Bangladeshi independence

it was hepatitis

>Are recent Somali immigrants Black? Most Somalis would say no, but our government lumps them in as Black. Somalia is no where near the Atlantic coast and the slave trade.

Idk. Different countries have different racial taxonomies so it'd be hard to establish an objective measure of who's Black and who isn't. A person who'd be categorized in the US as Black might be considered Coloured in South Africa.

I'm not sure whether "Black" in the US connotes a particular relationship to the slave trade.

I think there are fewer barriers for Chinese people who want to trace their specific ethnic or cultural roots back to China than there are for African people who want to track theirs back to Africa. Hence the existence of Pan Africanism.

can we build the arena there?

jk

a good old fashioned brass kicking

i think it's cornet being savagely dismembered

Robert Chobert is a fun name

I'm more concerned about a Delaware River tsunami

I don't understand the distinction

I don't want to get into an argument, but don't you think a group of people working together -- even if only to talk to our councilpeople -- would make a bigger splash than one person doing it? And that something like that is more worthy of discussion than "HEY ASSHOLE" type posts?

I don't get why this post gets to stay up but the "what can we actually do about unsafe driving culture" needed to be removed

where's the original post? I get that people bitch about drivers all the time on here but I don't know of any recent posts wherein people are actually proposing solutions

I think it'd be helpful to gather some data. If we can quantify how bad it is here (and I agree it's bad) by measuring things like accidents per capita per day, traffic fatalities, etc., then we can set goals and evaluate our progress. Politicians (or whomever) could also travel to similar cities that have fewer accidents (or whatever the metrics are) and learn about what makes those cities' driving culture different from ours, and then try to apply those strategies here.

I'm aware of the existence of Vision Zero but I don't know anything really about them.

I also think a significant part of this is the cops' apparent refusal to enforce traffic laws. I don't really know what the answer to that is.

also, speaking of balances of things, every single local news source in Philadelphia needs a better proofreader/typo balance

yeah I remember him

Korean guy?

bosses are the true american heroes

>“The work-life balance is something that our generation is experiencing that our parents didn’t get an opportunity to indulge in during their youth.”

Is she saying that our (her) generation has a healthier work/life balance than the previous generation? I find this pretty difficult to believe.

Edit: I guess for children of immigrants or upwardly-mobile, generationally poor people it could check out though

Commenting so I can navigate back to this post in case I encounter him. I'll keep an eye out!

I think I like it.

what's the punchline

I've been in West for nearly a decade and I think it's mostly the same. Although I've significantly reduced my consumption of social media during that time. I think if it remained constant I'd be inclined to say that it's worse (because that's what social media does to my perception of the world).

Because being mean to strangers will give you brain cancer

What Happened To Sisters?