you made up your own boogie man and then blamed it on someone else. do you really think people who are in favor economic equality are also in favor of beating people to death? grow up.

lol your comment makes me think of the chris farley adam sandler meme.

no i didn't calculate your specific hourly rate. but how many hours do you spend teaching, grading, office hours, and answering emails?

because $19,000 or $21,000 per year is pretty low so maybe you only work like 7 hours per week?

they've been fucking around, now they're finding out.

you pay your teaching staff $4 an hour, it is only a matter of time before they can't afford to teach any more.

they are all perfect...

love G-vo's. great happy hour too.

for sure- i'm just pointing it out because sometimes solutions are boring, sometimes they're cool, but most of the time they're like 80% boring and 20% cool. so yeah- reducing litter, regularly cleaning the drains, enlarging ones that need it, are all part of the boring solutions, then yeah you can get some planter boxes in the street (which i think is the cool part)

this creed from the office quote: https://www.azquotes.com/picture-quotes/quote-i-ve-been-involved-in-a-number-of-cults-both-as-a-leader-and-a-follower-you-have-more-creed-bratton-63-28-94.jpg

SPOILER ALERT!

but yes all those things. he was trying to smash Mother Divine.

you can sometimes find "crema" at spanish speaking grocery stores but it might not be exactly the same.

every cooking recipe i see says you can substitute greek yogurt for sour cream. so one day i was at the grocery, and sour cream was on sale, but yogurt wasn't. i looked at the nutrition labels on the back, and sour cream has more fat and more protein than greek yogurt.

so now i eat sour cream any place i would have yogurt. maybe breakfast with some crasins on top? for dessert with a little honey? just plain? with grated cheese on top? all yes.

(beware- people will look at you like a psycho if they see you eating a container of sour cream with a spoon.)

there are mitigation techniques and different types of pavement that can help ameliorate the issues. the city will give rain boxes, they planted some on market street (although i doubt for drainage issues.)

but it would be nice if part of the licensing for corner stores is to have a garbage can. i feel like a lot of casual litter comes from stores like that.

i'm reading a book called "raven" about jim jones and the people's temple. he tried to steal father divine's congregation for his own in the late 60's after he died.

i would plant a tree in every available space. easily something that could get done in 24 hours, then they grow for years.

"Until this past September, when the company opened an incredible simulation in Wayne."

did you mean "simulacrum" or did i just misunderstand the concept?

they could easily have the broad street line surface running for that portion but they don't want to.

ridership projections for the BLVD are estimated at 125,000 trips per day, about the same as the subway and the el.

this is the exact thing "bus rapid transit" would be for. you make the middle of Oregon Ave into a bus only lane, and articulated buses that stop every half mile.

it will never happen because "fuck you that's why" but it isn't some impossible solution; it exists all over the world and even some cities in the US.
here is a wikipedia on it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bus_rapid_transit

here are the best in class in the US:https://www.gtt.com/top-6-brt-routes-2019/

i got tired of that bullshit that i started riding my bike from kensington across the bridge. not sure if that is feasible for you going to work though.

real estate values are going up, if that is an indicator you think helps.

yeah fuck those workers. sure, penn has billions in their endowment fund, and they get extremely preferential treatment from the city, but lets encourage them to hire contractors who treat their workers like shit.

pa trolley is bigger i think right? standard is 4'8".5 so its like...even "heaver"?

i don't know of any...but if you're ever lost in the woods, start sharpening your knife. immediately someone will show up to tell you how you're doing it wrong.

it will be sold out, they'll make the maximum amount of money they can. they just don't want random people opening the door and screaming fuck you and throwing piss filled bottles at them.

if they're officially closed, the piss filled bottles will just hit the oustide.

No, I don't mind at all if anyone buys cappuccino. what bothers me is they use tax payer money to fix it, which i'm fine with, but then they just expect the opening, closing, cleaning, and maintenance to be done by..."cafe".

except whomever owns the cafe expects it to make a profit. so now the water bottle filling things dont work, because they make more money selling bottles of water. now they're only open a few hours a day, because that is the busiest time. after a season or two, it is basically a tax-payer funded private business building that nobody who isn't free saturday afternoons between 9-3 can use.

i would love to go on a nice long run and finish with an espresso and a beer, but not at the expense of everyone else in the general public.

i hate that cafe BS. i don't want a $5 cappuccino after a run or a bike ride. just pay an attendant to keep the place tidy and stock the vending machines. good grief.