I saw one of these on Second Avenue abandoned on the sidewalk for over a month. Not sure why the person chose to stop riding it without any reasonable destination around, unless someone gave them a ride or it malfunctioned.

Maybe you should pull yourself up by the bootstraps and gain some humility and respect for others.

Driving it not during busy holiday travel conditions. I give you credit for trying though. It is an average adventure at best, too much traffic to really be enjoyable. I like the Yellow Belt journey better.

Wasn't this bridge 4 lanes before?

The Eastern Hills are greatly underrepresented with these sensors. Can we get some people who live in Monroeville, Plum, Penn Hills, Irwin and North Huntingdon to purchase some of these to get better coverage for the network, and hopefully lead to results that are more accurate and precise. I live in one of those areas, but unfortunately don't have the money to purchase an item that would benefit the entire community and region. Sucks when you are so passionate about something and have to be limited by income in pursuing it. Was thinking of starting a gofundme to get some in my town, but don't know if I can afford paying taxes on the donations.

Considering how they are using union busting techniques, I wouldn't call them pro-union. Also that article says 35 stores renewed their contracts, GE has 480 stores, so what about the other 445 stores? Also they start people off at 10 dollars an hour, that is a poverty wage for a union. Just because a company uses a union, doesn't automatically mean that company is pro-worker. Good luck getting a full time position there. Anyway after searching online for 15 minutes for a list, there isn't one that is easily accessible, and that is about all the time I am willing to contribute to this part of the conversation. As much as I hate to say it, workers are probably better off at Walmart, where they at least have advancement opportunities.

Also why does it matter if they have unions? They have clearly demonstrated they are anti-consumer with their price gouging. They don't give a fuck about workers or consumers, only their bottom line. I'll stick to a pragmatic approach, I don't have time to think about higher ideals when it comes to securing food because I need to survive. I'll stick to fighting the injustices that don't require me to starve to have integrity.

Last time I checked only certain Giant Eagle stores were union. I'm very sure unions don't impact the prices much there compared to the price gouging. Either way, you can be pro union and still wish to save money, especially when you are on a fixed income.

It is highway robbery the prices GE gets away with charging people. They are almost as bad as landlords.

As a long time Pittsburgh resident, me and my friends/family made up a game to play in Walmart, it is called "Guess How Much This Shit Costs At Giant Eagle". I suggest you give it a try next time you are at Wallyworld. Giant Eagle will tax the shit out of you if you don't take advantage of the sales. When I was in college just about everything at GE would be marked up a good 30-50%, haven't stepped foot in once in almost 6 years. Hell, for example, Walmart sold this cheese at the deli, Hoffman's Super Sharp Cheddar, at the time it was 6.xx a pound at the time, at Giant Eagle it was almost 13 dollars a pound. Do not shop at GE, unless you want to avoid the riffraff and long lines at Walmart, which can be done easily now by utilizing curbside pickup and home delivery.

Same lol, I'm just a humble geographer who had to take a bunch of classes on environmental issues and it made me see the environmental injustice all around the area, and now I want to spread awareness about these issues.

I agree with you completely, that desperately needs to be a law. Industries should produce stuff in consideration of the community, although I always try to put the people first, and take a utilitarian approach of whatever is good for the most amount of people. If US Steel doesn't want to play nice, then they don't deserve to be a part of the community. They need us to work in their factory, more than the region needs them

I understand, knowing this sub, you probably thought I was some misinformed person making a drive by comment defending the production during these conditions. Sorry if my original comment was unclear in its tone. I heard speculation from environmental groups that the scrubbers could be broken again, so was trying to find out if anyone had proof to back it up.

Inversion conditions and increased production can easily explain the smell. Also there is no reason to get snappy with me, I am an environmentalist. The difference is, I believe what can be proven empirically, not rampant speculation with no supporting arguments.

Also no, I can't smell it, the inversion conditions are sending it away by changing the wind patterns from my area for once, and sparing us from the worst of it. Even though the increased emissions and atmospheric conditions cause it to not personally affect me, and it marginally affects me in normal conditions, I am still speaking out about it, and doing my part to help others.

Where did anyone of repute say the scrubbers are broken, or speculated to be broken?

LMAO did you just ask why an impoverished Mon Valley family can't move?

Always take the batteries out of your Wiimote if you don't plan on playing it again soon. I had batteries just start to corrode in under a year, any longer it would have been RIP Wiimote Motion Plus.

They said early 2023 in their official statement. So not much longer now.

Also I would rather see the place imploded and US Steel forced to pay reparations to people who were forced to deal with this pollution our entire lives. I have no compassion for the people who work there, they choose greed over morality, no one held a gun to their heads and made them to work there, they choose their own path, and are usually complicit in spreading propaganda that makes the plant sound safer than it is to the misinformed. Zero sympathy for ecofascists and their sympathizers.

That is way more impressive to be honest.

Thank you for explaining this from a geospatial perspective as I came to do, I assume you are also a geographer. Not everything is a conspiracy or intentional injustice against marginalized people, rarely there are less sinister and more mundane causes. This isn't the best city to live in for people, its growth was caused because the region could be exploited for its numerous resources conducive to heavy manufacturing, and had access to easy transportation of goods via the rivers, not because it was suited for human habitation. If all these factors didn't exist, there would not be a major city here, the only advantage it has is being being at the confluence of two major rivers. The challenges of building a major city in this terrain had to be greatly outweighed by what it could offer. The terrain here makes building things that other cities take for granted infinitely more difficult.

Hopefully the OP can help spread awareness of these issues, and work to ensure that politicians are elected that are empathetic to the plight of people living with disabilities. So that this poorly maintained infrastructure can receive the funding to be able to serve the community properly.

So always use black, duly noted. Thank you!

Good riddance, I hated that place when I worked at a local one years ago. Only redeeming quality was the cinnamon ice cream.

Also how the fuck are people figuring out what is underneath attempts at blurring or blocking out the image? This seems a bit far fetched that people can reverse attempts to cover sensitive information on an image.

You make some very solid points, and that we should continue to observe human nature before jumping to any conclusions about it and taking it as absolute, unshakable fact.

Many of Freud's theories have been disproven, but he might have been right on that one, but I don't think you need to be a scholar to come to that conclusion. Human nature wouldn't be identical for each individual, but would draw from a pool of established traits that make up the essence of what traits a human being can possess. Even if we have the potential for both, selfishness occurs in higher frequency and intensity.

>If we have stability and peace, outside and inside, our behaviours tend to move towards helping others.

The existence of mostly selfish billionaires disproves your point. They have stability and peace, but most of them pillage as much as they can. I've seen more generosity and altruism from those who have little to give.

>If there is some common denominator in humans (and we share that with most species) is that we try to adapt.

Proper adaptation would be dependant on the situation. Selfishness and altruism would be useful in different situation. In a small, subsistence village where everyone knows each other and the consequences for antisocial behavior are greater, altruism would be more valuable. In modern consumption driven society, selfishness will be more valuable.

Unfortunately I don't see any possible way to scientifically test human nature in an accurate manner without the experiment being unethical. So this issue can only be truly debated via philosophical methods.

I am very familiar with the wonderful masking protocol compliance in East Asian countries, have used Japan as an example of why masks and social distancing work while trying to supress the transmission of respiratory viruses while arguing with idiots.

Is it possible for humans to put aside their selfish natures with extensive cultural conditioning? Most likely yes. Unfortunately that doesn't change the fact that humans are a selfish, short sighted species that are rarely capable of seeing beyond their noses, without extensive cultural conditioning to make them put the collective above the individual. Nurture may trump nature, but it will never be enough to completely elude its grotesque specter.

I got 4 and I am scheduling the 5th one next week. I too am also curious how or if being fully boosted would make a difference.

Damn only a 19% reduction in risk from long covid? That is not that impressive. The dream of a post-covid era seems almost unattainable at this point, the N95s are never coming off. I can't even imagine how bad the public will handle transmission reduction measures when an even worse pandemic comes along, like H7N9 if it makes the jump to human to human transmission. Humans are too selfish of a species to survive any major existential threat to civilization or life on this planet, most of them couldn't even wear a mask in the grocery store to protect their communities.