on in this country such as islamiphobia. & it 100% has to do with America's founding culture and it's roots.

also terrorism isn't just islamic extremism. that should go without saying but i guess i have to spell that out for you.

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mtf612 OP t1_jarn1i8 wrote

Reply to comment by rbf85 in Can Central Park’s Drives Become More Peaceful? - NY Times by mtf612

No, and I should have been more clear on that issue list. I didn't expect this post to get much attention and honestly these are just my opinions that I came up with off the top of my head.

What I was trying to get at, is that runners and bicyclists do not stop for traffic lights. I think that's perfectly reasonable at certain parts of the park (north end) where there are few pedestrians crossing. On the south loop, however, there needs to be better mechanisms to control the flow of traffic—both the actual traffic on the loop and the traffic of pedestrians crossing the loop.

The problem I come across often, is that especially during tourist seasons, large groups of pedestrians will stand in the running lanes waiting for the light to change, forcing runners into the cyclist lane. I've seen pedestrians step out in front of runners multiple times, because the pedestrians did not look both ways, and I've seen clueless groups of people walk out into the bicyclist lane in front of traffic, nearly causing damaging accidents with oncoming cyclists.

And this doesn't just happen at the designated crossings. People jump the barriers all the time to get across the park more quickly, but they're now an obstacle that needs to be navigated.

Pedestrian safety certainly requires better control of traffic on the loop, but it also requires that (a subset of certain) pedestrians recognize that the loop is an actively used road with mixed forms of travel.

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