A Renaissance man!

That happens in 2046 don't ask me how I know

As Philadelphian as garbage and murder and soft pretzels

I doubt she perceives it as suffering

I'd like to see the data on number of rooms Gym has walked into and number of systems of oppression that have fallen over the past few years.

Solid. Problematic venue aside, what's the nature of Gym's relationship with the Associated General Contractors of America?

Also, even if everybody who posts about a negative experience on SEPTA is telling the unbiased truth, this would still be a bad way of forming an opinion about SEPTA safety.

Nobody who has a good or normal experience on SEPTA posts about it, whereas people who have bad experiences are much more likely to post about it. At best, /r/Philadelphia will not change a person's opinion about SEPTA safety, and at worst it'll make people think it's more unsafe than it is.

If the actual, real answer is "SEPTA is actually one of the safest ways to travel in Philadelphia" OP will not hear that on reddit.

Even our 🤡 mayor and city council wouldn't allow that

That'd be unusual, but the one I used to form my opinion (the most recent peer reviewed study on Americans' time spent alone, conducted by the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia) does include cities.

https://www.philadelphiafed.org/the-economy/macroeconomics/a-twenty-first-century-of-solitude-time-alone-and-together-in-the-united-states

>Police scanner says there’s about 500 of them.

This aspect is fascinating. Studies show that Americans are spending more and more time alone, making fewer friends, etc. The ability for some people to gather up 500 likeminded individuals and do something as coordinated as this (not super coordinated, but clearly still somewhat coordinated) is a significant outlier to that trend.

Another commenter referred to the problems of people smoking and shooting heroin on the train and your response was to the effect of "oh you mean black people".

I agree that SEPTA's current honor system doesn't seem to be producing ideal results.

Police will choke chickens ahead of Eagles-49ers NFC Championship game

I guess. It just seems odd to me to call one crime "more criminal" than another. Crimes certainly have degrees of seriousness; different crimes carry different punishments and all.

To my mind, something is a crime or it isn't. It isn't any more or less criminal for a shop owner to steal from a worker than it is for a worker to steal from a shop owner. The punishments for these two crimes generally differ, and there are ethical differences between them I think. But they're both crimes.

Can all crimes be ranked from most to least in terms of how criminal they are? Not in terms of the severity of their respective punishments, but on the criminality of the crimes themselves?

bourgeois hegemony

I'm not sure whether there are degrees of criminality.

edit: although stealing $100/day sounds a lot more serious than stealing $100 once

the crime is out of control in this city

The last time it didn't snow measurably at all until February was 1995, and the last time we got no snow at all in a winter was 1973

at least give us the macbook pinwheel for gods sake

West Philly between 40th on the east, 52nd on the west, Woodland to the south and Walnut to the north. Specifically the Baltimore Avenue corridor, but generally the entire area is very queer.

it's a fantastic source is fiber

If you grind em up in a wood chipper and then soak em in water overnight Christmas trees are safe for human consumption. That's what we've been doing with ours ever since we went zero-waste in our house. Add some cranberries to the soaking water if you want to elevate the taste a bit.

edit: (dont try this for real, I'm just trolling the wsj)

everything from soup to nuts

you loved the netter center, now get ready for the even better netter-nutter center!

we realized long ago that there's no reasoning with the cone people, so now we're all cone people. It was a great way to bond as neighbors. And we get the cones themselves at a good price.