Lived in Richmond my whole life but mod r/FloridaMan so I feel like I know a lot about the state, and I have family there. You couldn't pay me to live in Florida. The state is one giant shell game where some people deny to themselves global warming is going to make it an unlivable monument to man's hubris, some people know it's coming and are trying to get out at the last minute, and some people know it's coming and are getting out now - plus the old people who don't care because they won't be here to see it. Also the insurance market is collapsing with no signs of it getting better under De Santis or Crist, so it's only going to get less and less affordable to live there.

Additionally the culture is extremely superficial and Florida ranks 41 / 51 for education spending per student - for context, DC is 4, MD is 9, VA is 21.

Pow-hite is the right way, it's like if someone says Nor-folk instead of Nor-fuk or the even more legit Naw-fuk

Hey, at least you're consistent! In general I'm against criminalizing drugs (or gambling) but also against deliberately exploitative business models that vacuum up money from a community and concentrate it in the hands of a few people who don't live there. Things like casinos, crack houses, payday loans, megachurches, just don't have a place in a well-functioning society.

The vast majority of a casino's revenue, somewhere between 80 and 90%, comes from slot machines that are designed from the ground up to abuse human psychology and create addiction.

We could legalize crack and put a taxable crack house in every neighborhood too. The business model is the same, go in with money and hope you leave with money - and yet, I don't see a lot of crack house advocates.

Sorry but you're missing the point. Yes, dogs have been bred to serve different purposes and that this impacts the dogs themselves as far as their personality and abilities. However, discrimination against specific breeds is a stand-in for discrimination against the people who own them. Again, I would just point right back to that dog whistle.

However, there is a point that can be made here on genetics which is that even for a professional, visually identifying a dog's breed can be very difficult. My dog is half corgi and half mini poodle but regularly is misidentified a cairn terrier. If she were to bite someone and it was reported, it's pretty reasonable to expect that there'd be a report about a cairn terrier biting someone - even though she's not one.

There are also indications that a dog's breed only accounts for a very small amount of its behavior (source): "In particular, the researchers found that aggressiveness — how easily a dog is provoked by things that are frightening or uncomfortable — is almost completely uninformed by breed."

It is easy to draw similarities between discrimination against breeds of dog that is built on a foundation of bias and ignorance, and discrimination against people that is built on a foundation of bias and ignorance.

No, you'd have to be pretty braindead to get that message from my post. I am saying that breed discrimination is a stand in for racism, and the two share many traits. You can see from the post that I am replying to, the way OC classifies all pitbull owners as "low class" which is not even a dogwhistle, they're saying the quiet part out loud.

You're the mad one, and stupid to boot. Wow, what a surprise - too traits that correlate strongly with racism.

>That’s hard to say, because according to a new study, “unknown” tops the list.

Shut the fuck up.

>Sadly the statistics are there and very clear.

Doesn't seem to square with:

>The CDC hasn't collected data on dog breeds wrt dog bites because it's essentially impossible to get accurate information.

(source)

>The CDC strongly recommends against breed-specific laws in its oft-cited study of fatal dog attacks, noting that data collection related to bites by breed is fraught with potential sources of error (Sacks et al., 2000). Specifically, the authors of this and other studies cite the inherent difficulties in breed identification (especially among mixed-breed dogs) and in calculating a breed’s bite rate given the lack of consistent data on breed population and the actual number of bites occurring in a community, especially when the injury is not deemed serious enough to require treatment in an emergency room (Sacks et al., 2000; AVMA, 2001; Collier, 2006). Supporting the concern regarding identification, a recent study noted a significant discrepancy between visual determination of breed and DNA determination of breed (Voith et al., 2009).

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>Hope things get better for you.

Don't project your miserable existence onto me.

lol this reply shows exactly what you're about, which is racism but with the thin veneer of directing it at pitbulls instead of their "low class" owners. Just like racists you probably have all kinds of flawed statistics to lean on, and just like with racists they're easily dispelled with about 3 minutes of research.

The CDC hasn't collected data on dog breeds wrt dog bites because it's essentially impossible to get accurate information.

It took 11 years but finally someone gets the reference

Readily available crack is an important amenity, they should drop it more

You just can't find good service these days

Yeah but your house is in Midlothian.

I walked by a house on Ellwood Ave the other day, it's lime green and there was a note on the door that says 'THE CRACKHOUSE HAS MOVED' - was curious, so I texted the number on the for-sale sign. $415k.

We have to raise the floor on bad behavior, legally. That means ending bad practices like week-to-week scheduling, clopens, wage theft, sexual harrassment, and retaliatory firings / hour reductions. The tipping system also encourages a lot of bad behavior by making servers dependant on customer good will. Until that happens, it will always be cheaper and offer better margins to run a restaurant like an asshole. That also means we as consumers need to understand that on some level the dining out experience has been subsidized by allowing poor behavior.