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ewhitten t1_jd850e4 wrote
Reply to comment by AbortedWalrusFetus in Lower Merion again delays implementing later start times for high school — until 2024 by Dryheavemorning
I live in LM. There was no schedule that would make anyone happy, but they also had two big constraints: start times for each school segment need to be 40+ minutes apart for the buses to stay on time, and the stupid "lights at LM HS field" battle that's been going on for years now.
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Reply to comment by MajorNoodles in Philly Is Bringing Back Street Sweeping: You Will Need to Move Cars in These Places by youngbuck215
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Effective_Golf_3311 t1_jd80lql wrote
Reply to comment by JCSeegars54 in Police: 4 people shot across from Temple University football field by deep_blue003v
Seems to work for UP and Drexel so that’s all that matters really
newmanification t1_jd7zesg wrote
Reply to Abandoned "roadwork" in the middle of a 4-way intersection yesterday (19th and Oregon) by malcolmfairmount
lol nothing more Philly than this
porkchameleon t1_jd7z5gt wrote
Reply to comment by Dryheavemorning in Lower Merion again delays implementing later start times for high school — until 2024 by Dryheavemorning
The H1-B part was more or less tongue-in-cheek, but look at the tech industry today: I am sure one would rather take a pay cut than a few months of severance pay and $2400 a month unemployment.
And I agree with you: H1-Bs were meant for people with skills that could not be found stateside, but that wasn't true for a long time (and probably from the very beginning).
newmanification t1_jd7yzut wrote
Reply to comment by woah_whats_thatb in Philly Is Bringing Back Street Sweeping: You Will Need to Move Cars in These Places by youngbuck215
Sure they can. They just don’t want to.
JCSeegars54 t1_jd7yvsf wrote
Reply to comment by Effective_Golf_3311 in Police: 4 people shot across from Temple University football field by deep_blue003v
UC sucks tho probably the worst district in the city
Dryheavemorning OP t1_jd7x9zk wrote
Reply to comment by porkchameleon in Lower Merion again delays implementing later start times for high school — until 2024 by Dryheavemorning
Lol, your old man school that you walked uphill in the snow both ways to didn't serve you very well if you think we get H1-Bs for any reason other than educated foreign workers being cheaper than US workers.
Past_Cartographer230 t1_jd7wuh5 wrote
Reply to comment by Past_Cartographer230 in Abandoned "roadwork" in the middle of a 4-way intersection yesterday (19th and Oregon) by malcolmfairmount
It has nothing to do with the space. It has to do with traffic flow and street layout. This stroad is not an ideal location for a roundabout.
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mortgagepants t1_jd7vsfy wrote
Reply to comment by Past_Cartographer230 in Abandoned "roadwork" in the middle of a 4-way intersection yesterday (19th and Oregon) by malcolmfairmount
there seems to be plenty of space, why isn't it feasible?
Past_Cartographer230 t1_jd7vg0r wrote
Reply to comment by mortgagepants in Abandoned "roadwork" in the middle of a 4-way intersection yesterday (19th and Oregon) by malcolmfairmount
A round layout It isn’t feasible at this location due to the street layout and adjacent buildings.
mortgagepants t1_jd7vadv wrote
Reply to comment by Past_Cartographer230 in Abandoned "roadwork" in the middle of a 4-way intersection yesterday (19th and Oregon) by malcolmfairmount
are you saying from a construction point it isn't possible, or hyperbole that it isn't feasible in philadelphia?
worsedadever t1_jd7tcq4 wrote
Reply to Shofar Donation? by minxcore
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bingworm t1_jd7sdja wrote
Reply to comment by woah_whats_thatb in Philly Is Bringing Back Street Sweeping: You Will Need to Move Cars in These Places by youngbuck215
I'll do it
porkchameleon t1_jd7rpj1 wrote
Reply to Lower Merion again delays implementing later start times for high school — until 2024 by Dryheavemorning
My school started at 08:00, six days a week, no snow days, ever (we'd be out for, like, 3 months out of a school year otherwise). Learning more and more about school "system" in this country and how (and why) it's handled finally connects all those dots why the stereotypes of Americans abroad is that of dumb uncultured overweight oafs.
No wonder there's a constant brain drain from overseas and abundance of H1-B visas.
Yikes.
MonsterNog t1_jd7rjaj wrote
Reply to comment by MonsterNog in Philly Is Bringing Back Street Sweeping: You Will Need to Move Cars in These Places by youngbuck215
I’m gonna spray paint the word Gooch on the side or something and single handedly ruin this neighborhood, myah!
oliver_babish t1_jd7rdop wrote
Reply to Shofar Donation? by minxcore
I agree that the National Museum of American Jewish History or any local synagogue (or campus Hillel) would be a good first step. Don't blow this opportunity; loudly sound the alarm.
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Reply to comment by PhillyAccount in Philly Is Bringing Back Street Sweeping: You Will Need to Move Cars in These Places by youngbuck215
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minxcore OP t1_jd7qkc1 wrote
Reply to Shofar Donation? by minxcore
Also for people asking how I got it, I was a bit of a strange child and became obsessed with owning one after reading about it,my mother actually bought it for my birthday and I've had it for about ten years.
minxcore OP t1_jd7qjpu wrote
Reply to comment by CreativeDiscipline7 in Shofar Donation? by minxcore
Thank you, I didn't even think about asking the Museum, I'll reach out to them today!
zoicyte t1_jd7qga6 wrote
Reply to comment by Foursiide in Abandoned "roadwork" in the middle of a 4-way intersection yesterday (19th and Oregon) by malcolmfairmount
sounds about right, not sure why you got downvoted.
just replaced a 130 year old, 100-year lifespan drain pipe in my house this year after it cracked and was pouring grey water down through the central shaft of my house and into the basement. so that was fun. we discovered the issue when we had a black mold infestation in our bathroom for no discernable reason. the entire line needed to go.
not a gas line obviously, but same idea. after a certain amount of time, the whole thing is garbage and you can't just patch it. doesn't stop people from trying.
crispydukes t1_jd7pk7g wrote
Reply to Abandoned "roadwork" in the middle of a 4-way intersection yesterday (19th and Oregon) by malcolmfairmount
PGW/PWD always doing the best work in the city.
everydayacheesesteak t1_jd7pcwy wrote
Reply to comment by hey_itsmythrowaway in Philly Is Bringing Back Street Sweeping: You Will Need to Move Cars in These Places by youngbuck215
You’re unbearably naive. My response would be the same. It’s another revenue generating scam to pour money into the Philadelphia black hole of corruption and crony bureaucracy. Don’t you get the entire point is to collect money??? How can you fall for this??? All they have to do is get recycling bins with a top that closes or switch to bagged recycling. Or maybe stop recycling paper all together of it ends ups dumped all over the city streets every trash day. This is classic dipshit progressivism. Create 3 fucking problems for every one you solve. Emphatically congratulate yourself for the problem you barely solved that wasn’t even a problem to begin with. You want less waste in the production of glass, paper and plastic? Let’s have everyone separate it all and fine them if they don’t and collect it twice! OH and now you can’t bag plastic, paper or glass so it blows all over the street and there’s trash everywhere now. Instead of going “this is fucking mistake,” propose a grand new solution, bang every Philadelphian with a car a few hundred dollars a year so they can drive a cleaning machine down the street and scrub the gutters. Oh does it matter at all that the problem isn’t dirt and oil, it’s trash?? Street cleaning is for dirt and oil in cities that have little rain. It’s not for fucking picking up newspapers, genius.
saintofhate t1_jd85ns6 wrote
Reply to comment by newmanification in Philly Is Bringing Back Street Sweeping: You Will Need to Move Cars in These Places by youngbuck215
Take some of the cops' budget, cleaning up areas would do more than cops as the more pride people have the more likely they'll be opposed to doing shit things.