Personal injury lawyers are sleazy is basically the message.

Hmm I’ll admit I mainly just eat dumplings there. Occasionally had a fried rice which they actually tend to do pretty fresh, rice is white, which I like.

I don’t remember how it shook out but their was some contentious ownership stuff going on and I think they are now owned by different people. Ate at chinatown Toms recently quite good

Great info. In Philly I remember there was some controversy about opening a physical Starbucks in dillworth plaza outside city hall (got burned and rebuilt in 2020) but the interesting thing revealed by that was that another cafe across the park had a Starbucks operating agreement (not branded as Starbucks but served their beverages) and that the temple bookstore across 15th was also not technically Starbucks corporate but nonetheless Starbucks was profiting off of three different locations via different instruments within 500 feet of eachother. Not to mention several locations within a couple blocks

I am taking my ball, but am deadlocked so I can’t go home…now I will cost the state a bunch of money to tell me to leave the ball that I don’t own and go home

Yeah the running out of paper is the real scandal. Anyone allowed to vote should have no problem doing so no matter the method. Conservatives have been grabbing onto the disenfranchised language…well maybe invest in good election practices but that would require actually working towards good governance instead of just pointing around wildly yelling “conspiracy!”

It’s almost like localized utilities might need large federal investments to keep them up. Tennessee Valley Authority is a great example of a still quite successful large public utility…it just needs to be large enough and invested in periodically

Organize and fight it. The residents of bucks and Montgomery just successfully fought an acquisition

It’s a cycle that only has one winner, the corporations. They invest in politicians who will pass favorable laws and will defer infrastructure improvements, which could be paid for by yknow, raising corporate taxes. Your points are correct, but to be clear this is all planned out by the corporations to manufacture a system that feeds them more and more profits by underinvestment in public resources and then having them handed over to be drained for private profit. Schools are next.

It’s okay to blame Aqua. They and other utilities almost definitely lobbied for the law to be passed that now allows them to drain profits from formerly public systems. It may not be illegal, but it’s immoral. The politicians and the corporations are in bed and equally culpable. Good on you for bringing attention to this!

Ur subtext is pretty crazy here. If you think most men are worried about rape allegations…I’d be concerned about the men you know.

One of the upsides of our chaos is aliens will pass us over. We will be the last outpost of humanity on a colonized world

I’d love our publicly owned utility to start aggressively transitioning to renewables. Natural gas is going to be more and more price varying as global warming and geopolitics have shown

I’m pro legalization but I want it to be contingent on amnesty for people in prisons for possession and record expungement as well as making room for those people to profit from it. That’s justice, it’s been disheartening to see how poorly other states have rolled it out in that regard. Though coming down to the bottom line it’s better to do it than not

Hell yeah go union

If they win and the Phils win they could share a parade!

Yeah sadly union won’t get the love the Phillies did qualifying for the World Series. But as a bandwagon boy who doesn’t watch MLS I’ll be watching the cup! Let’s goooo

Philly sports are on fire let’s go Union

Green street is one of those absolutely tiny cafes that gives Philly just a hint of European flavor. Same with some minuscule corner bars and jam packed book stores. Sure you can find such things in any city but the absurd smallness of many of our older commercial spaces is all charm and can be transporting when down right

Yeah the sheriffs office in Philly is even worse and less controlled because they are an superfluous law enforcement agency. For all their problems PPD could absorb the duties of the sheriffs office and civil servants could do the rest they literally don’t have a law enforcement mandate except guarding court houses and transporting some prisoners to court. But we have PPD and a robust (of understaffed) corrections department they could be absorbed by both instead they are a patronage hole for people who can’t get hired by other agencies

Philly sheriffs office is historically and recently extremely corrupt. They really have no business existing. They basically guard court houses and transport prisoners and do some civil warrant serving. However they wouldn’t be holding guns in most cases from crimes sounds like this guy bought and sold these on the street.

The system is set up to make it exceedingly unlikely that large numbers of people vote in our municipal elections. Hopefully that changes. We really need a political reform ticket to run on some basic small d democratic improvements

The venn diagram between graphic designers who make these posters and graphic designers who make posters for club appearances for washed up rappers is a circle