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Please tell me that was an original post with no context. And then.... Brawnfire posted:Just to be safe, let's keep on eye on that dude
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It's literally because boomers got too old to do violent crimes.
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Sep 22, 2022 14:34
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Ghost Leviathan posted:It's literally because boomers got too old to do violent crimes. the spirit is willing
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Sep 22, 2022 19:42
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:99% of people in your area who like to say "that's why I never go downtown anymore" or "that's why I never go into the city anymore" never actually went downtown or into the city that reminds me of when I lived outside Detroit and my older coworkers/parents/friends parents would always tell me DO NOT STOP AT RED LIGHTS IN DETROIT, you will be CARJACKED and MURDERED yeah sure Carol I'm gonna fuckin run a red light, when were you downtown last? Oh, when you were twenty? Literally thirty years ago? gently caress off.
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Sep 22, 2022 21:47
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big dyke energy posted:that reminds me of when I lived outside Detroit and my older coworkers/parents/friends parents would always tell me DO NOT STOP AT RED LIGHTS IN DETROIT, you will be CARJACKED and MURDERED It's my parents' neighbor Karen (her actual name), who apparently lived in Portland briefly as a teen, and felt the need to come over and tell me about how things are there now.
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Sep 22, 2022 23:56
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You have to say ciudad
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Nighthand posted:The crime rates were much lower when you in your suburban home only ever had to hear about crimes secondhand from the nightly news, instead of seeing it on your news feed every time someone sees a minority and views "making me see a minority" as a crime they can post about. It's this except less nextdoor and more CNN. I have this conversation with my parents all the loving time. No, crime is not way up. Here is a link to the FBI stats for the 80s and today. They get freaked out because news coverage is wall to wall awful poo poo happening somewhere and yeah, in a country of 330 million people that covers an entire continent there's going to be lots of grist for that mill on a daily basis. But in the 70s and 80s all you heard about was the poo poo local to you or maybe - maybe - a high profile murder of a cute kid or something that made national papers. Now? Every mugging gone bad gets blasted coast to coast because it's how you find filler in your 24 hour news cycle. Amazingly the times when they seem to calm down about crime is when something actually newsworthy is being covered because all that local stuff gets pushed out. That's not to minimize how much that poo poo sucks for the people who are impacted by it, but goddamn there's no reason for my parents on the west coast to be fretting over a guy who got beat up in a subway in Boston. poo poo only seemed better way back when because Dan Rather wasn't on TV all day reading a litany of every bad thing that happened to anyone all that day. edit: and this is assuming neutral news sources that are just reporting stuff without trying to put their own editorial spin on it for their/their owners' private reasons. Which is to say lol fox news.
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Sep 23, 2022 00:21
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CNN, Nextdoor, Fox, whatever local news affiliate has nothing better to do, Facebook, the 24/7 bombardment of doom hits us all in various ways. Amongst my social circle it's not crime, it's climate, or it's the unchecked corruption in politics, or whatever other horrible thing we have to deal with as we live our lives.
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Sep 23, 2022 05:10
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Cyrano4747 posted:It's this except less nextdoor and more CNN. I'd say there is also some of the "plane crash effect" in play here, too. Whenever there is a significant plane crash, suddenly there are several weeks of stories about planes crashing showing up near the top of the page. 99% of the time it's not because there was a sudden spate of plane crashes, it's just that it is now cued and getting attention so stuff that would've similarly played only locally gets broadcast everywhere.
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Sep 23, 2022 08:49
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This lady posted looking for someone to come to her house and kill her dog for her (no vets pls). Just any ol person, come kill my dog.Crazy Lady posted:"Unfortunately may need to put my dog down & wondering if anyone has recommendations for someone to come to house for this as opposed to going to vet.
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Sep 24, 2022 02:09
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Le Faye Morgaine posted:This lady posted looking for someone to come to her house and kill her dog for her (no vets pls). Just any ol person, come kill my dog. Best case scenario, they want it to be calm and not in the scary and sterile vet office. But who could put an animal down peacefully and painlessly at home I have no clue? A good vet could do an at home euthanasation, but that's a big ask. It's still weird AF to ask on nextdoor for a death doula for your dog.
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Sep 24, 2022 02:19
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In NextDoor Adjacent news, my daughter’s middle school principal sent out an email warning parents about the “one chip challenge.” So they are worried the kids might eat spicy food.
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Sep 24, 2022 02:20
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Indolent Bastard posted:Best case scenario, they want it to be calm and not in the scary and sterile vet office. But who could put an animal down peacefully and painlessly at home I have no clue? Get someone who owns a captive bolt gun for killing cattle?
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Sep 24, 2022 02:21
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The neighborhood squabbles that happen on next door are truly depressing. All my neighbors are loving scorpions when it comes to delivery drivers. Like complaining about everything under the sun. Every driver is ~~~looking in the window and casing the place~~~ or steals something. A driver saw the hose was running and turned the water off. They are pissed. A driver saw the door was slightly open, hollared in a couple times, put the packages in the house, and closed the door, they are pissed. Why? Because it's an invasion of property even though you're doing the right thing. Our poo poo is stolen constantly, I just deliver everything to my warehouse now and have an employee deliver it later in a van if it's large enough to justify it. It is annoying though, but these people complain about the nicest loving people doing a slight act of decency. I like to get delivery drivers Christmas presents. I don't give a poo poo if I've never seen em before. I buy 20 little gift bags and hand em out till I run out. Mailmen and garbage guy get a little more significant thank you. What a pointless rant about hatred of delivery drivers but nextdoor is absolutely depressing.
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Sep 24, 2022 02:24
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Indolent Bastard posted:Best case scenario, they want it to be calm and not in the scary and sterile vet office. But who could put an animal down peacefully and painlessly at home I have no clue? My mom used a house call vet to put her dog down. It was expensive as gently caress, but he was a great dog. He spent his last day surrounded by family and friends eating treats and cream in the yard (I wasn’t there, but I saw photos). No one posting for recommendations on NextDoor is going to be willing to pay what it costs to have a vet come to their house, though.
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Sep 24, 2022 02:34
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 The big topic currently seems to be outrage that after third grade, they get group pick-up/drop-off instead of individual homes like K-3. At least one claim that thousands of kids are abducted walking to the bus stop every year has been made.
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Sep 24, 2022 04:13
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My GF used a mobile vet that specializes in at-home euthanasia when her beloved little dog reached the end of the road - he was at least 16 and couldn’t move his hindquarters properly anymore. It was a bit cheaper than bringing him to the vet, but much easier on the dog. And us, truthfully - it was mid-Covid and they weren’t letting people in to the vet’s office with their pets, so the thought of the poor creature’s last minutes would be spent in a strange place and with unfamiliar people was horrible.
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Sep 24, 2022 14:37
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JnnyThndrs posted:the thought of the poor creature’s last minutes would be spent in a strange place and with unfamiliar people was horrible. Oh don't worry, plenty of actual humans during covid got to have that exact kind of horrible lonely death in hospitals worldwide. That dog got a better death than my dad did! Vote Pro Euthanasia! End cold and clinical and drawn out dying processes!
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Sep 24, 2022 15:02
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Expecting that's just worded very poorly and they are looking for a house call vet. They say don't want to go to the vet, not that they don't want a vet.
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Sep 24, 2022 18:52
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We have someone on our local page posting about "gangs at the skatepark." It's teenagers swearing and people are SO MAD. "My little boy can't go to the skatepark because he hears CERTAIN WORDS." Christ. The words are poo poo, gently caress, and drat, usually because someone just fell on the ground because it's a skate park. Cue the small town outrage.
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Sep 24, 2022 21:18
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I really want to make a post where I ask if anybody knows about the teenagers fighting and engaging in violence, and as the post continues people gradually realize I’m taking about the high school football game.
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Sep 24, 2022 22:29
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Using high pitched noisemakers and wearing opposing gang colors
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Sep 24, 2022 22:41
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Turf rivalry where innocent bystanders are regularly hurt by flying projectiles and bodies.
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Sep 24, 2022 22:59
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It was almost like onlookers were egging them on!
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Sep 24, 2022 23:00
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They tend to hold these fights on school property after dark. Some of them take videos with their phones and put them on The Internet --- incredible!
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Sep 24, 2022 23:33
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Haschel Cedricson posted:I really want to make a post where I ask if anybody knows about the teenagers fighting and engaging in violence, and as the post continues people gradually realize I’m taking about the high school football game. A Fancy Hat could probably sell that real well
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Just saw this. 
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Pennywise the Frown posted:Just saw this. Did someone completely misunderstand another trucker telling him to watch out for depression?
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Scathach posted:We have someone on our local page posting about "gangs at the skatepark." It's teenagers swearing and people are SO MAD. "My little boy can't go to the skatepark because he hears CERTAIN WORDS." Christ. The words are poo poo, gently caress, and drat, usually because someone just fell on the ground because it's a skate park. Cue the small town outrage. LOL I remember taking daughter who was 5 years old at the time to a schoolyard to play and there were some older teenagers there trying to film a trick for a skate video. After a whole bunch of yelled obscenities I went over, said I was sorry to interrupt them, and asked if they could cool it with the language because there were little kids present. They sheepishly apologized and stopped yelling swear words. That was the case any time I have ever asked any strangers of the current generation to teenagers to do or not do something in order to be considerate to others. Today’s teenagers are WAY better people than anyone I knew growing up. When the olds complain about them I am always left scratching my head.
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Inceltown posted:Did someone completely misunderstand another trucker telling him to watch out for depression? No, it's referencing a specific trucker myth that was itself borne out of an even older myth: https://www.thetruckersreport.com/truckingindustryforum/threads/the-dog.13663/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_dog_(folklore)
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...and when I got to the truck stop there was a black dog paw hanging from the passenger door handle!
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therobit posted:Today’s teenagers are WAY better people than anyone I knew growing up. When the olds complain about them I am always left scratching my head. He said, after complaining about teenagers expressing themselves and going out of his way to try to police them. Swears are just words old man. They won't hurt your kid to hear them. They probably know them already anyway, or will shortly. Kids love swearing even more when it's forbidden. You just gotta explain that we don't use "gently caress" when we want to be polite, and we never use the racist or sexist words ever, because only shitheads do that.
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The Butcher posted:He said, after complaining about teenagers expressing themselves and going out of his way to try to police them. Yeah I’m guessing you don’t have kids if you can’t understand why someone wouldn’t want their five year old being exposed to yelled obscenities.
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Boomers were always lovely people and project it on everyone else. Your stereotypical lovely violent teenager is literally just describing a boomer.
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The Butcher posted:He said, after complaining about teenagers expressing themselves and going out of his way to try to police them. The most recent series of What We Do in the Shadows involved having children on set a lot, and Matt Berry was very worried because apparently he swears all the time and finds it hard to switch off, so he approached the showrunner to ask if he'd need to censor himself. He was told no because it turns out children find swearing to be hilarious and good so long as it isn't aggressive.
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Also kids will swear literally as much as they can the moment they think adults aren't around.
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therobit posted:Yeah I’m guessing you don’t have kids if you can’t understand why someone wouldn’t want their five year old being exposed to yelled obscenities. Swing and a miss on that one. Words are words. Hearing a word like "gently caress" does not hurt a child unless directed to them in anger. What's important is that they know when it's okay to use them, or how it can make other people feel, especially when they are being used to attack or belittle another person, and how some words are never ok. Like, obvious movie quote here: We train young men to drop fire on people, but their commanders won't allow them to write "gently caress" on their airplanes because it's obscene. Just park the misplaced morality thing that was instilled in you, or is enforced on you, and think about what actually matters and how it affects people. Try to understand the difference between whatever the worst bunch of curses and slurs you could say about whatever people you hate the most, and why that's different from kids just yelling "gently caress!" when they bail off a skateboard or whatever. And then think how you can teach your child that. And then think, why do you have the right to try to intimidate and force the right way of speaking on other people's children instead of just talking to your own and helping to learn these concepts.
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The Butcher posted:Swing and a miss on that one. Asking someone politely isn’t intimidation, and generally asking people to observe the rules of polite society around children is a good thing. There actually are consequences if your five year old goes to kindergarten and repeats that stuff, and five year olds do not always understand social context despite a parent’s attempts to explain it. Or they think it’s funny and just say it on repeat at school if they are a little older. Ideally you want your kids to be old enough to not say it when they aren’t supposed to, such as in front of younger children.
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Also asking politely and treating teenagers with respect gets a positive response, whoda thunk it
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