DC gig economy is ruining our neighborhoods

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We live in a Virginia suburb where nice old homes are being torn down for $3 million McMansions.

Our block is a constant stream of:

--construction workers leaving Wendy's wrappers blowing around the street, then smoking and standing in front of our house on the street, looking in at our windows while taking breaks from work;

--landscape workers arriving at 6:30 am and firing up their riding lawnmowers at 100 decibels;

--Amazon delivery drivers parking in the middle of the street so that no one can get by;

--DoorDash drivers going 20 mph over the speed limit while blowing smoke out their windows (I bet the food tastes great); and

--"professional" dogwalkers walking in the middle of the street, looking at their phones while cars wait for them to move.

Meanwhile, we never see our actual neighbors; everyone is busy working and shuttling their kids around to activities. The homes and yards are developed and maintained for the sake of themselves.

That's really sad. I live in a deep urban neighborhood where folks are out and about all the time... working in their tiny gardens, picking up trash, playing with their kids, walking to local neighborhood restaurants. And yeah, smoking weed sometimes. I wouldn't trade with you.

Where is this, it sounds great, actually.. I miss city life

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We live in a Virginia suburb where nice old homes are being torn down for $3 million McMansions.

Our block is a constant stream of:

--construction workers leaving Wendy's wrappers blowing around the street, then smoking and standing in front of our house on the street, looking in at our windows while taking breaks from work;

--landscape workers arriving at 6:30 am and firing up their riding lawnmowers at 100 decibels;

--Amazon delivery drivers parking in the middle of the street so that no one can get by;

--DoorDash drivers going 20 mph over the speed limit while blowing smoke out their windows (I bet the food tastes great); and

--"professional" dogwalkers walking in the middle of the street, looking at their phones while cars wait for them to move.

Meanwhile, we never see our actual neighbors; everyone is busy working and shuttling their kids around to activities. The homes and yards are developed and maintained for the sake of themselves.

Well said, this is literally the reality of this area. Probably the same elsewhere in every affluent suburb of the USA.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We live in a Virginia suburb where nice old homes are being torn down for $3 million McMansions.

Our block is a constant stream of:

--construction workers leaving Wendy's wrappers blowing around the street, then smoking and standing in front of our house on the street, looking in at our windows while taking breaks from work;

--landscape workers arriving at 6:30 am and firing up their riding lawnmowers at 100 decibels;

--Amazon delivery drivers parking in the middle of the street so that no one can get by;

--DoorDash drivers going 20 mph over the speed limit while blowing smoke out their windows (I bet the food tastes great); and

--"professional" dogwalkers walking in the middle of the street, looking at their phones while cars wait for them to move.

Meanwhile, we never see our actual neighbors; everyone is busy working and shuttling their kids around to activities. The homes and yards are developed and maintained for the sake of themselves.

Well said, this is literally the reality of this area. Probably the same elsewhere in every affluent suburb of the USA.

“The homes and yards (and dogs) are developed for the sake of themselves.” Exactly! This increasingly describes my part of CCDC. Except the homes are not torn down (because they’re cute!), they’re doubled or tripled in size.

And the new owner$$ cloister indoors. Awaiting their weed-scented DoorDash from Surfside

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Who said anything about the color of their skin except the morons excusing this behavior as acceptable in a functioning society?

Unless someone says the N word then it isn't racist?

Come on, we know what you're getting at.

+1000

We see you OP. And it's not ok.

Bullsh*t. This has nothing to do with the color of one’s skin. If you are gonna be a reckless ahole driving around with your pot smoke and your tinted windows then I don’t like you. Why? Because you are a loser ahole who relies on the gig economy for employ when you’d otherwise be unemployable. I don’t like you because you are a pot smoking loser. I have no idea what color you are ( nor do I care) because I can’t see through your tinted windows as you run the stop sign.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You’re a racist troll.

Racist and classist. Par for the course at DCUM.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So you all like the pot smoking, black tinted window crappy cars recklessly speeding through your neighborhood? I’m sorry your standards are so low.

It’s called “life” and I freaking LOVE IT! Warts and all. I would live around real human beings any day over the wealthy drones that are just as small minded and hateful as you are.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Who said anything about the color of their skin except the morons excusing this behavior as acceptable in a functioning society?

Unless someone says the N word then it isn't racist?

Come on, we know what you're getting at.

+1000

We see you OP. And it's not ok.

Bullsh*t. This has nothing to do with the color of one’s skin. If you are gonna be a reckless ahole driving around with your pot smoke and your tinted windows then I don’t like you. Why? Because you are a loser ahole who relies on the gig economy for employ when you’d otherwise be unemployable. I don’t like you because you are a pot smoking loser. I have no idea what color you are ( nor do I care) because I can’t see through your tinted windows as you run the stop sign.

Well we don’t like you either and I guess we all have to deal with one another anyways. I don’t try to get you fired from your job even though I don’t like you so why can’t you do the same for me?

[Anonymous]

I bet your consider yourself to be an open-minded, tolerant Democrat, OP. You voted for this and you'll vote for it again, for the virtue signaling and social cred it provides you with friends, online and off. Be honest with yourself.

[Anonymous]

Lobby your DC rep to pass a law making smoking weed while working as delivery driver a misdemeanor punishable by a fine of up to $5,000. That will resolve this issue quickly if steep financial penalties are attached to the behavior.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Lobby your DC rep to pass a law making smoking weed while working as delivery driver a misdemeanor punishable by a fine of up to $5,000. That will resolve this issue quickly if steep financial penalties are attached to the behavior.

Oh I missed the Virginia Detail. Even better actually the governor will probably like this policy proposal and veto next years weed legalization bill if this not included in as a provision in the law. I’m being serious call her office and tell you are concerned about reckless driving due to weed legalization. Although you support legalizing it you think the penalties for reckless driving under the influence of weed should be harsher for delivery drivers, truckers, and bus drivers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I bet your consider yourself to be an open-minded, tolerant Democrat, OP. You voted for this and you'll vote for it again, for the virtue signaling and social cred it provides you with friends, online and off. Be honest with yourself.

DP, but how would a Republican fix this problem? Trump has control of DC and has deployed National Guard everywhere, and pot smoking in public is still everywhere. (BTW, existing laws deal with this, as DC law prohibits pot smoking in public.)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Lobby your DC rep to pass a law making smoking weed while working as delivery driver a misdemeanor punishable by a fine of up to $5,000. That will resolve this issue quickly if steep financial penalties are attached to the behavior.

It's already illegal: https://mpdc.dc.gov/marijuana

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Lobby your DC rep to pass a law making smoking weed while working as delivery driver a misdemeanor punishable by a fine of up to $5,000. That will resolve this issue quickly if steep financial penalties are attached to the behavior.

It's already illegal: https://mpdc.dc.gov/marijuana

Yes but the financial penalties need to be very steep and the law needs to be enforced to actually deter the behavior. Just giving people a verbal warning or citation with a small fine is completely ineffective. If you want to prevent the behavior it needs to be a very painful and punitive fine amount so people reconsider doing it in the first place. After the unemployed or lightly employed potheads hear about a friend getting a $5,000 fine for smoking week while delivering someone food at least some of them will decide not to do it anymore.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I bet your consider yourself to be an open-minded, tolerant Democrat, OP. You voted for this and you'll vote for it again, for the virtue signaling and social cred it provides you with friends, online and off. Be honest with yourself.

The interesting thing is that it’s actually the pretentious white people who send their kids to private school and live in extremely affluent neighborhood that are the most supportive of these policies. Many of the people who are not out of touch and don’t come from generational wealth are actually very supportive of tough on crime policies.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I bet your consider yourself to be an open-minded, tolerant Democrat, OP. You voted for this and you'll vote for it again, for the virtue signaling and social cred it provides you with friends, online and off. Be honest with yourself.

The interesting thing is that it’s actually the pretentious white people who send their kids to private school and live in extremely affluent neighborhood that are the most supportive of these policies. Many of the people who are not out of touch and don’t come from generational wealth are actually very supportive of tough on crime policies.

This is also exactly why the democrats lost the presidential election in 2024 because they are listening to campaign advisor named Athena grew up in Berkeley California and went to Pomona or Saxon who is a third generation Harvard grad. These people have no idea what life is actually like for normal adults and their messaging actively repels people who don’t come from a similarly privileged background.