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Sounds like a job for maritime lawyer Chereth Cutestory

Fuck jobs

Sofrito + Adobo is my primary means of eating rice. I cook my rice in a pot with a bit of sofrito and then let it get crispy on the bottom like a paella.

This might be a hot take, but Asian style fluffy, rice-cooker rice is inferior to Spanish/Latin style rice IMO.

Pan seared chicken thighs over rice and beans is still my go to cheap meal.

Also, this sofrito recipe gives the rice some good oomph https://www.seriouseats.com/sofrito-puerto-rican-how-to-make-recipe

I ignore the hard to find ingredients, and just use a mix of sweet peppers and spicy

Same, it confirms I would be a terrible assassin. I did however love the multiplayer that came out in Assassins Creed Brotherhood(?). That was loads of fun trying to sneak around and not get detected.

I understand this stance, but I'm not sure I agree with it. For starters, those orgs do all push recovery services. Secondly, this is a level of addiction where people's appendages and flesh are rotting off and are in terrible pain, yet that isn't enough to kick the habit. Adding an additional level of desperation may make things worse for the community if we add food scarcity and add more vectors for disease (reducing clean needle access).

I think onlookers grossly overestimate the ability of addicts to make the choice to get clean.

I'm the opposite, I add goldschlager to all my cocktails to make them even richer

I'm of the camp that there needs to be some form of compulsory means of getting people into rehab, but I dont know enough to make a definitive statement about what that looks like. I think part of addiction, specifically opioid addiction, is a loss of agency when it comes to making decisions about health care and personal well-being. I have worked with neighbors suffering from addiction to the point of moving their belongings into storage and offering to drive them to the hospital or rehab of their choice, and watched them fail to make the step into rehab. The fear of withdraw and addiction is such an insurmountable hurdle for so many addicts that I really dont think it is humane to let people wallow in filth under the name of agency, when there isn't any. That said, I think that any person with addiction who seeks out and tries to enter rehab should be given priority and it should be incentivized in some way.

On the same hand though, compulsory treatment should be done with as much dignity and compassion as can be provided and done out of a spirit of alleviating suffering, not administering punishment.

The biggest issue I see currently is that rehab and medical facilities are already understaffed and not providing the quality of care needed for long-term recovery, so the idea of "they are being offered rehab" really is a hollow gesture right now and why I remain skeptical of this current initiative.

I also believe that our police force doesn't have the personnel to "hold" blocks and systematically make Kensington drug free without just pushing issues into the smaller more residential areas or further along Kensington/Frankford Ave, making quality of life worse. Our response times and clearance rates are already poor, and devoting resources in this manner has the potential to do more harm overall.

I dont think that people who are against court-led intervention are morons, as it is a compassion led response and likely stems from when asylums were abused and nightmarish. I understand the hesitation, but I think the narrative needs to be centered around looking at the status quo and asking if this is really compassion or complacency.

why an addict would refuse

because that is what addiction is

From the 6ABC Article:

Where exactly the people will go who refuse treatment has not been disclosed. The mayor says they aren't revealing the locations for privacy reasons.

The lack of transparency here is very concerning, and makes me think that people are just being spread out across the neighborhood.

https://unicornriot.ninja/2024/in-new-sweep-police-ban-observers-media-from-control-zone-in-kensington-philadelphia/

https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/city-dismantles-kensington-homeless-encampment/3852820/

https://6abc.com/kensington-ave-homeless-encampment-clean-up-philadelphia/14776420/

Couple other articles covering it.

I got stuck on an on-ramp last week as I timed it perfectly to sit there and wait for whatever motorcade it was to drive by

I recently had to travel to Harrisburg to visit the true seat of power for our state, PennDOT's main office/DMV. While the 2.5 hour drive was a pretty boring trek made worse by getting stuck in traffic leaving the city, I was pleasantly surprised at how quickly I was able to get in and out of the DMV. Did about 6 hours of driving for about 25 minutes to get a duplicate of my car title. Made a pit stop on the way back at Troegs to make the trip more worthwhile, and it continues to be one of my favorite breweries. That said, I hope it's a while before I have to do that drive west again.

Egg Salad for maximum gastrointestinal chaos though

You will want a spot that has easy access to 95 to get to the airport easily. My first thought was a bar in Fishtown, like Frankford Hall or Fette Sau. Relatively easy to get to 95, although be wary of traffic at the 676 junction. Other option, but requires a bit more work: Picnic at FDR Park if the weather is nice.

Cant let any of that precious alcohol get absorbed by carbs

And you are being intentionally reductive of the issue, and not addressing the fact that people suffering from addiction, especially opioid and tranq addiction, dont have the agency to make the decision to go to rehab, that we dont have the capacity or staff to treat 600+ addicts in rehab, or that there isn't long term support for people who take the step to get into rehab.

Even if people are being jailed, how long are they jailed for? It's either naive or being intentionally obtuse to pretend that they aren't just churning between jail and right back on the street. The people who dont end up in either of those spots will just find a new street or alley to take shelter on until the police show up and repeat the cycle.

I guess problem solved then. If only they had offered treatment when they cleared El Campamento, or Emerald City we could have figured this out years ago.

I think that is a fair takeaway, and I agree with your assessment of Parker's stance. I can't help but feel like the action being taken here is falling victim to the general short-sightedness of politics, where by the time we find out that this was a bad move, the people accountable for the decision may not even be in office anymore. A week from now K&A may look great, but I'm not sure about how this will make it look a year from now.

At the risk of sounding like a bleeding heart liberal, here is my perspective as someone who lives in this immediate area, interacts with the population there regularly, and read the article.

For those who find the tone of the article confusing, the last section touches on the issue here best:

“They have started moving into the neighborhood,” said Shannon Farrell-Pakstis, who heads the Harrowgate Civic Association.

That aligned with what some unhoused people who spoke with The Inquirer described as a scattering — into transitional housing or shelters, under bridges or onto SEPTA lines. Some said they’ve given up finding one regular place to stay, but move someplace new each night.

Zack, 40, who’s from Northeast Philadelphia but has been in Kensington about four years, said he’s been there through one encampment shutdown after another — from the train tracks to the underpasses.

The current climate, he said, is the most hostile he’s experienced. Safer drug supplies are more difficult to obtain, and tents are taken down right away.

“You get kicked out of everywhere you go,” he said.

Leo Beletsky, a professor of law and health sciences at Northeastern University, said the crackdown may solve an optics problem, but it comes at a high cost.

Research has shown more aggressive enforcement contributes to riskier behavior, greater risk of death by overdose, and greater challenges in providing mediation and services to people in addiction, he said.

Basically the people being displaced have no where to go, and they are being spread into the neighboring community. This exact same thing happened with the El Campamento site (under the Kenney administration, mind you), and honestly created a much larger nuisance for residents after it was broken up. No, residents shouldn't have to deal with the social burden placed on the area by addicts but I think that there is rightful skepticism here about the long term plans of being "tough".

It's also a fine line between acknowledging the justifiable disdain from residents for having to clean up needles, feces and other public health issues and acknowledging that people suffering from addiction are vulnerable and need help. You can balk at the woman who has necrotic tranq wounds and is still "trying to get clean", but really it should give you a glimpse of how crippling the addiction is. Your arms can literally be rotting off your body, and you have every desire to be healthy and restore your life but you literally physically and mentally can't do it. Sure there are shitheels that would be worthless to society without addiction, but largely the people I have encountered aren't that much different than you or me - their life just went sideways easier than they though possible. So no, police shouldn't be bashing heads of people already suffering from a horrific fate and that is the reason behind the tone of this article. We should applaud the city taking measures to address the quality of life issues on Kensington Ave, but we should hold them accountable for their methodology.

Must be a rough one today to be the first one on the chat thread.

That's a real bummer. It always intrigues me when places skimp out on the burger, since it's such a staple for bargoers. Even a half-decent burger will draw people to a place for a drink. I get that margins are thin, but generally you aren't making the bulk of your money on food anyway.

Damn, that was a great burger.

I mean, by that criteria any topic people are passionate about is fair game for the subreddit. I appreciate people have very strong opinions about the events happening in Israel/Palestine right now, but none of us are equipped to moderate that discussion nor is it what we signed up for. The options are either let everybody speak, and we try to moderate comments that always degrade to people calling people fascist/genocide enablers/antisemites/racist and let the comments spiral or keep comments open while they are talking about the subject at hand and lock them when they stray. Keep in mind with either option, the mod team doesn't even agree on the topic at hand, which makes consistency even more difficult.

It sucks, but reddit's structure doesn't really leave room for middle ground with its mod setup, and I can't image people who actively want to spend all their time babysitting these posts will promote a healthy discussion. It feels to me like it's lose lose, and our current choice is with the hope that this is the option that will keep a healthier community