Bold of you to assume everyone who hates Fitzgerald loves Gainey.

Be fully honest with yourself. Is it really laughably impossible to imagine how someone who is 1) new to gun ownership, 2) doesn’t come from a family or community that teaches you how to handle guns and gets you used to being around gun enthusiasts, and/or 3) is visibly from a class of people that SOME conservatives have a problem being around (people of color, LGBTQ people, stereotypical “blue haired liberals,” or whatever) might feel uncomfortable or even threatened just popping into your local gun store or rolling in at Wexford like “hey guys, I want to shoot with you, but I don’t know what I’m doing”?

Made it three days..

You’ll lose your staff before you get to your close date. Also, it’s common enough for closing restaurants to stiff their purveyors that as soon as they find out you’re closing, a lot of places will either put you on COD and demand immediate payment of anything you still have on balance (most of the time you’re on 30-day terms) before they’ll do tomorrow’s delivery, or they’ll just cut you off entirely.

I feel like you’re missing the point. I’m giving one possible reason why a lot of people feel that the electoral process doesn’t represent them and doesn’t seem like something that they can meaningfully have an impact on. I’m not trying to argue that there’s a better way. I’m just saying that preaching to people about voting probably isn’t having the effect you’d like it to.

No, but there’s a point where “best represent” is so far away from what you’d actually like to support that it’s severely demoralizing, and leads people to question the efficacy of the entire thing. Continually telling people the solution is to vote, and vote, and then keep voting isn’t wrong, per se, but it is glib, and can turn off people whose problem is disaffection, not apathy.

Stop being a cop, asshole. “Plenty of people who really need help with this” work two jobs and don’t have fucking time to cook dinner.

I mean, check your bill. Did the price per CCF increase from previous months? Did your transmission/storage/dozen-or-so-other-random-fees increase dramatically? If not, then yes, $180 IS what it costs to heat your particular 600sqft apartment to 68-70 degrees in this cold, regardless of what it seems like it should cost.

Did your usage more than double, according to your bill? If so, you’ve definitely tracked down the problem. Maybe your apartment, small as it is, is cheaply built, poorly insulated, and has shitty windows? Maybe the furnace is old and inefficient? You could always try weatherproofing and/or running an efficient space heater like an electric oil-filled radiator to see if that helps.

Both of those pronunciations are pretty common throughout Appalachia, and aren’t “wrong” so much as they are different. I’d imagine that it bothers you so much because you’ve internalized messaging that tells you that broad Mid-Atlantic and Midwestern accents are “correct,” and deviation from that is somewhere between nonstandard (northern working class accents like stereotypical Boston and New York accents) and ignorant (southern working class accents like Appalachian, Southern, and African American accents).

I’m from Southern West Virginia, and grew up ashamed of my accent. I thought it made me and everyone I knew sound like a dumbfuck hillbilly, so I managed to successfully shed it. Now I really like the regional variation everyone brings to their speech. I legit love hearing people from different parts of the country talk. Makes me wish I still had my accent.

Stop shaming your mom. There’s not going to be a test later or anything, and, honestly, if somebody wants to judge you for being working class, they’ll find a way to do it no matter how you speak.

Your landlord is obliged to keep your space “habitable,” which, among other things, means your primary living spaces need to be heated to 68F if it’s 10F or more outside, or 61F if it’s below 10F out. If they fail to do that, they can be reported to the health department for failing to provide a habitable unit.

I say this not because you should immediately jump to calling ACHD, but so you know what the backup plan is if your landlord doesn’t fix the issue. If your landlord knows you’ll be without heat for a bit (and if they haven’t scheduled a service appointment yet, they know), they should be providing you an alternate means of heating. Usually that’s going to be bringing over some space heaters, but it could also be something like putting you up in another property or a hotel or something if space heaters aren’t an option for some reason.

Call your landlord and ask for space heaters or some other solution. If you run into resistance, let them know the law says they have to. It’s entirely possible your landlord may not know the law. If they do know the law but are trying to skate it, now they know that you know your rights. Don’t be threatening or shitty about it until you absolutely have to.

Mad mex doesn’t serve white queso. They serve beer cheese dip, and use either cotija or Monterrey jack on their burritos.

I didn’t say it was good Cal Mex, but that’s definitely what they’re going for, not Tex Mex.

I get what you’re saying, but they call their food “funky fresh cal mex” and their bread-and-butter is Mission style burritos.

The point isn’t to punish kids. The point is to give cops probable cause to harass, search, and/or detain anybody they don’t like the look of after 10:00. Curfews are basically stop and frisk by a different name.

According to the article, the calls “told people they could be arrested or forced to receive vaccinations based on information they submitted in votes by mail.”

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Timing the lights doesn’t encourage speeding. Quite the opposite, in fact. If you drive faster than the speed limit, you’ll get ahead of the light timing and end up having to wait at a red light that you would have otherwise missed. Poorly timed lights frustrate drivers and incentivize speeding to make the light, as well as speeding through “pink” lights or just plain running lights.

To be very fair, Murrysville isn’t in the same county as the actual city of Pittsburgh either, and Irwin is like 15 minutes down the road from North Park Lounge, where OP was originally trying to go. I probably would also go to Dad’s, or Gateway Grill, or maybe Juniper Grill in Murrysville, but I don’t know that it’s worth treating them like an idiot for suggesting it.

The construction site like one or two blocks up on the right has been receiving 53’ flatbed deliveries all day. Each time, it necessitates blocking the entire road so the truck has space to turn and reverse into the site. Then they block it again when the truck needs to leave. Each time, the road is blocked for several minutes. It sucks, but there’s really not anything else they can do.

I didn’t see the part of their post that said there should be a law making it illegal for radio stations to run ads they don’t like. Where was that? It looked to me like they were just saying they personally hold stations responsible for the content of the ads they run. That’s..kind of the opposite of authoritarianism, actually.

Slight caveat to this: stations are required to run ads from political candidates, not third party organizations like PACs. Those aren’t considered political speech, and over-the-air broadcasters can make whatever editorial decisions they wish regarding them. That’s why any ads that aren’t paid for by a specific candidate’s campaign have to say that they’re paid for by “the Democratic Party” or “Keeping Freedom Free Coalition” or “Friends of Dan Dipshit” or something.

Yeah, maybe “Yinz gotta get your priorities straight!”?

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The bridge was built by US Steel and was never publicly owned before now. I’d assume the county bought it from US Steel or whoever they sold it to when they closed the Homestead mill.

To be fair, I absolutely feel OP’s pain regarding concerts. It varies a bit show to show, but I’ve been to a lot of concerts here where most of the audience is clearly treating the show as an opportunity to get drunk and rowdy and hear some music, in that order. It’s fine when the band is playing a fast, loud song that everyone knows and wants to sing along to, but I’ve spent way, way too much time struggling to even hear bands play quieter songs over the din of drunk people having shouted conversations over top of music they’re clearly not paying attention to. Yes, this happens everywhere, but as someone who frequently travels to see shows, it’s notably worse here. This is the only city where I’ve actually seen artists stop mid-song and ask the audience to quiet down so they can hear themselves play.