bumper sticker that says "honk if you love jesus, steal my car if you wanna meet him"

is your username a seinfeld reference?

what's with all the posts?? my front page is filled with people posting images and links and text

the bumper car at tmoms

I really liked Pittsburgh aside from the weather. It had a great vibe; great town to be a college student in. Philly has a similar vibe, but my experience is that, due to it being a much bigger city, you kind of have to search for your niche. The neighborhoods are all so different and a lot of them have great things to offer.

I was lucky because I landed in West Philly several years ago and immediately fell in love with it. If I had happened to land somewhere in south or north philly I imagine my experience would have been different because I don't think those areas are generally suited to my wants and needs.

It's absolutely worth taking at least a week to explore the different neighborhoods here if you're able.

I lived in Oakland, which, with all the students definitely had some trash overflow. But downtown PGH is wayyy cleaner than Center City PHL in terms of trash on the ground, presence of non-overflowing trash cans.

I'm not familiar enough with East End PGH to make an accurate comparison though.

I lived in Pittsburgh for about a year and a half, and Philly for a decade so far.

• Pittsburgh people are friendlier to outsiders than Philly people are generally

• Pittsburgh is generally cleaner than Philly

• Philly has slightly better weather (if you don't like the cold) and better food.

Basically anywhere in UCity. Look at a map and highlight Market Street and Baltimore Ave as your northern and southern borders, and 40th and 50th as your eastern and western borders. Transit to Penn by bus, trolley, El or walking is pretty easy anyplace in that area.

Actually, they're quite good. Pet detection is a very involved, highly scientific process.

highway to hell

Yeah I also only cut off cars with normal looking license plates

Commodore Berry is Captain Crunch's cousin

>They anticipate about 19,000 people will eventually work in the district.

This is exciting, but I'm feeling skeptical about their ability to actually remediate the pollution/toxic waste enough that it's safe to spend 40 hours a week there.

But I don't know anything about environmental remediation so I could be wrong to feel that way.

It'd also be interesting to hear how many people she thinks are actually being rehabilitated in prisons.

I've always found there to be a lot of ambiguity in the word "from" in that sentence. If somebody was born in Philly, what's the minimum amount of time they have to live there before moving out before they're allowed to say they're from Philly? E.g. If somebody was born in Philly but moved away at age 2 and spent the rest of their life in Boston, are they "from" Philly or Boston?

I price shopped for surgery for my dog recently (non-heart-related) and found Mt. Laurel Animal Hospital to be significantly cheaper than Blue Pearl in the city. I also feel like my dog received great care there. Definitely put them on your list to call.

>Conservatives aren’t capable of empathy.

I think the vast majority of people are capable of empathy, but there are a lot of ways of getting people to suppress that emotion; namely by constantly drilling into people's heads that they're under attack by some foreign or outside threat. The Republican apparatus does this effectively. But I don't think conservatives are like, inherently or congenitally incapable of empathy.

I don't expect the addition of 52 people to a city of a million and a half will have any impact on my life whatsoever.

Is this related to the Florida(?) governor that was spitefully sending immigrants to blue cities?

If so, I can only imagine how dehumanizing it must feel for these people.

lately I've been trying to think of what it would mean to have compassion for people I see doing minorly antisocial behavior like littering or driving like a dickhead. Not necessarily because I think that these people should have compassion, but because I think throwing shade on strangers so much is bad for me.

something like "I bet if things were going better in that person's life, they wouldn't be acting out like this. I hope things go better for them."

at this point I'm not sure I could do that in the moment without injecting a little sanctimony or condescension, which isn't compassion. but I'd like to get there eventually.

It's an abandoned pier near Walmart, not an abandoned Walmart

who's Dick Dallas?

brave of them

bullets made of ice: it's the perfect crimw

In that exact situation the only other thing I can think of besides doing nothing would be to stand up, but keep a good amount of distance, and say to those kids "Hey, do you guys wanna come sit back here?"

Either the kids were unfazed, which, if that's the case, good on them; or they felt like they might have been put at risk by turning their backs and walking away, in which case knowing that you're there and watching and inviting them to back away might make it easier for them.