Zenith2017

Zenith2017 t1_j3y5qg1 wrote

Well, the cons will want something to their gain from allowing the child-molestation bill to be voted. The church and other lobbies that fund the conservatives expect them to obstruct that bill because it's counter to their interests. So there's incentive to not allow the bill to be voted on, meaning there's leverage against the left where the conservatives can eke out some sort of advantage if the left wants this bill voted on. Tit for tat.

(It's entirely fucked up)

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Zenith2017 t1_j3wv9nl wrote

If I encountered something like this in the areas I commonly park, I would report it. As for parking there, well, if this were on the streets surrounding my home I don't really have any choice. It's street park or no park. Thankfully there's usually room on the cross street when needed, but our infrastructure is only going to continue to degrade until we do something about it.

I hope my prior comment highlighted that you don't have to break the law, have an inappropriately sized vehicle, or park like a jag in order to be impacted by rusty metal protrusions like this. Not to mention incidental risk of injury, tetanus etc for pedestrians and passers-by

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Zenith2017 t1_j3wo3ef wrote

Okay, since you've never driven. It's a common experience to bump a curb when you're backing into a spot (since you can't see right where your rear passenger-side tire is in relation to the curb). But you feel it when you bump it, so what you do is use that as a sign to adjust. You're not aiming to park your vehicle ON the curb (illegal, a nuisance, damaging to the sidewalk and to your vehicle). But you might bump the curb in the process of parking legally and safely on the street. And in this instance, this rusty piece of metal could very well puncture your tire despite not ending with your vehicle parked on the curb.

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Zenith2017 t1_j2y3cr4 wrote

I'm with you 100%, but it's also valid to question who defines "reasonable". We'd be happy if the people we agree with define that favorably, but by the same token that's leaving room for malicious intent to redefine "reasonable" to something harmful.

Just food for thought. (I can definitely get on board with censoring straight up lies coming out of our so-called leaders' mouths, though!)

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Zenith2017 t1_j2y1tsh wrote

You can't force anyone to help themselves, but it's also true that eliminating barriers to access improves the chance of people helping themselves in the first place. I know I'd engage with mental healthcare more if it was more accessible, and I've already been in therapy and psychiatry for years.

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Zenith2017 t1_j29s55g wrote

Consider it like this. Wage theft is the largest form of theft in the country by a country mile. But, it's not considered a crime. It's only a civil infraction unless you can prove a fraud charge which is extremely challenging and costly. In other words, an employer can take hundreds of K or even millions out of their peoples' pockets and not be in serious trouble for it.

Going up to a person, a store, an ATM, whatever and taking any amount of money is a serious criminal infraction, on the other hand. Even with no weapon and no threat of force, it's treated that seriously. And I think you and I would probably agree that that's good! We should prosecute theft and robbery severely. But why, then, don't we treat wage theft even close to the same standard? The impact is certainly much wider and more severe.

It's one example among many of how the same behaviors from a poor community are prosecuted much more deeply than those from wealthy communities and businesses.

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