I cannot encourage you to take advantage of this fun fact, but here is a fun fact for you: DC, MD, and VA are currently in a standoff where they cannot require non-residents to pay for automated tolls and fines.

Dates might be wrong but they are limiting gradually the sale of gas cars .

And they will have to triple the energy

A pair of hedge shears ought to do it

Link?

I’d argue that someone who hasn’t seen it up close can’t really appreciate how bad it is for some people. Poor people in this area are relatively more affluent than those in many parts of the country. Parts of Alabama are seeing a resurgence of illnesses we largely eliminated through modern sanitation, and Mississippi’s largest city can’t keep the water flowing to its residents. People who haven’t been through those parts of the country, or Appalachia, or probably even some long-forgotten Rust Belt towns, haven’t experienced it. It’s a lot different when you have a poor (or poorly run) state with a ramshackle social safety net. A lot of people are poor here, but there are people living in desperate, abject poverty in other parts of the country…including some not far from here. It’s almost like we live in different countries than they do.

This is incorrect. The grid has power. Stop spreading misinformation

Lmao disrespectful I use the properly defined terminology for their situation? Tell yourself whatever you'd like

Maybe, but you’re losing fidelity by leaving out the part where he gets close to people and poses in such a way that seeing it is unavoidable. That’s distinct from him just picking a seat and chilling there. In a workplace scenario this assuredly would be sexual harassment.

Homeless (adj) - without a home, and therefore typically living on the streets.

By its very definition this is correct. Calling them unhoused is nothing more than trying to reshape language to make people feel better, it serves zero purpose to help anyone.

It's more about if you're going to be graphic about female anatomy and sex... you should probably not be ignorant about related topics.

Also, LOL @ citing Encyclopedia Britannica, umbrella terms and all.

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Wow and their google reviews are so insanely fake too! What a bunch of dickheads

i commented on the other thread. i live in the area and neither me or my tiny gf have had any issues walking in that neighborhood even at late hours. dont pay it too much thought.

This happened to me recently and I found it unsettling. What seems to be the consensus from neighborhood blogs, etc., is that it isn't a scam per se, but the execution is extremely shady. They came to my house and asked if I'd heard of cancer and if I was scared of it (lol) and then said they needed to see my energy bill, which is when I said I didn't have it and couldn't help them because it seems pretty fair to not show strangers on your porch your financials. I think the end game is a sales pitch to get you to switch to a legitimate clean energy carrier, but the method is scammy and also financially risky.

I doubt the grid has the power .

CA mandated only EVs by 2035. Fist few years 25% then 50% and by 2035 100%

They will have to triple today's grid

They're biting more than they can chew
We aren't ready for EVs until we adopt nuclear energy of fusion or something

It was certainly never a Chicago or New York-style ethnic patchwork. Especially historically DC had a lot of cultural influence from the US South (including, critically in the migration context and as you alluded to in New Orleans—zealous anti-Catholic sentiment. There historically are not many Catholics in the South, literally because of terrorist threats against them.)

My main point isn’t to explore in-depth how this developed, but rather to illustrate the way that explicitly-racialized patterns of poverty and privilege are much more apparent in DC, despite it being one of the nation’s most diverse. I think it also explains a lot of national political trends. I truly think most people in DC have only a superficial understanding of the extent of white poverty in the United States, and the McLean and Potomac types are just about the most privileged people in the entire world. It ain’t like that back home, or in much of the country. White people around DC will acknowledge this to some extent, but I don’t think they’re truly aware. The result is a national race and class narrative that is disproportionately influenced by the existing divides in the DMV, while simultaneously tonedeaf in terms of their own contributions toward upholding or benefitting from these inequalities.

About respecting people my guy

It’s not a difficult concept. You should try it sometime.

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It's possible he's been confronted, or even charged with something, but he's not going to be locked up or banned from the metro for this behavior. If he doesn't care about his record, he'll keep coming back to do this.

Are you texting MTP when you see him on the train or after the fact? I don't know if you can attach photos to the text line but at least provide a description of what he's wearing, what stop you're at, which direction the train is headed, and car number if visible. I've had luck with MTP getting officers on the train within a stop or two.

If they’re in public you don’t need their consent. The camera can go wherever the public eye can go

Dog.

I’m not trying to argue but I think it’s funny because you can definitely make a home that’s not in the house but yeah so like there’s people out there that make their home a tent, so yeah, they may not be homeless in that sense but they are definitely houseless

I just purchased Plan B and I can confirm the packaging states that it works by preventing ovulation.

That's nice, but where do you live? I would 100% feel the way you do if I lived in Woodley Park, sure, but I would absolutely not feel that way if I lived in Navy Yard, for example.

It's all relative. If you have the means to live in the nice parts of Northwest DC, I'm sure you feel its as safe now as it was pre-covid, but the safe areas are dwindling fast.

What’s NSFW about this post?

I agree with OP, but it's all relative. I've been in DC since 2007, give or take. 2007 - 2020 were excellent years. Yes, there were areas that were (and still are) dangerous and violent, but it didn't feel as though crime from those areas were bleeding into the rest of the city.

Now, not so much. Crime, particularly violent crime, is almost everywhere in DC in ways that it simply wasn't from 2000 - 2020. Yes, there has always been crime, and yes, it isn't as bad as it was in the 80s and 90s, but its become pretty damn terrible these past few years. I've had to run away from gunshots at least three times in the past two years, one of those times, I was truly, truly shocked and thankful I wasn't actually struck by bullets. All three times in areas that are supposed to be nice or were supposed to have changed dramatically in the past two decades - areas that in 2018 I would have never heard gunshots.

The fact is that the overwhelming majority of DC just isn't safe anymore. There is a level of diligence needed to live here that you didn't need in the previous 15 years. The city has basically thrown up its hands and decided that it's fine, that this is acceptable, and that there's nothing to be done about it except working on ways to lessen the punishments for our more violent offenders. Criminals are more brazen and bold than they have been at any point in the past two decades. There is zero deterrent, so they keep fucking up everyone else's lives.

OP isn't wrong. The 'old' 2000 - 2020 DC is eroding away. But it's still a far from what it was like from 1980 - 2000.