I wouldn't exactly call occupy a performance art. However, it lost its way and never made a cohesive argument at the end. I was there for a lot of those arguments, it was a shame how it ended up. Such promise squandered.

He was out there about a month or two ago.

>It's just sad what happens when people have no no incentive to work.

You're blaming Chester's current condition, on that?

At that point, why do you have a car? It's cheaper to rent one when you need it than it is to own one for a year and never drive it.

You really don't this Pittsburgh feels like a midwest city? Indianapolis, Omaha certainly feel like Pittsburgh, they're just a hell of a lot flatter. People are the same though.

Maybe it's the fact I few up in Appalachia and moved to Philly that I don't see Pittsburgh being Appalachian, but I've always felt it as being the start of midwest culture. That's where people start saying pop.

Now, if you asked me if the surrounding area feels like midwest, no. You drive 20 minutes and you're back in Appalachia, but the city itself feels more like a midwest town. When culturals begin to change, I expect there to be a patch work, so it doesn't phase me to say 'midwest culture' begins there. If you're talking census, it begins at the ohio border, 30 minutes away. I don't think it's a stretch to say that culture begins 30 minutes away from where the physical border is.

Columbus... that place always makes me feel like if you combined state college and Harrisburg. It's a weird outlier.

Ok, see... I can get behind this definition. lol

Lancaster county, not city. That's easily and hour from there.

so it takes be an hour 1:20 to go from Philly to my mom's place (if I time traffic right) in Lebanon. I'd expect Ephrata, an exit earlier to take about 50 minutes or so.

So maybe I'm getting to KOP in 20 and KOP to Ephrata in 40.

So you're talking physically and not culturally? Sure, topographically it's Appalachian, but culturally it's the beginning of the Midwest. Where does the Midwest begin to you?

I'd consider Pittsburgh less Appalachia proper and maybe the foothills of it. So I'd consider it midwest, just will a few more hills.

The midwest basically starts in pittsburgh

76 at the right hours you can go on a hell of a trip. I can start in Philly on 76, dead of the city. If I leave around 10, I can get to KOP in 30 minutes. In another 30 minutes I can be in lancaster / lebanon driving by farms. Another 30 minutes you're in Harrisburg. Another 30, Appalachia.

Or a chipmunk. They make holes like that too.

Oh, well that fact that rural pa has outsourced policing to the state police, and thus their costs, is also a big problem

Back in the 60s we paved a lot of roads, many of which should have been left as dirt. We've let a good few go, but still maintain more than we should. That's our problem.

Our economic centers are Philly and Pittsburgh, with some in the middle, but we spend a lot to maintain infrastructure in between.

There's one smashed on the bottom right

Up I'm brewerytown, it sounded like people were popping off rounds in the park around kelly drive. I sure hope they were blanks

Right there on that block is a minute clinic, Rite aid, and a dentist. If you think of it as healthcare for the less affluent that are still fucking, it makes sense. There's no retail on that side of market anyway, not until really almost 10th now anyway.

If you want a large population of people that are down on their luck, that corner is a great place to put something. With Patco, Septa, and Giant right there, that's dead in the heart of the market void.

Republicans have been that way for a while. Republicans just played the refs to where, if anyone pointed it out, it was usually met with a "well both sides..." or "no good options".

Republicans have been a corrupting force for years, their voters are complicit even if it's through ignorance.

This implies we have a police force that would care about such a thing

Unfortunately wearing a mask isn't statistically significant in regards to being prophylactic. Mask reduce spread if the wearer is infected, less so the person that's getting infected.

Think of it this way, the mask is a filter. When it first comes out of your mouth, it's going to be bunched up in droplets, not fully aerosol. However, once it's in the air, it'll be able to get through the mask or at least on its surfaces that you inevitably touch.

People should wear masks if they are sick or have been around sick people. Telling people to wear masks to protect themselves gives them a false sense of security.

Edit: The person below me accused me a lying. Yes, your doctor might tell you to wear a mask, but it does statistically very little. However, some people need that little very little.

Wear your masks, be safe, just don't think it's a safety blanket. Location can override a mask easily.

Are you talking about to gather data?

particularly when it's cold out

1550s I do believe

Well, things have changed in rural PA since the 1800s.