I will say a few points in favor of Starbucks. It's open before I start work and after I end it, while no other non-corporate coffeeshop seems willing to do either. They are never out of anything at 9am. They don't randomly close. They have bathrooms. They are fast. Their coffee is waaaay better than Dunkin and sometimes better than the boutique coffee shops too. They will fund employees' college educations.

This sounds very hail corporate, but Starbucks has always been pretty good imo.

You can literally get better rates with no negotiation from Square and handle payments on any device: https://squareup.com/us/en/pricing

This is a surprisingly Philly song.

I used to work at a bar at 40th and Walnut. It's a weird fucking area in terms of clientele. You have: entitled Penn students, who may be from rich families but who are themselves cheap and don't know how to tip or behave; people from the section 8 / public housing a few blocks away who can also be shitty; professionals, mostly who work for Penn. The first two of these groups fucking suck from a service industry perspective. They are demanding, cheap, and can be disruptive.

I don't think that area can consistently support anything other than fast food and fast casual when the two largest groups of customers are like this. Especially when there's such a large number of competitors - there are a ridiculous number of storefronts and vendors serving food in U city.

That McDonald's was always the most consistent place in the area, and it hosted a large number of drunken fights for years while being possibly the most disgusting, awful food service establishment I've ever seen.

> New England Journal of Medicine > https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1900669

This study says: "Longer Shifts for Surgical Residents are Safe for Patients"

It does not say: "[Making residents work less hours for more money] ended in way worse patient care and more deaths. "

> Northwestern University > https://news.northwestern.edu/stories/2016/02/longer-shifts-surgical-residents-safe

This study says: "resident physicians who were randomly assigned to schedules that eliminated extended shifts made more serious errors than resident physicians assigned to schedules with extended shifts, although the effect varied by site." However, it adds a big caveat: "The number of ICU patients cared for by each resident physician was higher during schedules that eliminated extended shifts." Additionally, the shorter shifts could still be 16 hours, and there was no data about total hours worked in a week, just about the length of a single shift.

It does not say: "[Making residents work less hours per week or for more money] ended in way worse patient care and more deaths. "

> Jama Study on Handover Mortality > https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2589342

This study says: "End-of-rotation transitions may introduce risk in internal medicine inpatient care."

It does not say: "[Making residents work less hours per week or for more money] ended in way worse patient care and more deaths. "

> Canadian Medical Association > https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/02/150209122838.htm

This study says: "Shorter duty hours for medical residents, although marginally better for residents themselves, may result in worse patient care, according to a randomized trial assessing resident duty hour schedules in the intensive care unit."

This is the closest to your argument, but again, it looks at the length of individual shifts, not total hours worked in a week or month, which may have more of an impact.

Until we see a few studies showing that sustained 40 hour workweeks with 8 hour work days are inferior in patient outcome, I think these are all just bullshit.

And even then, the issue is wellbeing of the residents. It's not all about the patients. My workplace does better if I work 100 hours a week; I do not.

Has there been a bigger residential development outside of center city in the past 20 years?

Your point?

The area on that side of market is largely undeveloped. The area to the south and a few blocks north is like 98% townhouses.

It's also right next to the El, and frankly that's a terrible place to live due to the noise. Market itself is sketchy around there and west. We should be happy there's a developer dumb enough to think people will pay for luxury apartments out there.

Speed bumps on 5th from Girard to Montgomery. I've seen two cars flip on 5th between Master and Jefferson, two bad accidents where the traffic lights and multiple cars were totalled at 5th and Thompson, and many more smaller accidents between Girard and Master on 5th, just within the past few years. Human Robot's streetery also feels very dangerous with how the cars behave. As soon as people get past Girard and the speed bumps south of it on 5th they gun it.

My stepfather needed opiates for pain for a long time, and getting them prescribed and approved by insurance was often a struggle.

People need the pain meds. Do you want them to get them or just suffer? Or is there some magical fairy that will deliver the meds to the pharmacy and make sure they aren't doing something shady?

Without distributors, patients who are prescribed medicine can't get it. They vet pharmacies and report suspicious transactions to the DEA, and severed relationships with 4 of the 5 pharmacies the DEA cited. This is accordance with federal law. What more should they have done?

AmerisourceBergen does not prescribe the drugs and does not sell them to end users though. The people that do: doctors and pharmacists.

Yeah that was my last apartment. Whole building is a disaster.

On the other hand I'm guessing very few people in the city get the permits they are supposed to for work in their own homes.

On the one hand developers have clearly been fucking things up. Nobody should be unable to live in their house because of construction next door.

On the other hand, yet another license. It's very difficult to get anything done in this city unless its by a huge developer with deep pockets. Means more money going to bureaucrats and middlemen and higher housing costs.

I wonder why the judge's request for the day off wasn't approved. Obviously it may be different for public servants, but I haven't had a day off refused at any professional job (only shitty ones like the service industry... when I was in that business you would just quit when you wanted PTO).

The official border is 6th, but the east side of it. West side of 6th is east poplar.

I'd be the one making it a certainty if I was there xD

I'd step in against the crazies, they are usually drug addicts or mentally ill, and I expect most junkies have already sold guns for drugs. It's the teenagers I worry about in this city. They'd have more guns than me and they don't think about their futures.

People love to complain, we need to ignore it.

There are not any legitimate questions. There are several eyewitnesses that saw the encounter, clear ballistics evidence, and Mumia was found on scene with Faulkner's bullet in him, and he attempted to shoot the backup when they arrived as well. The misinformation propaganda from the MOVE terrorists has been relentless, though.

Anyway, here's a summary.

Here's the text:

> Mumia Abu-Jamal Remained at the Scene and Was Physically Identified as the Killer By Several Eyewitnesses > > Though he attempted to flee, because of his wound Jamal was only able to move a few steps away from Officer Faulkner’s body, where he collapsed on the curb. This fact is verified by the testimony of four of the five eyewitnesses to Officer Faulkner’s murder. The Police Radio Tape Transmittal establishes that after pulling William Cook’s vehicle over and prior to exiting his patrol car, Officer Faulkner requested backup at 3:51:08 AM. The Radio Transmission Log also verifies that the first police vehicle arrived on the scene at 3:52:27 AM, just 90 seconds after Officer Faulkner exited his vehicle to question William Cook. > > Based on this information it is clear that less than a minute passed between the time when Officer Faulkner was shot and Mumia Abu-Jamal was spotted sitting on the pavement next to Officer Faulkner’s body, by Officers Shoemaker and Forbes, who were the first officers on the scene. The jury heard Officer Shoemaker state that upon seeing the gun next to Jamal, he ordered him to “freeze.” He further stated that instead of surrendering, as an innocent person would, Jamal attempted to raise his gun and fire at them. According to Shoemaker, as Mumia Abu-Jamal attempted to reach his gun, he chose not to use deadly force to subdue him, but instead chose to kick Jamal in the throat and then kicked the gun away from him. > > Officers then attempted to subdue Jamal, who resisted their efforts. After a violent struggle the arresting officers handcuffed Jamal and threw him into the back of the police van that Officer Faulkner had summoned to arrest Cook. (N.T. 6/19/82, 116) > > The jury also heard from each of 3 eyewitnesses (Robert Chobert, Cynthia White and Albert Magilton) who stated that just moments after Jamal was subdued, they were asked to look at him as he lay inside the wagon. Each stated that they physically identified Mumia Abu-Jamal as the man they had just seen run across the street and shoot Officer Faulkner. At trial, these individuals again identified Jamal as the killer. Chobert stated that he never lost sight of Jamal from the moment he shot Faulkner until he was placed in the van. (N.T. 6/19/82, 210-213)

Lots more info on that site that can be easily verified by the court records themselves. I leave that as an exercise for the reader.

Go to google, type in Mumia Abu-Jamal and do the research yourself.

You "recall" everything incorrectly.

This was the most open and shut case you could have without video. Multiple witness, was caught on the scene with the gun which he owned, his spent shell casings next to him, and a bullet wound from Faulkner. Guilty as fuck and proven so, despite these irrational "activists" who want just want him to get away with murder as though that's fucking justice.

They could do this on Kensington Ave any day, or even every day...

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