I’m pretty sure people having their own experiences of filth and creep on the Metro makes people wary of the Metro.

But you believe what you want, my dude.

Bold to assume your perspective is purely rational.

Seems irrational to ignore increasing violence on Metro. Less people who find it safe, the more people who will drive.

Probably paid their fare and has no previous criminal record.

”That’s just part of life in a city.”

No, you.

That place is the gutter of the earth around 1am.

And I love it for that.

But this violence cannot stand.

February is almost over. That seems like a good thing.

True.

>Your point is what exactly

The cops are incompetent and the criminals get off easy.

Still a police problem though.

”Saldo's car has a tracking system called Uconnect. When she turned it on, she saw it was pinging a garage in Anacostia. She gave the location to police and says officers found a man passed out inside her car. But, she says, since police had never marked her car as stolen, they didn’t arrest the man.”

https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/dc-woman-uses-tracking-device-to-track-down-stolen-car/2881346/?amp=1

Police didn’t care enough to label a clearly stolen vehicle as stolen. Wrist-slaps and less paperwork all the way.

>Turning off your xbox…

Flapping your wings while the plane crashes.

I agree that it’s good to use less as an individual, but I’m saying it literally won’t matter so long as the rich keep doing what they’re doing.

double post

I’m sorry, but climate change isn’t going to be stopped until we tax the decadence out of the rich.

“Taylor Swift topped the list at more than 170 flights since January, totalling up to 15.9 days in the air, and 8,293.54 metric tons of CO2 emissions—that’s equivalent to all the emissions from the energy used by over 1,000 homes in the U.S. for a year.”

”The average person produces about 7 metric ton of CO2 annually. Meanwhile, celebrities have emitted an average of more than 3,300 metric tons from their private jets alone so far this year.”

https://time.com/6208632/celebrities-climate-impact-private-jets-yachts/

Thanks for the input!

Larger point will still stand though: those with higher incomes contribute more to emissions. Both the global top 10% and the top 10% within the country when compared to the rest.

https://www.businessinsider.com/how-much-wealthy-middle-class-poor-make-income-per-year-2021-12?amp

”Someone in the top 10% of the global income distribution makes $122,100 per year.”

https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/DC,US/PST045221

”Per capita income in past 12 months (in 2021 dollars), 2017-2021, Washington DC: $63,793”

The more you know.

Thanks for clarifying your personality.

And no, you’re wrong. The data exist. The top earners literally produce the same amount of CO2 emissions as the rest of us combined.

https://www.statista.com/chart/26904/estimated-global-co2-emission-share-by-income-groups/

”The world's richest ten percent are responsible for an estimated 47 percent share of global CO2 emissions.”

This level of discrepancy tracks within the US as well.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/rich-americans-have-higher-carbon-footprints-than-other-wealthy-people/

”In North America, the top 10 percent of people by income produce nearly 73 tons of carbon dioxide per person annually. At the other end of the income spectrum, however, the bottom 50 percent of North Americans emit 10 tons per person annually.”

A special link just because I want to believe you actually are a subscriber to NPR:

https://www.npr.org/2022/11/09/1135446721/billionaires-carbon-dioxide-emissions

”Very rich people emit huge and unsustainable amounts of carbon and have an outsized influence over our economy."

Mate, the individual behavior of the general populace is a small factor compared to what the corporations spew out and how much of an impact the luxuries of the top 10% income earners have on this poor Earth.

The problem is at the top, not the bottom.

Revolving means they come back in again.

That doesn’t really sound like an exit plan.

The city commissioned a report that found most violent crime is committed by a very small number of people.

https://dcist.com/story/22/02/18/majority-of-dc-homicides-driven-by-small-group/

”In Washington, D.C., most gun violence is very tightly concentrated on a small number of very high risk young Black male adults that have a shared set of common risk factors,” says David Muhammad, the executive director of the National Institute for Criminal Justice Reform. “This very small number of high risk individuals are identifiable. Their violence is predictable and therefore it is preventable.”

I presume the problem doesn’t suddenly begin when someone becomes an adult, so that tracks what with your friend observed.

When I’m out I do lump them all together though. See a group of teenagers? Avoid. Until the problem is fixed that’s how it’ll be.

I know they know that I know they won’t get in trouble.

Sometimes I swing by Cameo when they open at 8am to get a coffee, and even then there’s people with laptops ready to set up shop in a booth made for a group of customers. The audacity is wild.

I really can’t get behind Compass. Every time I order a basic milk based espresso drink it’s pretty tasteless.

If you have free time during the week, hit up Yellow. Their Georgetown location is fab and the drinks are alright. Avoid on the weekend, as it is a monstrosity of overcrowding.

I really appreciate it. I fully support work from home, but people do tend to take over cafes with their work. I hate listening to someone’s Zoom meeting while I’m trying to vibe; I go to cafes to escape. The holding pen for people who want the cafe to be their office is hilarious though.

There’s plenty of other options to work in. Thanks for providing a cafe recommendation for me to check out!

Edit: Looked them up. “The Study” area is great! It allows all the people wanting to work from a cafe to do so together.

Increased reporting on potential crime in the city and alerting them to a potential threat in the area.

Sorry that happened to you. Best of luck.