Good god this city is corrupt. Can we get every candidate for city council on the record about this issue? I want to know who not to vote for.

We have a couple of homeless guys who frequently visit the alley behind our house and like to set up boxes and do a cocktail of drugs back there. Besides calling the cops, does anyone have any suggestions on what we can do to ward them off? We have a toddler and just worried about safety. thanks :)

Last nights crescent sitting on top of liberty 2

Hi, Thanks for your interest in Edgar Allan Poe National Historic Site. Ongoing maintenance work is being carried out to ensure the site is both comfortable for visitors and that the original building is properly preserved. Unfortunately, the site will not reopen in 2026. We are hoping for a possible reopening in Spring 2027, though we do not yet have a firm date. Please check the website periodically for updates: https://www.nps.gov/edal/planyourvisit/conditions.htm

my note: the site they linked was just the home page. this is the actual site that talks about the conditions. this information is not on this site, which is why i inquired via email.

1. Early morning views of the city, just a little ways from my hotel.

2. Walking to see the iconic "Rocky Steps" and The Philadelphia Museum of Art.

3. Bust of Benjamin Franklin by Jean-Antoine Houdon on display at the aforementioned museum.

4. Shot of Reading Terminal Market from across the street.

5. Shoot. Is this City Hall? It's beautiful, regardless.

6. A cute little bookstore I found. I bought some pretty neat books here!

7. Eastern State Penitentiary Historic Site, which was absolutely fascinating.

8. An art exhibit at the Eastern State Penitentiary Historic Site honoring the victims of the prison's offenders.

9. Just a cute little street that I thought looked pretty in the overcast weather.

10. My walk to Boathouse Row in the rain.

11. Gorgeous view from the row itself (I think, haha).

12. Just some of the delicious food that I enjoyed over the weekend. I'll try to list more details in a comment, where I have more room.

TLDR: Can't find a single place in the city thats willing to let me pay a diagnostic fee to either a) use a test bench/bare mobo setup to hook a 4090 GPU up for testing myself, or b) at least be present in the room when an employee does it. Any recs for a small or lesser known place that offers this service, even in the surrounding area? I'm willing to drive an hour or so if need be.

I strictly need recs for this specific service, as I'm a decently experienced builder, so I've tested it thoroughly but have a somewhat unique situation, detailed in this post:

https://www.reddit.com/r/PcRetailers/s/rsZ42kJup3

Every single place I called in the city limits insisted I drop the card off and leave it for testing, which I'm not about to do with something thats discontinued and currently going for $5k+ due to the AI spawned GPU scarcity, especially given how less reputable shops have been gutting/stealing these cards for parts/resale AND the fact that the card is still under warranty, which they could easily void trying to open it up.

Offering use of a test bench for a fee was a VERY common practice pre-covid (last time I did a full build), due in no small part to people meeting at a store to test a GPU for second hand sale with the customer present to verify the card works. Despite this, every place I called either couldn't understand what I was asking for (pretty sure they were phone repair places pretending to do "computer work"), told me outright that they don't offer anything like that and that I "won't find anywhere that would let you do that," and one even straight up laughed at me when I asked if I could at least be present if they insisted on testing the card themselves. Every single place insisted I drop the card off and leave it completely unattended for them to "run full diagnostics" (its literally plugging the card in and seeing if the OS recognizes it, might take 20 minutes TOPS), and the few shops I was familiar with pre-covid have all closed down.

In any event, this is not by any means a crucial need as its mostly for peace of mind before I send it off for RMA, but theres a few things nagging me that I didn't try, so it'd be worth seeking out a test bench before entering the private hell that is the RMA process in the datacenter/AI era with an items that is worth almost 5x it's retail price on the second market.

Thanks in advance!

A new one just opened up around my way in the past month. Making 3 in a 1 mile radius. I wish they would go back to NY. Good riddance if this can stop them from opening here as excessively as they have been.

As the title states. I love League, and was wondering if any bars or other places would be showing the League finals. Would love to watch with other fans/players instead of by myself at home lol.

I went for half price Wednesdays yesterday at Dave & Busters and decided, lets see how much to wipe out the whole Funko Funcade Machine. While I was getting all the small and medium prizes they had to re-fill the grand prize twice. Took a little over an hour and was able to do it with less than 2 full $120 card re-fills. I recently had knee surgery back in June and while recovering got back into Arcades. I started watching others on youtube and realized I think I can do this too. So been going to the arcades a couple times a week since July 4th. I have cameras and such but don’t have a camera person or anybody to edit yet. Tell me what you think? Tell me what kinds of things you would like to see?

And how can I get one of these as cheaply as possible?

My grandparents are coming to visit us in Philly for the first time & I was going to buy us Big Bus tickets so they could see all the tourist sites without having to walk too much. Then I discovered CityPass as well as GoCity, which also cover Big Bus plus two museums for only a few dollars more.

But i'm seeing CityPasses being sold on Groupon for even cheaper. Is that legit? I work at Penn and they used to have a staff deal with BigBus for discounted tickets but it doesn't seem like the deal exists any more. So now I'm looking for the cheapest way to buy three legit CityPasses. Ideas?

We'd love to also do the Museum of the American Revolution and Betsy Ross House, possibly even Longwood Gardens on a different day. Open to your recommendations!

This mornings SpaceX CRS-35 heading to the ISS

Prosecutors allege Ha’s posts also exposed his colleague’s home address, infant child’s name, and pictures of the home’s exterior...

The spouse and children of the colleague, who has not been named publicly, fled their home, which is in the same neighborhood as Ha’s. Ha sent more than 50 messages across the various accounts, at times threatening the colleague specifically and at others threatening Jewish people more broadly, invoking Adolf Hitler, the Holocaust, and the Oct. 7 attacks...

Despite the allegations, roughly a dozen Haverford professors across departments... came to show their support at the hearing...

“I’ve always known [Ha] as someone who is very justice oriented” and who cared for students and marginalized people, said Ahmet Tekelioglu, the executive director of CAIR-Philadelphia, a civil rights advocacy group focused on Islamic civil liberties and fighting hate speech, in a court testimony on behalf of Ha.

I couldnt book a ride yesterday and cant again today, the curb people have shitty support and I cant figure out if its my problem or theirs ...

This is the second in an interesting series ProPublica has been doing on issues related to Pennsylvania’s Post-Conviction Relief Act. Pretty interesting. Reminder that Pennsylvania was the only state that did not fund public defense until 2023-2024, and even still, it’s a paltry $7.5 million. Pennsylvania could also help solve this problem with PCRAs by founding a statewide appellate public defender’s office.

I know several of the attorneys mentioned or quoted in the story, and I filed a number of Finley letters when I did PCRAs as a public defender in one of the counties. One aspect I feel that’s underreported in this story: the sheer volume of utterly meritless PCRAs thrown at lawyers causes a kind of snow blindness where lawyers are prone to missing that 1 in 50 case that actually has a justiciable claim.