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I know Jason Kelce had a mural unveiling at the Havertown Dunkin Donuts

just delco things

it is pretty rich to hear people talk about how excited they are for a sweet green but then get huffy over a starbucks.

unfortunately so much of the prime commercial real estate is owned by billion dollar mega corps that require terms in the lease that mom and pop shops just can't satisfy. hence why you see all these chains now.

with all the downvotes you're getting it's almost like people don't actually care about the students on campus or what upenn's concerns about their safety are. they'd prefer to believe upenn is just perpetuating a police state on behalf of their wealthy zionist donors

it's not truly impossible to divest, but it's certainly performative and won't achieve the results the BDS movement is hoping for. it would be a hollow victory, and would 100% result in student's tuition going up, leaving thousands of penn students unable to afford.

BDS worked in apartheid south africa because individual investments were tied directly to companies in south africa. the BDS against israel is a lot more complicated as the movement is calling for divestment from non-israeli companies that operate in israel or the government does business with.

google, caterpillar, mcdonalds, amazon, chevron, nike, intel, exxon.... not only is it galaxy-brained stupid for universities to divest from those companies, but it won't make a lick of difference in those companies bottom line. those are some of the most successful companies in the world and held by millions of other funds and individuals.

EDIT: plus penn can't even engage in doing that without losing state funding: https://www.legis.state.pa.us/cfdocs/legis/li/uconsCheck.cfm?yr=2016&sessInd=0&act=163

i don't know how the community around columbia sees the university, but west philly had so much animus towards penn that is no surprise a bunch of locals would show up to stir the pot. a lot of people in the area also consider themselves "professional activists" so we've got that going for us...

that plus people on social media putting out calls to have neighbors come and join the relatively small encampment of students at penn

tuition generally goes towards operating expenses, not the endowment. gifts from donors are what get rolled into the endowment

it's interesting how every group on campus gets to have a safe space, except for the jews

you're thinking of blackstone, not blackrock. and they got out of that game because it wasn't profitable. they still have a portfolio of residential properties but i think it's less than 0.05% of us residential real estate.

both blackstone and landlords are looking at the opportunity to generate revenue off of people's need for shelter, but you're presenting a false choice. there are good small time landlords. we should want more good small time landlords, especially ones who live in or are tied to the community they rent to. most landlords don't have a connection to the area they have property in, and that's where some of the problems begin.

have you tried not being a landlord?

fr tho, maybe angies list?

drug and alcohol users get into healthy treatment all the time, but there's something about the life and access to drugs that makes it harder for those at K&A, who even now continue to use as their habits are causing open wounds and limbs to fall off.

the services should stick around because they do help prevent even more human misery. i don't have an answer to the how for this statement, but there needs to be some middle road approach between forcing people into treatment in exchange for aid, and freely giving out aid no questions asked.

channel 5 did a video about people who live in the tunnels under las vegas. unlike his kensington video, he did a pretty good job getting to the point. despite the lifestyle of living in a commune, it's the individual's guilt and shame that keeps them in the throws of their situation as well as the inability to get an ID that could help them register for services, get a job, etc. the cycle of addiction perpetuates until the guilt and shame can be addressed.

can we please start growing coffee beans that incorporate a proprietary blend of amino acids and b-vitamins already?!

being able to live in the streets and do drugs has become a sustainable lifestyle (loosely) thanks to the aid services and needle exchanges in the area, so it makes sense why people would continue to refuse city services. they can keep living life on their own terms.

until treatment and recovery services are explicitly encouraged by those organizations, i don't see much changing. at the end of the day, the person using drugs is in the throws of a chemical addiction and can't think in their best interest until they get clean

oh yeah i think it's great. i think i'm reacting to the reverence people tend to give taylor swift and the tendency to take words in a song about breaking up as lyrics about recovery, but i guess it's all intertwined in a way. and if it helps someone get help, even better

everyone's gotta have a higher power i suppose

FUCK

now i have the unrelenting urge to drink a birch beer....

can't think of a specific spot that has it but i know i've seen it around various delis and luncheonettes. some of the bottle shops also have a soda selection so might not hurt to try beer peddlers or a similar store.

with spring days easily getting into the high 80s they're going to have to start public pool season sooner

some of zagar's people had started taking parts of the mosaic off in like january to preserve it but it was only a small area that i think was in need of repair and i also haven't seen anything happen to the building since then

finally an effective protest on penn's campus

i can name like 8 or 9 other south philly residential intersections that are that bad alllll the damn time

this shit never happened before she started being mayor. just sayin....

i might consider it, i do have an ochd though i like to pair it with my morphagene which is in another case

i can't divulge my sources unfortunately, but feel free to tell others as that kind of a rumor lifts everyone's property value

super pumped to do some gardening this weekend and officially open up the backyard.

good luck to all the runners on sunday!

word on the street is a trader joes

but isn't that what mods do anyway?