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 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.
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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 It's the same thing happening online with age verification.
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@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.
@mattblaze
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@noplasticshower Our motto is actually "Taxation Without Representation", at least according to the license plates.
@mattblaze @noplasticshower there is some deep irony that one of the foremost experts in the world on voting security in some important cases can't
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@noplasticshower Our motto is actually "Taxation Without Representation", at least according to the license plates.
@mattblaze @noplasticshower I think it's now "End taxation without representation".
