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100% not a good tipper. Can attest.

Thank you for appreciating history as well

That lingonberry juice too chefs kiss

They used to have pretty decent food, I would get mussels pretty regularly. Last time I was there it seemed all my favorites were no longer on the menu

Not sure why your being downvoted

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Just guessing, but the history of organized labor and organized crime isn't exactly a new or philadelphia phenomenon, but arguably the most powerful and influential union leaders was indicted for embezzlement along with his allegedly hand-picked CM.

I think the tradespeople themselves are great people and I have hired many for side jobs, but the organization(s) haven't exactly left their reputation unearned.

Which former mayor of Baltimore?

Here’s my two cents as a TA in the city, 21k is on the low end but at least at my university that’s decided per department and I know for a fact temple TAs of my field made more than we did. The job is for 20 hours of teaching but they include grading time and office hours. It’s not easy or enjoyable to live on but it’s doable and from what my professors have told me the way they see it is we are students first and being a TA is secondary and we should want to graduate and get out not be comfortable. We thought about unionizing but every higher up we spoke to about it said it would be a bad move because that pay is based on what the department has, and unfortunately that’s not a lot, so we’d get nothing except disdain. I’m not defending either side I’m just giving what facts and experience I have. I think a lot of people see these universities and all their money and big paychecks for admin and don’t realize how poorly the money filters down, most professors have to supplement their pay with grants and then they are expected to use that money to supplement their grad students. Admin doesn’t care, they are a business, whereas the actually people providing the services are academics.

meanwhile the education that students receive gets shittier and shittier. i mean, you should see the scabs they got covering the strikers’ classes. realtors teaching behavioral psychology. graded stats quizzes with questions like “do you enjoy statistics?”. suddenly having to buy a new textbook halfway through the semester. in person classes switching totally asynchronous. it’s a fucking mess

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So are a whole lot of other things in the city with zero historic value

At least they have the power to strike. In Maryland, grad students don't have the right to form a union. See https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/support-the-right-to-living-wages-and-collective-bargaining-for-maryland-higher-ed-workers.

It's wack everywhere.

Ya probably the same people who get upset at me pointing out the reason housing costs have gone up in Philly isn't because cApiTAliSm bAd, it's directly because of NIMBY zoning policies restricting new housing creation for all the people who moved here.

But that would mean acknowledging that their misguided opposition to development has directly resulted in pricing them out of the location they would like to be in.

Plenty of cheap housing in the badlands, yet these people bitching about lack of cheap housing in Fishtown or Rittenhouse don't consider living there.

In addition most people don't need to go to college, if they do it should be local community college or state schools if what they're doing isn't STEM related. Most degrees are useless debt traps, and unnecessary in the real world. Many companies and municipalities are finally rolling back degree requirements for jobs that only need a high school education and Microsoft Office training.

In addition one of the primary drivers for the increasing cost of colleges is administrative bloat and useless highly expensive infrastructure projects like luxury dorms, which basically treat colleges as an extended adolescence.

All of that can and should be cut and the funds redirected to the core function of academia, research and education. Which means firing whole departments of useless administrators and taking that money to pay grad students, researchers, and TAs.

"encourage property ownership" means absolutely nothing lol

It’s an eyesore.

Yep, I left grad school because my stipend was $12,000 a year in 2009, which was 20 hours on paper, but 40-60 hours in practice, and I wasn’t allow to work anywhere else. The math wasn’t mathing.

Chem pays more. The whole of the college of science and technology pays ~$30k in order to be competitive with other programs.

The minimums cited here apply to non science and technology grad programs predominantly.

Despite what OP is telling you, it’s standard for tuition to be waived for accepted PhD students in PhD programs in the US, whether elite or otherwise. There’s exceptions but if the program isn’t waiving your tuition, that’s rare and a huge red flag. Professional schools like law school and medical are a different story.

How is it affecting your life? Should we also get rid of the LIberty Bell? After all, it's useless in its current state.

Why does it bother you?

Some people give zero fucks about history. Sad

Pollinators are soooo fucked this year.

That "Systems of oppression fall" line is the most self-agrandizing BS I've heard come out a politician in a while.

I don't discredit people's experiences but acting like you're the only person just in this race who has had to deal with systems of oppression is laughable. She just comes across as a progressive who has had a lot of smoke blown up her bum.

Nutter was one of the better mayor's this city has seen in a while. Gym was constantly on his ass for not being progressive enough. I'm pretty liberal, but this city needs a fucking technocrat that gets the streets paved, the trash picked up, and cameras on street corners. Not someone virtue signalling by changing the pronouns used by the City Council.