@joe__touring Montana can’t hold a candle to Eastern PA. The depth of history, the stone farmhouses, the green farms in PA surpass the vast empty(but beautiful) landscapes of MT. Plus only having green grass for a month and a half before it turns dry and brown and fuel for fire gets old.
As I’ve gotten older I understand why 99% of my friends stayed in Pennsylvania
PA smokes every other state in terms of walkable urbanism. It’s dotted with beautiful, cozy walkable towns like Doylestown, New Hope, Lititz, Lancaster, Germantown, Jim Thorpe.
One of the only states where you can afford a home on an acre or 2 and be within range of several major cities, beaches, mountains.
The people yearn for a Main Street town, especially in a country choking on decades of car-centric urban development and suburbia purgatory.
Combine all this with a reasonable cost of living, northeast corridor location, heavy tree cover, 4 seasons, etc there’s a lot to love about PA. I’m not surprised real estate has continued to appreciate while FL/TX/Sun Belt markets have contracted.
Not sure if I will ever move back but I hold my home state close to my heart, shout out Bucks County <3
I drove for @hellofresh as a contractor. Thousands upon thousands of deliveries out of one of their warehouses.
The audits were run by an upper-management 'boss babe' who walked the floor pushing crystal therapies and demanding pronoun discipline. The employees mumbled the magic words and went home with pitiful paychecks. They could not argue with the woman who decided if they kept the job. That was the culture two years before the ad. The ad is what happens when that culture stops hiding.
HelloFresh does not even keep its own drivers. They ran on temp agencies. When they tried contractors like me, we cost more than the temps, so they cut their own people loose and went back to the cheapest body they could find. The company that will not pay its drivers fairly will pay a marketing team six figures to write this:
"For those of you who are… prepping… we have an extensive lineup of high-fiber recipes available. Happy Pride."
When a commenter floated the code BOTTOMSUP, the company replied with a real discount. "You ask, we deliver. Literally."
A meal-kit company has told you which one of your holes they want you to load their product into and out of. They capitalize on the gays as colons with credit cards. They think suburban moms are too dim to read between the lines. They think you will laugh and let the autopay roll.
This is the same company the Department of Labor caught using migrant children in its facilities in 2024. They blamed a staffing contractor. They always blame the staffing contractor. The company that cannot tell you who packed its food is the one marketing their products to customer rectums.
@factormeals is HelloFresh. @EveryPlate_ is HelloFresh. @greenchef is HelloFresh.
Same warehouse, same conveyor, same audit lady. Canceling Factor and switching to EveryPlate is moving rooms inside the same burning house.
Cancel all of them. Tell them exactly why in the cancellation field. Buy a chicken from a butcher. Plant a tomato in your own garden.
Burn the box. Bury the brand. Build something better.
We will be a proper country again when these filth-mongers are on trial.
Mormons are some of the most disingenuous apologists for their religion in the public square.
Instead of clearly defining and defending their beliefs as distinct from historic Christianity, Mormon apologetics seem to center on blurring lines as much as possible with historic Christianity, essentially preying on the ignorant.
Jesus said to his disciples, “What I tell you in the dark, say in the light, and what you hear whispered, proclaim on the housetops.” Paul wrote to the Corinthians, “We refuse to practice cunning or to tamper with God’s word, but by the open statement of the truth we would commend ourselves to everyone’s conscience in the sight of God.”
But we rarely hear Mormons openly proclaiming their distinctives, such as their rejection of the Trinity, their belief in preexistent spirits, their view of Jesus and Lucifer as brothers, their claim that man can become as God, and their many other doctrines ranging from laughable absurdity to damnable blasphemy.
Christians meanwhile do not need to rely on obfuscation to advance our faith. The word of the gospel is the power of God for salvation, which is why we can speak truth plainly and trust God to work, even when those truths are unpopular in our culture.
But false religions and cults such as Mormonism lack this power, forcing them to rely on deceptive, obfuscatory, and underhanded tactics instead of the rigor of their own claims.
@bavedikian@DrMaryCallan@BestBuy@FedEx Just bought a $900 Garmin watch from Amazon. @FedEx said they delivered it to the Walgreens pick up area as I requested. Delivery address was correct. But here is the FedEx delivery photo…Absolutely no help from FedEx to recover. Thankfully @amazon refunded it right away.
This man was willing to put in all the work and money it takes to keep a dog with no kidneys alive indefinitely, but he murdered his baby for having Downs Syndrome.
Artificial intelligences do not undergo experiences, do not possess a body, do not feel joy or pain, do not mature through relationships, and do not know from within what love, work, friendship or responsibility mean. Nor do they have a moral conscience, since they do not judge good and evil, grasp the ultimate meaning of situations, or bear responsibility for consequences. They may imitate or even simulate, but they do not understand what they produce, for they lack the affective, relational, and spiritual perspective through which human beings grow in wisdom. #MagnificaHumanitas
The land will never be farmed again.
Silver, cadmium, sometimes lead, microplastics, and zinc leach off the panels onto the soil below them.
One hail storm, blizzard, or tornado and glass shards will coat the earth below the panels.
That’s why potato growing associations nationwide won’t grow potatoes on former solar complexes.
They’re taking our best farmland for renewable energy credits and deals with foreign corporations.