DC has a curfew for people under 18 - they have to be off the street by 11pm, and, in certain neighborhoods, 8pm.
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@mattblaze
11pm you might convince me was a misguided attempt at improving sleep patterns, but 8pm? Why are underage people treated like they're not people
Can they drive? What if they're at a friend's place? This is so bizarre to me.
@dancer_storm Apparently an over-reaction to some recent flash mobs.
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@dancer_storm Apparently an over-reaction to some recent flash mobs.
@mattblaze im sorry, does that abrogate their Constitutional rights?
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DC has a curfew for people under 18 - they have to be off the street by 11pm, and, in certain neighborhoods, 8pm.
Now, I'm at the age where I should be yelling at kids to get off my lawn, and I get that groups of teenagers are prone to getting into trouble (and can make grownups uncomfortable even when they don't). But it still rubs me the wrong way.
Kids should be held accountable for their actual conduct, not pre-judged merely for being young.
@mattblaze I agree with the entire post, 8pm is especially egregious. However, maybe this is just my inner oldness showing, but I don't think anything good happens after 11pm.
If it does, I won't be awake for it.
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DC has a curfew for people under 18 - they have to be off the street by 11pm, and, in certain neighborhoods, 8pm.
Now, I'm at the age where I should be yelling at kids to get off my lawn, and I get that groups of teenagers are prone to getting into trouble (and can make grownups uncomfortable even when they don't). But it still rubs me the wrong way.
Kids should be held accountable for their actual conduct, not pre-judged merely for being young.
The Pre-Crime Division will be founded in Washington D.C. then y'all get your freedom back. It'll be perfect.
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That said, all of you - regardless of age - are invited to get the hell off my lawn.
@mattblaze surely you should be telling the youf to get *on* your lawn and off the street?
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DC has a curfew for people under 18 - they have to be off the street by 11pm, and, in certain neighborhoods, 8pm.
Now, I'm at the age where I should be yelling at kids to get off my lawn, and I get that groups of teenagers are prone to getting into trouble (and can make grownups uncomfortable even when they don't). But it still rubs me the wrong way.
Kids should be held accountable for their actual conduct, not pre-judged merely for being young.
@mattblaze Having just made a brief run to the store at 8:30p on a Saturday, I found myself pretty annoyed with the Youths that were out being loud for no reason.
But that is just being in public, and the sad fact that Target and Walmart are what amount to Third Spaces these days.
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DC has a curfew for people under 18 - they have to be off the street by 11pm, and, in certain neighborhoods, 8pm.
Now, I'm at the age where I should be yelling at kids to get off my lawn, and I get that groups of teenagers are prone to getting into trouble (and can make grownups uncomfortable even when they don't). But it still rubs me the wrong way.
Kids should be held accountable for their actual conduct, not pre-judged merely for being young.
@mattblaze Does the law have an explicit exception for protests? It seems to me one has a reasonable 1st amendment argument for being out past curfew as a protest of the curfew
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@mattblaze Having just made a brief run to the store at 8:30p on a Saturday, I found myself pretty annoyed with the Youths that were out being loud for no reason.
But that is just being in public, and the sad fact that Target and Walmart are what amount to Third Spaces these days.
Being loud is something the US is at least as incoherent about as being young
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DC has a curfew for people under 18 - they have to be off the street by 11pm, and, in certain neighborhoods, 8pm.
Now, I'm at the age where I should be yelling at kids to get off my lawn, and I get that groups of teenagers are prone to getting into trouble (and can make grownups uncomfortable even when they don't). But it still rubs me the wrong way.
Kids should be held accountable for their actual conduct, not pre-judged merely for being young.
@mattblaze land of the free lmao
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DC has a curfew for people under 18 - they have to be off the street by 11pm, and, in certain neighborhoods, 8pm.
Now, I'm at the age where I should be yelling at kids to get off my lawn, and I get that groups of teenagers are prone to getting into trouble (and can make grownups uncomfortable even when they don't). But it still rubs me the wrong way.
Kids should be held accountable for their actual conduct, not pre-judged merely for being young.
@mattblaze I don't think Toronto has any sort of curfew. On the other hand, at the moment, thanks to the destruction caused by last fall's water-line replacement, I don't have a lawn. Get the hell off my dirt!
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That said, all of you - regardless of age - are invited to get the hell off my lawn.
@mattblaze I think your infosec followers are surprised you have a lawn
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DC has a curfew for people under 18 - they have to be off the street by 11pm, and, in certain neighborhoods, 8pm.
Now, I'm at the age where I should be yelling at kids to get off my lawn, and I get that groups of teenagers are prone to getting into trouble (and can make grownups uncomfortable even when they don't). But it still rubs me the wrong way.
Kids should be held accountable for their actual conduct, not pre-judged merely for being young.
@mattblaze
I love that you'll act surprised when people rise to this provocactive statement.You're objectively correct of course, but it'll be entertaining.
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@mattblaze
I love that you'll act surprised when people rise to this provocactive statement.You're objectively correct of course, but it'll be entertaining.
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DC has a curfew for people under 18 - they have to be off the street by 11pm, and, in certain neighborhoods, 8pm.
Now, I'm at the age where I should be yelling at kids to get off my lawn, and I get that groups of teenagers are prone to getting into trouble (and can make grownups uncomfortable even when they don't). But it still rubs me the wrong way.
Kids should be held accountable for their actual conduct, not pre-judged merely for being young.
@mattblaze when I was a teenager I was often on the street at 10 or 11 at night
because I was taking night classes at community college
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@mattblaze Having just made a brief run to the store at 8:30p on a Saturday, I found myself pretty annoyed with the Youths that were out being loud for no reason.
But that is just being in public, and the sad fact that Target and Walmart are what amount to Third Spaces these days.
@foxxtrot @mattblaze Around here, it's Baskin Robbins and Starbucks, apparently. I don't often go to either, but because I was out the other day, stopped by Starbucks to see if they had any (free) used coffee grounds for the garden, and it was PACKED with teenagers.
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@mattblaze
People are going to argue with a teen curfew, and you know they will. Think we agree that it's an unnecessarily demeaning thing to do to kids and probably statistically unsupportable as a deterrent to the behavior it's supposed to address. Lose on all fronts.Someone's going to argue anyway. I take solace that your responses are better than most, but you've got to know it's coming.
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@mattblaze land of the free
@noplasticshower Our motto is actually "Taxation Without Representation", at least according to the license plates.
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@mattblaze when I was a teenager I was often on the street at 10 or 11 at night
because I was taking night classes at community college
@sarae @mattblaze education is important, but curfew is importanter.
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DC has a curfew for people under 18 - they have to be off the street by 11pm, and, in certain neighborhoods, 8pm.
Now, I'm at the age where I should be yelling at kids to get off my lawn, and I get that groups of teenagers are prone to getting into trouble (and can make grownups uncomfortable even when they don't). But it still rubs me the wrong way.
Kids should be held accountable for their actual conduct, not pre-judged merely for being young.
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@mattblaze
People are going to argue with a teen curfew, and you know they will. Think we agree that it's an unnecessarily demeaning thing to do to kids and probably statistically unsupportable as a deterrent to the behavior it's supposed to address. Lose on all fronts.Someone's going to argue anyway. I take solace that your responses are better than most, but you've got to know it's coming.
@snorerot13 I get enough people here telling me I'm wrong that I don't really need people to tell me that other people will tell me I'm wrong.
