Philly has so many talented people in city government and at places like SEPTA and the BCGP, and it’s rough to watch them get beaten down by a political culture that believes that “better” isn’t possible, let alone anything greater.
The streeteries were an opportunity for Philly to become *the* dining capital of America. A city with an al fresco scene to rival Paris or Rome. A magnet for every last New York and DC chef without a trust fund.
And the city threw it away so casually! For parking!!
@mheadd @AlexJimenez they also need to go after RealPage - https://www.propublica.org/article/yieldstar-rent-increase-realpage-lawmakers-collusion
Elon Musk sharing meme featuring a red and black caricature (symbolic for the anarchist movement) that puts forward far-Right, anti-Semitic conspiracy that opposition to Musk is really just service to the Jewish billionaire George Soros.
Read our statement on Musk here:
"Like the Mercers before him and now Kanye West, Musk represents a segment of the billionaire class that is willing to align itself with the fascist-Right. This reflects the outright nihilism that this camp sells to its followers. This is why Musk set his sights on those reporting on grassroots movements as soon as he gained control of Twitter. Musk isn’t here to shake things up, but to preserve his position at the top."
https://itsgoingdown.org/its-going-down-suspended-from-twitter/
. “A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death.”
—Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Beyond Vietnam,” 1967
You want to know how I really feel?
https://furbo.org/2023/01/15/the-shit-show/
P.S. That's the tame version.
@phillynews frantically rebooting it whispering "c'mon baby, don't do this to me"
okay they didn't want to fix it that way so i guess i'll go try and fix it the other way
@phillynews the city is completely fucking this whole thing up, for what? More street parking?
@phillynews the city is completely fucking this whole thing up, for what? More street parking?
It’s last call for many of Philadelphia’s streeteries.
Philadelphia officials will crack down on streeteries, issuing citations to businesses that have not applied for licenses. Only 50 restaurants have applied.
@cunningpike deliverability. Mailgun or AWS SES has better reputation so more emails will get delivered. Running your own MTA requires managing your IP's reputation in a lot of blacklists, and sometimes having to rehabilitate it if your IP was used for spam before you got assigned it.
Exactly 14 years ago , Satoshi Nakamoto designed the most pathetic / inefficient system ever invented by humankind : the blockchain.
Today, it weights 60 000 tons, wastes constantly 10 gigawatts (more than Belgium or Chile) to process less than 7 transactions per second :
Less than a 33 bps modem from 1990.
This could be a joke if it didn't have such gigantic environmental impact, wasn't enabling billion dollars ransomware industry and was not crushing thousands of lives in the process.
