Absolutely gutted. It's like a piece of my life has gone forever. I spent so many good years there.

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/up-front/2016/09/14/third-places-as-community-builders/

 
America's traditional Third Places have been completely eradicated in favor of pay-to-access places. That's incredibly bad for American society and fosters alienation.

It's that young people have been trained to think that social interactions that happen outside of commercial real estate don't count.
 
When I first started dating my wife, many years ago, neither of us had any money. We spent a lot of time at local parks, or hiking trails. To this day most of our stuff outside of the house is cycling, hiking, etc.
 
I've suggested going to a park or something nature-related to people outside of this sub who were lamenting that it's too expensive to go out now, and was told that going to the park is weird.

 
People have been trained by a hundred years of capitalist brainrot to not enjoy their lives unless money is changing hands. It's sad.

Nobody wants to work for shit pay and shit bosses when there's still a pandemic floating around that could kill them, and I don't blame them at all. Working in a restaurant sucks at the best of times. It's no surprise that people got out en masse.

Capitalism's end goal is to own your human experience and rent it back to you. We're now at the point where people think that personal interaction isn't valid unless it happens on commercial real estate.

If you really feel like a twenty-four hour business was "a piece of your identity," you need to get a grip. They're businesses. Businesses come and go all the time, and new ones will open.
 
People in this sub get so excited about the most inane restaurants. It's wild.

https://www.fox19.com/2022/11/05/fairfield-township-police-name-suspect-release-footage-officer-involved-shooting/

Lol you're not even a cop but you're all over this subreddit licking cop ass for free. Amazing.

 

Here's some cops in California shooting a wheelchair-bound double-amputee to death.
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wef4iuvSlrg

 

If you're fine with this sort of shit, you've got brain worms.

So you definitely are a cop. Color me shocked.

 
The police in this country are out of control, and everyone knows it but the cops.

You're a cop, aren't you?

 
Literally anyone would be better than the police we have, because police culture in this country is rotten from top to bottom. Other countries manage policing just fine without their police forces turning into gangs that murder with impunity.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Philando_Castile

Are you a cop? You do a lot of bootlicking in various threads here.

 
Because policing culture in the US is rotten from top to bottom and keeps anyone who isn't like them out. That's why it all needs to be eradicated.
https://twitter.com/davenewworld_2/status/1620688616866611205

I answered the question. Literally anyone or anything else, because police as they exist right now in America are an armed gang that operates with impunity and reacts to anything with violence.

Literally anything other than a bunch of the dumbest fucking bullies in America who were given military equipment and told that they were Hero Warriors who are above the law and can bestow death on anyone they'd like with impunity. Quite literally anything.

Unironic yes to all of that, Rampart at LAPD even had tattoos for killing people.
 
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2000-feb-08-me-62143-story.html

 
The police are a violent gang, you do not send violent gangsters to help people with mental health problems.

> This idea that mental health professionals should arrive first at 911 calls is asinine.

 
Why?

Come the fuck on, you can find stories from all over the country about officers who didn't feel like dealing with a mentally ill person and just murdered them.
 
https://www.insider.com/cop-said-i-dont-have-time-shooting-keith-vidal-2020-11

 
The police are a violent gang who react to everything with violence. We shouldn't be sending violent gangsters to "help" people in a mental health crisis.

When people hoot and holler and bitch about da gubbermint, point at shit like this. When government regulations on business are weak, they can do shit like this with impunity, and frequently do.

 
In a just world with a functioning regulatory state, shit like this would get a company broken up.

The best part is that the home plate ticket will cost $6 and you'll have an entire section to yourself.

Shenandoah. Nothing specific, just being there.

Northumberland and Allegheny. IME they're looking for shit like perforation rust on frame rails or important suspension bits like strut towers.

I once saw someone clean snow off their car with a metal snow shovel, put a giant scratch into the fender, and just leave it that way until it rotted. Car wasn't even a year old.

Scott Township isn't in Pittsburgh, and neither is Robinson.
 
As long as your street address and ZIP code are correct, you could write "Fart Town, PA" on the envelope and it'll get delivered. The mailing address city is meaningless.

Robberies, a thing that only happens in the City of Pittsburgh.

There's a car dealership that closed on West Liberty a few years ago - a variance notice appeared in the window saying that the owner / buyer was looking to redevelop and put a car wash in there. I was certain it was going to be a GetGo but that never materialized. Sad!

It took a while, but he's finally paid for his crime against Easter baskets.