Or reincarnated 💀lol (I’ll see myself out)

> It's meant to empower citizens to defend themselves.

This is a lie, as you so well demonstrate in the rest of your comment. You're allowed to 'defend yourself' under duty to retreat laws, but as you show what you really want is approval to hurt or kill the person you're mad at.

Yes, it’s about being domicile. Technically, house-sitting and hotels count. Though, they would have added stipulations like the cleaning lady is allowed in at some point.

Stature? If SYG was considered, your husband would be cleared by me. Proof of the baby nearby is all that’s needed. You also say it like the guy who attacked was over 18, but with a mild learning disability at least. Asperger’s is no longer a thing and we’ve had presidents with speech impediments. Paid damages and a restraining order from the fam and are of attempted robbery.

>The answer to "why is a Danish company moving its US HQ to Times Square?" is only "free Tile trackers!"

first off, I said that relocations happen often, but that we have to think about making sure the city is a place where people want to live and work since we don't know the motivations of moving, which may include the perception of the city by prospective employees.

second, I gave multiple examples of things we should be considering, not one, and I did not imply that the examples I gave were an exhaustive list.

>if you got slapped on the back at the wrong moment during a TED talk in 2014 or so.

is lacking any explanation, and the the implied explanation wouldn't even make any sense. if you want to illustrate a point, explain the point and support it, don't just make flippant allusions and expect it to be taken as a serious and coherent argument. well, if you're arguing just to hear your own argument, then that is fine. if you want to have a discussion or to add any value, then form a coherent argument with your reply.

>The NYC property's going to be 1/3 the size of their square footage in Baltimore.

and you give no explanation as to why the size of the space should matter so much. are you saying that baltimore has no office space for rent that is 1/3rd of the size of their current offices? you don't explain, so it makes no sense.

>Given what the last 2-3 years have been like specifically in terms of commercial real estate, it's reasonable to think this would be playing out the same way even if we'd built out the entire Baltimore metro network and most people were commuting in via transit

I don't think you can make that assumption. if it was easier, safer, and more pleasant to work in the city, I think companies would be more inclined to have offices here. you just state that for "real estate reasons" the demand for baltimore office space would have nothing to do with transit and imply that it would have nothing to do with the city's reputation, public safety, or general livability/workability of the city. I don't think that makes sense because I think it should be obvious that those things do have an impact, and you did not explain why the real estate market would obviate those factors.

so, each of your points don't make sense. maybe you can make them make sense, but as-stated, they're not adding anything to the conversation.

Citizens of Maryland are not barred from defending themselves from "all this crime and such" under DTR law. That's an alarmist canard cooked up by the ILA and other lobbyists who want to make it easier to sell more guns.

A few years back Pandora was looking at closing all US offices anyways so yeah.

> But large business HQs in cities are also starting to become a thing of the past post-COVID.

I think this is going to be the start of another, likely irreversible, era of urban flight like we saw in the 50s and 60s.

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SYG works will retreating fails. You didn’t break into your own house or stalked your own workplace, etc. I find it funny how the open and carry states get safer once the law passes. It’s truly a weird phenomenon. In the U.S., I think if consistently stand by our stereotypical principles of individuality, freedom to do anything that isn’t harmful to others, and Wild West responsible gun ownership, then it can work. We sadly don’t and keep the rhetoric of white supremacy and poor people are horrible people blah blah blah nonsense. Also, how many are mentioning George Zimmerman in the comments? His case was definitely an exception that shouldn’t have happened considering what he was told not to do to his meek teen neighbor.

>Chicago and New Orleans are two cities with similar crime issues to us, yet they never get the reputation as the crime and murder cities

Chicago famously does - which is weird considering they're not even the most dangerous city in Illinois anymore, and haven't been for a while.

Does that hold up with current policies?

We had ours at Gunther & Co and they did a fantastic job!

NYC, famously.

What even is in that building other than Pandora and the Starbucks anyways? It's enormous and can't possibly all be Pandora can it?

"Reframing" is not going to work.

>SYG is not meant to combat crime. It's meant to empower citizens to defend themselves.

This is dishonest revisionist history. The NRA-ILA flatly claimed that the Florida SYG Law "deters would-be murderers, rapists and robbers" and that "more guns, less crime."

The claim that SYG was not meant to combat crime, that "the only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun" and it was only meant to "empower [certain] people to defend themselves" is belied by the proponents' own statements. It's also false to presuppose that a right to self defense is only guaranteed by SYG. Maryland law provides for the defense of self or others including use of deadly force. You don't need a SYG law to defend yourself.

All objective evidence shows that Stand Your Ground laws increase homicides and, when combined with racial bias, results in the killing of Black Americans.

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>Human life has subjective value for some and no one should be compelled to hold it to the highest standard

Cars have less subjective value for some citizens of Maryland, so I guess by your rationale we can go ahead and destroy all of them that are driven aggressively based on our own subjective standards of value.

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>while SYG has a racial bias, I would say the entire justice system has that problem.

Maybe racial harm to minority communities seems like a zero sum game for you, but the false notion that since racial disparity already exists it's okay to enact laws that make it worse is immoral and cynical.

I was kind of shocked to learn that. It doesn’t work very well in tantrum with castle doctrine. Considering behavior of the common dope in our state, a toned-down version of Stand Your Ground would benefit people like myself.

I'd heard Pandora was closing all its US locations, though? Anyways they did mention this over a year ago.

You should really try to get your headcount solidified sooner. Sooner you get a firm headcount and what you want, the sooner you can book. Waiting til the last minute (yes, in wedding speak, a month prior is the last minute) means higher prices/less availability.

Our space was a bit more but had Mission drop off the food and it worked great.

Where is your venue? Usually good idea to have semi-close to where rehearsal is located

Lived in the state my entire life and with the rising amounts of violence, constitutional carry and Stand your ground should be in place. Its your right as a human to defend your own well being no matter the means. Maryland government make it the opposite, they would rather good people die then punish criminals.

Justification for use of force should be determined by a jury of the perpetrator’s peers. Every situation is completely different and we saw through Trayvon Martin what can happen when there are blanket laws in place that turn a situational matter into a pre-determined one.

What part? The link's to the Commercial Observer about a pretty normal corporate relo. You've decided that this supports your (amply expressed) preexisting worldview, and I'm laughing at both the underlying leap in logic and the specific application here.

But please, correct me if I'm wrong: is there anything to suggest that this has anything to do with crime other than your/one's personal fixation on crime?

Article says they are keeping the Baltimore office space, this is a move of "HQ" and an expansion of USA real estate.