Eh. Calvin Crew is about as clear cut a case of, "if we're going to even have a death penalty - this is who it's for" as we're going to see.

If we're not going to kill him, then just end the damn death penalty altogether.

I've never gone to this one in particular... but I did a course with a guy in Ambridge who owns a "survival" shop.

The "class" was mostly a waste. He did everything himself - not explaining steps. He did use his platform for a bunch of rants about WHY we'll be needing these skills in the near future (spoiler: it was liberals).

If this is more strictly, "here's how to light a fire, find shelter, etc." I'd probably go.

I grew up in the city and then moved to the "poor part" of Mt. Lebanon as a teen. My older friends would always dunk on me for being "rich now." I get that stigma.

Honestly, it doesn't matter.

Suburbanites calling themselves "Pittsburghers" is technically wrong (you live where you pay local and school taxes), but it isn't hurting anyone.

I do wish people from Fayette and Butler would leave our names out their mouths, though.

They rebuilt in the same location and built a second one down 60 going toward Crafton.

Most people in Allegheny County write "Pittsburgh" as their address - regardless of where they pay their local taxes to.

The closest point in the city to USC is the city/Dormont border on West Liberty Ave.

Fines and tickets are one-time fees based directly on the violation.

Charging someone a monthly "monitoring fee" in a system where people convicted of a crime can only get the lowest-paying jobs is completely immoral.

Charging them with further crimes for their inability to pay those monitoring fees is disgusting.

I hate this intersection (and Swissvale Ave) with the passion of a thousand suns.

The red lights in that area feel like they're timed/designed so that you're guaranteed to never "hit a green."

Syncing the lights for more traffic throughput would be dangerous for the pedestrians who use that intersection.

We need more public transportation options.

https://jalopnik.com/how-a-cult-built-the-o-rings-that-failed-on-the-space-s-1846151814

Didn't it have something to do with poorly-built gaskets that were connected to a polygamist cult?

I contend that Wareheim/Heidecker peaked at Tom Goes to the Mayor.

It's long past due to start taking a look at that intersection - and literally every other "five point" intersection with lights on planet earth and do something better.

There also really shouldn't be a highway separating Polish Hill and the Hill District.

A cop's race is "cop" and they're all bastards.

I see a picture of a dude like this and I see someone who had $60 once, went to a shitty kitchen-table "artist" and said, "put some teardrops on me."

Those tattoos mean he had $60 once and wanted to flex.

For the same reason we don't charge prisoners rent for being in prison.

The state imposes and enforces the law. The state can pay for it.

Monitoring fees, probation fees, and things of the like can prevent someone from getting their life together - and create new "crimes" out of not having enough money.

Being broke should NEVER be criminalized.

"Monitoring fees" are immoral.

Sometime mid-pandemic, milkshake factory took a nosedive in quality. Vegan options may have been able to sidestep this, but the dairy shakes went from really great to "meh."

I'm in my 40s and rarely out after dark.

During the week though, I'm on Carson daily, and it just feels like a bigger, safer version of Walnut St.

I know this sub in particular is SUPER east end focused, but there are other cool places.

Learning from a mistake pretty much THE sign of "not an idiot."

Cut yourself a ton of slack. People do shitty things and we all get caught in the crossfire.

I'm divorced. I probably won't do it again... but the mistake wasn't necessarily marriage. It was my choice of person.

Outside of a small window each weekend, the South Side is no different than Lawrenceville or Shadyside.

Stop letting the clientele of a half dozen shitty bars ruin your perception of a neighborhood.

You aren't an idiot for getting married. Love is beautiful and we've been culturally conditioned that love + time = marriage.