I wonder if the founder applied a little too much of what he learned from assisting in creating Amazon’s empire and over extended himself a tad bit.

collapse of economic and political systems in the west (USA specifically) isn’t something I fear. Knowledge and humans don’t vanish overnight. This country specifically and historically has endured a lot of turmoil under worse living conditions.

Climate change is an issue, but climate change is also an issue that wont effect the globe evenly.

Honestly, I think it all comes back around to our economic model being antiquated for the current technological boom that is seemingly on the horizon, and that creates much of the anxiety we feel towards things like automation and AI. The road to liberating humans from being coerced into passionless labor by automating our mode of production will definitely be a net positive for our species, just as domesticating plants were 12000 years ago. The road to get there will be difficult, but humanity moves forward.

Dont live your life in fear of the unknown. Use this time to aspire to a quality education and be skillful in the many aspects surrounding human life.

I find it weird how all my time up here, I always heard about how Humbolt industrial park in hazelton sits on top of protected wetlands where coastal birds migrate to nest (When I worked in Humbolt, i do remember a lot of adorable killdeer and a buttload of geese). But somehow, they keep cutting down trees and erecting massive warehouses everywhere.

Either everyone was wrong, or someone has more money than the killdeer.

So much land around my way is privately owned in weird family trusts that go completely unused or unmanaged. I’ve noticed the state buying up stuff around and I hope it really continues.

I’ve never lived in a state on the east coast with such a vast state public lands system. The Game Commission and DCNR rival federal land agencies, and we are spoiled for it.

You know what they say about big feet…

It’s classist and frankly vile to speak of the peoples of the hills in western PA in this manner.

Damn, I remember when protestants just shamed their kids for masturbating. Are the whites alright?

I hate this shit.

“So I saw this grey box with a fan in it. So I just started filling it with oil. Stay warm!”

Lol I live in the Scranton/Wilkes barre/hazelton ecosystem, and I swear there are generations of people who are like “wtf there’s mountains here?”

I drive locally in central/eastern PA as a truck driver. My coworkers hate it, but I get excited when I have to go to a receiver where I don’t have to be on the interstate for the majority of it. I love the back highways and trucker friendly roads in the mountains, unless it’s snowy of course.

I remember my first year being a local truck driver in PA after I made it through my first winter. Spring had sprung, and it was my first shift where the air was cool, the sun was exceptionally warm, and humidity was low. We all know those are the magical days of spring. I role down the highway with high esteem, knowing I survived the winter season, and had nothing but sunshine to look forward to.

But then I saw it. I saw the orange sign. I thought it would instruct me better, but it left me even more confused. I know I wasn't the only one, because NJ plate after NJ plate were weaving and speeding, slamming on their brakes without regard for anyone, desperately trying to understand which lane to be in, and what speed to go. I immediately realized I had left winter behind, but now I have entered PennDot season.

You see, it's a yearly tradition, the betrayal by PennDot. They kept my wheels spinning all winter long, just keep them from turning all summer long.

Im a local trucker up in the poconos. It astounds me how bad people drive. Especially those good ol' boys in older Dodge Rams and the army of cross over SUVs that feel invisible.

I remember when I lived in rural Colorado, there was a saying among the locals I found funny that went the "Texan's first winter." Since they dont salt the roads, but lay down cinder/sand and pack it down, these bozos would buy these beautiful pickup trucks, put it in 4wd H and drive like it's a sunny and dry day, and almost immediately slide into a ditch.

It perplexes me just how reckless drivers are everytime it snows.

If it’s been snowing and freezing raining for the past 24 hours, I really don’t care if they treated the roads, I’m doing the speed limit AT most if conditions seem reasonable. If you tailgate me, suddenly I feel so unsafe, I feel like I need to slow down some to compensate for the reckless behavior of the drivers around me.

Seriously, though, following distance is vital in bad weather conditions, it can be the difference between an insurance claim/death/injury and driving to work being uneventful.

yea, it seems like municipal politics are almost exclusively ran by the greedy car dealership owner trope, or the motivated scout master dad who has no understanding of how government works.

as a millennial, I wouldn't have been able to live in my 20's if not for living with roommates.

just one more factor as to how Carbon County pushes out the young and educated.

Rutter's eggnog is the superior eggnog

Of the B-list PA gas stations, I put Rutters over Turkey Hill

man, dodged a bullet there. If we had good public transit, we may never have been able to experience those cool little scooter things.

The GOP has devolved into solely a reactionary institution (not that they ever didn't have reactionary tendencies). They possess no other function within American politics. They must be ignored and silently voted out of power, not provoked.

If they aren't the victim of some mass conspiracy theory, their political leaders lose their platform.

Lol if you head up to the northern cities of pa, you literally need a moon rover. I’ve been on gravel roads that were friendlier to my cars suspension than some side streets in Wilkesbarre/Scranton/Hazleton.

what were not around for the red line debacle? Or whenever crime happens near Cromwell, towson, or hunt valley LR station? Or literally every state election cycle? Find a local news facebook page about any given murder of any white person in the city and read the comments.

lol come to PA and complain about MD's roads.

Shocking to who?

PA GOP refuses to legalize marijuana and stop this cycle of handing out felonies to kids leaving high school for nonviolent drug offenses, sending them towards a downward spiral of isolating them from the legal labor market while alienating them from participating in civil society, perpetuating them sourcing an income from illegal markets.

So a celebrity doctor who kills puppies in between selling fake weight loss pills and a deluded weirdo walk into a bar…