I had a friend growing up whose family did that and it was always insane to me. So much trash produced...

Meanwhile I got too lazy to even wait for brita filters to work so I just drink straight from the tap almost exclusively

you're right, there are a few other countries that have extremely high levels of gang violence and where everybody is armed. We're in great company with el salvador, Mexico, and Brazil

oh and btw, most of the guns in those countries were bought legally here. Not only are we killing ourselves in huge numbers, we're exporting the problem

They have Nandos sauces in the Acme on girard too

FWIW I had a great time watching the Eagles-Commies game at the Waterloo location last year, plus the space is pretty cool, in a tunnel

To my shame it's something that I never really thought about, the video they posted was extremely eye opening

The next mayor needs to immediately fire the people who run Streets they are so bad at their jobs and do not care. A do nothing administration appoints leaders who do nothing

Really maddening article about the state of sidewalks. Kenney ran on a promise to improve sidewalks and yet did very little on the issue

Particularly moving is a video shot from the perspective of somebody commuting to work at Jefferson hospital via wheelchair - the woman who got paralyzed from a stray bullet at Hancock Park in Fishtown last year. Even little stuff like a hose across the sidewalk left by a construction crew can block the sidewalk for somebody in a wheelchair, and force them to go into the street to get around obstacles

The at-large members should band together and put one of their own as Council Prez, district members should not be allowed to be council presidents

Squilla and Jones would be the better options, Bass would be bad and Johnson catastrophic

PA law requires bail in all cases where the possible punishment doesn't include life without parole. PA law also does not allow minors to be sentenced to life without parole. Therefore, bail was required here, the DA could not legally make the case that bail should be denied

PA law requires that all charges that do not include life without parole as a punishment allow bail. PA law does not allow sentencing minors to life without parole. Thus, they are legally required to set a bail requirement that can be then posted

My mother is an artist, apparently the Athenaeum does affordable large prints and is known among the artist community for that

Also, I’ve been looking for a dnd group here for a while

Neon signs are the coolest, shame that the City Beautiful movement and auto driven building codes banned dramatic signage on buildings and storefronts

Where'd you see that?

Microwave at UT 3/25

the powers that be meaning most Democratic primary voters?

So much from the 2016 primary aged terribly. Reddit was foaming at the mouth over the TPP because /r/gaming got convinced that a trade treaty that included provisions intended to curb IP theft in Indonesia would mean that Interpol would come after people torrenting video games

This is the train that derailed last weekend, not a new one

I agree that it is perfectly defensible in theory. There's just an ick factor of the one candidate who makes the most out of anti-corruption pro-accountability politics having that cloud even near her

The Inky has been doing a great job with this election

I really do not like Rhynhart paying Street as a consultant.

It is perfectly defensible in theory - if you want to win an election, getting the guy who turned federal corruption investigations into an electoral asset to advise you makes sense! And anecdotally, a couple people who took Street's class at Temple said he's been touting Rhynhart as a future Philly mayor for several years

But Rhynhart positioning herself as the "good government" candidate whie paying $22K to somebody who later endorsed her, and who has a reputation for corruption, just has a stink about it

> There's hardly a plot of land available in Manayunk

Most of Manayunk is zoned for rowhomes only, with height limits. Developers would love the ability to build up on existing rowhome lots, with apartments, but cannot do that because zoning bans them from doing so. But as there is high development in the neighborhood, the developers still want to build, and thus are forced to do it on the only place it is legal to build apartments

Related, all of Manayunk is zoned exclusively for rowhomes, apartments are banned in most of the neighborhood

...you are reading an article on a news outlet

I saw you speak when I was a grad student at Northeastern just before the pandemic!

What’s your favorite “weird” monument in the city? Mine is the strange Tammany statue in Old City presiding over I-95

Does Philadelphia have any “lost” monuments that were destroyed and you wish were still around?

I had thought about going, should have that’s much cooler than I expected