The city needs to get its crime problem under control first. I honestly think if the city conducts a lottery and gives renovated houses away to people for free, it would be a great way of building back the tax base. But the city needs to ensure residents' safety first.

About $150 on average for one person.

For a paper tiger though, the Russian Army has certainly proven that it is capable of plenty of death and destruction. Also they still have nukes, so we didn't intervene in the same way that we did when Saddam tried pulling off the same thing.

You can stand around and not do too too much for $60,000 a year plus overtime.

Because these kids need more than punishment, they also need mentorship. Their parents aren't there; they have no adult figures to look up to, except criminals willing to exploit them because adult criminals know they can hire kids to do their dirty work as kids have a decent amount of legal immunity.

Yeah. It's such a nuanced situation that needs a holistic solution that requires resources that people aren't willing to expend.

You cannot just shower these communities with money, a lot of these communities also require a degree of mentorship and lots of social workers too.

It's going to be tough to break the cycle.

Ah yeah. You might want an additional extender. That's a nearly twice the square footage of a usual house here.

How big is your living space? They do sell WiFi extenders if your house is sufficiently that big. Most routers these days have pretty decent range, enough to cover the footprint of most rowhomes here.

Get a used Thinkpad off eBay.

Isn't that most people? I would fit into that category. I don't live paycheck to paycheck but eventually savings run out.

The last time I had roommates, I had 5 of them in Columbia Heights. I live alone now.

We need more people to kick the habit.

A true public servant.

I salute you, Mr. Cunningham.

None of the dentists I've been to ever mentioned it. They took regular x-rays. I assumed mine would never come out. My parents never had this issue.

I believe all of the big accounting firms (PwC, EY, etc.) have presences here.

Some people are willing to pay for access...

If you like exploring restaurants/shops, I'd look at Eastern Market in Capitol Hill or Georgetown. Georgetown has the best retail in the city, plus many new restaurants have opened there recently. Just keep in mind it's not near the Metrorail and parking is terrible there.

You are probably better staying off in NoVa with a car. Parking is expensive in DC. What do you like to do outside of work? What are your priorities?

It's up to you.

Some of you Zoomers don't know this, as a Millennial, there was a time when there were no laws mandating disposing your dog's poop. I remember growing up seeing dog shit all over the place as a toddler. My mom would warn me not to touch the "brown stuff" that was in the sidewalks.

Where I grew up in Massachusetts, it was only until the late 1990s when Boston passed an ordinance ordering people to pick up after their dogs. They even posted signs all over the place. After that the dog shit disappeared off the streets, though some dog owners were a bit late in terms of getting along with the program.

Very poorly.

When I moved here in January 2019, it snowed like crazy compared to previous years. I was riding a bus in NoMa hoping to look at some rooms I saw advertised on Craigslist when it started snowing.

The bus driver then looked at me and said, "Get off son, this bus is going back to the depot."

I was perplexed. "Why?"

He pointed outside. "It's snowing."

I was there yesterday! Thanks for putting the event together! Looking forward to next month's event.

Donating blood plasma is different than donating blood. Donating blood plasma is much more invasive and you do come out of each session a little fatigued. Blood plasma is typically used in scientific research and there's a shortage of it, hence why people are paid to donate.

Blood's much easier.

If it had been 5 White/non-Black cops arrested, I think it would have been very bad.

But given that it was 5 Black cops who got arrested, I expect that fact to lessen the tension a lot. There's an implied notion that after a decade of many highly publicized cases of police brutality, cops (especially Black men who are cops) should know better. Kudos to the family of the victim and their lawyer calling for calm as well. There's going to be more of a police brutality angle to this one than a race one.

I hope to read more about the service history of these cops. Most likely they all exhibited warning signs in their records.

Policing has a tendency to attract bullies and power-trippers. Given the police officer shortage throughout this country, it is easier for people of bad dispositions to become police officers. Police departments need to be empowered to remove people of poor disposition and tendencies towards authoritarianism from their ranks. Policing is a service, not an excuse to be a jack-booted thug of the state.

I like living in DC and have only witnessed a very small smattering of the bad things people complain about all the time here.

Sometimes I feel like since DC attracts a lot of high strung, high achieving types, you see a lot of more people from that crowd posting about every single little thing that they see wrong with the city.

It's a city. No city is perfect. DC is better than most other cities in terms of quality of life and livability. The mass transit is decent. Of course can things be better and can we do better? Yes. But that's utopia. There will be compromises.

If you don't like it here, you can always go to a place that suits you better. I'd imagine most people on this subreddit are well-educated and are in skilled professions, so to do that isn't much of a stretch for many here.