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Migrant Children Sell Candy on the Subway. New York Has No Solutions.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/13/nyregion/migrant-children-selling-candy-subway-laws.html
Of all the manifestations of human misery that the two-year-old migrant crisis has brought to New York City, few trouble the conscience more than the sight of children selling candy on the subway — sometimes during school hours, sometimes accompanied by parents, sometimes not.
On trains and on social media, New Yorkers have asked: Isn’t this child labor? Is it illegal? Shouldn’t someone be doing something to help these children?
The state Labor Department said it was “difficult to determine” whether the practice of children selling candy in the subway would violate labor law, which generally “regulates employment relationships (i.e., between employers and employees).”
The city’s child welfare agency, the Administration for Children’s Services, said that anyone who sees a child in a situation that seems unsafe can call the state child abuse hotline.
But the State Office of Children and Family Services, which runs the hotline, said that a child selling merchandise or panhandling would not be considered maltreatment or neglect unless there was a specific concern about possible harm, like “children selling candy at a dangerous intersection.”
Children's Services in my experience is basically a waste of money. I knew people that were abusing children and when called CS did NOTHING. It was so infuriating. This happens over and over. Something as obvious as helping kids like this, and what does CS do? Again, NOTHING. Not surprised NYC has no solutions, they have had no solutions for most things for decades. But hey, as long as the money is flowing in...
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5 hours ago, T-Pac said:
Finished reading The Defining Decade by Meg Jay.
Meg Jay is a clinical psychologist, and this is essentially her call to action for “twentysomethings” based on what she’s learned working with numerous early-adult clients. I’m admittedly a bit late to a book like this, as I’ve only got a few “twentysomething” years left myself - but it was an insightful read regardless.
Jay explores work, relationships, and health as they all pertain to those starting out in adult life, and her overarching appeal is to work toward establishing all of these life-facets in your twenties rather than living aimlessly in the assumption that everything will fall in place later.
I was relieved to find that my career so far has been in-line with Jay’s suggested approach: making a definitive decision on what you want to do and taking strides toward it now. The difficult part here is knowing what you want out of a career in the first place, but any professional experience builds skill-capital for wherever you ultimately end up. And feeling sub-par or unqualified here is not only normal, but expected - since it typically takes years to establish yourself in your field. The important thing is not to give up and run away to an “easy” job just because you feel inadequate as a novice.
The most poignant assertion in The Defining Decade, at least for me, is that your twenties are a time to establish the major habits you want to keep throughout your adult life. The twenties are apparently the second and final period of major neural-network building in the brain (the first being early childhood), meaning it’s the time to solidify important connections and habits for navigating adult life before your brain prunes its “unused” links in your thirties.
I’m not entirely certain what lifestyle I want to establish for the years to come, but I’m motivated to figure it out now, in the “use it or lose it” neurological period of my own brain development. I can’t know everything now, but there’s something encouraging in the idea that what I do in my twenties actually makes a difference for my future. Here’s hoping I take these last few “twentysomething” years and make the most of them.[T-Pac]
I really enjoying reading your reviews! Spot-on. Do you think we should start a "book review" thread?
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Muhammad is "fully autonomous" and did not deviate from his "expected behavior," the makers said.
This is coming from a country where women were given the right to drive only in 2018! Also, women can't play sports or travel without permission from a "male guardian"... is anyone surprised that the robot did not deviate from expected behavior in such a country!
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4 hours ago, Tabonga said:
This is up for pre-order at Fangamer:
Nice! feel free to also post stuff like this in the LRG thread -- I didn't even know about this
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40 minutes ago, Tenjikuronin said:
Nostalgia... I would say today's cars are definitely "better", but at the same time, life was simpler and easier.
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9 hours ago, Tyree_Cooper said:
Yeah you're the only one that does this on my side, not just this thread. I think it's the way you embed pictures. Been like this forever, but always been too lazy to let you know.
Sorry about that
It does seem to work for others, and I've never had a problem seeing the pics on various browsers/machines. As @spacepup noted maybe its your setup?
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I did play the original Coma, and it was an interesting Korean indie, which is what made it actually worth playing in my opinion. The overall horror elements were well done. However, the mechanics were not great, and it got old just always hiding from an enemy you could not hurt. The worst aspect of the game was the very ending sequence, where (if memory serves) it was instant death if you did not do everything exactly right. Overall, the first game was about a 6.0 out of 10 for me. So far the sequel is much more interesting and streamlined -- clearly they learned
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Suspect in NYC subway attack that left woman's feet severed was arrested in violent 2017 home invasion
https://abcnews.go.com/US/suspect-nyc-subway-attack-left-womans-feet-severed/story?id=107978186
So apparently this Christian Valdez, the man who tried to kill a woman on the subway was arrested in 2017 for --
Valdez is the same man who was arrested in September 2017 for breaking into an apartment in the city's Bronx borough, stabbing a woman who lived there and attempting to throw her 3-year-old daughter off a fire escape, police confirmed to ABC News.
Normal Person: How can someone who threatened to murder an innocent 3-year old be on the streets?!
NYC: he'll get better, yeah, that's it.
Valdez was convicted in 2020 of second-degree attempted assault stemming from the Bronx attack and sentenced to eight years in prison, according to court records reviewed by ABC News. Valdez was released from the Sing Sing Correctional Facility in Ossining, New York, on Jan. 9, 2023, according to records. He was on parole at the time of Saturday's attack.
The police everywhere love to say "murders are down" but no one is feeling safer, and how could you, when there's a revolving door for violent offenders --
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/04/nyregion/new-york-crime-bernhard-goetz.html
Seventy percent of those living in New York City indicated that they were concerned about becoming the victim of a crime, and 17 percent said they had bought a firearm for self-defense during the past 12 months
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4 hours ago, Tyree_Cooper said:
can't see any of the pics you post around here. it's like a bloated 30 px thumbnail, but much larger.
Can you see pics on other threads? Everything works for me, I'm using Firefox.
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6 hours ago, LifeGame said:
Just finished Beyond Oasis for the Genesis
How did you like it? How does it compare to say "classic" JRPGs like Chrono Trigger, Final Fantasy IV, Grandia etc?
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On 3/8/2024 at 9:32 PM, G-type said:
Fair point, but El Salvador is extremely poor --
The poverty rate in El Salvador remains one of the highest in Latin America (28.4% according to 2021 official data). More shocking is that 1.8 million Salvadorans are living in extreme poverty, without access to basic food requirements.
Perhaps cryptocurrency will work in El Salvador. But it's certainly not a "first-world" country. Also, I think most of us view cryptocurrency in this light --
But in Menon's opinion, cryptocurrencies have failed the test of digital money because "they have performed poorly as a medium of exchange or store of value, their prices are subject to sharp speculative swings, and many investors in cryptocurrencies have suffered significant losses."
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It looks like the Jill of the Jungle CIB in very good condition market has just exploded!
Seriously though, you gotta wonder how much an unopened copy is worth...
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On 3/8/2024 at 12:31 PM, DefaultGen said:
The guy with the pieced together Kickstarter Akalabeth that got pulled from HA listed it on Facebook for $40,000. So yeah, no need to save money for that anymore, lmao. Got the next best thing.
Interesting! Why did the listing get delisted? Also, what is he trying to sell that he thinks is worth $40k?
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On 3/7/2024 at 9:08 PM, Tenjikuronin said:
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Added VGNYSoft and Premium Edition to the first post --
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12 hours ago, Aguy said:
Anyone else watching Shogun? Available on FX and Hulu.
Not yet, heard it's great.
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14 hours ago, Reed Rothchild said:
A couple of months back I ran into a local author at Barnes & Noble, promoting his new book. He was wearing Stephen King and Clive Barker schwag, so we started up a conversation about all things horror. I ended up buying his book, a horror anthology, and got him to sign it. Figured I'd support him, and I'm a sucker for short story collections. The next day he did a promotion at my friend's book store, which was also pretty cool.
Finally cracked it open, and OH MY FUCKING GOD, it is the most unreadable shit I've ever come across in my life. Clearly the only editor he had was his wife or girlfriend. And he's read a lot of books, but I guess he never actually gleaned any writing tips from any of them. And the publisher? Googled 'em, and they're just some bullshit vanity shop that dupes talentless hacks into paying them money.
I feel bad too, cause this dude is all about this thing. He really thought that he had "made it" and that he was gonna enter the pantheon of great writers.
Here is a sample. This is basically every page.
Did he ask you what you thought? If he did, what did you say? If he did not, what would you say?
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It looks like the unopened Day of the Tentacle market has just exploded!
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On 2/26/2024 at 11:21 AM, TDIRunner said:
The jailbreak news is great, especially since I could not get my Everdrive to work, even after removing the protective cover. I'll try to mess with it later this week.
I thought about getting a turbo everdrive. Good to know it doesn't work... or I should say, it's unfortuante it doesn't work -- I had heard it did
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Wifey and I are binging one of the best shows of all time...
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Sweden is exactly what the West needs to counter Putin's underhand tactics
https://www.businessinsider.com/sweden-exactly-what-west-nato-needs-to-counter-putin-russia-2024-2
Russia's President Vladimir Putin has long harbored an obsessive grudge against NATO expansion. He's claimed the invasion of Ukraine was a way of preventing the growth of the alliance close to Russia's borders and threatening its security. But in the end, the Russian president seems to have achieved the exact opposite.
On Tuesday, Hungary's parliament voted to approve Sweden's NATO membership in a move that may be exactly what the West needs to counter Putin and his underhand tactics. Its membership brings to an end its decades-old military nonalignment policy. It also means the post-Cold War era, where Sweden reduced the size of its military and sought better trade and diplomatic ties with Russia, is closed.
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1 hour ago, fox said:
Diablo 4 is much more in line with the first two games
I heard it's much better. I gave my Diablo III cartridge away, can't see myself playing it again, honestly my character was overpowered and the gameplay was not exciting nor interesting for the most part, and the secrets were far and few between. Also, the plot was a bit wacky, and there were definitely plots holes despite the fantasy setting. If the developers had done a decent job they could have made the game far deeper and worth a second or even third, fourth, go-around. From what I've read, the developers were too busy insuring that they could monetize loot, such as their ill-fated auction house --
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20 hours ago, TDIRunner said:
When the collection first came out and I complained about the controls being garbage on Facebook, I was accused of being bad at the game. That's fucking laughable.
I was as excited for that collection as anyone and I bought it for PS4 on day 1. I put several hours into it and made it a ways into the game. I gave it a fair shake, but it's just not good. Years later, my kids got the Switch version as a gift. I thought I would give it another try, but came to the same conclusion. The game looks fantastic, but then again, so do the originals. Since the graphics are a bit cartoony, they have aged extremely well on the PS1, so it just makes more sense for me to play those versions. I'll go to the grave complaining about how much I hate the remakes.
What did your kids think of the controls? Again, I wonder if it's that you're used to the older controls and perhaps the newer controls are something you're not accustomed too? I think I'm just going to have to try it myself... although I heard it's very hard, and I might be prone to just rage quitting
New PS1 Fakes from China?
in General Collecting Discussion
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Just saw this --
https://www.ebay.com/itm/395263040237
I have not seen these before, but of course this stinks. Now diluting actual games with Chinese fakes... wonder when the floodgates open just like that shithead did with the TG16 -- PCEWorks. I have no problem with reproductions, so long as it's obvious they are reproductions. Clearly, not the case here.