Recent comments in /f/Pennsylvania

Whatchyaduinyachooch t1_j6pbz6d wrote

Reply to comment by sunglasses90 in Pennsylvania family drugged dog, wore ear protection in triple suicide pact by dissolutewastrel

Definitely hard to get an adult - even if it’s your adult child- to take he meds and take them religiously. They don’t have to do it. You can involuntarily commit them but even that can be a problem because you risk alienating them and then after they are released they can stop taking the meds anyway- it’s heartbreaking…

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artful_todger_502 t1_j6pblg5 wrote

Reply to Pennsylvania may be at a crossroad on abortion | Opinion by BigClitMcphee

I can't read it, but there is no "crossroad" as to abortion. That is settled. The sane and rational majority doesn't want it. That is inarguable. Where the "crossroad" is, is fascist theocracy. We are on the precipice of becoming another minority-rule, fascist state. The conservative Taliban will not stop until we resemble a caliphate of radical Sharia Ayatollahs.

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friskimykitty t1_j6pax5d wrote

Reply to PA!! What is your creepiest and most unexplainable experience? by marvelousmim

Years ago a previous BF and I were driving back to Pgh. from Erie on 79 at night. We stopped at a rest area. I went to the restroom and felt a sudden sense of an evil presence. I couldn’t get out of there fast enough. It was not just an uneasy feeling of being in a strange place. It was so disturbing I’ve never forgotten it.

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SnooRevelations9889 t1_j6pafdb wrote

Reply to Are there any Pennsylvania-specific regional holidays? by SamuelLCompassion

There are five days designated in state law as school holidays in Pennsylvania.

Then there are “local holidays” that are set by each school board for that school district (school district sizes vary greatly). These local holidays will typically vary based on the composition of the student body. Most of the time though, these are holidays known and celebrated outside of Pennsylvania.

Ref:

“No school shall be kept open on any Saturday for the purpose of ordinary instruction, except when Monday is fixed by the board of school directors as the weekly holiday, or on Sunday, Memorial Day, Fourth of July, Christmas, Thanksgiving, the First of January and up to five additional days designated as local holidays in the adopted school calendar by the board of school directors as official local school district holidays.”

https://www.legis.state.pa.us/cfdocs/legis/LI/uconsCheck.cfm?txtType=HTM&yr=1949&sessInd=0&smthLwInd=0&act=14&chpt=15&sctn=2&subsctn=0

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realhighstonerguy t1_j6p8278 wrote

Reply to Rainbow Room’s Queer Prom Under Attack by Libs of TikTok, Doug Mastriano, Fox News - Bucks County Beacon by Worried-Carpet-8216

These folk are completely incapable of accepting the fact that LGBT kids exist. They believe it's a choice, that kids are "turned" into it. Despite the fact that even straight people do not choose their attraction, they refuse to accept this for people who aren't straight.

These folk are dangerous right wing extremist who live in a completed twisted, delusional reality from our own. We need to start pushing back on these folk at every opportunity.

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1ndomitablespirit t1_j6p5ub3 wrote

Reply to comment by BeatsMeByDre in Pennsylvania family drugged dog, wore ear protection in triple suicide pact by dissolutewastrel

I agree, but then you go to places like Reddit where no one gives a crap about mental illness when guns may be involved. Like, I get the guns part, but the conversation always goes to the guns. And then when pro-gun people bring up mental illness, they're downvoted into oblivion and mocked. It is already difficult enough for people with mental illness to talk about it with others, if they even recognize it in the first place, so where is there a safe space for people to get help or talk? Nowhere. They go to a medical professional, they risk being committed, so they may reach out to online groups first. How many people have come to reddit for help, only to get blasted and yelled at over semantics or something equally as petty, only to withdraw into themselves even more? The reasonable answers are supposed to rise to the top, but instead the hive mind is just as cruel as anyone.

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ButtBlock t1_j6p5krv wrote

Reply to comment by [deleted] in If I already e-filed Fed&PA taxes, must I complete this "Local Earned Income Tax Return" from KEYSTONE collections group? by [deleted]

Actuall school tax is different than LEIT. Also different from local services tax, PA unemployment tax, residency tax. PA has a huge problem making this more complicated than it needs to be. In NYC (the king of high taxes I might add) there was a spot on the state tax return where you computed local taxes and added them to the total. Done. 4 lines. No fuss.

The taxes aren’t even that much here. But think about how inefficient this is. What percentage of revenue that Keystone and Berkheimer collect actually goes to where it’s supposed to, after administrative fees.

Shit my town sent me a poll tax. Everyone who lives here (not just homeowners but renters too) have to pay 10 dollars a year just for living here. But you can only pay online and there’s a 3 dollar convenience fee. Thank you Berkheimer. Can you imagine if NYC was like hey you owe 2% income tax, but btw there’s a 30% “convenience fee.” PA really needs to clean this shit up. They’d save a lot of money in the process, too.

Edit: 3 dollar fee not 3%

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