DC is small. Not quite Vatican small, but DC is essentially entirely urban. Urban areas are democratic.
DC is not a state. They don't get any representation in Congress because of this. Democrats are the politicians promising to try and get DC a seat in Congress so that they may be represented. They passed a strange bill that allowed DC to have Shadow Congresspeople who vote in Congress, but their votes don't get counted for anything. Republicans do not want DC to have any representation.
This may be anecdotal from being a local and speaking with people from DC, but there's a general idea that DC and the surrounding NoVa and MD areas are taken care of very well by the federal government. No president or congressman wants to work and live in an area surrounded by crime, homelessness, and crumbling infrastructure, or else they might feel bad. Democratic leaders tend to push for legislature and infrastructure that supports the local community, while Republican leaders have historically shown a mindset of "Fuck everybody else here" and not supported the local community. Reagan flooded DC streets with Contra crack to get rid of "degenerate blacks" in the community. On the flip side, Clinton and Obama fought for DC to get state rights to be represented in the government.
Nah, I live in an area with lots of older Italian immigrant families actually, there's a few pizza shops, sandwich shops, and import markets that have way better pizza.
Domino's is when I'm being a lazy fat piece of shit and grabbing cheapo garbage on my way home from work or something. Rittino's has way better food, but their large pizza costs $25
Straight up, dominoes has the cheapest pizza deals of any pizza chain in the state in my area. Not by a lot. Their quality is like C-tier, but I don't give a shit, it's pizza, it's still decent.
I can get a large three topping pizza for $8 USD compared to $10 at Pizza Hut or $11 at Papa John's.
They're perfectly low-cost for some mid pizza but state-side.
Just cuz Nintendo is a company run by bitch-made cum guzzlers doesn't mean its fans should bend over like that. It used to be that kids loved Mario and sonic, so they made a shit ton of Mario and sonic flash games. That's good, creative, harmless, and gets attention because of the brand fandom.
Not sure if you mean without alcohol as in without you yourself needing to drink, or if you mean where do you find an entire community who doesn't drink.
If you're looking for athiest teetotallers, you're already cutting out more than three quarters of people you'll ever meet, so no wonder you may be finding it hard.
If you're anywhere slightly populated, check out local festivals and street markets that get stood up on a regular schedule. Where I am there's usually a weekly farmer's market in a few cities nearby. If you want to volunteer to set-up or work at one they always have the most friendly, community-based people. You'll have to not be anti-social for long enough to make friends with people, but normally it will be the same group who goes to every street festival and market, and you'll recognize all the vendors and workers (who are chill people).
Work arounds are for devs to solve, not schmucks on lemmy. CS:GO used to use something similar to occlusion culling to prevent this exact problem. Don't send the client all of the enemy locations/data unless the client is within roughly the right distance/sight to see that enemy. This is not a full fix, but dramatically nerfs wall hacking.
I've seen community plugins for TF2 and other source engine games that will add "ghost" players. Generate ai characters, turn them invisible, and send their data to clients. If someone keeps shooting at the ghosts, they can easily get caught and banned.
There are entire industries dedicated to finding solutions to this problem, check out this research paper about this exact subject if you want.
The second arrest was of Anthony Rosario, Teamsters organizer and former UPS driver who was a leader in the 1997 UPS strike.
Rosario says he and the workers were complying with police officers’ demand to let one truck through every two to three minutes. When police began trying to let more trucks through, he says, he “continued to walk, using my right … and you know, they just decided to arrest me.
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