Sent, I apologize for using the incorrect tense. The island is still a ducking dump.

Better to be downvoted for talking about it than to actually live there though 🤣

Looks like a bunch of cops are downvoting you for this response, but you’re not wrong. Staten Island is literally where the rest of New York sends our garbage. SI residents can be as salty about it as they like, but it won’t be any less true.

Same. Garcia would have been amazing. We need a mayor who is just boring, competent, and hardworking. Not a flashy asshole with no substance who thinks the mayoralty is just a stepping stone to higher office.

You know that Lee Zeldin wasn’t running for Mayor of New York, right? The New York Mayor’s race was decided by the democratic primary, the genera election was forgone conclusion, especially since the Republicans couldn’t run anyone better than Curtis Sliwa.

We have Adams as our Mayor and not someone competent, like Kathryn Garcia, because many people voted for Adams in the primary because they thought he was black. But he’s actually just blue, because no color other than that matters to the NYPD.

If you stole multiple thousands of dollars from your employer, would you get fine and and “aw shucks, don’t do that again”? Or would you be fired, blacklisted, and possibly sent to prison?

That’s the difference.

Can we get an article summary for those of us who can deal with the NYTimes’ hilariously stupid billing policies?

What’s the definition of “corporal punishment” in this context?

Edit: I see, deeper in the article. This bill defines it as physical force used, which is appropriate. That is not the same definition for corporal punishment that is applied in public schools in NY lol

I wonder if that’s intentional because it looks like adding the “c” would push Robinson down to the next line, unless they decreased the font size.

At this point if I was in an accident, I’d rather just be left there to die than to receive medical attention and become a debt slave for the rest of my life.

Public education can’t do anything for people who refuse to utilize the resources available to them. In 10 years, 80% of my current students will be on Reddit whining how they were never taught anything in school and it’s so unfair and education is so shitty. None of them will actually take responsibility for the decisions and choices that led them to actively disrupt their own education and the educations of everyone around them on a daily basis.

Public education works great, for children whose parents have taught them to value learning, curiosity, and reading. It can’t do anything for children whose parents gave them a tablet at age 2, and then stuck them in the corner to play games, in order to avoid the actual work of parenting.

It’s called “slightly darker black”

From my understanding, it was the generals who were mostly paying before Marius and in the early years afterward. When Crassus went to hunt Spartacus, wasn’t it because he was the only one willing to pay to raise new legions after Spartacus destroyed the Consular army at Picenum?

That’s pretty much what it comes down to. Roman soldiers effectively had their gear subsidized or provided by the state, whereas in the Middle Ages a knight had to equip himself with weapons, armor, and horses, and as you pointed out, good longswords were very expensive because they take much more metal than a Gladius, and require more artisanship to make. Even peasant levies had to provide their own gear, which was why most of them showed up to war with various pieces of farm equipment as weapons.

This is not dissimilar to the Roman system prior to the Marian reforms. After Marius, Rome’s army was state funded, or at least funded by the general/politician who was in charge of it, whereas pre-Marius Roman soldiers had to equip themselves and were actually distinguished by their types of gear, (hastati, principes, triarii) which was based effectively on what the individual could afford to equip himself with.

The wages are roughly comparable, but we need to have a Master’s degree to be teachers, which isn’t a requirement for nurses.

In New York, it’s illegal. Public-sector employees aren’t allowed to strike in New York since 1947. If we vote to strike, the union contract is instantly void and everyone is basically fired on the spot.

It’s like a Mutually Assured Destruction thing cause it’s not like the city could actually replace 100,000 teachers but we can’t use striking as leverage in negotiations because they know the union would never vote on it.

Good luck to the nurses in this, I hope they get everything they deserve. I wish we teachers could do the same.

Good riddance

It’s great

Yes. What can she do, other than whine about shit on Twitter and make herself look even more stupid than she already does?

Not really. She got blown out in that election in Alaska. Hershel Walker could very easily be a senator two months from now, more’s the pity.

Wait fries don’t get soggy in the microwave? But everything else does, that’s so weird.

Ingrown hairs on my butthole sounds like the worst thing ever

I mean, it’s a simple matter of weight ratios. A 5 oz bird cannot carry a 1 lb coconut…

An African or European swallow, though?