^ This is someone who has no idea what a drag show is outside what they've heard gossiped on conservative media

I've never seen anything more sexual at a drag show than I've seen at school talent shows and football games when I was in middle school.

What you see at a drag show is people doing silly music videos dressed as showy women. It's not just harmless but healthy for a kid to see.

Odds are there will be kids in any middle school class that start realizing they don't feel like everyone else does w/r/t their gender. Is it so bad that those kids and their peers know they can still be normal happy people and there's places for them in this world?

Kids don't learn to be attracted to the opposite sex from theater and media, they get flooded with hormones in puberty and it changes them unexpectedly. What they've seen in media and culture up to that point just determines whether they feel like they're still normal or like they're deviant/broken after that.

Kids see men dressed masculine, they see women dressed feminine, they see women dancing provocatively, they see love stories where men and women kiss and get married and start families. You don't hear any of that ever likened to pornography—it's only when those representations might help a queer kid feel like they fit into society too that it becomes inappropriate

the ferry ain't bad

I like this one: https://www.amazon.com/EZPIK-Extra-Long-Grabber-Reacher-Picker-Upper-Pickup-Stick/dp/B07WVP7QWM

Plus a nice big orange Home Depot bucket is a good kit. Take walks around your block with them while you're on calls

>THERE IS NO WINE AND LIQOUR TASTING THIS YEAR.

damn this is the key info I was looking for, usually you could easily drink your whole ticket price lol

The DWRC site's master plan page has a lot of great information about current and upcoming projects: https://www.delawareriverwaterfront.com/planning

The South Wetlands Park is what I'm most excited about: https://www.delawareriverwaterfront.com/planning/projects3/south-wetlands-park-project

and did all this information you have come from anywhere in particular?

who is making that critique? program evaluation is whole other practice from auditing, they would need new funding for expanded staff, and there's already orgs that do program evaluation and it doesn't take the privileged financials access the elected controller gets

You have to appreciate that conducting good evaluations is a huge job, it's expensive and takes a lot of work. Also, self-evaluations aren't worth much so it is most appropriate for them to be done externally

An external one is underway; https://www.phillytrib.com/news/local_news/review-to-determine-effectiveness-of-anti-violence-money-in-philadelphia/article_c9a821d8-7c88-11ec-af77-a798dce3557e.html

Equal Measure is a very reputable program evaluator

The Controller's office has released an analysis: https://controller.phila.gov/philadelphia-audits/fy23-anti-violence-budget/#/

These were very easy to find, so I'm inclined to believe those throwing eggs here just want to throw eggs, not actually evaluate anything

that's a reasonable question that someone serious about knowing would have to put a little effort into researching and learning. I assure you there are likely many and understanding any gaps is likely a whole job

just assuming there is none and calling for everything to be dismantled though like OP is lazy and irresponsible

don't be so reactionary.

31 programs were funded under this grant.

If the other 30 are all doing good work with no such issues you want them all to lose funding next year because of this one, or should we learn specific lessons from it and find a way to close the gap that doesn't do more harm than good?

Some cities have toyed with the idea of letting residents report parking violations with an app: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-09-29/nyc-may-pay-people-for-reporting-bike-lane-blockers

The NYC proposal would even pay the reporter a portion of the fine

I would be like a pig in shit being able to generate fines for every car left unoccupied in bike lanes

my favorite use case to imagine is: you're walking down a city street looking at all the seemingly random people you're passing—but that guy on the left you've actually seen 36 times mostly every Thursday in this spot, and that woman in the right has been in the coffee shop back in your neighborhood with you 8 times this year

the social implications are weeiirddd, it could make big cities start to feel a lot smaller

it sounds like that knobhead might have a skip coming tho

Edit: does anyone know what a skip is?

thanks, I recall the data terms bit. They didn't even have any sensitive medical data though they were just handing appointment setting and coordinating volunteers/venues though right?

people love dunking on this kid, and I get it it's fun, but the whole ordeal stunk to be at the time as lots of smoke and no fire and felt really self destructive for us as a city, esp once it rose to throwing our health officials under the bus

There was a lot of "why didn't this contract go to one of our big medical institutions?" but the project as far as I could tell was mostly about organizing volunteers and setting up appointment booking logistics quickly. The appointment booking systems all the big players set up were fkkkiinnngg teerrriiibbllee

>The ability to execute said plan? Not so much

I thought the reports at the time were that they were decently well set up? all the hoopla IIRC correctly was over him taking some left over doses home, setting up an LLC, and then bombing a press conference. What else was there?

it's possible there's enough remote workers now who will pick a beach city that's close enough to metros for occasional commutes to join their daily zoom calls from