I'm in the Lehigh Valley and all these new warehouses and $500k+ housing developments are frankly disgusting. So many beautiful fields and woodlands destroyed to make room for these ugly concrete slabs and overpriced cookie cutter houses.

In my heart I just don't believe in the "warehouses improve the local economy" spiel. Those jobs that they create are miserable. Pay is sometimes okay-ish but I'd argue it's not worth the trouble these warehouses bring. Increased road traffic, pollution, (from the traffic), excessive wear and tear on our already crumbling roadways, and the physical damage on the bodies of all the people who bust their butts at these warehouse jobs aren't worth it. Besides, out of the 10(?) newer warehouses in my area, I think only about half are occupied. You can't "create new jobs" if the building is still empty.

The best posts on the bird sub are when the pictures contain maybe 8 pixels of what is supposedly a bird and people can still come up with an ID.

Edit: oh, and the posts of birds drawn in Microsoft Paint

Mail-in ballots can't be officially counted until 7am (or later) when polls open, so even though the courthouse received your ballot last month, it wasn't opened until today. I can't tell you why they would've cancelled it, but unfortunately there's no way to find out sooner than election day if your ballot was officially counted.

Not sure what county you're in, but here in Northampton County, we had about 35,000 mail-in ballots and only like 25 people to sort through them all, so unfortunately that means some ballots weren't getting examined until 6 or even 7pm which left very little time for voters to run to their polling places (if they even found out there was an issue).

I'm in the Bethlehem area and it's absolutely disgusting to say the least regarding all the beautiful fields and woods that have been destroyed in just the past few years to make room for such ugly structures. Just in the ~3 miles around my house, 9 warehouses, two non-luxury hotels, two housing developments, and a huge CarMax have been built over what used to be fields/farmland/woodlands in the past 10 years (and those are just the ones I can think of off the top of my head). That's also not even including any other places like restaurants, gas stations, or stores, or the other eye sores being built outside my home radius.

Seems like everywhere I look now there's either concrete warehouses or $600k cookie-cutter houses.

Edit: oh, and did I mention that half of those warehouses aren't even occupied/owned?