Please point to the Dutch social democrat in the photograph. Do you actually know who any of these guys are? r/Netherlands, y’all laying claim to this trio?

Oh, yeah, sounds super nice.

I’m all for legalization, and there’s certainly worse examples, but don’t romanticize Amsterdam’s handling of it.

Hey, Mods? I just tried to make this my user flair for the sub and it doesn’t seem to be an option. Please help.

I mean this both sarcastically and sincerely.

Good fucking luck, ya trash-ass capitalist dipshits.

May the dumpster fire you light warm somebody’s paws even as it burns you to the ground.

Yeah, 1000%. I make a medium level effort to not fuck it up unnecessarily.

But I have a lot of genuine responsibilities in my life, where the stakes of fucking up are way higher than brush strokes on a well maintained but street parked 10 year old car.

On days where I can barely maintain any of it, I know where to focus my priorities. And it’s not the paint job of a tool I’d ditch in a heartbeat if I could get away with it.

Yeah. There’s MANY opportunities to be legitimately smug about biking vs driving in the city. This is not one of them.

Honestly, I don’t care about my paint. I have a very utilitarian view re: cars.

Like, I take very good care of the guts of my super high mileage car, and will keep on it until that’s no longer an option.

But my car is a tool I wish I didn’t need. It is … not new. And I don’t actually care that much about what it looks like at this point, so long as it can safely carry me back and forth to the locations it needs to get to.

During the everything shortages of the pandemic years, my windshield cracked the fuck in half during a storm or something and it only passed inspection that year because it wasn’t possible to fix it.

I had to buy a new windshield this year, and I’m a little salty about it. As long as it’s gets me where I need to go, idgaf. And I kind of felt like a worn paint job and a busted windshield was good carjacking/panhandling/catalytic converter insurance.

That said, my catalytic converter is actually fucked. I have good insurance and I’m a little salty the dicks that keep hitting my block know the score.

To circle back though, my solution mostly doesn’t actually touch the paint. I’m short, so it’s how I clear off the top layers of bullshit.

I’m a big fan of using a janitor style broom to handle the bulk work.

I shove it toward the sidewalk, and pepper the whole mess with a pet-friendly melt in the hopes it’ll be easier to deal with when I get back

Oh no worries.

And yeah, I totally get that. If we had never been able to find them in volume at a price point we liked, that’d be what I’d assume too.

But we used to be able to find exactly that without much effort. They were a little smaller and on less expensive paper than the $5 ones, but they’re ephemeral objects destined for the trash, so that was not a problem. And there’s plenty of ones out there by local artists at some of the stores suggested up and down thread at the right price point that are lovely, but aren’t really what I’m looking for (like this would at least be a local store and artists local to somewhere, but we’re not really a “Holly Jolly” kind of house - see the link below).

I still can find matches if I search hard enough (like last year’s, which would be perfect if we didn’t send them last year), so I was hoping that someone else might have a lead to cut the search short.

We’ll figure it out or find some. We’re resourceful and, if all else fails, “our Christmas cards are boring this year” is not an actual problem.

Their Craft Bazaar was one of my stops today!

They’re actually a good example of what I’ve been seeing. I like Art Star a lot, but their cards aren’t really the aesthetic I’m looking for - more importantly, they’re in the category I mentioned where they’re all sold by the card, not the pack, and at $5 per card, way out of budget.

That’s also the case, to one extent or the other, with a all of the ones upthread as well, from what I can tell online. The hunt continues….

Yeah, it’s meta or whatever. I’m locating my clauses and parentheticals centrally.

Either that, or I was killing time on my phone while also distracted by doing something else.

I haven’t had that much experience with this, but are they using the term as a less politically charged euphemism for the whole “Pennsultucky” deal?

The state is anchored by two left-leaning counties on either end, each fringed by somewhat less predictable townships making up blueish-to-purple counties on the border.

If “central” isn’t a geographic divide, but a cultural and demographic line between where the state’s population is most concentrated at either end, with the demographic and political trends associated with that concentration, and where that kind of density, demographic diversity, and political leanings shift … then, yeah, “central” is associated with the center of the state, even if it isn’t central geographically.

It’s the center counties’ demographic and political trends, radiating outward as far as they can go before hitting Pittsburgh and Philly’s competing demographic and political trends. Where that boundary becomes a battleground is the border of “central”.

I can’t bring myself to care all that much when people do this, because it does make a certain sense. But that’s what the qualifiers “a suburb bordering” or “just outside” are for.

Like, I used to work at a school “about 30 minutes southeast” of Philly.

You’re at least living here now, though, and have been for a while. That’s a way different thing than someone that grew up in MontCo, mayyyybe went to college here with no intention on staying, and then moved back saying they’re from Philly.

I didn’t grow up here, and I moved around the country a bit after college, but I’ve been here as long as I’ve been anywhere and don’t plan to leave.

Where else would I say I’m from? The town I haven’t lived in for 20+ years and never will again? The only conceivable reason to do that is if the person is very obviously asking where I’m “from” as shorthand for “where did you live as a child?”.

Like, if I’m in a bar in Philly and someone asks if I’m from here, I tell them I grew up down the shore in South Jersey, but moved here after grad school, because I’m not sure which version of the question they’re asking.

But if I’m somewhere I needed an airplane to get to and someone asks where I’m visiting from, where I lived when I was 11 isn’t relevant, and I’m from Philadelphia.

Though I’d agree that the audience matters. If “Philly” barely means anything to the person you’re saying it to, it really doesn’t matter if you say you’re from Philly or “just outside” Philly. You should say “just outside”, but the person you’re saying it doesn’t care and neither do I, really.

I would check with Bridge Clinic. They have a pretty solid in-house diagnostic set-up that may include the ability to do this, and they’re set up as a non-profit. Between their mission and ability to do most stuff in-house, they’re routinely substantially cheaper than most other offices for big ticket items.

You’ll have to drive up to Bucks County, but for something like this, it’s worth the trip.

I don’t think PAWS or PSPCA has the equipment to do this for you, but they’d also be a good option if they do. Can’t hurt to get in touch and ask.

Why bother ACTUALLY doing the work of running for civil service (just to do more work when you win), when you can just be a garbage weirdo grifter?

The garbage weirdo grifter market is hot as fuck right now, and you’d think it’d stop beating the stock market or whatever, but you’d be wrong. There is no bottom and the well is deep and you barely have to do anything to be part of the circuit and collect your check.

They’re going to be in Center City though. I wouldn’t put a kid on a bike on the sidewalk or the street in Center City. Kids are dumb, and there’s just way too much going on there.

Those places are great, but I think OP is talking about spots that are typically crowded or busy, but empty out during games, which makes going there easier or more fun.

This has a lot to do with movements on the Left being generally antagonistic toward hierarchy - it’s been a feature since the late 1950s.

It’s helpful in that it allows organizations to be more flexible, allows more grassroots participation, is more democratic, and enables local chapters to adapt to local needs.

But, yes, from a stability, consistency, and messaging standpoint, it’s an absolute nightmare.

IMO, historically, it’s the center left moderates that used hierarchical organization that generally got shit done, but it’s the wild-ass chaos factories of the further left that held them accountable and kept them from compromising more than they already did. Both were and are valuable.

This also feels like a missed opportunity to me. The world in general could use more good troublemakers, not fewer.

It’s not at all surprising to me that the students here did kind of a dumbass, ham fisted job of things. Youth led movements make a lot of dumb mistakes and struggle to handle complex issues, even the ones that bring about big changes for the better (see, say, SNCC).

So that doesn’t bother me - it’s not fair to expect activism to be the only activity on earth that doesn’t come with a learning curve.

Penn should be thinking about what it can do to better train up these students, not just to get them to knock it off.

Ask your school directly, not around to other students. They don’t know any more than you do.

The school should be able to work with you here and get you what you need. If you’re comfortable sharing, post the school.

If a school ID would fulfill the requirement, that should be obtainable.

They’re generally not distributed, as they include a photo, which your school won’t automatically have. You have to physically go get one, generally from an office in the student center or the registrar’s office, or initiate the process online.

Not sure where you’re enrolled, but here’s a guide to getting one from Temple as an example

Yeah, no problem. By October, these are apt to be a little chilly if you don’t maintain the fireplace. But that was also true of my house as a kid, and is part of the appeal for some day trippers.

But if easy temp control is a must, something to keep in mind.

Play around on the NJ State Parks site. I genuinely like their cabin accommodations - many of them are tucked away in the Pine Barrens, with exactly the right amount of amenities you’d want and easy access to local trails.

Having weekdays as an option significantly ups your odds - they’re usually well booked for weekends all year the minute it’s possible

What’s your date window look like? I have a handful of favorites, but some are hard on short notice, others are tricky for short stays, etc.

You should also add your budget - the short stay ones get a lot easier if you can spring for a few days you don’t fill, etc.